The Evil Dr. Longshadow

I didn't ask what's for dinner tonight, but it's going to be here.

Research what, exactly? Just to see something I already know, such as that not everybody eats the stuff the same way? It's also eaten with Ritz or Zesta, but I guess you never get invited to patties like that because you like to criticize the hostess.

Around here, Caviar is a cat's name.

Making a tea concoction. Valerian, lemon balm, kava root, ginkgo biloba and lactuca virosa.

Eat it with a Dorito. Problem solved.

Really, now? So, you're okay with a state legislator strike, as long as Democrats are doing it. If Republicans had tried the same thing, you'd want them all criminally charged.

It's only "dumb" because you don't agree with it.

Yeah, everybody in there is just fine, as long as they're all in 100% agreement. No opposition allowed. That's also how Pol Pot came into power.

For adamantly and successfully resisting an urge to shove an M-80 up the nose of somebody who really deserves that.

Let's outlaw the practice of elected officials steering huge government contracts to corporations that they have personally invested in.

https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/how-do-401ks-work-frequently-asked-questions

Store fronts that blast music from five hundred watt speakers at the front door. Like, okay... I get it. You sell three hundred dollar sneakers to people with no money and big credit cards. I know you're there, I see you there and blasting your music to a level that could be heard a quarter mile away is not tempting me to buy your stuff.

My Dad was a huge fan of crock pot cooking. Granted, you can come out with some very good chili and stews with one, but unless you're feeding four people or more, it creates an overstock of food. Like, how many times in a week could I eat from the same pot of stew?

Maybe he just wants to know what was "fraudulent " about any of his bank statements. It's not like he wrote all those statements himself.

A fiction writer is a person who gets paid to daydream. When he starts letting other people tell him what to write, he's not a fiction writer anymore. He's a stenographer.

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The funniest part of my job at the casino was the obligatory class I had to attend every year. It wasn't company policy, it was state law, DGE policy. I was supposed to be all very well enlightened and informed about how to spot an obsessive/compulsive gambler and where to report them when I saw them. Yes, it was all about promoting "responsible gaming". Fortunately, the class was a droning, mind numbing repetition of the exact same talking points year after year for I forget how long. So I could literally fall asleep in class and still ace the exam at 100%. What of it? I was the trash hauler. My job was lift, haul and dump. I'm not a psychologist, I'm not even a security officer. If some broken down old Bozo wants to max out all of his credit cards and mortgage his house for another roll of the dice, it's none of my beeswax and I'm NOT going to waste any of time or energy seeking him out. Maybe the slot attendants or table game dealers should be looking for that. Of course, a "responsible gamer" was just a nice way of saying, "casual gambler" a casual gambler could be typified as any person who shows up at a casino two or three days out of a year, holding thirty seven dollars of surplus laundry money to spend. Such people as that could be as numerous as pigeons in Rome, but all of them combined and concentrated in a single casino would not even get the electric bill paid, let alone generate any measurable profit. The obsessives are what keep the profit margins high.

Since WHEN am I even ALLOWED to leave any commentary in my own threads? It's always deemed, "racist", "bigoted", "offensive", etc. No, now I just leave the flat fact and let you decide what it all means.