Random Ramblings

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Watching "You People" on Netflix. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss got work done on her face. Unfortunate. These older Hollywood types looking good, turning weird.

Haven't seen her recently. No idea why someone as attractive as she was would have their face fucked with. Fighting age with surgery rarely works well.

Father Time is undefeated. There's no shame in looking the age you are. I'd say it's far preferable to dropping a mortgage payment (or several mortgage payments) into your face every couple of months getting all the cosmetic stuff done.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Watching "You People" on Netflix. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss got work done on her face. Unfortunate. These older Hollywood types looking good, turning weird.

You sure about that? I just looked at current pics on her insta page and she looks pretty much the same, including wrinkles. •Maybe• she’s had some Botox/filler work done, but def not a lot, at least by Hollywood standards. I think she still looks pretty freaking great.

They do quite a bit with makeup in the movies, but TeeVee and movie stars are employed both for their acting and their looks, heck even politicians rely on their looks for votes sometimes.

My wife is “making” me clean the basement today. She’s on a bender right now trying to get stuff done around the house (she values herself based on how productive she is any given day, she’s the daughter of addicts so this makes sense) so here I am, in the basement, moving stuff from one side of the basement to the other.

Oh, our close friends are finishing their basement right now so she values herself even less because we aren’t.

Women are weird.

1. Finish your fucking basement

2. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is 62 years old. She's still a hottie and everyone of you would bang, if you could and if she's still into it.

DWags wrote:1. Finish your fucking basement

2. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is 62 years old. She's still a hottie and everyone of you would bang, if you could and if she's still into it.

Nope - wouldn't bang jailbait like that.

DWags wrote:1. Finish your fucking basement

2. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is 62 years old. She's still a hottie and everyone of you would bang, if you could and if she's still into it.

I love my wife dwags so I wouldn’t

DWags wrote:1. Finish your fucking basement

2. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is 62 years old. She's still a hottie and everyone of you would bang, if you could and if she's still into it.

1) You sound like my wife.

2) Accurate

She told me we have to get rid of things we never use.

I replied with “so we’re getting rid of your vagina” and now she’s not talking to me.

We are beating Purdue tomorrow

Nordic wrote:We are beating Purdue tomorrow

January
February
Izzo
April

Motown Spartan wrote:She told me we have to get rid of things we never use.

I replied with “so we’re getting rid of your vagina” and now she’s not talking to me.

Well at least she was nice enough not to reply, well I use it all the time.

Trapper Gus wrote:

Motown Spartan wrote:She told me we have to get rid of things we never use.

I replied with “so we’re getting rid of your vagina” and now she’s not talking to me.

Well at least she was nice enough not to reply, well I use it all the time.

I was thinking more along the lines of a smart ass answer back: “that’s what you think”.

DWags wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Well at least she was nice enough not to reply, well I use it all the time.

I was thinking more along the lines of a smart ass answer back: “that’s what you think”.

Pretty much the same thing, your version is nicer.

Motown Spartan wrote:My wife is “making” me clean the basement today. She’s on a bender right now trying to get stuff done around the house (she values herself based on how productive she is any given day, she’s the daughter of addicts so this makes sense) so here I am, in the basement, moving stuff from one side of the basement to the other.

Oh, our close friends are finishing their basement right now so she values herself even less because we aren’t.

Women are weird.

What the hell Motown. You built your freaking house, and you haven't finished your basement yet? You've been there what, over 10 years now right?
Get it together and please your woman.

DWags wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Well at least she was nice enough not to reply, well I use it all the time.

I was thinking more along the lines of a smart ass answer back: “that’s what you think”.

The guys on the board missed their moment of chiming in how they use it all the time.
This board is slacking!

Dendrobates wrote:

DWags wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of a smart ass answer back: “that’s what you think”.

The guys on the board missed their moment of chiming in how they use it all the time.
This board is slacking!

Just step up and do it... we all kind of expect you to anyway.

Motown Spartan wrote:She told me we have to get rid of things we never use.

I replied with “so we’re getting rid of your vagina” and now she’s not talking to me.

Her and Dendro give it a workout .

DWags wrote:

Is it wrong that I cry every time I watch this?

Dendrobates wrote:

Motown Spartan wrote:My wife is “making” me clean the basement today. She’s on a bender right now trying to get stuff done around the house (she values herself based on how productive she is any given day, she’s the daughter of addicts so this makes sense) so here I am, in the basement, moving stuff from one side of the basement to the other.

Oh, our close friends are finishing their basement right now so she values herself even less because we aren’t.

Women are weird.

What the hell Motown. You built your freaking house, and you haven't finished your basement yet? You've been there what, over 10 years now right?
Get it together and please your woman.

This. In addition. Build it out mostly how she wants. But add a sweet bike room. Which you will need to fill with bikes, parts and whatnot. Win-Win.

Build a ski jump

kingstonlake wrote:Build a ski jump

So many activities

kingstonlake wrote:Build a ski jump

Just trying to envision a ski jump in a basement.

The Winter Sports Park in Ishpeming or Suicide Hill seems like it would be enough.

Dendrobates wrote:

DWags wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of a smart ass answer back: “that’s what you think”.

The guys on the board missed their moment of chiming in how they use it all the time.
This board is slacking!

One step beyond the persona I wish to project on this board, and besides Mrs. W wouldn't notice my little thingee anyway.

Does anybody really understand gymnastics scoring?

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So after a bunch of competition on the floor, that's all that separates two squads? Two tenths of a point?

Company let a guy in my department go couple months ago. Mid 60's and had health issues.

Boss informed me today he died recently.

RIP John

Floyd Robertson wrote:Does anybody really understand gymnastics scoring?

So after a bunch of competition on the floor, that's all that separates two squads? Two tenths of a point?

It is pretty simple, actually.  A match is comprised of four events - vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.  Each team has six gymnasts do each event (also called a rotation), the lowest score of the six is dropped.

In theory each gymnast starts with a score of 9.5, but that can be bumped to 10.0 by adding optional more difficult moves.  Most college routines have a starting score of 9.9 or 10.0. Points are deducted for any errors (bad form, bobbles, steps on landing, and falls) during the routine.  Most of the errors are small and most college gymnasts have pretty clean routines, so unless they fall off a beam or something the scores are typically in the 9.8 range.  You best gymnast will be 9.9 or better, the weaker ones 9.7 or so.  Figure an average score of 9.8 x 5 and most rotations score around 49 points.
 
So yes, the scores are typically very close, or seemingly so.   A match score of 194 to 198 looks close, but in reality that is pretty far apart.

The individual all around champion is the highest scoring individual who competed in all four events.  Teams have gymnasts who specialize in one or two events which makes the scores even closer.

FWIW, college gymnastics is scored easier than Olympic gymnastics.  It is basically equivalent Junior Olympic level 10 (the highest Junior Olympic level).

The Pantry wrote:Company let a guy in my department go couple months ago. Mid 60's and had health issues.

Boss informed me today he died recently.

RIP John

Sorry to hear that. RIP

Floyd Robertson wrote:Does anybody really understand gymnastics scoring?

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So after a bunch of competition on the floor, that's all that separates two squads? Two tenths of a point?

Nope. Don’t understand at all. Ask Nordic if, after a decade of watching, he knows how dance competitions are scored. Same stuff. Never understood it.

Floyd Robertson wrote:Does anybody really understand gymnastics scoring?

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So after a bunch of competition on the floor, that's all that separates two squads? Two tenths of a point?

The East German judges understood scoring very, very well.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:Does anybody really understand gymnastics scoring?

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So after a bunch of competition on the floor, that's all that separates two squads? Two tenths of a point?

Nope. Don’t understand at all. Ask Nordic if, after a decade of watching, he knows how dance competitions are scored. Same stuff.  Never understood it.

Lol. I've done both gymnastics meets and dance comps and have no fucking clue. Clap and smile.

The Pantry wrote:Company let a guy in my department go couple months ago. Mid 60's and had health issues.

Boss informed me today he died recently.

RIP John

Man I hate hearing those things. How sad and depressing to be let go then/retire then and die shortly afterwards.
I hope the possible lack of Healthcare didn't make it worse. That thought is just sickening.

Dendrobates wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Company let a guy in my department go couple months ago. Mid 60's and had health issues.

Boss informed me today he died recently.

RIP John

Man I hate hearing those things. How sad and depressing to be let go then/retire then and die shortly afterwards.
I hope the possible lack of Healthcare didn't make it worse. That thought is just sickening.

Most likely he was let go because he might have had health issues. If the company has a life insurance policy, they probably didn't want to pay it out.
Is that cynical?

InTenSity wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:

Man I hate hearing those things. How sad and depressing to be let go then/retire then and die shortly afterwards.
I hope the possible lack of Healthcare didn't make it worse. That thought is just sickening.

Most likely he was let go because he might have had health issues. If the company has a life insurance policy, they probably didn't want to pay it out.
Is that cynical?

Cynical yes, but also VERY unlikely.  First off, most employer provided life insurance is limited to 50K - the cost is taxable income after that.  Also, I am not aware of any companies who are self insured for life insurance, they pay group rates to an insurance company.

If you want to go down that path, many larger companies ARE self insured for medical insurance.  The plan is administered by an insurer, but the company's cost is based on claims of its employees (and families) on the plan.  There is almost always a stop loss amount but those can be very high.  So theoretically they could cut an employee lose for excess medical claims.

FWIW, even if he was terminated months ago, he could still be on the company plan under COBRA for up to 36 months.

MSU addict wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Most likely he was let go because he might have had health issues. If the company has a life insurance policy, they probably didn't want to pay it out.
Is that cynical?

Cynical yes, but also VERY unlikely.  First off, most employer provided life insurance is limited to 50K - the cost is taxable income after that.  Also, I am not aware of any companies who are self insured for life insurance, they pay group rates to an insurance company.

If you want to go down that path, many larger companies ARE self insured for medical insurance.  The plan is administered by an insurer, but the company's cost is based on claims of its employees (and families) on the plan.  There is almost always a stop loss amount but those can be very high.  So theoretically they could cut an employee lose for excess medical claims.

FWIW, even if he was terminated months ago, he could still be on the company plan under COBRA for up to 36 months.

Ahh, ok. The company I work for has LI for 2X our salary. I'm not even sure there is a cap on it. I checked on the ADP website that shows our benefits and I'm well over $50k if I die.
The other insurance, yes, is done the way you describe. Self insured, but administered through an insurance company.

InTenSity wrote:

MSU addict wrote:
Cynical yes, but also VERY unlikely.  First off, most employer provided life insurance is limited to 50K - the cost is taxable income after that.  Also, I am not aware of any companies who are self insured for life insurance, they pay group rates to an insurance company.

If you want to go down that path, many larger companies ARE self insured for medical insurance.  The plan is administered by an insurer, but the company's cost is based on claims of its employees (and families) on the plan.  There is almost always a stop loss amount but those can be very high.  So theoretically they could cut an employee lose for excess medical claims.

FWIW, even if he was terminated months ago, he could still be on the company plan under COBRA for up to 36 months.

Ahh, ok. The company I work for has LI for 2X our salary. I'm not even sure there is a cap on it. I checked on the ADP website that shows our benefits and I'm well over $50k if I die.
The other insurance, yes, is done the way you describe. Self insured, but administered through an insurance company.

There isn't a "cap" per se, but if you provide over 50K in life insurance the cost of amounts over 50K are taxable income.  Your W-2 wages will be more than you actually received in wages and the amount should be detailed in box 12 of your W-2 under code C I believe.  It is just a hassle for most employers especially if you have an older defined benefit pension plan still in existence - so many employers have opted to just providing the 50K.

If you do look at your W-2 you can see the cost of GTL is likely less than you might expect and not something that would make you let an employee go over.

Edit: Thinking about further, I am retired but in my 30 years with my former employer there were less than a dozen active employee deaths. One of those people worked directly for me and her life insurance premium was in the 100's of dollars but I know for a fact that her medical bills were in the millions (we were self insured with a 250K stop loss amount).

MSU addict wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Most likely he was let go because he might have had health issues. If the company has a life insurance policy, they probably didn't want to pay it out.
Is that cynical?

Cynical yes, but also VERY unlikely.  First off, most employer provided life insurance is limited to 50K - the cost is taxable income after that.  Also, I am not aware of any companies who are self insured for life insurance, they pay group rates to an insurance company.

If you want to go down that path, many larger companies ARE self insured for medical insurance.  The plan is administered by an insurer, but the company's cost is based on claims of its employees (and families) on the plan.  There is almost always a stop loss amount but those can be very high.  So theoretically they could cut an employee lose for excess medical claims.

FWIW, even if he was terminated months ago, he could still be on the company plan under COBRA for up to 36 months.

From I was told company gave him some form of severance and agreed to cover his health insurance until both he and his wife were eligible for Medicare. He turned 65 in December and his wife is about a year younger, also with health issues.

The Pantry wrote:

MSU addict wrote:
Cynical yes, but also VERY unlikely.  First off, most employer provided life insurance is limited to 50K - the cost is taxable income after that.  Also, I am not aware of any companies who are self insured for life insurance, they pay group rates to an insurance company.

If you want to go down that path, many larger companies ARE self insured for medical insurance.  The plan is administered by an insurer, but the company's cost is based on claims of its employees (and families) on the plan.  There is almost always a stop loss amount but those can be very high.  So theoretically they could cut an employee lose for excess medical claims.

FWIW, even if he was terminated months ago, he could still be on the company plan under COBRA for up to 36 months.

From I was told company gave him some form of severance and agreed to cover his health insurance until both he and his wife were eligible for Medicare. He turned 65 in December and his wife is about a year younger, also with health issues.

That sounds reasonable.