English only at the tables please…
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“Paying out on”, v. To mock, make fun of, ridicule.
“Bagging out”, v. See “paying out on”.
“Knobhead”, n. See Stephens, Bret.
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I used to believe that the masters of the universe in high finance were smarter than me and that I just didn’t understand what was going on when my eyes told me that the loans we were making at car dealerships I worked at made no sense. The crash cured me of that.
I used to believe that the politicians at the major political parties were mostly benign, that lobbying was a little gross but basically fine, and that the grown ups were probably smarter than me and that things just seemed a little screwed up, but it was basically fine. Trump getting elected POTUS and then remaining POTUS after exploring his own worst case scenarios has cured me of that.
I’m no longer in any way shape or form convinced that there are grown ups running the world who are basically competent. Now I suspect that this is actually the decadent period right before the fall of the empire, and that most of the people at the top are pure sycophants and most of the rest are sociopaths.
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The bad guys have all the money. That’s a dynamic that feeds on itself until the masses get desperate enough for violence.
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It’s much more complicated than that. Everyone is just people following whatever their goofy ape brain is telling them is the right thing to do. There are all kinds of biases and blindspots that cause them to generally see things in a way that is slanted in their own favor. We aren’t better. I 1000% guarantee that everyone reading this (and me obviously) is suffering from at least half a dozen major misconceptions about big stuff in their lives/life.
Obviously that remains extremely true at the top of the pyramid. No doubt the recently deceased Koch brother felt that he was a great man through whatever weird set of values he peered through.
The system has gotten very dysfunctional and we’re witnessing the process of it breaking down. What will come next is a very good question. History can only inform us so far on the matter as there are a few untested variables in the equation this time. For instance the internet, AI, climate change (although there have been environmental disasters many many times in human history)… there are quite a few balls in the air that are truly hard to predict.
Here is something I think is accurate though: People tend to expect things to stay the same to a much greater degree than they actually do. This even occurs when personal experience has taught them that things are changing rapidly. This is a very old fact at this point since the rate of change has been accelerating almost continually since at least 1444.
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Well, this thread got real in a hurry.
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No not at all, Infact it’s a time honered tradition on the West Coast here. Especially on a Monday.
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People should get worried when no one bags on your teams. Huge signal one is out of the peer group.
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Seriously. Thremp is still around? I thought he dissapeared years ago
He’s mostly been self contained in H&F because every time he strays he eventually gets banned. Although I think he was quick ben (or something close) and wandered into the old politics forum for a bit.
quick ben was jdock from memory. greg will know
The annoyance that participants who overheard the one-sided conversation felt is consistent with surveys that have shown people are annoyed by other’s cell phone use in public. This annoyance may be caused by the ‘‘blurring of the distinction between the public and the private sphere.” For example, people typically have personal, not business, conversations while they use cell phones in public. Bystanders who are exposed to these personal conversations may not have much control over the situation, thereby increasing their levels of annoyance and frustration. Research has shown that bystanders in situations where they are not free to leave (for example, waiting for or using public transportation) often find cell phone conversations annoying. Other research investigating the effects of lack of control have shown that lack of perceived control can, in turn, lead to an increase in stress responses.
People who wait in line, then get to front and spend 2 minutes looking at the menu as if they had never seen it before.
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I’d be stunned if this were true. I believe that current politics poster Kelhus is quick ben, and he seems far too stupid to be thremp.
Oh my fucking god is that tilting. As an absent minded person this has been me a few times and every single time it happens I feel a large and instant shock of pure humiliation that is usually enough to make sure it doesn’t happen for another year or two. If you don’t feel that way I’d posit that you’re awful in bed, incredibly inconsiderate, and just a terrible person in general who doesn’t deserve any kind of happiness.
EDIT: There’s an obvious exception for places that have confusing and/or vast menus that force you to make a ton of choices. Those places should fix that ASAP so that the lines stop being so freaking long. Seriously I don’t wait in line basically ever, so if you want a slice of my rather considerable restaurant spend you’d be best advised to fix it.
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Related: people who wait in line to pay for a single priced item, then spend 2 minutes foraging around in their bag/pockets for the correct cash.
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I must be confused and you and Rexx are probably correct. I know he’s definitely come back a few times and mostly stuck to H&F, which I think is also true of quick ben/jdock, so maybe I’ve mixed them up in my head due to that.
people who start making sighing noise while I am making my selection at a fast food restaurant. Sorry I am not fat and haven’t memorized Popetes’ menu
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That’s legit amazing. Movies are real folks, imagine if that was a t-rex and that iconic scene from Jurassic Park seems underplayed.
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