"i think what we're going through now is just as bad as the depression. it's the same as the depression, only with inflation."
Even if the person who said that were 90 years old today, he would have been 15 years old in 1940. So, obviously, his memories of how bad the Great Depression were would be, at best, the memories of a child who never had to deal with the adult reality of that time.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, January 7, 2016 10:46 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:50 (ten years ago)
lol he should rename himself Obvious.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:01 (ten years ago)
he has been good on the oregon thing fwiw.
― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:25 (ten years ago)
yeah it's a good thread
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:30 (ten years ago)
matt p giving aimless props is some seriously even-handed shit & to be applauded I think
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:51 (ten years ago)
I think anyone not being a prick to aimless is to be welcomed but applauded seems a little precious lj
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:01 (ten years ago)
tbf this is the thread for posts in character
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:04 (ten years ago)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/struggin/Photo%20on%201-7-16%20at%202.03%20PM%203.jpg?t=1452114353
― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:07 (ten years ago)
I'M WILEY I'M GRIMEY
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:12 (ten years ago)
dammit wrong thread
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:13 (ten years ago)
lol
― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:14 (ten years ago)
― gr8080, Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:14 (ten years ago)
Ha
― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:17 (ten years ago)
― gr8080, Thursday, January 7, 2016 1:14 PM (23 minutes ago)
― sarahell, Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:38 (ten years ago)
― sarahell, Thursday, January 7, 2016 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Vote! In the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Friday, 8 January 2016 01:11 (ten years ago)
Ad infinitum
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2016 05:45 (ten years ago)
smfh thats from my year end list, i posted it in the rolling thread & i put martorialist onto it
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, January 8, 2016 3:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Friday, 8 January 2016 22:03 (ten years ago)
Economics = people born into enough money to go to school to become professional economists in thrall to / justifying the pronouncements and whims of people born into enough money not to have to work at all
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:10 AM (6 hours ago)
― christmas capybara (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:36 (ten years ago)
does anyone actually know any economists?
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:51 (ten years ago)
Some of my best friends etc
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 18:19 (ten years ago)
etconomists
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 18:25 (ten years ago)
the older brother of someone I went to school with is a reknowned economist and his family grew up pretty broke. definite conservative streak, though.
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 18:55 (ten years ago)
My brother's partner's dad is one.
― Narayan Superman (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:13 (ten years ago)
I play football.with a guy who works for nama. Who basically liquidised Ireland. Filthy tackler
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:17 (ten years ago)
bad form
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:37 (ten years ago)
Three friends and the father of another friend are university Econ professors; none of them grew up particularly well off, all went to state schools, etc.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:26 (ten years ago)
a college housemate is an Econ professor, specializing in something like the economics of commercial fishing? iirc he was a wholesome upper middle class boy from Ohio
― sarahell, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:33 (ten years ago)
he was a wholesome upper middle class boy from Ohio
good first line for a song
― i have measured out my life in Goffey, Coombes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:34 (ten years ago)
didn't The Human League already do that one?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:37 (ten years ago)
And did marine economies oh whyo
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:45 (ten years ago)
hmmm. I thought economists were only professors or Milton Friedman kind of famous
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 14 January 2016 20:54 (ten years ago)
.... taking issue w/ things i wrote in passing (which they were wrong about but)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, January 18, 2016 9:03 AM (2 hours ago)
― sarahell, Monday, 18 January 2016 19:31 (ten years ago)
I'm not sure who Carly Ray Jepsen is, but the tune sounds like the sort of over-produced anonymous teen pop ILM seems to love for reasons that escape me.― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 7:47 PM
― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 7:47 PM
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 19:51 (ten years ago)
yes
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 18 January 2016 20:06 (ten years ago)
many posts by many people in that thread very much in character
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 20:17 (ten years ago)
lucky reasons
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 18 January 2016 20:18 (ten years ago)
jk I like everybody
i, for one, would like to not die.
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:23 AM (1 hour ago)
I have bad news for you
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:24 AM (1 hour ago)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 00:07 (ten years ago)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 19:13 (ten years ago)
Who is this Gaz Coombes and why do people keep mentioning him?
― Tuomas, Thursday, January 28, 2016 11:55 AM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:01 (ten years ago)
google will exist in northern europe one of these days
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:14 (ten years ago)
his follow up on sufjan was also impressive.
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:40 (ten years ago)
idk sometimes it just feels too easy
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:48 (ten years ago)
playing v much a greatest hits set in that thread
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:49 (ten years ago)
i honestly thought he was asking if sufjan was in the band with all the sideburns at first
― nomar, Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:54 (ten years ago)
like I wish Tuomas would just drop a fact about the production on some Nicki deep cut
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:58 (ten years ago)
― nomar, Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:54 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
legitimate question imo
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:19 (ten years ago)
http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lltser776T1qzcr83o1_500.jpg
hmm...story checks out
― nomar, Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:22 (ten years ago)
boom
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:23 (ten years ago)
remember when right wing extremists flew airplanes into NY skyscrapers
― Mordy, Thursday, February 4, 2016 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Brian of Morbius (stevie), Friday, 5 February 2016 12:41 (ten years ago)