the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Heh, the 'Passover' was the one I bought.

Do forum wars happen every Spring?

Was my daughter lucky getting three 7th place finishes at her track meet?

Neither man is fit to be president, but one of them has proven it.

In France, they have concluded that austerity is bad and stimulus is good. The new president held his victory celebration at the Bastille. Liberté, égalité, fraternité: pick any two.

Whoever thouht that using swivel wheels / casters for all four wheels of a shopping cart was mistaken. And wrong. Talk about yer bad ideas.

Anybody else waiting for Diablo III and Skyrim DLC ... ?

HaraldH wrote:Anybody else waiting for Diablo III and Skyrim DLC ... ?

see page 5 of this very thread.

Michael wrote:Whoever thouht that using swivel wheels / casters for all four wheels of a shopping cart was mistaken. And wrong. Talk about yer bad ideas.

Damn you, Ikea!!!

Cubans can't afford Cuban cigars. http://bit.ly/JHy7oF There is a lesson in that about the nature and consequences of socialism.

Most trades-people could not afford to pay for their own services. Most artists could not afford to purchase their own work. There is a lesson in that about the nature and consequences of capitalism.

Bhassler wrote:Most trades-people could not afford to pay for their own services. Most artists could not afford to purchase their own work. There is a lesson in that about the nature and consequences of capitalism.

I gave a concrete example and you didn't. But thanks for playing.

klonk wrote:

Bhassler wrote:Most trades-people could not afford to pay for their own services. Most artists could not afford to purchase their own work. There is a lesson in that about the nature and consequences of capitalism.

I gave a concrete example and you didn't. But thanks for playing.

Reall? You need help coming up with examples? How about the vast majority of the entire restaurant industry? In my 10+ years as a waiter, I worked at a few places early on where the staff could afford to eat there but my last gig was at the Bohemian Club.

Good luck affording that place on a waiter's income. . . I mean, even if you just pretend you could get in as a guest anyways.

^^ Haven't been a waiter. I've been a cook. There is a huge markup in places like that. You can afford the food--presuming you didn't get yours off the cuff. You can't afford the ambiance: you are the ambiance.

The "vast majority of the entire restaurant industry" is McDonald's, King's, KFC and so on. I think you overstate your case, making the exception stand for the rule.

The best mechanic in my town has nice running cars. He doesn't pay list for parts and labor is a matter of hanging out in his shop after work. The general premise that people cannot afford what they themselves do is a bit suspect on such grounds. For Mother's Day I whipped up a fancy crab dish. The cost was the ingredients.

To continue my thought here, and it is as randomly assed as can be, the mechanic just mentioned does not cater to the rich. He gets the jobs that are past the dealer warranty. He fixes the cars of ordinary folks and does rather well in his business. The rich, I suppose, take an ailing car to the Mercedes dealer for warranty work, or heck, I don't know, maybe the ultra-rich air freight the Bentley back to Rolls-Royce for the annual tuneup.

So the mechanic just mentioned cannot price himself out of the market. Rather as in the restaurant example: The person of ordinary means does not say, "Hmm. You hungry? I'm hungry. What'll it be, In-And-Out Burgers or the Bohemian Club?"