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- Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Cash or plastic?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 969
Re: Cash or plastic?
For small business, cash has the advantage of being easier to hide from the IRS when it comes to tax time. Payments on credit cards can be easily audited and shown to be relevant business income. If someone is doing most of their business transactions in cash, it is a lot harder to audit business in...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing in the world, what would it be?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1752
Re: If you could eliminate one thing in the world, what would it be?
I have to flip a coin on this one (remember coins?) Heads - the corporate and sovereign corruption that is intrinsic to the global fossil fuel extraction and distribution system Tails - all incentives (is that more than one thing?) that encourage print, broadcasting, social media, cable, and other m...
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:50 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What is your favorite movie?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1627
Re: What is your favorite movie?
Marx Brothers Cocoanuts
Casablanca
Do the Right Thing
Fantasia
The Commitments
The Producers
Alien
The Harder They Come
Birdcage
Trading Places
Subject to change of course!
Casablanca
Do the Right Thing
Fantasia
The Commitments
The Producers
Alien
The Harder They Come
Birdcage
Trading Places
Subject to change of course!
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Have you still got your first skirt?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2182
Re: Have you still got your first skirt?
I'm pretty sure I don't have my first skirt, seeing as how I bought it somewhere around 1974 and it was a size 22 (and I wear a 14 now).
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Out and About -- In the World at Large
- Replies: 3469
- Views: 293434
Re: Out and About -- In the World at Large
I guess I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised by the difference in the reaction I get when I wear a kilt as opposed to an "ordinary" skirt. I often wear skirts and generally get little or no reaction. Yesterday, though I got four (!) positive comments (one unusual one) in less than a mi...
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Feds ruling on skirts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 774
Re: Feds ruling on skirts
On the other hand, we have this Texas school district prohibiting skirts and dresses for everybody as a means to encourage professionalism.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/us/forne ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/us/forne ... index.html
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:34 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: I thought this was a good twitter thread
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1434
Re: I thought this was a good twitter thread
"Woke" does not exist outside of social media. It's easy to underestimate the progressive left because they do such a good job of making themselves and their positions look foolish. However, if instead of using the word "woke" you think of people who share similar views on clima...
- Wed May 18, 2022 9:53 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Importance of Punctuation
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2298
Re: The Importance of Punctuation
Despite having spent some happy years in Oxford, I dislike the Oxford comma because it doesn't add to or clarify the meaning. It's just extra clutter. Oh but it does clarify meaning. The classic example is a dedication to "my parents, Sigmund Freud and Queen Elizabeth." Is the writer dedi...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:49 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: L’OFFICIEL USA: Men in Dresses: a Fashion History
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2035
Re: L’OFFICIEL USA: Men in Dresses: a Fashion History
I read once that for "professionals" (ill defined, I know) in the same type of work (office I assumed), the men actually spent more on their wardrobe's on average per month. It was like $10 more out of 65 or so, monthly. I figured it was due to the inordinately high cost of men's suits an...
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 9:58 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: L’OFFICIEL USA: Men in Dresses: a Fashion History
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2035
Re: L’OFFICIEL USA: Men in Dresses: a Fashion History
I guess a modern equivalent is a simple pair of jeans. There are people out there who would not be seen dead in a pair outside of those tagged for their assigned gender. We may see that it makes no damn difference but they most certainly will not. But there is a difference. Women's jeans are usuall...
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:39 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Corona Virus
- Replies: 962
- Views: 48590
Re: Corona Virus
I thought we'd beaten this dead horse into the ground. {sigh} I'm not a big fan of "mandates" either, but sometimes they have to be used. Personally, I'd just appeal to societal responsibility (and that's a bit of a swear term in the USA) and put some teeth into it. To start with, if you'...
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:09 am
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Trying on clothes in-store
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3765
Re: Trying on clothes in-store
I live in Philadelphia, used to live in Boston, and have spent a lot of time in Leeds and in London. I very seldom experience any issues when trying on clothes and when I have had an issue, I'm pretty sure its because of the sales assistant not the store. Once in a while I'll get someone telling me ...
- Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:17 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Teenager wearing a dress harassed by inbred Tennessee hillbilly
- Replies: 141
- Views: 11227
- Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:15 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Teenager wearing a dress harassed by inbred Tennessee hillbilly
- Replies: 141
- Views: 11227
Re: Teenager wearing a dress harassed by inbred Tennessee hillbilly
As to capital punishment, I think there is a massive difference between the just punishment fitting a capital crime that someone has been convicted of, and taking the life of one who has done nothing personally wrong. Not sure how people miss this, or what more I can do to explain it. Some pro-life...
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:44 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Sightings "in the wild"
- Replies: 1722
- Views: 239207
Re: Sightings "in the wild"
Saturday morning I was out shopping for vegetables at the local curb market (food stores of various types in the storefronts and produce stands on the sidewalk at the curb), dressed in an above the knee denim skirt and summer weight sweater. I'm picking over the tomatoes when a hipster reaches acros...