General Music Chat

Put a piece of garlic in your ear, man. I know it sounds silly, but it stops the pain!

Hope you get over it quicker than I am.

Garlic for real?

Sans.... If Phil is setting me up, I swear to g....

LOL

I think we have some garlic too.

There might be something to that Craig,
Back in my welding days, it was generally believed that lying with cucumber slices over your eyes was effective for the relief of the discomfort caused by accidental arc flash.

Oh by the way,Desalines, when we get to talking 30 billion as compared to 1 trillion it starts to become confusing to the average person. DOES YOUR CALCULATOR GO THAT HIGH?
Mine doesnt I had to switch to good old math on paper , thank GOD I had a good third grade teacher.

Yeah Desalines , I support our military. ANY thing wrong with that?
You better be careful with that one because we have some very BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE PROTECTING YOUR AND MY ASS AS I WRITE THIS.
What you posted was bordreline TREASONOUS.
Dont you dare insult our TROOPS ,we went through this once before after vietnam.
OH MAN, OH MAN, I cant believe you wrote that.
Good news , Mass has just been annexed by Canada.

Yeah, you Canadians! Remember that WE are the only buffer you have to keep from being overrun by Mexican illegals!

I don't know where the hatred comes from?
I have a lot of Canadian friends, I have a lot of Multicultural friends too.

Good and bad in all.

Don't matter where you live or where born. It wasn't YOUR choice in any case.

It's our lovely forum where all we do is bitch about anything but music.

It's our lovely forum where all we do is bitch about anything but music.

well said ...

Aw, c'mon! We bitch about music, too!

Desalines, First of all as a tiny business employing 5 people I passed 2 milion dollars through my accounts. When I look at what I paid out in Taxes,insurance,workers comp,misc expenses[that list goes on and on] you are right. I didnt make enough.
When my employees are making as much as I am without the responsibuility ,why bother.
I guess every body is just gonna think I am another greedy corporation out to screw everyone. NO I am just some tiny guy that doesnt like to count on other people for a JOB.
Right now I'm thinking of just selling and I am sorry for for my people ,but our govt has regulated and taxed me too much
On the brite side, I'm working on things that are not so regulated, Things the govt deems fit to waste your tax dollars on. Dont tread on me and dont think you are gonna beat me. IF I GOTTA PLAY THE GAME I WILL,,,smile.

Not trying to beat you man, just responding to the negativity. I feel for you that its not going your way but who's fault is that? If you''re paying your employees too much then the business model is? Which raises the question, for me at any rate, if Gov't is regulating you, what is it that you do? Apparently you would be better off if you were Goldman Sachs but then you aren't.

Perhaps you're an equal opportunity anti-govt guy and its a plague on all the parties houses but if I recall and I do, it was Henry Paulson who gave his buddies at Goldman all that cash that they've now given back, along with AIG, BOA, Wells Fargo and on and on and on. I digress.

Really man I have no issues with you. My apologies if I said anything untoward and I hope it comes right for you. As a cynic, I often speak too sharply.

Prevost there goes another canadian bashing AMERICANS .

I don’t see anywhere in my statement where I was bashing any AMERICANS. Get a grip Glen

you guys dont have a clue and beleive it or not you only survive , because of the greatness of all these corporations that suddenly have become the bashing de jour..

What … you’re sheep … can’t question corporations motives or SEE the propaganda that they put out there. I have to agree with Phil, that corporation are too big and have too much power. These no way a corporation should have the same right as a citizen … they have too much money to influence the outcome of any debate.

As far as me “only surviving” well I seem to be doing pretty good, I plan to semi-retire in the next couple years, everything is paid for … I don’t know … How’s your survival working for you.

Wait till you need a brain transplant, and that’s coming soon, and you find its not covered.

Oh … I’m really worried about that one … like that’s going to happen anytime soon.

Bad companies like bad people dont last long. And yes why would we bail them out , to make the politician de jour look good.

Unlike bad ppl … bad companies can go on & on …. The banks have been bailed-out 3 time in my lifetime. The HC industry is putting profits before life. The pharm industry want everyone on med’s … even kids are getting put on powerful psychotic drugs at the age of 3 and are vegetables by their teens … this has been going on for decades …

Prevost stay up in canada, You dont have a clue what it is like to be American all you have is the clue to sit and be jealous like terrorists that flew 2 jets into our sacred country. Your talk is the very begining of that sort of craziness.

Well I have a lot of American friends … but you’re right, I don’t know what it’s like to be an American. Having said that the reverse is true for you, you are clueless about Canadians, their HC system and our economy … so let’s keep the rhetoric down and stick to what you know and the facts.

As far as jealousy goes … NOT. You live in a great country but it’s being brought to it’s knees by greed by the rich and the middle class is paying the burden. When I see all the people of your great nation struggling as hard as they do to make ends meet … and corporation are making record profits and paying little to no tax … in my PEA brain (small as it maybe in comparison to yours) … it looks like there’s something wrong with this equation. Oh … FYI the majority of jobs are created and held by small businesses not large corporations … and they are struggling too. But what the hell .. lets give those big corporations an other tax break … let them spend more money to influence our live for the worst.

Someone once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.

NO,,,,, I'm not crazy, unless some liberal just got another law passed making it against the law to protest or protect you home birth country.
Did I insult you,,, Not half as bad as you did me with your pompous attitude.

Pompous attitude ... look who's talking

THIS IS AMERICA , when Phil or Sans or any of these other AMERICANS speak I do weigh their comments heavily.I just dont need some one from botswannaville telling me what to do,and I dont even want to hear the term politically correct.

Well first off this was posted in the General Posting section on this forum and you are entitled to your opinion and I’m entitled to mine. I would suggest that you travel the world a bit, Glen and maybe your views (more realist) and opinions would improve. Your narrow mindedness is part of the problem not the solution to the problems facing the US in the future.

OH ,CAREFUL , Prevost, Canada DOESNT MIND YOU OLDER GUYS TAKING A SUDDEN DIRT NAP.

Well … that quite a statement. It just goes to show how little factual knowledge you have and how badly you have been influence by corporate propaganda.

You know nothing about our HC system so why pretend that you do?
I know hundreds of Canadians (maybe thousands, over my life) an not one has ever gone to the US for HC … not one. Why … hell we couldn’t afford it.

Your above statement is too funny … Canadian is rated number 6 life expectance .. the US … wait for it …. is number 50 … so tell me again who’s country “DOESNT MIND YOU OLDER GUYS TAKING A SUDDEN DIRT NAP” oh and you can use google to find these stats.

Both my parent died in the last 2 yrs at the age of 92. Our family (2 sisters and myself) could believe the level of great care that they received in their old age.

My mom had Alzheimer’s for the last 10 yrs, Macular Degeneration (15yrs) and Osteoporosis (15yrs) .. in other words she was a mess. She also had 2 hip replacements, she was one the operating table within hrs of breaking her hip.

My dad was in good health until the end, and died within 1 month of his organs shutting down, he ended his life in the same care facility as my mom was in.

A good friend of mine has had 3 heart attacks in the last 4 yrs (this is the first August he’s got though without one) and was on the operating table within hours.

Another good friend was having problems that look like a heart symptom, shortness of breath, dizziness etc. I took them a week to figure out what is was … it was a growth on her Pituitary gland, 3 weeks later she was under the knife and all is well.

How much did this cost all these ppl. … not one dime. In the US my friend with the heart condition would be dead or broke or both.

Nuff said

I hang like a bat in several places these days. Met some nice people too along the way which is good.

What the heck, We're all DamnedMusicians in any case aren't we.

It's our lovely forum where all we do is bitch about anything but music.

Chip ... you crack me up ... some people are way to serious

I love it when posts you reply to get edited and are GONE.

Huh?

Not me Glen...

I love it when posts you reply to get edited and are GONE.

You gotta own the post to pull it, and it is a silly way to make people say HUH.
Why the heck did that nasty person say that?