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Amazing how fast they get the losers out of these stadiums when they misbehave. Look at this rally, These people are having a blast! Won't see this at a Sleepy Joe event.

And people say Republicans are anti gay. yet all these people in the audience are dancing to the YMCA.
Allegedly those people in the crowd are all Canadians.
 
Alcohol can get really expensive. Especially with Cognac, Whiskey and Wine. IT's all about how long it's been aged and the rarity of it.
There's an aspect to at least Scotch and Whisky where they do limited runs of things too.

ESPECIALLY places like Laphroiag, Lagavulin and Ardbeg, those Islay Scotches will do limited runs all the time that they only have like 3 barrels dedicated to a specific mixture of grain to peat.
 
I don't get people who have over a dozen pair of shoes.

why TF do you need so many?

I mean, I have maybe 3 three pairs of sneakers/MetCons, and 2 pairs of dress shoes. how about you guys?

I have two pairs of Clarks sneakers for work/errands.

One pair of Rockports dress shoes that I've worn like twice.

and a pair of Clarks slippers for everything else.

Used to have a pair of cop boots and surplus army boots for work, but they've been retired for years now.
 
ok, another money related question.

how much do you guys budget for Christmas gifts for Friends/kids/family/spouses/co-workers?


This year, I'm pushing $900.00
 
ok, another money related question.

how much do you guys budget for Christmas gifts for Friends/kids/family/spouses/co-workers?


This year, I'm putting $900.00
Like $300. I don't buy gifts for many people, if anyone at all really past my folks.
 
I'm replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance as a dishonorable master thief who steals everything in service of his lord. I've funded plate armor, a dank horse, and a pretty murdery longsword.

I like to think that when the peasants feel my plate gauntlets groping their pockets, they don't turn around out of fear of the very real possibility I'll gank them before they can get to the guards.

Which I have done, multiple times. Stupid peasants.
 
I don't get people who have over a dozen pair of shoes.

why TF do you need so many?

I mean, I have maybe 3 three pairs of sneakers/MetCons, and 2 pairs of dress shoes. how about you guys?

I used to think this but then I became an adult and they added up so fast.

Black Dress shoes
Brown Dress shoes
Black Casual shoes
White Casual shoes
Runners
Hiking shoes
Rock Climbing shoes
Formal Winter boots
Casual Winter boots
Flip flops
Sandals

On the plus side, I've noticed that when you spread out the usage and wear each pair lasts for like 2-4 years.
 
Jesus fu*k.
Granted that was the super duper special version that came in a fancy box with a crystal decanter and shit.

The stuff most of us could buy of The Mac M... $7000

Highland Park has one that's nuts too:
https://www.highlandparkwhisky.com/product/50-year-old/

$15,000 MSRP

A little bit about it:
Our 2018 batch of Highland Park 50 Year Old was hand bottled from just two Spanish oak, sherry seasoned, hogshead casks. First filled in 1964, these casks lay undisturbed until 2008 when they were first sampled and discovered to be of astonishing quality. In January 2010, we married the two casks together, introducing a little of the 1960 vintage from our earlier batch of 50 Year Old, before returning the newly married whisky to its hogsheads and leaving it to harmonise for a further eight years.

Yielding just 274 bottles

The fact it sat in a barrel for 50 years in addition to only 274 bottles of it is the reason for the price point on those extra aged whisky and Scotches.
 
ok, another money related question.

how much do you guys budget for Christmas gifts for Friends/kids/family/spouses/co-workers?


This year, I'm pushing $900.00

Had been saving $50 a month and that $600 was only a little shy of what we spent on Christmas gifts this year. (100 for spouses, 50 for each of our parents and siblings, couple 20ish things for friends). Used the 130 that was sitting there in 2% cash back rewards and basically guilt free gift buying this year.

No kids or neices or nephews
 
South Korea’s total fertility rate — the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime — dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...z2FDkIiut5loBuTic2-IFMwXj-BpFH8s#.XffsxK9KjIV
Bonnie Lee doesn’t care about finding a boyfriend or a fairy-tale wedding, and will decide her own happily-ever-after: “I’m a straight woman who is no longer interested in having relationships with men.”

She is not alone.



A growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.

“I’ve always felt that as a woman there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married,” said Lee, a 40-something professional who lives with her dog near Seoul.

Now she has gone even further, embracing the nation’s radical feminist movement called 4B, from the “four nos”: no dating, no sex, no marriage and no child-rearing.

Marriage rates are plummeting in South Korea, where wives are often expected to work, raise children and care for aging in-laws with little state or community help.

“In the marriage market, your previous life and work experience don’t matter,” explained Lee, who has two master’s degrees.

“For some ridiculous reason, being highly educated also becomes a minus point. What matters the most as a potential wife is whether or not you are capable of caring for your husband and in-laws,” she added.

She has witnessed well-educated friends hitting barriers at work and experiencing problems at home after having children.

Such difficulties are the subject of a recent hit film, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982.”

Based on a controversial feminist novel, it centers on a married South Korean woman who has quit her job and struggles to raise her child with limited support.

Female viewers rated the film an average 9.5 out of 10 stars on the South’s top search engine. Men gave it 2.8.

A growing number of women are turning their backs on the traditional expectations of South Korea’s male-dominated society, where working wives spend four times longer on domestic chores than their husbands.

A decade ago, almost 47 percent of single and never-married Korean women said they thought marriage was necessary. Last year, that fell to 22.4 percent. The number of couples getting hitched slumped to 257,600 — down from 434,900 in 1996.

4B members say the movement has at least 4,000 followers.

A separate feminist YouTube channel that features messages of boycotting marriage and child-rearing has more than 100,000 subscribers.

Lee has also adopted some tenets of Escape the Corset, a movement against South Korea’s strict beauty standards. Some adherents have shared viral videos of themselves smashing up their make-up collections.

The groups are emerging against a backdrop of anger over South Korea’s spy-cam porn epidemic, whose victims are mostly women, and cases of sexual misconduct uncovered in the global #MeToo movement.

The final straw for Lee came last year when a progressive male politician who used to proclaim himself a feminist was convicted and imprisoned for raping a female aide.

Lee said: “I realized this society is a system that I cannot accept as a woman, and from then any encounter with men — be it marriage or dating — became meaningless to me.”

Yoon Ji-hye, a 24-year-old YouTuber, feels South Korean women are often expected to be “passive, childlike and bubbly,” as well as attractive, to be desirable.

She has fully embraced Escape the Corset, cropping her hair short and going bare-faced, shunning the country’s booming beauty industry.

“I used to spend hours mastering make-up techniques watching YouTube videos, and spent about $200 on beauty products every month,” recalled Yoon, who lives with her parents.

Her ex “preferred” her with long hair and did not support her feminist inclinations, she says.

Now also a 4B member, she does not miss dating or sex: “There are other options and ways to please yourself.”

Yoon is convinced most South Korean men in their 20s and 30s have watched spy-cam videos or revenge porn — footage released by male exes — one reason she no longer wants to engage with any of them.

4B and Escape the Corset are the most radical forms of feminism the South has ever seen, according to Shin Gi-wook, a sociologist at Stanford University.

“The four categories — marriage, motherhood, dating and sex — often put women in subordinate position to men … and what is represented in ‘corset’ is also similar — that women need to look certain ways to please men,” he said.

The effects risk reinforcing the country’s looming demographic disaster.

South Korea’s total fertility rate — the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime — dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.

The government predicts the South’s 55 million population will drop to 39 million by 2067, when half the nation will be age 62 or older.

Authorities have been trying to promote marriage by offering newlyweds housing benefits and low-interest mortgages.

But for Lee, the future is female.

She insisted, “My dream is to build housing only for women who plan to never marry.”
 
South Korea’s total fertility rate — the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime — dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...z2FDkIiut5loBuTic2-IFMwXj-BpFH8s#.XffsxK9KjIV
Bonnie Lee doesn’t care about finding a boyfriend or a fairy-tale wedding, and will decide her own happily-ever-after: “I’m a straight woman who is no longer interested in having relationships with men.”

She is not alone.



A growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.

“I’ve always felt that as a woman there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married,” said Lee, a 40-something professional who lives with her dog near Seoul.

Now she has gone even further, embracing the nation’s radical feminist movement called 4B, from the “four nos”: no dating, no sex, no marriage and no child-rearing.

Marriage rates are plummeting in South Korea, where wives are often expected to work, raise children and care for aging in-laws with little state or community help.

“In the marriage market, your previous life and work experience don’t matter,” explained Lee, who has two master’s degrees.

“For some ridiculous reason, being highly educated also becomes a minus point. What matters the most as a potential wife is whether or not you are capable of caring for your husband and in-laws,” she added.

She has witnessed well-educated friends hitting barriers at work and experiencing problems at home after having children.

Such difficulties are the subject of a recent hit film, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982.”

Based on a controversial feminist novel, it centers on a married South Korean woman who has quit her job and struggles to raise her child with limited support.

Female viewers rated the film an average 9.5 out of 10 stars on the South’s top search engine. Men gave it 2.8.

A growing number of women are turning their backs on the traditional expectations of South Korea’s male-dominated society, where working wives spend four times longer on domestic chores than their husbands.

A decade ago, almost 47 percent of single and never-married Korean women said they thought marriage was necessary. Last year, that fell to 22.4 percent. The number of couples getting hitched slumped to 257,600 — down from 434,900 in 1996.

4B members say the movement has at least 4,000 followers.

A separate feminist YouTube channel that features messages of boycotting marriage and child-rearing has more than 100,000 subscribers.

Lee has also adopted some tenets of Escape the Corset, a movement against South Korea’s strict beauty standards. Some adherents have shared viral videos of themselves smashing up their make-up collections.

The groups are emerging against a backdrop of anger over South Korea’s spy-cam porn epidemic, whose victims are mostly women, and cases of sexual misconduct uncovered in the global #MeToo movement.

The final straw for Lee came last year when a progressive male politician who used to proclaim himself a feminist was convicted and imprisoned for raping a female aide.

Lee said: “I realized this society is a system that I cannot accept as a woman, and from then any encounter with men — be it marriage or dating — became meaningless to me.”

Yoon Ji-hye, a 24-year-old YouTuber, feels South Korean women are often expected to be “passive, childlike and bubbly,” as well as attractive, to be desirable.

She has fully embraced Escape the Corset, cropping her hair short and going bare-faced, shunning the country’s booming beauty industry.

“I used to spend hours mastering make-up techniques watching YouTube videos, and spent about $200 on beauty products every month,” recalled Yoon, who lives with her parents.

Her ex “preferred” her with long hair and did not support her feminist inclinations, she says.

Now also a 4B member, she does not miss dating or sex: “There are other options and ways to please yourself.”

Yoon is convinced most South Korean men in their 20s and 30s have watched spy-cam videos or revenge porn — footage released by male exes — one reason she no longer wants to engage with any of them.

4B and Escape the Corset are the most radical forms of feminism the South has ever seen, according to Shin Gi-wook, a sociologist at Stanford University.

“The four categories — marriage, motherhood, dating and sex — often put women in subordinate position to men … and what is represented in ‘corset’ is also similar — that women need to look certain ways to please men,” he said.

The effects risk reinforcing the country’s looming demographic disaster.

South Korea’s total fertility rate — the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime — dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.

The government predicts the South’s 55 million population will drop to 39 million by 2067, when half the nation will be age 62 or older.

Authorities have been trying to promote marriage by offering newlyweds housing benefits and low-interest mortgages.

But for Lee, the future is female.

She insisted, “My dream is to build housing only for women who plan to never marry.”

Something something lot of single Korean chicks available if you just help clean the house
 
Something something lot of single Korean chicks available if you just help clean the house

Those women will be going insane when they hit 40+ and realize they can't have kids.

To be fair, I have heard South Korea is very misogynistic.
 
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