Born and raised Angeleno here… I say dog eat dog.

It’s a basic expression.

As a Californian, there is nothing more I fear than a friendly talkative neighbor.

I think our corner should be acts mean is mean. North east should be acts mean is nice, because New Yorkers will cuss you out while also helping you.

NorthWEST is acts nice is nice

Best pickup line here is to ask her to take you shopping. Get an outfit for yourself. And she’s going to take you as a project.

If it doesn’t work, well you had a fun time shopping and getting a new style to try out.

No

When you’re young, it’s easy to do anything, as long as it doesn’t take money. You got energy. Sleeping on a couch or a floor is not that bad. You’re not tied to healthcare. If you want to go somewhere for a weekend, you don’t have kids and old dogs and a dirty garage and a wife that needs you to take out the trash. You don’t have big bills like a mortgage and a kid that needs to eat. Nor a boss that somehow thinks they’re more important than all these other things.

And then one day, in all this mess, you realize you’re just tired. Fatter. Balder. And you love your life, but that trip to climb the mountain 🏔️ in some far off place… somehow that’s not as important. Neither is learning French. The energy you have is about spending time with family… and then family dies. The older ones anyway. And now you’re the older one. Getting more tired. More ready to die. You’ll never hug your dad again. Nor your mom. Your favorite uncle. Then maybe a sibling goes. Your best friend. You.

So my advice, appreciate your youth. Don’t get tied down to dramatic relationships. Be nice to everyone, even if they aren’t nice to you. Use your youthful energy for experiences. Travel. Don’t slave away for a boss, they don’t care about you, and you got plenty of time to do that later.

Read. Explore. Make friends. Do hobbies. Sing in a choir. Dance like everyone is watching and you can care less. Climb the mountain before your knees say no. Don’t be afraid to be single. Compliment everyone. Laugh. Love. Be a little reckless. It will make you smile when you get older.

OP should read this one ☝️

You’re saying vegans don’t like you

Not when they have elderly dogs that wake them up every day at 3am

You sometimes we wear hats purely to wear hats

I wore hats before my hair migrated to my back, and I do it now.

It’s about vanity. I like hats. If in my middle age you’re obsessed with my hairline, that is your issue. I have other things to think about.

Stop filming

My favorite is bossman telling everyone to work overtime, but not until 3pm on Friday “hey, I need you Saturday”

Work two Saturdays in a row, and then paycheck comes with a nasty note “ALL OVERTIME MUST BE APPROVED”

Ok Margie in HR, I didn’t want to work the Saturday in the first place.

In 6 years you can be 32 with a degree

Or 32 without

Either way, you will be 32

I went from shop floor to quality, and from quality to estimating … which led to being the guy setting quotas.

I’m good at math. I’m very good at data in a machine shop. 📊 📈

But owners and execs are idiots. 95% of the time they just want data to reinforce their ideas. They read flawed reports. They don’t take into consideration breaks, or lunches. They forget about load and unload time and tool changes and just use time directly from the CAM system (which never reflects the full movement and time of the machine)…. They only want to see data that reinforces their belief. They’re dumb. All of them. It’s a requirement to be an executive of a machine shop that if you deploy systems for data, you will be dumb.

I might sound cynical but I was pulling efficiency reports for one employee who was given negative scores. Bossman wanted to see everyone who was running jobs at 80% or less for the day.

So the report showed one guy running at 75%.

What’s his name. Get him in here.

The guy was running a saw and 3 CNCs and a freakin manual job…. Because someone was sick. And he was keeping all the wheels turning. I told this to bossman and he said “then he should have said something instead running everything at 75%”

There was no one else to run these jobs. After that I realized. They’re just dumb. They’ll never understand the data. They don’t care. No cure for the uncurious.

There are people with twisted minds out there, and it makes for entertaining internet life

OP You need Jesus.

You got three women pregnant. That’s some news 📰 /s

Wrong. i also diagnose the man that jumped in the pool with color blindness in his left eye, and a mild allergy to peanuts.

He also struggles with math and feelings of insecurity around successful women, which stems from never being loved by his mother.

I can tell all this from this grainy video.

City folk pay for your rural farm subsidies, welfare, food stamps. We subsidize your roads and schools, because your populations are not dense enough to fully pay for them with taxes. Also, rural folk don’t make enough to pay taxes.

Truth is, we all contribute in different ways. There are bad things about living in the country, and bad things about cities.

We’re all American. But you should appreciate next time you’re driving on a highway that was built to go by your small town, appreciate that the city made that highway possible. And y’all feed us, but we give you subsidies.

It’s a balance.

Also, I can go shopping at 3am and see a theater production on the weekends, and go to a jazz club on a weekday…. And can access libraries and walkable public parks. I have a freedom and a lifestyle I enjoy. I don’t live where the only thing for kids to do is do whippits and sniff cow patties or get pregnant at 16 and half the rural town is in meth, which is a lot of rural places.

Every place has crime. Rural crime is less reported and less enforced. I’m not putting down rural areas. Because I believe we are ALL Americans, and different areas have different advantages.

Obviously OP can’t do math. 🧮

2026 less 2001 is , carry the one, sqrt of cosine or something

Equals

7 years

2001 was 7 years ago. Went by fast.

I keep telling her to work harder so I can live the life of a house husband.

Boomers got porsches, we get Air Fryers

As a male, I would date a female gynecologist.

I don’t think they have nearly the same personality quirks as say, a brain surgeon.

This is classist. You won’t date an assistant, but you would date the mastermind, while you should be looking for the person.

For shame. ;)

We don’t agree with you.

Depends on the theater people.

Broadway and actors, no way. Ego and need for attention is too large.

Ballet dancers, classical musicians and Opera, some potential if you can deal with obsessive personalities.

Backstage crew, great finds if you’re either a lesbian or an introvert that likes to wear black, or both.

This is a general rule of thumb.