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| Topic | The Office is quite infuriating to watch. |
| KILBOTz 08/16/21 7:05:30 PM #120 | I agree. I think the fact he is excluded from much of the corporate stuff going on like as decisions are being made is also part of it. Like they (corporate) don't like interacting with him so they purposefully cut him out of stuff. But surprise surprise, paper isn't sexy or complicated. They are in an industry that the only thing that separates them from amazon is customer service, but Michael is the only one who gets it. And Toby is Corporate incarnate, which is why he gets treated like shit by Michael, that is how he wants to treat them. I also think the branch Jim went to was meant to represent every other branch out there, and they spent all their time playing video games there. While maybe something like that would happen for an episode, overall work was the primary focus at work for most of the employees. --- |
| Topic | The Office is quite infuriating to watch. |
| KILBOTz 08/16/21 3:24:45 PM #118 | Derwood posted... Michael Scott is the perfect example of the Peter Principle: every good worker will keep getting promoted until they reach a level they are no longer qualified for. He was clearly a really good salesman, but he's just too much of a narcissist/people-pleaser to be an effective manager But he is an effective manager, no one gets why or how. --- |
| Topic | Don't lie or hide things on your insurance, guys |
| KILBOTz 08/07/21 2:00:54 PM #8 | What are the rules if you don't live with someone? If I want to borrow someone's truck and I get in an accident and its my fault, who's insurance is used? --- |
| Topic | Who's side are you on? Dr Dre (billionaire) or his daughter who is homeless : |
| KILBOTz 08/07/21 1:31:52 AM #31 | pfh1001 posted... Yeah, I just looked it up & he was still paying her rent & giving her an allowance up till last year. If she's 38 & can't get her life in order after all that support, fuck her. If that's true, then yeah, this is all on her. Is she now working for the first time in her life? KamenRiderBlade posted... Dr. Dre should've sent his Grand Kids to boarding school far away from their mom. That could be a good idea, depending on how old the kids are. --- |
| Topic | How many likable women named Karen do you know |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 8:20:45 PM #10 | 2, one was in contracts, the other was in scheduling. both nice ladies. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 7:53:53 PM #225 | Government housing for every renter would be a disaster. over 100M people rent. That's over 43M households, and these numbers tend to ignore people renting a room in a single family home. Also around 500k homeless in the US. Now to account for current growth, people with roommates that would rather live alone, at least 50M households are needed. Probably more as a lot of home owners would likely sell if there was anything close to decent government housing with any sort of mobility. And now, in ~2/3-3/4 of the cases dealing with the bureaucracy of a single person, in 1/4-1/3 of cases dealing with a company, you are dealing with dozens of layers of government bureaucrats. You'll need some sort of person to receive rent, because the government would still require rent in most cases. You will need people for maintenance. You will need people to assist with move in and move out, because the government doesn't take kindly to you damaging its property, same as land lords. Also in this case when the g-men come after you, there's not talking it out with the judge, they will stream line that process. Not to mention how do you allocate units in high demand places? Everyone wants to live in NY, SF, San Diego, Honolulu, Miami, Seattle, etc. Far more than can live there. So how do you solve that? Waiting list for decades? --- |
| Topic | Why is Abed so beloved among nerds while Sheldon is so hated? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 6:46:54 PM #61 | UnfairRepresent posted... Same with Britta and Jeff come to think of it. Did anyone in the world ever care about their relationship? Early on there were Jeff and Britta shippers. By season 2 or 3 everyone was one being Annie / Jeff shippers or Jeff / The Dean shippers. By season 3 Britta became the butt monkey of the group. --- |
| Topic | Why is Abed so beloved among nerds while Sheldon is so hated? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 6:44:09 PM #60 | I've only seen about 10 episodes of TBBT. I see Abed in nerd-dom, maybe dialed down but there. I don't see Sheldon in nerd-dom. He is more a parody of nerds than a nerd. He's the "Not Another Teen Movie" version of a nerd. --- |
| Topic | When you see "pro wrestling," name the first person to come to mind |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 6:40:16 PM #4 | Hulk Hogan, but the topic above this said "Hulkamania" so probably not a fair one. --- |
| Topic | 2 months after the $300 ended, have people gone back to work yet? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 5:34:39 PM #68 | I've been tipping more and better for ok service. Pre-covid on take out I wouldn't tip or I would tip the remaining change. Now I'm giving at least dollar + change, except at the places that only allow pre-set %s, them I leave 0 for takeout. Places that are more dine in focused I'm leaving $2+ change for take out. I'm still not dining in. --- |
| Topic | What is the best TV show theme song / intro of all time? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 5:29:28 PM #11 | bigtiggie23 posted... Always loved the Dallas opening I've never seen Dallas. I've heard of it, heard it was about an oil tycoon or something like that. Seeing the intro, I almost feel like it would be a 80s version of The Wire but set in Dallas. Not set around drugs or anything, but with the city as the "character" as much as the people sort of thing. --- |
| Topic | Extend unemployment, please! |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 5:13:31 PM #5 | they probably should extend unemployment but maybe start putting greater limits on extended benefits. Some people do need to be motivated to actually get a job. --- |
| Topic | Biggest d-bag city in America? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 5:00:26 PM #5 | |
| Topic | What is the best TV show theme song / intro of all time? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 4:52:34 PM #1 | |
| Topic | The Office is quite infuriating to watch. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 4:34:21 PM #71 | pegusus123456 posted... Michael's branch is also somehow the most profitable, so it doesn't matter that he's kind of annoying in person. I always figured he was the only person in management that took his job seriously in the slightest. like the branch jim went to, didnt they spend a lot of time as an office playing video games? i figured that was meant to be representative of every other branch but scranton. I liked The Office alright when it first aired. I like some cringer humor but not a lot. I can't stream multiple episodes in a row or even watch too much in a week. --- |
| Topic | Do you look down on tradeswomen/tradesmen? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 4:01:19 PM #36 | Not in the least. I've been thinking about becoming a diesel mechanic or general contractor. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 12:30:13 PM #144 | averagejoel posted... none of this contradicts anything I said. try again Those are material economic benefits. Just because you don't understand finance doesn't mean the benefits aren't real. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 12:29:03 PM #143 | averagejoel posted... this is so catastrophically incorrect that it must be intentional. So really your answer to the problem is theft. And funny that China, for all its communism, still has a 2-3M homeless people to the US's 500k. USSR also had homelessness, they just didn't count them and said everyone has a right to a house so being homeless is illegal and then swept them under the rug. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 12:21:10 PM #135 | averagejoel posted... I'm talking about material economic benefit here. renters do not benefit materially from renting. landlords do benefit materially from owning the rental unit Renters do benefit from renting. Landlords take on the transaction costs of home ownership. ~10% of home value is a transaction cost when it changes hands in a sale. A new tenant transaction costs are a tiny fraction of that, and most of those costs are recoverable upon move out so long as the property is not damaged. And as mentioned before they take on the risk of ownership and all that entails. Renting caps liability to your rent. If you have a lease and the owner suddenly has 2x expenses, doesn't matter to you, your lease is a contract. --- |
| Topic | Why does one Trump card design look like something straight out of Nazi Germany |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 4:00:36 AM #72 | I want someone to do the American psycho business card exchange with this as Paul Allens card --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 3:29:45 AM #59 | Lord_Shadow posted... People need to be willing to burn the building down if a landlord try to sick people out mid pandemic That would be an incredible windfall for me. My property is a 4-plex zoned R18 on .36 acre, I could actually get 2 more units on there. If my place burned down the insurance would more than pay off my mortgage, but I would then just sell the land and walk away with that sale. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 3:15:44 AM #53 | Payzmaykr posted... If it was $5k for the year (which is what it should be) where are you getting a ridiculous idea like that? even if the value of the land hadn't risen in the last 30 years, the cost of design, development, construction labor, materials, inspection, would make it hard to turn a profit on a 300 square foot studio at $5k a year now, let alone a 2 bed 2 bath with any sort of quality materials. it seems like most of the people here live in fantasy land. without landlords many of these units would not exist. The US government has shown no real particular capability of managing public housing well. A few cities have managed normally low-rise / townhome / brownstone style (like max 3 floors) and had those projects turn out well, but any sort of large scale which you would be need for the 100M+ americans that rent, well that should be a larger nightmare to you than landlords. I imagine it would take months or years to get approval for a place in any major metro area. Want to move to San Francisco? Ok, 5 year wait. In the mean time you can stay in a hotel which will cost 3x more than it would have been with landlord. landlords fill that gap between buying and hotels and over a long period of time, they are priced between the two. --- |
| Topic | Twitter to landlords; investing is a risk don't be mad tenants cannot pay rent. |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 2:00:41 AM #41 | Landlords are always exposed to a lot of risk. Deadbeat tenants that don't pay and need evicting Destructive tenants that damage your property Decrease in housing and rent prices Overall economic downfall, leading to increased vacancy rate and turn over rate Maintenance Now we get an act of God and the banks are bailed out, the tenants are bailed out, but the landlords are left holding the bag. Fine, you want small time landlords out of the business? We'll leave. I'm sure you'll love the large companies that replace us. --- |
| Topic | Do you think we'll ever see a "Perfect" game of Jeopardy? |
| KILBOTz 08/06/21 1:07:48 AM #41 | possible but don't think it would happen. i think it would take a returning dominant champ like Ken or James. they would need to start off hot and have their opponents basically give up early in the first round so it becomes a game of the contestant against the board rather than also 2 other players. --- |
| Topic | who is the best Jeopardy player of all time? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 10:42:19 PM #3 | |
| Topic | What would you do if you could never stop farting? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 9:59:16 PM #2 | |
| Topic | What do you keep in your prison wallet? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 3:08:24 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Over the next 10 years what will be the worst part of climate change? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 2:09:18 PM #3 | Strider102 posted... Waterworld thats rising sea levels. --- |
| Topic | Would America accept the first openly CUCKOLD President?? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 2:08:49 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Over the next 10 years what will be the worst part of climate change? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 2:08:14 PM #1 | Topic
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| Topic | "Workers will take a pay cut to stay remote" |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 12:05:37 PM #32 | DarkChozoGhost posted... Productivity is up. Wfh is objectively, measurably superior to the old system.where you getting this data? --- |
| Topic | Imagine getting out of bed to pee |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 1:59:58 AM #17 | I mean it happens sometime. It shouldnt be every night / often though --- |
| Topic | Would you stick around if a job suspended you unpaid for 3-4 weeks? |
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| Topic | She's ready to perform some flips. |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 1:17:41 AM #33 | maybe italian gymnists are taught to warm up differently, but I've always been taught to stretch you get as deep into the stretch as you can and hold, and if possible go deeper slowly. whether its sports or yoga, i've always been taught specifically, you don't bounce when you stretch. she knows what she's doing. --- |
| Topic | How do your politics compare to 10 years ago? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 1:12:43 AM #60 | 10 years ago I was a happy moderate democrat. Obama policies put money in my pocket. Trump economic policies were pretty well structured to intentionally give me no benefit but it didn't cost more. So far Biden has done nothing to help me. I'll go with whoever benefits me most going forward and I don't know who that is any longer. --- |
| Topic | The perfect girl but she says "wow" like Owen Wilson. |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 1:00:32 AM #2 | Pass. If she said "wow" like Joey Lawrence, then it'd be a deal. --- |
| Topic | Do you wait until the end of your billing cycle to pay your credit card? |
| KILBOTz 08/05/21 12:26:13 AM #17 | Bleuets posted... Try and pay before, and here's why. only matters if you are getting ready to run your credit and are close to your limits. I have 4 credit cards with a combined limit of like $80k, but at most have like $5k on in a month. Having a 6% utilization is totally fine and has an incredibly small impact on my credit. --- |
| Topic | Do you wait until the end of your billing cycle to pay your credit card? |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 11:57:42 PM #5 | |
| Topic | One sport must go away forever. |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 11:52:25 PM #19 | NFL is the only regularly scrambling the brains of its players. So that. --- |
| Topic | Ex WWE Star debuts on the Competition |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 11:04:56 PM #7 | I wish they didnt have Tony Schiavone. Mike Tenay was better for the WCW crew. And of course Bobby the Brain was amazing but not really an option now. --- |
| Topic | Dog makes fun of other dog. Mean and cute. |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 10:21:37 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Reminder BLACK John Cena is in NJPW/NWA Wrestling |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 9:40:11 PM #2 | Nice! Trevor Murdoch! I thought he was going to end up being a great, classic WWE heel. --- |
| Topic | Two pitbulls SHOT by officer - one dead and one injured |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 8:31:48 PM #4 | We need to militarize the police to take care of the Pitbull menace. --- |
| Topic | COVID is never going away, right? |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 8:25:31 PM #3 | Its here to stay. good news is next sars virus we will have a better collective immunity --- |
| Topic | Did you play hs sports? |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 5:17:31 PM #12 | I was 6, 170 pounds going into freshman year. coaches at like summer camps always drooled over me until they saw me actually play. --- |
| Topic | Sega Saturn game question |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 5:08:19 PM #6 | Dungeons and dragons collection looks great. But game kind of sucks on consoles so probably now worth it. metal slug looks great. x-men vs. street fighter and marvel vs. street fighter are good too. --- |
| Topic | Did you play hs sports? |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 5:00:30 PM #7 | My parents forced me to play sports and I grew up in a rural area so making a team / varsity isnt impressive. but played football, basketball, and track and field throughout middle school and high school. track and field I sucked at. I threw and ran 200. I never placed above like 3rd for any meet. basketball I was a tall defensive focused player. I couldnt shoot for shit. Lots of blocks and steals. I could dunk but only if wide open. football I was pretty good at. I was given offers to 3 D3 schools but no scholarship and talked with the assistant coaches and head coach at Cornell, they dont offer scholarships for sports and my parents made a bit too much go get need based aid. But I didnt like football enough to do it without it paying for school. --- |
| Topic | Sega Saturn game question |
| KILBOTz 08/04/21 4:51:42 PM #4 | |
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