OLD F@CKS WIN AGAIN – SATISFIED?

Unbelievable. Fact is, I try to encourage just about every young person I see on this site. A little nip here and there maybe, but by and large I try to help if I can. I hold the TPCs, Colmas, Punks, etc. that pass thru in high regard. They have drawn a short straw. I did at times try to reason with Calamity. But she does not understand the things that I value and that I believe the young will need in spades to overcome or thrive given the black hole they are being left – things like thrift, hard-work, education, experience, integrity.

Calamity threw those things back in my face and told me to fuck off and die as I was clueless. So be it. She has made her bed, and it is not of roses.

I S ,all C wanted was to be told she is pretty and given some encouragement.You must not know women very well.

i have no hard and fast opinion of calamity and her departure from tbp. if pressed i really don’t care one way or the other. i’ve only been here a little while anyway, chiming in on occasion. but here’s my 2 debased cents. tbp is like a virtual bar, with its regulars like AWD, llpoh, stucky, zarathustra, et al. and of course the admin, holding court, directing traffic, calling for another round, calling it a night, etc. he’s the barkeep and owner if you will. you may have heard of this bar, and the action inside, so you enter, saunter your fat ass over to a table nearby and chat a while with the guys as you drink. it’s a little intimidating, because these guys are smart bastards, but they, the regulars, are willing to listen. they might applaud, laugh, cheer, nod off, or boo. they might give you a good natured razzing or punch you in the gut. they might disagree amongst themselves, and call each other names. the point is: they “own” the place as they spend their time there. you can’t come in there, pistols ablaze, call everyone a “dumbfuck” and expect a regular to buy you a whiskey, even if you have nice tits (though that will surely satisfy the animals, er i mean the regulars, for a while). they have lived lives. they have experience. they can offer good advice to those who listen. as far as i can tell, calamity didn’t listen. that’s too bad. good luck to her anyway.

i made a fantastic chicken curry with onions, garlic, tomatoes, tonight–hot, super fucking hot, the way i like it— and as i washed it down with an italian lager, i could hear stucky in the background, saying, “it wasn’t that fucking good numbnuts!” jesus, i think i’ve been spending too much time here at the tbp bar.

Archie – great post. Join in more – that was worthy of a free beer. Admin will not mind.

T4C. ,I didn’t write that .Why do you care anyway ?you said I was dead as far as you were concerned.Tell me ,am I dead or alive?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y9KfHpm4s4w

well she studied 19th century lit

Coyote – I majored in 20th Century Clit. Anything you want to know, ask away.

@Zara – despite aggressively apply for numerous merit scholarships (and getting some) as well as working 20-30 hour per week waitressing, I still ended my college career with several tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt. I am proud to say I paid all my college debts off fair and square, before I had children.

However, at this point, the Ivies have realized how gauche it was for them to charge academically gifted and impoverished students tuition (forcing massive debt), all while holding many billions in the old endowment. I attended school when the Ivies all considered “need based financial aid” to equal “max your fucking loans out, you poor mutherfucker, and even though maxed out loans + serious scholarships won’t cover your tuition and living expenses, we won’t kick you out because we believe in diversity… So we will let you poor low income novelty students stay in school – but you better max out your loans, you poor mutherfucker, and pay us every penny that you can beg, borrow, or steal.” Now (in the 2000s) the definition of need based financial aid at the Ivies has come to mean free if you are poor. More now than ever, it’s an amazing deal. There is still an “American Dream”, I am living it – but I put a hell of a lot of work and sacrifice in to get it (and made the most of my natural gifts and made some good choices and had some luck too). I paid the same price for my Ivy League education as some people pay for their University of Phoenix degree… So even though it financially sunk my entire 20s, I still consider it to have been well played on my part.

@NickelthroweR

You must have been gone for quite a very long time.

I believe we’re talking about the 21st century here.

Carry on.

@Zarathustra, yup. peroni. i’m really not a beer guy (more a wine ‘n’ whiskey guy) but the doc said to take a break from the hard stuff. i saw this at the market, noticed that the cases were post dated, asked for a discount and got one. (yes, i am a skinflint.) so i just bought 3 cases of it. not bad at all, though i like guinness better.

@Stucky, hehe. we could probably talk shop for a good long while about cooking, kitchens, restaurants, etc. lidia. yeah, i like her stuff, though too be honest i’ve only recently begun to appreciate italian food. my main tv guy was jacques pepin. don’t watch any shows anymore. the last guy i watched was that brit jamie something or other, the guy who looks like he just rolled out of bed. he eventually just pissed me off. the problem with most of these food folks on tv is that they don’t shut the fuck up. when they say things like, “now i am going to chop an onion…” i am thinking yeah i know that because i can see it you dumbfuck. (i basically don’t watch television anymore–bad for my hypertension.)

i’ll probably die in the kitchen because that’s where i spend most of my time. i hope that i’ll be hoisted onto the table, rolled up in the tablecloth, breadcrumbs, cigar ash, wine stains and all, tossed into a laundry trolley, wheeled away and dumped in the apple orchard. no funeral, no nothing. the crows will talk among themselves as they flock to me…”get a load of this poor dumb bastard.” (apologies to cliff robertson.)

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