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1901 pts · March 22, 2015


In college in the 1990s, this was called a “Bar Rag” and it was the rite of passage that everyone who turned legal drinking age in our group had to have on their 1st night out at the bars.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had a job and the layoff was large enough to trigger a 90 day warning, they made me work every day until then, training my replacement or I would lose my severance. Boss was a dick. My last day, my boss said, for the 1st time, “If there is anything I can do to help you get another job, just ask” I looked at him and said, “I start my new job on Monday”. He deflated and just said, “oh good for you”.

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My good friend repairs the airport X-ray machines and TSA shares stories with him. A 19 year old tried to bring a kilo of weed in his carry on. They wouldn’t have flagged it except he had a 750ml bottle of Jack Daniels next to it.

11 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It would take a generation. Along with just building factories, you need all the training and infrastructure that makes manufacturing at a larger scale possible. We gave that up in the 1980s.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

William Randolph Hearst has joined Imgur

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1) Most don’t offer paid sick time, it’s a perk offered for some jobs but there is no govt minimum.
2) You are highly discouraged from taking any, with things like Drs notes over a certain length. People will just come to work sick
3) Long term illnesses, you can go on disability, which is kinda a mixed if insurance and govt program.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can’t foster, we fostered a kitten once and she’s still here. We would just keep every animal. At one point we had 3 cats and 4 dogs.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The music is super upbeat. Like watch the flying flamethrower annihilate a wasps nest and feel upbeat.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Had those on soda cans in middle school, it was super easy to cut your fingers on them. I hate them

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There is one in my neighborhood, that the guy had it vinyl wrapped in matte black. It’s less ugly but it likely cost an additional $10k USD.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those two DUIs are why he got discharged from the Army.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ahh yes, the Flying Trash Bin Bandits. There is a reason they are so successful as a species, they are very good at being bold assholes.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why is pretending to film the pig with an empty phone case?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Road thru Gold Base on a cycling tour about 10 years ago. There are no signs saying what it is but it looks like a movie set lot or failed themed resort. There are buildings with styles from bunch of different eras and some trailers. All of this is next to a huge cattle feed lot, so it smells really bad.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It’s the most hiked mountain in SD county. People go up, get hurt or dehydrated and can’t come down. The rescue helicopter goes there daily to get people down once it gets warm

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is next to my house, we watch someone get rescued off that mountain, via helicopter, everyday during the summer.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Much of that $300m loss are promissory notes, aka pay outs to investors, which is just a shell game to avoid stock price collapse but still loot the company.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I seem to recall YouTube using Flash plugin to work. Am I remembering that right?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ahoy Mates! It’s time to ride the waves again.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My 1st thought was Rush as well.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Lot’s of my coworkers are Indian, they explained that a lot of Indians know Hindi because it’s taught in school, English because it’s the language of business/higher education and then their home language. There are something like 28 official languages in India, that blows my mind.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The heating plates on mine are removable and I can wash them in the sink but I’m gonna try this next time.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’ve never, in my 35 year working career in the US, called a colleague by their business title.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Her badge looks like an Amazon Corporate employee badge, so makes sense.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seattle was like that prior to Amazon making downtown its headquarters.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not in the bedroom, but I have cameras setup in my elderly parents living room and my Dads home office/study to keep an eye on him as he has early stages of dementia. It’s more so my Mom can leave the house for a few hours and we can watch him, when we live over an hour away.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I majored in history in college, and I found out about the details of this from the Watchmen TV series. It was not widely taught.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

No, they had a few derailments, and then be became unprofitable to run and it sat unused for decades. A few of the funnels have had cave ins and it would cost a lot to rehab it. There was some plans to restart it to handle shipping from Mexico to the US but those stalled.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0