Rope For Sale

[agchat]

Have several hundred feet of different color one inch poly rope for you doom and gloom people. Cash only please!

[mbratrud]

Coming from someone that knows someone that did what you are suggesting in bad times. I find this post very distasteful. Going to be tough times and struggles for many over the next year or 2.

[samhill]

Anyone over 50 probably knows of someone who could no longer cope. But "gallows humour" has been around a long time and is part of life.

[iceman]

Ban him!!!!!!!


Over & Out

[agchat]

mbratrud, there is no doubt going to be tough times, but for crips sake i look around me, and half the farmers my age are gone south for most of the winter, and the ones younger than me most are planning a two or three week trip. Not saying they don't deserve it, BUT dont give me the WHINNING, CRYING tough times till most have no choice but to be confined to stay at home. No doubt some are already. Samhill is exactly right, gallows humor has been around forever.

[wakopa]

Listen to a whining debt review board farmer this morn . We will heide his name for now north of town , but he got his combine washed plus somethings else and got a 3000 dollar bill, they got nothing to do all winter but brag about there holidays , get off ur fat asses u debt review boarders and do a little work , someday if the right thing is said I will be an asshole and ask how many times u went through debt review .

[farmaholic]

If there is no one to pass the baton to in the intergenerational farming marathon, why not live beyond your means and roll into the grave penniless, or better yet, with owing more than you can ever pay off. We all take exactly the same with us on the way out as we came in with....and a generation after you check out you're barely a distant memory....

Some people live for the day.

[ajl]

Entreprenurialism at its finest. Supplying the demand that exists. Maybe misfortune will come to visit you next year so you can be your own best customer. I miss freewheat. It was nice to know that someone else had a few setbacks as well. I have noticed that it does seem to go to the same place often times so I do not believe in random chance.

[cottonpicken]

You have no idea how accomplished Mb and his family are. I cant get over the fact he doesn't brag about it more.

Your sister inlaws presentation on antibiotics in animals all the other stuff???

Raise the flag Mb we got moron ideas to slay.

[SASKFARMER3]

Suicide isn't a funny thing.
Hard times are on their way. Oil at 37 really were in trouble.
Farmers away all winter big deal.

[grrrr]

Like they say, "If you want to take it with you, put it in the Credit Union. They have branches all over hell." Just trying to lighten things up.

[wakopa]

Agriville leader doesn't get it .

[bgmb]

honest question for MB with PandH are you better off, same or worse off vs when you had WIT and the CWB?

[Grahamp]

I don't mind gallows humour and as I have mentioned in a previous thread things are looking pretty good in Ag right now. The prices of all new crops look pretty good , fert is not priced too bad, interest rates are low there is a lot to be positive about. I do feel bad for the people who work in oil and gas. I think it is kind of sad that there is little empathy for them because they made good money. Don't we all want to prosper, to succeed, to provide ourselves and family with better than we had. Did some go overboard? Of course. But isn't it a great country that an 18 year old that struggled with school, could go the oil patch and make good money and increase his standard of living far above what would have been possible 50 years ago? That a farmer or rancher could get a job on the rigs in the winter when money was tight and partially right his ship. There are a lot of people who are going to struggle greatly in the next few years and I hope they come through all right.

[tweety]

If you can't make farming a go in this pretty good environment, you best take up the offer and grab some rope.