@Cliff-Mashburn saidplease, can you link that?
Somalians in Ohio are doing the same, but the biggest fraud news that's breaking is the mess of California, could be over a hundred billion dollars missing by the time they stop counting.
@mike69 saidOn my side, I have better relations with the clerks at the local Dollar General than with some of the people here at RHP. How are things over there?
Another opinion😉. Not sure if you were trying to make look dumb with the wording on the last two post, if so you did almost get me.👍
BTW, since your thing on the left mentions Texas, I'll mention that I lived in Euless for a year and even worked in a convenience store there. A cool thing about having lived there is that when I saw "Primer" (the low-budget time-travel movie), so much of that movie's environment had a familiar look.
@mike69 saidSomehow I might have ended up with a larger vocabulary and a slightly greater degree of literacy than some other Americans, but I really don't go around thinking "Now there's an illiterate who could use a good linguistic clobbering,"
Another opinion😉. Not sure if you were trying to make look dumb with the wording on the last two post, if so you did almost get me.👍
And also, a century ago some magazine or other might have paid me up to a penny a word for such fine prose, but here and now I just give it away for free.
@Arkturos saidI agree, I also think you would have done well at the magazine. In my opinion I think you go overboard when a penny word is just fine 😉 making you look desperate and forced. I guess if that kind of thing does bother someone it’s good you’re not like that.
Somehow I might have ended up with a larger vocabulary and a slightly greater degree of literacy than some other Americans, but I really don't go around thinking "Now there's an illiterate who could use a good linguistic clobbering,"
And also, a century ago some magazine or other might have paid me up to a penny a word for such fine prose, but here and now I just give it away for free.
@Arkturos saidIt was both, and yes it’s just terrible😁. Have fun, I'm going to see if I have to temporarily join Netflix to watch the Jake Paul fight starting soon if I can’t find it online.
I don't know why anyone would downvote that. It was either honesty or a good joke or both.
No idea what to do about some of the anonymous bitter people in this world.
@mike69 saidMy posts might look "desperate and forced" to some, but it's not as if I'm clenching my innards to squeeze it out -- it just happens effortlessly (mostly because I just type what the thing in the back of my head tells me to type 😉 ).
I agree, I also think you would have done well at the magazine. In my opinion I think you go overboard when a penny word is just fine 😉 making you look desperate and forced. I guess if that kind of thing does bother someone it’s good you’re not like that.
As for Netflix: in general I prefer to watch shows or movies without ads, but that has suddenly become so much more expensive in the past couple of years (especially for a single person without kids or other housemates) that I only subscribe for one or two months a year.
And in my mid-sixties, I'm also questioning some of the common activities of our culture, such as binge-watching shows, or watching movies, or even reading books.
On a tangent from that, just the other day the PRC passed some legislation to support their national intention of the past decade or two to increase book-reading -- not just in the big cities but also the small towns, and to promote a different kind of mental development than would occur with the scattershot, piecemeal reading diet of many of our contemporaries.
