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Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
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(December 1, 2021 at 5:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Furniture used to be so cheap

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Much of it still is ,with the same meaning. Ikea comes to mind, I don't know why.   Angel
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Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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(November 27, 2021 at 8:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 27, 2021 at 5:00 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:  At 29 I had just bought my first house, and it needed work. A bit short of money so I got a boarder.  Working full time and attending University part time. That wasn't enough, so I go a weekend job delivering Newspapers to agents. That was from around 12.30 AM to 4 AM.
 Looking back It's a wonder I'm still alive. These days I'm doing well if I don't have a 2 or 3 hour grandpa nap. Dodgy

I think workers have lost sight of how valuable they are. Our great-grandfathers were all, ‘Begging your pardon boss, but the lads have being having a bit of a chin-wag, and we’ve decided that eight hours is a full day’s work. We hope that’s all right, because if it isn’t, we’re going to burn this factory to the ground’.

Workers today are, ‘You work 50 hours last week? Ha! At my last job I put in 75 hours a week, you pussy.’

Boru

Yup.  I taught high school Physics and Chemistry for twenty years, and I'd often hear community members say "it must be nice to only work six hours a day, and get summers off."  Hell, when the final bell rang was when my "work day" started.  The six hours in front of students was the fun part, but it routinely took at least three more hours each day, plus a full weekend day to prepare for the "fun" part.  50-60 hour weeks were common, at least among lab science teachers.

Oh as for summers off?  We didn't get paid, so it was a lot like being laid off for a quarter of the year, each year.  Most taught summer school, just to make ends meet.  I was fortunate enough to have a well-compensated working spouse, so I actually got my unpaid summers off.

And yeah, I took a two-thirds pay cut to change careers from engineering program management to teaching high school, and lost half of my Social Security because of my teacher's pension, which I got about half of by "only" teaching twenty years.

But I'm not bitter...no siree.  Loved every minute of teaching, and retired at 58.  On Tuesday, I'm having a couple beers with one of my ex-students who contacted me last week to thank me for "positively changing the trajectory of his life".  That's the shit that makes it all worthwhile, and makes the prospect of oblivion at the end of my life *not* threatening at all.  I'll die happy, knowing that I made a difference, rather than money for some random asshole stockholders.

(December 2, 2021 at 5:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [Image: c8sFw5f.jpeg]

Boru

...and appeared in regular roles in two different Star Trek series, as well as Star Gate Atlantis.

There are no badder Sci Fi asses!

(December 2, 2021 at 8:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: [Image: 9sA55Wh.jpg]

Should be standard equipment, but I'd pay for that option!

(December 1, 2021 at 5:37 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:
(December 1, 2021 at 5:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Furniture used to be so cheap

[Image: Furn.jpg]

Much of it still is ,with the same meaning. Ikea comes to mind, I don't know why.   Angel

I bet they go "POP" with the bangin'.
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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(December 2, 2021 at 8:18 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:
(November 27, 2021 at 8:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think workers have lost sight of how valuable they are. Our great-grandfathers were all, ‘Begging your pardon boss, but the lads have being having a bit of a chin-wag, and we’ve decided that eight hours is a full day’s work. We hope that’s all right, because if it isn’t, we’re going to burn this factory to the ground’.

Workers today are, ‘You work 50 hours last week? Ha! At my last job I put in 75 hours a week, you pussy.’

Boru

Yup.  I taught high school Physics and Chemistry for twenty years, and I'd often hear community members say "it must be nice to only work six hours a day, and get summers off."  Hell, when the final bell rang was when my "work day" started.  The six hours in front of students was the fun part, but it routinely took at least three more hours each day, plus a full weekend day to prepare for the "fun" part.  50-60 hour weeks were common, at least among lab science teachers.

Oh as for summers off?  We didn't get paid, so it was a lot like being laid off for a quarter of the year, each year.  Most taught summer school, just to make ends meet.  I was fortunate enough to have a well-compensated working spouse, so I actually got my unpaid summers off.

And yeah, I took a two-thirds pay cut to change careers from engineering program management to teaching high school, and lost half of my Social Security because of my teacher's pension, which I got about half of by "only" teaching twenty years.

But I'm not bitter...no siree.  Loved every minute of teaching, and retired at 58.  On Tuesday, I'm having a couple beers with one of my ex-students who contacted me last week to thank me for "positively changing the trajectory of his life".  That's the shit that makes it all worthwhile, and makes the prospect of oblivion at the end of my life *not* threatening at all.  I'll die happy, knowing that I made a difference, rather than money for some random asshole stockholders.

(December 2, 2021 at 5:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [Image: c8sFw5f.jpeg]

Boru

...and appeared in regular roles in two different Star Trek series, as well as Star Gate Atlantis.

There are no badder Sci Fi asses!

(December 2, 2021 at 8:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: [Image: 9sA55Wh.jpg]

Should be standard equipment, but I'd pay for that option!

(December 1, 2021 at 5:37 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: Much of it still is ,with the same meaning. Ikea comes to mind, I don't know why.   Angel

I bet they go "POP" with the bangin'.

 Youse wouldn't want to light your farts near that furniture. No, I've never done it, although I've seen it done twice. In the army I also once saw a bloke do the dance of the flaming arsehole:

Yep, it's beyond vulgar. Link below if you also have have a coarse sense of humour.

Dance of the flaming assholes - YouTube
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Who would ever want to separate these bros.?

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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(December 4, 2021 at 1:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Who would ever want to separate these bros.?

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The famous showman  P T Barnum had an exhibit with a real lion and a real lamb, together.

A friend enquired about how such an amazing exhibit was going.

B T Barnum said it was going wonderfully  well, making a lot of money. He said he expected to make a lot more, "'as long as we don't run out of lambs"  Cool

Umm, why is the dog licking its chops?
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Know what would be fun to do?

Put graffiti on a Banksy - and listen to the critics howl...
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(December 4, 2021 at 7:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Know what would be fun to do?

Put graffiti on a Banksy - and listen to the critics howl...

Good point.

I don't especially like his paintings of which I have seen photos. I think they  are trite. He does  paint far better than I, but that's not saying much. Cool
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(December 4, 2021 at 7:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Know what would be fun to do?

Put graffiti on a Banksy - and listen to the critics howl...

I think I'll start painting on buildings too, but identify myself as an atheist, a non-prophet, if you will.

I'll call myself "Credit Unionsy".
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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