Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Pio1980]

Ever wonder if missing socks:

ever come home?

get to sock heaven?

are eventually found?

eaten by the dryer or washer?

really want to be found?

become unraveled, going down the drain?

stolen by the sock bandit?


Must be bored this night!

Q

I just considered the dryer claimed a tribute with every load.
So, when you die, do they get returned in a mound of mismatched orphans?

 

[Quadman2]

I just considered the dryer claimed a tribute with every load.
So, when you die, do they get returned in a mound of mismatched orphans?

Now we add a "guilt-trip" to the whole affair with "orphans" in the mix, P.

So...if the socks were briefs...would you deem them, "little orphan Annies"...or Fannies?


Q

 

[Mystic]

The Pentagon brayed this week about shooting down an Iranian-made drone that was hovering over a US base in northeastern Syria called Mission Support Site Conoco. Again: Mission Support Site Conoco. One more time: Mission Support Site Conoco.

 

[Mystic]

Gun control measures which target “assault weapons” increase demand for handguns.

Who doesn't already know this?

So, anyway, a few economists got together and published a paper on this topic.

LINK: https://www.nber.org/papers/w30934#.Y-qQyfGYE8g.twitter

 

[Mystic]

Since it began its large-scale lending program in the mid-2000s, China has become the largest official creditor to low-income countries, even larger than the World Bank.

How long before the UK begins borrowing from China?

 

[Mystic]

As the environment was growing more complicated in Q2 of last year, every bone in my body believed we should be much more aggressive in slowing hiring and reducing headcount.

- CEO, Goldman Sachs

 

[Mystic]

The number of infants in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over the last five years. In 2021, the state was given a federal grant of $18.4 million to hire public health care workers. It spent $3.6 million of that federal grant.

LINK: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congenital-syphilis-treatment-mississippi-increase-rcna69381

 

[Mystic]

Yale professor Yasuke Narita on how Japan can resolve its demographic problem of declining birth rates:

“In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass seppuku of the elderly?”

LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/world/asia/japan-elderly-mass-suicide.html

 

[Mystic]

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans, who live in the only advanced economy country without a guaranteed paid vacation, are on vacation half as often as they were 40 years ago.

LINK 1: https://cepr.net/report/no-vacation-nation-revised/
LINK 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/10/disappearing-vacation-days/

 

[Mystic]

Business investments in the UK have nearly ceased since Brexit, falling far behind both the EU and the US.

 

[Mystic]

The average annual household income of the Broadway theatergoer was $261,000 in 2022.

LINK: https://deadline.com/2020/01/broadway-audience-demographic-report-broadway-league-1202828973/

 

[Shominy]

What if China decided to annex Siberia? With 97% of RU forces in the far west, there'd be little that they could do.

 

[Lou F Quincy]

You only have to floss the teeth you want to keep.

 

[Mystic]

This book, now in 4th edition, deserves honorable mention in any discussion of America's dirtiest secrets:

 

[Lou F Quincy]

This book, now in 4th edition, deserves honorable mention in any discussion of America's dirtiest secrets:

"( : )"
? What book?
Zinn's ?

 

[Lou F Quincy]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1157106172/ukraine-russia-war-refugees-food-prices

Pukin ... one insecure egoturgid man destroying billions of lives.

 

[runnin']

I bought some new old school leather gloves. Black, lined(just cotton), made domestically. The Duke, by Watson. You’d be surprised at how satisfying it is to put on a nice pair of leather gloves.

 

[Quadman2]

"What we here...is a failure to communicate!"

Not sure why the above popped into my mind...but it was random.

Maybe some of the previous shares?


Q

 

[Pio1980]

"What we here...is a failure to communicate!"

Not sure why the above popped into my mind...but it was random.

Maybe some of the previous shares?


Q

Beat me 2 it.

 

[DesertRatt]

Business investments in the UK have nearly ceased since Brexit, falling far behind both the EU and the US.

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That could very well turn out to be a blessing.