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I like these bugs and when I see them on the floor at work, I will go out of my way to avoid stepping on them. Not that I would have to go far out of my way for that but I am trying to illustrate my feelings.

They are to me what cows are to the people of India. I basically love them.


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Now these bugs, I will go out of my way to kill every time:



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The GF came home with 2 of her hot (and younger) friends. I had been passed out on the couch for a couple hours. They asked me if I wanted to go out with them to some bar downtown that I am not a huge fan of in the first place. These girls are 21 and 22 so nice looking but super annoying. Almost went but thought it through and figured why spend a ton of cash on annoying chicks that I can't fuck anyway and if they get loaded they have to come back here and spend the night. There's only one bed so you never know. Oldballs plans on being here on the couch until further notice.
 
What is an even worse situation than the Olympic girls gymnasts of course are all the ones who were close and didn't make it. So they had to endure the starvation and ridiculous training regimen from who-knows-what preteen age - and the risk of, and often actual, injury - and the psychological pressuring - only to fail due to injury or just not being quite good enough.

Girls in that situation must out-number the actual national team members by a huge margin.

At least if you get to the Olympics there is something. These others just get to be failures - possibly injured, possibly growth-stunted failures - at the age of 12 or 14 or 16.

Thanks mom and dad!
 
In my travels I came across some fake nude/sex pics of Paris Hilton. Someone had gone to some trouble to photoshop her head/face onto the nekkid bodies of some other models.

Okay. Now I kind of get the concept of making fake nudes of, I dunno, Taylor Swift or Kristen Stewart or Captain Janeway for the Star Trek fans.

But Paris Hilton? Aren't there many readily available pics/vids of her nekkid and honking on bobo and what-have-you?

I will answer my own question. Yes.

So why . . . ?

Ehhh, nevermind.
 
A year after NASA ended the three-decade-long U.S. space shuttle program, thousands of formerly well-paid engineers and other workers around the Kennedy Space Center are still struggling to find jobs to replace the careers that flourished when shuttles blasted off from the Florida "Space Coast."

Some have headed to South Carolina to build airplanes in that state's growing industry, and others have moved as far as Afghanistan to work as government contractors. Some found lower-paying jobs beneath their technical skills that allowed them to stay. Many are still looking for work and cutting back on things like driving and utilities to save money.

"Nobody wants to hire the old guy," said Terry White, a 62-year-old former project manager who worked 33 years for the shuttle program until he was laid off after Atlantis landed last July 21. "There just isn't a lot of work around here. Or if so, the wages are really small."

White earned more than $100,000 a year at the end of his career at the space center. The prospects of finding a job that pay anywhere near that along the Space Coast are slim.

"I could take an $11-an-hour job that is 40 miles away," he said "But with gas prices and all that, it's not really worthwhile."

OK, I could feel bad for the 30, 40, or 50 year old guy but not this fuk! Hopefully you didn't blow all your money but if so the salary you made should provide you with a more than adequate pension or SS money the rest of your life! Go away and have some fun!
 
60 Minutes did a feature on that this past season. It's a drag what happened to that industry in that area but it's one of those things where I do not come away as sympathetic as I think I'm supposed to.

So a bunch of people may be reduced to living like me. I mean, probably not. It's an absolute worst case scenario. But maybe.

What am I supposed to do? Cry?



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Mudcat
I'm curious Matty, what do you like about the space program?

Okay I'm afraid that sounded like I am looking for a fight about it. Believe me, no. I mean, there are some points I have heard that I would debate, but I am curious what you are thinking about when you say that.
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Manned space exploration I mean. SpaceX is way behind the times. Maybe private companies will flourish and catch up quickly, but I don't see it being nearly as efficient as throwing ungodly amounts of taxpayers' monies at it like the US did for decades.

To me, space exploration is the most meaningful of human endeavours. There are probably lots of ways to further our knowledge in that field without sending people up the air, but indirect/academic research is nowhere near as magical/romantic.

I'm a hopeless romantic Muddyballs. That's the gist of it.
 
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