StreetCowboy

If you need a fork 'n' rest you should man up and go to the gym more

The day went as well as could be expected, the rescue driver found his way to all the pubs, we had a bit of banter regarding beer provisions at stages 1,2 and 3, and I completely forgot the route, but how far wrong can you go when so few pubs sell cider? The Totaliser is still counting, but we’re up to Thb 100,000 for the Shelter, which is pretty good with only four cyclists. And it’s less than 12 months till Pubcycle 2023, if you want to join…

It’s been a while since astrology was considered a science.

And gullibility, if you believe what HR tell you.

Even the happiest stories end. If we are lucky, we can pass on to greener pastures leaving those behind us with a smile on their lips, like the general who said “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”

When inflation was 8 or 10% or more. We became used to low inflation, until the governments enlisted the printing presses to wash their way out of the COVID Crisis with a sea of green.

You should demand satisfaction

That is depressing. Ne’er mind, there is peace and tranquility in wanting for ought, and it is often said that the poorest people are the happiest - though rarely by the poorest people, and you will rarely see the affluent actively pursue that goal. But to be someone upon whom the advertisers have given up - that must surely be a relief.

… And you may kid yourself Anyway that you want But you may find yourself Kidding no-one but yourself” I went to the USA once, and if I had to identify one difference that made the USA unique, people there believed their own stories. I realise this is slightly off topic, so perhaps the Mods could amend the thread title accordingly?

Inflation affects the money in your bank account or your ewallet same as it affects the cash under your mattress.

Are you saying that as a customer, or as a retailer? I think, like credit cards, the deduction is authorised immediately, but the payment not so. SC

You always have to find a negative. We already have the opposite of what the OP suggested - high street stores with no customers. Dark stores where delivery riders pick up your stock and deliver to your home. A world where there is no more direct interaction, and poorly paid motorcyclists and anonymous big businesses help you avoid the real world. A dystopian fantasy in all but the convergence of reality... SC

So can I get it clear - the end of civilisation will make the cashless society irrelevant? Do you have any advice for the interim, before the end of civilisation?

Your own staff take the cash to the bank - that salary for that time goes to your staff. Payment by card or other non-cash means is rarely immediate, so that the working capital is with the intermediary, not the retailer. The cost of Working Capital may be irrelevant to you, but that is not the case for many retailers. The ability to more monitor and tax and police and control the way that money washes around the economy may be a big advantage. But I stand on the "or not" side of that argument. SC

Pubcycle 2023 will be Le Tour de Damansara X, if it goes ahead; it's not too late to sign up. Nor for Pubcycle 2022 on Sunday...

Other than those borne by the seller. I don't know if they pass those costs on to the customer through their prices or not. Cashless payment is a one-cent thief - like Grab, or Air BnB. While the claim is that the individual is empowered by selling directly to the customer, in fact, a big business is sucking money out of that transaction through its monopolistic position as intermediairy.

Or a list of those that he believes to be such, with no requirement of factual accuracy. Belief is more important than truth, in the post-truth world, and one cannot argue with someone until you know their beliefs, as we no longer share a common basis of facts.

One of the pubs has declined to support us, citing competition from World Cup promotions on their ‘free beer’ budget. That allows us to shorten the ride somewhat. But if you are joining, it’s even more important to bring lights, as we will have more drinking time in the end pub…

I heard that song recorded by Johnny Cash, and I cant imagine Kris Kristofferson singing it more touchingly.

I think of it as positivism rather than activism. I had an unfortunate bout of positivism a few weeks back, and it has been sweeping through my staff like an epidemic. My experience was little worse than I suffered after I got my first vaccination, and it made me wonder whether the cure is worse than the disease? But that is the whole point - what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. So better a vaccination that you know, than forego the added strength of the vaccination and suffer the unbridled rampage of unfettered disease, that might peter out like a half-discharged firework, or catastrophically different.

Back in the day, I had a black and white television, but I was told that was too divisive, so I called it monochrome. Only shades of grey. Anything for a pleasant valley Sunday. Now I'm a believer. Anyway, if you've seen one colour, you've seen them all. There were only two brief moments where I thought I was missing out. The first was the Sunday Mail advert - the first colour newspaper in Scotland. On a bright and crisp morning, the Sunday Mail paper boy rides through the town, spreading shades of grey. I imagine on a tricolour CRT it would seem brighter. And on the Robbie Coltrane show, when his character Mason Boyne is meticulously painting the geranium leaves orange, I am sure that would require less imagination in colour. But Casablanca was just fine, and The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

Only shades of grey. Though I've never seen a coloured one, if I am allowed to say that,

Black and white, and conversation through clenched teeth. Life in Casablanca is a sentence, not an aspiration.

I would rather educate stupid people, instead of locking them up to learn from criminals. But so long as we need an underclass to support our own self-righteousness, needs must, when the devil drives.

That’s great that you can diagnose cause and effect so precisely in a casual acquaintance. Although your post is slightly ambiguous; did smoking dope turn him into a right nasty idiot, or was it the consistent claiming that it did no harm that made him nasty? Sometimes, the root cause is deeper than what the casual observer sees. I wonder why he smoked dope every day? But life is too short to ask questions, when we have opinions to maintain.