tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post7228678582279306180..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: stupid safetyJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-70234827472776136552018-04-05T05:25:42.815-07:002018-04-05T05:25:42.815-07:00I had read a franchise fee was a million. That wa...I had read a franchise fee was a million. That was awhile ago-probably $2m by now. A hundred grand a year is a 5% return on your investment. Safer than the stock market. Well, until the food quality there gets so bad that the new franchise Soylent Green Hut across the street takes away all their business.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-33212918551144393432018-04-05T03:12:26.168-07:002018-04-05T03:12:26.168-07:00I know an owner of a McD's franchise. Used to ...I know an owner of a McD's franchise. Used to shoot tournaments with him in archery competitions.<br />Dude lives in a McMansion, drives a monster truck 4wd for a daily commuter, maintains two hunting leases at four thousands bucks each per year. His competition bow runs about $3,000 , and has six of them too.<br />Told me once that his monthly vig was a minimum of five k.<br />That's a lot of Big Mack's eh ?Spudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689059709873763146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-49773818177558287442018-04-04T06:21:16.303-07:002018-04-04T06:21:16.303-07:00You know me too well :) It IS about oil but indire...You know me too well :) It IS about oil but indirectly of course. All institutions failing with the energy supply. The schools profits go to construction and administration rather than teaching. The nightly news and newspapers ( when they print one ) never have investigative reporting but boiler plate headlines, if not just outright "info-tainment". All the books are going to dumbed down lowest common denominator to sell more copies, with editing done by software to save money. There's a very small portion of the education infrastructure dumbing down everyone ( don't get me started on Social-ist Media ). <br />*<br />Of course, you go with the Glib outline on the lifespan of empires and you can see the public prioritizing greed and money, and add that to the shrinking pie fight, and you get cultural disintegration. <br />*<br />As for the dumb terminal, I'm sure all the DOS geeks bemoaned the simplistic Mac computers when they arrived.:) I won't ever go back to Mickies unless I'm forced to-the last time I asked the stepdaughter to drive a load of plywood up to the BPOD, I bought everyone that slop as they love it. They ruined both the Nuggets ( way too much water injected now, no taste ) and the fries ( taste is off as is the texture. Forms oddly once cold. You used to be able to resurrect them, but no more ) all in about six months. Yeh, that doesn't even cover the cost increases. But now I can't eat anything there that doesn't queer my stomach. I think we ate out twice last year. Both real ( from the #10 Cisco can ) sit-down places. The last time the prices were up 15%. Still the cheapest in town, but still. We can eat at home for $4 for the both of us, treating ourselves to beef. What does three pieces of chicken and two potatoes, with one slice of butter, cost? Throw in electricity. Max $2 for two. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-45656734509198923612018-04-04T05:59:32.812-07:002018-04-04T05:59:32.812-07:00Hairing impaired-love it! :)Hairing impaired-love it! :)James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-69054255325402872802018-04-04T05:40:24.080-07:002018-04-04T05:40:24.080-07:00Touche' Jimbo
Wise words from the hairing impa...Touche' Jimbo<br />Wise words from the hairing impaired oneSpudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689059709873763146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-38753068461538564372018-04-04T04:36:24.097-07:002018-04-04T04:36:24.097-07:00Easter morning my wife and I were bored so we went...Easter morning my wife and I were bored so we went for a Sunday drive out through the country. By noon we were hungry so we decided to hit the only fast food joint in the county - McDonalds. Hadn't been in this place in a year or more.<br /><br />Right out in the middle of the floor where people generally congregate waiting to order 4 new kiosks had been installed. First time I had seen this new hi-tek stuff in person. Large potrait positioned touch screen monitors with lots of smeary fingerprints on the screens. Using the back of the first knuckle of my left index finger I fired it up and commenced ordering. What a clunky piece of shit - like most modern technology that tries to make everything so simple for the simpletons but instead tries to dumb everybody else down in the process. Maybe it'll get better but I'm not hopeful. Anything to avoid the super retarded quality of people that occupy the service sector these days.<br /><br />That simple little lunch - 1 cheeseburger, 1 dbl cheeseburger, 2 small fries, 2 small drinks, cost almost $15. and took about 10 minutes to order and receive, and when opened looked like it fell off the truck. $15. Man.<br /><br />For $15 the both of us can eat our fill for 2 or 3 meals here at home. It'll be more than a year before I go to McD's again, if ever. Oh yeah, as I stood there waiting for my food to be prepared at marveled at the number of people "working" there in that they all just mostly stood around or scurried back and forth getting in each other's way. <br /><br />I worked at McDonalds when I was 15, in 1970, and EVERY order received 60 second service, without fail and the meal we ordered the other day would have cost about $1.50 max. 1/10th the cost today and about 1/10th the wait time.<br /><br />From 1970 to now, everything costs 10x more and you get 10x less.<br /><br />What happened, why is everyone an idiot, why is it all going to hell? No, it's not about oil. That's the easy way out-placing blame on inanimate objects. There's something else underfoot. ghostsnipernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-11112437805895910062018-04-03T05:16:05.864-07:002018-04-03T05:16:05.864-07:00For me, the video just cut through many layers of ...For me, the video just cut through many layers of analytical bullcrap and explained it succulently. It is one of those one liners that makes everything crystal clear. Like, follow the money.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-69082627828151018852018-04-02T20:08:15.074-07:002018-04-02T20:08:15.074-07:00I had a look at that video, not realizing that it ...I had a look at that video, not realizing that it was Stefan Molyneux, as I’m familiar with his work, and check out his channel from time to time. Wow, that was really beautifully put. I had always understood that the richer a society became, the less freedom that you had. Sure, we have it good in a certain sense, as we don’t have to worry about our basic needs being met, but we’re screwed up in pretty much every other way.<br /><br />He had a great way of explaining the concept that runaway wealth freedom creates an entire class of thieves and leeches, that in turn became a cancerous growth to our freedoms, and it really hit home for me. I don’t think that I truly understood the concept until just now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-1475669721766203132018-04-02T18:59:31.233-07:002018-04-02T18:59:31.233-07:00Totally by accident. Thanks, YouTube, for the rec...Totally by accident. Thanks, YouTube, for the recommendations.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-48225901528150036092018-04-02T16:57:44.497-07:002018-04-02T16:57:44.497-07:00I have no idea where you found the clip that you p...I have no idea where you found the clip that you posted but it is mind blowing! It explains why none of the elite have to follow the rule of law. For the farmers there is no law!Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-24880142866649996602018-04-02T15:14:12.981-07:002018-04-02T15:14:12.981-07:00yeh, real as wrassling :)yeh, real as wrassling :)James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-7329206886959502682018-04-02T13:28:57.047-07:002018-04-02T13:28:57.047-07:00I wouldn’t doubt that at all. He’s the real deal, ...I wouldn’t doubt that at all. He’s the real deal, having been in the British Special Forces at one point, so one assumes that he must have at least some adequate survival knowledge under his belt. His latest show centers around him taking some random hollywood pussy out on a survival challenge. I haven’t watched much of the newer show, but I liked the original, even though it could be really gross at times.<br /><br />I also liked Survivorman, because it was just an ordinary dude with no military background, that was surviving in the wilderness. He was all alone, and had to haul his camera gear around while surviving and filming himself in the process. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-52452259639867573172018-04-02T12:54:38.016-07:002018-04-02T12:54:38.016-07:00I read either he or his competitor was not happy i...I read either he or his competitor was not happy inserting the Hollywood crap they had to do to spruce up the show for "oomph". James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-47317741504773888882018-04-02T12:53:00.524-07:002018-04-02T12:53:00.524-07:00Uhhh, I think you would be hard pressed to find an...Uhhh, I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone in Las Vegas with a IQ above the outside temps. Not because they are dumb asses for living there, but because it is so flippin hot there. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-91024806949268096322018-04-02T12:27:03.255-07:002018-04-02T12:27:03.255-07:00If you want a good rule of thumb guideline as to w...If you want a good rule of thumb guideline as to what you should never do in a survivalist/post apocalypse situation, spend some time watching that Bear Grylls fellow, and anything he does, do the opposite. Don’t scale cliffs, ford streams, climb mile high trees to get a better view, squeeze the juice out of elephant shit and drink it, eat carrion, etc and so on. All extremely stupid shit to do in such a situation.<br /><br />That said, the dude is probably the real deal, and I’m sure that he could survive on his own without any issues. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-30655555404858734132018-04-02T11:54:33.261-07:002018-04-02T11:54:33.261-07:00Monkeys don't wash their hands! They have been...Monkeys don't wash their hands! They have been known to fling poo at those who bother them. Perhaps, it is the human adaptation of an old trait from our past! Humanity is nasty and has nasty habits. Nothing new or shocking about that! Those of us with an IQ higher than the outside temperature take the necessary safety measures to ensure our safety and minimize our health risks, Let the rest die, good riddance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-37532274604467816022018-04-02T10:01:22.065-07:002018-04-02T10:01:22.065-07:00Are you sure the 1880's had common sense? Eco...Are you sure the 1880's had common sense? Economic depressions and race to empire come to mind, offhand. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-86593320077829668772018-04-02T10:00:00.263-07:002018-04-02T10:00:00.263-07:00Why can't stupid people just shoot themselves?...Why can't stupid people just shoot themselves? That right there might be all the proof you need there is no benevolent deity in charge.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-18691375682701454602018-04-02T07:50:19.786-07:002018-04-02T07:50:19.786-07:00It is an institutional racket that turns a benign ...It is an institutional racket that turns a benign and off hand concern into a multi billion dollar industry with all of its attached hanger-ons as parasites leaching off of the excessive rules, regulations, penalty awards, diverted funding, and created government/corporate positions of employment. Bring back the 1880s with just common sense. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-59323563030222833842018-04-02T07:13:40.125-07:002018-04-02T07:13:40.125-07:00It's interesting that the AGe of Lawers coinci...It's interesting that the AGe of Lawers coincided with such fads as MTV's "Jackass", when the issue was to make the most stupid stunts to impress people. Perhaps one was a reaction to the other.<br /><br />Now we can see simply through driving that people are getting increasingly stupid and also increasingly unable to relate to other people than themselves here & now.<br /><br />This is why they will be extremely dangerous with guns, and the only thing that will stop them and maybe think is to have a gun yourself.Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.com