''If you have to estimate your monthly payment, you can't afford it."
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2013 8:15:15 am PDT #1800 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
meara - Aug 08, 2013 8:15:27 am PDT #1801 of 30000
the THEYS who join the armed forces just for a handout.
Wait, seriously?!? Dang, I thought if nothing else, conservatives loved a boy in uniform! I mean, the military isn't even unionized like the cops and firefighters.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2013 8:15:56 am PDT #1802 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
THEYS who join the armed forces just for a handout.
OMG WHAT? That might be the craziest thing I've heard yet.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2013 8:16:55 am PDT #1803 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
this is the level discourse has been reduced to. EVERYONE except me is looking for a handout and doesn't work for their money.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2013 8:25:21 am PDT #1804 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
this is the level discourse has been reduced to. EVERYONE except me is looking for a handout and doesn't work for their money.
Yes. And of course, their government benefits are necessary, but all other government benefits are wasted on lazy recipients.
msbelle - Aug 08, 2013 8:27:11 am PDT #1805 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
right, it is everyone else. The great "other". Windsparrow, the WestPoint thing would not work on them is my bet, these guys strike me from the comments as ones to see that as elitist, rich people getting stuff for free that they could pay for.
one overheard statement was that 90% of the armed forces disabilities are probably being faked because it is so easy to get the money for it and why work when you can go get on disability.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2013 8:39:11 am PDT #1806 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
whether I agree with the various wars we have started or enter is not the point. we need to financially support veterans and their families, period. Not to do so is a complete abrogation of our responsibility as citizens.
There may be a tiny fraction who exaggerate their disabilities, but given how behind the VA is in distributing funds for vets, I don't think anyone is getting a windfall. Do these chowderheads know how much $$ vets actually get?
Jesse - Aug 08, 2013 8:42:50 am PDT #1807 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On the larger applying-for-disability front, the recent This American Life on that was interesting, I thought. It took forever for the person doing to story to realize that if you can't do physical labor (or stand all day for your job), there are a lot of places where you effectively can't work. So physical problems that she wouldn't have thought made a person fully disabled do, in their world. One woman being interviewed said her dream job was the person who approves (or not) the disability claims -- because that was the only person she knew who sat at a desk all day to do their job.
msbelle - Aug 08, 2013 8:59:06 am PDT #1808 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
We have lost power in our office. laptop on battery, but we cannot print our shipping tickets. I want to go home, but was told no. meaniheads.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2013 9:00:36 am PDT #1809 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
We have lost power in our office.
this is what happens when people complain about military benefits.