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RDCanecutter

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  1. Bad customers were beneath retaliation. Bad customers were blocking good customers from sitting at my tables, so if somebody wanted to act snotty, I wasn't going to fuck with their food, I was going to wham-bam-thank-you-maam them out the door clutching a go-plate. Zen out, send in the tippers.
  2. My Aramaic is a little rusty-- is "he" even a pronoun in it?
  3. Go grow your forests back in England and Scotland, broseeph.
  4. I'm down if you gimme a reminder. Brain damage do take a toll don't she.
  5. The tartan tells me he's Clan MacEmbolism.
  6. Nihilist. That's bad. Say what you will about the tenets of MAGA, at least it's a grift.
  7. I am not generally pro-Highland-Clearances, but sometimes, I understand.
  8. You're never homeless when you have a rickshaw.
  9. Ayup. I seent it. The rest of Jasper is fortunately doing better than its early-80s-vibe mall. We found it by accident. We were on a drive NW on a misty day with "Autobahn" pumping out the speakers. Around Jasper we got hungry, just slid on into town using the old visual restaurant finders. At that point the mall was still running at about 90 per cent. Had never heard of Garfields, turns out it's an Applebee's clone aimed at small markets. At the time they still had a dozen or so locations nation-wide, and Corporate had gamely listed them all on a frosted glass sign, including Zanesville Ohio. "Zanesville!" blurted Mrs. Canecutter, "I saw a dead rat outside a hotel room in Zanesville!" I'm in Jasper for artsy shit once a year or so. I like dropping in for lunch at Garfields. It's like getting to be an extra in a 90s after-school movie. The mall is shriveling away but Garfields, peeking out of the front, still draws a crowd. Almost every kid I meet who moved to Birmingham from Jasper used to work in Garfields. @MaybeaCoordinator walked past it during his Scotch-Irish Reconnection tour, but we had eaten already at the far-superior The Frosty Mug.
  10. Nope. Actually pretty well-educated in real life, to add to the annoying factor. Used to be an artsy theater chick from Montevallo. Got a little culted out. Ahh, you know Jimmy? Everybody knows Jimmy. Jasper is almost Cockney at times. We stopped in the Jasper Mall to eat at Garfields. Girl asked us if we wanted a bay-ooth.
  11. I have an anti-vaxer cousin who has started talking in the Kari Lake voice. This is a step up from her older conversations about witches and curses in what she imagined to be King James scriptural patois. The problem is that my Mom can't understand a damn thing she says, we were visiting my Mom at the same time, and instead of enunciating, Cuz just kept that blurry purr going. She and her husband used to have an airport shuttle company that was devastated by Uber, and the man now runs a route for Coca-Cola. Cool. But Cuz couldn't use the actual words, she had to dress it up as "he has various accounts... Hmmm mmmm." About 4 times my Mom tries to understand what the hell this woman is saying. Finally I busted in: "He's Drivin a Truck for Co-Cola, Mama." "Why didn't somebody say so?" Cousin: "hmmm mm hmmm hmmm."
  12. As much as the metals, I love the Goblin stories behind the metals. Today I bring you The Tragic Tale of Ohio Precious Metals Located in the small town of Jackson OH, this refinery was once one of the 4 biggest producers of gold "good delivery" bars, and employed 250 people in the area. I remember them referred to as "Blue Collar" silver rounds, and I like the design on the one I still have. But then there was a merger with NTR in Texas, and some sort of new HQ under "Elemetals." In itself not a problem. What became a problem were three douchbags in Miami buying cartel gold for the organization. There was trouble, and Ohio Precious Metals took the biggest hit. You can't deliver Good Delivery bars containing known blood money gold. The other parts of the operation may still be stumbling along. As far as I know, OPM in Jackson Ohio no longer employs anyone.
  13. I would pay money to watch a Frenchman slap the shit out of Zeihan. Hell it doesn't even have to be a real Frenchman. Lie to me, I won't care.
  14. That BMP is now a particularly fragile pillbox.
  15. I am a simple caveman when it comes to stocks, especially on things like gold stocks, so I'll leave that side be. On buying actual coin-sized chunks of gold at low premiums, I'll share what I know. Bad deals are entirely possible, like your example of 30% mark-up. Fakes are possible (bars are easier to fake than coins.) It pays to have two or three things you are interested in, that you learn all you can about. So you can spot a prize if it is on special. The saying is "Buy the book before you buy the coin," which can involve a lot of internet perusing as well. Get to know brick-and-mortar coin shops. You might catch one on cash-flow-crunch day when they've bought a ton of stuff under spot. Or use the old "what's the price if I get 5 at once? angle. If your friends realize you are interested in an occasional gold coin, you might get offers to buy things they hid away. I usually offer spot, or in between what they'd get and what I'd pay. We both do a little better. I have even (rarely) bought gold at under spot from a friend because he wanted it gone and we had already done a couple of deals. There used to be tricks like using eBay bucks where you could get even small fractional coins at spot. Those appear to be extinct, but some of the guys scoring gold on Costco appear to get the price down via credit card kickbacks and what-not. I am a recovering heroin I mean CC addict so I let that pass.
  16. You may be right about everything else in the post, but this one jumped out at me. If you are willing to poke around, and you want gold, you can get it with a 0% to to 3% mark-up. I don't doubt that the elder-abuse crowd are flogging it at 20 (to 50?)% percent mark-up. Pretty much if it's on a national radio show or TV, run.
  17. I feel for the former pizza delivery guy who tossed a scrawled tip code into his apartment of roommate squalor back when Bitcoin was a dollar.
  18. I suspect anti-social people keeling over from one Jolt Cola and Dorito too many, without a thought of how their friends or family might benefit from any inheritance. This is not uncommon with a certain type of gold bug. Some dude lives his whole life in a 1960's ranch house, sitting on ammo boxes full of Gold Philharmonics. Dies. But in his case, his stash might turn up again even if inside the wall. Anything digital, I dunno.
  19. We found out that a lot of the drug prices are imaginary retail prices-- I mean, they're pretty damn real when you're paying them-- but there is usually some way to get it knocked way down. We aren't rich but we save enough that we never had to skip a treatment for sake of money. But a lot of people who maybe don't know how to get the inside info are fuuuucked.
  20. Richard Serra, sculptor of massive steel curves that looked like pieces of ships under construction, passed away recently. In 1981, Serra was on a flight from NYC to Madrid to oversee an installation. I was on that same flight. I was his neighbor on the starboard side. At the time I was in peak Jethro Bodine please-pass-the-jelly mode, 20-going-on-14, no doubt annoying the living shit out of a famously grumpy man. "HI I'M RDCANECUTTER FROM SOGGY BOTTOM ALABAMMY." "Yeah I'm Richard Serra." (zero knowledge of who that was.) "HI MR. SERRA THIS IS MY FIRST AIRPLANE RIDE CAN I SWAP TO THE WINDOW SEAT WHILE WE TAKE OFF?" "No." We actually got along after I settled down, and looking back, knowing how he could be, I realize he was being really nice to me. "Mr. Serra I wanna be an artist too." "Really? What kind of artist?" "I'm studying graphic design." "You're never gonna be an artist. Graphic Design isn't art. That's like studying Journalism and calling yourself a writer." "But but but I need to pay my bills..." "Pay your bills with any old job and do real art after work. Me, I drove a truck for years. I didn't do Graphic Design." That morning we were coming in low over the fields outside Madrid. He said that central Spain always reminded him of Iowa. Months later when I was back at school, I told another art professor I'd met Richard Serra. "Richard Serra! One of his pieces fell over and killed a man!"
  21. Napoleon III was doing that kind of stuff in the mid 1800s. Guess we'll be owing repayments to Prussia before long.
  22. Fuentes likes getting spanked by the hacienda priest.
  23. Vote Dem, maybe get new neighbors from South America. Vote Repub, maybe get a South American political system.
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