What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Flake]

Very nice! Rackspace?

Yep! It's going to be an even better job than the one I lost in September and for the first time since before I joined the military in 2002, I'll be an employee instead of a contractor. If I can help it, I never want to be a contractor again.

Thanks for the good feels, all. Expect to see more of me going forward.

Sweet, can you give my company a discount on our Rackspace servers?

I'll add that to my list of questions to ask on my first day.

[Luke]

Frown: This video:

http://sftimes.co/?id=216&src=share_fb_new_216

What a stupid load of crap. All of these old-man-isms don't equate to jack squat. So you didn't have smart phones or tablets growing up? Amazing, how did you ever survive? Please, do go on telling me how you're the greatest generation.

You played outside, all day, everyday? Somehow I doubt it, but lets say you did. Superb. You should be applauded. Unfortunately for me, I played little league, and even better I played fucking Nintendo, and it beat playing in the blistering sun. No kid was fat fifty or sixty years ago? Uh-huh. Sure. You grew up in cribs lined with lead based paint? You want a medal for society being more ignorant back then? And is the assumption that education was better sixty years ago because more people flunked? That doesn't make a lick of sense.

And way to cherry pick why your generation was so great. Where was the part about "most of our parents were overworked, under appreciated closed minded racists"? What about "Most colored folk had their own drinking water fountains and even schools"?

Yes, the music kids listen to these days does suck, but why are you judging kids that haven't grown up yet in the first place? So kindly shut your opinion hole you stick ball playing, overall wearing, staring at the sun for fun having dipshit.

[Jmustang1968]

Very nice! Rackspace?

Yep! It's going to be an even better job than the one I lost in September and for the first time since before I joined the military in 2002, I'll be an employee instead of a contractor. If I can help it, I never want to be a contractor again.

Thanks for the good feels, all. Expect to see more of me going forward.

Oh very nice, great work environment. One of my best friends works there, David Dye. If you happen to see him, tell him hello.

[mjmjr25]

old guy rant

Dang, Lukey. First post of yrs i've been disappointed with in awhile.

[Luke]

old guy rant

Dang, Lukey. First post of yrs i've been disappointed with in awhile.

Yeah. Forget modern medicine. Polio was awesome. Doctors who recommended smoking cigarettes, Mothers who used whiskey to stop a crying baby? Those were the days.

And kids respected their elders. They didn't snitch or rat out those who sexually molested them, 'cause those were the times. Domestic abuse? That was just a way of life back then, as a woman's place was in the kitchen. Calling kids faggots and picking on "retards", well that was innocent fun. And life was better when the Jews stuck to their own kind, so did the eye-talians, Polocks, and the lot of 'em.



I absolutely loathe articles that tout how old-man-isms made them the greatest generation.

Things are much, much better these days.

[Luke]

old guy rant

Dang, Lukey. First post of yrs i've been disappointed with in awhile.

I'm disappointed you agree with a generation where women married their rapists, racism was rampant, there was zero tolerance for different lifestyles, and it was believed you could beat the retard out of someone.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Things are much, much better these days.

I agree completely. People tend to forget how terrible things were back then. Our society has come a very long way in the past 30 years, and it has come even further in the past 60 years. IMO, this sort of nostalgia is reminiscent of the nostalgia for the antebellum south that was prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s. (Unless you died of malaria, polio, tuberculosis or some other horrible disease, things were great if you were a wealthy, white, land-owning male. Otherwise, you were a slave, second-class citizen, and/or condemned to endure pregnancy after pregnancy.)

[fastbilly1]

Ticked - despite having 0 deductions on our paychecks, donating alot of money, and having about 10k on our mortgage interest, our accountant says we owe about 1k in federal taxes. I am paying him what he wants for preparing it, then taking it to another accountant. This guy is phoning it in. There is no way we owe that much, when we did not move up a tax bracket and my income stayed exactly the same, while my wife's only went up 1k.

Smile - Opened Billion Dollar bracket, hit random, hit submit.

[mjmjr25]

old guy rant

Dang, Lukey. First post of yrs i've been disappointed with in awhile.

I'm disappointed you agree with a generation where women married their rapists, racism was rampant, there was zero tolerance for different lifestyles, and it was believed you could beat the retard out of someone.

Ok. Completely lost here, Luke. Not one of ^those things, or the things you mentioend in your other post was mentioned in the video you linked.

The video wasn't a commentary against any changes for the better. The video is a tribute to some of the benefits of simpler times - a time when we didn't blame someone else for spilling hot coffee on ourselves. It was a commentary on newer isn't ALWAYS better. It was a tribute to hard work. It was saying the IPad might be cool but it shouldn't be the babysitter. Did you watch it?

You like challenges and speak highly of your father often. Heres a challenge. Send your father the video. Then send him a copy of your post with commentary about the video. No edit, no apologetics, no contingencies. Let us know how he responds to your post. You miss the boat on this one buddy.

[Luke]

Ok. Completely lost here, Luke.

Yes, yes you are.

Things are much, much better these days.

I agree completely. People tend to forget how terrible things were back then. Our society has come a very long way in the past 30 years, and it has come even further in the past 60 years. IMO, this sort of nostalgia is reminiscent of the nostalgia for the antebellum south that was prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s. (Unless you died of malaria, polio, tuberculosis or some other horrible disease, things were great if you were a wealthy, white, land-owning male. Otherwise, you were a slave, second-class citizen, and/or condemned to endure pregnancy after pregnancy.)

^Read.