What made you think today?

[LittleJerry92]

For whatever reason.... I'm getting this vision of @D'Snowth working at McDonald's and flipping burgers.... Hmmm....

 

[LittleJerry92]

My future lately.

Cause my parents seem to always LOVE bugging me on what my next chapter will be after my job at mobile cuts ends whenever it ends. No wonder I'm so distant from them lately.

 

[fuzzygobo]

Many parents put that pressure on their kids. After college, you're supposed to land a job, hit the ground running, move out, start a family, the whole deal.

Maybe the climate was different back in the early 90's. A couple of my friends used to get razzed, "You're 23 AND YOU'RE STILL LIVING AT HOME????!!!!"
Back then, it was unheard of.
People my age would be rolling their eyes to know there are 23-year-olds (and older) who still don't drive.
To my generation, that would be inconceivable.

When you're 15, you still can't do too much. Most places won't hire you until you're 16, and then usually limited hours, can't drive until you're 16, or 17, depending on your state.

But if you're 25, and your status is exactly the same as when you were 15, somebody dropped the ball. And it's not necessarily your parents.

 

[LittleJerry92]

It just from time to time gets on my nerves cause I do eventually want to move out, but right now I just want to focus on being able to build my resume.

Like, they ask if my current job might offer a full time one in the future, which I would love. If not, yeah, I might consider looking for a paying one by the time I've been working for six months, but right now it's only been three, given that January I only worked there for 2 weeks and then I had a stressful month long hiatus.

 

[fuzzygobo]

50 years ago today Bobby Kennedy got shot (I was barely a month old).
Two months prior Martin Luther King got shot, which was a crushing blow to the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy shared a lot of Dr. King's views on racial unity, uplifting the poor, but Bobby's death was the final nail in the coffin.
Kennedy was shot right after his narrow victory in California (running against then-vice-president Hubert Humphrey). One of his last words before the shooting, he was pleased he was finally able to step out of his brother Jack's shadow. How cruel the irony he suffered the same fate- a bullet to the head.

For the rest of 1968, it was a scramble for Dems and Reps to find a candidate to reunite the country, and bring a swift end to the then-raging Vietnam War.
After Kennedy's assassination, Humphrey's attempt at campaigning was lukewarm at best.
On the Republican side, you had Richard Nixon (who would eventually win by the narrowest of margins), Ronald Reagan (governor of California) and Nelson Rockefeller (governor of New York).
None had the charisma of Kennedy, and had he lived, might've brought the much-needed change Dr. King hinted at.

 

[D'Snowth]

The shortened term for homogenized milk is "homo milk," and it's a term that's used quite often in Canada.

Now, just imagine if Dumb Donald and his dumb followers actually heard this term just once. They'd probably think it's a milk that would actually turn you gay if you drank it, and the next thing you'd know, the "Godly" right would be calling for an outright ban of milk in America. How would the little children of America eat their cereal then?

 

[LittleJerry92]

So, I was doing laundry and I just noticed how dusty my Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo puppets got (yes, I actually own hand-made replica puppets of those two).

 

[LittleJerry92]

A random thought came in my head.

I thought of making a costume known as the "stereotypical liberal."

 

[ConsummateVs]

Don't do it. Unless you wanna get beaten up.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Oh please.

I'd just do it for tounge and cheek humor pics.