This was happening last year where I was but with nurses. Huge nurse burnout in the city, met with optimistic "Don't worry! Nurses from all over the surrounding rural area are coming in because the pay is so much better! We're saved!" and then my question about what rural people will do with no nurses was met with a vacant stare

The Ollie North song was kind of fun

Smokey and the Bandit

Dudes rock, the movie. And surprisingly way less problematic than you'd think. Just all around good fun if you want to shut off your brain and yell "WOOOOO" as Burt Reynolds sexily drives a car

purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners

Some of these are goddamn wild too. There was a proliferation of little weird neoclassical temples all over the British countryside for instance. Some of those were funded as "follies" just as a make work project for the poor in particularly hard economic times. Wealthy lords would feel bad about the starving poor, but not bad enough to just feed them. Instead they had to perform heavy manual labor to build a useless thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly#Follies_in_18th-century_French_and_English_gardens

I remember hearing it takes cats like a matter of seconds to fall back asleep and enter rem sleep, which is so enviable

That sounds like something I'd never think of, but love immediately on trying for the first time

How you eatin them?

Edit: nvm lol, saw it farther down in the thread. Great choice

Hell of a pace lol!

o7

Thanks for these posts, I don't have anything productive to say, but I dig the posts and hope you do more if and when you feel like it

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."

This fucking rules

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!

Even better when the US did it again at Khe Sanh

They are called the Me Generation for good reason usually

Hell yeah! I was just pumped because I was reading about it the other day and you described it to a T. Real ryanfromtheofficepointingandnodding.gif hours for me, thank you

I just thought I had at least another decade to get my shit together first

Then the greatest profit must be derived from creating and maintaining food deserts. See, the market works!

Conservatives don’t even have to organize. They are just the background radiation of a society that is structured this way.

Cultural hegemony I think this is what that is

:100-com:

Which is hilarious because lib icon FDR even said "Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are"