Silly Pictures

xenonlion wrote:

That one is my favorite.  

I should get you that cake for your wedding Kerrick

I don't remember a cartful for 20 bucks, but I have noticed an unbelievable increase - half a cart at the grocery market can be 200 bucks !  And don't get me started on Wal-Mart... we went in for a few things that didn't even fill ONE bag, and it was a 100 bucks ! I looked at Lisa in shock, she just said, it all adds up. whew !!

Driven wrote:

I should get you that cake for your wedding Kerrick

Ha! You'd need to put something about "boinking" in there for that though!   

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

I don't remember a cartful for 20 bucks, but I have noticed an unbelievable increase - half a cart at the grocery market can be 200 bucks !  And don't get me started on Wal-Mart... we went in for a few things that didn't even fill ONE bag, and it was a 100 bucks ! I looked at Lisa in shock, she just said, it all adds up. whew !!

Well that's more of a sign of the effect of inflation rather than value/worth... What was minimum wage in 1998 versus 2013? I'd be more curious of the ratio of minimum-wage to amount of food: then and now.

If I remember right, minimum wage in 1997 was $7.75/hr in California. Double what it was 10 years earlier.

I remember my first job I got $6.25/hr and that was in 2001 or 2002... so it was probably less than that in '97. Does minimum wage vary per county or state though? I'm not sure?

There is a federal minimum wage that is THE minimum wage but states can make their own higher minimum wages.  Of course it all goes out the window for wait staff jobs.

Oh, woops, I just looked it up and it says CA min wage was 5.15 in '97. Wow, I thought I was only making a couple bucks over minimum at the time, but apparently I was making 4 bucks over.

A fellow licensed technician doing my exact job but working in a big retail rather than the independent I was working in told me they were making 19 bucks/hr. I left that job after 9 years of getting pathetic raises and went up to 22/hr working with the big boys. But it was a lot harder work too.
Needless to say, I lost track of minimum wage amounts once I was able to pay my mortgage off.

Minimum wage when I started working was $3.35.  My first job paid $5 and I thought I was rolling in the dough!

alldatndensum wrote:

Minimum wage when I started working was $3.35.  My first job paid $5 and I thought I was rolling in the dough!

I hear that!  I've always looked a minimum wage as a working child's wage.  Not something you try and live on.

It can't be a wage to live on and people who think so don't understand economics. You make minimum wage $20 and price increases swallow up the benefit. And many studies show it hurts those who were over minimum wage as companies don't raise their pay scale exponentially.

Minimum wage now is a tad over $10 an hour here. I don't know what it is for the US.

I'm just old enough to remember when you could put more litres than dollars in a car. Just 10 years ago, I think, it was well under $1 a litre, which would be under $3.50 or so a gallon.

Ahhh, it's "show your age" time....

When I first started driving in 1985, gas prices were 75 to 80 cents a gallon. I could fill my entire tank for under 10 bucks.

How big small was your tank?

Oi!!! Less talk, more silly pictures!!!!  

For all the mathematicians here:

Mommy, how are French fries made ?

That is absolutely tasteless.















No wonder I like you.

  awww go on ....

The geek in me wouldn't mind having this...

Rear visibility would be terrible with that droid on the back, but that would be a nice thing to own.

Also, I've expanded on a famous proverb… "If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness is its father."

You could have a real camera mounted in R2s head so that you could have a rear view screen inside to help with backing and just watching around you while driving.

Use the Force...