Lurker > BUMPED2002

Shoes are only sold in pairs so!
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SpankageBros

A drug to replace a drug.
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I would guess most people fear death because it's the unknown and ultimately the end of our time on earth.
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lihlih posted...

Pence is 100x more of a piece of shit human being than Trump is, the kind of person they like.

Let's start here, the destruction of the rule of law, an action essential to establishing an authoritarian or totalitarian state, began long before the arrival of the Trump administration. The George W. Bush administrations invasion of Iraq and the implementation of a doctrine of pre-emptive war were war crimes under international law. The federal governments ongoing wholesale surveillance of the citizenry, another legacy of the Bush administration, mocks our constitutional right to privacy.

In the Trump era, those in the parade of imbeciles, grifters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, racists, Trump family members, charlatans, generals, and Christian fascists, all of whom often see power as a way to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayer, are too many to list here.

At the center of this clown court is Trump, who, if the rule of law was in place, would have been impeached on his first day in office for violating the Constitutions emoluments clause; by violating that prohibition, this chief executive is raking in millions from officials of foreign governments and lobbyists who stay at his hotels and resorts and use his golf courses.
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Sorry to hear about your grandfather! Have a great flight!
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GTA 5

Uncharted 2 Among Thieves

Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Do you ever ask for a receipt from McDonald's?
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CaptainStrong posted...

-5,000,000. America is a shithole country. It has the potential to be the best country on Earth, but it pisses it all away.

I agree with that. As a nation, we do not take care of our people in the way that we should. We have the world's worst drug addiction problem, homelessness etc

The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit.

Americans also work more hours than their counterparts in other nations. At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.

According to statistics, in the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.

Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.

According to the latest data, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, its just not the average American worker.

There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States.

The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave.

In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. In France and Finland, they get 30 an entire month off, paid, every year.

The decline of the union has led to less paid time off and other leave benefits.

Our legislative branch of the government (on both sides of the aisle) has been bought and as a result, has shied away from passing laws that protect workers that every other industrialized nation has passed.

What's wrong with this picture people?
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Ferarri619 posted...

"Now THAT is a pro-gamer move."

Lmao

That was probably around the time when moms were protesting games like "Mortal Kombat" and "Primal Rage"!

Some kid performed the character Chaos' golden shower/urination fatality from PR and his mom wanted the game banned so Best Buy pulled it from their store shelves.
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I think our physical bodies die but I believe our spirit/soul lives on.
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NightMareBunny posted...

what do you think of them

Grubhub is a complete ripoff.
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Spicy wings and celery sticks with dipping sauce
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I have never been a fan of handheld or mobile games.
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I put nothing past our government sad to say. They would, if the situation arose, turn on the citizenry.
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I have PS4 sorry!
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Mead posted...

Yes, its one of the safest bets you can make

I agree especially if you have a family.
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Let's start here, the destruction of the rule of law, an action essential to establishing an authoritarian or totalitarian state, began long before the arrival of the Trump administration.

The George W. Bush administrations invasion of Iraq and implementation of a doctrine of pre-emptive war were war crimes under international law. The federal governments ongoing wholesale surveillance of the citizenry, another legacy of the Bush administration, mocks our constitutional right to privacy.

The steady nullification of constitutional rights by judicial fiata legal trick that has enabled corporations to buy the electoral system in the name of free speechhas turned politicians from the two ruling parties into amoral tools of corporate power.

Lobbyists in Washington and the state capitals write legislation to legalize tax boycotts, destroy regulations and government oversight, pump staggering sums of money into the war machine and accelerate the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history, one that has involved looting the U.S.Treasury of trillions of dollars in the wake of the massive financial fraud that set off the 2008 economic collapse.

The ruling elites, by slavishly serving corporate interests, created a system of government that effectively denied the citizen the use of state power.

This decades-long disregard by the two major political parties for the rule of law and their distortion of government into a handmaiden for corporations set the stage for Donald Trumps naked contempt for legality and accountability.

At the center of this clown court is Trump, who, if the rule of law was in place, would have been impeached on his first day in office for violating the Constitutions emoluments clause; by violating that prohibition, this chief executive is raking in millions from officials of foreign governments and lobbyists who stay at his hotels and resorts and use his golf courses.
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I know most people don't like thinking about it but do you have life insurance?
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Lokarin posted...

A privilege is something that can be granted/revoked.

So if it exists, it's the White Right, not privilege.

I disagree with that because White privilege was put into the Constitution, Bill Of Rights, and Declaration Of Independence. If you read those documents they all set aside Privilege for Whites in a White country which explains why millions of acres of land was doled out in Homestead Acts in the 1860s/1870s and only newly arriving poor penniless European immigrants were allowed participate.
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In target a little boy who looked around 7is or so kept crawling under the clothing racks pulling clothes off on the floor and the mother just kept telling him to stop then she did the classic, wait til we get home and I tell your dad.
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I have done poorly in interviews but the bright side was when I left out I knew I had another opportunity waiting somewhere and all I had to do was find it because let's be honest no matter what being White in America gives us an advantage over non-Whites and we should be honest about that.

Most of us have never been out of work for more than a week or two and at most maybe a month because somewhere someone White in an HR dept is going to pull our card and give us a job.
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I have bever understood why White people feel the need to paint their faces, Black, just as I have never understood why we suntan. Why?

For a country that historically has shown nothing but disdain for Black people, why do we as White people try so hard to darken our skin?
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I am strictly a console gamer. I think I may own 1 or 2 PC games that I probably played for like a couple of weeks at most.
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SkynyrdRocker posted...

God bless America

For what cheating and overcharging people who can't afford these ridiculous medical costs. I doubt God would bless that.
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BUMPED2002 posted...

"I told them once a while back weeks ago that I can't afford that"

That's why I can't understand why we as citizens keep allowing these companies to nickel and dime us in addition to seriously overcharging us and we, as a nation keep voting in politicians who are in bed with the Corporations who are raking us all over the coals. They could care less if you can't afford it because they'll keep harassing you and harassing you.

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"I told them once a while back weeks ago that I can't afford that"

That's why I can't understand why we as citizens keep allowing these companies to nickel and dime us in addition to seriously overcharging us and we, as a nation keep voting in politicians who are in bed with the Corporations who are raking us all over the coals.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Pretty ballsy move imo

LOL How old is this kid?
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Has anyone ever filed a return on TurboTax for free?

Supposedly, if you make less than $66,000 a year, you are able to file your return for free but companies that make tax preparation software, like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, have spent untold millions lobbying to prevent the IRS from offering free tax prep and filing services.
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Starsky and Hutch

Baretta

Leave It To Beaver

3's Company

Carol Burnette Show

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Rifleman

Kinghtrider

The A-Team

Mission Impossible

Columbo

Magnum P.I.
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Nope, not that I can recall.
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But no one bans opioids! Makes sense!
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R.I.P Ric!
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Sounds noble and who knows some may find their way back to normalcy.
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

I'm trying to make a list, but it's really hard to remember. But off the top of my head, I really like Japanese curry, spaghetti, and California burritos!

What about you PotD?
:D

Pizza, baby back ribs, steamed mussels!
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NightMareBunny posted...

it's down so often i wonder why anyone would bother asking for a shake knowing that there's a good chance they'll just be told "Sorry the machine's down"

nobody ever wants to clean that thing I've noticed and it's worse when both the ice cream machine and the coffee maker's down cause then you can't even get A Simple Caramel Mach

bottom line the ice cream machine just exists to be broken it seems

Mr Softee's ice cream machine is never broken!
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hypnox posted...

But damn are their hashbrowns good.

It's fast food so we know it's not healthy but done in moderation shouldn't hurt.
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Is it real or imagined in America?
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That's tough!

I liked Beatle Bailey, Hagar The Horrible, Cul De Sac, B.C., and The Boondocks!
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I am not a summer person so yeah I'm glad it's winding down.
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America has a lot of people who have been falsely imprisoned. The question is how do you rectify someone who may have spent 10, 20, or 30 years in prison for something they didn't do. You can't so the next best time is compensation because you can never give those people back the time they lost due to false imprisonment.

It's one of the biggest reason I am against the death penalty. If someone is sentenced to death and later it's found that the person did not commit the crime, how do you rectify that? You can't!
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I'd like in no particular order.

Viewtiful Joe

Resident Evil 4

Legend Of Zelda: Wind Walker

Super Mario Sunshine

Luigi's Mansion

Metal Gear Solid" Twin Snakes

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

Metroid Prime
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Without orgasming.

I legit am not even sure if I could. Not even if I was in a contest with Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer

Uh OK thanks for the information.
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Do you think it is? Depending on your views, some people think most stocks in the stock market meet the SECs (Security And Exchange Commission) definition of a Ponzi scheme.

Stock prices move based on the exchange of money among investors and growth or earnings has very little impact on that.
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Broken_Zeus posted...

BUMPED2002 posted...

It seems to me that this country has lost its sense of identity; it no longer feels like a national community.

..what?

BUMPED2002 posted...

It has mutated into a gladiatorial arena, a battleground where corporations compete for profits in a merciless zero-sum game, where everything is reduced to winners and losers, and where, unfortunately, the federal labor laws are so weak they practically guarantee that the workers will always be the losers.

All of which is complete bullshit. If any of that were true, jobs wouldn't constantly go to nations that actually have weak laws regarding labor.

Low paying jobs yes. Take a good look around this country and tell me you see people thriving. Sure some maybe but there are more homeless in America arguably than there were during the Great Depression.
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What are your thoughts? These guys have been blamed for the progressive movement in shaping American politics and the country as a whole. I know one of the Kochs recently passed but in looking back on their decades' involvement in American politic etc, how fo you feel about their influence.
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Water which do you prefer?
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I've been watching this and these stories about Prince Rick James etc on tour and fighting are funny. I wish they were alive to explain what happened.
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lihlih posted...

When I was a waiter, the manager made us come in 15 mins before our shift to work and wouldn't let us clock in until our shift time. I got yelled at one time because I was "only 5 mins early'.

Someone started a class action lawsuit and I ended up getting like 2k from it a few years after I quit.

This happens a lot and many American's especially hourly paid workers are not aware of it because it's done subtlely and most people do not keep track with their hours and what they're being paid for.
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Sensual_T_Rex posted...

Beaver pelts. I live in a very rural area.

Oh you live in one of those places were things like that aren't suppose to happen. I got it! LOL
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sexual favors.

Well, that's new!
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