The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

You know what people need but they don't do it for some reason.

I took home ec and a basic financial course (and when I say course, probably a one block of class in home ec). in high school. Americans are dumb when it comes to money. They need a class to teach Americans how invest, save and etc.

Of course, the government wants you to spend more so maybe that's why it's not taught in schools.

We got that in our Government/Econ class senior year. We learned about the stock market and had to do a whole project where we invested fake money in stocks and followed the market each day to see how our investments would be doing if they were real. We were taught how to choose which stocks to invest in, diversification, stocks, bonds, etc.

 

[Rista1313]

Was this your award that your coworker nominated you for? That's a pretty awesome prize! Even if you did have to go out and get some new things to go with it....looks like it was worth it!

yes, that's the one!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

So Penn State put out their back to school requirements. They are going to be sending students home from Thanksgiving break to continue all their studies online. I hope they decrease their tuition for all this. That is one heck of an expensive school. It is private and not public. I have no idea how science majors will be able to do labs. You cannot do organic chemistry labs in a home. Science labs are group activities. They will place plexiglass barriers between students where possible, mask wearing. I feel really sorry for all students this fall and that includes my oldest who starts college. She will be going to a state school near our home, but I am guessing that similar restrictions will be in place. This all makes me so sad.

 

[Lilofan]

Loved Ice Castles!!!

I saw a rerun of 1981 Oscar Best Picture - Chariots of Fire. The movie never gets old.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

They could also just leave them out of the movies and that would be okay too.

That would make sense so it won't happen.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

My kid is in the swimming pool. Jumping off the diving board, t and 6 other boys, rinse and repeat. It looks miserable. I’m wearing a jacket and a towel across my legs, also wearing capri leggings.

Temperature is currently 72 degrees.

Is the pool at least heated?

 

[Lilofan]

They could also just leave them out of the movies and that would be okay too.

Aw shucks... When I was a young one I learned how to kiss properly by watching the kissing love scenes at the movies or watching them with my friends on my family's VHS machine. Then I can practice on the girls.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Watched "The Mighty Ducks" last night.

That is also my favorite. Next would be “The Cutting Edge”.

Mighty Ducks was a good movie and a lot of it was filmed in St. Paul MN so it is fun to see places I recognize. When it was filmed a few kids from my town's hockey program were picked to be extras in some of the hockey scenes. One girl I knew, her brother supposedly was one of the main characters (don't remember which one) hockey/skating double.

The Cutting Edge was a great movie too. Back in the day, high school days, a friend and I would watch it together almost every week. We were nerds! Hahah!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Probably if it is with strangers, but if you live together in any sense of the word, it's kind of late to worry about that. Besides that kind of protection should be the least of your worries at that point. It's amazing the amount of opinions being formulated without actually thinking about the big picture. I wonder if anyone should look into whether or not the inability to have proper brain function is a symptom of Covid19.

Yes, common sense seems to have gone out the window.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

So Penn State put out their back to school requirements. They are going to be sending students home from Thanksgiving break to continue all their studies online. I hope they decrease their tuition for all this. That is one heck of an expensive school. It is private and not public. I have no idea how science majors will be able to do labs. You cannot do organic chemistry labs in a home. Science labs are group activities. They will place plexiglass barriers between students where possible, mask wearing. I feel really sorry for all students this fall and that includes my oldest who starts college. She will be going to a state school near our home, but I am guessing that similar restrictions will be in place. This all makes me so sad.

Science labs is one thing I'm trying to figure out for next school year too. They often do them in small groups or pairs so maybe they will have to wear masks as part of their safety procedures. My new textbook program also has some virtual labs which are okay but not the same as actual hands on labs.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

The American economy is being supported by the "slaves to debt" mentality and personal lifestyle and choices. If more Americans actually made sacrifices and learned to save and invest, our economy would collapse.

Well our government is enslaved to the central bank, so unless that goes... Guess we are headed into a political conversation so I will stop there. Debt is a terrible thing.

 

[Songbird76]

So Penn State put out their back to school requirements. They are going to be sending students home from Thanksgiving break to continue all their studies online. I hope they decrease their tuition for all this. That is one heck of an expensive school. It is private and not public. I have no idea how science majors will be able to do labs. You cannot do organic chemistry labs in a home. Science labs are group activities. They will place plexiglass barriers between students where possible, mask wearing. I feel really sorry for all students this fall and that includes my oldest who starts college. She will be going to a state school near our home, but I am guessing that similar restrictions will be in place. This all makes me so sad.

Wait....so they go to school from September up until Thanksgiving, and THEN they are sent home for the rest of the semester? That makes no sense! We don't know what the situation will look like by that time. There may be a vaccine by then.

 

[Lilofan]

Well our government is enslaved to the central bank, so unless that goes... Guess we are headed into a political conversation so I will stop there. Debt is a terrible thing.

Debt is terrible. But to be free of it is SO gratifying!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I like that movie, too, because of the figure skating. I also liked Ice Castles (Robby Benson was the star in that one -- an oldie.) ⛸

I saw Ice Castles as a kid in the theater. It was a great movie also. Forgot about it. I think they remade it?

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I saw a rerun of 1981 Oscar Best Picture - Chariots of Fire. The movie never gets old.

I also love the sound track for that film.

 

[Rista1313]

Debt is terrible. But to be free of it is on SO gratifying!

Amen to that... when we got out of debt, it felt like a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders... The kind of weight you never really felt until it was gone!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Was engineering in place of a science credit or something? That's not something I would have ever thought would be a required course

I have no idea. I learned nothing. I've wiped it from my brain. I had physics that year, so it wasn't for a science credit. I didn't mind too much, though. That was the one class where I thought the teacher was hot.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Wait....so they go to school from September up until Thanksgiving, and THEN they are sent home for the rest of the semester? That makes no sense! We don't know what the situation will look like by that time. There may be a vaccine by then.

Actually they go back in mid-August, but yeah, makes no sense. You can have a vaccine or therapeutics. Why are we not scared of strep which leads to scarlet fever? Because there is a cure. You have a cure and then there is no fear. But also we need to recognize why so many are so-called "asymptomatic". They are asymptomatic because their immune system has attacked the virus successfully. It didn't get a chance to "take over". This is why if you are around someone who has a cold you may not get it. Doesn't mean you weren't exposed and that the "germs" didn't invade your body. Your immune system built up antibodies proficiently enough where the cold virus didn' affect you. It is why one or two of my kids may get a cold but no one else in the household will get it. We are around each other all the time since my kids are homeschooled. A strong immune system is there to protect us from colds and viruses. They elderly are more susceptible to this corona virus because they have weaker immune systems especially when they are dealing with other health issues.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Debt is terrible. But to be free of it is SO gratifying!

Better to never be in debt at all.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Well our government is enslaved to the central bank, so unless that goes... Guess we are headed into a political conversation so I will stop there. Debt is a terrible thing.

I can turn it into a historical conversation...

Did you know who came up with the idea of central banks? That would be...Alexander Hamilton.

His plan also had the union assume states' debts. After the war, Northern states remained in debt, but Southern states were out of it, largely due to them having plantations with cheap labor. So Southerners Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were very against the plan because it was very much "what benefits our state the most" instead of the whole country mentality. And so, as part of a deal, Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson met together and after that meeting, agreed to Hamilton's financial plan and that the nation's capital would go closer to Virginia (it had been New York City, which is where Hamilton lived). Which is why I say that the idea that the founding fathers were this United front is BS. They were just as bitterly divided as politicians today.

And that is the story of how we got our central banking system and how the capital ended up in DC.