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shalafi, (edited )

Nah, I think we all do that. I remember my gf back in the day laughing her ass off because I was trying to say misshapen.

“You know, miss-happen, like, malformed.”

🤷🏻‍♂️

shalafi,

Mexican Shire doesn’t have much of a ring to it, now does it? :(

shalafi,

LOL, I’m on the water with my kayaks, canoe and little plastic boat, “Caught anything?”

“Uh, no. Just stopping on sandbanks and drinking Keystones. Walking around the woods and such. Uh, how about you? Catch anything?”

shalafi,

Mine (mostly) have pockets! But the obvious (to me) reason so many women’s clothes lack pockets is because pockets ruin the form. Wearing my zip-up jacket yesterday, looked great, cut tight, but if I carried stuff in the side pockets it would ruin the look.

And if women truly wanted useable pockets, they’d buy more such clothes. Not like these designers are clueless as to what sells and aren’t maximizing profit.

shalafi,

Tried buying girl versions of those things? Not sure about T-shirts, haven’t tried that. But I have a small middle-aged gut, not much at all, but I think I might look silly in a woman’s T-shirt.

shalafi,

Solid! This reads like old-school wisdom from /r/sysadmin. Those folks really helped me kick start my career.

shalafi, (edited )

LOL, it’s the Nac Mac Feegle stealing a horse, except they’d carry it backwards. They usually steal “ships”.

shalafi,

I do hear a good bit of Spanish when my wife is speaking Tagalog. Don’t know why I found that surprising. And yes, both her maiden and middle names are Spanish.

Funny how people expect them to have “foreign” names. Nah. It’s all, Amy and Rob and Antonio and Phillip and such.

shalafi,

Like what? I’ve barely known any Mexicans and am just now learning about Filipinos. Great cultures in either case.

shalafi, (edited )

You may consider foregoing children. Much like Thanos, wet socks are inevitable.

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shalafi, (edited )

The belief that poverty is caused by incompetence, laziness or rogue spending

I’m not sure how to reach people that believe this. Been dirt poor, now I’m well off. I know what that looks like. One thing is that so many first-world people think they’ve been poor. Well, poor relative to their previous circumstances, poor vs. their parents, etc.

Those sorts never had to steal napkins from McDonalds to wipe their ass. Never fried plain flour with the last of their oil. Never went hunting nuts for food and didn’t have any salt left. Fuck me, my roommate and I were figuring how to steal a duck or goose off the local college campus.

Can’t afford a washing machine? Go to the local laundromat, spend that money. Spend that time. My fridge has an issue with some sort of fan. I have the leisure time and tools to take it apart, figure it out and buy a new fan. If you’re poor? Oh well. Pay someone a load of money. $20 for me, $200 if you’re poor.

tl;dr: We need to be hammering home the fact that being broke is more expensive than having a little folding money. And just like having some money stacks in your favor, having none stacks against you.

shalafi,

LOL, I moved my kayak around with a 12-gauge.

shalafi,

I SO hoped it would be that scene.

So, what’s the best war movie of all time and why is it Black Hawk Down?

shalafi,

My take on the most recent conservative LGBT propaganda:

old.lemmy.world/comment/5119958

Relevant bit:

And those people are grooming your kids into changing into something else, just like they did to themselves! Think of the children! LOL, it’s some Invasion of the Body Snatchers kinda paranoia.

One thing I hadn’t talked about was the “forcing” of LGBT issues.

When we were seniors ('89), saw a high-school buddy in a 50/50 gay/straight bar. About shit himself when he saw me.

“Please don’t tell anyone Shalafi. 😬”

“I don’t give a shit Sheldon. Let me get some of whatever you’re hitting in that bag!”

Same bar watching my gf dance. Dude pulls up a stool and offers me a drink.

“That’s cool and all, but you should know I’m not gay.”

That man knocked over his barstool jumping backwards. From a 5’8", 120lb., 18-yo twerp.

“Oh shit! I’m SO sorry. I didn’t mean…!”

“We’re all cool! It’s good! I’ll still take that drink though.”

All that to say, if any young folk think gays have it bad now? Let’s hop in the Delorean and take a ride back to the late 80’s. They were deep in the closet. Closeted as in, being out front with your homosexuality meant an ass beating. Hell, no one would even acknowledge Freddie Mercury, Liberace or Elton John as gay. There were “confirmed bachelors” or “light in the loafers”. Delivered meaningfully, “gay” was a deadly insult.

Back on topic; Gays kept that shit on the down-low. And that’s how GenX grew up, even more so our parents, less so the Millennials. They see LGBT folks celebrating themselves, rainbow flags in stores, whatever, as having other people’s lifestyles, “shoved down their throat” or “forced on them”.

Weird take, but I can understand it. Moved to the Deep South and all the religious shit feels like they’re cramming their bullshit into my life. And they’re trying to using legislation! And to circle back, these people think gay rights, or even existence, is being thrust on them via legislation.

tl;dr: I get it. It sucks. Society is quickly growing out of it, but it’s a nice wedge issue for conservatives.

shalafi, (edited )

I’ll get some angry comments about the IRL version.

(Turn on the sound. Those poor guys have no idea what to do.)

shalafi,

abcnews.go.com/US/…/story?id=95836

shalafi,

Because the 1999 story is the origin of this talk.

shalafi,

And I walked or biked to my elementary school every day in the 70’s. Many kids are raised very differently now, hence my comment.

I’m working to make my small children independent, their mother, my-ex wife, is working to keep them dependent.

shalafi, (edited )

I had to explain this to a coworker 10-years ago and she thought I was fucking with her.

“Go Google ‘furry’, but do it on your own PC. Can’t swear what you might see.”

“OH MY GOD! YOU WEREN’T JOKING!!!”

shalafi,

Wife wanted me to wear my Samsung to our wedding yesterday. Yeah. It was dead after taking it to the camp where we had a cabin. One day, didn’t even wear it and it was dead.

And of course it takes a special charger.

shalafi,

A black cat rampant on a white background.

And yes, this got me mirthful. :)

shalafi,

Well… That’s a starting point…

shalafi,

I just pay Google $99/yr. for 2TB of storage. I have my Google Drive mapped as G: and Windows libraries mapped to folders in the Google Drive.

Super simple and cheap. I still have local backups for fast restores, and Google for cloud.

shalafi,

And in this merchant-style sort of economy, the rich weren’t an order of magnitude richer than the poor, and profiting off their backs?

FFS, monkeys quickly figure out how to trade “money” for sex. World’s oldest profession anyone? We’re no different. Capitalism just perfected it.

Capitalism is just dandy, with some serious government oversight. Problem being, how do you stop the overseers from getting rich legislating the oversight? Same problem in any economic policy.

Kinda funny thought I had in my 20’s. The only way to truly get rich is by getting other people working for you. Never pursued that line of work, just not me, can’t do it. But it’s still true and always will be, no matter the economics.

shalafi,

Amateur. My gf will still steal the sheet.

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