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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, December 08, 2010, 07:40:08 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

See this?  It's a forked stick.
It's a very useful thing.
You can use it to kill a snake (very important in these mountains).
You can use it to whack a tweaker over the head (Tucson, remember).
It's a weapon.
It's a lever.
It can prop your hatchback open while you get the groceries out.
Yep, there's nothing like a stick.
In fact, if you put the fork in your armpit, you can walk with it.
See?  Almost as good as that foot you used to have.
Thank you for your service, and the best of luck finding a job.
Goodbye, now.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

:x Is that really how shit is going down?
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Hover Cat on December 08, 2010, 07:42:50 PM
:x Is that really how shit is going down?

Pretty much.  PTSD, for example, is being routinely denied by the VA because "they were crazy before they joined". 

And about 20% of Tucson's homeless people are veterans.  Can't speak for anywhere else.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Whatever

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 08, 2010, 07:44:45 PM
Quote from: Hover Cat on December 08, 2010, 07:42:50 PM
:x Is that really how shit is going down?

Pretty much.  PTSD, for example, is being routinely denied by the VA because "they were crazy before they joined". 

And about 20% of Tucson's homeless people are veterans.  Can't speak for anywhere else.

We have a slightly higer percentage as we have full VA medical facilities here.  But yeah!! :sad:

Juana

A quick search didn't give me my city's rate, but California has about 25,000 of them total.

:( Makes me wish I was in a position to help them by hiring them or something.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Hover Cat on December 08, 2010, 07:53:37 PM
A quick search didn't give me my city's rate, but California has about 25,000 of them total.

Reported.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

Point. 25,000 that we know of, then, statewide.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Jasper

WAIT why would someone with PTSD join the ARMY?

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Quote from: Sigmatic on December 09, 2010, 01:41:43 AM
WAIT why would someone with PTSD join the ARMY?

They don't have to make sense, if you don't have the power to fight it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Jasper

I can only conclude that reality itself is an elaborate FBI terrorism sting.

Phox

Quote from: Sigmatic on December 09, 2010, 09:31:05 AM
I can only conclude that reality itself is an elaborate FBI terrorism sting.

Yes, that does seem to make sense. I'm still waiting for them to answer when I pick up the phone and start talking to them when no one's on the line, though.