Culture

[ACamp1900]

You're going to a new world of cuisine when you move to Texas. Enjoy the bbq. They're serious about that stuff there.

Texas BBQ is okay, I’ve found I prefer other regions

 

[connor_in]

We are officially leaving....

#WalkAway

 

[Bluto]

Another case in point: Tipper Gore the leader of the PMRC who led the attempt to silence all music that wasn’t PC but settled for the “Parental Advisory” sticker which likely led to more album sales. Oh and her husband invented the internet.

Ok. Tipper Gore was one of four founders along with Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius and this goes way further back and was wider spread that that singular group. Now, if you are truly interested in the “PC” culture debate and phenomenon and not simply trying to get into a endless cycle of circular logic you would delve a little deeper. If you did so you would be familiar with events like the Santanic Panic phenomenon/conspiracy that was being promulgated by conservative Christians in the 70’s and 80’s. It was pretty common to see Christians boycotting numerous Heavy Metal acts (usually in the form of angry protesters telling concert goers they were going to hell most classic response I heard on the way into a W.A.S.P. concert was “I hope so”) and then their is the case of the infamous Judas Priest trial as well as the Ozzy trial. For the record me and my friends played a number of vinyl LP’s backwards. We we’re pretty disappointed with the results.

Anyhow, one of the better books I have read that ties into this subject is The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glasser.

 

[Bluto]

Texas BBQ is okay, I’ve found I prefer other regions

Tehachapi?

 

[ACamp1900]

Tehachapi?

Nothing beats windmill fueled bbq, player

 

[Bluto]

Nothing beats windmill fueled bbq, player

You’re preaching to the crowd, dog.

 

[Irish YJ]

Nothing beats windmill fueled bbq, player

I never knew the Netherlands were big into BBQ

 

[zelezo vlk]

I'll be glad to have ACamp in the state. Just wish he weren't damn near in Cali all the way out in El Paso

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[Irish YJ]

When thinking about Acamp moving to TX, guessing he'll need some TX attire. Hat, boots, big belt buckle, gun, etc.. Not sure which on of the below I should picture.

OR

 

[ACamp1900]

I’d never be caught dead in that first outfit....

 

[wizards8507]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A quarter of college students could develop PTSD because of the 2016 election, a new study suggests <a href="https://t.co/Co2Sq74lGb">https://t.co/Co2Sq74lGb</a></p>— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1055132828579627009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Legacy]

Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)

First few paragraphs:

As college students grapple with the rising costs of classes and books, mortgaging their futures with student loans in exchange for a diploma they're gambling will someday pay off, it turns out many of them are in great financial peril in the present, too.

More than a third of college students don't always have enough to eat and they lack stable housing, according to a survey published Tuesday by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab.

Overall the study concluded 36 percent of college students say they are food insecure. Another 36 percent say they are housing insecure, while 9 percent report being homeless. The results are largely the same as last year's survey, which included fewer students.

The 2018 numbers are even higher when broken out to include only community college students. Forty-two percent indicated they struggled the most to get adequate food, as measured by the researchers' scale. Nine percent said they had gone at least one day during the last month without eating because they lacked the money. And 46 percent said they had difficulty paying for housing and utilities.

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher-education policy at Temple University and the lead author of the report for the past three years, told NPR that while conditions remain dire for students from low-income families, the burden of covering these basic necessities is spreading into the middle class.

For poor students, she said, "It really undermines their ability to do well in school. Their grades suffer, their test scores appear to be lower, and overall, their chances of graduating are slimmer. They can barely escape their conditions of poverty long enough to complete their degrees."

The USDA defines food insecurity as not having consistent access to adequate food and being limited by financial challenges.

The HOPE site says that as of today the cumulative student debt is $1,499,246,043,056.

 

[Wild Bill]

Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)

First few paragraphs:

The USDA defines food insecurity as not having consistent access to adequate food and being limited by financial challenges.

The HOPE site says that today the cumulative student debt is $1,499,246,043,056.

Food is scarce, booze and drugs are plentiful.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)

Not much has changed in the past 40 years. Being broke and living on Ramen was a rite of passage in my day too. Heck, I often lived on nothing more than a big bag of potatoes and some cheap margarine during my college days. Baked potatoes 3 meals per day, 7 days per week... less than $10 per week.

 

[ACamp1900]

We'd all have enough to go to the commons once a week. We'd pile our plate, take our backpacks, hoodies and such and straight walk out of there with food for the week, fruit, hamburgers wrapped in napkins, nasty ass cafeteria burritos, all kinds of stuff, anything that wouldn't spill in your backpack or pockets... Later on (like Junior year) we all got jobs at the same Papa Johns and just lived off Pizza for a year or two... you want to talk about hustlin'... ask me about my time at Pap Johns. The scams we came up with...

 

[NorthDakota]

Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)

First few paragraphs:


The USDA defines food insecurity as not having consistent access to adequate food and being limited by financial challenges.

The HOPE site says that as of today the cumulative student debt is $1,499,246,043,056.

Federally guaranteed loans are bad.

 

[irishog77]

Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds (NPR)

First few paragraphs:


The USDA defines food insecurity as not having consistent access to adequate food and being limited by financial challenges.

The HOPE site says that as of today the cumulative student debt is $1,499,246,043,056.

You think this is bad? Just wait until college is free.

 

[wizards8507]

Not much has changed in the past 40 years. Being broke and living on Ramen was a rite of passage in my day too. Heck, I often lived on nothing more than a big bag of potatoes and some cheap margarine during my college days. Baked potatoes 3 meals per day, 7 days per week... less than $10 per week.

I used to stir fry spinach and eat it with tomato sauce and cut up string cheese.

 

[wizards8507]

We'd all have enough to go to the commons once a week. We'd pile our plate, take our backpacks, hoodies and such and straight walk out of there with food for the week, fruit, hamburgers wrapped in napkins, nasty ass cafeteria burritos, all kinds of stuff, anything that wouldn't spill in your backpack or pockets... Later on (like Junior year) we all got jobs at the same Papa Johns and just lived off Pizza for a year or two... you want to talk about hustlin'... ask me about my time at Pap Johns. The scams we came up with...

You got any of that garlic dipping sauce?

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[ACamp1900]

I used to stir fry spinach and eat it with tomato sauce and cut up string cheese.

 

[NorthDakota]

I used to stir fry spinach and eat it with tomato sauce and cut up string cheese.

Before or after you discovered the dollar menu??

 

[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A quarter of college students could develop PTSD because of the 2016 election, a new study suggests <a href="https://t.co/Co2Sq74lGb">https://t.co/Co2Sq74lGb</a></p>— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1055132828579627009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I see 1/4 of college students doing very well once they hit the real world.

 

[ACamp1900]

Before or after you discovered the dollar menu??

Some may remember this but is was in college during McDonalds 25 cent hamburger thing... they hated me. “Can I have 10 hamburgers please?... what do you mean you’re out!? You’d better give me a damned quarter pounder at that price!!”

 

[Bluto]

Some may remember this but is was in college during McDonalds 25 cent hamburger thing... they hated me. “Can I have 10 hamburgers please?... what do you mean you’re out!? You’d better give me a damned quarter pounder at that price!!”

That’s gross...I got cutoff at an “all you can eat” Chinese food place once.

Lady: “No more for you!”

Me: “It’s all you can eat”

Lady: “You eat too much!”

 

[wizards8507]

Some may remember this but is was in college during McDonalds 25 cent hamburger thing... they hated me. “Can I have 10 hamburgers please?... what do you mean you’re out!? You’d better give me a damned quarter pounder at that price!!”

Actually the McDonald's hamburger patties, aka 10:1 (pronounced ten-one) are 1.6 ounces each, so ten would be exactly a pound before cooking.

Fat kid knowledge.

 

[ACamp1900]

That’s gross...I got cutoff at an “all you can eat” Chinese food place once.

Lady: “No more for you!”

Me: “It’s all you can eat”

Lady: “You eat too much!”

This legit happened to my best man at a Korean BBQ... and home dude is Korean. They told him he couldn’t stay for hours as he was... lol

 

[ACamp1900]

Actually the McDonald's hamburger patties, aka 10:1 (pronounced ten-one) are 1.6 ounces each, so ten would be exactly a pound before cooking.

Fat kid knowledge.

Lol... Fat ND grad knowledge no doubt. I meant 10 quarter pounders at 25 cents each tho... I went wild, and found out about the whole squeaky wheel thing that day.

 

[Bluto]

This legit happened to my best man at a Korean BBQ... and home dude is Korean. They told him he couldn’t stay for hours as he was... lol

Lol. I argued with her for a good 10 minutes to no avail. She did get the last laugh though. I ended up puking in front of the SF Opera House a few hours later.

 

[ACamp1900]

Lol. I argued with her for a good 10 minutes to no avail. She did get the last laugh though. I ended up puking in front of the SF Opera House a few hours later.

Good thing they have people for that.....

 

[Bluto]

Good thing they have people for that.....

I’m not a savage. I puked in a garbage can. Lol. The place was in the Tenderloin though. So hot travel tip, don’t eat all you can maybe eat Chinese food in the Tenderloin.