A Sudden, Quite Rapid, Relocation Of Stock
One for our ongoing series on the progressive retail experience. I believe this is part 445:
A young woman asks in a brazen voice as the destruction and theft rages behind her, “Are y’all gonna make the sandwiches or are ya’ll just gonna keep recording?” The Wawa employee responded, “Uh, it’s going to be a while.”
“No arrests were made.”
Update, via the comments:
The celebratory twerking seen in the background is, you’ll agree, a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that trashing someone’s business and stealing their property, while exulting in mob intimidation and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly. Perhaps we can look forward to another Vice article telling us how looting is a good thing when black people do it.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness. Say, the kind of pathological selfishness seen above and throughout the progressive retail series. Indeed, excuses for sociopathic behaviour are a staple of progressive posturing, appearing all but weekly, and with increasing moral convolution and outright perversity.
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Animals.
“Are y’all gonna make the sandwiches or are ya’ll just gonna keep recording?”
The new normal. Part and parcel…
The new normal. Part and parcel…
Well, I suppose you could think of the rather blasé sandwich-demanding lady and the delinquent morons behind her as two faces of the same dysfunction.
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
Perhaps Lloyd George knows…
Yes, I am a bit old and I wonder how many know who Lloyd George was.
The new normal. Part and parcel…
Seems like that. The next new normal will be shuttered-up convenience stores.
But until then, looting is social justice, right?
Perhaps we can look forward to another Vice article on how looting is a good thing when black people do it.
Speaking of violent mobs of sub-humans, Jordan Peterson is giving talks in Europe and Antifa is organizing “direct actions” to silence him.
I’ve been reading reports of communist riots in Europe for many decades, so this isn’t surprising. Am waiting to see how many rioters show up and what tactics they use. Will it be only fists and clubs, or will they throw firebombs as they have in the past?
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
I wonder how many of them know what a father is.
Think of them as animals that must be either put down or permanently removed from civilization.
A “diverse youth” assaulted a 68-year-old shopkeeper so violently that he is no longer able to walk. Like I said, animals. Put them down or otherwise deal with them in a permanent manner.
Nice work if you can get it, won’t someone think of the left wing meme makers?
Fan-baiting and cultural vandalism
Animals.
The celebratory twerking was a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that destroying someone’s business, stealing their property, and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly. If all of the participants were compressed into paste, the loss to human flourishing would, I think, be bearable.
The celebratory twerking was a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that destroying someone’s business, stealing their property, and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly.
Perhaps the persistence of the demographic IQ gap leads them to see civilization as “something by and for others”.
Reminds me, just a little, of the tourist videos of monkeys vandalizing automobiles for the fun of it. Am I a bad person?
The fat female might easily be the mother of some of the rioters. I doubt she would turn a hair if they were her kids as long as she got her sandwich.
P.s. in my own Sussex town I recently came across a young feral (around 5-6 years old) violently kicking at the shop fittings. My “stop that” generated a disturbingly threatening reply from his mother who saw nothing wrong with the behaviour and had made no effort to stop it.
We’re not that far behind.
The next new normal will be shuttered-up convenience stores.
But until then, looting is social justice, right?
The thing is I recall shuttered shops in and around Moss Side in Manchester. Closed because of shop lifting vandalism and so on. The response of the progressives was that poor people were being discriminated against: (1) they were denied the services enjoyed by residents of other areas (2) the remaining shops charged higher prices which is discriminatory (3) shops were left empty because of discrimination of potential shop leasees, leasers or both and so on.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions but instead treat them as a group unable to escape the influence of their peers, malign 3rd parties or environment then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
My “stop that” generated a disturbingly threatening reply from his mother who saw nothing wrong with the behaviour and had made no effort to stop it.
I’m sure there are ways to excuse that behavior as a result of “white supremacy” and “the legacy of slavery”.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions but instead treat them as a group unable to escape the influence of their peers, malign 3rd parties or environment then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
At this point, those feral people are just a symptom of the problem. The progressives are secondary. The root of the problem is the conservatives…”conservatives” who do not speak up against those progressives and confront them regarding these absurdities. It’s not like we live in a society that doesn’t understand these things. We live in a society that refuses to acknowledge where the true problems lie.
Clearly based on Larry Niven’s essay “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”.
I’ll just get my coat now.
Hard not to think of the retreat of the Western Roman Empire.
I’ll just get my coat now.
Here, take this:
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[ Searches Amazon for asbestos clothing. ]
How these things are handled in (certain parts of) Florida. You’re not in Chicago anymore, Sunshine.
Practised liar defends lying.
And in dating scenarios, it’s a pretty good way to get beaten up. (See the last two paragraphs here.)
As I said in the thread linked above, it seems to me that deceiving would-be sex partners as to one’s own sex – a deception endorsed by the dysmorphic woman in the TikTok video, and by Mr Riley Dennis and many other trans activists – ventures awfully close to sexual assault territory. The other party, the unwitting party, is being put in a position, as it were, that they would most likely not have chosen had they known the facts.
Seems about right. 🙁
“Put them down or otherwise deal with them in a permanent manner”
Punishment ceases as civilization ebbs. OTOH, I hope the 18th century trade was worth it…
The first and most important duty of government is protection of citizens from criminals.
When government abandons that duty…
When government abandons that duty, Part 2.
What incredible journalism. I know that subject was keeping me up at night.
I grew up in that neighborhood walking distance from that store. It was a solid blue collar/ middle class Catholic white area for generations where young Philadelphia couples bought their first house and raised kids. We played sports on the street under the watchful eye of neighborhood moms. Mom and pop stores on every corner. The worst ruckus was the heavy metal kids might play their music a little loud in the arcade parking lot.
In recent years, the neighborhood has become more “diverse.” I’ll defer to the video and let it speak for itself.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions… then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
And so, we get self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – making endless, weirdly convoluted excuses for pathological selfishness. Say, the kind of pathological selfishness that manifests as trashing someone’s business and stealing their property, and vandalising nearby cars, and generally exulting in mob intimidation, purely for amusement. Because, hey, they can.
And these excuses are a staple of progressive posturing, appearing all but weekly, and with increasing moral convolution and outright perversity.
With the GBP being what is, can we expect call centers, previously in the subcontinent, Philippines etc being relocated to the English Midlands? Newcastle Upon Tyne?
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness.
That.
That.
Well, it is a little odd just how often, and how zealously, these professed champions of compassion show utter disregard for the victims of sociopathy and predation.
Why, it’s almost as if there were something fundamentally wrong with them.
And the woman wanting her sandwich – it is telling that she sees nothing in the circumstances such that she should be afraid for her own safety. Perhaps she planned to grab some chips – literally – on her way out.
I grew up in that neighborhood walking distance from that store. It was a solid blue collar/ middle class Catholic white area for generations where young Philadelphia couples bought their first house and raised kids.
A common retirement planning strategy was Social Security plus the value of the home. (If the employer had a pension plan too, so much the better.) When an invasion of feral creatures destroys the value of that home, retirement becomes much more precarious: If you stay, your physical safety is precarious. If you move, your financial situation is precarious. I knew various people who found themselves in that situation. Many once-fine neighborhoods that I will never visit again. But the left says that only a very bad person would notice the pattern.
Well, it is a little odd just how often, and how zealously, these professed champions of compassion show utter disregard for the victims of sociopathy and predation.
Good citizens should show utter disregard for those leftists. Treat them as existential enemies. No respect, no courtesy, no tolerance.
Britain has performed miracles of inefficiency, resulting in a substantial population of expensively educated semi-literates, whose labor would be too expensive even if it were free.
Theodore Dalrymple lays down some truths.
Though someone unable to spell “labour” may be on shaky ground criticising the erudition of others.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness.
Frequently famed, rarely if ever shamed. Therein lies the problem. I am currently engaged in yet another round of pointing out to a leftist friend of a leftist cousin-in-law that Trump did not tell people to drink bleach. This is a clear, objective fact and stunning absurdity that two years on now should have been driven home to these deluded nutcases that it always was, not just misinformation, nor just a “hoax”, but a very clear mass psychosis. As usual, I predict that I am the one who will be mocked, shamed, etc. by these clowns without so much as a single supporting (pubic) comment from the couple of conservatives…”conservatives” whom I know will read it, but I will do it anyway. Someone has to.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism…
Speaking of The American Academy of Pediatrics, for the equity, don’t you know.
So tell me Muldoon, do the doctors speak up against any of the pediatrics nonsense? The lice thing is curable but are other doctors speaking up against these puberty blockers and/or the trans surgeries on young people? Do they dare to suggest that the trans problem just might possibly, especially in the tween set, be a form of hysteria? Or are y’all prohibited from using the term’hysteria’?
Theodore Dalrymple
From the comments:-
“Finally, he can tackle the rampant fraud in the UK welfare system by banning anyone committing welfare fraud from claiming further benefits, and by starting a program to target cities like Liverpool where astonishing proportions of the working population claim to be disabled (25%!!!!).”
More nonsense…
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/
So tell me Muldoon, do the doctors speak up against any of the pediatrics nonsense?
Yes, but like most things similar, individual voices are drowned out by the usual suspects as well as the “Academies” and “Associations” which often are left leaning, e.g., the “advocacy” of the AAP much of which which has actual bugger all to do with actual childhood health/disease.
Only about 13% of all US physicians belong to the AMA (also trending moonbat) and the average Joe Doc working 10-12 hours a day (not counting call) doesn’t have the time (and often energy) to deal with extraneous nonsense particularly when you have things like state boards threatening licenses* for speaking out against coof dogma, or watching the authors and signatories of “The Great Barrington Declaration” get demonized by the organized left.
*(or like Simone Gold, jailed)
“whose labor would be too expensive even if free” ahhaahahah so true. These twits are a negative value in any company. I saw where some interns in a US company wanted to organize a protest or something and were immediately fired. They didn’t even understand that an employer has a business to run. More actions like that are needed. The internal treatment of James Damore at google was way off base.
Civilization is hard earned. Even progs will miss it when it is gone.
When the children ask…this is precisely the strategically genius reason that the UK and France had to invade Poland in 1939.
individual voices are drowned out
Yeah. Individuals. Doctors, with all their wealth and power (potential) are simply not smart enough to figure out how to make their voices heard…from the 13th green on Wednesdays. Yeah, I get that it’s a stereotype. But it is also true for a lot of them. And the ones who actually do work 60+ hour weeks, after personally butting heads with a couple of doctors now over their significant group-think, it might behoove them to get out of the office more. Too much work makes smart people…smaaaaart people…stupid.
Yeah, I get that it’s a stereotype.
If by “stereotype” you mean “myth”, OK, but having done this for 40+ years I have known precisely zero Wednesday (or any other weekday) golfers (boaters or other hobbyists) .
…after personally butting heads with a couple of doctors now over their significant group-think, [and everyone clapped] it might behoove them to get out of the office more.
Where upon you will no doubt bitch because you can’t get an appointment or procedure in what you perceive to be be a timely fashion.
Do let me know, however, what your community of whatever are doing about the trans business, seeing as how you are apparently both concerned and smart (but not smaaaart).
“whose labor would be too expensive even if free” ahhaahahah so true. These twits are a negative value in any company.
We had an employee who wasted everyone’s time in various ways, in addition to doing zero useful work. Every line of code that he wrote was either removed or replaced within a year of his termination.
Though someone unable to spell “labour” may be on shaky ground criticising the erudition of others.
I credit the editors at City Journal for correcting Dalrymple’s prose to the correct Murrican spelling.
the correct Murrican spelling.
[ A muffled epithet, a vase shatters. ]
Giorgia Meloni’s 2019 barnburner of a speech is getting too much WrongAttention from the WrongThink rabble so, of course, it must be disappeared.
Brobdingnagian flutist says “history is freaking cool, you guys”, unless, of course, she ever actually reads a history book and finds out James Madison was a slave owner…
[ A muffled epithet, a vase shatters. ]
At this rate David will have to raise prices to replace all that busted crockery.
Every line of code that he wrote was either removed or replaced within a year of his termination.
A former boss once introduced a contractor as “the best .NET developer I’ve ever seen!”. Same thing happened. He had a bad habit of writing his own implementation of stable, trusted public libraries that already existed because he couldn’t be arsed to look up whether stable, trusted third-party libraries already existed for what he was doing.
Fortunately the boss in question didn’t last much longer than his contractor.
On a side note: am I the only one who’s noticed a correlation between a manager being on anti-anxiety drugs and having really, really poor risk evaluation skills? Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I’ve seen this happen a couple of times and there’s a plausible etiology: the point of anti-anxiety drugs is to suppress the fight-or-flight response to stress.
If by “stereotype” you mean “myth”, OK, but having done this for 40+ years I have known precisely zero Wednesday (or any other weekday) golfers (boaters or other hobbyists) .
Yes. You all do it for the love of mankind. And the Mercedes. And the mansion. And the boat. And the booze. And the women you cheat on your spouses with. But no, doctors do not play golf. The ones I have known were all exceptions. But as I said, maybe you need to get out more.
Where upon you will no doubt bitch because you can’t get an appointment or procedure in what you perceive to be be a timely fashion.
Yeah. That. Let me know next time you your software systems are down. Oh, that’s right. Medical business runs about 20 years behind the technology curve. But that is changing. Maybe it’s down to 10 years based on how “well” my Orlando Health app works. The piece of s**t.
Do let me know, however, what your community of whatever are doing about the trans business, seeing as how you are apparently both concerned and smart (but not smaaaart).
Well, not being all that smart myself I’m not sure how many software developers are chopping the dicks off of little boys to sew them on to little girls. Nor at this point am I likely to know. See, arguing with the idiots in my profession (“Do you believe in dinosaurs, man?”) or other pro/con aspects of Agile (as seen here, unfortunately and apologies) or before it, ISO 9000, Six Sigma, and on and on and on does not have me in the best of graces with the techy idiots. But then they’ve sowed the wind. The whirlwind is coming…hopefully. I have also pushed back (as I have bored everyone here with) regarding the idiocy of management “diversity” practices. AGAIN, I only fought these battles when others raised them. But I was and continue to be prepared. I have paid the price for this in numerous opportunities passed up. Partly opportunities I consciously passed on though I am sure there are many of which I will never know. Although a former manager hinted at such a couple years ago. But fortunately I don’t have a huge million dollar mortgage, nor payments on a Tesla, nor a couple of side pieces to maintain.
BTW, if you can get your medical co-extortionists to understand the differences between the introduction of the Polio vaccine and this latest jab-a-thon, that would be great. See, normally I would think that smart people…such smaaaaaart people…could reason such a thing out but when I mention it to my doctor(s) I get the deer-in-the-headlights look. Smaaaaaart.
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Hit that damn preview/post button disappearing act again. Triple checked and crossing my fingers in 3…2…1…
We had an employee who wasted everyone’s time in various ways, in addition to doing zero useful work. Every line of code that he wrote was either removed or replaced within a year of his termination.
I am seeing this more and more. I used to view it as a sign of a recovering economy as it indicated that even the stupid people were now getting jobs. Not so sure anymore. I also recall it from the 1970’s and I’m wondering if it isn’t a union/labor mentality-driven thing. People taking extraordinarily long time to do the simplest things. The wife and I call it the “Ken Denny” syndrome. See we used to work with a guy by that name when we were on TDY doing technical writing after the Challenger accident. We sat in a bull-pen kind of open area and there was this guy there who would answer the phone in a very slow drawl of “Good afternoon….Grumman Data Management….Ken Denny speaking….How may I help you……today”. Hearing that several times a day was quite…interesting.
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Well, not being all that smart myself I’m not sure how many software developers are chopping the dicks off of little boys to sew them on to little girls
I wouldn’t put anything past Node developers.
There’s a very real problem in software engineering in that it’s very hard to determine whether or not a particular praxis works because the pace of technology is so rapid that it’s hard to compare a project that took three years to the next project, because in those three years so much will have changed. That said, Node insists on making all the same mistakes Ruby on Rails did fifteen years ago and they’re still not learning.
There’s a very real problem in software engineering in that it’s very hard to determine whether or not a particular praxis works because the pace of technology is so rapid that it’s hard to compare a project that took three years to the next project, because in those three years so much will have changed. That said, Node insists on making all the same mistakes Ruby on Rails did fifteen years ago and they’re still not learning.
Oooh, this. I’ve been pondering this quasi-paradox for about a dozen years now. Probably longer. In the time it takes to develop a reasonably large project the technology these days changes so rapidly measuring success is exceptionally hard. But putting that aside, the making all the same mistakes …outside of the Node context and just in regard to general design…I continue to be puzzled on a quite regular basis now by how the thing that used to be so easy to interface with is now a bloody PITA. Especially Apple products, of which I was originally a reluctant convert. The main selling point was UI ease of use which did impress me. Now something as simple as adding or updating a contact, something I do less and less of anymore, turns into a newbie learning experience. And not an intuitive one at that. Ah, but all I need to do is wait for the next under-the-covers update and what I don’t like will become something else I don’t like. Kind of like how my sister-in-law feels about the music selection on my iPod. Yes, I still have one and you will have to take it from my cold, dead hands you streaming service SOBs.
Now something as simple as adding or updating a contact, something I do less and less of anymore, turns into a newbie learning experience.
I spent 30 minutes today adding five contacts, because Microsoft has effed up Outlook again. Half the time I entered everything only to get a mysterious error when I tried to save. The other half I repeatedly tried to add company addresses which disappeared after I saved the changes. I sometimes think that the human race would greatly benefit if a rain of asteroids were to exterminate 99% of the IT professionals.
A Sudden, Quite Rapid, Relocation Of Stock
I always hated taking inventory, better they should steal it than I should have to count it. ;-p
David, you recently made reference to cleaning pigeon shit from windows. This might interest you.
I always hated taking inventory, better they should steal it than I should have to count it. ;-p
[ Recalls numerous visits to department stores where actual inventory bore no relation to quantities shown online. ]
I hate you.
People getting less competent: I believe there is a trend and it originates from 1) people isolated from feedback and consequences, because 2) if you give feedback it is considered violence and racist and sexist and ist ist.
Only if that was the only UI you were ever exposed to. Imagine highlighting some text in one window and pressing a single mouse button to paste that highlighted text into another window.
I could go into into a rant about humans pasting images of text in bug reports versus providing the very text itself.
Only if that was the only UI you were ever exposed to. Imagine highlighting some text in one window and pressing a single mouse button to paste that highlighted text into another window.
Early Apple, I would agree. The obsession over buttons was itself rather stupid. But the iPhone and iPad were (once) very easy to use intuitively. Lately though, what a mess. I thought the gestures thing was stupid as gestures by their very nature are simultaneously imbued with context and yet also meaningless. The number of times I have lately mistakenly changed pages or swept away tabs and similar just because my thumb drifted over an edge….those moments of wth just happened?
Steve Jobs was (in)famous for squashing new iOS feature suggestions from his engineers for no other reason than they would make the UI less intuitive or less discoverable. Since his death the UX design for iOS products has fallen into the hands of engineers, rather than people who actually understand how people want to use computers.With predictable results. I knew Jobs was well and truly cold in his grave when I learned that the number of times you click the single button on an iWhatever does different things.
I could go into into a rant about humans pasting images of text in bug reports versus providing the very text itself.
I’ve trained multiple QA teams that if they provide a screenshot of an error message from a build log rather than a link to the failing build I simply ignore them.
Heh. Then scroll up.
Inevitably, anyone sniggering at the narcissism is immediately dismissed as a “transphobic” monster.
Ms Jetté Knox tells us she was “in rehab at 14,” and wants us to know “how dangerous it is” to be an “ally,” or “non-binary,” or a self-styled Twitter activist, or whatever it is she is for the purposes of any given tweet. Her collection of selfies, and professed mental health issues, is quite prodigious.
in rehab at 14
professed mental health issues
This kind of melodramatic self-styling as a terribly oppressed victim will look familiar to anyone with a teenage daughter.
“MOOoooOoooOOOM, you’re RUINING my LIIIIIFE”
Severe childhood trauma results in a kind of arrested emotional development. It’s the defining characteristic of the cluster B personality disorders.
This kind of melodramatic self-styling as a terribly oppressed victim will look familiar to anyone with a teenage daughter.
The phrase “fanfiction about themselves” does have a certain resonance.
People getting less competent
I still claim that the ubiquity* of software solutions has made some people much more capable and competent but most people dumber. There’s much less need to reason and think things through when you can click a button and get an “answer”, nevermind questioning how accurate that “answer” may be.
* I searched for the correct spelling of ‘ubiquity’ and Google’s first text at the top of the search results page was “Did you mean: ubiquiti”? The Ubiquiti company was also the first search result, and it wasn’t an ad.
“If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.”
– Pierre Gallois
I’ve trained multiple QA teams that if they provide a screenshot of an error message from a build log rather than a link to the failing build I simply ignore them.
I haven’t needed to do this in quite some time, or perhaps this has been fixed in MS and similar platforms, but I never understood WTF you would make an error window that didn’t allow the user to copy the text. I forget what it was I was troubleshooting many years ago but I wanted to track/compare messages under different scenarios and my troubleshooting was made much more difficult because of this.
All this time I thought Trans World Airlines had gone out of business.
All this time I thought Trans World Airlines had gone out of business.
If the pilot is actually dysmorphic, I’d suggest booking another flight. I mean, having a pilot with a high likelihood of other serious mental health problems and suicidal thoughts seems to be, well, tempting fate.
More critically needed research.
‘Scientific’ journal….
https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1575480502420545536
I’m not in central Florida right now but this is a group of lake swimmers that I have often swum with. It’s a Facebook link so…? But gee, I wish I could have been there.
Also Florida right now…
All this time I thought Trans World Airlines had gone out of business.
Headline: Virgin Atlantic scraps gendered uniforms. Autoplay video: drag performers swinging their hips in tailored skirts, a highly gendered display.
Nurses no longer wear their old uniforms, among other reasons because feminists didn’t approve of the cultural associations of nurturing young women, perky helpers to doctors. Nowadays nurses, male and female, wear baggy overall things. The image of the cabin crew profession was going in a similar direction.
Airlines from Asia, and strangely enough from some Muslim countries (Emirates, Air Astana, etc), are still advertising the beauty and nurturing femininity of their stewardesses, but Western airlines have spent the past decades trying to disassociate their cabin crew from that image.
Until now, when the aspiring flag carrier of Rainbowtopia is reintroducing a sexualized Mad Man era image of stewardesses, not to give the passengers a pleasant trip looked after by pretty, agreeable hostesses, but to give the “hostesses” a captive audience for their right to “bring their whole selves to work”.
Nurses no longer wear their old uniforms, among other reasons because feminists didn’t approve of the cultural associations of nurturing young women, perky helpers to doctors.
I don’t know about that — scrubs, especially in a hospital setting or like my CCT RN daughter who is climbing in and out of ambulances all day — are just plain practical. You can change them easily when contaminated. Ditto my other daughter, the radiological technician.
She did wear the traditional whites plus hat for graduation from nursing school.
Also Florida right now…
Yep. Lawyers. Hurricanes draw them like stink on shit.
[ Writes down like stink on shit. ]
I’m not sure exactly when I’ll use it, but it’s good to have some colourful foreign phrases loaded up ready.
It’s not exactly been a secret that for decades a large proportion of cabin crew have been gay. Good luck to them. However until recently not a single one had felt the need to put on lippy (although admittedly I had noticed the occasional use of guy shadow) and squeeze into a red pencil skirt.
Yet this is how Virgin apparently expect to entice former customers back?
I’m not sure exactly when I’ll use it, but it’s good to have some colourful foreign phrases loaded up ready.
Heh. One of the people on my lake swim group had a new one my wife found hilarious…well I did too but not quite so much…”Let er rip tater chip!!”. Might raise too many eyebrows across the pond though.
”Let er rip tater chip!!”. Might raise too many eyebrows across the pond though.
Indeed, too much confusion, have to change it to, “Be most brisk, potato crisp!”
Also Florida right now…
Animated GIF shows storm surge. A friend is safely up North but believes that her home must have been utterly destroyed. 🙁
And map showing depth of storm surge.
The highest elevation of Sanibel Island is only one meter above sea level. Good Lord.
If only there had been some clue, some sign, that this person was untrustworthy and unstable.
And map showing depth of storm surge.
The highest elevation of Sanibel Island is only one meter above sea level. Good Lord.
Yes. If only they had put their storm shutters up five days ago it might have somehow raised the elevation of the island. AIUI, about a dozen years ago or so ago a hurricane put the entire nation of the Cayman Islands underwater.
WTP: I’ll bypass all the sarcasm and merely observe that such a vulnerable coastal area seems suitable only for very modest vacation/weekend cottages.
Oh, I agree. The sarcasm wasn’t aimed at you, btw. Just the tiresome OMG PANIC PANIC PANIC porn people. Living close to the ocean is, was, and always has been a questionable risk factor. When we first moved to south Florida in 1969, US 1 had many motels to choose from. If you look at old 1950’s era and before pictures of Ft. Lauderdale, there were not so many high rises on the beach. With the lull in hurricanes in the 60’s and 70’s along with improved (but not by enough) building standards, and that coinciding with huge population growth, this brought more building closer to the ocean. Now, not a motel to be seen on that stretch. Even the last (a no-tell of some legend) motel there closed sometime in the 80’s, iirc. Insurance pretended to absorb the risk but did not maintain sufficient reserves. This coupled with insurance commissioners like Bill Nelson (spit) who instead of doing his job ensuring that the insurance companies were solvent, instead took the opposite approach of pressing insurance companies to lower their rates. He and similar have done considerable damage to this state to the extent that State Farm and others stopped issuing new insurance. The companies that remained got into cahoots with the lawyer scum (double spit spit) and now even more honest(ish) companies have left. For this Bill Nelson was promoted to senator. And thus here we are. And the panic porn people are setting the table for the screech and scream to be done not at the people responsible, but at the ones currently holding the bag. Reason #465 why I hate every dumb SOB that I know.
And how about that Florida condo that collapsed?
And how about that Florida condo that collapsed?
Yes. The shoddy construction that went on especially in Miami back then was somewhat notorious in the construction biz. And IRRC there’s a similar constructed condo done by the same people in Sarasota or someplace on the gulf coast.
I was a teenager working summer of ’79 working for a small industrial chain retailer that did odd jobs on the side. Small office, maybe ten total employees. The older guys I worked with would run down to Miami on occasion to fill in or help out with ongoing projects. The one guy I was closest to came back shaking his head about the construction of the sky metro bus something or other that was in the news but I don’t recall ever seeing it finished. Though I think it was. Anyway, the thing he was shaking his head about was that the construction on this thing had been delivered iron reinforcement bars that were too long. So what they were doing was cutting off the curved end but not bending another curve into the new shorter piece (sorry, no recall what the proper term is but if you’ve ever worked with pouring concrete on big construction, YKWIM). AIUI they later stopped the construction and redid it but as I also understand, that fix was either a lie or not done for every one of the vulnerable concrete pours. Nothing that collapses down there, that sky walkway from a couple years ago nor this condo surprises me. Especially anything from the 70’s.
And the port of Miami was notoriously corrupt. I’m still not convinced that I didn’t drive off with some “hot” construction load binders one day. When I got back the older guys asked me all kinds of questions about what had transpired business-wise and what I innocently told them cause a few smiles and barely contained guffaws.
”Let er rip tater chip!!”.
Someone has been watching the once excellent but increasingly repetitive before being cancelled reality show “Fast n’ Loud”.