Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "Jack Morgan RLP" channel.

  1. I was born in '76. As a kid, I knew every single person on my street. The other kids in the neighborhood and myself used to play outside and made the rounds around the neighborhood...some of the older residents would give us lemonade and cookies, some let us play baseball in their yard, we had bike trails through the woods and would cut through yards and the neighbors would just wave. I was in every single house on my street at least once, which was about 20-25 houses. It was a different world. Today I have lived in my current house 12 years and know one neighbor. One. Nobody else cares. Nobody else wants to even make small talk. I even waved to a neighbor and his kids walking down the street one day when I was mowing the lawn and they looked at me like I was some sort of freak. People are messed up now.
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  2. Absolutely correct. I work in a service oriented job (tax preparation and financial consultation) and I work out of the main office in a busy suburban area, part of the time, and out at my "outpost", the small satellite office I manage out in a rural small town. The majority of the customers at the main hub are total NPCs. Fake people, no personality, don't want to make small talk, and most very superficial and self absorbed. The rural location is the direct opposite. People are real. You can make small talk with them, most are farmers and factory workers and corrections officers at the state prison, and are down to earth. Most of them (rightly so) distrust the government. They act like I'm an actual person and not a service bot there for their use. They aren't all nice people but many are. But even the jerks are real. They don't feel phoney like the city people do.
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  3. My 8 year old son wanted my old analog dial tv for his room. I told him you can't even pick up a signal on it anymore, you won't be able to watch anything on it. Didn't matter. He wanted it because he thought it looks cool. Gotta love that.
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  4. School isn't about learning, it's about conforming. I never quite fit the mould. Yeah I graduated, and graduated college, but I was smart enough on my own to do it but was constantly told I was a problem. My son is going through the same thing now. Bottom line is society doesn't like independent thinkers. They want you to suffer with the rest of them in a giant collectivist nightmare. But the thing is if it wasn't for independent thinkers, I'd probably be sending this comment via smoke signal 😂
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  5. This. And that's when your taxes go up. That's the thing. Yeah it's great you have more equity, but if you sell you have to buy something else that is overpriced, you can't live in a cardboard box. I'd rather my house not skyrocket in value because my taxes have also skyrocketed.
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  6. Political disagreements ended many friendships. People are too sensitive now. I really don't care what other people's politics are, but many of them care about mine (moderately conservative libertarian), and couldn't handle me even though I couldn't care less what they believe in. It's a sad state of affairs. I found the problem to be that even though I don't care what other people's lifestyles or cultures are, since I don't virtue signal I'm a hater. It's not limited to the left, it seems to be more prevalent, but I have a few hard right wing friends that have gotten weird and reclusive as well.
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  7. ​ @ZacharyHolton Others don't like it if you are not obsessed with local sportsball team. I live about 2 miles from an NFL stadium and haven't watched a snap of the ball in over a decade. People don't like it. They act like I have some sort of disease. I just have better things to spend my time on and concern myself with.
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  8. It crept in at first, but started to snowball in the 2010's, and hit critical mass by 2020. Things still felt fairly normal until about '08-09. Then began the slow creep of weirdness, then it accelerated massively around the middle of the 2010's
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  9. I think I crossed over in 2012. Was driving my dad's old pickup truck that had no power, an old Chevy S-10 with a 4-banger, with the bed loaded with junk to haul to the dump as I was renovating a house I just bought. I got a couple blocks away from the house and took a left. I absolutely looked left and saw nothing. Then all the sudden I see a grille of an oncoming vehicle right up on me. I floored it, which did nothing because the truck had no power, and swerved to the right a bit. In about a split second I had a ridiculous amount of thoughts go through my head. Main one being, this is it, I am getting broad sided now by a vehicle going 60mph in basically an old tin can. I'm dead. Then I looked back and saw that car driving away as I was shaking and about tore off the steering wheel from clenching it so hard. In my mind there was no way to avoid a collision. I don't know how I did. I didn't even hear screeching tires, the other car just somehow avoided me. Or did they. My thought was I was actually killed and crossed over into some bizarre alternate reality at that point. Things started getting weird right after that point. Maybe others of us got here the same way. Because this world doesn't seem right, it seems like bizarro world. But before that it didn't. Yes, strange story but had to share it.
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  10. Nobody wears a proper watch anymore (except me). Was at a meeting the other day and noticed every single person was wearing a smart watch, and then there was me with my analog tick tock 😂 Hey, it's Swiss movement, so don't knock it! 🇨🇭
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  11. The problem with that is where do you go if you sell it. It's all artificial. If you sell for 3x, you will have to live somewhere, so you will also pay 3x to buy another home.
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  12. I'm breeding the next generation of this line of thinking. My 8 year old son is obsessed with old tech. He wanted my old 1988 dial television for his room. I told him you can't actually pick up any stations on it since the signals went exclusively to digital several years ago. He didn't care he just likes how it looks. He is even fascinated by turning it on to the white noise "snow". If you think about it you don't really see that anymore so it would be interesting to a young person. All us old people remember it from years back, that, and the colored blocks and the hum after stations signed off for the night. And by the way, my wife banned him from turning on the white noise because it freaks her out and reminds her of Poltergeist... another staple of our generation 😂
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  13. Still no Gen X president. Wonder if we will ever get one.
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  14. I still think the middle us the worst. If you are poor, you get subsidized. If you are rich, you're rich, you can afford whatever. If you're in the middle, you pay full price for everything, but barely have enough to do so.
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  15. $100K if someone just handed it to you, on top of what you already have, could do a lot. $100K as an annual family income is about the bare minimum of what you need to live even halfway decently. And by the way, I'm not saying this as some rich out of touch person, my family income is under $100K.
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  16. No, we are at war with Eurasia and always have been. Did you not watch your telescreen today and drink your Victory Gin? 😂
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  17. The economy adjusted to a two income family. It basically became impossible to support a family on one income. So now both people work in most cases, but make half what they did 40 years ago in terms of purchasing power, so you're basically putting in twice the work for the same outcome, but in fact less if you have children because now you also have to pay for child care without a stay at home parent, and many of these just price gouge everyone because they can, because just about everyone needs their service.
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  18. We live in a new gilded age. Mark Twain described the original gilded age as an age that was an unattractive reality covered by a thin veneer of wealth. That's today to a tee. People out rolling expensive rides, living in too large expensive houses, going on their annual cruise, but in reality their big house has two sticks of furniture in them, they eat peanut butter sandwiches for dinner every night, and they are one missed payment away from foreclosure or repossession of their nice car. Credit card debt, student debt, personal loan debt, mortgage debt, all through the roof. Those who appear on top really living paycheck to paycheck. Those of us in the middle trying to save and living very modestly, more so than we should have to. Everyone is poor but everyone has a fancy phone, and many a fancy ride and a fancy house, but it's unsustainable. The bottom is falling out as we speak. The gap between the haves and the have nots is widening day by day. We're all just passengers at this point.
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  19. That was just kind of normal life back then. We had a house rather than an apartment, but it was very modest. Eventually we got a second car for my mom so my grandparents didn't have to drive us everywhere when my dad was working ridiculous hours and going to college at night, but the second car was an old clunker my dad bought off a friend at work. I didn't have many toys, but what I had I cherished and took care of. We only took a vacation if we could stay with relatives and get cheap transportation. But it was pretty normal and I enjoyed my childhood. It made me learn to value little things more.
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  20. It could be one of several things. Indeed we are in the middle of a fourth turning right now, or some may call it a gilded age, but nonetheless it seems to have been dragging on for some time now and I don't see the reset of the cycle hitting anytime soon. Or a more dark possibility is we are on the verge of a great filter. An event or series of events that will make or break the future of humanity, possibly ending in extinction. And it doesn't have to be a swift end, it could very well be a slow dying on the vine if you will, where we as a species basically opened Pandora's box and it will slowly kill us off and/or doom future generations into a slow extinction. The easy things to notice are the dumbing down of society, the over reliance on technology that proves itself to be unreliable, things like that. But what about the things not right in your face? The growing infertility rates. The growing rates of cancer. The awful food and drugs we are fed. People in the mid century 1900's are lard every meal, smoked two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day, drank whisky after dinner and at business meetings, and were mostly more healthy than us. Something sinister is going on.
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  21. I had a Motorola Star Tac for years, it was great. State of the art in 2001 baby 😂
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  22. My wife does it, my kids do it, heck even my 80 year old mother does it...get tuned into their devices and tuned out of the world, that is. Sometimes I feel like I am in a twilight zone episode. One of the ones where everyone else is crazy and you are sane but you are treated as the crazy one. Of course that's like half the twilight zone episodes, but you get my point 😂
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  23. For real. A good friend of mine makes about $400K a year and is in debt and has almost no savings. Of course buying a Lamborghini, which was broken and he had to eat the cost, then going out and buying another Lamborghini, and having a giant house built for him and his wife and zero kids was pretty stupid.
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  24. I'm late Gen X and still as late as the 1990's if you lived far enough out in the country you couldn't get cable. I had a friend that still had a tv antenna on his house in 1994 and got 3 channels. Yes, you could get one of those monstrosity satellite dishes back then but they were very expensive and were huge and unreliable and went out every time it rained. My parents still had a rotary phone until about 1990, and I was still my dad's "garage door opener" well into the 1990's 😂
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  25. TV is no longer the problem, if it ever really was one. Yes, it's mostly trash today, but the devices are the much bigger problem today. And as for the homeschooling thing, that's just not something most people can do. Most married couples have to both work. It gets tiring reading comments like this where people act holier than thou because "they homeschool". Well bully for you.
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  26. I finally got my vehicle with sunroof and premium leather seats last year at age 47. After driving average at best vehicles for years. Now I can actually afford it because I saved for 25 years instead of blowing it all. Also have about 50% equity in a home that has more than doubled in value since I bought it in 2010. Young people now have it hard enough with the ridiculous real estate market, let alone blowing all their money and running up debt with rates in the high teens and twenties for interest.
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  27. ​ @jeffreydunegan1972 I didn't know that. I'll have to try that, the only thing I have been able to use it for is old video games that use an R/F adapter.
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  28. If there is another Carrington Event, or worse yet something way larger, which is inevitable at some point, those who can't survive without technology will be doomed.
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  29. The massive technological advances every generation wasn't a thing until about 150 years ago. Prior to the industrial revolution, people passed down basic skills and knowledge generation to generation and it stayed valid. This hyper advancement is a relatively new thing in terms of human history.
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  30. Little 🎩
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  31. ​​ @shanesmith8442 The month names are messed up because of the Romans, they added July and August for Julius and Augustus Caesar. Maybe they should have added them to the end 😂
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  32. When other kids were making spaceships and other fun things out of such boxes, I made myself an office because I wanted to be like my dad and have an office! Needless to say, now I am the old dad and I work at a desk in an office and it's not nearly as glorious as I once used to make believe...and I find my boys doing the same thing now. I'm like, nah, you don't want to be an accountant like dad, it's very boring! 😂
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  33. You are young and you notice it. That's a good thing for you, you have gotten red pilled, but so many even older people choose to take the blue pill and be oblivious. But 30 is definitely a turning point. I have a few acquaintances around your age and they talk of the same thing. 40 is like a ton of bricks dropped on you. Your perspective changes even more, if you choose to be aware that is, which it's evident you are. I'm 48 now. 50 is right around the corner and I am a bit afraid of what that will bring.
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  34. You know what sucks now? New furniture. Unless you go to some high end specialty furniture store and spend tens of thousands, but who can afford that. The regular stuff it terrible. Its fiberboard crap. I don't buy it. Over the years I have picked up old pieces from family, picked stuff off the curb that people were discarding, and hit the occasional household sale or consignment store and picked up some old stuff cheap that was worn but solid. Sand it down and stain it, it's so much better than modern stuff if you want to put in the effort. And you save money and it can last forever if you take care of it.
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  35. Probably had no trade in and didn't put a dime down for a down payment.
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  36. We are in the fourth turning right now. Positive change is coming but we have more years if crap before we get there. It will happen, it always does. Civilized society follows patterns going back centuries. It's bad now but people eventually get fed up and things improve.
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  37. I just picked a mid century wooden desk off the roadside for free. Sanded it down, stained it, fixed it up a bit and it's a thousand times nicer than any MDF piece of crap you would pay hundreds of dollars for in a big box store and then have to put together yourself. All for the cost of a few sheets of sandpaper for my sander, a quart of stain, and a pint of tung oil. About $50 and 8-10 hours of work.
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  38. ​ @freebird1989 I hear you. Even as late as 1999-2000, I lived in a house with 5 other guys in college and we had 2 landlines between the six of us and zero cellphones. And one of the two landlines was for dial up internet 😂. We all survived. I often leave mine behind as well when I'm doing other things. 90% of the calls I get on it are spam anyways 🤣
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  39. That's almost double my mortgage and I have a 2,000 square foot home with an acre and an outbuilding. Built in 1992 so not new but not super old. Picked it up in 2012 for $190K and is worth over $400K now. Wouldn't want to have to buy something now. People that want to are screwed.
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  40. $37/ month family membership at the town run community fitness center where I live! Is it state of the art? Hell no. But they got what you need and even a pool if fancy a swim.
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  41. Had Myspace back when it was new and was a novelty. Once Facebook took over I never joined and never joined up with any of the others. Haven't touched that Myspace account since like 2007. I wonder if it's still sitting there with Tom as my only friend 😂
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  42. Sounds like me at that age. Two of us split a $335/mo apartment with appliances and fixtures from the Silent movie era (for real), got free heat from steam radiators (which was extremely unreliable but free), and pirated cable and internet because we had a buddy that worked for the cable company that hooked us up. We watched that cable on an old TV that they were throwing away at the college we went to prior. I was 24 and drove a 12 year old car I had since high school and my roommate was 22 and rode the bus to work. All of our furniture was hand me down stuff. Our "coffee table" was an overturned plastic storage crate with a board on it. The stove was from probably the 1930's or 40's and had to be lit with a match. We complained at the time but we had fun, and now I look back with fond memories of that time.
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  43. I have a friend like you. I have to live in the 'burbs even though I don't want to because of my job. My friend is a state trooper and runs a rural station. As you can imagine he has a virtual arsenal at his house. If we get a SHTF scenario, I am going to try like hell to get out to his place! I mean I have guns and food and stuff too but my area will be overrun pretty quickly if things go downhill.
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  44. Not only all this, but most families did it off one income back then. Granted I was 1 year old in 1977, but I remember the early 80's my dad worked, my mom took care of me and worked part time a couple nights a week for a few hours at the mall, we had one car and a modest home and we got by. We weren't poor but we certainly weren't rich. I dare say we are not worse off, but certainly no better off today with both my wife and I working full time jobs. Things certainly were simpler 40 years ago. Today the extra person working basically pays for the extra car and childcare expenses that didn't used to exist so you are no further ahead working twice as much.
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  45. I had two kids, first one at 39, second at 43. Yes, men in general have no limit, though an individual can suffer male reproductive issues, there are indeed men that have fathered children in their 80's. Although I'd say that's rather extreme and dare I say selfish as one probably won't be around for much of their life if they have them at that age. Your cutoff age there is pretty reasonable. That's about where I pegged it for myself when I was younger. My cousin stretched the limit a bit and had one at 49, but what's funny about that is he already had 3 others that were grown adults already and his 4th child is only a year older than his grandson 😂
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  46. I hear you. I myself rented a prewar apartment (pre World War I 😂) 2 bedroom with a roommate for $335 total a month in 2001, $167.50 a piece! It was a complete dump but looking back now it was a fun time in life. Had low rent, free steam radiator heat, and an old car and banked lots of money at a young age, so I could afford a decent house just a few years later.
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  47. Yes, but age is a factor as well. So depending on how old you are, the passage of time will feel different. I am in my late 40's and feel it big time. There are many reasons for it. The scientific one is every passing year is a smaller fraction of your life lived, so it seems quicker. I also think it's because life becomes more routine as you get older. All the random adventures of your teens and 20's no longer happen. Life just becomes, work, eat, sleep, pay your bills, care for your kids, etc. Mundane stuff. No more impromptu road trips. No more big parties. No more meeting random interesting people at random locations and times. All in the past. But yes, I do feel like 2020 and the years after have been different, and more accelerated. One big reason was the already diminished social life I still had compared to when I was young is even small now because so many people weirded out and never came back. Now life is more routine and mundane than ever.
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  48. ​​​ @dcgallin Yes, movies as well. I used to be a stoic block. After I hit 40 now I get emotional over stupid stuff. I don't cry like a baby or anything that extreme, but dumb mundane stuff, especially if it has some nostalgic attachment, chokes me up and it shouldn't. Maybe it's getting old. Maybe it's normal. Maybe it's the world changing and losing people around you. Obviously you know it will happen, but you start losing grandparents, then parents, then old friends and things just don't feel the same anymore. Yes, it's part of life, but it sucks. I guess not having to deal with that prior in life made it easy to be unemotional. Now these songs and movies bring you back to a better time for just a moment and it triggers an emotional response sometimes.
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  49. You want to really blow their mind use a 50 cent piece or a $2 bill 😂
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  50. I worked it, at Kmart, in the mid 90's...heart of the Furbie craze! Remember Kmart? Yet another place lost to time. Pepperidge Farm remembers 😂
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  51. I don't think school has taught that stuff since my mom was in school and she graduated in 1962. I graduated high school in 1994 and we never learned that stuff. I was just fortunate enough to come from a long line of frugal people. Not cheap, but frugal. And there is a difference. Being cheap means continually only buying inferior or worn out items to save money, even if you have the money for something better. Being frugal means not wasting money on trivial items and saving for higher quality important things like a dependable vehicle and furnishings that will last. My grandfather was the King of frugality. He would stretch the items in his pantry further than I have ever seen, could fix anything, lived in a small house his whole life that him and his father built in 1950, but it was immaculate, and always drove a nice car, granted a total grandpa car like a Buick Regal or an Olds Delta 98, but nevertheless always something plush and nice and newer.
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  52. Or spell, or count change, just to name a couple more things.
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  53. More or less, but yet we all created this problem. We are the ones who all bought up all the "must have" junk these people have peddled since time memoriam. We created these monsters.
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  54. Flying can be cheap if you are willing to spend the time hunting down the best deals, and are willing to book well in advance on a budget carrier. Not that I do it often, but it is doable.
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  55. If it was any more gay, it would be named Gay Gayson 😂
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  56. Oddly though, 9/11 actually united Americans, now we all hate each other. Yes, the unity was short lived, but I feel like the change definitely started at 9/11 but the first decade or so was slow, then it sped up to warp speed in the next decade.
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  57. He doesn't have paid ad breaks like most other channels. The only advertising I have ever seen him do is a bit he reads himself for a local bagel shop chain in Florida.
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  58. Yes, but this is nothing new. You can date this back to the early days of the industrial revolution. It was just a slow decline from a handful of robber barons, to a whole first world obsessed with money and objects. This has accelerated massively in the last few decades. But the bubble is going to burst. We are in a new gilded age now. This is bound to reset things at least a bit.
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  59. There is unclaimed land out there, it's just really crappy, barren land. They even tax the air now in some cities. Literally. You can "buy" the airspace above other structures to prevent them from building upwards and blocking your view.
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  60. Men : Don't forget you still have two perfectly good hands 😂
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  61. ​ @WilliamMorey-Baker So it's smart to borrow/run credit at 16-17% and invest at less than 10%? Who'd a thunk it 😂😂😂
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  62. ​ @WilliamMorey-Baker I have a Master's degree in economics and manage a small financial firm. I think I know what I am talking about. I don't get my financial advice from infomercials, as it appears you do.
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  63. Even as relatively recently as the 1980's, people still dressed nicely for an airline flight. I travelled for work a lot in 2006-07 and felt weird wearing business attire on plane among people wearing pajama pants and tracksuits. It felt like riding a Greyhound bus in the sky.
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  64. They also smoked, drank, and ate lard and were healthier than us. What the hell is going on today. Something, or some THINGS are killing us. I have some pretty good guesses, but I wonder what it REALLY is. A lot of people in powerful positions acting very strangely as well. Buying up land on islands, building bunker living spaces. What is going on.
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  65. ​ @robertreitmanjr4413 Probably financing a very expensive phone through her bill.
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  66. If bro is spending only $15 per meal he's dining at Mickey D's 3 times a day every day 😂
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  67. I'll say it again we are in the fourth turning right now. I am optimistic things will get better but it will be awhile and people like me in my 40's will be pretty old by the time they do. I feel sorry for the younger generations that have to live these times for their youth. But hopefully good times will be ahead for you when you are my age. We had our time. Sucks that it's over now, but it's good memories. While social media has been much more of a burden on society than a positive, one thing I can say is good is it is a place for others who think this same way to connect. If nothing else, at least we can all have each other's company as the world goes down in flames 😂
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  68. I'm certainly not one to defend modernity, in fact usually I am quite the critic of it, however I will say times have changed but people haven't. Before phones/social media were the boogie man, it was chat rooms on AOL, before that TV, before that rock and roll, before that women showing more than their ankles and men going without a hat, before that God knows. But it's always been something, and we are all just stupid enough to get addicted to it. However where I really think it's different this time is the instant gratification aspect. You had to wait for your favorite TV show, your favorite song on the radio, etc, but now everything is at your fingertips when you want it. It's the bread and circuses of the modern era, and we all partake and let the world pass us by. Yes, I am here as well, but obviously, though I will say YouTube is my only guilty pleasure in terms of media, TV is awful so I don't watch it, and I do not participate in any social media like Facebook, Twitter/X or any of that garbage.
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  69. I have a Mastery of Brown stains in my undies!
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  70. ​ @beechizel8148 Welcome to Weimar Republic.
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  71. ​​ @paulBIOgeek Inflation isn't one hundredfold since 1955, more like tenfold. Things like housing and new vehicles have exceed the inflation curve by a substantial amount and that is the problem. A $4 gallon of milk wasn't 4 cents in 1955. But yes, a $5K house is at least a couple hundred thousand today. Even go back to 2012 when i bought my house for $200K, you about couldn't buy a garage for that now.
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  72. I can confirm this. I do taxes and have a good number of clients that make $300-400K or more a year and have to go on payment plans to pay a $5,000 tax bill. Where is your money going? Both my wife and I combined don't make half that and could pay a $5,000 tax bill like 10 times over just out of cash savings. It's all about managing your money properly. I have one guy that perpetually withdraws from his 401(k) every year to pay his tax liability and eats both the tax and thr penalty in the process. I told him to quit doing it, he is only screwing himself, but he has done it like 5 years running and I don't think he is going to stop anytime soon despite my advice.
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  73. Learn something people don't want to do and you will be indispensable. For me it was taxes. I worked for big companies for years pounding out spreadsheets and expense/P&L reports for years, was treated like crap, paid poorly, and let go at the drop of a hat (corporate downsizing). But corporate staff accountants are a dime a dozen. Nobody wants to do tax. People hate it. I actually like it since I learned it. Now I am in my 8th year of a small tax business and manage a location. I don't get paid exorbitantly by any means but I am paid fairly, with probably half my pay coming from straight production numbers (so much per tax return plus bonuses for my location hitting certain milestones). So I get out of it what I put into it. I rely on my boss for a job and he relies on me because reliable people that are actually proficient at doing taxes are hard to come by. I'm certainly not irreplaceable, nor is he for me because there are other tax firms, but we have a pretty good mutual understanding and business relationship. It's even to the point now that I go out for beers with him occasionally. So the most important things are make yourself valuable, work for someone fair that pays you FAIR, doesn't have to be exorbitant, but fair, and build relationships. Not easy. You need the right people and right atmosphere, but it's possible. At 40 years old and laid off, unemployed, and with 15 years or so of corporate misery under my belt, I didn't think it was possible. Learning a new skill opened that door for me. I will admit I did get lucky to get a fair boss to work for.
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  74. It's mouse utopia but with people. The "beautiful ones" just sit back and groom themselves and post no nonsense to social media. The real ones trying to reproduce and keep society going are getting killed off by the psychopath aggressive ones. The males are all turning homosexual. The gene pool is doomed.
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  75. ​ @Diffusionuuu Do you also live in that Corvette 😂
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  76. I made a $5.50 purchase and paid with a $5 bill and a 50 cent piece and the cashier tried to give me a dollar fifty in change. I wasn't aware we had $2 coins in America 😂
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  77. It pretty much is normal, unfortunately. I live in a fairly low cost of living area and rents for 1 bedrooms are around that here unless you live in the ghetto.
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  78. This ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a paradigm shift. For anyone above about 25-30 now, it feels really weird, because we were adults before it happened. We remember normal childhoods, and the older of us remember normal adulthoods. But what about the younger of us? What about those still in school when 2020 hit? The older ones may remember a normal childhood, but never had a normal adult life, and maybe never will. The very young will have not remembered anything before this. This is just normal life to them. And unless we as the older generations can get back to normal ourselves, they will never see what normal is, and this bizarro world will eventually become the new normal. Yes, I am talking to you my fellow Gen Xers, as well as millennials and older Gen Z. It rests on our shoulders. We need to make it happen unless we want to spend our twilight years in complete bizarro world weirddom.
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  79. Dad got a (relatively) clean bath, then Mom got the bath, then the children by age. Where the term "don't throw out the baby with the bath water" came from.
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  80. 48 here. I have a number of younger friends and coworkers in their early 30's. Many of them pine for a time they never experienced. They almost all say how the world sucks now and they wish they could have grown up when I did. Sure, it wasn't perfect then either, but damn straight it was better.
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  81. ​ @catfromtrigun Nobody wants anarchy. There needs to be a government, but the government should fear the people, not the people fear the government. Not in the sense that we will overthrow it, but in the sense that we should hold the keys to their jobs. If they do a lousy job they should be voted out. But people are lazy and complacent, and keep letting the same people do the same stupid things without repercussion.
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  82. Cheap : Buying inferior products, or buying used worn out products, both of which will need replacement sooner than something more expensive and higher quality and end up costing more in thr long run. Frugal : Saving up and buying better things to begin with, taking care of those things, learning how to fix them and only replacing them if absolutely necessary. Also stretching everything as far as humanly possible, from a tube of toothpaste to food in your pantry and leftovers. Be frugal, don't be cheap. A prime example : I bought a $2500 Cub Cadet lawn tractor 12 years ago and maintain and service it myself and it is still like new. A friend of mine has opted for the $999 Lowe's special MTD yard machines garbage and has burned through 3 of them in the same time period. I have $500 more in my pocket, and a better machine.
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  83. ​ @furiousdestroyah9999 A share? Yes. Dominate it? No. Roughly 3% of the population is gay. About that same percentage are interracial couples. But if you watch a string of commercials you would think it's everyone. Obviously it's gone way beyond inclusion, and become conditioning at this point.
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  84. You have to negotiate. Now granted they won't usually move much on the sticker price, but they will move on trade in value and financing rate.
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  85. ​ @trevagraham1605 Home repairs are the worst, but at the same time I feel fortunate to actually own a home because it's so expensive to buy one today. My wife and I save every year and put it in an account for unexpected and overdue expenses. We do only as many as necessary and are affordable out of our fund, and pay in cash as many independent contractors will give you a deal if you pay cash. Of that's because they don't report it on their taxes, I know all about that as a tax accountant, but I don't care if I am not the one doing their taxes!
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  86. That's how a real man talks. These fake macho bros on YouTube and such are not real men they are narcissistic little children. You sir, are a real man, who not only served their country, but proudly sacrifice for their child. Many lesser men disappear and let someone else raise their child.
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