Well, after commuting on BART for 20 years on and off, it finally happened...
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2019 Jun 28, 11:25am 1,201 views 15 comments
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Shaman
2019 Jun 28, 12:13pm
Shaman
2019 Jun 28, 12:13pm
Breaking news on Patnet! Sorry you had to witness that, must have been disturbing.
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mell
2019 Jun 28, 12:38pm
Sorry. Didn't know so many non-left patnetters live in the bay area. Gives me a ray of hope ;)
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mell
2019 Jun 28, 2:41pm
TrumpingTits says
The bay area is a cesspool of the most rabid leftists. I don't ride Bart, in fact I don't take public transportation, it's like a 3rd world nation. Nature has been and is beautiful and there are some highlights such as the SF symphony, but overall I'm ready to move and let this collapse. How do you take bart commuting, human feces and leftoids as part of the daily grind? Just surprised that there are a few (what you would call today) conservatives left here.
mell saysSorry. Didn't know so many non-left patnetters live in the bay area. Gives me a ray of hope ;)
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The bay area is a cesspool of the most rabid leftists. I don't ride Bart, in fact I don't take public transportation, it's like a 3rd world nation. Nature has been and is beautiful and there are some highlights such as the SF symphony, but overall I'm ready to move and let this collapse. How do you take bart commuting, human feces and leftoids as part of the daily grind? Just surprised that there are a few (what you would call today) conservatives left here.
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BayArea
2019 Jun 28, 10:08pm
BayArea
2019 Jun 28, 10:08pm
I’ve lived here for 30yrs and it’s truly turning into a hell hole... each year that passes turns out to be my new least favorite year of all my years living in the Bay Area.
I should tell you about the time my good friend stepped in human shit... fun lol
I should tell you about the time my good friend stepped in human shit... fun lol
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just_passing_through
2019 Jun 28, 10:13pm
just_passing_through
2019 Jun 28, 10:13pm
I left 7 years ago. There are lots of Christi Canyon's down here TrumpingTits...
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Patrick
2019 Jun 28, 10:38pm
Patrick
2019 Jun 28, 10:38pm
I used to get stuck on Caltrain like once a month because of suicides. Takes about an hour for the police to clean it up enough to let trains by.
Been on a few that hit people, but never saw anything.
Strangely, it's much less frequent these days. I have no idea why.
Been on a few that hit people, but never saw anything.
Strangely, it's much less frequent these days. I have no idea why.
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anonymous
2019 Jun 28, 11:17pm
Pat,
There are less suicides these days because the economy is good.
There are less suicides these days because the economy is good.
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BayArea
2019 Jun 29, 6:34am
BayArea
2019 Jun 29, 6:34am
rbirchtree says
That’s partly right.
But social media, intense competition, and the widening economic gap hasn’t helped. I’d like to see it normalized for population and extended to 2019, but suicide numbers have been increasing (wiki):
Pat,
There are less suicides these days because the economy is good.
That’s partly right.
But social media, intense competition, and the widening economic gap hasn’t helped. I’d like to see it normalized for population and extended to 2019, but suicide numbers have been increasing (wiki):
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WookieMan
2019 Jun 29, 7:13am
WookieMan
2019 Jun 29, 7:13am
BayArea says
I'd say the internet is the problem with suicide (obviously including social media, etc). That graph make it blatantly obvious. For some reason people will understand a movie is acting and make believe. But when their friends are posting the ONLY positive things going on in their lives, it makes them feel like lesser people that they aren't doing as well. There's bad shit going on, they just ain't posting about that.
The female rate is the one that sticks out. Double since '01 and dudes roughly only 30%. Recently listened to a Joe Rogan podcast with some head doc type guy, interesting listen, can't remember the name of the guy (not Jordan Peterson). Social media (the content) is mainly female driven and it's fucking them up. In an attempt to boost their self esteem, they're bringing down their peers by making them feel lesser. This is especially true for women.
I don't study this stuff, but my wife and I have noticed it specifically with stuff she posts. Anytime we get together with someone we haven't seen in a bit, they always ask what she does for work. She's always posting golf outings, hanging out at restaurants, etc. for work. The fun part. So they ask her if she works or is just having fun all the time. People literally assume she doesn't work. We've known people going through divorce and they still posting photos of themselves with the kids attempting to make life look good when they're obviously in a hellish place. It's like "I know Tammy is getting divorced, but look how good she looks and what she's doing, my life sucks" even though it's probably better.
It would be an interesting thing to study.
But social media, intense competition, and the widening economic gap hasn’t helped. I’d like to see it normalized for population and extended to 2019, but suicide numbers have been increasing (wiki):
I'd say the internet is the problem with suicide (obviously including social media, etc). That graph make it blatantly obvious. For some reason people will understand a movie is acting and make believe. But when their friends are posting the ONLY positive things going on in their lives, it makes them feel like lesser people that they aren't doing as well. There's bad shit going on, they just ain't posting about that.
The female rate is the one that sticks out. Double since '01 and dudes roughly only 30%. Recently listened to a Joe Rogan podcast with some head doc type guy, interesting listen, can't remember the name of the guy (not Jordan Peterson). Social media (the content) is mainly female driven and it's fucking them up. In an attempt to boost their self esteem, they're bringing down their peers by making them feel lesser. This is especially true for women.
I don't study this stuff, but my wife and I have noticed it specifically with stuff she posts. Anytime we get together with someone we haven't seen in a bit, they always ask what she does for work. She's always posting golf outings, hanging out at restaurants, etc. for work. The fun part. So they ask her if she works or is just having fun all the time. People literally assume she doesn't work. We've known people going through divorce and they still posting photos of themselves with the kids attempting to make life look good when they're obviously in a hellish place. It's like "I know Tammy is getting divorced, but look how good she looks and what she's doing, my life sucks" even though it's probably better.
It would be an interesting thing to study.
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NDrLoR
2019 Jun 29, 8:48am
NDrLoR
2019 Jun 29, 8:48am
WookieMan says
She's always posting golf outings, hanging out at restaurants, etc. for workI did temp work through Kelly Services after I got my early retirement and one of the places they sent me was Sprint Sites (cell phone towers). I worked for a lady Carole Young who loved to take us on what she called "team builders", but were really just an excuse to get out of the office for the afternoon. One trip was to the Dallas Arboritum where I got a T-shirt because one of the birds crapped on my head. Another was to a beautiful bowling alley with all kinds of free perks. She always loved to go to a nice Mexican restaurant where the company picked up the tab--one trip a waitress dropped a while tray of about ten dinners right behind us. The one I didn't like and left early we were in some kind of little cars that we were supposed to drive around and use these cudgels they gave us to hit each other. It was just the opposite of GTE (now Verizon) where temps weren't included in anything, even when they had BBQ I couldn't partake because then I'd be seen as permanent. Towards the end of my contract, one day they had some nice apple pie and I was getting ready to cut a slice when some little twit said "employees only". I told her to call the police and went right ahead and cut it, took it back to my cubicle. I served six months in jail. Ask your wife if those are "team builders". They never had one of those things where you went out in the woods did goofy stuff like climbing up a tower, then falling off into everyone's arms below, which I wouldn't have done anyway.
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FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2019 Jun 29, 8:52am
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2019 Jun 29, 8:52am
Am I just a cold hearted bastard?
Every so often one of these assholes threatens to jump off a building in downtown and it fucks up traffic something fierce all afternoon. And I wish they’d either get down or just be done with it. It seems to be the ultimate attention whoring. Oh world pay attention to me.
Every so often one of these assholes threatens to jump off a building in downtown and it fucks up traffic something fierce all afternoon. And I wish they’d either get down or just be done with it. It seems to be the ultimate attention whoring. Oh world pay attention to me.
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WookieMan
2019 Jun 29, 9:18am
WookieMan
2019 Jun 29, 9:18am
P N Dr Lo R says
Jesus that sucks if true. My wife is a salesperson, so she's usually the one buying. She doesn't do the team building shit. The owners of her company did try that shit and she shut it down quick. Selling 70% of a company's annual gross revenue (between 4 people) and not having the hassle of dealing with owning the company is quite nice. No threat of firing because her customer base would just stop buying the product and the owners know it. Leverage is key.
We're going to St. Thomas in October with about 12 of her customers, they're friends now. They'll all pay their own way to hang out. The company fucks her over they lose at least $2M in sales (government work, so this is cash, not financed sales like auto or home). Kind of a golden ticket setup, but my wife busted her ass to get to where she is now. I lucked out in this marriage thing, or maybe I know what I'm doing ;)
Towards the end of my contract, one day they had some nice apple pie and I was getting ready to cut a slice when some little twit said "employees only". I told her to call the police and went right ahead and cut it, took it back to my cubicle. I served six months in jail. Ask your wife if those are "team builders".
Jesus that sucks if true. My wife is a salesperson, so she's usually the one buying. She doesn't do the team building shit. The owners of her company did try that shit and she shut it down quick. Selling 70% of a company's annual gross revenue (between 4 people) and not having the hassle of dealing with owning the company is quite nice. No threat of firing because her customer base would just stop buying the product and the owners know it. Leverage is key.
We're going to St. Thomas in October with about 12 of her customers, they're friends now. They'll all pay their own way to hang out. The company fucks her over they lose at least $2M in sales (government work, so this is cash, not financed sales like auto or home). Kind of a golden ticket setup, but my wife busted her ass to get to where she is now. I lucked out in this marriage thing, or maybe I know what I'm doing ;)
Look like he leaped. He was in front of the train just soo fast. Too fast to have fallen in. He would have stood out in my field of vision being in the yellow zone where he would have fallen from. And if he had been pushed, myself and others would have seen that. And if he had been pushed, folks around the murderer would have reacted accordingly.
But everything I saw happen in the track after he 'appeared' seemed like it happened in slow motion like you see in movies.
I was miraculously spared any gore. No blood. He bounced off the front of the train, hit the tracks about two -- three feet in front of train. Then the train rolled right over him. He spun like a rolling log right on under. I did hear the crunching sounds.
Everyone was calling 911 but I called BART police first. Lady thought I was pranking her until other calls started to come in. Station attendent dude who was downstairs in his glass booth was wigging out more than anyone else. Nobody seemed interested in getting my statement.
My hands just kept shaking. If I hadn't had BART police already stored in my phone's contacts, I wouldn't have managed to punch the numbers in to dial. Lady behind me just started crying. Shock is weird. I had to wait in my car for about a half hour before driving home.