War Room Lounge v172: Hoodie Season redux: Stand back and Stand by for the shitshow

[JDragon]

Good news on a new job opportunity so maybe I won't be fucking broke broke. It's $18 an hour and working from home

Did you learn about it in the Sherdog.com comment section?

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Did you learn about it in the Sherdog.com comment section?

Lmao no. A homie gave me the info since that's his new gig. You have to make 33 calls a day setting up doctors appointments for old people. The haunted ass Charity Hospital is hiring for $15 an hour to remove asbestos.

That's the hospital that didn't have electricity during Katrina.

It was also the one of the only free hospitals in the country, which is why it wasn't reopened. Fuck the poor amirite?

NEW ORLEANS - Save for the echoing drip of water in the hallways, there was nothing to disturb the sleep of the dead who lay shrouded in sheets on the landings of a stairwell, the sole custodians of Charity Hospital.

Banners made from bedsheets and anchored with bags of saline solution hung from shattered windows and railings, testament to the despair and fear of the living trapped in the crippled building for five long days by the flood of Hurricane Katrina.

Inside, the smell of human waste was overpowering. The floors were wet and slick and littered with Latex gloves, syringes, hospital gowns and water bottles. Huge piles of fetid garbage filled doorways. Heart monitors, dialysis machines, respirators, all useless and silent, had been carelessly shoved aside. Two bloody handprints were smeared on a wall like graffiti.

Considering the fact that that job is the exact plot of Session 9 I'm glad I dodged that bullet.

Seriously check this article out from 2005.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ch...-workers-kept-most-patients-alive-1502571.php

The doctors, despite the appalling conditions did an incredible job to save as many people as possible.

 

[PHATV]

Oh my, my, I had no idea Cracker Barrel had chicken livers. I haven't had them in ages. Used to have them in chicken soup. Mmmmm-mmmmm!

You a fan of chicken hearts? Used to have them with soup as well. Fogo de Chao serves them grilled and they're just hnnnnnnnng

I'll take a dozen, please.

They gave them to me when I was little. That's my excuse. I will eat two dozen.
There is a meat market by me that sells them and I get them a few times a year and it's like $6 for a tub that has more than I can eat.
Funny story, we went to a place exactly like that pic one NYE several years back with a couple we are tight with and about 4 other couples they knew, so 12 of us at a big table. When the guy came by with the skewer like that he explained some consider them a delicacy, etc.
I said "I'm familiar, could you knock about 10 of them off there for me?". He said really and I said yes, so he put 10 or 12 on my plate and I ate a couple immediately. They were awesome.
The rest of the people (aside from my wife and my buddy and his wife, coincidentally---lol) all go from acting like they're grossed out to where like 5 or 6 of them ask for a couple. Curious and wondering if I know a secret or something. It was spectacular. I'm scarfing them down and they are all back to grossed out after trying one and looking at me like WTF? lol
I get fried chicken livers nearby as well. I always ate the neck, liver, gizzard and heart growing up and Thanksgiving I would fight anyone who got near the turkey heart, liver or neck. lol
Memories.

 

[PHATV]

As an aside, I gave my kids fried chicken livers since they were little so they will eat those as well. People always seem surprised.

 

[tonni]

 

[PHATV]

Clueless.
I mean, do people not understand he likely had a loss of $10M here and $30M in income there, different business interests that he writes off against the other, etc.?
And that he pays millions in taxes and employs what, 10,000 people who pay taxes and pay for their families and such? More?
So stupid, this taxes BS. Nothing illegal. Tax code stuff done by an accountant.

 

[ShinkanPo]

Literally one of the first things my Filipina mother in law served me when I was at their home, without telling me I am eating chicken heart and chicken liver. @ShinkanPo

Luckily, it was tasty and I am not easily grossed out

Not a fan of liver...

Or as Bass Ruten would say..
Leeeeverrr

 

[Armbars]

Coincidentally this is the perfect amount of comments. The Sun should disable the comments now.

 

[tonni]

Which car brand's drivers have a good reputation? It seems like everyone sucks.

 

[tonni]

Mercedes? Assholes. Audi? Assholes. BMW? Assholes. Ford? Assholes. Honda? Assholes. Mitsubishi? philes. Volkswagen? philes.

Like what car can I drive without looking like a jerk?

 

[Ruprecht]

Which car brand's drivers have a good reputation? It seems like everyone sucks.

Lotus. They are all geeky IT workers that enjoy track days (this may not be an international stereotype).

 

[Prokofievian]

Mercedes? Assholes. Audi? Assholes. BMW? Assholes. Ford? Assholes. Honda? Assholes. Mitsubishi? philes. Volkswagen? philes.

Like what car can I drive without looking like a jerk?

Volvo?

 

[tonni]

Lotus. They are all geeky IT workers that enjoy track days (this may not be an international stereotype).

I ain't no It geek!

 

[tonni]

@Ruprecht What's a track day?

Volvo?

No stereotypes surrounding it?

 

[Prokofievian]

@Ruprecht What's a track day?

No stereotypes surrounding it?

The stereotype is that it's a car for risk averse accountant types.

I've driven a lot of mazdas, and they're a super underrated car. My family had 4 of them growing up and none of them ever had any problems.

 

[Ruprecht]

I ain't no It geek!

Fake IT until you make it?

@Ruprecht What's a track day?

Days where you go to a racetrack to go as fast as your skills and vehicle will allow, without being a menace to road users and violating laws. Typically organised by car or bike clubs, but there's open days as well.

 

[tonni]

Fake IT until you make it?



Days where you go to a racetrack to go as fast as your skills and vehicle will allow, without being a menace to road users and violating laws. Typically organised by car or bike clubs, but there's open days as well.

So they say it's impossible to be a menace, eh?

 

[Ruprecht]

So they say it's impossible to be a menace, eh?

Well, you could still be a menace to the other track users, but you'd get kicked out without a refund.
They usually have different rules for overtaking etc based on your experience. The guys in the advanced groups are often racers.
It's not a cheap hobby though.

 

[Armbars]

Which car brand's drivers have a good reputation? It seems like everyone sucks.

Renault

 

[TheMinority]

Days where you go to a racetrack to go as fast as your skills and vehicle will allow, without being a menace to road users and violating laws. Typically organised by car or bike clubs, but there's open days as well.

*bikie clubs