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  • Dagwood222@lemm.eetoRelationship MemesGorgeous!
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    4 days ago

    Reminds me of an episode of Malcolm In The Middle.

    Lois gets moved to working the cash register at her job; it’s easier work but they want her to wear make-up. She reluctantly allows a co-worker to give her a makeover. When Hal sees the new look he goes nuts over her looks, so Lois keeps using make-up.

    Eventually she’s mistaken for a hooker and stops using the make-up.

    She goes home looking bedraggled. Hal sees her looking like a wet kitten, and goes nuts over her looks.












  • Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

    The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

    I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

    Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry







  • The funny thing is that it was Nixon/Reagan economic policies that destroyed the one income family.

    LBJ wanted a quick win in Vietnam; when he realized he was stuck in a quagmire he started paying for the War by printing money. Nixon ran as a peace candidate who would control Johnson’s inflation. Instead he doubled down on both policies [more bombs paid for with paper money]. By the time the Arab Oil boycott was in full effect a lot of middle class women found they had to go to work in order to keep the household going.

    Jimmy Carter hired a man named Paul Volker to try and control inflation. Carter’s policy worked, but Jimmy had been voted out before people saw the results.

    Reagan kept Volker but created his own inflation by cutting taxes and spending more than ever.

    In 1968, ‘middle class’ was defined as one income supporting a family of four. In those days $1 million was considered a vast fortune.

    By 1992, when George Bush Sr was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes and $1 million was what a richguy paid for a party.