Hitting the empty trash command and seeing 1,900 items deleted and wondering what the hell was in the trash anyway? 
plus, I always notice I need something right after I deleted the whole pile.
That happens with catalogs too.
You need a new window washer, Weeks! 
When I see cars with “support our troops” stickers. I never did understand why just about everybody has those, or what they really meant. In fact, I don’t think most people who have them even know what they’re supposed to mean.
Well… mine means… “Bring them home ASAP!”
I think supporting them is essential, but it also means speaking out against seeing their lives endangered, maimed or lost for an illegal war such as this one.
What exactly constitutes “supporting them,” though? Does it mean sending money, or something like that, or just believing they should be there?
The whole “support” part has always seemed so vague to me that it could pretty much mean any thing to any person. It seems that people put those stickers on their automobiles for reasons other than supporting their troops, but they generally don’t know the reason any more than I do.
I had a “support our troops” ribbon on my car (if was stolen)…
Mine was bought from a local group that was collecting funds to send care packages to the troops stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Things like sanitary wipes, sunscreen, lip balm, reading material, gatorade power, etc.
Missy
I saw a bumbper sticker last week that read: ‘If you’re close enough to read this… you’ve just become a target’. Needless to say, I backed off a bit. 
Also, I think it means that since most of them are enlisted with the belief that they’re doing the right thing by serving the country, that–regardless of how you feel about this war–let’s not make the troops themselves feel like we hate them since a lot of Vietnam vets ended up feeling that way.
The one that gets me is the bumper stickers that say “Drive Carefully-- Children on Board” (or show dogs on board, etc).
Like, “Oh, damn, I was hoping to drive recklessly today, and now I can’t because these people have children in their car!”
:roll:
I know, it’s a little strange that people suppose that might make a difference…but otoh maybe it does make the occasional person, who might otherwise be a rude tailgater, be less of a boor toward you.
I wonder the same thing about the roadside crosses/memorials that have become so common–at least around here. I find them a little strange, but at the same time, maybe someone, who needs a dose of fear of mortality, gets it at just the right time.
Precisely.
Y’know the plastic wristbands everyone is wearing thses days?
On the counter at my local chain pharmacy outlet was a display of packages of three bands each in bright red, white and blue. Every package proclaimed “SUPPORT OUR CONTRY”.
Every wristband was stamped “Made in China”.
…it gets confusing, no?
I had an English professor.
He held up a pencil and asked “What is this?”
After a bit, someone said “A pencil”. He said “No.”
Someone else tried “Well, it’s that thing. That object you are holding.” He said “Close.”
Finally he explained: “‘Pencil’ is a symbol. The symbol is not the object. But everything is a symbol. How can we really know something? The thing you are seeing is also a symbol, because the light entering your eyes is merely a reflection of the object. The image then, is also not the object.”
I thought “Hmm…”
Right on, Chuckles. Mindless.
In one RARE piece of good news from the much-assaulted Prez, he proposed bringing back some import restrictions so China can’t continue to flood the country with their cotton products. I think the restrictions were lifted earlier this year to much legitimate protest. Yes, prices will go back up SOME, but American workers who were layed off may be called back and it’s worth it to me, anyway.
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Yeah, Walmart is peeved. Screw 'em.
Naw, I didn’t mind thread-jack. I still don’t know what got thrown away. I am preparing my M. Culkin scream for when I do find out.
I’m currently working with a client whose company is a manufacturer of goods for WalMart… they’re located in the US (imagine that, a manufacturer of goods located in the USA 
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Anyway, this client company has decided it has had enough of WalMart jerking them around with contracts… “Lower Prices, Guaranteed” means to the manufacturer that WalMart believes that the manufacturer should bear the brunt of lower payments, too, according to the manufacturer.
The end result? The manufacturer has said, “To heck with this, we cannot afford to produce at the prices you want, so we’re taking our manufacturing to China.”
Thanks, Ir, now I have a headache.
You had too much respect Nico. That professor would have failed 1st year philosophy.
Words symbolise by referring to the things they symbolise. Your answer was correct. His answer was not correct and his explanation was pretty stupid.
I’m quite serious. There’s nothing deep in his answer; it’s just completely confused.
It’s hard for me to get a handle on my thoughts of Wal-Mart. I think I love it and despise it all at the same time.
I had grandparents on both sides of the family who were Wal-Mart employees, up till there retirements, and countless other relatives (probably a majority) have been employed by Wal-Mart at various times.
Given the choice of the three major chains founded in 1962, I’d take Wal-Mart over Target or Kmart. But I’d like to see Gibson’s, Montgomery Ward, TG&Y, C. R. Anthony, McCrory’s, Woolworth’s, and other chains that once were prosperous, still here. Wal-Mart, no doubt is not, probably, responsible for their demise, as much as an aggravating factor. “Main street” was dying, either way (though, this could always reverse). And countless small business owners (including franchisees) suffered in the process.
I think, ultimately, in my life, Wal-Mart is neither good nor evil. It was here before I was. The only life I’ve known without Wal-Mart in the picture was in the Third World. Wal-Mart just is. However, the fact that Wal-Mart is, does not mean that it is all-powerful.
It’s no wonder, though, that Wal-Mart is despised on the politically-polarized coasts. The left hate it because it is a large corporation that has prevented unionization and the right hate it because it was founded by a Democrat and was once represented, legally, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.