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@Mik said in Hay Cats! You're "I'm sittin' here!" post of the day.: I think he's done that before. Ayup. He's a regular, and has a favorite lounge chair. Love how he knew where the pool was, and used it as a shortcut to his chair.

Just to be different, I'll say 50% and if I'm wrong I'm guessing too low. I haven't Googled yet, but now I'm going to look it up.

Cashless business is racist. I'm sure she knows that. Racially poor people don't carry fancy "other forms of transactions". Why doesn't someone teach her to speak English? Communication matters.

@Catseye3 said in Get something special for Valentines Day: @Mik It's not like you can eat them. Oh thank you. Just as I was getting up to go fix breakfast. [image: 1674398512152-7434c789-b5b5-40a6-967a-9be4212256cd-image.png] Oh. We're back to stinkbugs. I was thinking what Jolly had said about girlfriends.

@Mik said in "Someone parked in my driveway": exiling them The term "outlaw" comes from that idea - you were exiled and without the protection of the law if you committed these transgressions. An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, and persisted throughout the Middle Ages.

Was that a gender reveal?

Wow!

@Doctor-Phibes said in Triple Trivia: @Jolly said in Triple Trivia: @Copper said in Triple Trivia: @Jolly said in Triple Trivia: Big hint...One of these actors used his vocal talents in collaboration with a well-known singer, for a song on the singer's album. He was in good company, as Paul McCartney also used his vocal talents on the same album. That is Vincent Price on the Thriller album Dracula? Dark Shadows Vincent Price is one of the three. Which media? Oh, I've got it - very nice. The Vincent Price was mentioned in a different thread I think ***=NSFW content***click to show The Saint Vincent Price, Roger Moore, Val Kilmer Winner, winner! Chicken dinner! [image: OIP.mRPDaceuK1a-CpqGC0Ui4QHaJ4?w=198&h=264&c=7&r=0&o=5&pid=1.7]

@Doctor-Phibes The challenge is trying to figure out who’s bribing him to make his latest ill informed little speech.. My bets are on the pseudo-conservatives. You know, the ones who are wholly convinced that conservatism is the same thing as the libertarianism they think they espouse.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Selling The Polish: @Doctor-Phibes said in Selling The Polish: @Jolly said in Selling The Polish: https://nypost.com/2023/01/16/how-the-wokeness-it-pushes-could-destroy-higher-ed/benefit Where I differ from Reynolds a bit... Companies would be well served in many jobs, if they hired non-degreed people for those jobs and invested in a little training. I agree, but until everybody stops getting degrees, it's not going to happen. It's a chicken and egg situation. If you have a choice between a graduate and a non-graduate for the same money, you're always going to pick the graduate. In my experience, they tend to have better communication skills, more ambition, and more of a willingness to take on new things, things that aren't that easy to train. In my line of work, non-degreed people often kick the shit out of those with a bachelor's. The latter can often be high-minded, arrogant and object to the nonsense they inevitably find out of school whereas the former often have an unromantic "anything that works" mentality. But the hiring practices still haven't changed. I have a bachelors level of education but only an AA degree. I’ve made a career out of outwitting MBAs and making more money than most of them. There’s great power in actually knowing how to do something. I’ve also long advocated that you can teach a bright, motivated candidate a technology a lot easier than the converse.

Nice.