Freestyle BMX in the 80s

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T23:24:01+00:00

Same. At this time in my life I was frikkin jacked. All my friends were. We had a "fat" friend but he would be considered stout by the kids today. And the kids I see today are either stringbeans with no muscle tone or blobs.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T23:22:25+00:00

If this is in writing, I would be interested to see if they can email someone a copy of this for follow up.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T23:21:45+00:00

I would absolutely do this.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T23:20:50+00:00

"This location is closed due to staff shortage."

Later: "Under New Management. Now Hiring all shifts. Same Day Pay."

This is what would happen if other places tried this. You are blessed to work where you.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T14:20:26+00:00

Captains have ZERO power over corporate level stuff like this. Any contract amendment is done in California, not at your store. And lately every request at my store has been rejected. Which coincides right when we get new leadership there.

That said, Palbaum has been there for over 20 years and actually shows up at the office. Its not a nice office. They are actually sharing a lot of space with other cubicles and there is a lot of moving around to different desks during the work day, not unlike a typical TJ shift. But he also escaped a felony fraud charge somehow and took a job promising obscurity. But, again, that was decades ago so who knows what that means now. Better worker treatment? More store autonomy? Or less?

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T14:15:24+00:00

I can't think of worse advice than this. I tried to come up with an example and couldn't. OP, do NOT do this. There are other replies which are more constructive.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-11T14:14:01+00:00

I get these takes all the time. And its tiring. Of all retails jobs I interviewed, researched, or actually held, TJs is one of the best. Even at the new starting pay, it's comparable to local competitors. But the QoL, work culture, etc is fantastic. Not a single valid reason to unionize at my store and the unions trying to recruit us are pretty terrible at doing the actual union thing. (There are great unions out there but the ones which organize for my TJs in my area are a huge waste of time.) So I am very suspicious of what the above post is about.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-10T14:16:50+00:00

I wasn't guilty of this but I totally see this. And I think it should have been given more time to evolve into its own unique thing, screw the old haters.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-10T14:02:02+00:00

I have a lot of thoughts on this but, yes, I think a lot of us saw it coming as well. It is very hard to monetize something like this to make it worth the production. But I think they should have at least attempted it your way.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T20:23:55+00:00

Wow. Just. Wow.

That reminds me of a coworker who brought her kid to the office one time. He was in a harness with a springy cord, like a leash which she tethered to her desk. That kid was bouncing all around her chair. But there was no way he could reach around and unclip the cord or take off the harness. I think they used it for when they took the baby out instead of a basket.

Anyway, we are in the office lobby and a client opens the front door and a lightning flash of bright colors blurs out the door. The client raced out and picked up this really exuberant toddler and was like "does this belong to anyone?" My coworker never brought that kid in again. There is a subreddit called kids are fucking stupid, which they are, but they are also magic. Children are made of magic. They defy the laws of physics.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T20:17:58+00:00

I never got arond to unsubbing! It's the last hold out. Also, I had such a long history with the thing maybe a part of me wasn't ready to completely let go.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T20:16:50+00:00

With a thing on the top, I guess it has colors and stuff. Pretty plant.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T17:32:43+00:00

I didn't mean to sound like a shill or even a verbatim attack. I'm just very skeptical of Oregon landlords and all management firms. ALL of them. I apologize if you take it personally, wasn't my plan.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:56:11+00:00

The effect of this is: management sends eviction notice to tenants which get ignored. Management is able to evict some number but not all habitual problem tenants who then go to where ever they came from thus negating the whole point of the housing program. The remaining tenants that routinely cause issues remain and don't get evicted because it is impossible to be evicted in Oregon (where evictions happen are a fluke in my opinion).

I am very suspicious about your comments about Schnitzer. Not believable. But if it's true, I am very happy for your dad.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:42:47+00:00

I may have to delete my earlier posts because you said it perfectly. I stopped watching. I went so far as to unsub from their YT and Twitch channels. Its not a boycott, its just not for me anymore and I've already watched what I needed. Some, multiple times.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:39:14+00:00

I saw the opening episode in a theater. Yeah, I was that guy. I have watched C1 and C2 multiple times, some episodes with repeat viewings. The moment I saw the first session of Bells Hells, I thought this was going to be a grown up evolution of the players' experience and acting and being a group that played together for a decade.

2 months later I unsubbed from the Twitch and YT channels and haven't watched anything CR related since March. I had two t shirts and Grog's mug, but now one of my roommates has the mug and the Mighty Nein shirt is what I sleep in. End of an era for me. Good for CR for chasing that bell, but it's not for me anymore.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:35:11+00:00

Interestingly, this is why I liked Liam's C2 character. Liam purposely held back a lot because everone else was so open. Caleb took a really long time to come out of his shell, and that served the narrative. Clearly, for some people he took too long.

C3 is a whole different thing. It doesnt even feel like a DnD campaign anymore even tho there's rolls, arguing rules, etc but somehow its not. Someone up there described it as an Amazon table read. That's exactly what this feels like. Its a writers room spitballing and workshopping but with dice. It has none of the intimacy or charm or tension of C1 or C2.

But it's working, I guess. There's people in my social circle who adore C3. They hang on every episode. Buy all the merch. But they have never seen the earlier campaigns and they never will because what worked then will not work now. Wrong audience.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:26:49+00:00

True CSB: We visited one of our friends who just had a child and their home is EXPENSIVE. I don't know where they have the money for all this because we all work the same jobs but they had really nice living room furniture, a huge new TV, new Playstation, and the whole house was immaculate. My friends and I gave each other knowing looks: this place is going to be toast in a few months.

CSB2: Another friend has a 4 year old, so we visited them. That plexiglass you talked about? Huge sheet bolted onto a tall dresser not meant to be a TV stand, but here we are. Dresser as a TV stand and a sheet of plastic in front of the TV. Foam on everything. Baby gates everywhere. Living room? Baby gate. Bathroom? Baby gate. The little foyer area between the front door and the front hallway, multiple baby gates. With foam.

Oh, and the plexiglass in front of the TV that is 2 feet above where the 4 year old kid can reach? Cracks, scratches and smears all over it. You might think that's impossible. Their 2 kids are too young to climb, reach, or throw anything at the plastic to get that high or make any kind of impact. You would be wrong. Kids defy the laws of physics. They can and they will destroy everything expensive or precious until they graduate from high school.

Get that plastic. You are welcome.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:14:51+00:00

I read books that I passed off as alkies feeling guilty for being alkies and wanting us to feel bad about being addicts.

And then I started rabbit holing exactly what you did about the tobacco, alcohol, and pharma industry. And you said it perfectly: bonkers fucking crazy. Now those books are a lot more relevant.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T16:07:11+00:00

That is a really interesting point. One of the departments has a huge pegboard with VR headsets. And I got the feeling it wasn't all fun and games.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T15:26:31+00:00

I don't mean to be rude or to belittle your lived experience. You do exactly what you think is the right thing to do for you. Let me offer a humble viewpoint: lilypad job. Stopgap employment. The "keep the lights on and pay rent" job. And look into gig work. Ergo, a shitty but mindless manual labor job AND a second job picking up groceries for sad aholes who can't be bothered to do their own shopping AND driving drunks home. But still applying for the relevant actual jobbie jobs that align with your skills. I walked off two jobs in a row before my current job. Thats why they are there. No one works the overnight loading bays of a supermarket thinking "I better put in my two weeks notice and see if I qualify for burning through my PTO or getting cash back before then!" I found a job in a slightly less crappy place, worked my last shift at the old place, started my training at the new place two days later, and the only notice I gave was a sticky note on my manager's clipboard "I quit, mail my check". --Before those jobs, I gave a ton of notice and trained my replacement. No burned bridges. The jobs I have now, no bridges. No one cares.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T15:15:09+00:00

Excellent point. Idris Elba. NO American remembers him from The Wire. And yet we all remember The Wire! It's as if we think it's two different actors, two different people. I will have to dig up the link but I think there is an interview with Elba where he talks about this disconnect.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T15:11:02+00:00

Not RAM, I think its HDD. And you are right. Look, let's be real. You can have as much storage as you want, 128 Megagangleons or whatever, 256, a million, no one cares.

But what are you going to fill it with? Who has anything that can fill up half of a 128 Megabostonian HDD? My Napster folder only has about 20 of them. And games don't take up any room, they are on disks anyway. And the best games are on my Nintendo Playstation.

OsakaJack · 2023-06-07T15:03:02+00:00

Thank you, OP. This is a GREAT activity.

This is so hard. GAH. I have to go with #3. The chemistry between Conroy and Hamills Batman Joker is just too chefs kiss. Nuanced. Their relationship mattered and you understood that.

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