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Jake_Dragon
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SEP 25, 12:19 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Then who would pick the crops... for next to nothing? No, I'm not being facetious. People born and raised in the States (and/or Canada) aren't going to do menial tasks for "slave" wages. |
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Ask me what my first job was, ask me how many times I took temp jobs that did just that.
I didn't keep working those job, I moved on to better paying jobs. Never stopped looking but I did what I had to do to keep food on the table.
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Patrick
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SEP 25, 03:33 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:
Ask me what my first job was, ask me how many times I took temp jobs that did just that.
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My first summer job rebuilding electric lawnmower motors paid $1.65 per hr back in in 1971... but IMO what you and I did in our youth doesn't necessarily have a heckuva lot of relevance to what a lot of young people today are willing to do for peanuts.
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cliffw
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SEP 26, 09:21 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Gotta say... that's perhaps the first time I've ever seen those two words used together.
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You have not lived a full life yet.
I am again living in San Antonio. City codes state that we use three different color trash containers. Trash, Recycling, and Organic. (Which we do not have inside our home.)
We have garbage nazis who drive around just to look to see if the right disposal is in the right color can. They gave me a warning. Next time, I will be fined.
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cliffw
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SEP 26, 09:30 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
My first summer job rebuilding electric lawnmower motors paid $1.65 per hr back in in 1971... but IMO what you and I did in our youth doesn't necessarily have a heckuva lot of relevance to what a lot of young people today are willing to do for peanuts. |
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What was $1.65 in peanuts in 1971 ? What are peanuts today ?
| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
... repairing electric lawnmower motors ... |
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Electric lawnmowers in 1971 ? I believe you but I am surprise they existed.
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rinselberg
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SEP 26, 10:02 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
You have not lived a full life yet.
I am again living in San Antonio. City codes state that we use three different color trash containers. Trash, Recycling, and Organic. (Which we do not have inside our home.)
We have garbage nazis who drive around just to look to see if the right disposal is in the right color can. They gave me a warning. Next time, I will be fined. |
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"Patriotism is the last refuge refuse of scoundrels."
(See what I did there?)
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fredtoast
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SEP 26, 12:08 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
I am again living in San Antonio. City codes state that we use three different color trash containers. Trash, Recycling, and Organic. (Which we do not have inside our home.)
We have garbage nazis who drive around just to look to see if the right disposal is in the right color can. They gave me a warning. Next time, I will be fined. |
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Then elect public officials that will change the law. Or challenge the legitimacy of the law in court.
The Constitution is only a tool. It doesn't help people who are too lazy to go to work with it. So stop whining about being a victim and do something to change it.[This message has been edited by fredtoast (edited 09-26-2023).]
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fredtoast
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SEP 26, 12:17 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
My first summer job rebuilding electric lawnmower motors paid $1.65 per hr back in in 1971... but IMO what you and I did in our youth doesn't necessarily have a heckuva lot of relevance to what a lot of young people today are willing to do for peanuts. |
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Kids today don't know how good they have it
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.*
*Fourth Yorkshireman[This message has been edited by fredtoast (edited 09-26-2023).]
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ray b
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SEP 26, 01:10 PM
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I figured it out
do not work for a corpRAT
WORK FOR YOUR SELF
IN SUMMER 1963 I MADE 5 AN HOUR CUTTING LAWNS at age 13
in summer 75 I made 400 in a day sell icecream from a truck
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Patrick
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SEP 26, 08:24 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
Electric lawnmowers in 1971 ? I believe you but I am surprise they existed.
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You have not lived a full life yet.
Electric lawnmowers go back a heckuva lot longer than that... but this particular model Sunbeam mower was the type that I was rebuilding the motors for back in '71.
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cliffw
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SEP 27, 09:41 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
... elect public officials that will change the law. Or challenge the legitimacy of the law in court. |
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Why would I want the law changed ? We just moved here and mistakenly put the wrong trash in wrong colored can.
| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
The Constitution is only a tool. It doesn't help people who are too lazy to go to work with it. So stop whining about being a victim and do something to change it.
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Constitution,  ? I am not whining and I am not a victim.
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