teknoman2

A hipster sued a newspaper for using his picture in an article called "Why all hipsters look the same". Later was revealed that the hipster on the picture was a different person.

aka, we believe in whatever fits our agenda this week

if i was running the company i would know it

did you notice though that nobody put a dot on Mexico?

they say its the closest thing you can find to a government job in the private sector. from what i know about it, the company has very strict rules and requires serious commitment on the part of the employees, but the benefits of working there are worth it. the one who recommended my brother is an old coworker from his previous job with whom he had a very good relationship. he said that when he got married, the company gave him 10 days off for the honey moon and a month's salary as a wedding gift. when a rank and file employee is treated like that from the employer, he is much more inclined to work harder.

there is a company here, one of the largest in the country, that doesn't accept work applications. the only way to get hired is if you are recommended for a position by someone who already works there and is in good standing. the logic behind this hiring process is that if you get a recommendation, are hired and don't do your job right, not only are you fired but the one who recommended you also loses his good standing in the company (meaning no more chance of promotions or raises for a good while), so whoever makes a recommendation is very careful about who he recommends and the one who gets hired (usually a friend or relative) tries not to hurt the reputation of the one who helped him get the job. the fact that it also pays a higher than the average wage and that they only fire people* when they do something really nasty makes it a very coveted workplace. all this intro was because my brother got a recommendation for a job there and it has the entire family in anxiety on whether they will hire him or not. *unlike his previous work where they fired him, along with 80% of the department he was in, because a law was coming up that demanded the companies to pay workers what they were owed. a previous law, that was declared unconstitutional and illegal in court, allowed companies to underpay and the new law would not only delete the previous one but would also demand of companies to pay their workers the money that they withheld thanks to the deleted law. so a multi billion dollar international corporation, decided that giving the about 3000 euros they owed to each worker would hurt their profits and opted to just fire everyone non essential who was owed money before the law passed. according to a friend of my brother in accounting, that would have cost the company a little less than 4 million aka the profits of 10 days.

these two are a couple despite his mother aggressively trying to chase her away

from what i hear of the political situation in USA, everyone there wants to be Hitler in the name of the greater good (as Hitler did) but they pretend its not so

4 years ago me and my father were clearing a field and he brought a small bottle of diesel to help start the fire to burn the trash plants we had cut. somehow he forgot the bottle near some of the stuff that were to be burned and the fire got to the bottle creating a big fireball that spread out of control and almost burned the nearby stable that had about 50 sheep in it. we tried to stop the fire with dirt and some metal sheets that were left over from the fencing but the fire was too big and hot to get close. good thing we had a pump at the well so i ran, connected a hose on it and started it up then ran back with the (fortunately long enough) hose and managed to douse it before the stable went up in flames. a firetruck showed up a few minutes later but they let us go with just a warning because we managed to stop the fire but had the stable burned, my father would have to pay a huge fine and probably do some jail time. good thing it wasn't a windy day or it could have been way worse

since you were speaking of animals when my father was a kid, his family had a horse, a dog and a cat. the 3 of them were inseparable. if my grandpa took the horse out on a field to graze or work, the dog and the cat would follow and stay with the horse if he left it there overnight. the cat's favorite napping spot was on horseback

my mechanic (who doesn't do any tire work so i can trust him on this) said that there are 2 cases with tires. 1. if the car is front wheel drive, the front tires get more wear than the back, so at about half the lifespan of the tires you can just swap the front with the back tires to have the best performance until its time to replace all 4 2. on rear or all wheel drive cars, unless there is a problem (or frequent burnouts or drifting), all 4 tires should have more or less the same wear at all times so when the time comes all should be at replacement condition.

thanks... i think i always sold that sword