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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on March 18, 2011, 11:25:09 AM
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After all the drama of the know-it-all chronicles, it's kind of refreshing to run across a half-assed, old-fashioned bouncy tale. There's no dialog, but the author goes to great pains to paint a word picture. In fact, there's so much detail she must have been snapping photos like People of Walmart. Anyway, DUmmy Wednesdays has a nice imagination, until she blows it all away at the end:
Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:07 AM
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I witnessed a perfect allegory of the income gap in America last night
I went to refill a prescription at my local Walgreen's last evening. As I was getting out of my car, another car pulled into the parking lot a few spaces down from me--a car barely hanging onto it's (sic) last throes of usefulness. It was a Ford LTD sedan from the 1970s, and it blew thick, black smoke. The paint was bleached from brown to tan, and the tan vinyl roof was half-peeled off. There were several large dents on the body, and one broken window was repaired with clear plastic sheeting and strapping tape. The driver of the car was a forty-something man, whom I assumed was the dad of the family. The other passengers were his wife, a teen daughter, and a grandmother. The man had stringy, bushy dark brown hair, a large mustache, and beard stubble. He looked like he hadn't shaved in a week or had a haircut in a year. He wore a dirty baseball cap, and an old t-shirt and flannel shirt.
As I walked towards the store, I encountered another car, that I can only figure came from nearby Nichols Hills. It was a sparkling white 2011 Cadillac, with tinted glass and white leather seats. The engine was running, and I could hear the whirr of the air conditioner. A woman, around 50 or so, sat in the driver's seat, talking on her cell phone. She had on a rhinestone-studded shirt, designer sunglasses, and perfectly-styled hair with blond highlights. I couldn't see what kind of phone she had, but she held it in her left hand, which sported a wedding band that looked like it was top-of-the-line from B.C.Clark. Scattered around the car were several neatly-packaged and colorful gift bags, apparently in preparation for some sort of celebration. I was curious as to what the story was behind the gifts, but I wasn't about to stare, and so I continued on to the drug store.
While waiting for my prescription to be filled, I browsed the store, when I came across the mother and grandmother from the first car (the daughter was browsing elsewhere). They wore plain old clothes (the mother's jeans were muddy and torn along the cuff), their hair was combed but otherwise plain, and I could smell them from 20 feet away. They were having a minor argument over certain items to buy, and after hearing what they were talking about, I handed them $20 (all the cash I had to spare). They looked shocked, but before they could say anything or try to return the cash, I said something to the effect of, "Well, I just found it lying on the ground, so it's not really mine, anyway." I snuck (sic) away, and made myself scarce until my name was called to pick up my prescription. I did, however, catch a glimpse of the people across the store, while they were in the checkout lane at the front of the store.
You see, they were arguing earlier about which cans of cat food to buy. When they were at the checkout counter, they were carrying several cans of cat food. What do you want to bet they don't own a cat?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x680557
All that vivid imagination, and she ruins it with that old cat food myth. What a disappointing bouncy!
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:13 AM
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1. You did a really good thing...
Yup, I'm sure they don't have a cat...
God, what a mess our country is.
Damn it.
You probably didn't realize it, but that was today's CalPig poem. And yes, I know, there was no sexual ecstasy, but still, it was a CalPig poem.
kctim (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:16 AM
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2. I'll bet a hundred that they own a cat
Being on a similar budget as those people, I can tell you that there are things like Ramen, Spam, potted meat etc that are close to the same price or even cheaper than cat food.
I'd bet a hundred they don't exist. Being DUmb enough to believe bouncy tales is one reason DUmmy kctim lives on Spam.
Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:22 AM
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5. Cat or no, you'd agree they're probably in dire straits?
Aside from public libraries, they're not likely to have Internet access.
They just need to park next to the Buick and use their iPhones.
kickysnana (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:33 AM
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6. Thanks for posting this. It started my day off positive.
Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:50 AM
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9. Thanks. It's a double-edged sword.
Good that one family was shown someone cared, but my narrative also illustrates how far this country has yet to go.
This OP only has ten responses, and half of them are from DUmmy Wednesdays, who started it. She's as bad as the CalPig with her "my dear DUmbass" responses to her own threads.
w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:33 AM
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7. you did good...it will make a difference. Don't sell yourself short.
Good breeds good in others....maybe they will pass on good to someone in worse shape than them.
I am proud of your actions.
I feel another half-baked leter to the editor coming on.
Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:52 AM
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10. True, thanks.
I think it's inspired me to work harder to bring about social change. This is the only major industrialized nation that allows this to happen at such large a scale.
DUmmy Wednesdays is inspired by a car full of deadbeats. We don't call 'em DUmmies for nothing.
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Oh FFS! BS!
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I just looked at my Walgreens Circular. Starkist Tuna is on sale for 99 cents a can. Wouldn't it be more economical to buy a can of that and share it with the cat? Not in the same bowl of course.
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I don't know about the rest of you but when I'm really hungry I go to Walmart to buy my cat food. The off-brands there are way cheaper than Walgreens. :lmao:
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If the 2011 Cadillac had tinted windows, how could the primitive see so much detail about what was inside it, and the driver?
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There is so much BS in this bouncy, you know she didn't give anyone twenty dollars out of the kindness of her heart. She's a greedy dummy who only takes from people.
And this whole class warfare is getting ridiculous. If you took everything the "rich" lady had and gave it to the poor family, in a year they would be back to where they are now. The poor would be poor, with maybe some nice toys, and the rich would be rich again.
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OK, aside from buying anything from a drugstore at their ridiculously marked-up prices, here's what got me:
She painted the poor family as disgustingly dirty. She could smell them a mile away, the father was all greasy and stringy and unshaven. The family sported mud on their torn clothes. A better effect would be had by portraying them as the "noble poor." As in,
"We was poor but proud. We never had much money, but mama kept the house spotless and made sure we was, too. She washed and mended our clothes and would nary let us step out of the house lessen our hair was shiny and clean."
As it is, she drew them as freeloading bums, and I see those guys around here all tlhe time. Especially at the first of the month. They sit around on their picnic tables and put a case away. Good times.
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:07 AM
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--a car barely hanging onto it's last throes of usefulness. It was a Ford LTD sedan from the 1970s, and it blew thick, black smoke. The paint was bleached from brown to tan, and the tan vinyl roof was half-peeled off. There were several large dents on the body, and one broken window was repaired with clear plastic sheeting and strapping tape.
The only thing that could have made the bouncy better.....a Buick. :rotf:
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Yes, I saw this stupid thread. So what, there were two cars parked at a drugstore? Must have got very close to the woman in the Cadillac to notice all those details, and warm enough in OK to use A/C in March.
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-18-11 11:07 AM
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I witnessed a perfect allegory of the income gap in America last night
I went to refill a prescription at my local Walgreen's last evening. As I was getting out of my car, another car pulled into the parking lot a few spaces down from me--a car barely hanging onto it's (sic) last throes of usefulness. It was a Ford LTD sedan from the 1970s, and it blew thick, black smoke. The paint was bleached from brown to tan, and the tan vinyl roof was half-peeled off. There were several large dents on the body, and one broken window was repaired with clear plastic sheeting and strapping tape. The driver of the car was a forty-something man, whom I assumed was the dad of the family. The other passengers were his wife, a teen daughter, and a grandmother. The man had stringy, bushy dark brown hair, a large mustache, and beard stubble. He looked like he hadn't shaved in a week or had a haircut in a year. He wore a dirty baseball cap, and an old t-shirt and flannel shirt.
I knew a man very much like this. He had more money than he knew what to do with. He always paid cash from a roll of $100 bills. He drove an old beat-up truck with faded paint and rust spots. He didn't see a need to spend money on a new one because the old still did exactly what it was supposed to do which was get him from point A to point B. He always wore a white t-shirt and faded blue jeans because he felt comfortable in them. He almost always looked like he needed a shave and a hair cut. If he wasn't working he was usually tending to his cows or his hay or hunting. If a DUmmie would have given him $20 as in the above story he would have taken it then laughed his ass off when climbed back into his beat-up truck. He was a good guy and entertaining to be around.
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Wednesdays - Sorry, I will stop shopping at Walgreens. After all, I own a TEN YEAR OLD Jaguar with blacked out windows. Although the car is 10 years old, it looks almost new. I'd hate to throw someone like you into a jealous rage. This same thing can be said about Walmart, Target, the grocery stores, etc. I've been at Walgreens when someone in a Bentley pulled in. Did I get upset? Nope. Rich people want to save money too.
Is there a preferred store you would like us luxury car owners to shop at from now on?
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If the 2011 Cadillac had tinted windows, how could the primitive see so much detail about what was inside it, and the driver?
Oh my! :lmao:
BTW, let me see, our cars and truck are older but hubby keeps them in pretty good shape so they kind of look newish, they're anywhere from 8-14 years old, we own them outright, I have sunglasses with Rhinestones on them, I think I bought them maybe 10 years ago for like $5? they were cheap but they look very expensive, I have a cellphone that's pretty cool, it's a prepaid though but if people saw me using it and what it looked like they would never know that, and I'm a wedding ring aholic, I have my original wedding and engagement ring but I like to change them out, and while they're gold I tend to favor sterling silver now, 1 of my wedding engagement rings I wear is over 3 carats, it's huge, from afar I'm sure it would look like I was rich, but the ring cost me like $50 at QVC, some of my jeans have some tattering, they're maybe 10 years old but I look stylist I guess because that's supposedly in style from what I see, my hair's not blond but it's dark brunette with red highlights that I do myself using Loreal.
Looks can be deceiving!
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I knew a man very much like this. He had more money than he knew what to do with. He always paid cash from a roll of $100 bills. He drove an old beat-up truck with faded paint and rust spots. He didn't see a need to spend money on a new one because the old still did exactly what it was supposed to do which was get him from point A to point B. He always wore a white t-shirt and faded blue jeans because he felt comfortable in them. He almost always looked like he needed a shave and a hair cut. If he wasn't working he was usually tending to his cows or his hay or hunting. If a DUmmie would have given him $20 as in the above story he would have taken it then laughed his ass off when climbed back into his beat-up truck. He was a good guy and entertaining to be around.
Howard Hughes often dressed in shabby but comfortable clothing, rarely carried any cash on him, forcing him to borrow money from friends/or his employees for immidiate purchases, and drove around in non-descript chevrolets.
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Wow- so many people over there have photographic memories. How do they do it? / sarc
I think I'm going to start dressing like that before I go to the store. Maybe I can get some of these liberal Chicagoans to feel sorry for me. A fool and his money soon part :)
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I do wonder if it ever dawned on the stupid primative that...
maybe they just wanted to feed their cat? :thatsright:
Nah, not enough drama. :banghead:
Mmmm, Meow-Mix!! :drool:
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I just looked at my Walgreens Circular. Starkist Tuna is on sale for 99 cents a can. Wouldn't it be more economical to buy a can of that and share it with the cat? Not in the same bowl of course.
If you're that hungry, **** the cat! If it can't find and catch mice, then it ain't much of a cat!
The last time I saw a car like the one in this Bouncy, it was driven by a stinkin' meth head! And yeah, he had his wife and kids in the car! They all looked just like this twerp described it, too! The wife looked strung out too, but we only had a warrant for the scumbag drivin'. Poor kids! They'd of been better off if I could've called DHS!
I wanted to put a cap in his ass, but my boss decided to take him to jail instead, since he had jumped a $20,000 bond his mom put up usin' her house as collateral!
If this DUmmie's story is anywhere near the truth, I'll lay odds the circumstances were much the same.
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If you're that hungry, **** the cat! If it can't find and catch mice, then it ain't much of a cat!
The last time I saw a car like the one in this Bouncy, it was driven by a stinkin' meth head! And yeah, he had his wife and kids in the car! They all looked just like this twerp described it, too! The wife looked strung out too, but we only had a warrant for the scumbag drivin'. Poor kids! They'd of been better off if I could've called DHS!
I wanted to put a cap in his ass, but my boss decided to take him to jail instead, since he had jumped a $20,000 bond his mom put up usin' her house as collateral!
If this DUmmie's story is anywhere near the truth, I'll lay odds the circumstances were much the same.
I suspect they were just feedin up the cat like you do beef in preparation for a nice Chinese dinner. :rotf:
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Cat,...the other white-meat. :drool: :cheersmate:
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Cat,...the other white-meat. :drool: :cheersmate:
Tastes like chicken. :lmao:
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Mmmm, Meow-Mix!! :drool:
Put it on ice cream and it's the shit! :-)
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXxrMC5Pv4[/youtube]
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Let me just drop this mini bouncy here I just found:
driver8 (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-17-11 10:38 AM
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My son is in first grade and went on a field trip the other day. The kids were served lunch,
and as the kids were eating, one little boy said, "I'm going to take part of my lunch home to have for dinner because we don't have any food at my house."
My wife was on the field trip as a chaperone, and had tears in her eyes :bawl: when she told me the story. I was wondering, is there a way we could do something for the family without them knowing it was us? I was thinking of getting a gift card to a grocery store, maybe...I don't know. I know this could be a touchy situation and I don't want to insult the parents.
Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9645160)
Why do they make up these stories and keep denying that we have EBT cards in this country? We've even taken the stigma of the stamps out of it. How much do they get? $200 a month? I wish they'd stop with these starvation bouncies, it's just not happening.
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My true Bouncy tale:
I have a relative who is 18 or 19 and pregnant. She's single and moved out from home. Not long before Christmas my wife went to town with the girl's mother. That evening when I got in I heard the tough time the girl was having. She was having trouble paying rent. She almost couldn't afford to buy groceries. She couldn't pay for insurance on her car and on and on. She is getting EBT, but still the whole situation weighed on my mind all night long. The next morning before leaving for work I wrote out a check and told my wife to take it by to the girl.
A few days AFTER Christmas I learned that instead of using that money to buy groceries or pay bills she used it to buy Christmas presents for her boyfriend, her friends, her sister and mom and dad. Shortly after that I found where she'd been posting on Facebook with her cell phone. I don't have data plan for my cell phone because I can't justify the expense, but apparently she can. Also, based on one of the videos that she posted she has a big screen TV that appears to be bigger than my 50". Which I guess it's good that she has a TV. It gives her something to do during the day since she doesn't have job to go to during the day.
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Let me just drop this mini bouncy here I just found:
Why do they make up these stories and keep denying that we have EBT cards in this country? We've even taken the stigma of the stamps out of it. How much do they get? $200 a month? I wish they'd stop with these starvation bouncies, it's just not happening.
How about if they just donate without having to brag to the DUmp like civilized people do. Nah- then they wouldn't get the feel good vibes from their stories.
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My true Bouncy tale:
I have a relative who is 18 or 19 and pregnant. She's single and moved out from home. Not long before Christmas my wife went to town with the girl's mother. That evening when I got in I heard the tough time the girl was having. She was having trouble paying rent. She almost couldn't afford to buy groceries. She couldn't pay for insurance on her car and on and on. She is getting EBT, but still the whole situation weighed on my mind all night long. The next morning before leaving for work I wrote out a check and told my wife to take it by to the girl.
A few days AFTER Christmas I learned that instead of using that money to buy groceries or pay bills she used it to buy Christmas presents for her boyfriend, her friends, her sister and mom and dad. Shortly after that I found where she'd been posting on Facebook with her cell phone. I don't have data plan for my cell phone because I can't justify the expense, but apparently she can. Also, based on one of the videos that she posted she has a big screen TV that appears to be bigger than my 50". Which I guess it's good that she has a TV. It gives her something to do during the day since she doesn't have job to go to during the day.
Man, that sucks. My dad once gave an old car to a family who had no money or vehicle. Their excuse for not working was no transportation. They immediately turned around and sold it for 100.00. Don't know what they used the money for, but it wasn't for another car.
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How about if they just donate without having to brag to the DUmp like civilized people do. Nah- then they wouldn't get the feel good vibes from their stories.
Or just take a few things from their pantry and give it to the family. Hold them over for a couple of days.
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Does anyone really believe a DUmmy can identify a Cadillac by year model?
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Does anyone really believe a DUmmy can identify a Cadillac by year model?
Of course. A Cadillac is the type of car you drive when you want to run over poor people.
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My true Bouncy tale:
I have a relative who is 18 or 19 and pregnant. She's single and moved out from home. Not long before Christmas my wife went to town with the girl's mother. That evening when I got in I heard the tough time the girl was having. She was having trouble paying rent. She almost couldn't afford to buy groceries. She couldn't pay for insurance on her car and on and on. She is getting EBT, but still the whole situation weighed on my mind all night long. The next morning before leaving for work I wrote out a check and told my wife to take it by to the girl.
A few days AFTER Christmas I learned that instead of using that money to buy groceries or pay bills she used it to buy Christmas presents for her boyfriend, her friends, her sister and mom and dad. Shortly after that I found where she'd been posting on Facebook with her cell phone. I don't have data plan for my cell phone because I can't justify the expense, but apparently she can. Also, based on one of the videos that she posted she has a big screen TV that appears to be bigger than my 50". Which I guess it's good that she has a TV. It gives her something to do during the day since she doesn't have job to go to during the day.
That really ticks me off! I wanted a big screen TV for years and hubby kept saying no, he said there's nothing wrong with the 36 inch TV we have and there's more important things to do with our money and he was right. We only have a 52 inch TV now because a relative was upgrading and she gave it to us for free.
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It was a Ford LTD sedan from the 1970s, and it blew thick, black smoke.
My God man, don't they care about the environment?
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I think I found a hubby for Bobo,
Chris_Texas Donating Member (268 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 02:07 PM
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14. They own a cat. But that's irrelevant
As someone in the same poverty level I can say with complete assurance that the impact even something as little as $20 can make all the difference in the world.
I can imagine some here judging me already (I have experienced it here before). I have seen the questions and insinuations: If you are poor Chris, what are you doing online... what are you doing with a computer... you are probably poor because your terrible life choices: computer, internet, and you smoke oh my god (!), you own a dog, this just gets worse and worse...maybe if you drank less coffee... and why are you posting on the internet when you should be out getting a second or third job! Are there no prisons, no work houses?!
First, **** off. Yeah, I am poor. There is an interesting fact about money that most folks do not realize. It is this: the lighter your wallet the heavier your feelings of inadequacy and shame. See that homeless guy pushing his stolen shopping cart? I know what's in it. Guilt. The level of shame is inversely proportional to the wealth you have. If you are middle class you probably hesitate a moment before buying a new designer purse or blouse, wondering if that money should better go towards your kid's ballet lessons or whatever. But you can dismiss it, you can say with absolute confidence "I can afford this cat." The poor guy never gets that luxury.
There is NOTHING they can just afford. Nothing they can buy, including a bus ticket to a job interview, that does not carry with it some degree of shame. After all, they could start extra early and walk to that job. It's only five or ten miles, right? Start three hours early or something (I have done this, I suspect many have). And poor people, well, they don't need cats and coffee and computers and internet, and they damn sure should never drink a beer or soda or smoke a cigarette whether they roll it themselves or not. Aren't these things, these vices, just symptoms of the poor decision making and lack of self control which keeps them poor? If you are not thinking it (and be honest, you have occassionally thought just that about someone -- we all have), the poor guy is.
So why does that poor family own a cat? Because they wanted it and they just said ****-it. Poor choice? They would shrug knowing that in their life it doesn't much matter -- good choices or bad, nothing will change, and skipping out on a cat for their kids isn't gonna matter except in the eyes of some rich ****er sitting in judgement.
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A woman with a rhinestone shirt was driving the Cadi? Somebody's watched Thelma and Louise too many times! :rotf:
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A woman with a rhinestone shirt was driving the Cadi? Somebody's watched Thelma and Louise too many times! :rotf:
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
DANG!
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I see some women wearing rhinestone clothing. They usually have curly gray hair, smoking a cigarette and playing video poker.
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I see some women wearing rhinestone clothing. They usually have curly gray hair, smoking a cigarette and playing video poker.
What I love, is the old women on oxygen at the slots, smoking a pack of cigarettes while they spin their SS money away.
:lmao:
I really did see that a lot in Reno.
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Rhinestone used to be big around here. I met Porter Wagoner a few years before he passed away. Let me tell you, that man put rhinestones on the map, baby.
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What I love, is the old women on oxygen at the slots, smoking a pack of cigarettes while they spin their SS money away.
:lmao:
I really did see that a lot in Reno.
You will see a lot of that in the early mornings too. Not sure why these woman go to the casino at 10am.
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You will see a lot of that in the early mornings too. Not sure why these woman go to the casino at 10am.
Do they still have the 99 cent breakfast deals? If so that's why. :lmao:
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Come for the pancakes, stay for the whiskey.
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Do they still have the 99 cent breakfast deals? If so that's why. :lmao:
Not that I am aware of, otherwise I'd be there too. :rotf:
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I see some women wearing rhinestone clothing. They usually have curly gray hair, smoking a cigarette and playing video poker.
And don't forget the oxygen tanks. Vicious old bitches, the whole lot of 'em.
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Don't those have warnings on them? 'Do not use around open flames' :lmao:
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Comedian Kathleen Madigan on reasons to quit smoking and old ladies in the casino:
http://comedians.jokes.com/kathleen-madigan/videos/kathleen-madigan---reasons-to-quit-smoking/
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
DANG!
Sorry butt...show us pics of YOU in your rhinestone shirts...and pants...and undies...(I can't run fast enough...) :-) :-) :tongue: :tongue:
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Rhinestone used to be big around here. I met Porter Wagoner a few years before he passed away. Let me tell you, that man put rhinestones on the map, baby.
Rhinestone condoms - it's the latest graze in the DU Buick...
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Rhinestone condoms - it's the latest graze in the DU Buick...
Extra studs for her pleasure? :tongue: :fuelfire: :bolt:
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This was the 80's, and I had a silk shirt with stones on them, it even had stones in the shoulder area on top of the shoulder pads, I thought it was the coolest shirt ever. Well some friends and I were at a bar and this regular for some reason wanted to go out with me, I had no desire to go out with him, he was drunk 7 nights a week, so I nicely brushed him over, fast forward a bit and he goes off on a rant about something, turns out he's dissing my friends and I at the table, next thing I hear is "and the 1 with the Elvis Presley shirt on" he was talking about me and my studded shirt.
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This was the 80's, and I had a silk shirt with stones on them, it even had stones in the shoulder area on top of the shoulder pads, I thought it was the coolest shirt ever. Well some friends and I were at a bar and this regular for some reason wanted to go out with me, I had no desire to go out with him, he was drunk 7 nights a week, so I nicely brushed him over, fast forward a bit and he goes off on a rant about something, turns out he's dissing my friends and I at the table, next thing I hear is "and the 1 with the Elvis Presley shirt on" he was talking about me and my studded shirt.
The one with the Elvis Presley shirt on - :rotf:
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The one with the Elvis Presley shirt on - :rotf:
I was totally shocked because I thought the shirt was awesome.
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I was totally shocked because I thought the shirt was awesome.
I know what you mean. Shoulder pads were great back in the day, or so I thought. When I look back at some of my pictures, it looks like I had football equipment on my shoulders :).
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Extra studs for her pleasure? :tongue: :fuelfire: :bolt:
Screw that--turn it inside out--studded for MY pleasure.
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The one with the Elvis Presley shirt on - :rotf:
...and she married him...some people...I swear... :-) :-) :tongue: :tongue:
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The one with the Elvis Presley shirt on - :rotf:
RONCO rhinestone and stud setter.... :-)