Hi -- New here.

[TOP]

Turns out the experiment is working out just as expected. What a shocker

[Oneuli]

You may see that in the mecca of NYC but my experience and I'm quite a bit older with an advanced degree plus working with very intelligent people says you are incorrect. But think what you wish.

Out of curiosity, what's your advanced degree?

[Bourdeaux Nights]

Isn't it strange that Bowel's posts and Gotcha68's posts are just far enough apart time wise so someone could log off and back on.

You sock obsessed posters really need a life. Someone shows up here, and you act like gossiping teenagers. Been here a little bit, and I've already seen it numerous times.

[Oneuli]

What else did Blowjob Bill dive into....

A great deal. As you presumably know, his time was an era when pretty much every good socioeconomic indicator went up and every bad one went down. His legendary workaholism and detail orientation really paid dividends for the nation.

Eileen Wellstone was her name

Do you have any supporting evidence for that?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bi...d-from-oxford/

BJ Clinton never completed his B Phil course in politics, and took no degree, BTW

Clinton has at least two degrees, including a Juris Doctorate. How about you?

Strange heroes you seem to have....

What makes you think he's a hero of mine?

[Legion]

His time was an era when pretty much every good socioeconomic indicator went up and every bad one went down. His legendary workaholism and detail orientation really paid dividends for the nation.

In what ways, sock?

[Oneuli]

BTW, your age, purported "advanced degree" and claim to work "with very intelligent people" are all anecdotal.

It's as if you imagine that others don't know what an anecdote is, and thus that you provide a service popping up to identify them when you see them. Weird. Just to change things up, from time to time, I suppose you could pop into threads to identify parts of speech. Like: "Just so you know, 'BTW" is an abbreviation for "by the way."' Or 'For your information, "claim" is a verb.' That would add an equal amount of value to the forum.... which is to say, none.

[Phantasmal]

My experience has been that smarter people generally have more patience for detail. I think that includes extremely technical questions such as policy changes. For example, I think there's a reason that notorious dummies like GW Bush and Trump insisted on their briefing being boiled down to a few vague bullet points, while a Rhodes Scholar like Clinton was famously willing to dive into the details to the point of micromanagement.

Clinton and Obama were both ravenous readers of policy. Trump has a happy folder.

[Legion]

It's as if you imagine that others don't know what an anecdote is, and thus that you provide a service popping up to identify them when you see them. Weird. Just to change things up, from time to time, I suppose you could pop into threads to identify parts of speech. Like: "Just so you know, 'BTW" is an abbreviation for "by the way."' Or "FYI, "claim" is a verb. That would add an equal amount of value to the forum.... which is to say, none.

Looks like I hit a nerve, sock.

Going to regale the forum with some more tales today?

A Story for Every Occasion™.

[Legion]

Clinton and Obama were both ravenous readers of policy.

Were they? List their accomplishments, imbecile.

[Ralph]

Just signed up today, and wanted to introduce myself. I'm a financial analyst in my late 20s, a Korean American, and presently living in NYC. I'm a bit of a political junkie and I lean pretty hard to the left.

You must be in "HOG HEAVEN".....living and working in the TRUMP ECONOMY.

[Legion]

You must be in "HOG HEAVEN".....living and working in the TRUMP ECONOMY.

"She" isn't working, Ralph. Or, so "she" says.

[Oneuli]

I'm not so sure she is a sock. She is too articulate for any of the lefties here. But I've been wrong before. Plus who in their right mind would have a sock that says they lived and worked in Gomorrah by the sea?

As I recall, the story of Gomorrah involve the Hebrew God deciding to destroy two cities based on them being especially sinful. Unless you think New York City is especially sinful, it wouldn't make a very good Gomorrah. As a reality check, consider, for example, murder rates.... murder being a sin so grave that it is expressly called out in the Hebrew God's Decalogue. The murder rate in my city is just 3.4%. Not only is that not especially high, it's actually much lower than the national average of 5.3. If you're looking for a Gomorrah, you'd be better off looking well south. For example, St. Louis has a murder rate of 59.8. They're over ten times as likely to commit murder there as in NYC.

Of course there are other sins than just murder. Gluttony, for example, is one of the seven deadly sins. Yet if you check obesity rates, you'll see that NYC suffers from relatively little of that sin, too. Is there a particular sin you have in mind when you give New York that sobriquet?

[Legion]

The murder rate in my city is just 3.4%.

Don't you mean that you say the murder rate in the city you claim to infest is just 3.4%, sock?

BTW, who told you that NYC has a murder rate of "3.4%," sock?


https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-murders-on-the-rise-in-2018-nypd-data-shows-1531262595

https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/nycs-murder-rate-rises-due-to-gang-violence/

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/03/new-yorks-annual-murder-statistics-are-still-worse-than-londons

[Eagle_Eye]

Out of curiosity, what's your advanced degree?

MS Electronic Engineering.

[Oneuli]

Mighty convenient. Did you notice that little "fact" was missing in the sock's initial telling of "her" tale, Topsy?

There's that Catch 22 again: if I mention personal details, that's a problem, and if I don't mention personal details, that's a problem.