The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[PoetPhilosopher]

Sometimes I feel a little:



I mean, it's not that I'm:



It's more that, I'm kind of:

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Correct 14:10(ish). I don't know why these lazy Americans lounge in bed for most of the day.

No, no, no!
We don't lounge in bed most the day. Damn girl, you rush things so fast our hard partiers are just going to bed from last night and you've done rushed through and used up most the day.
We savor and enjoy the day and make them last. And don't hurry them. We don't do hurry here.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I live in the US, @ChristineM . And in the Midwest, at that.

How is that motivating to get out of bed?

That's motivation to make sure that dark spot when you close your eyes is a normal thing and not some freak thing to go to the doctor over.

 

[JustGeorge]

No, no, no!
We don't lounge in bed most the day. Damn girl, you rush things so fast our hard partiers are just going to bed from last night and you've done rushed through and used up most the day.
We savor and enjoy the day and make them last. And don't hurry them. We don't do hurry here.

Its true, though, @ChristineM . Most Americans are out of bed fairly early. My lifestyle is largely unpopular. Even when I was working 3rd shift, I'd get questioned "why in the world do you sleep until 2pm?" (Well, because I was at work until 7am, ya ^%#$*&!)

As for savoring the day... Ha! You know firsthand what life in the Midwest is like. Though I do feel its a lot of hurry. Everyone's in a hurry. Gotta wait an extra minute at in the grocery line? Blasphemy! Drive through order took more than 5 minutes? Lay on the horn! Is that a Midwest thing, too? Or is it more spread out? My husband says the south runs slower.

I'll say though... I really miss living in 'da Hood somedays. There was more to savor over there... it was lively. I liked to open my windows and just be aware there were people out there. This neighborhood is too quiet. No one outside except an occasional dog walker.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

As for savoring the day... Ha! You know firsthand what life in the Midwest is like. Though I do feel its a lot of hurry. Everyone's in a hurry. Gotta wait an extra minute at in the grocery line? Blasphemy! Drive through order took more than 5 minutes? Lay on the horn! Is that a Midwest thing, too? Or is it more spread out? My husband says the south runs slower.

It's a MidWest thing. Expect everyone and everything impeccable with timing while you yourself are always late, holding people up, and showing double standards that are as different as black and white.
Amd the MidWest is overrun with work obsessed workaholics who live to work and love to work and find no greater joy amd pleasure in life than working and laboring one's life away.
Here we don't rush, we take lots of breaks at work, and we don't even do 24 hour crap that much.
Entertainment is church and bars.
Why are you out of bed?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

It's a MidWest thing. Expect everyone and everything impeccable with timing while you yourself are always late, holding people up, and showing double standards that are as different as black and white.
Amd the MidWest is overrun with work obsessed workaholics who live to work and love to work and find no greater joy amd pleasure in life than working and laboring one's life away.
Here we don't rush, we take lots of breaks at work, and we don't even do 24 hour crap that much.
Entertainment is church and bars.
Why are you out of bed?

I object.....

Here in Illinois, they don't rush to work. They rush to steal Democrat signs from people's yards, and to play golf in a bunch of dead grass or on the hottest day of the summer.

 

[JustGeorge]

It's a MidWest thing. Expect everyone and everything impeccable with timing while you yourself are always late, holding people up, and showing double standards that are as different as black and white.
Amd the MidWest is overrun with work obsessed workaholics who live to work and love to work and find no greater joy amd pleasure in life than working and laboring one's life away.
Here we don't rush, we take lots of breaks at work, and we don't even do 24 hour crap that much.

Yup, sounds about right. Saying you're not career driven here won't get you a much better response than if you openly admit to having a crack problem...

Though, as an ex third shifter, I'll admit I like the 24 hour stuff. There's less of it now post Covid, however.

 

[JustGeorge]

Why are you out of bed?

Back pain, and a need to use the toilet. It was all over from there...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Though, as an ex third shifter, I'll admit I like the 24 hour stuff. There's less of it now post Covid, however.

I miss it maybe a full ounce more than I miss plastic shopping bags floating around everywhere. It took some getting used to, seemed weird, but then I realized I was being weird for thinking that unnatural disease is normal.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Back pain, and a need to use the toilet. It was all over from there...

The world conspires against thee.

 

[ChristineM]

Most Americans are out of bed fairly early

I know this. I was having a time zone joke. Americans are very hard working, they certainly do more work hours than most, and take less holidays than most. Actually i find it sad that they don't have the time for fun

 

[Shadow Wolf]

True story, because I'm saying it and I would never dishonestly besmirch Indiana. Without reason, that is, and now I have a reason. Therefore this story is true, and you know it's true because I set up a shoddy line of logic to give the story credence of truth.
Zombies are based on Hoosiers. They scared Romero with their work obsession, with scores and droves and throngs amd legions marching off to work. The groans and grunts were them saying "work....work....woooorrrkk" as they all pushed and shoved to get to the front of the line to punch in for the day, to get their daily serving of something they treat like a mana from heaven. But it got changed to brains because that is believable whereas as the Hoosier mentality of "work and die" is just bad cinema.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I know this. I was having a time zone joke. Americans are very hard working, they certainly do more work hours than most, and take less holidays than most. Actually i find it sad that they don't have the time for fun

Truly, it should be considered abnormal, degrading, degenerative, and nothing better than a disaster.
America isn't the land of the free, it's the land of dads who miss their kids growing up because of work.

 

[JustGeorge]

I know this. I was having a time zone joke. Americans are very hard working, they certainly do more work hours than most, and take less holidays than most. Actually i find it sad that they don't have the time for fun

We could make the time, but our culture poops on us for it. The culture dictates you live as expensive of a lifestyle as one can possibly afford, and then get credit cards. Rack up as many bills as you can, and then pick up extra hours so you can keep paying it all off... We're(well, many of us are) kinda brought up that its the thing to do... We sometimes struggle between what's a 'want' and what's a 'need'.

I remember moving to a position that offered less hours per week at my old job. Everyone was flabbergasted on why anyone would do that... Why would I want to be at work when I could be somewhere else?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We could make the time, but our culture poops on us for it. The culture dictates you live as expensive of a lifestyle as one can possibly afford, and then get credit cards. Rack up as many bills as you can, and then pick up extra hours so you can keep paying it all off... We're(well, many of us are) kinda brought up that its the thing to do... We sometimes struggle between what's a 'want' and what's a 'need'.

I remember moving to a position that offered less hours per week at my old job. Everyone was flabbergasted on why anyone would do that... Why would I want to be at work when I could be somewhere else?

In Indiana everyone was as cheap as possible. Seriously, in church cheap sunglasses were once heralded as a virtue. The simplicity of the country mouse the obvious and clear choice for a proper, moral life. Food that must be cheap, easy to pronounce, and nothing that isn't immediately identifiable and absolutely never anything fancy.
Sunglasses over $10, jeans and shirts over $20, and shoes that aren't Payless cheap are evil. I enjoy wearing shoes that cost more than what the average Hoosier is wearing right now just to further distance myself from that land that time and reason forgot. The evolved form of me also quit wearing jeans (Hoosier) and stocking up on pants, using expensive hair products, and shirts that are sinfully expensive by Hoosier standards.
This also extends to enjoying better quality other things, like speakers, food, cooking appliances, and car parts where I have totally neglected the mantra I was raised with of "get the cheapest they have."

 

[ChristineM]

In Indiana everyone was as cheap as possible. Seriously, in church cheap sunglasses were once heralded as a virtue. The simplicity of the country mouse the obvious and clear choice for a proper, moral life. Food that must be cheap, easy to pronounce, and nothing that isn't immediately identifiable and absolutely never anything fancy.
Sunglasses over $10, jeans and shirts over $20, and shoes that aren't Payless cheap are evil. I enjoy wearing shoes that cost more than what the average Hoosier is wearing right now just to further distance myself from that land that time and reason forgot. The evolved form of me also quit wearing jeans (Hoosier) and stocking up on pants, using expensive hair products, and shirts that are sinfully expensive by Hoosier standards.
This also extends to enjoying better quality other things, like speakers, food, cooking appliances, and car parts where I have totally neglected the mantra I was raised with of "get the cheapest they have."

You get what you pay for...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You get what you pay for...

Yup. Very much so. But it's not just that. The cheapness and simplicity bleeds into other areas. Like cooking, where things are often not preheated, flour not sifted, herbs and spices minimized, amd where it tends to look like it does on the box and using fake orange stuff that doesn't even look like cheese and is legally prohibited from being called cheese. And tons and heaps and truck loads of pork and beef. Lots and lots of that. Meat with every meal is common there.

 

[JustGeorge]

Yup. Very much so. But it's not just that. The cheapness and simplicity bleeds into other areas. Like cooking, where things are often not preheated, flour not sifted, herbs and spices minimized, amd where it tends to look like it does on the box and using fake orange stuff that doesn't even look like cheese and is legally prohibited from being called cheese. And tons and heaps and truck loads of pork and beef. Lots and lots of that. Meat with every meal is common there.

Or cooking wear...

That 5 dollar non stick skillet should say "one time use".

 

[ChristineM]

I am shocked, nay horrified. @Revoltingest is not listed in todays top posters... Whatever next...

 

[JustGeorge]

I am shocked, nay horrified. @Revoltingest is not listed in todays top posters... Whatever next...

What a lazy bum he's become!