So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

The cats would run the place anyway.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And if all that doesn't help, you and the kids could run a kiosk with "German food-porn, here!".

-Bismarck (herring) sandwiches

-Matjes (herring) sandwiches

-Thuringian Bratwurst with mustard or ketchup

-"Mettbrötchen" (pork tartare sandwich) with onions

And working-class's old love:

Bockwurst sandwich

And I would recommend good old Salami sandwiches, too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And here I am stuck all day with nothing to eat but popcorn. The soul writhes.

 

[Fading Fast]

And here I am stuck all day with nothing to eat but popcorn. The soul writhes.

Heck, I'd eat popcorn 'till I died to not have to eat those first two sammies, but that's just me.

 

[tonyb]

Somehow my existence feels not at all diminished by having never eaten a raw pork sausage sandwich. With or without onions.

 

[Harp]

A wedding this Saturday compels a barber shop visit tomorrow at the Chicago Options Exchange
with a shoe shine tossed in for good measure. Aside from being a first-rate cut joint, the shop seems
the sole site in town not requiring prior appointment. I can step right off the train and sit down as an early
walk in around 06.50. A millennial joint across the street, complete with barber pole and scattered Playboys-
seemingly the real deal-turned out to be faddish: lap tops at station counters, barbers cell phoning, and appointment-centric kid cutters. I never went back.

 

[Edward]

It is not to absolve people of all responsibility for their own financial circumstances to note that the game is increasingly rigged against lower-income people.

It’s true that a struggling person really shouldn’t drop five bucks at Starbucks every workday or purchase new furniture on credit when perfectly serviceable (and better built) used stuff can be had for nothing or next to it. But such economizing won’t lift that person out of the struggling classes, especially not in a time when the trend is to convert employees into contractors, to push the risks onto the workers, to provide zip for worker benefits.

This is something you hear applied to millenials who can no longer afford to buy their own home here in the UK (the first generation to be, on average, less well off than their parents) - 'stop buying fancy coffee' or whatever. The same puritan attitiude that cocks a snook at people who are unemployed if they have an occasional drink, or subscribe to a television service. I suppose it's easier than accepting thaat the profiteering of a previous generation is the real reason, not that they won't deny themselves a small 'luxury'. OLf course, at the other end there are those FIRE twerps who evangelise extreme miserness in your twenties and claim to be retired in their late thirties. Retired, except for the books they are writing, and the lecture tours, and the paid media appearances, as the cash keeps rolling in..... At what point does selling a dream become selling a lie?

 

[LizzieMaine]

When that "millenials and avocado toast" meme made the rounds a couple of years ago, my millennials here sneered bitterly at it. They'd have been satisified to have plain white toast -- most of them had a handful of store-brand not-Cheerios for breakfast and called it good.

I don't know anyone under forty who owns a home, period. Most of them rent, and most of them have roommates.

The West in general, and America, especially, are marinated in phony self-righteous economic Puritanism -- and it's especially hypocritical when it comes from some blow-dried spray-tanned basic-cable dink who wouldn't know how to live for five minutes on a real working-class budget.

 

[Edward]

Oh, I know. I'm one of very few of my social group in London who has "owned" (i.e. paid a mortgage rather than rent) sicne my mid-late twenties. Whenver I'm tempted to bemoan my lot, I think of the friends who are cock-a-hoop to be able, in their early thirties, to afford to rent a small flat by themselves rather than house-share. This after they spent several years moving every twelve months as well....

 

[LizzieMaine]

And the most ludicrous thing about the FIRE types is telling kids that they should be saving half their income. Easy to say that when you're making six figures per annum, but it gets a good bit less so when you're earning $11 an hour.

I never watch financial-talk programs on TV because I would find it hard to resist throwing a shoe thru the screen, and new picture tubes are getting hard to find.

 

[Nobert]

Dern kids and their new-fangled fancy toast:

(From the Boston Sunday Post August 13, 1911).

 

[LizzieMaine]

Put the butter in the blazer? That must run up an awful dry-cleaning bill.

 

[Nobert]

I knew I should've made pretty much that same joke, but I thought I'd bide my time for a few posts. Oh, well, that's showbiz.

 

[Zombie_61]

Put the butter in the blazer? That must run up an awful dry-cleaning bill.

Is the butter in the blazer by the chalice from the palace, the flagon with the dragon, or the vessel with the pestle?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Somehow my existence feels not at all diminished by having never eaten a raw pork sausage sandwich. With or without onions.

It's not bad. "Sidewalk sale" is the strictly controlled part of gastronomy, in Germany.

 

[Edward]

And the most ludicrous thing about the FIRE types is telling kids that they should be saving half their income. Easy to say that when you're making six figures per annum, but it gets a good bit less so when you're earning $11 an hour.

Yip. I regularly hear of friends who are paying out over half their joint income in rent alone, just to keep a roof over their heads. Then they get told by the bank they don't have the credit rating to have a mortgage with a monthly repayment half of what they pay every month in rent....

In the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun....

 

[LizzieMaine]

Is the butter in the blazer by the chalice from the palace, the flagon with the dragon, or the vessel with the pestle?

Danny Kaye, where are you now that we need you?

 

[GHT]

Danny Kaye, where are you now that we need you?

 

[MisterCairo]

@LizzieMaine

Or the other trend:

You and your community-kids could establish and run a Cat Café. You're boss and you wouldn't have to be there all the time.

My local town, Stratford, Ontario, is getting one soon:

https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.c...-cafe-a-purr-fect-idea-for-downtown-stratford

 

[Trenchfriend]

My local town, Stratford, Ontario, is getting one soon:

https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.c...-cafe-a-purr-fect-idea-for-downtown-stratford

Yup, the trend is actually still running and trick is, to be first in town.