Social WR Lounge 289: Buck Breaking Edition

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You add swimming in and I’ll not even complain about the camping, even if it is roughing it camping
I consider a healthy amount of swimming to be part of any camping trip.

And we probably have different definitions of "roughing it camping"
 
…another 9/11?


"It's me, America! It was me all along!"
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I consider a healthy amount of swimming to be part of any camping trip.

And we probably have different definitions of "roughing it camping"

probably, but mine wouldn’t be as bad as your thinking…..I think.
 
You live in paradise, ffs. Go to the beach and look at babes or go surfing or something. Take a puddle jumper to Maui and do a ride along with @Jesus H. Sherdog , learn how to perp toss a meth head for distance. The possibilities are endless.

If I go to the beach I'd feel obligated to take the dogs swimming. But four is a lot to manage. So then I gotta leave some behind. :( Easier to just not go and no little hearts are broken.

@Jesus H. Sherdog, do you do ride-alongs?


I mean I honestly feel that any parent that was in the position to, would pay tuition for there kids

Could be. I wouldn't pony up for any liberal arts degrees though. No need to spend that much money just to be poor. Learn a trade. :cool:
 
Trevor Noah is no friend of mine.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/col...ndup-guy-in-philly-stu-bykofsky-20180419.html

This year, for its all-important annual fund-raiser, the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia decided to try something new.

Instead of honoring a big shot at a banquet, JFCS hired a celebrity to attract attention — but what it did blew up in its face.

Two words: Trevor Noah.

JFCS hired the South African-born star of Comedy Central's The Daily Show to headline its 34th annual benefit to be held Sunday at the 2300 Arena in South Philly. The night was to be called "Laugh on Behalf of JFCS with Trevor Noah."

No one is laughing now.

Booking Noah created a big buzz, I am told by JFCS's president/CEO, Paula Goldstein. For the nonprofit, established in 1855 as America's first Jewish orphanage and now offering various nondenominational social services, this was "a complete departure from something we normally do," says its marketing and communications VP, Suzanne Myers.

Ticket sales — starting at $118 for people under 35, ranging up to $2,000 for a dessert meet-and-greet with Noah — were through the roof, especially among millennials, a new market for JFCS.

Then the bomb went off: Noah canceled without explanation just 18 days before the benefit, throwing the organization into a panic.

JFCS could not find a star of similar stature on such short notice and was forced to cancel the fund-raiser. Based on deposits lost and refunds to ticket-holders, "we will have a funding gap of $200,000," instead of the $350,000 profit it had counted on, says Myers.

"When you book a celebrity, it's a leap of faith," says Goldstein. Regarding the cancellation, she says, "It's one thing if there was some kind of an emergency, but there has to be some level of integrity. This doesn't hurt me, it hurts the 25,000 clients we serve each year."

Noah was booked through Ruth Stover at Celebrity Talent International. His fee was $170,000 for the night's work, a contract was signed Jan. 22, and Noah received a $92,000 deposit. (His Comedy Central salary is estimated to be at least $4 million a year, and he recently bought a $10 million Manhattan penthouse.)

I call Stover to ask why Noah bailed at the last minute and left JFCS holding the empty bag. Stover says, "I can't comment without the permission from my client."

So I tweet Noah, saying I'd like to hear his side of the story. I send emails to his personal publicist and to a Comedy Central publicist.

Here's part of what I say: Noah contracted to do a show, canceled just 18 days before the show. The organization received no explanation, it had to cancel the show, and now it is $200,000 in the hole. (Noah's $92,000 deposit was returned.)

JFCS deserves an explanation, an apology — and maybe more, I think.

Noah's publicist, Jill Fritzo, emailed: "Trevor unfortunately had to cancel due to a business scheduling conflict." I thank her for the reply, but it's vague. I ask about specifics and whether he feels any shame about throwing JFCS into a deep financial hole.

I don't really expect an answer. This is the ugly business side of show business.

"We are in conversations with our general counsel," Goldstein tells me.

Lawsuits can be ugly. The comic should man up, apologize, and repair JFCS's financial wreckage. He can afford it.
"Business scheduling conflict", aka, he got a better offer for that night.

Take that to the bank.
 
I consider a healthy amount of swimming to be part of any camping trip.

And we probably have different definitions of "roughing it camping"

If you aren’t eating shrooms, can you really say you’re camping?
 
@Confucamus how do you feel about Trevor Noah

I really don't understand how anybody finds him funny. I can't even listen to him. There were some issues I disagreed with Jon Stewart on, but goddamn he was able to make it funny. He also shit on both sides pretty regularly. Noah and Jon Oliver fall into that same category. Just my two cents. To be fair, I also haven't really given Noah a chance at all. I just couldn't listen to the pandering.
 
There is certainly an unfair tendency to disregard the politics of actual centrists by writing them off as being unthinking and I do this myself. However, I do think true, honest centrists are very rare. Almost everyone who claims to sit in the middle seems to be doing so as a way to elevate their politics as being somehow enlightened. I think it would be really hard to actually be exactly in the middle of the political spectrum. Although what you are describing as pro choice/pro environment but anti racial justice might do it.
I'm also pro gay marriage and mind your own business who people are attracted to, but again, I get called a polarized righty regularly.

I'm against any sort of hormone therapy for children(age of sexual consent should be standard there), trans women playing in women's sports (and Dominating them) and invading their private locker rooms and bathrooms(and most feminists are against it too), but I am pro having a gender neutral bathrooms for those comfortable with it.

I support police officers in most cases where outrage porn from a 10 second clip is common and wait for details and more data and footage before jumping to conclusions.

People have nuanced opinions. Some opinions will be liberal, some conservative. But the modern person likes to shoehorn you into a category based on what they feel is important. What is considered center really has shifted since the Bush era.
 
If I go to the beach I'd feel obligated to take the dogs swimming. But four is a lot to manage. So then I gotta leave some behind. :( Easier to just not go and no little hearts are broken.

@Jesus H. Sherdog, do you do ride-alongs?




Could be. I wouldn't pony up for any liberal arts degrees though. No need to spend that much money just to be poor. Learn a trade. :cool:
Lol i just didn’t keep going after undergrad, plans changed.
 
I really don't understand how anybody finds him funny. I can't even listen to him. There were some issues I disagreed with Jon Stewart on, but goddamn he was able to make it funny. He also shit on both sides pretty regularly. Noah and Jon Oliver fall into that same category. Just my two cents. To be fair, I also haven't really given Noah a chance at all. I just couldn't listen to the pandering.
Just based on the commercials I see time to time for his show I won’t tune in
 
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