I hate flippers. I hate them I hate them I hate them.
I looked at this only half paying attention and my brain bubbled up, Why does she hate gymnasts?
Day: November 7, 2023, 3:32 PM
Cash Money Baby
Lord that reminds me of the terrible girlfriend I mentioned earlier and her even worse mother (to whom she was joined at at the hip — I’ve since learned this is always a huge, huge red flag in a woman).
One time, the mom made some comment implying that I was not good enough for her daughter because I didn’t have a college education. Then she did it again, more blatantly. That’s when I informed the mother that I made four times as much as her daughter did, even if you didn’t include the absolute killing I made in the stock market, and that I had paid for her daughter’s car in cash with money I’d made in a single afternoon on a stock. And furthermore, I paid 80% of all the bills and always had.
Complete silence after that. It was a dinner at our place and the mother left in a huff shortly thereafter. My girlfriend also said her mother “meant well,” but she absolutely did not.
(The mom assumed because I did not flashily display wealth and didn’t even drive a particularly nice car at at that time and that I came from rural North Florida and then the army, that I was poor. She in general just hated me because I otherwise did not tolerate her BS.)
DAKtari
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs.
I got ahold of a DAK catalog a few times as a kid. Could afford not a single thing in it but I loved looking at it. This brings me back to when, well, everything was not a scam and was actually still fun.
DFT
I will spare you the details, but years ago a friend and I considered starting a company that engaged in, shall we say, less than savory sales techniques and approaches.
These days what we were planning to do back then seems tame, anodyne and not all fraudulent since the economy itself has largely moved into full-on scam territory. Now absolutely horrible rackets and ripoffs are the accepted way to do things and people cannot even imagine anything else — so much so that what we had planned to do seems positively beneficent in comparison.
This is a shift that has occurred over 25 years or so. Hard to believe when you think about it and how quickly people accept the “inevitable” that was very different not all that far in the past.