Heh heh heh, listen guys...

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Okay, if you insist.

So, I belong to this private club and every year we have a golf tournament in June and a bocce tournament in September. The golf tournament was last week and afterward a bunch of us went back to our clubhouse (not the one at the golf course) to have a few more drinks. My business partner doesn't belong to the club but he's been up there with me more than a few times. In fact, the two of us ran second in the bocce tournament last year. Pretty good since there are a lot of old mustaches straight off the boat that enter this thing. The two guys who won the tournament weren't Italian either which caused some consternation among the old line membership. And to make things worse, neither of them was even an actual club member. One of those guys played in the golf tournament last week and came back to the clubhouse with us too. Oddly enough, just since last September this guy's hair has gone from a light brown/dishwater blonde to a shocking white.

Well, we're sitting around the bar and my partner and this guy are talking and my partner is telling the guy what a great bocce player the guy's "younger brother" is. The guy is looking at my partner like he's out of his fucking mind and he tells him that his brother never played in the bocce tournament. My partner says, "Uh, oh, well, uh, I'm sorry, the guy that won last year looked exactly like you but younger. It's weird that he isn't your brother." Finally, I leaned over and said, "You fuckin' idiot. It was him. His hair has just gone white."

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Your partner was on a booze mission that day



We work too much in this country. Especially the have nots

JORR, I have no idea if this stuff really happens to you or not, but you missed your calling as a novelist or oral historian. Studs Terkel has died, but his spirit lives on in you. Man you have a great eye for meaningful detail.

To Bryan's point, the average American definitely works too hard. In the past twenty years the typical work week has expanded in duration by 20-25%. Meanwhile, wages have stagnated or declined (in real terms) while corporate profits have soared to record levels. Additionally, our country, which was founded in part on the principle of upward social mobility, has become more stratified and stagnant than many heavily socialized Western European nations. In other words, we are experiencing all of the detriments of neoliberal austerity without reaping any of its alleged benefits.

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"Lunch, ah you gotta be kiddin me, Lunch is for Whimps!"


In real life, Gordon Gekko is miserable and dies at 52 and the guy on the other line makes more money by working less and living til he's 94

Thanks JORR, you are like the mailman, you always deliver.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Not if the champions of privatization have anything to say about it.

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I always picture Joe Orr drinking with guys that have handlebar mustaches, and are dressed like they are going to a baseball game in 1933.

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Probably wearing a cape as well.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Whatever image of him I had in my head didn't fit the guy I met.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

A thread full of peeps with 10,000+ posts complaining about TOO MUCH WORK on a fuck off from work board.

Thanks, TM. Just like the post-privatization mailman, you sporadically deliver!

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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What the fuck is wrong with you?

You make an "oven" joke when a Jewish man is guest hosting a radio show and you don't even consider sticking him in the oven instead?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George