Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:One was assaulted at a nightclub by the bouncer and went into a coma. One was an older guy who had a heart attack. One was a lifelong smoker who had a stroke. Newest one looks like a drug overdose.

seems par for the course for Philly. That's in no way meant to be a dig. Just similar to MA: Provincial place with a lot of set-in-their-ways people who aren't apt to start exercising, eating healthy, kicking drugs, etc. They're less motivated to change because they're surrounded by the same people they've always known, and their quality of life is reinforced as being A-ok by virtue of nobody saying otherwise. Then you through pandemic/economic stress on top of it...

Anyway, maybe I'm projecting, but your block sounds like any number of blocks where I grew up.

It's a little bit of both. We live right on the border of "WFH allowed me to spend more time with my kids!" Philly and "I survived white flight and all I got was this lousy property tax increase" Philly. So on the one hand, the neighbor who got assaulted seems to have been the victim of a relatively random hate crime at a popular bar, the heart attack neighbor was deep in his 70s--these things happen, unfortunately. But certainly the smoking and drug use are symptoms of--I wouldn't call it a provincial mentality so much as one engendered by poverty. It sucks though--the smoker and the heart attack guy were the first ones to welcome us to the block.

got quite a bit of work done on the thing I'm writing so I'm a little proud of myself

what's it aboot

I don't want to jinx it

It's a post in the Oscars thread

just give us one word to describe it

Wet

Ms Harmless wrote:got quite a bit of work done on the thing I'm writing so I'm a little proud of myself

Awesome

What if that thing she's writing is a shooter's manifesto? Talk about egg on your face.

went to trader joe's this morning and the guy ringing me up had a name tag on that said chris h...

doug rr wrote:went to trader joe's this morning and the guy ringing me up had a name tag on that said chris h...

One of my co-workers has COVID so we have a sub for this week. He's a guy we've never worked with before. But I'm 100% sure it's Jorge in chud make-up.

*insert chud with bottle in mouth animated gif*

Wife and I each received $397 from Facebook in a class action settlement. Take that, Zuckerberg.

Nice! Is it too late to get in on that?

Probably. You have to be an IL resident too.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... -rcna29280

Bummer. I thought you were in WI.

I remember signing up for that class action. Haven't seen a check yet though. I'm not going to hold my breath.

Thinking about donating all $800 to Covid research.

I'm sure the alphabet people will be good stewards of that money. Probably pay for faucis Viagra script or something