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WBC_Injury posted...

Imagine if news stations had a draft every year

This has chappelle skit written all over it

"We have a trade"

CNN Receives:
Tucker Carlson

Fox News Receives:
Don Lemon
Conservative to be Named Later
Cash Considerations

MSNBC is now on the clock...

epik_fail1 posted...

No joke, some right wigners have started thinking we need gun control because trans people got guns. Literally a Bojack Horseman episode.

Dont forget about the OG wait, they get guns too?

https://youtu.be/yJqfNroFp8U

One can only hope.

Question is, should that happen, does the channel go legit, or double down into full on The Onion, but for conservatives mode?

The stock is also plummeting because it went down 40 cents the past 2 weeks.

Nevermind that its up 11% on the year.

$100 and episode.

As long as it's not an "all or nothing" payment situation, I feel I can do an episode or two a night, and report with at least 95% accuracy.

Would payment be based on the accuracy of my report, or just that I got the tasked accomplished?

I usually wear solid color Ts.

I have about a dozen graphic Ts, but theyre mostly sport related that Ill wear if Im actually going to the game.

I think Im on the path to a regular retirement.

Im 45, my wife is 46. We have about 7 years left on our mortgage, but the plan is to take that money and continue to save it, assuming we dont have to use it towards college or other expenses.

I lucked out (?) and got a decent chunk of change when my parents passed between inheritance and selling their house.

Who knows what the future holds, but I think both my wife and myself should be able to retire in our early 60s.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Bulldozed and replaced with apartments, a small strip-mall, and a chain-restaurant or two.

Problem is, the land would have to be re-zoned as a residential property.

That's why you see A LOT of empty stripmalls all over the country. Rezoning is expensive, and tends to get a lot of pushback from homeowners in the area.

Suolevram posted...

Trim it twice a month. Oil/brush daily. It's not that difficult to do upkeep. I agree.

After rocking a goatee for way too long, I just started growing a beard.

My wife likes it, so I'm keeping it for a bit.

What products do you suggest?

They look very Housewife that dresses like she works out, but doesnt.

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The error was making the joke about someone hes not friendly with.

If the joke was made about Schwimmer or Leblanc, who we know Perry is friends with, I doubt anyone even notices, because the joke is obvious.

ironman2009 posted...

Charly arnolt

Is she officially a host now? If so, that's my pick as well.

pikakaeru posted...

this topic was made recently in the past, or at least a topic where this came up

I assume you're referring to this topic:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80418990

No_U_L7 posted...

you need to factor in concert sales. looked at prices yesterday...1.2k for a nosebleed seat

But that's the thing, it's also hard to quantify because of inflation, how much current stars rely on touring vs in the past, etc.

Yes, you could buy a ticket for The Beatles in 1966 for $3, but concerts weren't nearly the money generating venture they are now.

When the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, the rating was 45.3. 45.3% of ALL TVs in the US were watching them. Which equates to about 23 Million homes watching it.

That's bugger than SuperBowl numbers.

No_U_L7 posted...

right now? she's the most popular music star in the history of the world ever

I don't know if there's a way to quantify this, given how much the distribution of music has changed over the years.

Best I've seen is to see what an artist's EAS is (Equivalent Album Sales) number is. EAS takes into account both audio and video streaming. Formula is basically:

Studio album: sales of the original album (ratio 1/1)
Other LPs: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album (ratio 1/1)
Physical singles: sales of physical singles from the album (added to CSPC total with a ratio 3/10 for 2-tracks, 5/10 for EPs and Maxis)
Digital singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1.5/10 for CSPC total)
Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

If you use that, Taylor Swift is the 30th best selling artist of all time.

https://chartmasters.org/best-selling-artists-of-all-time/

This obviously does not take into account concert or merchandise sales. This is strictly based on music sales/streams.

Anheuser Bush stock is down ten cents today.

That that you chuds!

5 Sick
10 Vacation

They can basically be used interchangeably, but the sick days get paid out at the end of the year if you don't use them.

I don't even get what the goal is.

A UFC fighter can make that post about ANY man, Trans or not, and not get anyone to step up.

The average person isn't volunteering to fight a UFC fighter.

Sariana21 posted...

Nerd alert.

J/k, I appreciate the info.

Eh, it was a quick Google search.

I new Mariah was up there, and actually passed or tied the Beatles at 19, but the Beatles then released some old, unreleased stuff that went to #1.

Not a dedicated "6 Month Emergency Fund" but I have enough in savings that if both my wife and my salary were to disappear for 6 months, that I could keep paying my bills.

Assuming you're talking about modern times, how an artist is considered a "success" has drastically changed.

No one cared how many "views" or "streams" an artist like Mariah Carey had in the 90's. All she did was put out 19 different songs that went to #1 on the Billboard chart.

The Beatles have 20, the most of all time.

By comparison, Drake has 11. But Drakes download and streaming numbers dwarf both of theirs.

As far as album sales all time, Drake isn't even in the top 20, and that includes online sales.

Caring too much about what people thought of me in High School.

A sense of accomplishment.

My job is nowhere near as important. Or really important at all to anyone other than my company.

I basically have a stack of work that I need to move from the left side of my desk to the right side by the end of the day.

The days I get it done with time to spare, I feel good. I feel accomplished. I know that no matter what, at least I accomplished a goal today.

HairyQueen posted...

Do you think your partner would ever need to feel "sincere regret" about checking out a celebrity? And that they would've been so upset about their behavior that they'll never find a celebrity attractive again?

My partner? No.

But everyone has a different opinion of what's considered "cheating". Some think it's sex. Some say kissing. Some say engaging in flirtatious conversation. Some say just mere sexual thoughts of another person is cheating.

So a blanket statement by the wizard of "Yes, your partner cheated on you" can mean a myriad of things.

What if you push the button, the wizard says that they did cheat, and you break up.

Only to find out the wizard is one of those irrational weirdos that thinks if someone thinks a celebrity is good looking, they consider that cheating.

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Gotcha.

Dairy Danglers

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Was this aimed at me?

I have no reason to make up a story of something that happened nearly 25 years ago.

This happened to me ONCE in my very early 20's.

There were two girls that I worked with. Unknown to me, one of them REALLY liked me. She left that job to go away to college, and me and a few co-workers went to visit her for her 21st Birthday. I got a little tipsy and we ended up hooking up (all above the waist stuff).

Fast forward to that summer, where I was kinda seeing the other girl. Original girl came back from college and starting working there again for the summer. We all went out one night for post-work drink that the original girl made a bit of a scene because I wanted nothing to do with her (not in a rude way, but in a "I though we moved past this" way).

From what I could tell, the animosity really didn't last much past that night, and I left that job after the summer was over to start a new one. Never saw the original girl again. Kept seeing the other one off and on for about another year.

Definitely GenX.

GenX years are generally 1965-1980, and all 6 of them were born within those years, or within a year or two of it.

Kudrow 1963
Cox 1964
Schwimmer 1966
LeBlanc 1967
Aniston 1969
Perry 1969

So either late Boomers or Early GenXers.

NoxObscuras posted...

I could definitely see you getting pushback if you talk about how you have a house. Some homeowners definitely have an out of touch outlook on life (not saying you do). I worked with a woman who said things like "I don't think kids should be raised in an apartment. I raised my kids in a beautiful house"

I can see that, but I tend to only just bring it up in a "I struggled to get this, you probably can as well".

I spent most of my mid-20s it a beat-ass one bedroom apartment with my wife (then GF), living on hand me down, mis-matched furniture, fast food, and A LOT of Ramen noodles while we were both living off jobs that barely paid us 30K a year. But we saved and scraped as much as we could, and figured it out.

20 years later, and now most of our furniture matches. lol

My uncle was a NYC Police officer through the 80s and 90s, so I'm sure he had his share. He lived in our house, but I only saw his gun once. He worked the overnight shift, so he was usually gone when I woke up from school, and was home and asleep by the time I got home.

As far as myself, the only thing I can think of, other than actually going to range with a friend to shoot his gun, was when I was a teenager (old enough to go tot he mall on my own, but not old enough to drive) a friend and I were walking from a shopping center to the mall, when 2 kids on bike came up to us and tried to "rob" us. When we told them to F off, one of them pulled an obviously fake "gun" from his jacket sleeve. It was clearly plastic. I think it was one of those "real" looking water guns.

He tried to grab my friend by his shirt, and when he did, the "gun" fell on the floor. My friend stepped on it and it broke into about a dozen pieces. They panicked and rode off on their bikes.

That was at least 25-30 years ago and my friend and I laugh about it every so often.

I went Genesis because the EA sports games were better on Sega.

SiO4 posted...

I wouldn't say complacent at all.
Hand-tied, Yes, but not complacent.

Depends on who you ask.

Many consider GenX, especially older ones that are now in their mid-50s to be the last of the Fuck You, I got mine generations.

You see it on this board. Im only 45, but I get plenty of OK Boomer pushback from people simply because I successfully live the normal middle class, married, two kids and a house life.

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

Opening lyrics to The Living Years, a song released in 1988 by a Boomer blaming all his problems on his Greatest Generation father.

35 years later, Millennials are saying the same thing about Boomers. And now the venom has spread to GenX for being complacent.

EVERY generation thinks theyre the only generation that gets it.

Sariana21 posted...

Disneyland was closed for months, almost a year I think. Californias Covid rules actually caused Disney to move some of its operations to Florida. Im not sure if those moves were permanent. Theaters also were closed, causing movies that year to go straight to streaming.

FTR, I support Californias choices regarding Covid. Im just pointing out how they hurt Disneys profits.

Ok. That's what I figured.

Easily.

I drink, like 6 beers a month, tops.

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What happened in 2020 to make them take a loss?

Was it simply Covid ruining all travel for a year?

Anytime I've ever borrowed someone's car (for example, my car was in the shop and I borrowed my parent's car) I've returned it with a full tank of gas.

NeoShadowhen posted...

The writing and acting are so bad I would genuinely prefer them to walk in and declare that they are being paid to have sex with each other on film.

I agree that story is important, though. Thats one of the things Im looking forward to in the AI revolution. Ill be able to stick a raunchy sex scene at the end of every hallmark Christmas movie.

Fir me, the acting can be bad, as long as its not over the top

And this is why everyone needs guns.

To protect themselves from cheerleaders and 16 year olds picking up their little brother.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's not that simple when it comes to Disney. They own all kinds of parks, TV, websites, hotels & timeshares, comics, music, and movie studios.

Yeah. This.

Its like saying an MLB baseball team is in trouble because theyre not selling as many hats at the team store as they did last season.

Theres SO many Disney revenue streams that these movies bombing was barely a blip on the radar.

He's in the TV show Yellowjackets, which is literally airing right now.

LinkPizza posted...

That seems like more fault of the host rather than the party itself Ive gone to plenty of first birthdays where the host has stuff for everyone. And pays attention to the guest and stuff

I have as well, no doubt. But there really is nothing worse than a bad kiddie party.

Why go if you feel the time will be wasted? Idk about others, but I just like spending time with certain friends and family So, if anything, its just a good time to catch up with everyone And have fun at a little get together

I'd honestly rather have (and then to enjoy) a "no reason" family gathering that is more informal than one where there's some sort of made up structure to it that only caters to half the party.

Maybe I'm just not being invited to the right parties? Lol.