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Big drop in kindergarden enrollment and birth rates across the country

I love it when I see people rage because someone maybe made them back off the throttle by ten percent. That's entitlement. :laughing
It’s laughable until people throw shit at cyclists putting them in the hospital. Fucking jerkoffs.

Anyone remember how Nicky Hayed died?
 
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There are an estimated 10 million job openings across the country that don't require a college degree. Many of them pay very well, trades for example.

There have been stories of kids who graduated high school, became an apprentice heavy equipment operator or welder, then in a couple of years they make journeyman.
They make good money and get to retire in their 50's with a nice pension - and NO student loan debt.
That only works when there is more demand than supply. Add more people into the trades and the supply goes up until it exceed demand, then the pay drops.
 
No, but I remember when Nicky Hayden dies.
He died being selfish and entitled on a bicycle.

Ya know since our own little rules for what matters carry a lot of weight I may as well share mine.

My super important mission statement to live by is: Hey let’s try to leave this life giving rock at lest as good as how we found it if not better. Maybe I don’t have to use every resource in front of no matter how much instant gratification it gives me.

Maybe I don’t need to be that selfish. Cool I’ll ride my bike to work on the roads my taxes help pay for. I’ll even be one less car in that pile of traffic. Pardon me while I use 3 feet of pavement on the edge here. I hope Im not in anyone’s fucking way.
 
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Not sure I'd choose the same words to describe it, but my time in "skool" was also chaotic. I'd say that I lacked discipline more than I'd say that those around me drank the koolaid. Maybe splitting hairs, but blaming myself feels closer to taking accountability, so I'll roll with that just to pretend to be responsible if nothing else. :laughing

Lotta good talented hardworking kids out there. Shasta county's a real mess with its own brand of widespread victimhood blaming everyone around them for their failings, but I don't doubt that you can find someone. Since you're already kinda plugged into the scene, maybe look for that broke and resourceful rock crawler kid on the junior college age bubble.
I can remember sitting at the back of the class observing everything in front of me thinking to myself "What a shit show of retards......why do I have to be here again".

I definitely have ADD and on the autism spectrum. Add in my highly independent sigma personality type.....and I just don't fit into any box! I've leveraged all of these disabilities.....uh, I mean advantages into something that has provided an excellent living considering where I live and the environment I came from. Definitely could have been more if I had the resources or figured it out sooner, but we do better than most in our area for sure!

Grew up in a suburb of Sacramento and moved to Shasta County when I was almost 19yo. Didn't really put it together till much later, but there were a LOT of mid 20s adults living at home, playing fantasy card/dice game, playing with/collecting children's toys, and of course there was the huge meth scene? I didn't even know what meth was till I moved here! Many people I've had discussions with who grew up in more populated areas have noted the same stunted lack of ambition with the people here.

I definitely feel like I have no competition here in my profession.
 
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I love it when I see people rage because someone maybe made them back off the throttle by ten percent. That's entitlement. :laughing
It's even better when they hit the gas before having to slow down for whatever happend in front of them? What life trauma is that person acting out by being such a douche? We all gotta get somewhere and the line of traffic is only moving so fast.......
 
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I'm feeling a dumbass for my part in derailing this thread, but I'm definitely not the only one channel surfing! 🤣
 
so you are a bit mashugina?
Had to look that up......big word for an uneducated guy!

If you are referring to me.....YES! I have been described as extreme before and some people think that crazy or reckless. I do most things to extremes......If something is good, more is better? Why stop short of extreme? 🤣
 
There is an excellent book on the subject of the pitfalls of going to college versus learning a trade and working with your hands. The author is a widely respected philosopher and owns a motorcycle repair shop. And it’s an excellent read.

Seconded. I read it and have bought several copies to give to students teetering between academics and trades post-HS. Spoiler alert: the author finds his joy in hands-on problem solving after experiencing a lack of purpose chasing publish or perish goals.
Not sure I'd choose the same words to describe it, but my time in "skool" was also chaotic. I'd say that I lacked discipline more than I'd say that those around me drank the koolaid. Maybe splitting hairs, but blaming myself feels closer to taking accountability, so I'll roll with that just to pretend to be responsible if nothing else. :laughing

Lotta good talented hardworking kids out there. Shasta county's a real mess with its own brand of widespread victimhood blaming everyone around them for their failings, but I don't doubt that you can find someone. Since you're already kinda plugged into the scene, maybe look for that broke and resourceful rock crawler kid on the junior college age bubble.
Related. Kids are caught between long-term messaging COLLEGE FOR ALL and reality about how elite, well-paying jobs are actually awarded. Same with "digital literacy/information work" bullshit. Tech shifted brains and hearts. Learning windows commands, previously a superpower, along with excel proficiency, mean a lot less than they once did. Non-educated work, meaning most blue collar gigs, have been so denigrated for so long young folks aren't able to switch lenses and see the re-drawn picture of the economic landscape. Schools are playing catch-up.
 
Well, we had to shut down BARF EXTREME™️ so......
That's an interesting concept, where anything goes and everybody goes in there knowing that anything and everything could come at them, but it's nothing personal, you're just in the extreme zone.
 
You can obviously make a good living in the trades but there's also a lot of interesting shit you learn in college whether you ever apply it or not.
I enjoyed the math and statics topics I covered which helped to grasp topics I was exposed to throughout later life.
 
I can remember sitting at the back of the class observing everything in front of me thinking to myself "What a shit show of retards......why do I have to be here again".

I definitely have ADD and on the autism spectrum. Add in my highly independent sigma personality type.....and I just don't fit into any box! I've leveraged all of these disabilities.....uh, I mean advantages into something that has provided an excellent living considering where I live and the environment I came from. Definitely could have been more if I had the resources or figured it out sooner, but we do better than most in our area for sure!
It sounds like we have a few things in common. I could never sit still or pay attention... it was like they were speaking a different language. I snuck thru with D's, just enough to not fail. I got in a lot of trouble, all I remember is constant yelling. The only subjects I ever excelled at were auto shop and girls. :teeth
I hung in until the 10th grade and then went to work full time.
 
And often hands on work requires far more critical thinking than sitting at a desk, pushing numbers and lines around. I was lucky to have fallen into a field of work where I could do both. Sometimes I spent hours, even days or weeks in my cubicle working at Solidworks (CAD) and designing things. But I also spent the same amount of time in the laboratory, often using a microscope, making and building things that would eventually be used in testing, in animal studies and in humans. I lived in both worlds.
 
Cliff notes: I can’t handle being even slightly inconvenienced by anyone who doesn’t share my world view without wishing them bodily harm.

Newsflash, your made up rules for the world are no more valid than anyone else’s. Someone is definitely selfish.
Get some fucking help.

In what bizarre stage view do you think I suggest they are? I simply made my statement and never suggested it is more valuable than anyone else's. It was you who expressed outrage.

I am very clear that opinions and morals are simply personal drivel and as valueless as human life itself. Fun to discuss, but also easily dismissed.

:dunno
 
i sorta get being disconnected (at times). a while back i was going into a fast, blind left sweeper in our van. came head on at two moto riders in my lane passing a car. they were side by side with a full head of steam. the dude on the inside dove back into his lane immediately - no clue how the dude on the outside managed to squeeze in too. missed them by a hair. i was telling a friend about it, and they know i ride. they were all ‘oh my god, you would felt so awful if you’d hit them!’ actually, no. not in the slightest. it would have been their own damn fault. next up - cattle guard on the front bumper. anything else can be hosed off.
 
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