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Been awhile, since I even logged in here is my little contribution.

everything says

Been awhile, since I even logged in here is my little contribution.

Not to mention that they killed DVD Audio and Sony went full Nazi content "protection" with DSD, effectively killing multichannel sound for two decades. Now it's Blu-ray audio, but I'd rather have something simpler and easier to buff if it gets scratched. There's no way to polish scratched Blu-rays - they have a "scratch-proof coating" on the underside that gets ruined.

mell says

Then you also know which dumbass country fomented a coup before and reinstalled the shah to make these atrocities possible

Much more to that story.

Today I learned that Massadegh was a Qajar, the rival dynasty of the Pahlavis. There was a lot more going on than the story I previously heard, some Game of Thrones shit.

Patrick should recognize this one I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fM5K5jK840

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Right before the Walt Disney Show, right? MoO sponsored it, in fact.

"Mutual of Omaha is people you can count on when the going's rough."

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

God I wasted so much time with those back in the day. Eventually I figured out you can only get so much air pressure before breaking the dinky nipple on the pump.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Lots of these had to be retrieved from roofs.

HeadSet says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Lots of these had to be retrieved from roofs.

Same for these:

MolotovCocktail says

Those were great for sticking in door hinges. Loud pop when someone closed the door.

HeadSet says

Those were great for sticking in door hinges. Loud pop when someone closed the door.

Or to walk fearless through neighborhoods with loose dogs.

ElYorsh says

Or to walk fearless through neighborhoods with loose dogs.

I used to flick them from the 2nd floor of the mall down to the 1st. I had security running in circles down there trying to figure out where they were coming from.

"0ne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"

(As a kid I growing up in California could never understand that. Just like the Philly brownstones of Seseme Streat was alien, too.)

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

How would they have access to your tax records?

HeadSet says

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

How would they have access to your tax records?

They wouldn't, so you're right. No sane person keeps tax records past 7 years unless you got digital copies which I would purge from my computer anyway. I don't like having that data around. Plus it would be useless.

But basically yes you could lie on an application and there's no way they could contact to verify you even worked there or the position. I'm sure people do it all the time. Everything is fake at this point in my world. I bet a lot Enron employees/managers did this to get a new job, just not the accountants.

HeadSet says

How would they have access to your tax records?

Hahahaha.

WookieMan says

They wouldn't, so you're right. No sane person keeps tax records past 7 years

Who the fuck said it would come from yourself?

I didn't.

MolotovCocktail says

I loved those things. Used to unroll them and then roll several together from the crystals to make bigger ones.

Mercury fulminate iirc. Maybe I'm brain damaged from that.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

My mother was a classmate of Marlin Perkins' daughter at the U. Chicago "Lab School", a high school associated with the university.

Patrick says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

My mother was a classmate of Marlin Perkins' daughter at the U. Chicago "Lab School", a high school associated with the university.

MoO is still around.

https://www.mutualofomaha.com/

Probably not as big as they once were.

Patrick says

I loved those things. Used to unroll them and then roll several together from the crystals to make bigger ones.

Mercury fulminate iirc. Maybe I'm brain damaged from that.

Just because the combined roll looked like a joint did not mean you should have smoked it.

Doh!

MolotovCocktail says

True, but compare prices. Today's tickets are like bus fare compared to the 1960s.

She might fail the age test for jail bait.

MolotovCocktail says

Guilty as charged.