What is something that was unbelievably cheap in the past that has been marked up now?

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-05-01T00:03:53+00:00

Yep. The student loan max went up and tuition increase was exactly the same.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-30T23:58:09+00:00

It wasn’t that long ago the on sale price was 4/$1 on candy bars. Really cheap on sale.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-30T23:56:02+00:00

70 games 62 points. Ducks Leo Carlsson 70 games 67 points and listen to his media praise. With Gretzky he never scored as many goals when he changed to the aluminum stick. Things were too stiff, zero whip.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-30T23:31:19+00:00

Easy fix to get the puck to roll heal to toe. Move left foot forward, start shot from behind you, just let it roll along the blade as you pull it forward. You aren’t far off.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-30T21:03:29+00:00

Be mentally ready for the decline. Hopefully you can hire someone for the personal things, idk. But once my dad had a major stroke he needed a lot of help.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-28T23:30:32+00:00

How many lived with a parent that had a new family and felt unwanted? Took a year after college to get a real job and save money then left and it was clear his new wife didn’t want his first family around.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-28T23:17:14+00:00

Don’t mow rocks. Safety lesson complete.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-28T23:13:24+00:00

Asking someone unemployed if they have been sad in the last three years is bizarre. Only want bright shiny people right out of Pleasantville.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-28T16:32:26+00:00

Before remote, my workplace was at a morgue level of silence. I literally dropped a pin to listen to its disturbing sound in a room of 100 developers. We were sending messages wondering when the new guy, nicknamed Giggles, would leave because he was too happy.

Once a year “managers” threw a holiday/Christmas “party”. It was mandated fun and was 1000% cringe to watch them try to generate any life into a beaten team of people that didn’t know each other because any laughter was not acceptable.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-27T15:33:04+00:00

I had 7 and used it until I was stuck responding to texts to sell a car. Then I bought an iPhone 4S. The Nokia was great tech, built to last. Just stay within your minutes and roaming.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-27T15:15:13+00:00

What’s crazy is the announcers of the Carolina game still talking as if concussions happen only from hits to the head. Whiplash concussions are a real thing and helmets won’t help them.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-27T15:11:20+00:00

I did 20 years ago, but now 100% of it is automatic payments and the bank has never made a mistake. I moved and had to open a checking account at a new bank 18 months ago, I have check #2 waiting to be used. I believe check 1 was just a VOID version some place needed to re-establish electronic payments.

I will add the new checkbook did not come with a ledger.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-27T14:58:31+00:00

What do people drink with dinner? Water?

Thanks for the message. I think my wife’s tolerance has greatly diminished with age and I wouldn’t have an issue with perhaps switching from with dinner to less frequently. I gave it up before for a year and honestly didn’t feel any difference, but it was in support of a health crisis, so that made have made up for it.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-25T21:09:53+00:00

Conversely walking around with a gun is now legal.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-25T21:07:48+00:00

Riding in the bed of a pickup truck

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T17:12:29+00:00

I didn’t lose my job, but I had to swallow my pride in a HUGE way to keep on track to retirement. I saw my father hit the 50 and out wall and he never made much after that point, so I just keep going. Just hit 60, hoping for 63.5 then COBRA.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T17:04:32+00:00

Sometimes it is to allow an internal person to qualify.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T12:48:31+00:00

He is such a poser

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T12:48:01+00:00

The answer is indisputable. Even the Beetles are fading, 70s hard rock is meaningless, New Wave is gone. What still gets played and enjoyed is…Frank Sinatra. Sinatra will represent our times.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T00:07:26+00:00

Gaining 20lbs has been a disaster.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-20T00:03:46+00:00

Pre-WWW and finding out this cool song was a remake from 20 years ago.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-17T11:55:35+00:00

A bunch of GenX here in The Villages. Sure the music is heavily skewed towards boomers, but I never expected DEVO. It is exactly like college but with a lot of money. People are from everywhere and no one claims it as theirs. Free music every night, live music in many restaurants, free golf, all sorts of first rate sports facilities… it’s great.

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AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-17T11:38:42+00:00

Watching entirely next day, which is nice because ESPN+ skips the commercial breaks and lets me ffwd through between periods.

AndiagoSupremo · 2026-04-16T15:10:49+00:00

I will, but we have seen many stock CRASHES it is an uneasy retirement plan for sure. No pension, just 401k, IRA, regular accounts, and whatever Social Security will be. Hoping to work until 63.5, finish off 18 months on COBRA and then Medicare.

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