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  1. Fifty150

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    .....and I had my money on disease, war, and hunger. Who knew?
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You may as well ask him to dress for dinner. Request that he wear a dinner jacket. Make your house "black tie". As I discovered in real life, nobody really knows what it means when invitations read "semi formal", "black tie", "formal", or "white tie". Because people in general no longer care...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Reminds me of Windows on the World
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Very few people sympathize with the wealthy people who are hungry. Or the "rich" people who are poor. Her main problem is cash flow. From earning a salary to living on disability is a big difference. But the big difference is that disability does not pay enough to match the cost of living...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I have this friend. A homeowner. Lives in a very nice, upper middle class township, just a mile or so from The Big City. Amongst her neighbors are elected officials, appointed department heads from city and county agencies, and business owners. Homes are over $1 million. Her home is...
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    Vintage Food

    $0.88 per pound. The price is vintage. That's probably what pork chops sold for 50 years ago. It makes a pretty good pork sandwich. Ham and cheese?
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    Vintage Food

    In some cultures, they don't eat pork. In other areas of the world, goat and lamb give milk and meat. Not so much here in The USA. In The USA, we don't sell horsemeat. There are specialty sellers who sell "exotic" meat. But "exotic" means everything which isn't beef, chicken, and pork, from...
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    Vintage Food

    I guess it's cultural. Offal is found on Latin American and Asian restaurant menus. Tripe, intestines, heart, liver, tongue, kidneys. Brisket is very common in Asian food. Jewish delis still have brisket. Corned beef was brisket, but now I also see round, as in top round and bottom round...
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    It all depends on your "crowd". Different social groups. I know a spot where guys are still wearing 3/4 length leather coats and turtleneck sweaters. Not to mention that if you go to a motorcycle club, then yes, everyone is wearing leather. I didn't want to be the guy to mention it, but...
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    The leather jacket, where I worked, was issued to motorcycle riders and the people riding horses. Nobody else even wanted one. Not 1 person, ever, wore one if they weren't riding a horse or motorcycle. And a lot of the guys who were riding, didn't wear the leather. Some people thought they...
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    Bartender Edit: OK, folks - enough fight talk! Let's keep this on track, please. Further posts in this direction will be discouraged.
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    The better option is to not fight at all. Unless you are the guy that other people call when there is trouble. I firmly believe that most people should not be fighting, and that most fights could be avoided. As someone who has been in fights, I don't like them. This is what it's like...
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    I have been in fights wearing a leather jacket. Broken beer bottle have a hard time penetrating leather. If you are in motion, as your body is turning, it is very difficult for a small pocketknife to stab or slice through leather. I am not a "BJJ" guy. But I can tell you, that from 1st...
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    Why a Leather Jacket?

    For guys of a certain generation, a leather jacket was a status symbol. That was my Uncle and my Dad's generation. When they "dressed to impress", the leather came out. They had motorcycle jackets for riding. But that generation wore those leather blazers, car coats, and long coats. With...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Home ownership offers a few advantages over renting. The main advantage is equity. You don't have to sell your home. The property could be refinanced. The common practice is to refinance, use the money to buy another property, then rent one of the properties while you live in the other. The...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I cringed myself. It almost felt like Jerry Seinfeld coaching a Pakistani cafe owner.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Shock and awe. My jaw dropped. I can tell by the look on her face, this was an unpleasant experience. I tell her, "Look, you don't have to do this. I won't tell anybody." She put about 6 little cans of tomato sauce into a pot. Then rinsed the cans into the pot. So now the tomato sauce is...
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    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    The baby's kidnapping has uncorked the bottle and released the genie. The City of San Jose is now in the spotlight.
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    Experimenting on foods.

    "I am from Africa. We eat bush meat. You have nothing that will be strange to me." That was how it started. My cousin. From South Africa. His ancestors and mine were closely related. Now, we're about 5 generations removed from 3rd-cousins-by-marriage. Still, we are somehow related. It...
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    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    I knew a girl, whose Dad ran a church. Spanish speaking congregation. Services in Spanish only. Men and women on separate sides of the room. Women must cover their heads. Marriages were arranged. Only his church wasn't in the basement of a house. There were over 1,000 members. She would...

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