You’re having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren’t kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren’t doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.

Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.

Do they? Most cartoon kings I can think of have either white or gray hair.

They forgot to say “and this time we mean it”. How is Russia supposed to take NATO seriously if they don’t include that?

So many questions:

• Is the soup hot or cold, in the hole?
• What type of soup is it?
• Is it gluten free?
• Is it vegetarian or vegan?
• Did they even taste the soup to know that it is, in fact, soup?

It is the lack of these type of details that make me suspect that this is not real.

• Office Space
• Clerks
• 9 to 5

More anti establishment than anti-work, but still worth mentioning:

• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Fight Club
• Falling Down
• They Live

I think social media provides a good reference to start speculating an answer to your question.

The problem with statements like this is that they only ever seem to be made by narcissists who thinks work is only those efforts that directly benefit them. The end of my “work day” is when I start my other job of working for myself. I manage my home, I take care of my garden, I put effort into maintaining or improving my physical and mental well being, I foster and build the relationships in my life that I care about, etc. All of that is work, it’s just work that I do for myself and don’t get a paycheck for.

Personally, I consider family to be a social group more than a biological relationship. I have relatives that I’ve never met in my adult life that I don’t consider family. Conversely, there are people I consider family that were brought into my life through marriage, adoption, and close friendships.

A few more famous people with 2 first names:

• Anne Frank
• Bob Dylan
• Dylan Thomas
• Billy Joel
• George Harrison
• George Michael
• Elton John
• Missy Elliot
• Meg Ryan
• Kevin James
• Elizabeth Tyler
• Liv Tyler
• Steven Tyler
• Carey Grant
• Hugh Grant
• Mariah Carey
• Diana Ross
• Dean Martin
• Steve Martin
• Grace Kelly
• Alexander Hamilton
• Larry David

I can’t stop staring at the dent he made in the hood of that car. 🙄

Not born wealthy, but there was Ronald Read who lived a modest life resulting in a multimillion dollar estate when he passed in 2014. He left most of it to local library and hospital.

While not a term maybe a short blurb like “While I am not religious, I admire many of the lessons of Jesus as portrayed in the Bible, and I try to model parts of my life after his example.”

If applicable you can also add “Along with others I consider to be positive examples for leading a good and virtuous life.”

Yes. Thanks for catching that.

There is a lot of good messaging in the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, etc. You don’t need to be religious to appreciate that. Just like how somebody who appreciates in the mission and words of The Amazing Randi does not need a special label.

The labels start to come into play when discussing your belief or disbelief in a god or gods.

It’s been a few years since I last bought a TV, but I’ve been happy with my Sony. About once or twice a year I get a “software update available” message, which is weird since it has never been connected to any network, but I just dismiss it and continue my regular usage.

Remember when she wore a jacket with the words “I really don’t care. Do U?” when visiting a migrant child detention facility in Texas?

It’s not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.

I hope a significant number of them get new jobs and quiet quit to get that double paycheck for as long as they can.