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Place to put my Nonsense Thread.

My wife gives me shit for never watching Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, or Braveheart. I just never got around to them.
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You only need to watch Schindler’s List once.
 
Who knew we had so many war historians on this board!? Are you guys all curators at the Smithsonian?

I grew up watching the History channel before American Pickers became a thing. Needless to say, those curators are amateurs compared to me.
 
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Just got an email from the overlords. Getting a whopping 2.5% market raise and another 5% merit raise. A beer on me boys. The real surprise is that the county decided to give us a covid bonus now that covid is history. Better late than never. $3,700 is a nice little chunk of change though. We have two vacations already paid for. Just waiting for them to ditch the mask requirements.
 
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Saving Private Ryan is definitely a good one. Was wide awake at like 5 am Sunday. Figured it was D day afterall, said fvck it and watched it in bed. Wife wasn't too happy a couple of times it woke her up.

We Were Soldiers was another good one. Blackhawk Down was good, but if you've ever seen the Witness documentary on it, the movie doesn't touch on a lot of the happenings in Somalia.
 
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Just got an email from the overlords. Getting a whopping 2.5% market raise and another 5% merit raise. A beer on me boys. The real surprise is that the county decided to give us a covid bonus now that covid is history. Better late than never. $3,700 is a nice little chunk of change though. We have two vacations already paid for. Just waiting for them to ditch the mask requirements.

We got a 4% merit increase in November.

In May my job title got a 12% raise.

In July 50% of the job codes get a 3.4% raise and I fall into that.

And then another merit increase in November.



It’s been a crazy good year. I’ll be making about $10 more an hour November 2021 than I was October 2020.
 
I have seen Black Hawk Down. I used to have it on DVD. Amazingly I don't even have a DVD player anymore.

I will look for the Witness doc.
 
Is this it @GhostOf301 ?

No. I was mistaken about it being a witness documentary. National Geographic did do a documentary about it a few years ago. I have not watched it.

The one I am remembering I watched before the movie came out. They did a good job overall reenacting the scenes in the movie, but it was impossible to tell the whole story. The original documentary was The True Story of Blackhawk Down and it was on the History Channel. It is over 3 hours long if I am remembering right. Before DVR, ugh.

I tried finding it on YouTube, but they want munny. A lot of times you can find stuff like that on YouTube in parts. But I can only find part 2. Lol

 
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We got a 4% merit increase in November.

In May my job title got a 12% raise.

In July 50% of the job codes get a 3.4% raise and I fall into that.

And then another merit increase in November.



It’s been a crazy good year. I’ll be making about $10 more an hour November 2021 than I was October 2020.
That's good stuff.

On the flip side of what our Commissioners passed is a 12% increase on property taxes. Ridiculous. What they say our tax value is on our house is $83,000+ more than what we paid for the house 4 years ago. Zillow has our house at 70,000+ more than what we paid for it. Long story short, glad we bought when we did or we wouldn't be living in the area we like.
 
No. I was mistaken about it being a witness documentary. National Geographic did do a documentary about it a few years ago. I have not watched it.

The one I am remembering I watched before the movie came out. They did a good job overall reenacting the scenes in the movie, but it was impossible to tell the whole story. The original documentary was The True Story of Blackhawk Down and it was on the History Channel. It is over 3 hours long if I am remembering right. Before DVR, ugh.

I tried finding it on YouTube, but they want munny. A lot of times you can find stuff like that on YouTube in parts. But I can only find part 2. Lol

Thanks.
 
Does anybody else like going on zillow and nosing around their neighborhood? I always look when I see a for sale sign. A house 4 houses down sold for $20,000 more than what we paid and it has over 1,000 square feet less, no garage, no building and has about 1/3 acre less. Nuts.
 
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Does anybody else like going on zillow and nosing around their neighborhood? I always look when I see a for sale sign. A house 4 houses down sold for $20,000 more than what we paid and it has over 1,000 square feet less, no garage, no building and has about 1/3 acre less. Nuts.
Not quite, but I still have my dealers license, and will shop constantly for cheap cars to flip. Sometimes I'll see someone asking an absurd amount of money and make bets with coworkers how much I can bring them down on speaker. I end up buying a few and then selling out of a lot at the comic shop.

Dirty cars bring great money. The owner didn't appreciate them and whore them out, and clean them up and boom.
 
Does anybody else like going on zillow and nosing around their neighborhood? I always look when I see a for sale sign. A house 4 houses down sold for $20,000 more than what we paid and it has over 1,000 square feet less, no garage, no building and has about 1/3 acre less. Nuts.
In four yrs my home has been appraised for 120k more. Than down 2k last yr. it’s just stupid.
 
Yeah Steve Inman’s point doesn’t make much sense
Do you think he's a victim? Anyone who complains is a victim. I think that's how it goes.

I don't have a flag pole, but if I did, I wouldn't have any problem flying the stars and bars.
 
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