Do You Live in a Bubble?

[bandl]

1) Lawn biz, 800 customers
2) Distillery
3) Bar; it is just an off-shoot of the distillery but as we've found out quickly it's an entirely different beast that actually requires more of my time than the distillery

So when TBH and I open our business, and we both start our "side project specialties" off that main business does that count as 2 other business ventures as well? If so, I truly am closer to you than you'd think


Just admit it. I'm a young you.

You ain't done shit yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

[bandl]

I enjoy drinking outside.

Nothing better
Although drinking in the shower is a very close second, especially if your shower has a window to the outside

[Ibanez]

I enjoy drinking outside.

Nothing better
Although drinking in the shower is a very close second, especially if your shower has a window to the outside

I agree!

[Gil Dobie]

I enjoy drinking outside.

Nothing better
Although drinking in the shower is a very close second, especially if your shower has a window to the outside

Don't have an outside shower?

[bandl]

Nothing better
Although drinking in the shower is a very close second, especially if your shower has a window to the outside

Don't have an outside shower?

No

We do at the beach house in Corolla, NC though

[CAA Flagship]

I also ride a hobby horse.

[BDKJMU]

70 for me

[BDKJMU]

Again, cheesy questions.

0–20: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person with the television and movie going habits of the upper middle class. Typical: 2.

In other words...not trash TV. Hardly any TV, except science shows (no questions that differentiate between intelligent TV and the crap that passes for prime time or daytime talk shows. And, I only saw Star Wars in the theater.

Smoking? Agree with Gannonfan...who smokes these days? Actually, there is one car in the parking lot of my son's school...puffs of smoke always coming out...and three teenagers are there to pick up on 5th grader. Poor kid...has to sit next to the three idiots who smell like an ash tray. Fun.

Now, if I had taken the poll years ago, as in many years ago, a couple of those restaurants would have been checked. I did take a looooooooong bus trip once...when I was 18, to Notre Dame. Took several when I worked for a ski tour/travel company a loooooooooooooong time ago. That question did not have an expiration date...and that probably saved me from a worse score.

"...In 2014, nearly 17 of every 100 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older (16.8%) currently* smoked cigarettes. This means an estimated 40 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes...."
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist ... /index.htm

I'm sure if you added in Cigars and Pot you'd probably be sonewhere between 20-30% of adults. Obviously there would be some that smoke all 3, some 2 of 3. I imagine the majority who smoke would only do one of those 3. Myself I enjoy the occasional cigar..

[JohnStOnge]

45 for me. I'm a dichotomy. I grew up in a blue collar family with a union father who was trying to support six kids working in a petrochemical refinery. And I've worked in petrochemical refineries myself. Also worked as a laborer in a State park doing things like cleaning bathrooms and dumping garbage. Been a firefighter. Worked as an attendant in a juvenile detention center. Worked picking okra.

On the other hand, I am not a pop culture guy at all. I'm not likely at any given time to know what's going on on the pop culture front.

[BDKJMU]

One question I remember was if you made 33k in 2015 $$ for a yr that would be considered living near poverty. Yeah, for a family of 5-6. Back in 99' I only made about 20k/low 20s (about 28-30k) in today's $$, but I was mid 20s, renting, living in the Sheandoah Valley and while not saving much $$ I wasn't close to poor. Also 33k 2015 in rural area = not poor. In high cost of living NE or left coast big city that = close to poor. Also the question didn't give different amounts of $$ for different numbers of people in the household. I went ahead and answered yes to that very flawed question.

[BDKJMU]

Grew up upper middle class. I also worked a summer in a factory while at JMU. Not active military but was Army National Guard.currently drive a pickup, my previous vehicle was a pickup, watch NASCAR, bought Budweiser twice in the last month (only because I went to 3 NASCAR races & its kind of a tradition of mine - also drink microbrew & German beer), among the list of chain restaurants have probably hit all of them at least once in the last year, maybe about 2 doz times total, maybe a couole of times a month. Haven't watched any of the listed movies. I watch a lot of TV bit none of those shows listed. Smoke the occasional cigar, live in a blue collar neighborhood, like rural areas & the outdoors..

[93henfan]

You just knew JSO and BDK would bring the excitement!

Fuck yeah!!

[YoUDeeMan]

Exactly.

One of my neighbors doesn't own a TV. Two professors...3 kids...they never eat out. Minivan. Uber liberal.

Liberal does not equal progressive

Perhaps you should actually know these folks. Bernie all the way...actually even farther to the left than Bernie. They are OUT of it. Preaching, too (not religion...but their progressive ideas). I could go on, but they would blow through the questionnaire and score near zero...and still be more of a Progressive then nearly anyone on this planet.

But hey, at least folks know where they stand...errr...those who know them. At least I appreciate their honesty.

[YoUDeeMan]

You ain't done shit yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

[YoUDeeMan]

Smoking? Agree with Gannonfan...who smokes these days?

"...In 2014, nearly 17 of every 100 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older (16.8%) currently* smoked cigarettes. This means an estimated 40 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes...."
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist ... /index.htm

I'm sure if you added in Cigars and Pot you'd probably be sonewhere between 20-30% of adults. Obviously there would be some that smoke all 3, some 2 of 3. I imagine the majority who smoke would only do one of those 3. Myself I enjoy the occasional cigar..[/quote]

rhetorical question.

16.8% who smoke...mostly dumb azz clowns from low income families. Yup...that holds true.

Still love seeing people open up their car doors and dump their ash trays at the stop light...or throw their cigarette out the widow. What a bunch of Neanderthals.

[93henfan]

You ain't done shit yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

I bet there was a little help from a mommy or daddy too. If not, I will allow bandel to f*** my dog.

[Ibanez]

You ain't done shit yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

Obama said he didn't build that.

[bandl]

You ain't done shit yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

I did buy an existing biz. But in an industry I knew nothing about. And I knew nothing about actually running a business at the time. 5 years later and still going and growing customers/revenue every year....that's gotta count for something, right?
Yes, I have a partner for biz #2. Again, got into an industry I knew nothing about. We funded the distillery 100% out of our own pockets. But we haven't had to put a penny of our own money back into the biz since the very first day we opened to the public (October 2014). That's gotta count for something too, right?

Sheesh, sorry for not being Elon Musk!
You've heard of him, right?

[bandl]

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

I bet there was a little help from a mommy or daddy too. If not, I will allow bandel to f*** my dog.

Not a penny actually.
I fibbed a bit earlier when I said we spent every last penny we had. My wife and I actually had about $25 to our name leftover in all of our checking/savings accounts when we bought the biz up in NY. And I my wife got laid off (we knew it was coming, we just didn't know when) the day after we signed the papers. Those were some fun times.

[93henfan]

I bet there was a little help from a mommy or daddy too. If not, I will allow bandel to f*** my dog.

Not a penny actually.
I fibbed a bit earlier when I said we spent every last penny we had. My wife and I actually had about $25 to our name leftover in all of our checking/savings accounts when we bought the biz up in NY. And I my wife got laid off (we knew it was coming, we just didn't know when) the day after we signed the papers. Those were some fun times.

Shit. Do I have to fuck your dog now?

[bandl]

Not a penny actually.
I fibbed a bit earlier when I said we spent every last penny we had. My wife and I actually had about $25 to our name leftover in all of our checking/savings accounts when we bought the biz up in NY. And I my wife got laid off (we knew it was coming, we just didn't know when) the day after we signed the papers. Those were some fun times.

Shit. Do I have to fuck your dog now?

I don't have a dog anymore

You're off the hook!

[HI54UNI]

[CAA Flagship]

[YoUDeeMan]

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

I did buy an existing biz. But in an industry I knew nothing about. And I knew nothing about actually running a business at the time. 5 years later and still going and growing customers/revenue every year....that's gotta count for something, right?
Yes, I have a partner for biz #2. Again, got into an industry I knew nothing about. We funded the distillery 100% out of our own pockets. But we haven't had to put a penny of our own money back into the biz since the very first day we opened to the public (October 2014). That's gotta count for something too, right?

Sheesh, sorry for not being Elon Musk!
You've heard of him, right?

Cool story...seriously.

And no, haven't heard of Elon Musk. Is that similar to Citadel Stink?

[houndawg]

You ain't done **** yet except talk and speculate ...when you and yours actually leave your two cushy jobs, move 300 miles away, spend every last penny you have to start business #1 in an industry you know absolutely nothing about, then start business #2 entirely funded out of your own pocket, then start business #3 (aka, #2.1) entirely funded from business #2...then we'll talk!

Didn't you purchase business #1? It was already started...wasn't it?

Don't you have a partner(s) for business #2?

Hey, no knocks...I love it that you are making your own dream happen.

Just trying to get the facts straight. I could be wrong...it has happened before. There was this time when I was 6...oh, never mind, I've moved on from that.

I hate that feeling. I experienced it once when I thought I'd made a mistake. Turned out I was wrong but I'll never forget that feeling...