Doom Metal Alchemist

I'm surprised so many here are Golden Girls fans. 😯

Is it uncommon in this country for turn lanes (or any lanes, really) closed for construction to be PHYSICALLY closed? That's what they do here. Not only do they put up a sign, but also block off the whole lane at LEAST with orange cones, sometimes with some kind of other barrier. Even if the road itself is confusing, they make it perfectly obvious what lanes are closed.

Like I said, $40k is middle class, not wealthy. Middle class doesn't mean living below the poverty line. But I didn't think you meant being middle class is living extravagantly, maybe I was wrong. I think the California state minimum wage is still $11.50 (maybe one of our fellow Californians can corroborate that as right or wrong), but the local minimum wage was raised to $12.50 I think this past January or something. But I make more than minimum wage, and work 40 hours a week, and get a lot of overtime and double time. Just because you think working 40 hours a week is unthinkable, doesn't mean everyone does (that was funny the post to benji above where you seemed incredulous that he must work at least 40 hours a week). Entry level programmers fresh out of college make an average of about 60k here. Naraku is in cyber security if I remember correctly, and he's well out of college and has been in his field for a while. My dad worked in sales his whole life, and not as a manager, and he still cleared $150k for a good portion of his career. In retirement he makes an average of about 70k, including his investments. And no, we don't live in a mansion though you'd probably think this house is a mansion.

I have a platonic female friend at work. Obviously I'm not married but she is, so you can think of the premise from her perspective. She may be more of an acquaintance though, since we never hang out outside of work. But she's married and has at least two kids at home. When the hell would she even have the time to hang out outside of work anyway?

I know it's common for kids' shows to write jokes that go over the kids' heads aimed at the parents so the parents won't feel like killing themselves while watching with their children.... But it seems the people who make Gumball weren't really aiming for the parents with that one, but rather the great-grandparents. My Grandma on my dad's side was a big Golden Girls fan. I think she was able to become a great-grandmother before she died. Conversely, I THINK my grandma on mom's side was a Golden Girls fan, but I KNOW she was a great-grandmother before she died.

Doesn't sound familiar, but who knows, maybe I'll know it if I see it. *shrug*

Nah, I'm not THAT curious.

Hm. Guess I'm not watching the right channels at the right time of day.

I'd say 1,000,000. And that's assuming Naraku equates to about 1,000,000,000,000,000.

Oh yeah (again), if you go to rants and/or DF, you're liable to see several bucket alts.

Oh yeah, and one of them is a Phillies alt.

Well, there was really only like 2 new people, and one of them was definitely a spambot. All the other "new" faces you're seeing are long time ASMB'ers who don't show up much anymore and decided to come out of the wordwork.

He meant ghostrek.

What is a stress test?

It's middle class whereas nabs is acting like it's wealthy. And trust me, naraku was getting paid a lot more than you or I.

Remember in like 2014 or 2015 or something when Tim Lincecum grew a mustache? Yeah...

When life gives me lemons, I squirt lemon juice in its eyes.

THERE'S STILL 2 MISSING

Is $40k really that much to you? I almost make that much for fuck's sake. I doubt naraku made any less than 80k, maybe significantly more than that.

I mean, if he wants to, he may as well try it out while he's looking for something better... There is no better time to try out a shit job than when you have no job, right?

Is that why people wear wigs? To keep warm? I thought it was because they liked how it looked. Oh well, at least the one writing the note is bald. Although I think he can't afford a wig and he's jealous of that girl's, so he makes up a stupid reason she shouldn't wear it.

But then she'd be a local hero, because she'd be directly responsible for bettering so many people's lives.

Hey! When I am medicated is when you can trust me, it's when I'm NOT medicated you can't. Like what are you gonna say next, you can't trust what I see with my glasses on, because I have to wear glasses?

That, but much longer, also I don't want to get stabbed. Also I had work.

How do you know they dodged that bullet?