Probably this one.
It’s in the running for GOAT. Time will tell
Harry gripped his wand, and thought of his mother.
About seven years ago when Trump was president the first time, my wife and I went to see Roger Waters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We bought 7th row seats but had looked at 1st row and they were something like $800 each so we passed. Well, day of the show and you can only imagine the massive vitriol spewing from Waters and the huge screen behind him for Trump. He had an inflatable pig drone with TRUMP on it flying around the arena and all kinds of elaborate props.
A group of four dressed in cowboy regalia, presumably MAGA, walked out from the front row, enthusiastically flipping Roger Waters off as they did it. The seats alone were $3200ish.
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. What the hell did they expect?
Found this Australian video with clips from that tour. Being beneath the giant laser pyramid was awe inspiring. Waters says, “Haven’t you been listening all these years?”
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
Must’ve had a bad day. I saw him not too long ago and he did some minor commentary on political issues, but there was no ranting. Waters is all over the place politically sometimes. Great show though.
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
“Man, when did RATM become so political?”
That’s fucking funny…
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
Not even… It was him alone, which is always far more political and vitriolic. Everybody knows this. These were likely boomers who liked Dark Side of the Moon when they were kids, and 50+ years later decided to waste a shit ton of money on tickets, knowing nothing about the man.
Hey now, I’m a Boomer. We’re rare, but there are a few liberal Boomer Oklahomans. Haha
Thank you for your service
Do the five of you get together for coffee?
No, because we can never agree on where to go.
Saw the same show in Canada sitting in row 6. Waters was freakin’ incredible!
Blues Traveler had a hit song that is a 3 minute essay about people not listening to the lyrics. It was called Hook.
Hum… not really, it’s more about how a song works lyrically and a bit musically, it’s like a magician showing you how he does the trick, but you’re still amazed at the trick, as it somehow keeps working on you. It is fascinating that the lyrics also point to the fact that the listener brings most of the meaning and emotion to the song, not the song writers. Which is true, I had no idea Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito was about sitting sick in a hotel room with a literal Mosquito. I thought it was a very complex song about the concepts of God and The Devil.
Gamestop stock boom
But the rich won that one and then enforced regulations to ensure that it couldn’t happen again?
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn’t buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
We took a trip to Chicago and decided to go to Navy Pier. Traffic was basically gridlocked and the car behind us was not happy that my friend didn’t break the law and block an intersection. After the light turned green, the idiot took his massive, shiny, brand new, white pickup truck onto the SIDEWALK to cut in front of us.
When we got to the parking garage, there was a HUGE sign saying the clearance was 6ft 3in and tall vehicles needed to go to a different garage. The idiot didn’t read it and, even with the windows shut, we heard the screeching and scraping of his roof on the top of the structure.
The best part was watching him back out, hearing more scraping, seeing his surprised pikachu face, and the disappointment on the face of the woman in the passenger seat.
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Gods, I remember interviewing to be a floor tech at Doctor’s Medical Center in Modesto when they first got their bourgeoise floor. It still upsets me to think about it 12 years later. Healthcare is healthcare, there shouldn’t be a damn luxury floor, and especially not while other people are getting bankrupted with bills where the numbers are basically snatched out of thin air anyway.
They were being generous! The poors may have the mattress now that it’s soaked in piss.
At a concert and saw the police approach and start questioning a young drunk guy (out doors, before show started). They basically said he had to leave on account of being too intoxicated and he started getting mouthy. I’ve never seen the police react so quickly the moment he finished saying, “My dad is a top class expensive lawyers and he’ll have your asrses for this” - he was in the ground and handcuffed within seconds. In the next few seconds he was back on his feet and being escorted to the paddy wagon.
Honestly I think it’s terrible that we think it’s perfectly normal and okay for cops to physically force someone to the ground with no mention of resistance.
“Keep your hands where I can see them and I’m going to cuff you while I search your pockets.”
“Please get in the back of the car” while lightly holding the inside of someone’s elbow should be all that is needed after checking their person for any weapons.
There was definitely resistance from the young guy. It just didn’t make my story. The police in the country where I’m from have a much higher standard of engagement with people. Their actions we well justified.
I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.
This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting “do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want” blah blah blah.
I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don’t know for sure. I never saw them again though.
Good on you, fuck em
Nice…
However, poor parents would have likely gone to prison and had their children taken away from them.
But poor parents wouldn’t have been in those seats and a large reason we cared so much was the people in those seats were shown on TV each time a player was up to bat.
Most states allow minors to consume alcohol in some manner if parents are consenting and present. I mostly hearing about that applying at home or in bars and restaurants, but I’m not sure how it works for baseball stadiums.
Texas allows underage people to drink if they are with their parent, guardian or spouse (if the spouse is 21). However, the establishment can still refuse to serve them. And in fact most places will refuse because the risks are just too high.
The stadium required anyone drinking to show valid ID and get a wristband. The city keeps a very tight watch on the stadium following the laws under threat of getting their liquor licence pulled. In this state a liquor licence can be pulled if the facility knowingly allows minors to drink alcohol, even if the guardian of the minor permits it.
oh yeah no shot the stadium would risk losing that. the dude is kind of an idiot for thinking the money he spent on seats would compare to what the stadium earns in beer money as a whole. must be new money. old money knows how to exploit people and stay in power; new money just exploits and throws it away
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One dollar.
Thank you, Louis.
Trick question, doesn’t happen.
Shoe at G.W.'S head
Dubya dodged them shoes like he dodged the draft.
“God called me a duck that day.”
I’m a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly “why did you lie to me?” during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar”
Well, I’m sure YOU didn’t appreciate him being a fucking liar either so i guess it’s even XD
Can you tell us any more about the lie and the rest of the response? Sounds juicy
Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don’t meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.
In the previous meeting, it wasn’t a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially “confirmed” that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.
Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:
I’d like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we’re aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?
His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar. You’re hostility isn’t welcome and I reject the question”. After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don’t work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other “hostile” questions I had.
For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there’s no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about “respectability” and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.
Nice! Well done, very brave. Good on you for doing the research too, you couldn’t be easily slammed down.
I love you for this
I hear these isolated stories of bravery and no-BS defiance of corporate overlords, and for the longest time I’ve been thinking:
How do we start an organization that could train people to handle these jerks like you did, and plant these newly educated, hardened, prepared badasses-like-you in every organization in the country? These C-suite pricks need to be made famous, treated to detailed records and long memories of their every lie and falsehood toward their workers.
I’ve learned professional union agitators are called “salts” which sounds awesome, but their impact isn’t very well understood or recognized, I think.
This is not that funny but I was amused watching it happen. One time I was at the DMV in a college town and a kid was at the counter trying to get his license renewed. From what I could gather he had it revoked because he was underage and had a DUI. Lady at the counter bounced the kid and a few minutes later, the kid came back in with his father and they were apparently from a rich family. Or at least rich by Ohio standards. When the lady at the counter explained that he could not have his license renewed because he had a court order against him, the father started in on the “Do you know who I am? I will buy this whole town!” routine, but the DMV lady was not having any of it. Both the kid and the father insisted that the judge did not have any right to take his license away from him and that it would be over turned on appeal so the DMV lady had to give him his license, because dad would make sure she got fired if he didn’t. But the DMV lady would not relent and issue a license. The father and kid were getting pretty animated, so finally the lady picked up the phone and said something to the effect of “Your kid lied on this form and is probably violating his probation, we can call the court right now and see what your judge thinks about that.” Which at that point caused them to sheepishly leave. When I got to the counter she told me that was not the first time in her career someone tried to do that to her.
DMV isn’t a judge and has no power over a court order lol. It’s also ridiculous that employees have to deal with this kind of abuse in the first place. It sounds like she was bad ass though.
Imagine thinking someone who works at the DMV gives a single shit who you are lol
She’s weaponizing the soulcrushing banality of the DMV for good! Her deadpan face and stolid “I’m here all day anyway” refusal to give an inch, and then the little chink of sunshine through her castle wall as she helped you, a normal person who treated her with respect.
Honestly, as someone who has held similar customer-facing positions when he was younger: it’s interactions like these that keep you going. It’s even better when it’s a government agency, because they’re not trying to turn a profit so they’re not going to bend over backwards to make a rich person happy.
The best is when people like this demand to speak to a superior, and then the superior comes over and says the exact same shit the employee just did.
It’s also pretty great to be the superior and just stand there telling them No and not elaborating any more because it has already been explained to them.
We are all equally worthless at the DMV.
One time, I had to get my ambulance license renewed (it’s a thing in CA). The lady asked for my state EMT license and I handed her my paramedic license (it says “paramedic” on instead of EMT-P. Paramedic is a level of EMT in the US). She looks at the card, looks at her computer, and hands my license back, saying “no, I need your EMT card. This says paramedic on it.”
Not going to lie, I was pretty stunned that she split that hair. I asked her to please confirm with her supervisor, which she did, and we all went on our merry way.
Nah, the really rich get their own private after hours DMV visit.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kim-kardashian-shut-down-dmv-121732151.html
I don’t totally understand why I feel cheered up by your comment.
Some prick in a Porsche demanded that he get to pick his own spot in the valet lot where I work. The valet guy just grinning and shaking his head while the rich dude had a meltdown was some good schadenfreude. Then i got the spot he wanted because the valet guy was my homie.
Reminds me of the police chef meltdown in Fear & Loathing and the clerks response
Had to look up Schadenfreude and I think its my new favorite phrase:
It’s a valet service, why the fuck do you care which spot? You’re not going to or from it.
Its because certain spots let you retain your keys and no attendants can move your car. Its a weird garage
Isn’t that just parking with extra costs at that point? Lol
It is 🙃
Doesn’t that defeat the point of a valet? Or is the idea that they just park your car and then hand your keys back…?
It was set up more to manage the parking shortage problem in the high rise i work in. Its a stop gap and is not a good one.
Huh, that does sound odd
I only heard about it after it happened. Guy in the last year of high school said his parents wanted him to go to college but he probably wouldn’t because that was “stupid” or something similar. Girl in the group blew up on him because she desperately wanted an education and couldn’t afford tuition basically anywhere. She called him spoiled and selfish, I believe.
That’s great. Hopefully that was a formative memory for that kid… I’ve had one or two moments when I was a young teen, where I had to have a friend break a hard truth to me about my behavior/attitude, and I still remember it because he was absolutely right and just being aware of it made a huge difference from that point forward. I still think about what he said sometimes.
I only wish someone had said something sooner…
I had the same experience. One day in high school, my dumb teenage ass was running my mouth off against affirmative action like the edgy dumbass I was, and a classmate just absolutely handed my ass to me. Teacher didn’t even interrupt, just let it happen.
I’m glad I was able to thank him for that like 12 years later on Facebook. Really planted a seed that needed planting.
I bet you made that dude’s day when you told him that.
Oh yeah, he was pretty thrilled by it!
I think I might be misunderstanding. If he felt he wasn’t smart enough to get anything out of college, isn’t it better that he not go? Like it seems more spoiled to go to college without the expectation you’d get the degree. You’re taking a spot from someone who thinks they’ll graduate, wasting your parents’ money, and delaying becoming a self sufficient adult for no pay off.
He didn’t think he wasn’t smart enough for uni, he thought the concept of uni was stupid.
Which still, yeah, someone who thinks that way probably shouldn’t go to uni. But it’s not quite the same.
Ah yeah, I was misunderstanding.
That video of the rich prick at a coffee shop who throws something at the worker and then gets put in a headlock and held on the ground and struggles weakly
Are you talking about Joel Michael Singer? The Joel Michael Singer who headbutts people and then gets his ass locked and then begs his daddy to use his money and influence to remove the evidence from the internet? That Joel Michael Singer? Because that guy is Joel Michael Singer, and that’s the only Joel Michael Singer I have ever heard of.
I can confirm that it was Joel Michael Singer. Joel Michael Singer was the guy in the video about Joel Michael Singer. We must not forget Joel Michael Singer.
I didn’t know his name was Joel Michael Singer. But I’m going to remember that. Joel Michael Singer.
I have seen the video before, but did not know his name was Joel Michael Singer. So I had to search for his name, Joel Michael Singer, and click on a few links to learn more. I also rewatched the video with Joel Michael Singer headbutting people and then getting taken down.
If it wasn’t Joel Michel Singer, then there must be two separate incidents that happened where one was clearly Joel Michel Singer and the other wasn’t Joel Michel Singer.
That’s weird, maybe they’re referring to another Joel Michel Singer?
