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  • Geoff4rfc
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    OleBoot wrote: »
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    I hate to use the term doggie style but, isn't that it??
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  • OleBoot
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    12 hours ago

    Ana Faguy
    BBC News
    Reporting fromMartinsburg, West Virginia


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    'Our food doesn't even last the month' - Americans brace for welfare cuts



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    Jordan and his wife get about $700 a month to feed their family of four, but still struggle
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  • treitz3
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    For some reason, the struggle doesn't seem real....

    If one can't feed a family of 4 with that amount of money for food, then something is amiss. That amount of money would have our family a SURPLUS of food each month. What are they buying? Tomahawk and Wagyu steaks?

    And FWIW, we eat good in this house.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • mhardy6647
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  • mhardy6647
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    N.B. As a former substantial citizen myself :blush: I must admit that I have mixed feelings on this topic. That said, I have strong feelings on 'good' vs. 'bad' ways to fix the problem. Hint: taking drugs - even if they work - is probably not the most prudent course of action from my perspective. :/
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  • skipshot12
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    The AMX’s were just as potent a muscle car as anything else on the road at that time.
    They were some really quick red light race cars.
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  • Viking64
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    OleBoot wrote: »
    Ana Faguy

    I read that as "And a fat guy" and thought to myself: "Well, it's no wonder . . . "
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  • Willow
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    For some reason, the struggle doesn't seem real....

    If one can't feed a family of 4 with that amount of money for food, then something is amiss. That amount of money would have our family a SURPLUS of food each month. What are they buying? Tomahawk and Wagyu steaks?

    And FWIW, we eat good in this house.

    Tom

    Shoot, we spend between 300-400 a week on groceries and we don't buy junk. We do buy premium meats and tons of berries, cottage cheese and Greek yogurt. Our bread is from a bakery, organic whenever possible and I eat 3 eggs a day plus my wife eats 2 eggs a day. But it all gets eaten. 2 teens and 2 adults.
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  • VR3
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    Honestly I've found it is way more expensive to eat junk food
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  • VR3
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    You can spend a small fortune on chips, sweets, soda etc etc etc

    The cost of fast food is outrageous

    I drink water from the fridge tap, skip breakfast, eat an apple and banana and a full dinner. Done!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • nooshinjohn
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
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    anybody able to ID the turntables?
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    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson

    How many flies need to be buzzing a dead horse before you guys stop beating it?
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  • Viking64
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    daddyjt wrote: »
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    I am going to add another requirement to this appliance and all other electronic items.

    Although my my vision is almost 20/20 in both eyes, I don't like any item that is all BLACK.

    It seems CONTRAST doesn't work like it used to work.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
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    Two Garrards... Rue Britannia! :)
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  • mhardy6647
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    Our friend Mary Holland has a blog called Naturally Curious. Today's post is about the noble moose.

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    Antlers are the fastest growing tissue in any mammal, and can grow an inch a day. It’s hard to believe, when you see a bull moose in early summer, that by September each of its antlers could weigh 40 pounds. Bull moose spend a quarter of the energy from the 35 pounds of vegetation they eat each day toward growing antlers. Together the antlers gain a pound of bone a day.
    https://naturallycuriouswithmaryholland.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/moose-antler-growth/
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    It looks like he has a fair collection of 45s on the right.
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  • sucks2beme
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    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Willow
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    We have Bimbo bread up here
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  • mhardy6647
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    54614457509_8c931c693d_b.jpg4,000,000 Women and Witches Switch to Perma-broom by saltycotton, on Flickr
    The world really has changed since 1954, hasn't it?
    I mean... I can't remember the last time I saw a broom with Electrene bristles, you know?
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  • treitz3
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    Nope. Usually CCC.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • Viking64
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    I remember getting one of those on a box of Alpha Bits. I think it was The Archies.

    Here is a video about these cereal box records:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCb9IfndLz8&t=2s
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  • mhardy6647
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    I've got one of those records (more or less - rather more modern than Sugar Bear) sittin' up in the hifi loft -- for no particular reason. :blush:
    I found it stuck in a book or something and pulled it out* to spin it... sometime.
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    EDIT: Does any of all y'all recognize any of those stars?
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    * Probably 2 or 3 years ago. Fortunately, there's no expiration date on "sometime" -- other than the big expiration date that we all face, of course. :#
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  • mhardy6647
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    Oh. Come to think of it -- I have long presumed that Sugar Bear (the Post Cereal version, that is*) is the cereal-ized version of that great '50s and '60s crooner, the Singing Barber, Perry Como.
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    Ol' Perry earned the first-ever gold record for the little ditty reproduced above. B)
    Y'all may remember this one, from much later in his career.
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    * As opposed to the Sugar Bear of Smokey and the Bandit, and maybe - or maybe not - the one name-checked in Elton John & Bernie Taupin's Someone Saved my Life Tonight. :p
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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    EDIT: Does any of all you all recognize any of those stars?
    I EDITED "y'all" to "you all" to save you the humiliation.

    I think I see Susanna Hoffs in the girl group on the left, so they might be The Bangles.

    The guy on the right may be Richard Marx but I am not sure.

    The five "men" on the bottom may be Bon Jovi. It looks like Bon Jovi in the middle, but (thankfully) I don't know what the rest of that band looks like.

    I have no clue who the 3. . . . people in the top middle are, but I bet they like to tell others their pronouns.
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  • Viking64
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    It appears that I was correct about The Bangles and Bon Jovi. The band in the top middle is The Psychedelic Furs and the guy with the mullet is from The Alarm.

    https://www.discogs.com/release/5658612-Unknown-Artist-Great-Moments-In-Rock-N-Roll-Rising-Stars-Of-Video-Music
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