October 02, 2012
— DrewM Mitt Romney's garbageman thinks Mitt's a mean guy because he's never hugged him or offered him something to drink.
Seriously.
The ad is from AFSCME, the largest public employees union.
Here's my question for the butthurt garbageman...Have you ever thanked Mitt Romney or anyone else for working hard to pay the taxes that cover your salary?
It's bad enough so many public sector workers demand high wages and outrageous benefit and pension plans, now they expect us to kiss their asses for the privilege.
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Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 02, 2012 07:56 AM (Pixxe)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 02, 2012 07:56 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 07:57 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at October 02, 2012 07:57 AM (C2//T)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 07:57 AM (8y9MW)
TTTHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....................
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 07:57 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Lord Humungus at October 02, 2012 07:57 AM (Yv6gq)
Posted by: Doug at October 02, 2012 07:58 AM (mO4j5)
Posted by: lorien1973 at October 02, 2012 07:58 AM (mcWHD)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at October 02, 2012 07:58 AM (QupBk)
Geez. His numbers must look really bad...
Posted by: Nighthawk at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (RSqz2)
Posted by: TD at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (+uFux)
Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: phoenixgirl what did huma abedin know? team dagny at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (Ho2rs)
Probably wanted Romney to get close so he could call Romney a corporatist thug and throw garbage at him anyway.
Posted by: Karusky at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (dO4L7)
This guy is in San Diego? San Diego is BROKE, brokety broke broke, because of people like this guy and his union. He's lucky he still has a freaking job because his buddies took all the omey for their fat pensions. /smh
Posted by: rockmom at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (qE3AR)
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Havedash at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (F0WNa)
You want a hug?
Get it from your momma!
Posted by: General Woundwort at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (06lNq)
Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at October 02, 2012 07:59 AM (4+PCd)
Seems right to me.
And I hate those fucking tip jars everywhere.
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Cajun Carrot at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (UZQM8)
Unh-hunh.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: Doc at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (IgPFp)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (GFM2b)
I mean, c'mon, this guy would probably rat you out if he found a dead hobo in your trash.
Posted by: Fritz at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (/ZZCn)
Posted by: Weew at October 02, 2012 08:00 AM (6ll+l)
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:01 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 02, 2012 08:01 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: dananjcon at October 02, 2012 08:01 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: Alwaysright at October 02, 2012 08:02 AM (zvxqj)
I assume the unions will want him to f*ck the postman next.
Posted by: Roy at October 02, 2012 08:02 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 08:02 AM (fWAjv)
Those sad, puppy-dog eyes almost kept me from laughing my ass off. Almost.
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 08:03 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at October 02, 2012 08:03 AM (4+PCd)
Posted by: Doc at October 02, 2012 08:03 AM (IgPFp)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:03 AM (Dnbau)
Nah, they put out the unused White Sox post-season tickets.
Posted by: Basement Cat at October 02, 2012 08:04 AM (HStAH)
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:04 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 02, 2012 08:04 AM (6zgse)
This is what it's comes down to for liberals? If you don't kiss your garbage-man's fat ass your somehow not qualified to be president?
Did Obama ever kiss his garbage mans ass? Did anyone ever bother to ask...you know since the issue is being raised?
If you are so easily persuaded by this trash, maybe you need to find another country. I here there are still plenty of socialist dictatorships in the world.
Posted by: Exile at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (GGCsk)
In Phila, the trashmen used to bang on your doors at Christmas time, say "Merry Christmas" and hold their hand out. You were expected to give them a cash gift.
This thuggery lasted until the 80s, and only stopped because a TV crew exposed them getting drunk and shooting hoops during work time.
Posted by: CJ at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (9KqcB)
Posted by: dananjcon at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (Dnbau)
This guy is driving a 'yanker truck'!
At least that's what they're showing...
Those trucks have a mechanical arm, attached to the side of the truck.
The arm extends out, grabs the bin...and yanks it up over the top of the truck to empty it.
The guys who drive those trucks...never get out of the trucks.
The same type trucks are used in my area.
So...how is anyone going to be 'giving him a hug'...or 'giving him waters, or gatoraid'?
What a crock!
Fuckn Unions.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (l5RhJ)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 08:05 AM (RXQ4T)
Mitt Romney trash do have that rich honky smell, you know.
Like a new Ace thread, you know.
Posted by: Richard Hayes, Sanitation Engineer at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (u1Q5a)
Posted by: Roy at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: CUS at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (84pE9)
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (LTbLf)
And I hope AFSCME gets puts out with the rest of our trash after the next election. They are destroying this country.
Posted by: Exile at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (GGCsk)
You'd end up in the Passaic River or the Hudson.
The east river is on the other side of Manhattan across from Brooklyn.
Posted by: General Woundwort at October 02, 2012 08:06 AM (06lNq)
Just wait... the anti-Mormon stuff is coming
Posted by: Jones in CO at October 02, 2012 08:07 AM (8sCoq)
Oh, in sales or direct customer service you might get a "thank you," but outside of that? And beyond the normal level of politeness? No, not really. Because it's a business transaction, not a favor asked and given.
Twits.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:07 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Cajun Carrot at October 02, 2012 08:07 AM (UZQM8)
Mornin' Horde,
I can't believe I've worn out a large size Brinkman smoker jn less than two years, bought a new grill yesterday, breaking it in with two packs of boneless skinless chicken tits today, and btw odumbass is a cockholster and liar.
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at October 02, 2012 08:07 AM (8Hnjw)
Posted by: rockmom at October 02, 2012 08:08 AM (qE3AR)
Posted by: Richard Hayes at October 02, 2012 12:07 PM (tG36f)
More like Koolaid and this guy has drunk plenty of it..
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:08 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: joncelli is losing his patience at October 02, 2012 08:08 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: vivi at October 02, 2012 08:08 AM (OTPxW)
Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: alexthechick -f u autocorrect at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (zWVHV)
Considering the source, I suspect this is a bit of an exaggeration. I'm pretty sure when he was in his early 20's, EoJ ALWAYS wanted to touch himself.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: phoenixgirl what did huma abedin know? team dagny at October 02, 2012 08:09 AM (Ho2rs)
After watching this gripping ad, I join Richard in condemnation of the unions who are enslaving this poor man and others, in occupations that there are no escape from.
I say it's time to demand that the legalized slavery that are modern unions must be stamped out!
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (4136b)
Posted by: obamuh at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (rNS5g)
So I got a 50 gallon can. First week there, I noticed that I'm the only person on the block following that rule.
We're even. You get no hugs. Instead, why don't you just be satisfied with my light load. And my money.
Posted by: red sweater at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (Xwgt3)
We now have a situation where the servants have a better deal than their masters, the tax payers.
This arrangement must change.
Posted by: General Woundwort at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (06lNq)
"My name is Richard Hayes, and I pick up Mitt Romney's trash," the man says to the camera in the 60-second Web ad. "We're kind of like the invisible people, you know. He doesn't realize, you know, that the service we provide, you know, if it wasn't for us, you know, it would be a big health issue, us not picking up trash."
"Picking up 15, 16 tons by hand, you know that takes a toll on your body," Hayes continued. "When I'm 55, 60 years old, I know my body's going to be break down. Mitt Romney doesn't care about that."
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:10 AM (AZGON)
I guess I was wrong.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 02, 2012 08:11 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: The Jackhole at October 02, 2012 08:11 AM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Jimmy Dugan at October 02, 2012 08:11 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Countrysquire at October 02, 2012 08:11 AM (awhNz)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:11 AM (Dnbau)
To get garbage pick up twice a week I would have to double my property taxes.
No thanks.
Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (YdQQY)
Gah, close. Oh well. Mornin morons. Do not get down. I live in a deep blue part of KCMO, and there are hardly any SCOAMF stickers or lawn signs around town here. Nothing like 08. Outside of a maybe a Prius or a Subaru, you do not see a sticker. Surprisingly seeing some RR signs and stickers in the metro. It ain't gonna be close. Broken glass people.
It's stories like these that make me laugh at the turnout models built into these polls. I live in an admittedly red area but with a significant minority population along with some yankee liberal transplants and I can count the number of 2012 bumper stickers I've seen on one hand. I don't think I've seen any yard signs. This district went for McCain but the signage for Jugears in 2008 was definitely noticeable.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: phoenixgirl what did huma abedin know? team dagny at October 02, 2012 12:09 PM (Ho2rs)
Drink!!!
Actually Canadian Club at 11AM. I need it.
Posted by: JimboHoffa at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (dAfqy)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 12:05 PM (RXQ4T)
And that's saying something
Posted by: The Jackhole at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (POGCP)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (U+DUu)
http://tinyurl.com/7pweath
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (LTbLf)
You guys are missing the whole point of the ad. The guy is black, Romney has never taken the time to get to know him, ergo Romney is a racist who hates black people. Simple as that.
Posted by: BigDaddyD at October 02, 2012 08:12 AM (S4N/h)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at October 02, 2012 08:13 AM (QupBk)
Aren't they all?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:13 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: I'm no doctor, or an actor at October 02, 2012 08:13 AM (e8kgV)
Personally, I find the garbage man ad hilarious. It comes off like a parody of political ads in the style that SNL would do, if they weren't so biased.
Too bad there are probably some people out there who clueless enough to take this ad seriously, and yet somehow competent enough to find their way to their polling place.
Posted by: Optimizer at October 02, 2012 08:13 AM (As94z)
ennsylvania voter ID law blocked:Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:13 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (+lsX1)
The truck in the commercial is one of those where the homeowner has to push the bin to the curb and then the garbage truck drives up, they push a lever, push a knob and the hydraulic arm grasps the bin and lifts it and dumps it.
That lazy bastard doesn't lift a damned thing except his fork at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
15, 16 tons a day, my ass you lying sack of shit.
The homeowner does more physical work to haul off the trash than that "garbage man."
Posted by: RoyalOil at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (6viux)
Posted by: Kevin Costner at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (+3xZ8)
Posted by: JimboHoffa at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (dAfqy)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (PE5KF)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: no good deed at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (mjR67)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:14 AM (u1Q5a)
Posted by: MWTexas at October 02, 2012 08:15 AM (N05oL)
The “Meet Richard Hayes” video is one in a series of videos juxtaposing the personal stories with Romney’s dismissal of nearly half of all Americans (in the now-famous video released by “Mother Jones”) and his agenda to cut and privatize public services.
The second video, “Meet Temo” features Temo Fuentes, a City of San Diego employee who fixes the fire trucks that service Mitt Romney’s neighborhood. (Fuentes’ mother used to clean houses in the area.) Long-time City of San Diego sanitation worker Joan Raymond is featured in the third video. The videos were produced by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, and the workers featured are AFSCME members.
afscme blog
Sweet, sequels...
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 02, 2012 08:15 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: David Duke at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (v6ewg)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (RXQ4T)
Yup.....TFG has set set this country back 40 years.
Post racial president.
Posted by: eleven at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (L4CWX)
Hey, garbage man, I have a pickup for ya. It's at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, on January 20, 2013.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (U+DUu)
I'm kind of like an invisible person to him...maybe just a bump in the road. I've asked several times for more protection at the embassy, but, you know, it might cut into Sandra Fluke's birth control money, you know.
I'm 52 years old, and my body is already breaking down. Like compost, you know.
Barack Obama doesn't care about that. He's got a fundraiser in Las Vegas to attend.
Posted by: J. Christopher Stevens at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (Dnbau)
I bet he hoists more than a few in the local bars.
Posted by: Basement Cat at October 02, 2012 08:16 AM (HStAH)
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Ya know. Maybe you should have gone to school and become an accountant.
Posted by: CUS at October 02, 2012 08:17 AM (84pE9)
Posted by: Under 30 Hipster at October 02, 2012 08:17 AM (tG36f)
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: johnd01 at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (ukNFU)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (GFM2b)
The “Meet Richard Hayes” video is one in a series of videos juxtaposing the personal stories with Romney’s dismissal of nearly half of all Americans (in the now-famous video released by “Mother Jones”) and his agenda to cut and privatize public services.
The second video, “Meet Temo” features Temo Fuentes, a City of San Diego employee who fixes the fire trucks that service Mitt Romney’s neighborhood. (Fuentes’ mother used to clean houses in the area.) Long-time City of San Diego sanitation worker Joan Raymond is featured in the third video. The videos were produced by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, and the workers featured are AFSCME members.
afscme blog
Sweet, sequels...
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 02, 2012 12:15 PM (kdS6q)
Do these dipshits realize that Romney pays so much in taxes that he indirectly funds their public sector jobs more than 99% of the rest of the country?
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (LTbLf)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (SgVM9)
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Havedash at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (F0WNa)
Heck I like garbage men , It takes a lot of hassle out of my life. true
still should we ask if he thanks his employer for his paycheck , his costumers for payment, his mailman ,his bank teller , his cashier at the grocers, his customer service rep at the electric company, his electrician that put in his outlets, the road crews that made the streets, on and on we can go.
maybe one of them are insulted at his lack of insigtht that they may want a thank you and a coffee, besides their nice paycheck and pension.
in fact perhps garbage men , mailmen, etc should all wave and smile say thank you for their nice paycheck to all their customers that help provide food and a roof for their families?
or not, it is all silly, we should all be nice to people we meet, should we go out of our way to meet them Is this really necessay?
Posted by: willow at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (TomZ9)
Or sumpin.
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (rlba9)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at October 02, 2012 08:18 AM (KvKOu)
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 08:19 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:19 AM (Dnbau)
Or take your actually pretty decent salary and save for retirement.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:19 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl what did huma abedin know? team dagny at October 02, 2012 08:19 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: Clemenza at October 02, 2012 08:19 AM (Q8Pu5)
Posted by: Dang© at October 02, 2012 08:20 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:20 AM (9+ccr)
I lift 8-9 tons during my weightlifting workouts just trying to stay in shape.
And I'm 63 and weigh 155 pounds.
What a wuss.
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 08:20 AM (1Y+hH)
Yesterday I was in Washington State. I saw a Romney bumper sticker on a Subaru.
At home, I pass well-cared for home on my way to work. The guy obviously works HVAC. In the spring, no less, his house sported an Obama 2012 sign. It's been gone for about four months. Still nothing.
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 02, 2012 08:20 AM (qwK3S)
Posted by: Zomnbie Isaac Hayes at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Golan Globus at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (7vSU0)
You guys are missing the whole point of the ad. The guy is black, Romney has never taken the time to get to know him, ergo Romney is a racist who hates black people. Simple as that.
Posted by: BigDaddyD at October 02, 2012 12:12 PM (S4N/h)
Hey, I didn't miss it (see #61).
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (LTbLf)
Posted by: phoenixgirl what did huma abedin know? team dagny at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (Ho2rs)
NYC 20 years of service retirement scheme.
Service Retirement Benfits
If you have 20 or more years of service regardless of age, you are eligible to receive a Service Retirement Benefit equal to:
- 50% times Final Average Salary (FAS) for the first 20 years of service
plus
- 1-1/2% times Final Compensation for each year of service in excess of 20 years.
plus
1% times Final Compensation for each year of credited service other than allowable sanitation service.
Not a bad deal if you ask me.
This scheme is typical to ALL municipal unions.
BUST THE UNIONS!!!!
Posted by: General Woundwort at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (06lNq)
112 So does anyone know if this guy actually physically picks up the trash cans or does he have one of those trucks with the forks that pick up the cans? Looking at his size I say he doesn't do a lot of hoisting...
He's lying.
If we are to go by what is being shown...in the ad...then, he's lying.
They show two 'yanker trucks'...and the bins-on-wheels that are designed to be yanked up, by that type of truck.
In my area...there is only one driver per truck.
The driver never gets out.
The driver never touches the bins.
If you don't have your bin positioned right...on the side of the street, or road...then, they don't yank it.
But then, I live in a Right to Work state...where they can't load up more workers than are needed to do the job.
The fact remains, though, that they are showing us the type of truck and bins...where the garbage men do not have to lift a damn thing.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 08:21 AM (l5RhJ)
Posted by: Dang© at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (R18D0)
So what this ad says to 95% of Americans is, "Mitt Romney is just like me!"
Posted by: Bang Out Of Order at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (1H47k)
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Ya know. Maybe you should have gone to school and become an accountant.
Posted by: CUS at October 02, 2012 12:17 PM (84pE9)
I guess all those professional athletes are in the same boat too, huh? Mitt must hate them too.
Posted by: Havedash at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (F0WNa)
Posted by: Chris at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (gI9Bk)
Posted by: baracky obama at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (RGgMp)
Our neighborhood garbage guy doesn't even get out of the fucking truck anymore. A big robotic claw grabs the container and dumps it in the truck. I'm not hugging that thing.
Posted by: Eisenhorn
beep beep *sigh*
Posted by: Lonely Big Robotic Claw
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 02, 2012 08:22 AM (kdS6q)
"So, I told my husband you were retiring and we ought to do something, and he just said 'Fuck him, give him five bucks.'
"The breakfast was my idea."
Posted by: punchline of the greatest mailman joke ever at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (qaVK+)
Who else could we hug? The jizz-mopper at the peep show? The guy who sucks out the Porta-Shitters? Curious' gynecologist?
No thank you.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (RXQ4T)
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
[Bursts into tears]
Posted by: Richard Hayes, sensitive guy at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Lincolntf at October 02, 2012 08:23 AM (HethX)
Posted by: RWC at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: JimboHoffa at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (dAfqy)
Posted by: Golan Globus at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (7vSU0)
That, and the feel of computing circa 1985.
Posted by: K~Bob at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (N2RQX)
Posted by: I'm no doctor, or an actor pretending to be a doctor at October 02, 2012 08:24 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: biancaneve at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (6bYlh)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (oSFWF)
Ok, Richard, can I call you Dick?
No? Ok then, Dick. Tell me, exactly how many hugs do you typically receive while making your rounds? 5? 10? Who are they? Are they usually gay men? Are you gay, Dick? When you don't get a hug, are you depressed? Angry? Have you filed a grievance with the union? Is there a "hug clause" in the contract?
Do you give better service to people who hug you? Are you insane? Do you look through people's trash? What's the best thing you've found? Again, are you gay?
Posted by: bacadog at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (TE1kh)
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (8kq7+)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: dananjcon at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: Dang© at October 02, 2012 08:25 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at October 02, 2012 08:26 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:26 AM (X7wAM)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 02, 2012 08:26 AM (jucos)
An ex-Secret Service guy wrote a book about the various prezzies and how they were viewed/treated by them. Link in my sig. Here's the bit about the current occupants:
BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA: ” Clinton all over again” – hates the military and looks down on the Secret Service. He is egotistical and cunning; looks you in the eye and appears to agree with you, but turns around and does the opposite—untrustworthy. He has temper tantrums.
She is a complete bitch, who hates anybody who is not black; hates the military; and looks at the Secret Service as servants.
Summary -- R presidents were mostly kind and friendly; Ds were shitheels.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 02, 2012 08:26 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (rlba9)
Can I interest you in some tin-foil?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (8y9MW)
Geez, Warren Sapp has really let himself go.
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (X7wAM)
In the two times I've had a problem/issue, I've picked up the phone, called the company, left a message, the owner personally called me back that day and we've resolved it amicably. Not that I ever threatened to do so, or would, but the owner knows that if I'm not happy with my service, with one phone call I could take my trash business over to his local competitor.
Imagine that. . .the private sector doing things more efficiently than public sector (let alone with public sector union involvement).
In the meantime, you think President Obama even knows what his garbageman looks like?
Posted by: Looking closely at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (6Q9g2)
The best part of that ad is where they show the garbage truck using its fork to lift the garbage can right as the guy is talking about his body breaking down from lifting all of those trash cans.
And I really want to meet the type of person who gives their garbage man hugs.
Posted by: Colonel Pooteh at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (z1pR+)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 02, 2012 12:26 PM (feFL6)
No. But then, does wanking 'work' ??
Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 02, 2012 08:27 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: fasternu426 at October 02, 2012 08:28 AM (v4lzn)
149 Our neighborhood garbage guy doesn't even get out of the fucking truck anymore. A big robotic claw grabs the container and dumps it in the truck. I'm not hugging that thing.
Exactly.
And that's the type of trucks that they are showing in this ad!
We call them 'yanker trucks'.
And the guys here never get out of the trucks.
They never touch the bins.
Sometimes...here in OK...the wind blows the bins over.
The garbage truck drivers don't get out and put them right-side-up...in order for the mechanical arm to yank them.
They just drive on by.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 08:28 AM (l5RhJ)
Comparing the two candidates- one guys doesn't hug his garbage man ... and of course everyone does that. The other guy goes to sleep and off to a fund raiser with an ambassador unaccounted for, who is then raped, and dies along with three other Americans, including two former SEALs. Who is the bigger asshole?
Posted by: Honey Badger at October 02, 2012 08:28 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 08:28 AM (oSFWF)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 02, 2012 08:28 AM (lWXSF)
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Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Stewie at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (QjSgY)
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (X7wAM)
Posted by: fasternu426 at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (v4lzn)
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Absolutely. I heard a super model (or actress--doesn't matter) complain once how difficult it was to keep so skinny because she needed to be to get jobs. That's my answer. Hey. No one FORCED you to be a model if it's so damn hard. Go to school and get a job.
Posted by: CUS at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (84pE9)
I'd booby trap them. Because I *care*.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Nora at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (RGgMp)
Posted by: Golan Globus at October 02, 2012 08:29 AM (7vSU0)
Posted by: Richard Hayes at October 02, 2012 08:30 AM (LTbLf)
Not a penny was to fund any hugging of smelly garbage men, or women.
Posted by: Dang© at October 02, 2012 08:30 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at October 02, 2012 08:30 AM (AZGON)
Typically for an ad to work people have to agree with it in principle. So if Mitt Romney hadn't thanked his wife's doctor, it may get traction (because people actually do that.)
So this one is going to backfire when everyone looks at themselves and go "well I don't hug my garbage man, or give him water, so screw off."
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Posted by: RoyalOil at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 12:28 PM (oSFWF)
Albeit very slowly these days.
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (rlba9)
Posted by: Dang© at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: Bat Red in Baton Rouge at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (lWXSF)
Posted by: Richard Hayes at October 02, 2012 08:31 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Mitt Romney's tax-payin' self at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (x7g7t)
Posted by: Golan Globus at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (7vSU0)
Too late. I've gone through that shit with a microscope and rape kit but didn't find anything worth handing over to the Obama campaign.
That there was nothing incriminating in his trash can only mean that he's hiding something.
Posted by: Mitt Romney's Union Garbageman at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 12:29 PM (X7wAM)
That was actually "Men At Work" ... related to that, see #105.
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (LTbLf)
Posted by: TD at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (DQMcq)
So this one is going to backfire when everyone looks at themselves and go "well I don't hug my garbage man, or give him water, so screw off."
Posted by: tsrblke (Work) at October 02, 2012 12:30 PM (6km41)
Yeah as a whole I don't think garbage men are high on everyone's Hug lists. Piss too many people off. Remember those endless garbage strikes in NY?
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (Dnbau)
Wait a sec. This sounds an awful lot like what middle class people pay good money to do at a gym: weight lifting. Except this actually has a practical purpose.
How do you manage to be so chubby while getting this exercise, Richard? Exercise you're being well paid to undertake, BTW. You should be in better shape than the average citizen when you're 55, 60 and getting paid to be that way.
Yeah, it isn't the most pleasant job but crushing hardship it ain't.
do the residents acknowledge you? Probably not. You come while they're still asleep or after they've left for their jobs. It isn't like you have a reason to ever interact with anyone living on your route unless something is seriously wrong.
Does Richard Hayes know who picks up the garbage from his house? Does anyone living there know the garbage pickup personnel well enough to recognize them on the street? Or do they have the same relationship to those workers as virtually everyone else?
Posted by: epobirs at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (kcfmt)
Swing and a miss.
Posted by: aaa at October 02, 2012 08:32 AM (JFsQc)
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No..... but I bopped three of my professors. Does THAT count????
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 02, 2012 08:33 AM (C8hzL)
You want your head to really explode.
Even the WSJ is in the tank for Obama.
"Polls: Obama is Expected to Win Debate"
http://tinyurl.com/8q5dm7k
Posted by: Exile at October 02, 2012 08:33 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Drew in MO at October 02, 2012 08:33 AM (ZgvAc)
Posted by: Serious Cat at October 02, 2012 08:33 AM (XN0LR)
This is another example of how unions ruin industry. They take a job that should be a pass-through low-pay temp position for young people and turn it into a career. so you've got 50 year-olds collecting garbage instead of supervising, etc.
Grocery store checkers are my pet peeve in this area. any 18 year-old can learn to run a register in a few hours. But we have union people working those registers, making high pay and getting huge benes while cutting young people out of what should be an entry-level position.
And the result is higher prices to the consumer.
Posted by: Ricky Haze at October 02, 2012 08:33 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Sgt. Fury at October 02, 2012 08:34 AM (vIwqz)
I don't know. I'm hard core conservative, free enterprise kinda guy, but it bugs the crap out of me that FIVE different companies service the street I live on. All hours of the day and night, some starting at 4:00 a.m. with all sorts of grinding and mashing, backup alarms beeping, all that good shit.
I sometimes get tempted to write a letter to my township requesting they contract with just one company and include the cost in my taxes so I can at least write the expense off.
Then a squirrel runs past me and I forgetaboutit.
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 02, 2012 08:34 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Harry Truman at October 02, 2012 08:34 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: joncelli at October 02, 2012 08:34 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Havedash at October 02, 2012 08:34 AM (F0WNa)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (x+ZVJ)
Liberals don't give a damn about people in general and if you think the guy that picks up their garbage even moves their meter, you're out of your fucking mind.
Posted by: B at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (5OEha)
Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (A9hpr)
Basic Annual Salary
The average salary after 5-1/2 years is 68K. Average salary after 20 years is
85K.
Overtime and Premium Pay
In addition to regular overtime of time and a half, New York's garbage collectors also receive the following: double time for work on Sundays, including snow-removal work; time and a half for the seventh and eighth hours worked on Saturdays; a guaranteed minimum of eight hours paid at time and a half if workers are required to do snow removal outside of their regular working hours; time and a half for work on 12 holidays; a 10 percent increase for working night shifts; and double time on certain other days.
Benifits
Benefits paid to New York City workers are generous. Sanitation worker benefits include a choice of health and hospitalization plans; 18 days of vacation during the first four years, 20 vacation days during the fifth year and 25 days starting in the sixth year; 12 paid holidays; retirement pay; and spouse or domestic partner benefits.
Longevity Pay
After five years on the job, sanitation workers receive an annual payment as a "longevity differential." The payment starts at $1,495 and increases every five years until it tops out at $4,195 per year for workers who have been on the job 20 years or longer.
And all of this crap is 'cooked' into the final pension payout so that the average annual pension payout is roughly 75K a year.
So when they 'retire' they are never truly off the books as their payouts are substantial.
Now multiply this lunacy over the all of the other unions and its a recipe for fiscal disaster all around.
Posted by: General Woundwort at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (06lNq)
Posted by: booger at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (HI6wa)
Posted by: Assistant jizz mopper at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (KXm42)
I recycle everything. Why can't you?
Of course, by "recycle" I mean, put it in plastic garbage bags, let them haul 'em to the landfill. In a few million years the sun will go red giant, baking everything on the surface of the Earth, and sending the plasma streaming out into interstellar space.
Eventually that plasma will get sucked into another star, which will shine down on people who are probably not stupid enough to believe a few hundred million plastic bottles means shit, in terms of actual tonnage or ability to impact the environment beyond a few years of untidyness.
Posted by: K~Bob at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (N2RQX)
Posted by: Serious Cat at October 02, 2012 08:35 AM (XN0LR)
Posted by: HtP at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (lWXSF)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (lTVJy)
well he no speeked bueno english.
Maybe we can turn this into an Anti Teacher's Union? How pisspoor they did their job, this is why he could only get a job as a garbage man, and not an office worker.
Posted by: Paladin at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (ycm4Q)
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 12:32 PM (LTbLf) ......
They might have used it then too but I'm pretty sure it was in better off dead too. Of course now that I know Cusak is a nutsack I won't go to his movies.
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (X7wAM)
Taking a bigger picture, I was unaware that garbage collector was a federal job, or that the President was in charge of how individuals or cities chose to have their garbage collected.
Everybody knows where the garbage is kept at the White House, because that's the door they had the Dalai Lama use. Remember?
Posted by: comatus at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (qaVK+)
Posted by: tasker at October 02, 2012 08:36 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (LTbLf)
Shame on all of you. Garbagemen and janitors are people too. That realization dawned on me in 1997.
Evolve people. Evolve.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (C8hzL)
Posted by: Countrysquire at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (awhNz)
Posted by: Adam at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (tG36f)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (u1Q5a)
Posted by: Cajun Carrot at October 02, 2012 08:37 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: huerfano at October 02, 2012 08:38 AM (bAGA/)
Not a hug, per se, but...
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 02, 2012 08:38 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: booger at October 02, 2012 08:38 AM (HI6wa)
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 12:37 PM (LTbLf)
Will it be one of Ann's Cadillacs ?
Posted by: The Jackhole at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (u1Q5a)
Posted by: Ron Fucking White at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (UZQM8)
I have to go be productive now without helping GDP since I've gone Galt since OBastard was elected. I'll figure out something, later....
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (1Y+hH)
Yep. Better off dead. Checked IMBD. The actual quote.
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (X7wAM)
Sorry, fat garbage collector dude. I apologize for not being there to hug you. I was writing out a will for a dying 15 year old boy.<<<<<
Turn off the internets. We have our winner.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (RXQ4T)
I worked on our local Muni G-truck one summer ('84) in 18411. Found a Bong and a lot of smut. Ppl used to leave a cooler out w/ beer, for the older guys, water for us. I never got/Gave a fucking hug. I now leave a cooler out in summer, and offer coffee in winter, if I'm out plowing....even though it's Waste Management(tm) now.
Sometimes after I get all I can off a hobo corpse, and wrap it in carpet, or have a few bags of asbestos, I'll throw it in the truck and shoot them a $10 spot though. Fucking hugs.
I'll BLOW any straight male that hugged a male garbage man, just for doing his $26/hour job+ bennies. That's what they make in Scranton, Pa.
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (nyl+z)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 08:39 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: tasker at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (AZGON)
Turn off the internets. We have our winner.
2nd..Motion Carries!
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (nyl+z)
Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (L8r/r)
@272, very nice.
Posted by: Andy at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (5Rurq)
Posted by: Barry Soetoro Obama Soetoro at October 02, 2012 08:40 AM (wIgpo)
Yep, my husband has been unemployed since Mar. Building trades.Talk about back breaking work, he was a masonry contractor. Heavy work in the heat and cold.I'm pissed because Obama never offered to give him a hug and some gatoraide. I'd be happy if he just had a job..
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 08:41 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: rockmom at October 02, 2012 08:41 AM (aBlZ1)
I'll tip the garbage guy when I don't have to go out and clean up the carnage of him going through.
Austin charges an anti-litter fee, but I have to go out and pick up a half a bag of lunch related wrappers and homework papers that blow in from the uncovered dumpsters at the elementary school every friggin day. That is adding insult to injury.
"Everything government touches turns to crap." Ringo Starr.
Posted by: Invictus at October 02, 2012 08:41 AM (OQpzc)
I'd leave him a card, signed:
"Dear valued Public Sanitation Worker,
I'm sorry, I didn't know we were exchanging gifts this year! I could use a new pair of jeans, or a gift certificate would be fine too.
Thanks!
Hollowpoint"
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 02, 2012 08:41 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: Jean at October 02, 2012 08:41 AM (pmDdf)
254...And the result is higher prices to the consumer.
Yup.
Well that's what it boils down to.....Unions are Anti-Consumer.
Doesn't matter if it's a Govt Union, or a Private Sector Union.
All Unions are anti-consumer.
There is no need for Unions anymore.
We have laws now, that prohibit all the things that Unions were created to fight for.
So, the only thing that Unions exist now for, is...greed.
They have become Extortion Clubs.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 08:42 AM (l5RhJ)
Posted by: Barry Soetoro Obama Soetoro at October 02, 2012 12:40 PM (wIgpo)
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Speaking of drags..... hows your habit doing these days Marlboro Man??
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 02, 2012 08:42 AM (C8hzL)
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 08:42 AM (LTbLf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 02, 2012 08:43 AM (u1Q5a)
Posted by: mare at October 02, 2012 08:43 AM (A98Xu)
Posted by: Floyd the Barber at October 02, 2012 08:43 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: tasker at October 02, 2012 08:44 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: mare at October 02, 2012 08:44 AM (A98Xu)
Posted by: DAve at October 02, 2012 08:45 AM (YbJyd)
Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 08:46 AM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 02, 2012 08:46 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD the revelator at October 02, 2012 08:46 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Garbageman at October 02, 2012 08:46 AM (qJlNG)
Bruno.
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bruno_the_Trashman
True story, when I was three years old if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be a garbageman. Adults thought this was weird, but I just wanted to hang out with Oscar all day, because Oscar was fucking awesome back in the day.
He's got a bowling alley in his trash can. And an elephant.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at October 02, 2012 08:47 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD the revelator at October 02, 2012 08:47 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 08:47 AM (nyl+z)
Posted by: tasker at October 02, 2012 08:50 AM (r2PLg)
Next ad. The Postman..........Mitt never hugged me either!!!!! Tell Mitt Romney, it's time to end the attack on our public servants!!!
No candidate is repsonsible for the content of this as.Paid for by TFWBO The Fat Whiney Bitches Union
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 08:50 AM (X7wAM)
I was encouraged by the steady traffic on Day 1 of early voting.
Saw a guy at the gas station the other day with an unofficial Romney bumper sticker. He said he makes a different one each week to keep them fresh.
I feel very good about this election and about the Romney org's op here in Ohio. Watch what they do, not what they say.
Obama is frantically lowering expectations about tomorrow night, changed his post-debate rally to Madison freaking WI from C-Bus, and they run these kinds of lame-ass, GOTV ads in early Oct. already.
This shit ain't close, no matter what MSDNC and their D+12 "polls" try to convince you.
Be not afraid.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at October 02, 2012 08:50 AM (dcoFe)
Posted by: Brendon Carr at October 02, 2012 08:51 AM (9qjzS)
Posted by: tasker at October 02, 2012 08:51 AM (r2PLg)
I'm just glad we don't have to worry with unionized sanitation engineers where I live. Our garbage gets picked up by trustees from the county jail. Same goes for highway cleanup and landscaping work.
See? Some Democrats work.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 02, 2012 08:52 AM (U+DUu)
Posted by: cicero skip at October 02, 2012 08:52 AM (3m9Uc)
Posted by: Mitts Stray Nieghborhood Dog at October 02, 2012 08:54 AM (X7wAM)
Posted by: chas at October 02, 2012 08:54 AM (TKF1Y)
Why does he look like he's either been crying for hours or is stoned out of his mind or both?
I understand you'd have to be a weepy basketcase stoner to work for SEIU in the first place, but...
Posted by: MikeD at October 02, 2012 08:55 AM (p8QOg)
Romney will be well-prepped and loaded for bear. Frankly, I hope he just methodically reiterates how nice ole Barry is but, "bless his heart," he's just in over his head in every single answer. Barry's big ego will blow up. He can stand anything but being patronized to his face.
Watching Obama trying his damndest to keep from exploding over being dissed to his punk-ass mug for 90 minutes is going to be epic.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at October 02, 2012 08:56 AM (dcoFe)
Posted by: Watcher at October 02, 2012 08:56 AM (//RWV)
The next time I'm in a meeting about how we're not working enough Saturdays, I am so totally demanding my manager do this for me.
Posted by: Radish the Grouch at October 02, 2012 08:57 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Bill H at October 02, 2012 08:57 AM (3sZO1)
Posted by: David Gillies at October 02, 2012 08:59 AM (OLivq)
What I would like to do to our new, unionized G-men.
One fall in Scranton, after no garbage all summer w/o any trash 'cuz we were away, they took half of the 8 bags. I asked WTF. The UNION guy told me...no shit.."We only pick up trash, not garbage". I asked, since it was all in bags, how he know what was what? He just smiled, and walked away since he saw me putting it in my truck, rather than pay him. I dumped it in the DPW union leaders lawn! FUCK YOU SAMMY VITRIS! It was gone w/10 minutes. Even though HIS garbage day was 4 days away!
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 09:00 AM (nyl+z)
Don't forget James Earl Jones in 'Claudine.'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/
Or Tom Hulce in 'Dominick and Eugene.'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095050/
And don't forget Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton in 'The Dark Backward.'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101660/
Critical entries in cinematic garbageman history.
Posted by: epobirs at October 02, 2012 09:01 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2012 09:01 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 02, 2012 09:01 AM (qwK3S)
Posted by: MostlyRight at October 02, 2012 09:02 AM (ZG8Ti)
early retirement ... benefits. health care, half pay after 20 years. Seems like he intends to retire early. His union surely won't allow him to do any work that would actually cause him injury.
No one would feel sorry for him ... many would envy him or be angered that he is so demanding of praise and pity. He is the whiny privileged class, doing protected government union work the private sector would do for half the cost and twice the efficiency.
Posted by: Illini bill at October 02, 2012 09:02 AM (IaK/H)
Posted by: D. Hopper at October 02, 2012 09:03 AM (AVfT8)
NSFW, but here's to you AFSCME Cocksucker!
For alexthechick - SMOD the revelator at October 02, 2012 12:46 PM
http://tinyurl.com/96yl34p
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 09:04 AM (nyl+z)
Posted by: The Dalai Lama at October 02, 2012 09:04 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Lickmuffin at October 02, 2012 09:05 AM (Z2Xxk)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 09:07 AM (RSG1I)
Posted by: SARDiver at October 02, 2012 09:08 AM (xiXJp)
That's what my village does. We get bids from the 4 different haulers in the area, cheapest wins! It comes as a separate bill though.
Posted by: Bruce at October 02, 2012 09:10 AM (JI+T4)
This ad reeks of desperation. Heh, I kill myself. Anyway, an article about the ad, with ad embedded, is posted on Yahoo News (stop laughing and yes I read it all the time). I hit more comments 5 or 6 times and there was not a single person posting who wasn't making of fun of the ad. I don't think it's going to have quite the effect they are hoping for.
Posted by: xyz at October 02, 2012 09:12 AM (2TsUK)
Posted by: biff at October 02, 2012 09:13 AM (iPZAG)
Posted by: The Dalai Lama at October 02, 2012 01:04 PM
Didn't barry hustle him out past the garbage while he met w/chinese?
You MUST watch this rebuttal ad!
http://tinyurl.com/9e3v6fn
Posted by: hutch1200 at October 02, 2012 09:13 AM (nyl+z)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 01:07 PM (RSG1I)
They prefer the gifts your wife gives them when you're not around.
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 09:14 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: Red Shirt at October 02, 2012 09:15 AM (FIDMq)
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 09:17 AM (X7wAM)
I give my garbage man, mail carrier and UPS driver gifts every Christmas. I guess it's a small town thing.
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 01:07 PM (RSG1I)
Hey, aren't you the white guy who gave me a rectal prolapse as a "gift" last year?
Posted by: Richard Hayes at October 02, 2012 09:17 AM (LTbLf)
Yesterday the Blaze had this story and it turns out that Romney himself used the same words to describe the way he felt the day he decided to be a garbage man while he was Governor.
It is in his book, No Apologies.... Mitt spent time doing the jobs of regular Americans to get the view from the ground. And he said he was invisible to people on the street... just like the guy in the ad.
Which makes the ad a complete lie. Again.
I'm pretty sure the other garbage men were very unhappy when Mitt pulled the wrong lever and dumped the truch out on the road and they all had to clean it up... which shows... maybe everyone doesn't have the same skill sets.
Posted by: petunia at October 02, 2012 09:18 AM (DAcBA)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at October 02, 2012 09:18 AM (SDkq3)
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 09:18 AM (X7wAM)
Posted by: kj at October 02, 2012 09:23 AM (zYYbU)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 09:24 AM (RSG1I)
I actually had a nice chat with my garbage man when I moved into my neighborhood. And he dropped my new cans. His name is Rudy.
My grandson had just graduated from Pre-school and when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up he said he wanted to be a garbage man and drive the cool truck... I told Rudy that.
Rudy said he always has little fans watching from windows. And has watched lots of kids grow up in the neighborhood. He pointed up the street and said a little boy there, was him for Halloween one year,
The boy had a cardboard garbage truck with the name Rudy on it! It was a highlight of his career!
Any honest work is honorable... maybe it is a Mormon concept, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Mitt believes it too.
Posted by: petunia at October 02, 2012 09:27 AM (DAcBA)
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 09:28 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at October 02, 2012 09:29 AM (wR+pz)
St Peter doncha call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the AFL/CIO...
Posted by: T.E.Ford, 99%er. at October 02, 2012 09:30 AM (diddN)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 09:30 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 01:24 PM (RSG1I)
Buddy, STFU. You have no idea what types of jobs many of us have done in our past or are doing currently. I've never been a garbageman but I've done jobs on the same level as that (e.g., construction laborer working outdoors in a New England winter) so that I could pay to go to college.
We are only attacking the guy because of his ridiculously idiotic attack on Romney. Richard Hayes is a grown man who has decided to record a commercial that Romney's a bad person simply because he's a Republican ... a Republican who donated over $4 million to charities last year. Hayes is being used by the same people who claim to care about people in his situation.
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 09:31 AM (LTbLf)
I am not tipping the crane. Sorry.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at October 02, 2012 09:34 AM (wR+pz)
I guess the garbage man would ave equal scorn for Obama.... since it doesn't seem he would be invited to partake in the golden champagen fund-raiser with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Jay-Z incidenetally is voting for Obam because -- as he said -- Barky is black. And in a nutshell, that's why this garbage man is too.
Posted by: jb at October 02, 2012 09:38 AM (iSnaV)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 01:24 PM (RSG1I)
Also, what we're "dismissive" and "even scornful of" is union thugs like this guy bashing Romney simply because he disagrees with his politics and the politics of his labor union. I have nowhere near the amount of money that Romney has but I've never met my garbagemen either .. after all, they pick up the garbage when I'm at work and never stop by other than when they pick up the garbage. I do know that I (and even moreso Romney) have paid large amounts of property taxes funding their jobs, which pay fairly well, especially considering the "skill level" it requires.
Posted by: Slappy at October 02, 2012 09:38 AM (LTbLf)
Posted by: MrCaniac at October 02, 2012 09:40 AM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: free at October 02, 2012 09:41 AM (Z5kvH)
"Mitt Romney's '47 percent' videotape revealed his contempt for tens of millions of Americans," AFSCME President Lee Saunders wrote in a blog post. "Romney seems only to be relaxed and at ease when he is surrounded by other millionaires and people willing to pay $50,000 to share a meal with him. And it is only those wealthy donors who get to know what is really on his mind. They spend more money than most Americans make in a year to ask Mitt Romney questions and listen to his reckless banter about Americans like Richard Hayes."
Tell me this doesn't sound like Barky: "seems only to be relaxed and at ease when he is surrounded by other millionaires and people willing to pay $50,000 to share a meal with him. And it is only those wealthy donors who get to know what is really on his mind."
Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 09:43 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Jordan at October 02, 2012 01:24 PM (RSG1I)
___
I guess you never enjoyed the sweet summertime bliss of a sanitation workers' strike in the inner city...in August.
Trash festering in the heat, bags piled up on top of each other six, seven feet high. It truly is a sight to behold. And smell.
(Come to think of it, a lot of your posts suggest that you don't actually live in the real world, you just fantasize about it a lot.)
Posted by: kallisto at October 02, 2012 09:44 AM (jm/9g)
Posted by: Buffalobob at October 02, 2012 09:46 AM (x+7qA)
And yes, I do separate. I'm not sure it does any good, but I try to be *conservative* in that sense of the word, too.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 02, 2012 09:49 AM (M2x4y)
Posted by: rochf at October 02, 2012 09:51 AM (vAaUc)
Posted by: wth at October 02, 2012 09:57 AM (wAQA5)
So I lift more than that fat ass sumbitch.
Posted by: Got A Redhot Poker Up My Ass at October 02, 2012 10:04 AM (t2z5E)
Apparently this isn't the worst or most pathetic ad out there. Drudge is reporting that Obama's supporters are running an ad that encourages women to vote like their lady parts depend on it--what is going on--is there something in the water or the air these days?
Posted by: rochf at October 02, 2012 10:08 AM (vAaUc)
Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: rockmom at October 02, 2012 10:16 AM (NYnoe)
Frankly, it's disturbing that this guy --or anyone for that matter-- considers the no-skill, labor-intensive job of "garbageman" a career. It's certainly a job, but no one should ever think that it's going to produce sufficient wages to count as a career over 30 or 40 years, or that it even warrants it.
Posted by: Manolo at October 02, 2012 10:17 AM (kl3xJ)
Posted by: rockmom at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (qE3AR)
Posted by: brian448 at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (1qvHS)
St Peter doncha call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the AFL/CIO...
Posted by: T.E.Ford, 99%er. at October 02, 2012 01:30 PM (diddN) .........Sorry EOJ. I declare this the winner!!!! Now the internets can be turned off!
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 02, 2012 10:32 AM (X7wAM)
#371:
I have been a garbageman. I didn't expect hugs, handshakes, or free food. I was impressed when the garbage was actually in the can.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Birdbath at October 02, 2012 10:56 AM (19UhQ)
What a clown.
Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at October 02, 2012 10:58 AM (UlI/7)
So, do a similar ad on Obama., Video Obama's crack dealer Omar complaining that Obama doesn't even treat him like a person, just buys his fix without hardly any talking, as if Omar doesn't exist. Omar goes on to say that his body is going to start breaking down after 6 or 7 bullets and Obama doesn't care. Hell, you could do a follow up video with Bryce the towel boy at Man's Club in Chicago complaining that Obama only cares for about 2 minutes then it's as if Bryce doesn't exist.
Posted by: scr_north at October 02, 2012 11:01 AM (nWVv8)
http://tiny.cc/fafklw
Link goes to NR, excerpt from Romney's book, including pic, of him working as a......garbage man. Boy oh boy, AFSCAM sure brings the fail.
Posted by: Weirddave at October 02, 2012 11:06 AM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Observer at October 02, 2012 11:24 AM (/sohm)
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Posted by: nip at October 02, 2012 11:37 AM (11Tdq)
Bet Mitt never flashed his trashmen. Meany!
Posted by: Sarah at October 02, 2012 12:08 PM (inYIc)
I pay for my trash pickup every month. I hug them with a check and if I do not position my trash can just right, so their picker upper can grab it, my trash does not get picked up.
I bet you are just the same. No reason to get out of your nice cushy air conditioned cab to maneuver a trash can (expect for a staged video op).
What a pathetic excuse for a man. Turn your man card in and ask yo momma for a hug and a bottle of grape drank.
What a pathetic video.
Posted by: TexBob at October 02, 2012 12:11 PM (pUOpM)
Even when I was just a young 'un, I knew I didn't want to be a garbage man. So I got my first part time job at 16 to make money to go to college and then I went to paralegal school and then got a full time job and then went back to school at night to get an MBA. Voila! I'm not a garbage man. See, that's not so hard is it?
Posted by: Natasha at October 02, 2012 12:32 PM (jU5uf)
My wife worked for a bank one summer. HUGE background/drug check. Millions of dollars on site. Responsible for evey penny etc. Spend $$$ on proper dress attire and be nice to every POS.
In comes these stinky mutherfuckers, cashing their checks for 3x hers.
She handles wads of cash, they handle garbage, and tell you to FO if ya don't like your cans getting crushed too!
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