Like, I'll trade you 3 cows, 2 sheep and these magic beans for your '92 Corolla.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Printable View
Like, I'll trade you 3 cows, 2 sheep and these magic beans for your '92 Corolla.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Just read that Turkey will raise their minimum wage 30% in 2025, bringing it to over $3.00 an hour. :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It's a start.
Those things are sort of relevant to where you live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
The US federal minimum wage is $7.25. But in CA the state minimum wage is $13.50. When you consider the average one bedroom apartment is $2,155month that still is to low of a wage.
Where I live, you could probably get a low end 1bedroom apartment for @ $1500.
On the other hand, the annual income per capita in Afghanistan is only $410. My guess is there are some countries with even lower income levels.
My parents 1 bedroom apartment in NYC cost them almost $2,000 a month.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
My siblings have been trying to get them to move in since they have large houses, and maybe travel a bit, but they just want to put, which doesn’t make sense, especially since they always talk about how dangerous the city has become in every conversation, constantly looking over their shoulders.
It seems like the danger of NYC is more in the perception than in reality. The city is safer than it has been in a long time, though there was a spike in crime following COVID.
That's pretty low. About half the average amount. Still a lot of money each month, got to be hard to make end meet if your making minimum wage or retired on social security.Quote:
My parents 1 bedroom apartment in NYC cost them almost $2,000 a month.
NYC isn't my cup of tea. Didn't like it when I was there. I live on the west coast(I'm not on the coast) and it's just different out here.
It was real enough for me when I took my family there. The first time we visited, we came across one psycho on the way to the airport as we were leaving. The last time we visited, three pyschos in one week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
In the 80s it was tough, but to me, from what I've experienced, and the endless reports of gun violence, people getting pushed on tracks, punched in the face for no reason, and burned alive, it's gotten worse.
It really isn't one of the US high crime rate cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_crime_rate Though the news does portray it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
It does have one of the largest homeless populations which tend to include a lot of people with mental disorders.
I'm still getting presents from Christmas. The flu. lol
My daughter and granddaughter had been sick but had pretty much recovered. Didn't think they were still contagious. So we gathered at my daughters house for Christmas. Hit me late Saturday, hasn't been to bad so far. Not sure if I'm going to get off easy or it's gonna get worse. They were pretty sick.
I finally got out cross country skiing. There has been snow, it's just also gotten too warm for me to think it would be any good. It certainly was nice, yesterday evening.
Hopefully you'll feelin' better by next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Last weekend and today was nice. I went to town and brought a new satelite reciever, headphones, universal remote, Wlan and HDMI cables, and a switcher. And got a crappy car wash at a gas station on the way home.
I just might make that deadline. Feeling pretty good today. Hope this trend continues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
Nice day to be skiing.
Isn't "Turkey" slang for hangover?Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I've never heard it used that way.
Eh? you are right, but i was close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Confused it with "cold turkey" --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey
That said: hangover wasn't that far out... :bigyello:
I've heard of cold turkey...it's good for sandwiches.
You got half the phrase, and half the symptoms. That sounds about right, overall.
This stupid flu can't seem to decide what to do. Just hanging around. Nothing bad, just annoying. Running about 1/2degree hotter than normal and sinuses still messed up. Temp was normal a couple a days ago, thought this thing was about over.
Look on the bright side, it won't last until next year. You'll be doing backflips before you know it! :)
Speaking from experience:Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
When blowing your nose, the moment you start becoming quieter than a V8 Hemi BigBlock, you're on the mend
Medical technology is getting out of hand! At first, I just needed a thermometer, now I have to get a V8 Hemi BigBlock just to tell how I'm doing. Where will I put it?
Under the hood?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
So...now I need a hoodie? How big?
It's nearly 50 degrees today, with rain all of last night, and more coming later on today. It won't do good things for the snowpack.
Hopefully, it will cool back down before flowers start blooming.
Any attempt at that would definitely result in severe bodily harm. lolQuote:
You'll be doing backflips before you know it!
I'm hoping it's warm tomorrow, like it was today. I need to trim a huge syringe needle type bush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Just plunge right into it.
Can't think of a second pun that is also clean.
It sounds like a *****ly situation to me. I'm just poking a little fun here.
I understand your point. But believe me, you wouldn't want to get stuck with this problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I'm sure you can. Just don't make it so sharp that VBForums detects it as needling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's funny, there wasn't anything about that word that was unsuitable, a very G rated word. If your wondering, the word was "rickly" just add a "p" at the beginning.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I knew what the word was. I think it's a case of the censor being a bit overzealous.
I blame it on Trump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Why not. It's easy to do.
Having a little trouble with my AI's Decoder class. Gonna take a couple of days off since I wasted too much time trying to figure out the problem.
Why not.
I say Win32, the option Microsoft has never said since Vista
I have said Win32 in the past, but not often. I try to emphasize the second syllable, too.
I'm pretty sure they say WinRT today.
Perhaps Microsft wants to forget about Vista? I think lots of people feel that way.
Post race.
House.
Road house.
This reminds me of a joke that a vendor says at every SQL Saturday hosted in Baton Rouge. At the end of the event, vendors give away a door prize. Every year he gets up and says that he has an unboxed copy of Windows 7 and every year it gets a great reception.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I thought they'd be giving away a door.
It all hinges on how you frame that prize.
I thought I'd get in a jamb with door puns, but I've got a mullion of them.
Deleting BEEP for no reason, what a great idea! Oh and lets obsolete XP's Auth API! And use it in device manager on Win11 because Windows needs to get worse because we are no longer in XP's era!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
One day they will want to forget WinRT.
Lets not forget the goddamn UWP, WoA, NT6 Kernel, .NET framework, controversial but VB.NET, Win10 Live Tiles, Windows Store, Office 365, OneDrive, Windows update, and list sadly goes on..
And there goes 5 day ban by Shaggy Hiker...Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
mullion???
Why in the world would you know that word??? I had to look it up, did think it was a real word.
That was a real pane.
I didn't know that word. To be honest, I was looking for various parts of a door just to find funny words for puns.
I do have some very strange nouns tucked away in my brain, and I'm often mullin em over, but mullion ain't one I'm mullin'.
@Gaouser: What's wrong with deleting beep? The hardware it was based on has been gone from computers for a very long time.
I remember when I discovered the beep method and was blown away that something like that existed.