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If you need to pull over to make a phone call

on January 04, 2025

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Ignorance Opinions

I'm not a breeder. I don't care your kid made honor roll.

on December 29, 2024

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Breeders Opinions

How about don't get shot when pulled over by police

on December 11, 2024

My baby turtle theory in humans

on August 24, 2024

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Breeders Opinions

2023 year in review: goodbye and good riddance

on January 09, 2024

Wait an hour for a dinner table? How empty is your life?

on December 02, 2023

Still living in same town you grew up?

on March 03, 2023

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Life in other cities Opinions

Why I cheer $5 petrol, besides freedom convoys

on August 08, 2022

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Bicycling Opinions

Brittney Griner? Zero sympathy.

on August 06, 2022

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Ignorance Opinions

Why do music fans play craptastic stereos?

on June 13, 2022

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Why do women wear makeup?

on March 08, 2022

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Why do I know so many human radios?

on February 21, 2022

Exit the rat race: real freedom

on January 09, 2022

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Finances Opinions

Hey parents in the buffet line: what are you teaching your kids?

on December 08, 2021

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Breeders Opinions

Alcoholism is not a disease. It's an excuse.

on December 02, 2021

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Drugs & drink Opinions

Real freedom is at your fingertips

on November 11, 2021

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Finances Opinions

American Manbaby

on December 15, 2020

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Ignorance Opinions

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Cascading dominos of friendship cancellations

Dateline: this blurb began in late 2022 but continues to grow as I continue to purge the toxic people from my life. Well folks, I've been on a run lately, canceling numerous friendships. Perhaps my low tolerance for emotional weakness has reached new depths. Perhaps this has been an unusual set of coincidences. Perhaps it's me & my short fuse slash irritability (who, me?). I even have another blurb dedicated to me 'breaking up' with other blokes. Let's get started. 3 platonic female friends Met all via dating app. No love connection but that's still dandy as female friends are valuable & I cherish those I have. One told me 'you need to learn your love language because women dig that.' And indeed, I do see that mentioned on app profiles here & there. No idea what it is but clearly, it's a chick thing, same as stand up paddleboarding & cooking classes. My (joking) reply to her suggestion: 'if I start reading about love languages i...

Being flown to bizarro job interviews

Dateline: aughts & teens. The market research industry is a pseudo-science which I'll tackle separately here someday in thrilling detail. MR is filled with washouts from other legit industries who looked around & realized they could make a decent living simply being punctual & polite. There are also legit smart folks in MR, I met a handful. They & I were smart enough to slurp up the gravy train. Which I did, for 20 years. Let's focus. Ann Arbor, MI. Flown there twice, 5 years apart. Multiple MR sales ppl I know have interviewed here or been asked to. Must have hard time hiring or keeping them. We share similar stories of our visits. This unique shop is home of the spectacularly annoying popup surveys all over the webs. They claim all sorts of perks with their surveys: customer loyalty, competitor threats, yadda yadda. My 1st visit went well enough to talk about working there, the pay package (it sucked) etc. But here's the...

Toxic workplace hall of shame: Gantz-Wiley research firm

Dateline:1996. So I did a couple years in the employee survey & assessments divisions as an office drone at NCS, they later changed their name to Pearson. Long nasty commute across metro Minneapolis, esp. in the winter. Wasn't doing much of anything there but make friends in and out of work with an intense, successful sales guy, and borderline enemies with a high strung drama rager sales rep named Caroline. One day, the latter called in sick with some drama, same day she was to fly to San Francisco and help Dr. David Campbell, a well-known psychologist (i.e., Strong-Campbell interest inventory) host a seminar, of which NCS was a publisher of his various assessments. So they sent me out there in her stead, the flight was a few hours away. Hurried home, back across the city, packed a satchel, drove all the way back across the city to airport, flew out to SF for a couple days. I sat in back of room whilst David explained his theories. On breaks I offered his books, tape...

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