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Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

  • Get outdoors

    Votes: 13 61.9%

  • Campfires at the cabin

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Spend hot nights in the city

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Wonder why Red Berenson isn't a Lodge member yet

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • Sweat over your favorite team's players leaving early for the ECHL/AHL

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Consume copious amounts of bacon-wrapped melon made by Giada

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Get hacked by Freddy

    Votes: 10 47.6%
  • Total voters
    21
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bigblue_dl said:
Liberals are not good for people that actually work. Which is why you wouldn't go that way. This is why most farmers have now shifted to conservative beliefs.

Also, not a universal thing. Obviously not all people that are liberal are not hard workers. Many are.
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Since you opened the Pandora's Box I'll ask: What about liberal policies are bad for people that actually work?
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Sad but true. I've been at my place going on 37 years. That's unheard of anymore. And it gets tougher and tougher to find people who want to work in a factory. We've resorted to temp-to-hire for most of our open positions. The problem with that is most people are temps for a reason. We're lucky if we get decent people at 20% (1 in 5). Not to mention the younger generation (18-24) has no inkling to do manual labor. They're all looking to make big money doing nothing. I'm not sure what that means for the future but if we don't start cultivating a blue collar work force again the results will be catastrophic.
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The numbers are out there to see, but you make more money jumping around from company to company doing the same thing. That said, I've got 12 years in at my company now.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Not trying to be political, but what I find funny is that blue collar people are mainly liberal. "Should" be liberal. I am not. Even though the "rich white conservative" policies hurt people like me, I am conservative. Odd place to be in.
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I can see looking at a stance for the good of all and biting the bullet for the common good.

A lot of the people around my area rabidly support the conservative politicians (local gentry) and are staunchly and rabidly against 'liberals!!1!11!'. * There is no logical reason for them to fall in line with some of the stuff they believe. Not even if you are kind and try really hard to understand. The ruling class is supported even thout it means putting themselves and their families in a worse position than they started out in, supporting people who have some nasty background stories.**
I am a blow in here (I was not conceived here. If I was born here but conceived somewhere else I think I would still be a blow in) and would like to blow on our of here. I have not been indoctrinated by the twatwaffle logic they have been spoon-fed since infancy. I do not believe the local bigwigs 5hit gold ingots. Facts and logic are dangerous and not to enter into conversation.

*a liberal here is anyone who is not of the local gentry/ ruling political class
**the latest is a local selectman who was starving her horses to the point they were taken away and they pressed charges. She was the put upon one because it was a witch hunt. Of course the pics of one of the horses with ribs sticking out and sores on its body were a trumped up plot by the liberals.
bigblue_dl said:
I have nothing against blue collar. ****, I grew up on a dairy farm, that is as blue collar as you get. That experience is what told me it wasn't for me. What made me decide to make a living using my brain instead of my hands.

Now, things have changed. The farming I grew up with is mostly dead, and even farming is mostly a white collar job (not dairy farming, but we have transitioned to only crops). Which is one of the reasons why going back to the farm is on the table.
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This is what I am talking about. You need to know what you are doing to farm. It is a skill and you need to use your brain to do it. You can't farm without a knowledge base but that is not something respected.
 
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To somewhat glorify my job, I coordinate 3 carriers, plus a shuttle truck, as to deadlines, and I have (possible) help for half a day. To prioritize and organize, you need a knowledge of numbers and such, and then have to do the physical work on top of that.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Liberals are not good for people that actually work. Which is why you wouldn't go that way. This is why most farmers have now shifted to conservative beliefs.

Also, not a universal thing. Obviously not all people that are liberal are not hard workers. Many are.
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? I don't understand this. At this point it seems all discourse should stop the minute anyone uses the label liberal or conservative. IMHO people have hijacked these terms, redefined them in inflammatory and derogatory ways that have nothing to do with the mainstream liberal or conservative's views. Ask a liberal or a conservative to define the opposite term and Saaaatan comes out. Ask them to define themselves and it has nothing to do with what the other side says. Look at the extremes of either side and you have unrealistic, inflexible people who have idealistic views and not a workable plan among them
 
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And now back to your regularly scheduled thread without politics. Lets talk about.....whether to pee in the shower? :D
Hint~ pee is sterile. the germs are from your external parts and they are in the shower whether you pee or not.
 
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I cannot begin to tell you all how much I do not want to go to work tomorrow.
 
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I have this week off if that makes you guys feel better...
 
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St. Clown said:
The numbers are out there to see, but you make more money jumping around from company to company doing the same thing. That said, I've got 12 years in at my company now.
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My meter hits 20 years in January, if I'm there that long. I'd rather not be.

Scarlet said:
I cannot begin to tell you all how much I do not want to go to work tomorrow.
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Move over.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I have nothing against blue collar. ****, I grew up on a dairy farm, that is as blue collar as you get. That experience is what told me it wasn't for me. What made me decide to make a living using my brain instead of my hands.

Now, things have changed. The farming I grew up with is mostly dead, and even farming is mostly a white collar job (not dairy farming, but we have transitioned to only crops). Which is one of the reasons why going back to the farm is on the table.
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Another 4 wagons of hay in the barn today. About another wagon worth and we'll be done with hay for the year. Finally managed to turn up somebody who knows what in the hell they're doing when it comes to getting hay in the barn. If I was about 20 years younger, some farmer out there would have a ball watching us trying to outwork each other. 17 years old and knows how to weld. You just don't seek kids going out and wanting to getting that kind of a skill set. Only knock on the kid is that he goes to Manchester, but only Hammer and myself would really hold that against him.
 
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St. Clown said:
The numbers are out there to see, but you make more money jumping around from company to company doing the same thing. That said, I've got 12 years in at my company now.
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That ship sailed years ago. I was lucky in that I grew with the company and have done quite well (without a degree). I've had offers and even tested the waters on my own but there came a point where the "comfort level" was too great to overcome.
 
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Good Morning Lodge.

I started at this company on January 4. :p The one before that I lasted about 7 months, before that just under 3 years, before that...longest I've been at a place was just shy of 16 years and that was 7 hires ago. Since graduation from college I have worked for 11 firms, hoping this is the last one.
 
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Next week will be 26 years for me at Mother Mining. I've had multiple jobs in multiple businesses during my tenure here & try to force my self to start looking for something different every 4-5 years. :)
 
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