Jump to content
UnevenEdge

1938_Packard

SwimFan
  • Posts

    725
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by 1938_Packard

  1. It’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

    I'm not smarter after a couple of beers.  I'm smarter than a couple of beers.
  2. This is just getting better.  I knew about the pension fund from the international union and the one from the union local.  I was just recently informed of a third pension.  During a mergers and acquisitions game several years back, one company bought this casino and started its own pension fund for all employees, union or not.  It's all still there.  I called the company's benefit center, verified it and requested an accrued asset table to be sent.  That document will show whether I'm fully vested and how much is in the fund.  It would also explain how the fund works, like, is it a standard pension or a 401k?  Down side:  The employer owns the account and so it can be canceled or revoked by the employer, not like the the two union pensions.

  3. Where are y'all at?

    They've gone to Betson's Discount Furniture Warehouse for the fabulous Yankee Doodle Dandy sale.  Going on right now!  Hurry!  Bring your Mastercard.
  4. that's how most people like that end up. either that or they become cops

    There was one that I met again about twenty five years after freshman high school.  He was working for a hvac repair service.  And, he found Jesus.  So, I gave Jesus a nod and absolved the former bully.
  5. It is a good thing most of us aren't taking it serious.

    At least not until you wake up at 5:00am with some jerk from the government who has a search warrant for your house.  Seems that some of the things you had once taken for granted have been deemed contraband.
  6. It's not really all that "dumb" when you look past that and see exactly where the myth is taking people in terms of our government.  Cigarettes are still not contraband. That means that the use of them is an individual choice to make, just like you choose what to eat or choose what color to paint your dining room.  What Gov wants to do is chisel away, very slowly and gradually like the proverbial slow boiled frog, all of your individual choices.  They started by banning smoke on public transportation and in government buildings and later graduated to bans in privately owned vehicles and privately owned properties such as malls and banks.  Now, the proposal is to ban indoor smoking, even at home and away from the public.  But, once they get away with that by continuing to spout so many specious allegations about the smell or the health effects on people while NOBODY has one solitary molecule of evidence to support the claims, the next thing to go would be many of the other choices you make, such as how big your toilet tank is allowed to be, the type of lighting you're allowed to use or even having the government control your thermostat by radio signal.  You won't recognize this nation in forty years.  And you'll be sitting here, typing to people who call you stupid just for knowing things can be better if you could just push all the regulations down the commode.  Me?  I'm just in here trying to awaken somebody.

×
×
  • Create New...