“Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show. It’s more popular than Freebird here, so help me. My wife grew up in Johnson City, and even she is sick of it.

They should make the team’s colors orange and white - at least then it would look to the tourists like someone gives a crap about the Titans.

When the city recently announced they wanted to put in landscaping so you can’t see this racist shitshow from the interstate, the d-bag who owns it announced he would put it up an a pedestal so you could still see it.

If you take a shot every time a QB throws a brick, you should probably be able to drink yourself to death before halftime.

My dad was on Essex ‘58-’59 - was there when the Fury hit the deck and burned. By the time your dad was there, mine was on to submarines, but small world, anyway.

Read that first letter again - he’s not being honest (probably even with himself). He totally wants to have sex with her, he doesn’t want the relationship and he knows he will screw up his friendship with her brother if he does.

Our experience with AHS was uniformly awful - I would never recommend them to anyone, and I tell people to assume that warranty has little to no value, because the hassles and time waiting will largely negate any financial benefit. That’s if you don’t get frustrated and end up just calling someone to fix it yourself,…

I know that axe must be heavy - I’m sorry you had to bring it all the way here to grind it.

Sorry to be so long in replying - this is a very busy time of the year in my particular line of work.

Well, not awkward so far, I’m game. Let me first say regarding your ex: it’s a shame when stereotypes prevent us from seeing the pageant of opinions and experiences that exist, even in what we often think of as monolithic groups. Not every woman even wants kids to begin with, and not every woman who decries the wage…

Yeah, whether they admit it or not, because of the high prestige placed on public accounting experience, doubly so on Big 4, it becomes a de facto method of gatekeeping, which keeps a lot of skilled people from ever climbing past a certain level in the profession, on either side of the conference table.

I work in public accounting - not much about this surprises me. The closer you get to Big 4, the more the interviews are a beauty pageant - either white girl with blond hair and big smile, or white boy with boyish looks and frat dude style. You can imagine this tends to create a pervasive conservatism (in the…

Not to talk over the OP, but for me, honestly? It makes me feel like an asshole. I’d rather the playing field be as equal as possible so when I achieved things, I could really feel like I had taken all comers and my talents carried the day, not that the deck was stacked.

As a consultant/auditor, I actually wish we did this with our candidates. Presentation skills are critical when you are trying to explain a very technical finding (with an expensive solution) to the non-technical audit board. If we fail there, we added very little value for the client, despite weeks or months of work.

I had a boss many years ago who said, “If there’s a fish or a bible verse on the business card, you’re going to end up paying twice as much.” Has turned out to only be slight hyperbole in the 20 years or so since he said it to me.

Maybe the new HBO show will catapult him to legitimacy . .

I remember years ago, someone did a study and determined that Arnold was the most recognized face in the world - a truly global superstar. I’m sure that has waned somewhat, but I’ll go ahead and say he far outstrips Sonny Bono and Reagan in that category. I’m not that big of a fan, but to achieve so much success in so…

I think that because of their experiences in Afghanistan and then with the fall of the Soviet Union, their Gen X might be a little more activist/protest - driven, a hybrid of the 1960s upheavals in the US, combined with the fatalism of Gen X. People who were less resigned and more active, but not out of idealism -…

Yeah, my daughter was born Caesarian at Northside too - what a baby mill, man. They’ve got like 4 C-sections going on at once all day long. Everything you described is how I remember that place. (she’s almost 12 now)

Yeah they count on the liquor to kill the bacteria with those nasty things I think.