In a neighborhood, everyone knows your name. If Joe the Plumber and Fred the Butcher make a bet, everyone has heard it, and the loser has to pay up, or be scorned.
In a bar, the bartender or server holds the bets and pays off the winner, and expects a cut of the pie as a sevice fee/tip.
I guess the quote fooled me. Thank you
What movie is this from? I’m thinking Mad Men, but that’s just a guess.
Thanks.
Physical calendars are great. One good trick is to write all the important dates down the day you get it. Mom’s birthday; parent’s anniversary; any event that you want to be sure to remember.
Get these books. “Discover What You Are Best At.” Linda Gail. It’s a series of self tests to determine what skills you already have and then a list of all sorts of jobs that use those skills. If you can wake up on a rainy Monday and not hate yourself, you’ve solved most of your adult problems.
“The Joy Of Cooking.” Will teach you how to boil water, and then go on from there.
People had encyclopedias and dictionaries in their homes. They read newspapers every day [and since there was a lot of competion between papers they made sure of their facts.]
imho people today are more likely to fall for nonsense because they look for confirmation instead of accuracy.
You’re recognizing the problems of today. Someone in the 1930’s Depression would feel something similar watching a movie set in the Jazz Age.
Succumb to the siren call of capitalist self-indulgence!!
Personally, I’d stick with white walls. Whatever else you want to do is your own affair. Glad to be of service.
https://store.metmuseum.org/home-decor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s best known art museums. Browse this for some ideas.
Mile 22. Died at the box office and I’d heard nothing but bad things about it. Saw a DVD at the library and a stranger suggested it to me.
Seriously good thriller with action, intrigue, and some great acting.
Let him keep the stuff. If the other boy’s parents don’t care, why should you?
Don’t get involved in her family drama. Just don’t.
Read the history. There were ‘beef steak’ Nazis, brown on the outside and Red on the inside. They’d listened to Hitler and believed the ‘socialist’ part of National Socialist. A lot of them didn’t make is past The Night of the Long Knives.
Heck, there are the Log Cabin GOPs.
“I didn’t stand up for the socialists because I wasn’t a socialist…”
I see it as a matter of self preservation.
Like the poem says, “I didn’t stand up for the Socialists because I wasn’t a Socialist…”
edit = I should add that there are a lot of different things people can do. You can anonymously donate money, or find other ways to help. But we’re all obliged to fight for the rights of other people.
Racism is always a good idea.