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CanuckCowboy posted...

I understand why aa always features lots of coffee and smokes now.

Fucktons of green tea is the best way to sober the hell up real fast. Also eat the stuff in the teabags.
The only thing better is cocaine, but that's a whole 'nother rabbit hole.

Ten beers in, and the math is still in my favor for being functional tomorrow.
nigh-at-will work-from-home makes it much easier.

Umbreon posted...

"Slavery to punish prisoners." Because we still have for profit prisons that benefit more from people being in jail than being rehabilitated.

"American Justice" is pretty fucked up, yes.

Doe posted...

slavery is still legal for people in prison

13th Amendment

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

huh. I have to simultaneously agree and disagree.

inloveanddeath0 posted...

Hitler

Fact.

Umbreon posted...

Of course, slavery still isn't 100% outlawed but that's another story...

Elaborate, please.

Sputnik1337 posted...

Welcome to the other side of the treadmill. You can live there and rent out the spare rooms for $1500 a month and reinvest the extra cash into your next "home".

It's a very small two-bedroom house with one bathroom, built in the 1950s.
Still $135k somehow.

Umbreon posted...

Is that why my ancestors didn't count as an entire person, Kirk?

Yes. Yes it is.
The South wanted slaves to count as "persons" for Representatives, but sure as shit wasn't going to let them vote. The northern states had to figure out some way to get the south to go along long enough to get the constitution ratified.

Ivany2008 posted...

God dammit. Where do I throw my money?

Apple 2E is when I became a programmer.

Number090684 posted...

lol Leave it to the republicans to keep pushing their bullshit narrative of "Our white ancestors really weren't pro slavery!" to try and whitewash their cruel, barbaric human rights offences of the past, while also further marginalizing minority contributions to this country.

Completely fair, if the republicans are claiming John Adams.
The guy was a completely authoritarian dick who gutted everything Washington tried to establish, so yeah, probably.

Holy fuck, I can rent my house for three times my mortgage payment. Why the hell am I still living here?

Ivany2008 posted...

one of which might have been an apple 2.

2 or 2E?
This is important.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

I'm thinking of starting a topic series called "Tales From My Life" where I just regale CE with some of the fucked up things that have happened in my life.

We could all do that.

"That time we were on WIC in the 80s and my dad became a cop because the GM factory was shut down for three years" would be pretty awesome if I could remember any of it.

armandro posted...

wtf is gamefaqs trying to protect their ass

Again, this comes back to simplifying database queries.

dj1200 posted...

I bought some non alcoholic beers.

The hell is even the point of that?
Even the most rampant of drunken drunkards admit that beer doesn't really taste good, outside of Honey Brown.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

Fortnite guy

no idea who that is

CanuckCowboy posted...

So are people who buy houses and flip them also assholes?

Yes.

I bought my house for $50k from an ambiguous relative who courthoused it for $45k, and did nothing but change all the locks and mow a few times.
It's worth $135k right now, for no goddamn reason. I should flip the damn thing.

I was poor in the "lego castle" era. The 80s were a weird time for my UAW dad. There was a GM layoff long enough that he became a cop in the meantime.

That may be why I have two closets full of unassembled lego right now.

CanuckCowboy posted...

I dont know much if anything about what happened to shareholders during that whole shit show.

The "GM Shuffle" was a fucking brilliant financial maneuver.
Only in America.

DeadBankerDream posted...

What a hot take.

It's a fair take.

The US, for about as long as the US has existed, has been very slow to adopt social movements, and then instantly becomes an obnoxious evangelist for that same movement it resisted.

CanuckCowboy posted...

"no you're not allowed to sell this tanking stock. Fuck you. Keep it indefinitely and watch your money disappear,"

MTLQQ

Fair.

However, "GTFO" should also be fair.

MabusIncarnate posted...

That's awesome, I didn't know they did Ghostbusters.

The $200 Ecto-1 is really sweet, but I haven't put the fucking thing together yet.

Also the Firehouse is beyond epic. That one did get put together.

General rule for founding fathers:
Agrarian = slaves, also Thomas Jefferson fucked his slaves.
Lawyers = no slaves
Franklin = inherited slaves somehow, then he became an abolitionist.

I apparently have all three Ecto-1 lego sets. I don't even remember buying the $200 one.
Also a fourth one, if we count Lego Dimensions.

yet, I still have to glitch into Missingno.

huge beagle

MabusIncarnate posted...

I've had my eye on that NES console and TV Lego set for a while, not much of a Lego guy but I was when I was young, and my nephew got me the Mos Eisley Cantina set for my birthday this year. It's still in the box, I might keep it that way idk yet. He asked to build it with him so we may crack it open one day.

I'm sitting on several thousand dollars worth of lego backlog. Extra-super pathetic.
Some of these sets are worth ten times what I paid for them, because laziness.

DJquackquack posted...

How come hes buff in half the photos and fat in the rest?

Chris Pratt Effect

That's a mastiff.

Sales tax holidays just point out what a complete screwjob sales tax really is. It should be included in the shelf price.

Chief for console plebs, but Doomguy is really fucking close.

Mario beat the hell out of both of those, though.

Texas?

rough guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8h8snfYidg

I just spent two hours trying to get Lego Mario to connect to the fucking Lego Mario app.
holy shit that's pathetic

Even more pathetic is immediately buying Lego Luigi once I got Mario to finally work right.

Master Kazuya posted...

Fuck Arwen, Marry Eowyn, Kill Galadriel

Fuck One Ring
Marry One Ring
Kill One Ring

maybe even in that order.

wbloechel posted...

Drake's greatest accomplishment is being an extra on State Farm commercials.

Has white Jake and black Jake ever been in the same ad?

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Yes lets ban pics of a married couple still clearly in love, this is some old bullshit.

Lincoln should have just let the south go.

Missouri would still have been fucked tho, but when is it ever not?

If Code Vein counts, then the "soulsborn" waifu has been uncontested since 1987.