The New Stimulus Package !!! 4 4

[the blob]

We did get like a $800 ebt card for groceries. This is due to a weird quirk that all kids in NYC public schools get free lunch regardless of income because (I think) such a high % qualify anyway, and both my kids are "in" public school (or whatever this on line fiasco is), so we got the alleged value (or close to) of all the free lunches (and breakfasts) they didn't get (of course, they could have actually walked over to their schools and picked up the food at the door apparently, but i guess the city did not want to force that to happen). I certainly did not "need" the "free" groceries, but I was happy to get them. So, yes, not directly from the feds, but even my family got some money. Basically groceries for a month. (I am using "quotes" a lot because I am quite aware nothing is magically free.. how "free" it is to me is yet to be determined)

[lizards2]

9 minutes ago, the blob said:

On 12/25/2020 at 1:28 PM, kav said:

I thought everyone that paid taxes got one.

No. We did not get one. Two professional income house. That's fine. I like "free" money, but I did not "need" it like some people did.

We got a reduced one, which we didn't need at all, as our income hasn't been affected by Covid at all. That was the dirty shame of the whole deal, is that there was no measurement of need, just the government flushing money out there. We put ours into savings and forgot about it.

[the blob]

Just now, lizards2 said:

We got a reduced one, which we didn't need at all, as our income hasn't been affected by Covid at all. That was the dirty shame of the whole deal, is that there was no measurement of need, just the government flushing money out there. We put ours into savings and forgot about it.

Yeah, a lot of money was just thrown out there, the problem is it would be very costly to have people imposing true "needs" assessments on every person or every business asking for the loans or whatever. So you spend $200 of administrative time to determine someone really "needs" a $1200 check? Their goal was to help those in need, but to also keep the economy juiced. so for the juicing it did not matter as much exactly how they money got out there.

[adampasz]

16 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

We got a reduced one, which we didn't need at all, as our income hasn't been affected by Covid at all. That was the dirty shame of the whole deal, is that there was no measurement of need, just the government flushing money out there. We put ours into savings and forgot about it.

[Buzzetta]

All I know is that I have been happy not to be subjected to the LIRR for the past 9 months and hopefully for as long as I am allowed to work from home. 

The only downside of that is not having new pictures of subway nonsense.   

[lizards2]

29 minutes ago, adampasz said:

Reduced..., yet still massive. 

[Buzzetta]

Things I do not miss...

 

"showtime" 

 

Nothing like being exhausted after a long day at work only to have to hug the walls so you don't get hit by flying feet.   One time myself and another coworker got into it with them and we were ready to go to kill someone that day... it was just one of those days and they picked the wrong people to keep bothering.  We are all probably on youtube somewhere for that one. 

 

This was not that day though. 

 

[october]

29 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Things I do not miss...

 

"showtime" 

 

Nothing like being exhausted after a long day at work only to have to hug the walls so you don't get hit by flying feet.   One time myself and another coworker got into it with them and we were ready to go to kill someone that day... it was just one of those days and they picked the wrong people to keep bothering.  We are all probably on youtube somewhere for that one. 

 

This was not that day though. 

 

Didn't know this was a thing, but it sounds incredibly annoying. 

One thing I really don't miss about the city, the endless grifter insufficiently_thoughtful_persons. 

[the blob]

1 hour ago, Buzzetta said:

Things I do not miss...

 

"showtime" 

 

Nothing like being exhausted after a long day at work only to have to hug the walls so you don't get hit by flying feet.   One time myself and another coworker got into it with them and we were ready to go to kill someone that day... it was just one of those days and they picked the wrong people to keep bothering.  We are all probably on youtube somewhere for that one. 

 

This was not that day though. 

 

yes, you get "entertained" whether you want it or not. some of these guys are pretty acrobatic, but yeah, the flying feet come awfully close way too often. and then after terrifying and irritating you for five minutes they pass a hat around expecting to get paid for it. On the other hand, this is wayyyyyyyyyyy preferable to the dangers of subways of the 80s and early 90s. I much prefer kids putting on a show to kids trying to mug me.

[lizards2]

50 minutes ago, the blob said:

yes, you get "entertained" whether you want it or not. some of these guys are pretty acrobatic, but yeah, the flying feet come awfully close way too often. and then after terrifying and irritating you for five minutes they pass a hat around expecting to get paid for it. On the other hand, this is wayyyyyyyyyyy preferable to the dangers of subways of the 80s and early 90s. I much prefer kids putting on a show to kids trying to mug me.

[greggy]

6 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

[kav]

2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Things I do not miss...

 

"showtime" 

 

Nothing like being exhausted after a long day at work only to have to hug the walls so you don't get hit by flying feet.   One time myself and another coworker got into it with them and we were ready to go to kill someone that day... it was just one of those days and they picked the wrong people to keep bothering.  We are all probably on youtube somewhere for that one. 

 

This was not that day though. 

 

Good thing I didnt live there in my younger years I would have been in constant fights.  I do not allow people to come near me with flailing limbs.  They get one warning then its go time.

[Buzzetta]

9 minutes ago, greggy said:

 

Spoiler

 

Even as a kid, I remember that. 

[Buzzetta]

The Long Island Railroad

Typical rush hour out of Penn Station.  Typical transfer at Jamaica.

Don't miss this at all.

3,470 days to go... 

[kav]

4 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

The Long Island Railroad

Typical rush hour out of Penn Station.  Typical transfer at Jamaica.

Don't miss this at all.

3,470 days to go... 

Looks like Pelham 1,2,3

[Ken Aldred]

8 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

The Long Island Railroad

Typical rush hour out of Penn Station.  Typical transfer at Jamaica.

Don't miss this at all.

3,470 days to go... 

Very similar here in the north of England.

Not just rush hour but for most of the day.  Two carriages with little if any adjustment for demand.

Pre-Covid, of course.

[Ken Aldred]

1 hour ago, the blob said:

yes, you get "entertained" whether you want it or not. some of these guys are pretty acrobatic, but yeah, the flying feet come awfully close way too often. and then after terrifying and irritating you for five minutes they pass a hat around expecting to get paid for it. On the other hand, this is wayyyyyyyyyyy preferable to the dangers of subways of the 80s and early 90s. I much prefer kids putting on a show to kids trying to mug me.

 

26 minutes ago, kav said:

Good thing I didnt live there in my younger years I would have been in constant fights.  I do not allow people to come near me with flailing limbs.  They get one warning then its go time.

It’d be an instantaneous F-bomb from me. 

[Buzzetta]

Roosevelt Avenue / Woodside LIRR and Subway stop in Queens

 

[kav]

14 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

 

It’d be an instantaneous F-bomb from me. 

I spent a lot of time learning how to fight-going to dojos and realizing what they taught was useless, finding a private instructor and training/sparring 3 hours a day, getting numerous injuries on the way.  I decided no way I went thru all that and let anyone push me around or any of my friends or even random victims of assault I encountered.  

[FoggyNelson]

Gimme my two grand ‼️‼️🎉🎉