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14542509:runforlove2024 said:
Generational labels are retarded. Anyone who subscribes to this kool-aid is a retard. Literal retard.
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All I want is a better breakdown of zoomers. A person born in 96 is wayyyyyy different from an 06 kid. Lotta shit happened in those two decades
 
i feel like those fuckin losers asking insane prices for their old as Allez in marketplace. I feel like 1200$ is semi reasonable for a 08 carbon alle with full 105 and a carbon seat with new cables and a fresh tune and tape. Still seems high but god i need money, absolutely liquidating my bikes to afford insurance since mine went up, and this bike build.
 
14542548:WoFlowz said:
i feel like those fuckin losers asking insane prices for their old as Allez in marketplace. I feel like 1200$ is semi reasonable for a 08 carbon alle with full 105 and a carbon seat with new cables and a fresh tune and tape. Still seems high but god i need money, absolutely liquidating my bikes to afford insurance since mine went up, and this bike build.
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My dads bently was in the shop last week and cost $3300 to fix
 
I've never really been exposed to much drug addiction before since I started working at a hospital. The lengths people will go to in order to get their fix is not only sad but also pretty frustrating too.

On sunday our team caught a guy smoking fent-laced weed in his room, and then earlier this AM we caught a visitor in a patients room sitting on the floor openly roasting a spoon with heroin that was getting ready to shoot up syringes and all, and probably was handing it over to his girlfriend to shoot-up into her IV port.
 
Like what the fuck does this country do in order to fix this issue? Homelessness is a huge part of it along with the ongoing mental health epidemic especially, but I also think programs like suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another and cities like Portland especially where we just allow it to happen and have safe shoot-up spots instead of providing actual healthcare to people make the issues 10x worse. People go to the hospital, sleep, discharge, and they're back onto the streets in no time before they either OD or get rushed to the pysch ward again. It's a broken system to it's core. Along with many other issues in the US Healthcare system.

And yeah it is fucking annoying that a methhead gets a hospital bed before someone with an actual medical emergency with their family that has been waiting in the waiting room for 4+ hours.

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14542578:CoolChillGuy420 said:
but I also think programs like suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another

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It's not that simple though, you can't really get high from suboxone. It actually binds to the opiate receptors in your brain and essentially blocks other opiates from working. I'm a huge fan of the stuff, several people in my life would not be alive if not for it.

You might be thinking of methadone, the other common replacement drug for opiate addiction. Methadone is actually fucked. It's not like suboxone, you can get high from it, and the withdrawals from methadone are famously longer than heroin/fent. That's why they call it liquid handcuffs, it's really hard to get off of. I've got no idea how the country will ever fix this either, it seems unfixable.

I hung around people who did a lot of drugs in my late teens and early twenties. Almost 30 now and everybody has either died or quit doing drugs lmao
 
14542543:Lonely said:
All I want is a better breakdown of zoomers. A person born in 96 is wayyyyyy different from an 06 kid. Lotta shit happened in those two decades
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You know what though, gotta give credit to a lot of zoomers, they know their history most of the time, and are aware of the significance of shit... and seem generally far more tolerant to other generations. Perhaps Gen Xers were just way better parents than the boomers or something, I dunno. They definitely share the same sentiments towards boomers that Millenials have, and any generational antagonism between millenials and zoomers seems kinda forced for the sake of clout.

I feel like theres a strong comradery with Millennials and Zoomers as both have to deal with the same fucked up shit in the world right now with a pretty uncertain future and it's obvious to the majority who the real culprit is. Additionally, zoomers pretty much just do the same thing as millenials, and there's not quite as distinct of a difference in subculture as you see with previous generations like Boomers and Gen Xers.

Something that's a pretty big tell of generational gaps is fashion, and I wouldn't call zoomer fashion super distinct, really. Theyre doing the shit that millenials did in the 2000s when they started copying a lot of 70s and 80s fashion trends, only theyre copying 90s and 2000s trends that their folks and early millenials wore - and millenials seem to be more receptive to joining them in these trends anyway. It's not like when in the 90s and early 2000s you saw a distinct change when hip hop fashion exploded and you saw pants get absolutely huge and crazy and incorporate a lot of unique looks.

Nowadays you can get away with anything from any time period and pull it off so long as you stick to your style.

All while boomers still tuck in their poorly fitting polo shirts unironically like the Ned Flanders they are...
 
14542578:CoolChillGuy420 said:
Like what the fuck does this country do in order to fix this issue? Homelessness is a huge part of it along with the ongoing mental health epidemic especially, but I also think programs like suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another and cities like Portland especially where we just allow it to happen and have safe shoot-up spots instead of providing actual healthcare to people make the issues 10x worse. People go to the hospital, sleep, discharge, and they're back onto the streets in no time before they either OD or get rushed to the pysch ward again. It's a broken system to it's core. Along with many other issues in the US Healthcare system.

And yeah it is fucking annoying that a methhead gets a hospital bed before someone with an actual medical emergency with their family that has been waiting in the waiting room for 4+ hours.

**This post was edited on Jun 28th 2023 at 10:15:39am
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my opinion on this has changed a lot in the past 5 years. and it’s def not a popular one.

dedicating resources to people who have chronic substance abuse issues (ex. your post above about people shooting up inside the hospital) is a waste. they are long past the point of no return - totally crippled by decades of drug use. i truly don’t think there’s a way to reintegrate those people.

diverting our money and time to younger (14-20yo) people who are just beginning to use would have a huge impact. many are foster kids, youth homeless, etc. who are on the verge of checking out from society but could be turned around with more employment/housing outreach. if you’ve been on the street for 20 years you’re not going to leave - it probably seems like there’s no point in trying. but if we can steer people the right way while they’re young we can eliminate many of the symptoms (drug use, petty crime) that happen when people have never been shown what a healthy lifestyle even looks like.

unfortunately this would mean accepting that 1. our current population of addicts are effectively a lost cause, and 2. that we wouldn’t see progress for decades.

but i think that’s where we’re at.
 
14542543:Lonely said:
All I want is a better breakdown of zoomers. A person born in 96 is wayyyyyy different from an 06 kid. Lotta shit happened in those two decades
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I feel like a big difference between millennial and zoomers is the relevance of internet in their lifetime. Millennials had more of a childhood where internet wasn't really popular, zoomers have always had it.
 
14542620:cyphers said:
my opinion on this has changed a lot in the past 5 years. and it’s def not a popular one.

dedicating resources to people who have chronic substance abuse issues (ex. your post above about people shooting up inside the hospital) is a waste. they are long past the point of no return - totally crippled by decades of drug use. i truly don’t think there’s a way to reintegrate those people.

diverting our money and time to younger (14-20yo) people who are just beginning to use would have a huge impact. many are foster kids, youth homeless, etc. who are on the verge of checking out from society but could be turned around with more employment/housing outreach. if you’ve been on the street for 20 years you’re not going to leave - it probably seems like there’s no point in trying. but if we can steer people the right way while they’re young we can eliminate many of the symptoms (drug use, petty crime) that happen when people have never been shown what a healthy lifestyle even looks like.

unfortunately this would mean accepting that 1. our current population of addicts are effectively a lost cause, and 2. that we wouldn’t see progress for decades.

but i think that’s where we’re at.
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Agree 100%. The kids have hope. The 30yr olds who move to an inner city where they can beg smoke fent in blanket forts and trash the place aren't people imo. Worthless people who will likely always be worthless.
 
14542548:WoFlowz said:
i feel like those fuckin losers asking insane prices for their old as Allez in marketplace. I feel like 1200$ is semi reasonable for a 08 carbon alle with full 105 and a carbon seat with new cables and a fresh tune and tape. Still seems high but god i need money, absolutely liquidating my bikes to afford insurance since mine went up, and this bike build.
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that seems high to me. it's 15 years old, people wanting a used carbon bike can probably find something newer for that price. Did you ask the dude at the shop you work at what they would price it for?
 
14542625:TOAST. said:
that seems high to me. it's 15 years old, people wanting a used carbon bike can probably find something newer for that price. Did you ask the dude at the shop you work at what they would price it for?
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He said a Grand at most. So ik it’s def a bit high but im also open to negotiating it down to 800-1000
 
14542611:PacificRimJob said:
You know what though, gotta give credit to a lot of zoomers, they know their history most of the time, and are aware of the significance of shit... and seem generally far more tolerant to other generations. Perhaps Gen Xers were just way better parents than the boomers or something, I dunno. They definitely share the same sentiments towards boomers that Millenials have, and any generational antagonism between millenials and zoomers seems kinda forced for the sake of clout.

I feel like theres a strong comradery with Millennials and Zoomers as both have to deal with the same fucked up shit in the world right now with a pretty uncertain future and it's obvious to the majority who the real culprit is. Additionally, zoomers pretty much just do the same thing as millenials, and there's not quite as distinct of a difference in subculture as you see with previous generations like Boomers and Gen Xers.

Something that's a pretty big tell of generational gaps is fashion, and I wouldn't call zoomer fashion super distinct, really. Theyre doing the shit that millenials did in the 2000s when they started copying a lot of 70s and 80s fashion trends, only theyre copying 90s and 2000s trends that their folks and early millenials wore - and millenials seem to be more receptive to joining them in these trends anyway. It's not like when in the 90s and early 2000s you saw a distinct change when hip hop fashion exploded and you saw pants get absolutely huge and crazy and incorporate a lot of unique looks.

Nowadays you can get away with anything from any time period and pull it off so long as you stick to your style.

All while boomers still tuck in their poorly fitting polo shirts unironically like the Ned Flanders they are...
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Its a problem with the USA. Most Americans are losers they were born into wealth and never had to scrap to get ahead. My GF is from Africa only been here a year she works all the fucking time chill though can't believe she wanted to go roller skating for the first time last night and thought it was easy and you didn't have to know how to skate or anything. I was basically doing 90 lb curls with her falling every 2 seconds. Her cousins my age who came here 20 years ago are ballers they aren't crying about rents being high they drive Benzs take sick vacations. Just met the aunt she lives with for the first time after 6 months because she works so much. Just a different culture than people born here. Your average middle class white person is a fucking loser even the successful ones look at all the single chicks in their mid 30s with good jobs who are spending $5k on Taylor Swift as they cry about cost of living.

I love the time I was born I can work from the chairlift or my boat taking sales calls and sending emails.
 
14542620:cyphers said:
my opinion on this has changed a lot in the past 5 years. and it’s def not a popular one.

dedicating resources to people who have chronic substance abuse issues (ex. your post above about people shooting up inside the hospital) is a waste. they are long past the point of no return - totally crippled by decades of drug use. i truly don’t think there’s a way to reintegrate those people.

diverting our money and time to younger (14-20yo) people who are just beginning to use would have a huge impact. many are foster kids, youth homeless, etc. who are on the verge of checking out from society but could be turned around with more employment/housing outreach. if you’ve been on the street for 20 years you’re not going to leave - it probably seems like there’s no point in trying. but if we can steer people the right way while they’re young we can eliminate many of the symptoms (drug use, petty crime) that happen when people have never been shown what a healthy lifestyle even looks like.

unfortunately this would mean accepting that 1. our current population of addicts are effectively a lost cause, and 2. that we wouldn’t see progress for decades.

but i think that’s where we’re at.
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The youth especially. I had a 27 year old patient the other day that broke my heart, she was very kind and sweet.
 
What's everyone's opinion on things like the Garmin Inreach and the Spot Messenger? Alot of people have gone missing in my community in the last year, including this week and folks seem to have strong feelings on this subject so let's hear em
 
14542641:PeppermillReno said:
Its a problem with the USA. Most Americans are losers they were born into wealth and never had to scrap to get ahead. My GF is from Africa only been here a year she works all the fucking time chill though can't believe she wanted to go roller skating for the first time last night and thought it was easy and you didn't have to know how to skate or anything. I was basically doing 90 lb curls with her falling every 2 seconds. Her cousins my age who came here 20 years ago are ballers they aren't crying about rents being high they drive Benzs take sick vacations. Just met the aunt she lives with for the first time after 6 months because she works so much. Just a different culture than people born here. Your average middle class white person is a fucking loser even the successful ones look at all the single chicks in their mid 30s with good jobs who are spending $5k on Taylor Swift as they cry about cost of living.

I love the time I was born I can work from the chairlift or my boat taking sales calls and sending emails.
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I mean, you could say that about anywhere really, that once people hold a bit of privilege, they have stronger demands - especially as they climb into tax brackets that are more demanding, or have dependents that they have to care for.

Still, I don't personally buy into the whole cult of work nonsense, where someone feels the need to absolutely grind themselves out to get anywhere. If 'just worked harder' actually worked, we would all be millionaires, because, well.. it would work. Simply put, that's not the case.

Work-life balance is where it's at... where, if you do a good job for 8 hours a day (as is customary here), you should be paid accordingly and taken care of. It goes back to basic labor theory that traces back to the beginning of society - Today, we are effectively selling 33% of our workday, or 20-25% of our week (if you work 3s or 4s) in order to be able to eat, party, and be protected...

Grinding out 14 hour work days and working 2 jobs just to make ends meet is a breech of that expectation we should all have. Nobody should be giving up over 50% of their non-asleep time per week in order to pay bills and afford basic necessities plus a healthy amount of leisure... It's unhealthy for themselves, their relationships, and certainly any dependents that they might have.

We shouldn't celebrate people having to grind - we should pity it. Quiet quitting isn't a thing - it's just doing as expected of you. - and if you do a good job, you should be given raises tied to currency inflation.
 
Flying to chiraq from 1 am to 9 am and the air quality is ass, apparently its like smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day if you're outside all day
 
14542641:PeppermillReno said:
Its a problem with the USA. Most Americans are losers they were born into wealth and never had to scrap to get ahead. My GF is from Africa only been here a year she works all the fucking time chill though can't believe she wanted to go roller skating for the first time last night and thought it was easy and you didn't have to know how to skate or anything. I was basically doing 90 lb curls with her falling every 2 seconds. Her cousins my age who came here 20 years ago are ballers they aren't crying about rents being high they drive Benzs take sick vacations. Just met the aunt she lives with for the first time after 6 months because she works so much. Just a different culture than people born here. Your average middle class white person is a fucking loser even the successful ones look at all the single chicks in their mid 30s with good jobs who are spending $5k on Taylor Swift as they cry about cost of living.

I love the time I was born I can work from the chairlift or my boat taking sales calls and sending emails.
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says the guy that works in sales
 
14542704:PacificRimJob said:
I mean, you could say that about anywhere really, that once people hold a bit of privilege, they have stronger demands - especially as they climb into tax brackets that are more demanding, or have dependents that they have to care for.

Still, I don't personally buy into the whole cult of work nonsense, where someone feels the need to absolutely grind themselves out to get anywhere. If 'just worked harder' actually worked, we would all be millionaires, because, well.. it would work. Simply put, that's not the case.

Work-life balance is where it's at... where, if you do a good job for 8 hours a day (as is customary here), you should be paid accordingly and taken care of. It goes back to basic labor theory that traces back to the beginning of society - Today, we are effectively selling 33% of our workday, or 20-25% of our week (if you work 3s or 4s) in order to be able to eat, party, and be protected...

Grinding out 14 hour work days and working 2 jobs just to make ends meet is a breech of that expectation we should all have. Nobody should be giving up over 50% of their non-asleep time per week in order to pay bills and afford basic necessities plus a healthy amount of leisure... It's unhealthy for themselves, their relationships, and certainly any dependents that they might have.

We shouldn't celebrate people having to grind - we should pity it. Quiet quitting isn't a thing - it's just doing as expected of you. - and if you do a good job, you should be given raises tied to currency inflation.
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I mean balance is the key word. If you are working a low paying job you should be angling for a layoff and unemployment vs having to do anything in the first place.

But again my GFs is upper middle class if not higher in Africa they own farms and shit she had white collar jobs there makes way more as a CNA here I'm kind of annoyed shes not listening to me to game the system or should be further along getting the degree she wants and transferring credits etc etc. Expecting her to have the free time I have would be moronic I've been doing as little work as possible since elementary school.
 
14542715:TOAST. said:
says the guy that works in sales
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Its a dirty business. A $350,000 order was sent to me yesterday. Me and my boss hate each other. He assigned the account at the last minute to a rep firm who will get $20,000-$35,000 in commission. (I would have gotten 4k.) I tipped the owner off this was happening and hes going to lose $30,000 out of pocket because of my boss.

Companies go out of business if they don't have people driving around generating sales though. And when you're not driving around showing up to businesses to sell them shit they'll inevitably buy from someone its just a matter of who you can be on the boat or the chairlift.
 
14542732:PeppermillReno said:
Its a dirty business. A $350,000 order was sent to me yesterday. Me and my boss hate each other. He assigned the account at the last minute to a rep firm who will get $20,000-$35,000 in commission. (I would have gotten 4k.) I tipped the owner off this was happening and hes going to lose $30,000 out of pocket because of my boss.

Companies go out of business if they don't have people driving around generating sales though. And when you're not driving around showing up to businesses to sell them shit they'll inevitably buy from someone its just a matter of who you can be on the boat or the chairlift.
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Salesmen are aids. But good salesmen are legit af and def earn their money. Protip: stop giving hats as swag. We want carhart hoodies and jackets.
 
took out student loans fully expecting to pay them back. but it definitely sucks watching the govt drop trillions to bail out banks and businesses before turning around and telling me to go fuck myself

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14542846:cyphers said:
took out student loans fully expecting to pay them back. but it definitely sucks watching the govt drop trillions to bail out banks and businesses before turning around and telling me to go fuck myself

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Hey dude, I just wanted to let you know that united airlines appreciates your sacrifice
 
14542584:Rparr said:
It's not that simple though, you can't really get high from suboxone. It actually binds to the opiate receptors in your brain and essentially blocks other opiates from working. I'm a huge fan of the stuff, several people in my life would not be alive if not for it.

You might be thinking of methadone, the other common replacement drug for opiate addiction. Methadone is actually fucked. It's not like suboxone, you can get high from it, and the withdrawals from methadone are famously longer than heroin/fent. That's why they call it liquid handcuffs, it's really hard to get off of. I've got no idea how the country will ever fix this either, it seems unfixable.

I hung around people who did a lot of drugs in my late teens and early twenties. Almost 30 now and everybody has either died or quit doing drugs lmao
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The purpose of naloxone in suboxone is to prevent misuse (aka injecting or snorting). Naloxone has low oral and sublingual bioavailability so it has minimal impact on the opiate when taken those routes. Getting high off suboxone is determined by tolerance. Sure maybe your opiate addict might not get high but if you took a suboxone, you'd be pretty stoned. If a child took a tab/film, they could die.

Edit: all an addict has to do is take more suboxone if they wanna get high. It's a popular smuggled prison drug.

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14542850:ASSholebomber22 said:
Hey dude, I just wanted to let you know that united airlines appreciates your sacrifice
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Funny joke but they're probably gonna be less happy in the short run. Let see by October how this shakes down on consumer spending. People haven't been spending on those loans for 2+ years. What's gonna happen come September when that shit resumes and adds 10%-20% to their spending? It's definitely gonna depress spending in other areas.
 
This is often overlooked by amateur armchair economists. Less discretionary spending means it dries up for many industries and the economy as a whole as spending is consolidated into repaying loans, credit cards, rising housing, etc.

14542856:runforlove2024 said:
Funny joke but they're probably gonna be less happy in the short run. Let see by October how this shakes down on consumer spending. People haven't been spending on those loans for 2+ years. What's gonna happen come September when that shit resumes and adds 10%-20% to their spending? It's definitely gonna depress spending in other areas.
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14542856:runforlove2024 said:
Funny joke but they're probably gonna be less happy in the short run. Let see by October how this shakes down on consumer spending. People haven't been spending on those loans for 2+ years. What's gonna happen come September when that shit resumes and adds 10%-20% to their spending? It's definitely gonna depress spending in other areas.
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It will only bounce back to what things should be. Paying/pausing interest with nothing in return and other covid era Keynesian policies were never sustainable in the first place. There's no not paying for the economic growth that occured when people weren't producing.
 
God damn the engine thermostat appears to have gone out again. Thats what I get for getting shit replacement parts.

also the Honda engineers put the thermostat in the least accessible part of the engine and now I get to spend my day breaking my wrists trying to get two bolts off for a 20 dollar part.
 
14542577:CoolChillGuy420 said:
I've never really been exposed to much drug addiction before since I started working at a hospital. The lengths people will go to in order to get their fix is not only sad but also pretty frustrating too.

On sunday our team caught a guy smoking fent-laced weed in his room, and then earlier this AM we caught a visitor in a patients room sitting on the floor openly roasting a spoon with heroin that was getting ready to shoot up syringes and all, and probably was handing it over to his girlfriend to shoot-up into her IV port.
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Honestly people like this would be complete shitheads even without drugs drives me crazy that nice happy substances that make you feel good get such a bad rap and all the blame for assholes being assholes.

I'd much rather do 10mg of oxycodone at night to relax on my couch than drink a six pack. But that is not an option you can't buy any non fent pills anymore because junkies blew up the spot.

Fuck drug addicts.
 
wow the world of engine coolants is a lot less straightforward than I expected...I just want to know what to put in my car without turning it to sludge.
 
Boyfriend hijacked my post work float so now I’m doing a stretch I’m extremely uncomfortable on and quite simply do not have the skills for— and a stretch that’s super long. We’re not going to get off the river by the time it’s dark and he’s acting like i don’t know the river, which is stupid because I literally get paid to fish these stretches.
 
14542895:TOAST. said:
wow the world of engine coolants is a lot less straightforward than I expected...I just want to know what to put in my car without turning it to sludge.
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look in ur cars owners manual. or if you go to a major chain like autozone they can look it up
 
14542867:ASSholebomber22 said:
It will only bounce back to what things should be. Paying/pausing interest with nothing in return and other covid era Keynesian policies were never sustainable in the first place. There's no not paying for the economic growth that occured when people weren't producing.
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Our entire government fiscal philosophy is based on Keynesian economics lol
 
14542899:Granby_killdozer said:
look in ur cars owners manual. or if you go to a major chain like autozone they can look it up
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the problem is finding a non mopar equivalent. guess I'm just going to swing by the dealer tomorrow since it looks like mixing could be a no bueno.
 
My bad for just wanting to know when you’re coming home after you spending the day doing something you’ve taunted me about for 2 years rather than eating for tomorrow when i have the day off so we can do it together
 
Sam… I mean this in the nicest way possible… are you starting to feel like he is wasting your fertile years again?

14542991:ModMommy said:
My bad for just wanting to know when you’re coming home after you spending the day doing something you’ve taunted me about for 2 years rather than eating for tomorrow when i have the day off so we can do it together
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14542992:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
Sam… I mean this in the nicest way possible… are you starting to feel like he is wasting your fertile years again?
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No I’m just sad that when i called him his phone is on which means he’s been ignoring me since 1 so I’m gonna go to Canada tomorrow because he doesn’t have a passport.
 
Tbh, if I understand everything correctly - sounds like he’s being a jerk

14542993:ModMommy said:
No I’m just sad that when i called him his phone is on which means he’s been ignoring me since 1 so I’m gonna go to Canada tomorrow because he doesn’t have a passport.
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I called the cops last night like a lil bitch. Some fucks were shooting off fireworks and my roommates dogs were going absolutely ape shit. I was up for hours after that and now I’m a grump lol. I typically love tourists. They come in, drop off a shit ton of cash and pay all my bills. And their typically in good moods. That’s why they are here. But for fucks sake there’s a firework ban for a god damn good reason. All the hill

sides are littered with dead beetle kill trees just ready to fuckin burn. Also, i have work in the morning and it’s the god damn 2nd of July. Tuesday, sure. I expect it then. I was ready to drop a mother fucker.
 
I am the boiling frog and I know I'm being boiled but what if a jump out and it's worse out of the boiling pot, I know it can't be worse but what if it is worse than being a boiling frog
 
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