theultmatecad
theultmatecad
3 days ago The Public Square
@MentORPHEUS I drink Yuengling so will easily add Miller to list
MentORPHEUS
3 days ago The Public Square
@theultmatecad Check out the recent Miller ad with a scathingly bitchy feminist actress scoffing at using scantily clad models to sell beer when she has a number of scantily clad roles in her own history. Warning, you may have difficulty even achieving erection for hours after exposure.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hflxfxyjqau
I swear, this is SO off target for their actual purchasing demographic and would perform SO poorly in traditional test screenings that I can't help but wonder what centralized plan is behind this. The Miller Light can was a one-off promotional sent directly to Mulvaney so they had somewhat of an excuse, but this is a full big budget ad agency production.

theultmatecad
3 days ago The Public Square
Nike Gilllete Target and Budweiser are my top brands to avoid
theultmatecad
about a week ago The Public Square
When in doubt remember that it's your mission that should be your mistress
theultmatecad
about a month ago The Public Square
When you get old like me, guys all around are having marriage troubles and often are told from wife that she needs space. We all know here that the best and only solution is to give her that space cheerfully and provide her a unique vantage point to your life rolling on fine without her. If I suggest this, however gently, there is always pushback that it will drive her further away. Nothing can be further from the truth
theultmatecad
about a month ago The Public Square
Impossible to search on Google How to expose your DEI manager? Or working for a diversity hire*
theultmatecad
about a month ago The Public Square
If a woman with kids gets work done (boob job, nose job, whatever) it's a lock she is planning to serve her husband papers. Have seen it a few times and it's a lock
lurkerhasarisen
about a month ago The Public Square
@theultmatecad @Desaint @Antelope @Typo-MAGAshiv
Concur.
I have FU money and I also have a job.
When I say that I have FU money I don't mean that I'm rich. I'm not rich. However, after a few decades of living below our means my wife and I are at a point where we don't have to work. The house and cars are paid for. I have a credit card because you can't operate in my world without one, but I pay it off every month (I use it like a debit card that gives me sky miles). My military retirement pay is enough to cover all of our expenses and then some, and most of the monthly bills are autopaid from the same account, so no only don't I concern myself with bills; I rarely even see them. We have a giant solar array on the roof and house batteries in the basement, so we make most of our own electricity. That system ran us about $40,000: we paid for it in cash. We also have the equivalent of about two years of my pension in readily available form. To top it off; my wife and I are fairly minimalist.
Believe me when I say that neither of us have jobs because we need the money.
However... I like having money. The money we make at our jobs gives us freedom to do things we like (such as travel when the mood strikes), and it allows us to experiment with different things and activities without having to wonder where the money will come from. It allows us to help others. If something piques our interest we can try it. If we like it we can keep doing it... if we don't we can drop it without any change to our lives other than knowing that we've had a new experience, and that some spreadsheet we barely pay attention to has slightly different numbers on it.
I'll give a couple of examples:
We like to hike and we like to travel abroad and my wife likes some BBC shows, so last year we decided - almost on a whim - to take a hiking tour in the region of the UK where her shows are set. Between the sky miles and hotel points and airport parking points I get from my job, the cost was minimal. It was great. "Success."
My wife and I tried Stand Up Paddleboading (SUP), and we really enjoyed it. We bought two boards, but because they're hard to transport we got the inflatable kind after talking to people who had them.
When we used them we decided that they are not viable substitutes for rigid boards, so we don't use them. We're out a few hundred dollars. "Failure."
/shrugs
But I do what I do because I like to do it. I'd probably do it for free as long as I didn't have to cover the travel expenses. That said, I'm not going to put up with a lot of crap at work because I don't have to. And when I'm not traveling my time is my own. What do I do with that time?
Whatever I feel like doing. That means that I get to spend and hour or two (or more) working out every day. I read things that interest or amuse me. I spend time with my dad. I sit at an outdoor cafe and drink overpriced coffee while I watch the cars go by. I'm teaching algebra to my grand-neice. Some of those things are "work" (as Typo noted), but I don't get paid to do them.
If the program manager told me that I had to start punching a clock I'd tell him to pound sand and make him choose between firing me or backing down. He'd be crazy to push it because I'm fantastic at what I do and he knows it.
I'll reiterate what Typo said about anything becoming boring if you do it enough, although I would substitute "routine" for "boring." Most of us veterans could tell stories about doing things that most people only see in movies... and how those things became "normal." But whether a person finds joy or satisfaction in life is less dependent on one's circumstances than on one's attitude.
Some guys are as happy as clams living in a single-wide with a plump with and three goofy kids... other guys are miserable on their yachts because the Dom Perignon is a little flat.
Money can't buy happiness (although it can make misery a lot more comfortable). What it does buy is options and financial peace of mind. I haven't lain awake at night worrying about money for a very long time, and the fact that we're stacking cash to the tune of thousands of dollars a month because we choose to work (doing things we enjoy) is icing on the cake.
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about a month ago The Public Square
@Typo-MAGAshiv Work should be at least somewhat enjoyable and provide one with some meaning. It may be the means to an end but hating your job is a recipe for unhappiness. While my career is more something to enable my mission, I do find it intellectually stimulating and enjoy the progress made
theultmatecad
about a month ago The Public Square
@Jocbro it could be a million reasons why that have nothing to do with you. Next....