Lurker > bigblu89

Yeah, gonna need a but more detail than that.

WingsOfGood posted...

why do you put the responsibility for change on the consumers?
@bigblu89

To me, especially when it comes to luxury items like Starbucks (which I do not drink to begin with, but...) it's as simple as:

If I can afford it, I will continue to buy it.

If it gets to a price I'm not willing to pay, I will stop buying it.

Simple example. Video Games.

I haven't bought a video game for more than $40 since Sega Genesis. I feel $60 is just too much for me, and I have the patience for the market to come to me.

And nothing will change, because people still need their mocha-jocha latte grande with foam.

Grunge.

All the other genres are still around.

Grunge pretty much died when it turned into Dad Rock.

FortuneCookie posted...

If the left can't rally together and work for a better tomorrow instead of complaining about how much everything sucks, this nation will be fascist within a decade or two. And that's just being real.

But the issue here is that "the left" IS trying to rally together and work for a better tomorrow by pointing out the country's flaws. They are saying "There is a problem, and here's what we think should be done to fix it".

Whereas "the right" just says "This is America. If you don't like it, leave" instead of also recognizing that there are problems.

If you're as mad about Em kneeling during a Tupac song as you were about Kaep kneeling during the anthem, it was never about "disrespecting the anthem/our troops".

Both.

I make sales calls, but also ship the orders, and post payment ms when they arrive.

Ava Addams.

I think it's a matter or pride to a lot of people.

"I'm poor, but I'm doing poor 'the right way' by working so hard I'm giving myself a heart attack at 48"

Whereas many are using government assistance as just that. Assistance.

Use people really knead to get with the thymes.

Because the English language is a very complex mix of many different languages.

So you end up with Dear and Deer, Knew and New, and Two, To, Too.

What if my video game consumption consists of all the Lego games?

I need examples.

But mostly, any criticisms of current regimes should be made in comparison to regimes of the past. So it's kind of tough to talk about the currently political climate when it is so married to the regime that left office less than 18 months ago.

Is this about Cody leaving AEW?

Family of 4, ranging from 13-45.

Its about 600-750 a month.

Im more of a bargain/sale shopper than my wife is. So $600 if I do the shopping, $750 if she does.

CyricZ posted...

All three of them in order, which has been the standard for like decades.

Yeah, once it when to VHS, they played it out where all three endings were considered part of the movie.

ChocoboMog123 posted...

BTW, Gen X was 3-18 for MJ's first moonwalk. That's solidly a Gen X event. They were the target for all of MJ's peak popularity. Boomers are the gap between the Jackson 5 and Thriller, Gen X is the generation of Billie Jean.

And MJ performed at the SB in 1993, when he was still in his prime and not a nostalgia act.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Youre getting your generations mixed up dude

the primary audience for dre/snoop/eminem is millennials (those born in the 80s and early 90s)

Maybe, because Im considered late GenX (born in 78) and I was 14 when The Chronic and Doggystyle came out, so I consider them music of my generation.

lolife67 posted...

How do Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson not qualify as being for Generation X?

I meant as a nostalgia act.

Last night was a GenX nostalgia show.

Like Rolling Stones in 2006, Tom Petty in 2007, and The Who in 2010 were nostalgia shows for Boomers.

You notice phones were getting smaller and smaller until people figured out how to stream porn on their phone, and screens suddenly got larger and clearer?

SiO4 posted...

I'm squarely GenX and I don't listen to any of last nights acts.

Ok. But they all rose to fame in the early 90s, when most of GenX was in high school or college, so theyre definitely more genx musics than any other generation.

maybe not 50 cent or em, but definitely snoop and dre.

As far as headliners, other than Chili Peppers and Madonna, this was really the first "Nostalgia for Generation X" halftime show.

Boomers got their Tom Petty, The Who, and Rolling Stones, Springsteen.

Millennials and Zoomers got Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Gaga, Weeknd.

But for Gen X, this was really one of the first "This one's for you" Halftime Show.

I feel like this is as good enough of spot to put this.

Direct quote from a co-worker that overheard us talking about the game:

"I didn't watch the game. I didn't watch the halftime show, but I was told it was disgusting."

Batman.

I'll at least get an expensive gift.

Were_Wyrm posted...

For the 8th year in a row, the team that won the coin toss lost the game.

Game was over before it started.

My new normal is people being ok with giving people I meet for the first time a fist pound instead of handshake, and a wave to people I used to hug.

And it's glorious.

Because it's usually a quick inconvenience.

I honestly wonder if it's the fact that the 2nd parent isn't there, or that the 2nd parent's INCOME isn't there.

Many lacks or opportunity and problems are a financial one.

Could also be the combined fandom of two people from different areas that met when they were in college.

Antifar posted...

People are allowed to root for whoever, but my theory is:
Grew up in Baltimore before the Ravens existed, so he became a Pats fan, went to college in Florida, and never having had a local hockey team, adopted the Kraken because their name is cool.

That seems viable.

wackyteen posted...

Colorado

And then retired to Colorado.

What state are the plates?

The Gators could be as easy as that's where they went to school.

As far as the rest? Its a puzzler, as the New England (Bruins, Red Sox) and Baltimore (Capitals, Ravens) areas have local teams to root for the the respective opposite sports.

Kakapo posted...

Its supposed to be an early childhood education centre, too. Not just a bunch of high school dropouts in a building with some toys.

No disrespect, but if that's your conclusion of what the daycare is, it seems like you did a pretty poor job researching daycares before you trusted your son (who by your own admission is a borderline special needs child) with one that obviously would not be fulfilling his needs.

I can only speak from my own experiences, but my wife an I were researching day cares before she even got pregnant, to make sure the one we eventually went with was perfect for the children we would eventually have. We ended up with 4 to chose from, based on what we felt we needed to most once we had children.

My daughter ended up having 4 great years in that daycare.

mooreandrew58 posted...

Fair point. I was focusing on jobs that did require the knowledge

Well of course.

But those job requirements will slowly move towards being based on the candidates knowledge, and not the other way around.

Like, knowing the inner workings of a Fax machine is no longer the main requirement of being an admin assistant, because it's a dead technology.

Most people, regardless of age, know the basic functions of a PC, and that's all you really need to know to get more office environment jobs.

mooreandrew58 posted...

If we are talking about jobs it is. I wouldn't hire a taxi driver to drive a 18 wheeler unless they went through training first to drive a 18 wheeler

Well, yes. It obviously all depends on what the job is for.

I work in at a relatively small, family run business. But it's a multi million dollar business.

I honestly think me and maybe 3 other people know more than the absolute basic workings of MS Office, including the two 50+ year olds that own the company. Mainly because the entire business is run on a program that was custom built for the business. There's days I literally have to show people how to sort columns in Excel.

Anyone at any age can come in and learn the system, it would just take time to train them.

And the job I had before that was exactly the same. Run on a program that was custom built for them. So unless you want a careen in IT, most jobs won't require a vast knowledge of programs like MS Office.

Sariana21 posted...

Those arent Sheets skills though. A better example would be They probably dont know how to use formulas, make charts, or create pivot tables. And they certainly dont write macros because Google Sheets doesnt support them; it uses Scripts (I thinkIm. It really a spreadsheet expert).

That's a big thing as well.

We're probably 15 years away from not having to know how to create ANYTING on MS Word or Excel, as Google Sheets will eventually replace it all.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

phones: no
They wouldnt understand how to actually power one off as opposed to turning the screen off. or how to reset the network settings in case the wifi breaks

Most people regardless of age don't know how to do that though.

I feel like all this topic has been is you trying to flex that you know more about PCs than the average person.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

it is actually. its in the main ribbon in microsoft word. you dont need to dig through any menus to find it. if they cant create a table of contents, they are computer illiterate

No, they are not "computer illiterate" they are just not well versed in one particular program. Kids that grew up in a "Mac World" shouldn't be faulted for not knowing how to use PC programs.

That's like saying someone can't drive because they don't know how to drive an 18-wheeler.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

they probably cant even create a table of contents that keeps itself up to date as they write the document or understand the difference between a page break and a section break

Most 30 and 40 year olds cant either. Difference is, theres actual coding classes kids can take as young as 8 years old. They didnt have anything like that when I was in school. My son is in 8th grade and is in two separate computer classes.

70% of the country use their PC as an internet machine. The other 30% learn on a need to know basis.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

they use chromebooks which are basically a locked down phone with a keyboard

Not at all.

Both of my kids use chrome books daily for school and they know Google sheets better than I do.

Great song.

Its apparently the story of how her parents got together.

Anyone have a TL;DR version?

I4NRulez posted...

its not like "hey, lets go to this farmers market" or something like that. She thinks that real couples go grocery shopping together. Which doesn't make sense because i get my groceries delivered for free so I don't go to the store which she knows and we don't live together.

She wants you to go food shopping for the food she puts in her place?

That seems odd to me.

Holy_Cloud105 posted...

I've heard people call Square the Box button. I also call it that irregularly but I've never heard someone call X "Cross".

I jokingly call it "Box" because it pisses my son off.

I spend more money on wrestling trading cards than she thinks I do.

You know, everyone that has gotten vaccinated is going to die, right?

Makes you wonder.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

They would just do another attack, the best way is to tighten security, and to kill them so they cant do anything else.

Just because plan A did not work one day does not mean they cant do the same thing another day. The bombers/terrorists must be killed to prevent a similar attack another day.

Maybe.

But one is a $500 fine, and the other is life in jail for murder.

All you can do is hope US intel having a few extra months/years could prevent a repeated attempt from happening.