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Cake day: March 1st, 2024

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  • I have finally found shoes (boots) that fit my giant clown-feet!! Ones that aren’t $200+ and made of cardboard, and are actually waterproof!! That’s a great feeling

    Other than that, imposter syndrome hit hard last week, and I really started learning things I needed to learn like 6+ months ago to do my job. It’s also VERY hot in Ohio; I don’t do hot weather well, and it’s hard to think when sweaty.










  • Vimes Boots Theory.

    The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.



  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    11 days ago

    Are you me? Same story here, grocery store deli turned IT. Rotisserie chicken grease is a smell I will never forget. That and the people who ask for chipped meat, they can all fuck off and just buy a block of meat and a cheese grater.

    Wasted 3 awful years of my life doing that shit.