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#27 Sep 10 2009 at 7:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Watch out for my next Ding Thread, where all of you ******* will be... hats!

Joph, you'll probably be this one:

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Smart, velvety, and ever-so-slightly understated.


Okay, but don't make me be some lame pillbox. I want to be a hat with a brim.

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#28 Sep 10 2009 at 7:41 AM Rating: Good
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Samira should be one of those hats you see old ladies wearing to church on Easter. Anna would be a flapper hat, hands-down.
#29 Sep 10 2009 at 7:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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Professor AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
Samira should be one of those hats you see old ladies wearing to church on Easter. Anna would be a flapper hat, hands-down.


Oh, fUCk you. I'd be a garden party hat.

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#30 Sep 10 2009 at 7:45 AM Rating: Excellent
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Okay, but don't make me be some lame pillbox. I want to be a hat with a brim.

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#31 Sep 10 2009 at 7:46 AM Rating: Decent
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RedPhoenixxx wrote:
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Why have people stopped wearing hats?

Because we went through a cultural rebellion between the 50s and 70s, against the fact that wearing a hat outdoors was socially mandatory for adults of both sexes, up until then.


Reasons why hats should become mandatory again:

- They look chic.
- They allow to tip your hat at some fair lady.
- They protect against the rain.
- They protect against bird shit.
- If you become homeless you can use your hat, as a collection plate when begging.
- Also, as a plate when eating.
- Also, as a glass when drinking (if your hat is rainproof, at least, but you should really get a rainproof hat if you're homeless and living in London, it's just common sense.)
- Also, if you're going to propose to your girlfriend, you can put the ring in your hat and wear it, and then when you pretend to tip your hat at her, BAM out comes the ring, and voila!
- They look chic.

Reasons why hats should not become mandatory again:

- Cultural revolution of the 50s and 70s.

So, yeah.


Hey, let's have a cultural rebellion against the mandatory wearing of shoes in public...

I wore my hat out on a date several months ago... I could feel the eyes all over me.
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#32 Sep 10 2009 at 8:04 AM Rating: Good
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I wore my hat


I dig that.
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#33 Sep 10 2009 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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The last time I was in a wedding, one of the other groomsman whom I didn't really know, but grew to loathe, wore a fedora and spent most of the day drinking from a hip flask. I'm pretty sure he thought he was awesome.
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#35 Sep 10 2009 at 8:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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Professor AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
Samira scolded me. Smiley: frown


Nah, I just cussed you.

Joph, now, he's due for a scolding.

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The last time I was in a wedding, one of the other groomsman whom I didn't really know, but grew to loathe, wore a fedora and spent most of the day drinking from a hip flask. I'm pretty sure he thought he was awesome.

You should have shown him up with a beer helmet.
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#37 Sep 10 2009 at 8:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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#38 Sep 11 2009 at 1:02 PM Rating: Good
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I love wearing hats and found it a shame that with all the warning about sun exposure I didn't see more people wearing sun hats this summer.

I have a collection of classic straw hats, that my mom and aunt own though most are a bit small for me to wear. Yet I keep them for if I ever lose enough hair that they may fit.

Still I luck out at a thrift store last spring and found a classic straw hat with black ribbon bow, that does fit and only needed some dusting off. On windy days I just add a hat stick to hold it on. They also were from my mom's collection. Once the weather shows even a small chance of being cold, I take out my winter hats.

The first hat I inherited was a fedora that my grandfather wore. Paul now wears it to formal family events instead of the ball caps he wears to protect his bald scalp from skin cancer. Then he has scars from having cancerous moles removed from his face. Thankfully work requires that he wear a hat, as part of his uniform.
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Why do people think that large targeted government safety nets are incompatible with capitalism?


Because the rewards they offer are proportional to the lack of productivity of the individual instead of the other way around?


Was that a rhetorical question?

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Of course they aren't. But government is not the same as what is referred to as "big government". When the government engages in providing benefits based on a lack of success, while business engages in providing benefits based on success, while the two aren't by definition mutually exclusive, they certainly do act in opposition to eachother.


Two parents, one who insists that the child do her chores and clean her room, while the other allows the child to do whatever she wants can absolutely exist in the same household. But their activities are going to be counteractive to eachother, aren't they? Same deal here.
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#40 Sep 11 2009 at 6:13 PM Rating: Good
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Because the rewards they offer are proportional to the lack of productivity of the individual instead of the other way around?


And yet the majority of people are productive members of society even with it's existence.
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Because the rewards they offer are proportional to the lack of productivity of the individual instead of the other way around?


And yet the majority of people are productive members of society even with it's existence.


But that majority is fewer than would be productive without its existence.

As I explained, it's not that they are "incompatible", but that one act in a way that is opposed to the other. Capitalism increases total productivity and wealth within a society. Entitlement mechanisms decrease total productivity and wealth within a society. That's not a matter of opinion. It's just how the two systems work.


The question isn't about that, but whether or not you're ok with the productivity cost of said entitlement when compared with the benefit gained. This is not an absolute, either. Some programs may be acceptable to some people, while others are not. Some will be ok with any programs, others will be opposed to all. That's the real subjective piece of this, but it's annoying that so many seek to avoid that evaluation and insist that somehow there's no cost at all to provide said benefits in the first place. Of course there is.


I chose to respond because the idea being presented is a common one. It's designed to avoid evaluating the cost of entitlement by implying that there isn't one or that somehow it doesn't "hurt" capitalism at all to employ entitlement based programs. Well, it's not really about hurting capitalism. It's just an idea. It can't be hurt. But the people can be. And when my taxes are raised, it hurts me. When I have fewer job opportunities, it hurts me. If I get a smaller raise, or don't get a promotion because my boss can't afford it, it hurts me.

It's not the ideas that are harmed, but the people. The question is: How much harm are we willing to accept in order to provide X amount of help. I have never taken an absolute position against entitlement, and it's a strawman argument to insist that I have to. My position has always been that we must assess the relative cost versus the relative gains in each and every case. Just because I agree that paying for public education does not mean that I can't oppose paying for free medical care. One is not the same as the other...
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#42 Sep 11 2009 at 6:43 PM Rating: Good
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As I explained, it's not that they are "incompatible", but that one act in a way that is opposed to the other. Capitalism increases total productivity and wealth within a society. Entitlement mechanisms decrease total productivity and wealth within a society. That's not a matter of opinion. It's just how the two systems work.

Not when those people turn to crime rather than have a support network.
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Capitalism increases total productivity and wealth within a society. Entitlement mechanisms decrease total productivity and wealth within a society. That's not a matter of opinion. It's just how the two systems work.


Citation that provides measurement and definition for what "productivity" is, and refers to them as "entitlement mechanisms."
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Just because I agree that paying for public education


The one that you oft-cite as harmfully indoctrinating people into ****** ideas?
#45 Sep 12 2009 at 8:59 AM Rating: Good
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Why do people think "cheese slices" like Kraft singles are good? It's not cheese. I don't care what anyone says, they taste like sh*t.


Canadians eat more processed cheese per capita than any other country. They are ready to change the maple leaf to Cheez Whiz's logo.
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#46 Sep 12 2009 at 11:22 AM Rating: Decent
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If it's sharp and cheddar/pepperjack, instead of floppy and plastic (kraft singles are floppy and plastic though,) I don't really mind if it's already cut into slices, or "processed" whatever that means.

Shredded is fine too.

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#47 Sep 12 2009 at 11:50 AM Rating: Good
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I only use the Kraft slices for Grilled Cheese sandwhiches. Mmmm.
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#48 Sep 12 2009 at 7:39 PM Rating: Decent
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I only use the Kraft slices for Grilled Cheese sandwhiches. Mmmm.
That is the most disgusting thing I've heard in the last couple of days. Consider yourself on report and start using actual cheese for your grilled cheese sandwiches, rather than something with roughly the flavor and consistency of carpet glue.
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I only use the Kraft slices for Grilled Cheese sandwhiches. Mmmm.
That is the most disgusting thing I've heard in the last couple of days. Consider yourself on report and start using actual cheese for your grilled cheese sandwiches, rather than something with roughly the flavor and consistency of carpet glue.


1. Kirby is Canadian.
2. I like Kraft in my grilled cheese too.

Yummers.
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Annabella, Goblin in Disguise wrote:
Archfiend MDenham wrote:
Sir Kirby wrote:
I only use the Kraft slices for Grilled Cheese sandwhiches. Mmmm.
That is the most disgusting thing I've heard in the last couple of days. Consider yourself on report and start using actual cheese for your grilled cheese sandwiches, rather than something with roughly the flavor and consistency of carpet glue.


1. Kirby is Canadian.
2. I like Kraft in my grilled cheese too.

Yummers.

wiz for cheesesteaks :)
#51 Sep 12 2009 at 9:08 PM Rating: Decent
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1. Kirby is Canadian.
2. I like Kraft in my grilled cheese too.


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