“Tell Michael it was business, not personal”, said Abe Vigoda near the end of “The Godfather”, and then Tessio gets the business end of betraying the Corleones. Business or Personal: the distinction matters.
In this duo, Business is geared toward benefit, profit, progress, expansion, and other rewards of calculated, logical action. Personal means being a vengeful cunt,* a horny sap, a gaslit spouse, a spurned lover, a cathartic negotiator, a slighted client, a spiteful customer, divorcing, etc. etc. The prevalence of feeling determines taking it personal, as long as the feeling is not greed.
* I meant a male vengeful cunt (e.g., a Supersonics 4EVA incel), so Thank U for all the judgmentalin’. As penance, may Jacobin double its subscription price.
If this is not obvious, it bears repeating: voracity for money is an emotion, not a rational imperative. Everyone needs money for food, narcotics, a WiFi device, and then shelter—but no one needs fries with truffle shavings, Rolexes, a quarter-assed Van Gogh, or a villa with a boat in [Low Cost-of-Living haven]. All of them are great, duh, but not indispensable.
Anyway, that’s the glitch I’ve found in the Business – Personal dyad. Taking it personal is being emotional, always, while business at its best is cool and bloodless. But greed is both business and emotional. And it’s OK to counter greed with walking out of negotiations because screw your rapaciousness. It’s fucking personal alright: you want to take advantage of me and I won’t let ya. Dignity may not be better than business always, but “Go screw over someone else” is a fine code for living for anyone who values self-respect. My only regret is this assessment is the product of being jerked around in real estate negotiations for the last two months, rather than me being blinded by an epiphany after mulling over capitalism over snifters of cognac and Yoo Hoo.
NFL NEWS
-Browns QB D. Watson became a defendant in a 24th lawsuit filed today. The plaintiff alleges that Watson scheduled a second massage at her Apt. Allegedly, after some unsuccessful cajoling to touch his dick, Watson got up and did some other stuff that I would be compelled to pepper with “allegedly”s and goddammit I’m off the clock getting paid by no one. Rest assured the New York Post accused Watson’s lawyer of playing the “Happy Ending” card. As they say on the Webz, #CaseClosed.
-JUST IN: RAMMMITTTT! makes Aaron Donald the highest paid non-QB.
I cannot begin to tell you the utter thrill of:
(1) Top performer getting paid; and,
(2) fretting that I could’ve summarized it more efficiently, given the audience. This place is a blessing.
-Wlmart buys the Donks! [WILL BE UPDATED; gimme an hour]
UPDATE: too impaired to elaborate a theme, xdilhaIHICharmslinG
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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFSE
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Brasil Serie A
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Honduras hosts Curaçao – 7:00 PM
FINALLY,
gotta conclude: wanting money is not bad. Nor spending your money whatever way you wanna, nor wanting to make as much of it as possible–just don’t screw folks over. Spreading the wealth shouldn’t be a repugnant proposition. This isn’t even idealist shit!
All commercial transactions are for benefit and it’s common for one party to come out better than the other. All parties should be fine in a deal at the time it’s made. But the benchmarks for whom comes out ahead of a deal are very, very different: market value when it’s executed and hindsight. (The NFL Draft is the best example of the yooge disconnection between both.) And, really: retrospective analysis really is the end-all-be-all of everything human, isn’t it?
**DIGRESSION: Today is the 48th anniversary of D-Day. I bring it up because it’s today and I really really wish Beerguyrob was around to talk about it. Also (also!), I venture that D-Day is an example of a decision that panned out because it was both impulsive at the time, but time proved that it was correct—and, therefore, rational. Youse a lot of history freaks and learned folks, so feel free to tear me a new one for shoehorning this day into a post theme.**
But as to commercial transactions, je je: bite me.
Outside work stuff, I’m super cool with making a deal where everyone benefits, rather than me making a killin’. From experience, if you screw a greedy person, or someone with a litigioUs bent / “dignity”, it will come back. Greed and envy fuel too much industry. That is the only way I can explain the volume of pawn shop reality shows and other lowball porn. For me, that’s the worst part of this timeline.
Banner via Philip de Goya – Deviant Art
In the book, after Sonny says: “You’re taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very very personal.”, Michael says this:
“Tom, don’t let anybody kid you. It’s all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it’s personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That’s what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
I’m filthy for some unknown reason. I have to go hurl my grubby self into a hot shower, goodnight sweethearts of the corncob
Woohoo, we don’t have to rescue Zymm from an Iranian prison, and Buddy’s here!
Grazie Don T, you are a great read as always Buddy.
Iran sounds fun, I can’t wait to do my Muhammad bits at the Tehran Improv
That would probably be okay, it’s Wahabis that are the real killjoys, with emphasis on the kill
Damn there’s a group named after what my deaf friend orders at the Japanese restaurant
Yes, the Wahabis are the worst, but the Persian ayatollahs have had a well recognized crazy streak going way back. The Ottomans avoided them, and the British Empire found out the hard way.
Probably the exception to the rule that crazy is great in bed
as a woman why do you have an opinion on this
We all enjoy a little crazy!
I only make her wear the hijab when I’m all horned up
too fucking spicy on sushi
Suffren (Q284)
Brand new French nuclear-powered attack submarine
Succotash (Q43SpaceModulator)
I wish I could find a word in English that is equivalent to “porquería”. It’s somewhere between trash and shit.
And what a first line for a tango!
“The World was and will be a porquería…”
https://youtu.be/MKbWaDBieKU
Edmonton deserved to lose for a) employing Evander Kane, and b) insisting on these shot uniforms when their Gretzky-era blue-and-orange is an all-time classic.
Yeah, those sweaters are butt, however Evander’s sister Lana is fine.
Yuuuuuup
I don’t know: those T-Rex hands are hard to get past.
Literally.
Long as they’re not…overly calloused.
https://twitter.com/UnfortunateHky/status/1534009977374920704
Is he the guy who gambled all the grocery money away?
Don Koharski with a “holy shit” on live TV.
“Oh sure, but I offer the man a donut, and I’m the bad guy.” — Jim Schoenfeld
This needs more +1s
Mike Smith’s whining might actually be justified here.
At least we got the on air Holy Shit
Of all the soft goals he let in, he gets a pad on that deflection, and nobody clears out the rebound
I was closer to that rebound than the Edmonton defence
Fair’s fair. It was the defense’s turn to let him down.
UConn Baseball wins the Maryland region as the 3 seed, advances to play either Texas State or Stanford in the Super Regionals.
Likely Stanford, which will just as likely get real ugly, real fast for the Fightin’ Dirt Horatios, but still, hell of a season.
What the hell are Super Regionals?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQtVmGO3cu4
It’s the second round of the College World Series, followed but what I can only assume are the Super Duper Regionals and then the Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious Regionals.
Which are really quite atrocious
But if you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious!
Deservedly so, since they averaged more points per game than the football team.
Bonus ice footy time
Mike Smith is going to Smith this series away
It’s that mask
Good call
I don’t think he’s at fault for the GWG. He got a pad on the deflection, and had nobody around to clear the rebound or take the man. The one not soft goal
Never go full Smith
-Chris Rock
Fun Iran Fact: They are very literal in their interpretations of Islamic laws. The Quran explicitly mentions wine, so alcohol is banned and the penalties for drinking can be quite severe. However, the Quran says nothing about cocaine, opioids, etc, so unless you’re trafficking the penalties for narcotics are quite mild compared to most of the world.
If people like metric so much, why isn’t anyone on metric time? How much sooner do you get somewhere 300 km/hr away if you go 70 km/hr instead of 65 km/hr? Was that easy to calculate? If you get paid every 2 weeks, why aren’t you always paid the same number of times in a month? WTF is up with leap seconds?! How often do you actually convert between things like volume and mass, and don’t you convert between things like minutes and hours way more often? And why is Celsius even included with metric when it’s reference points are just as arbitrary and inaccurate as Fahrenheit’s? (0C is not the freezing point of water, the triple point is actually something like 0.1, and the boiling point of ‘pure’ water varies quite a bit with elevation. Fahrenheit uses the freezing point of salt water and a measure of human body temperature that was made with early inaccurate thermometers)
Q: How you can tell if someone is from the Third World?
A: They like soccer and they use the metric system.
Alberta might suck in a few things but it’s not a third world place
-litre
I’ve been to Alberta! It’s a stunningly beautiful place with very wonderful people.
However, we don’t see an Alberta flag on the moon, now do we?
Enjoying this:
https://youtu.be/dvzF5D5O5-k
I am here for the scorched earth Gruden wants to unleash
Enjoying the story but already sick of that host
The last text my wife sent me said, “It’s not in my anus.” These are the dirty texts I’ve been asking for her to send me for years.
I think that’s good news. And I should know.
It’s always in the last anus you look
Rules out Balls, anyway.
Plot twist: It’s in YOUR anus!
Edmonton:
McDavid is a fucking cheat code
Mike Smith is single handedly killing Edmonton
He has an early tee time.
Reds Grounds Crew lost the battle with the Tarp, but BLEERGH didn’t help waiting until the infield was under water and the rain was at full monsoon.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CincySportTV/status/1533981603231408132?cxt=HHwWiIC9iYGJ5skqAAAA
Just look up a video of Miami and squint.
Were they playing in Jurassic Park?
Watching this Eulers-Avalanche game (Avs up 3-0) is like me on a date: this dessert is nice but it’s not gone well and we all just wish it would be over.
But it ends with someone going down?
Ya know what’s a funny, inside joke that only us cool cats get? When you go to comment on this here site and it asks you to log in first, you go up to the top of the page and click on “Login In,” which I don’t need to explain to all of you why that’s so funny. Harmless, but funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PcY59AX2Q
While I’m showing Suzi Quatro videos, here’s one with lots of shoulder for Hippo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq6buIJS_-U
Leather Tuscadero!
For a while I’ve wanted to change the “Remember Me” to “WITNESS ME!”
DO IT!
Evening. I have a wedding this coming weekend and a few happy hours next week and then I’m already planning a stretch off from drinking. Mainly sharing for accountability but also because I’m saving the last Treehouse from Horatio to launch me into that stretch.
People keep saying pansexual is a new term but I’ve been fucking cast iron skillets since the late 80s
He ain’t heavy, he’s Buddy’s iron-laden dong
Iron Balls Cody was the true hero in The Jerk.
Like most of Buddy’s partners, once it’s well-seasoned, you don’t even need oil!
And because I’m a positive guy, I celebrate the Now (rye), Later (cheap steak), and Beyond (Toradol mexicano).
To atone for his previous behavior DeShawn Watson will now hire “a Tookie Williams-looking motherfucker to nut on my back after the massage is done”
Greetings fellow humanoids! I am back in the US after my lovely 2 week trip to Iran. I think I am suffering from rice withdraw, they eat more rice there than I thought humanly possible. It’s really good rice, with butter and saffron and bar berries and those crispy bits like on a good paella, but the serving size is still insane. Also, tons of sugar and even the fruit and veg is super sweet. Fresh carrot juice with a scoop of saffron/rosewater ice cream in it is astoundingly good, and there are about a million different pastries and candies full of nuts, including 5-nut baklava and gaz, which is Iranian nougat. They also do amazing things with meat, lamb especially. Some really good sweet/sour sauces like cherry chicken or pomegranate-walnut sauce on beef. In conclusion, a vegan diabetic with nut allergies would starve to death within a week.
The most amazing thing I ever saw with meat involved Charles Haley and a hornet’s nest
So, basically, you went to Glendale, is what you are saying? You could have saved yourself the trip and still shopped at The Americana.
Also welcome back.
D-Day (or Overlord, the Normandy Invasion) was not impulsive at all. The idea that Europe would need to be invaded came up right after France fell in 1940. Planning for a cross-channel invasion began in May 1943, over a year before the actual landing.
How do I know this? I was there. it was my idea.
Glad they turned to you after whichever fucker came up with Dieppe.
I told them not to do that. They let Mountbatten run the show against my wishes; he later claimed the abject failure was “a learning experience.” Nice guy but dumb as a rock.
Thank you for your service.
Today was the 20th anniversary of my D-Day where I took part in a midget gangbang at the abandoned Maple Leaf Gardens. And you thought Dougie Gilmour was the real Killer.
As far as business partnerships are concerned-the number one indicator of a solid partner is one that agrees to and abides by the terms of the invoices that you give them. Whether it’s 14 or 30 or 60 days, (never offer 60 days-think about your cash flow) if they pay on time, it is a huge indicator that he/she runs a disciplined operation and that they are hands-on. Through the years I’ve embraced these types and I/we have profited immensely.
It took a while, on account of “Having feckin’ receivables” (M. Friedman, 1975), but I pay contractors half up-front, half upon delivery. And paying contractors ASAP is the closest I’ve clung to karma stuff.
Musicians 0% upfront because what am I? A loon? GTF oOt.
I’m no math-talkin’ guy, but, today isn’t the 48th anniversary of D-Day.
If the man says it’s the anniversary of D-Day, it’s the anniversary of D-Day.
Capice?
I wonder if anyone will understand the first MLB matchup without:
A- looking at the schedule
2- going on Google Translate
A.2:B;3^D –
Cleveland and somebody.
Good job! Rangers.
Doesn’t matter, game was postponed.
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That’s awesome!
Well, given the popularity of Skyline Chili, the infrastructure is already in place.
I had the Mexican Pizza. Without going into details, it makes Skyline look like baby food and water.