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November 24, 2007, 08:18:32 PM
Soup of the Day

An ongoing (hopefully) thread that will change day to day via whatever topic strikes the fancy.

Starting it off is my observation about "black Friday" and my impression that this is some mad marketing phrase they coined just this year because I don't recall it ever before. Lets hope it's truly not a black day with horrible sales because it would probably hammer away at the market place and stocks.

Stock Market and it's evils is something I abhor though and I wouldn't mind seeing it all take a massive tumble into the toilet and never rise again. Corporate laws and corporate America are in my opinion the modern day robber barons. We cater to wall street so much we have forgot about main street and the average person has been crushed under the wheels of greed.

Sadly though the rush of greed hasn't had an ounce of common sense in it's rush to milk the dollar to death and its going to bury this country in an economic collapse I factor. Once enough jobs and homes have been lost and the base of the country's finances, the working people, start to go under they are going to take the whole mess down with them.

It's all a house of cards and someone just needs to open a window or door and the howling wind will blow it all away. Gas and Diesel are just some of the insane inflationary items that are hammering nails in our coffins. The cost of living has rose considerably and it seems everyone is out to get rich off of you. Eggs are now 2 dollars a dozen, that is just madness.

Those that think its all fine and dandy and aren't feeling the crunch should be awakened because parts of this country are hurting and we don't live in a vacuum.

I wouldn't be looking to the politicians to solve anything because they have been entrenched in a system of corruption that has perpetuated this problem so long they will be going down with the ship instead of working to bail it out and patch the hull.

Tough times lurk ahead for us all if things don't take a turn I am afraid.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Locutus

#1
November 24, 2007, 08:43:18 PM
Actually, as to black Friday, I've heard it for several years now.  That name isn't anything new.
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

lex

#2
November 25, 2007, 01:36:54 AM
Quote from: Locutus on November 24, 2007, 08:43:18 PM
Actually, as to black Friday, I've heard it for several years now.  That name isn't anything new.

Great, now I have sidestepped into yet another alternate universe. See, I have only heard that term used for bad days on the stock market and it's a real (excuse the pun) dark name to use for the jolly happy time of the beginning of the Christmas season.

It's probably some higher brain function thats triggering some sort of quantum leap because Lord only knows I haven't tampered with any subatomic fields that I can recall lately. This sort of stuff gets old because it's so subtle thus making it extremely hard to get back to what one would think of as one's original reality.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Mother_Earth

#3
November 25, 2007, 05:44:57 AM
Did anyone shop online?

lex

#4
November 25, 2007, 12:20:24 PM
Quote from: Mother_Earth on November 25, 2007, 05:44:57 AM
Did anyone shop online?

I do all the time, in fact if it's not consumables I am looking for it online.

lol  I have even started shopping for a new woman online through one of the online services. What the heck, I get everything else online, why not?
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

kimmi

#5
November 25, 2007, 01:37:57 PM
Lex - black actually means it is a good day for stores.  They aren't "in the red" so to speak.  I think a lot of retail shops stay in the red for most of the year and the Christmas season digs them out of the hole.

I worked at the mall in college - I hate black Friday!


I did do a little shopping online already.  I like to go on and comparison shop before I go out into the stores.
Take time to smell the roses.

Locutus

#6
November 25, 2007, 07:57:20 PM
There is no beating online shopping.  No crowds and parking problems, and the goods are delivered right to your front door.  It can't be beat.
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

lex

#7
November 25, 2007, 08:03:50 PM
Quote from: kimmi on November 25, 2007, 01:37:57 PM
Lex - black actually means it is a good day for stores.  They aren't "in the red" so to speak.  I think a lot of retail shops stay in the red for most of the year and the Christmas season digs them out of the hole.

I worked at the mall in college - I hate black Friday!


I did do a little shopping online already.  I like to go on and comparison shop before I go out into the stores.

Everyone from this particular universe says that about "Black Friday". Did you guys ever have a massive stock market crash years ago? There might be one Monday if this "Black Friday"'s sales are in the toilet.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

lex

#8
November 25, 2007, 08:05:15 PM
Quote from: Locutus on November 25, 2007, 07:57:20 PM
There is no beating online shopping.  No crowds and parking problems, and the goods are delivered right to your front door.  It can't be beat.

One has to wonder if it's not the most fuel efficient, and therefore "Green" way to shop?
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

pariann

#9
November 25, 2007, 08:19:13 PM
Quote from: lex on November 25, 2007, 12:20:24 PM
I do all the time, in fact if it's not consumables I am looking for it online.

lol  I have even started shopping for a new woman online through one of the online services. What the heck, I get everything else online, why not?
Just one? I can direct you to quite a few.  Lot's of promising people out there, I can't keep up with them all. :wink:
Looks like I've come full circle.

lex

#10
November 25, 2007, 08:47:06 PM
Quote from: pariann on November 25, 2007, 08:19:13 PM
Lot's of promising people out there, I can't keep up with them all. :wink:

:sarcasm:

Divorce has left me gun shy, with a self esteem envied only by garden slugs.   :dam: I figure if I shop the online service I might find one with lower self esteem than me and with no expectations and perhaps I might, MIGHT venture a conversation with her. All in all it would probably be a less painful experience to just beat my nuts flat with a wooden mallet and forget about the whole concept of having another woman in my life than to try dating at this point of time in my life. I am not even close to being ready for it, but I am lonely as hell and half crazy with a miserable heartbreak.  :wacko:  :wall:

Oh well, more angst to fuel my madness to workout more. :pink:



And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Mother_Earth

#11
November 26, 2007, 01:06:27 PM
Wow, that's pretty extreme.  Somehow, I just don't believe your self esteem is damaged as much as you claim..anyway, I hope not.

lex

#12
November 27, 2007, 12:56:27 PM
Quote from: Mother_Earth on November 26, 2007, 01:06:27 PM
Wow, that's pretty extreme.  Somehow, I just don't believe your self esteem is damaged as much as you claim..anyway, I hope not.

It is. And along with chronic clinical depression I have a lovely time of it. It's probably a good thing I got sick and almost died. I may have got that kind of drama out of my system for a while, enough to get me through Winter would be good.

When I was young and in the infantry I almost froze to death while on a training exercise in Korea. The near death experience of it made me always want to choose freezing to death if I was ever going to have to pick my own doom. It's peaceful and rather painless, you just go to sleep and not wake up.

I figure one some super cold night I would drive out to some secluded spot at the nearby lake, drink some whiskey and take some pills, roll down the windows and just go to sleep.

Pesky problem is waking up damned to hell for it. If I could get around that annoying fly in the ointment I would be giddy about the whole plan. But I gotta stick around and make the best of things and try to do some good while I am here. Meh!  :-\

I seriously have to keep on my meds and keep rolling as a moving target from despair. There are times it all catches up with me and I feel like I could just die from sadness it's so heavy. But tomorrow is another day, and lightning can strike and life can take a turn on a dime. More than likely one just keeps plugging along making whatever improvements they can, as they can, until they find themselves in a better place.

Having the lion's share of the blame for my situation adds to my self loathing. I have hated myself to the point of wanting to damn myself to hell. But I frankly chicken out, mostly from a deep seeded fear of hell from childhood.

When I was very young I would have night terrors about hell. I couldn't be woken up from them unless they shoved my head in a sink and dumped cold water on my head for a while. I guess I would scream in my sleep like bloody murder. I can recall parts of those nightmares even to this day.

So hell for me is SERIOUS BUSINESS!! lol  :pope:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

pariann

#13
November 27, 2007, 01:33:03 PM
It all gets better. I hope that you can one day be med free. :)
Looks like I've come full circle.

lex

#14
November 27, 2007, 02:42:56 PM
Quote from: pariann on November 27, 2007, 01:33:03 PM
It all gets better. I hope that you can one day be med free. :)

Yeah, me too. I hate meds.

We hates them precious!
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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