Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/6/19)

Joke 1
Being nervous, and embarrassed about my up-coming colonoscopy, on a recommendation, I decided to have it done while visiting friends in San Francisco, where the beautiful nurses are allegedly more gentle.

Never get a Colonoscopy in San Francisco.

Joke 2
A couple checks into a Caribbean resort. Very fancy.

The man replies: “That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, you idiot. The goddamn sliding window is stuck and won’t open." H/T Foamy in FL

Just another reason not to purchase an Amazon Alexa.

If you (like so many of us) hate listening to recordings of your own voice, you may be in for an unpleasant future, as Amazon has confirmed it hangs on to every conversation you've ever had with an Alexa-enabled device until or unless you specifically delete them.

That confirmation comes as a response to a list of questions Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) sent to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in May expressing "concerns" about how Amazon uses and retains customers' Alexa voice assistant data.

'The Reality of Living in the Back of a Van'

Molly and Dan’s living situations are a far cry away from the politics of the new age travelers and today’s #vanlife influencers with their vintage VW campers and sponsored posts. What unites them all is a desire for greater freedom and a sustainable mode of living, whether born out of economic precariousness, political ideology, or aspirational commercialism. With the fraught history of government crackdown only a few decades in the past, however, their mileage—as the saying goes—may vary.

Think your job is tough? Think again. Clearing landmines. And not those of your dog.

The seven stupidest things you can do with money.

When it comes to managing our finances, many of us are knuckleheads.

Meg Bannon, an English teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, cops to it. Headed toward 30, she was lazy about budgeting. Her credit score was too low. She wasn’t making headway on her credit card debt. She barely had an emergency fund. And, of course, she had student loans. Despite working two jobs, she couldn’t seem to get ahead.

“I just felt like I was treading water,” says Bannon, now 35. “I was looking around and there were people my age who were buying houses or who had paid off their student loans and various other kind of financial milestones, and I hadn’t hit any of those.”

Another emotional issue, procrastination. I probably should have pulled out a block quote. But, maybe later.

Contrary to belief, there are judgment zones. Genius Award Winner.

Eric Stagno, 34, was arrested in a calm fashion without incident and charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and lewdness after the police were called to a crowded gym in Plaistow, New Hampshire, according to police reports. He stripped naked and started working out, and while being arrested by the police, he referenced a long-standing slogan of Planet Fitness that says this is a "judgment-free zone"

The eye-witness reports say that the naked man walked back and forth a couple of times and then started doing poses on his knees on a yoga mat.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:08 PM

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