People actually pay to see Red Hot Chili Peppers?
I learned something today.
People actually pay to see Red Hot Chili Peppers?
I learned something today.
Appleseed said:In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
Find bands on YouTubes. I haven't paid more than $30 to see a band in 5 years. I've had just as much, if not more fun at these shows as I've ever had. I'm going to go see Ollie Wride in February. For $27. I love well known bands, but $500 for ANYONE can berk right off.
Yep. Free festivals like San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass are good for that also. Some of the B and C level stages contain acts that are very much worth paying to see elsewhere. Funny story: I saw Gogol Bordelo at HSBG and subsequently went with my son to see them elsewhere. He had a good time, and the next time when I went out he asked to join me. I said OK, but these are some friends of mine and they aren't real good. He went anyway. Took him all of ten minutes to tell me how much my friends sucked....
ShawnG said:People actually pay to see Red Hot Chili Peppers?
I learned something today.
Hell yeah, dawg! 
I hadn't seen them since the 80s in LA and really wanted to this time, but not for the price of a round trip to Hawaii.
Appleseed said:Tried to unintentionally stop my heart this morning. If you know anything about blood glucose levels, 22 is a bad, bad number. I was 10 seconds away from driving an 8,000lb. weapon.
My brother in christ how the berkeley did you even get close to that number? Pump malfunction?
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
Gogol Bordello does not suck. It's not quite the same since Eugene's clothes stay on and the wine is more spilled than drank but it's still a hell of a good time.
Edit: ohhh it was your friends he was saying suck not Gogol. I see.
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
I know exactly what you are talking about:
I haven't had the issue with the backup camera that caused the recall. Sometimes is takes like 10 seconds to display on the screen after I shift into reverse, which is annoying.
I haven't had any of the other recalls performed because the dealership wants to keep my truck for 2 days. I don't have time for that.
Pump? Haha Haha, those are for rich people. Gross miscalculation of carb intake. I thought I ate more than I actually did. Coupled with exercise prior, and I work 2nd shift, and the fact that diabetic bodies dont always play by the rules, made my levels submarine 3 hours later. The only clue was I started sweating from every part of my body. I was seconds away from driving my kid to school. I know diabetesis going to kill me, but, dude, not so damn fast.
I learned several years ago that I couldn't trust the mailman to pick up mail for delivery so I have been making weekly treks to the post office to mail outgoing checks.
Apparently, the berkeleywads can't manage to deliver those anymore as well. I have $30k in checks that are lost in the system and vendors calling wanting their money. It will cost me $20 each to cancel them and then I get to go through the hassle of reissuing them.
berkeley the post office. I hope like hell they go out of business and every incompetent person who works there ends up living under a bridge with nothing but junk mail to burn for warmth and their misery to eat.
I'm not sure if this is a rant, win or confession, but this was the thread I found first.
Today was the first time I was ever given a senior citizen's discount.
Appleseed said:In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
Find bands on YouTubes. I haven't paid more than $30 to see a band in 5 years. I've had just as much, if not more fun at these shows as I've ever had. I'm going to go see Ollie Wride in February. For $27. I love well known bands, but $500 for ANYONE can berk right off.
This is really good advice.
There is a radio station around me that used to do Too Broke To Rock concert series, basically they have a smallish venue that holds about 1500 and they would give away free tickets to people for 3 bands that you barely knew, didn't know and usually a decent local band.
I got to see a lot of cool rock and metal bands for free, and then pay to see them at a later date. That's how I found Joyous Wolf ( new singer now so not as great), Gemini Syndrome, Blacktop Mojo and a few others. Even got to see Greta Van Fleet for free as they got bigger.
And they also use the same venue for smaller bands coming thru or older bands that have fallen out of favor too. We've seen The Hu there several times, Dorothy, missed Marcus King sadly and Moon Hootch, Alestorm and paid to see Joyous Wolf twice after seeing them for free ( Once with Buckcherry which...,.was really bad and I was stunned how many people bought tickets to see only them.)
The most expensive ticket was The Hu at $40 and most were $15-20
In reply to Rodan and Toyman! :
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I have been, too, lately. There has been a concerted effort to make the postal service worse, and it's not at the lower employee level. I'll shut up now, as even that may be more political than should be said.
Karacticus said:Today was the first time I was ever given a senior citizen's discount.
It's not about the money, I mean, I can afford the small coffee at McDonald's but if I can get the Senior coffee for $.79 I feel like I've beaten the system and I'm not paying full price.
Between my teenage years and the 1000 Happy Meals I've bought my kids I figure I'm in for around $25,000 at McDonald's. Time for payback, Mr. Kroc.
In reply to Karacticus :
I was really kind of irritated that the year I turned 55, our local theater (the only place I really was interested in the 'senior' rate) moved 'senior' tickets from 55 to 60... But then Covid hit, and most new movies since have sucked so we've only been to the movies half a dozen times in four years.
Looking for an experienced Sheet Metal Fabricator through Indeed. Why the hell do people with zero experience apply for jobs that require high levels of skill? My favorites include fry cook and security guard. WTF?
In reply to Karacticus :
The first time I got it, I ordered from the young blonde and thought, wow, that's nice.
While she was thinking, wow, that guy's old.
I'm 49 and have gotten the senior discount at the local donut store already. I don't mind.
In reply to Peabody :
I know. Who's that old berkeleyer in the mirror. Geeze. I don't feel that old.
I still don't think of myself as old. I'm the same guy I always was. But I know that's not how other people see me.
My dad always said he was a 30 year old trapped in a 70 year old body. With all of the health problems I've been having over the last year, I totally understand, now. It is kinda cool to get the senior discount, though.
The hole in the wall for the medicine cabinet is 19.5" tall by 26 wide.
I can find these dimensions, rotated 90 degrees, but I can't find anything remotely close that the door would open properly.
And according to the wife, upsizing and flush mounting a recessed cabinet won't look right
Whatever, you want a mirror in the bathroom, you find it. I've tried, I've made offers, you can figure it out now
Something happenedbetween this site's edit boxes, my phone browser, and myphone keyboardthat has effectively randomizedwhether spacesare inserted betweenwords automatically ornot.
Oh good. The new bedroom ceiling fan is louder than the one it's supposed to replace. And whoever designed this particular model, I hope your dick rots off from the inside.
In reply to RevRico :
I hate ceiling fans. Unless your house has 12 foot ceilings, they suck.
Plus they usually have lights in them, which do nothing except glare and put whatever you want to look at in shadow.
Listening to the IMSA Radio guys here at the track and apparently they're not supposed to call the combustible liquid that they pump into the race cars "fuel" any more. Now, they pit for "energy". Even in cars that have absolutely zero hybrid-ness to them. And the hybrid cars aren't exactly getting plugged in, either. Those are also taking a combustible liquid. You know, that stuff that everyone in the freaking English-speaking world calls "fuel", "petrol", "gas", or "gasoline". I'd even accept "guzzaline".
Is the peacock coverage of the 24 any good? The 1/4 of the race NBC and USA has covered has been poor, especially these final 2 hours have been 10 minutes of coverage and 5 minutes of commercials like clockwork. Never found a legitimate YouTube coverage for the noncable times.
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