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Terms Which Have Disappeared
There's your reason why people are turning down your six-figure job offers.- Paisley
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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I'm sure some people use drugs to self-medicate serious conditions. And many things, including foods, sleep and exercise, have a drug-like effect. However, I don't think it's an employer's responsibility to examine why people are drawn to certain drugs. Nor do I think that whether someone is a...- Paisley
- Post #2,893
- Forum: The Golden Era
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In Colorado, especially the Denver-Boulder area, the permissive attitude towards pot is driven by libertarian and fiscal ideals. There is a major culture of health and fitness there that's far bigger than the drug culture. A typical Denverite doesn't want harmless potheads put in jail because he...- Paisley
- Post #2,889
- Forum: The Golden Era
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No, as long as their drinking doesn't affect their work or their reputation. It leads to the question, what's the difference between drinking a little alcohol and smoking a little pot as long as it's legal? The difference is cultural, not chemical. The company is a CPA firm, not a lawn service...- Paisley
- Post #2,888
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage roadside
The view from the street in front of my house: The Catholic school. The festival in the parking lot, complete with drinking and gambling. Two police cars just pulled up with their sirens on. Not all religious people in Indiana are holy rollers! ETA: about 20 cops just broke up a big brawl...- Paisley
- Post #365
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Some people might think of Colorado as the Amsterdam of the West since you can legally buy recreational pot, but employers there can and do screen for drug use. The managing partner where I used to work said plainly that he didn't want drug users working there.- Paisley
- Post #2,879
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
My aunt was friends with one of Alfred Hitchcock's maids. She and her sisters worked for him in London; when he came to America, one of the sisters stayed behind. Hitchcock would throw parties and later ask his servants who had said "thank you" and who didn't. Those who didn't weren't invited...- Paisley
- Post #1,101
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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My employer has a 90-day probationary period where you're allowed to be absent or late or forget your badge only so many times--and it's not many. The supervisors I've met don't brook any nonsense. When you look around, you see people with their noses to the grindstone; one of the reasons I was...- Paisley
- Post #2,878
- Forum: The Golden Era
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King James was on to the dangers of tobacco back in 1604. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Counterblaste_to_Tobacco- Paisley
- Post #2,877
- Forum: The Golden Era
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In an interview many years ago, David Goerlitz, a former Winston model, said he was at a meeting in Colorado and--along with the altitude getting to him--found it odd that the cigarette company executives weren't smoking. One of them told him, "We don't smoke this $%!+, we just sell it. We...- Paisley
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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When my uncle came back from the army with a cigarette habit, my dad observed he (my uncle) wasn't able to keep up with him while hiking. My uncle ditched the cigarettes and my dad, an active, outdoorsy guy's guy, decided smoking wasn't for him.- Paisley
- Post #2,860
- Forum: The Golden Era
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One thing that really struck me as a kid, although I didn't see the argument used much, was how much a nicotine habit cost. According to this site, the lifetime cost is around $200,000. The book The Milionaire Next Door calculates that if a couple of a prior generation had invested their...- Paisley
- Post #2,857
- Forum: The Golden Era
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To me, it seems really un-cool to need something as discretionary as a cigarette. How often do smokers say they're dying for a cigarette and then (in certain places) trudge out to the social equivalent of Siberia to have one. So cool. :rolleyes: Or skimping on this, that or the other thing for...- Paisley
- Post #2,854
- Forum: The Golden Era
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You're drinking what they're selling!- Paisley
- Post #2,845
- Forum: The Golden Era
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My employer doesn't allow smoking anywhere in their building or on their grounds. Partly, I think, it's because they make sports-related gear, partly because it probably helps keep health insurance premiums lower, and partly because the factory is so full of lint that fire is a serious hazard...- Paisley
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Were they in a flophouse? I saw it on Designing Women. Julia (the owner of the house) was apoplectic. A plaque from my parents' home: "If you are smoking, you had better be on fire."- Paisley
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Flicking a lit cigarette butt out the window in arid places like Colorado can start a brush or forest fire. In that state, it's a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine, 12 months in jail and community service.- Paisley
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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They still do in Indiana. In nicer areas, though, volunteers pick up trash every few months. "Trash" around here includes things like old tires and furniture. I even picked up a toilet septic tank and an old stroller during cleanups. The city hauls that stuff away for free--I don't know why more...- Paisley
- Post #2,828
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Learning to Dance
As you might have noticed from Google's animation today, it's Frankie Manning's 102nd birthday. Here's a tribute video, showing lots of authentic lindy hopping.- Paisley
- Post #82
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Garden plans this year?
I've planted heirloom lettuce in vintage enamel dish basins on the covered porch of my vintage house. (One of the basins was actually new--it still had the tags on it, one dated 4/3/1970.) I don't want the bunnies or the heat to get to the lettuce.- Paisley
- Post #48
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
