International War Room Lounge v239: I'm the Socrates of Sherdog....

[PolishHeadlock2]

People honestly think that they can treat people like this because “the customer is always right”, it seems like every time I go anywhere, store, gas station, hotel, airport, etc. There is always someone belittling or demanding something from, likely a part time minimum wage worker.

Never forget

 

[fingercuffs]

My single largest first-date red flag is someone who is rude to waitstaff/barstaff/baristas.

I used to go to Taphouse quite a lot on West 21st being it was so close and got to know the bar staff really well. Went for brunch with some friends and one of them was fucking horrible to one of them. Like real Jock horrible, his girlfriend cited that incidents as one of the reasons she dumped him. I don't like apologising for anyone but I had to in the instance, I was really embarrassed.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Yeah. No porn, beer over 5% ABV at the grocery store, recreational pot, or order cigars/vape stuff online but let's have an entire subset of our state STILL do the child bride thing on the DL and not prosecute them even after we threw Warren Jeffs in prison.


The whole thing seems weird like lawmakers are denying expanding sex ed and porn and it's like;
"so, you think kids can't figure out how to get their hands on it? THEY ALREADY ARE ABLE TO GET POT AT LIKE THE AGE OF 13!"

*like

On that note we need to petition HBO to bring back Real Sex as it was the best of both worlds.... educational porn

 

[Gregolian]

The angriest I ever got in my life was back when I bounced and broke up a chick fight and one of those nasty hoes spit in my face.

She's lucky I'm into that sort of thing......

Girl did that to me and I may have dumped her over a 3 stair railing onto cement in response.

 

[BEER]

I used to go to Taphouse quite a lot on West 21st being it was so close and got to know the bar staff really well. Went for brunch with some friends and one of them was fucking horrible to one of them. Like real Jock horrible, his girlfriend cited that incidents as one of the reasons she dumped him. I don't like apologising for anyone but I had to in the instance, I was really embarrassed.

Taphouse is one of my favorite spots, if only for their vegan grub and metal shows.

If one of my friends acted like a dick to the staff, I'd have to have a word.

 

[Sara]

I used to go to Taphouse quite a lot on West 21st being it was so close and got to know the bar staff really well. Went for brunch with some friends and one of them was fucking horrible to one of them. Like real Jock horrible, his girlfriend cited that incidents as one of the reasons she dumped him. I don't like apologising for anyone but I had to in the instance, I was really embarrassed.

My aunt and cousin are like this, last time I was home (yes this was years ago, but based on the updates I get from my dad about family they still do shit like this) we all went out to like Applebee’s or some chain restaurant, I wa brought the wrong salad dressing, no big deal the waitress brought me the right one, it maybe took 2 minutes total. They complained that their food got cold while they waited to eat so I wouldn’t have to eat alone after the waitress had to correct how my entire meal was messed up (literally salad dressing was on the side, they brought me a new little bowl) I won’t go out to eat with them anymore

 

[fingercuffs]

*like

On that note we need to petition HBO to bring back Real Sex as it was the best of both worlds.... educational porn

I like Gigolos on Showtime for the same reason. And the Polyamory show on the same network, lol. All totally staged but Gigolos was quality fun.

 

[Gregolian]

Taphouse is one of my favorite spots, if only for their vegan grub and metal shows.

If one of my friends acted like a dick to the staff, I'd have to have a word.

Last nightclub I worked at we kicked people out if they treated us like shit.

 

[Confucamus]

https://www.ksl.com/article/5012721...hone-filter-bill-awaiting-governors-signature

.... good fucking grief.

This quote stands out:

"Supporters argue the restriction is a critical step to help parents keep explicit content away from kids — especially as more children have their own electronic devices and have been forced to spend more time online during the pandemic."

As if there isn't a multitude of options for keeping offensive content off your TVs or the phones you buy for your kids. It wouldn't take too much work, but unfortunately putting in the work on anything is too hard nowadays. Everybody wants the world changed to suit their preference. We are seeing way too much of that.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I like Gigolos on Showtime for the same reason. And the Polyamory show on the same network, lol. All totally staged but Gigolos was quality fun.

*like

I didn't realize these shows existed and I have SHO, will watch.

 

[fingercuffs]

Taphouse is one of my favorite spots, if only for their vegan grub and metal shows.
Taphouse was wicked, used to spend plenty of lunch weekends there and Friday nights for gig night. Then they got taken over and didn't open till 3 or somesuch nonsense.
If one of my friends acted like a dick to the staff, I'd have to have a word.

My aunt and cousin are like this, last time I was home (yes this was years ago, but based on the updates I get from my dad about family they still do shit like this) we all went out to like Applebee’s or some chain restaurant, I wa brought the wrong salad dressing, no big deal the waitress brought me the right one, it maybe took 2 minutes total. They complained that their food got cold while they waited to eat so I wouldn’t have to eat alone after the waitress had to correct how my entire meal was messed up (literally salad dressing was on the side, they brought me a new little bowl) I won’t go out to eat with them anymore

It's just embarrassing, and it was quite obvious that we were pretty pally with the waiter he was having a go at. Sometimes the service is a bit slow but that's part of the charm with a dive bar. Service staff have a rough enough time of it as it is. Were they after getting it taken off the check or wanted to have fresh meals?

 

[Sara]

It's just embarrassing, and it was quite obvious that we were pretty pally with the waiter he was having a go at. Sometimes the service is a bit slow but that's part of the charm with a dive bar. Service staff have a rough enough time of it as it is. Were they after getting it taken off the check or wanted to have fresh meals?

I think they wanted a discount, or free drinks or something. They’re pretty cheap like that

 

[fingercuffs]

*like

I didn't realize these shows existed and I have SHO, will watch.

Gigolo's is brilliant. They're all in Vegas. Like I said it's totally made up, the women hiring them are likely actors but they really get down to it, lol. If only I didn't have a camera behind me at work, I didn't watch all of it

 

[Trotsky]

 

[BEER]

My aunt and cousin are like this, last time I was home (yes this was years ago, but based on the updates I get from my dad about family they still do shit like this) we all went out to like Applebee’s or some chain restaurant, I wa brought the wrong salad dressing, no big deal the waitress brought me the right one, it maybe took 2 minutes total. They complained that their food got cold while they waited to eat so I wouldn’t have to eat alone after the waitress had to correct how my entire meal was messed up (literally salad dressing was on the side, they brought me a new little bowl) I won’t go out to eat with them anymore

Did you tell them to shut the fuck up and eat their shitty 2 for 20?

 

[CubicleGangster]

Did you tell them to shut the fuck up and eat their shitty 2 for 20?

lol
Imagine getting indignant over your food at fucking Crapplebees

 

[Gandhi]

My thought reading that was, yeah, it sounds right (and is well-put), but not really surprising. I've seen Krugman make all of the first four points previously, and at least discuss 9 as a serious possibility (and I would have assumed he believed 6 and 10). It's a great sign of how things are changing.

Also, Obama had short-run austerity forced on him, and I think Congressional Republicans' actions in the Trump years show that a big part of that was just a desire to hurt the economy while Obama was in the WH. But he did rhetorically go along with it (celebrated falling deficits, for example), and his offers did tend to be about trading short-term stimulus for long-term debt reduction so still arguably fair to say he embraced austerity, but kind of oversimplified.

Ok but is it Secular stagnation, hysterisis, both, neither?

Also @PolishHeadlock2 lol at PKs shot at MMT (which was on point at least from its descriptive elements).

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[Jack V Savage]

Ok but is it Secular stagflation, hysterisis, both, neither?

Also @PolishHeadlock2 lol at PKs shot at MMT (which was on point at least from its descriptive elements).

Both, I think. Point 9 (about SS) is phrased a bit weakly, which I think is somewhat appropriate (as it's kind of speculative).

Side note, I was also a bit annoyed by this: "it’s a decisive recognition of half a dozen points that those of us on the left side of the macroeconomic debate have been making for years." For example, Summers is the most prominent supporter of that point, and few would describe him as being on the left side of the macroeconomic debate (left of center relative to the population, of course, and far to the left of Republicans, but in terms of the field, he's not on the left--and he's often portrayed as a villain by the left). These are matters of objective reality, independent of ideological leaning, and when they're phrased as if they are, I think it takes away from the seriousness of it, and suggests a model where everyone is just arguing that what they want to be true is true.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Nice