Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Not only PPP but more importantly EIDL, which after PPP funds are depleted, can be used for payroll and such. I could not believe what people were able to get over $100K on a few trucks or heard of some getting even as much as half million on a dozen trucks and 1099 hired drivers. Just grabbing that money, completely unconcerned about the specific directions of what and how it should be used for. Those volvos will sell soon.
In a certain way, if they are not audited and do whatever they want, they have an edge over those who did not take that loan. Had it not be for that loan, who knows, maybe they would not be operating by now at all. The other part of me thinks that these loans will only prolong agony for many and the death will be even more painful.

Covid - 19 money supply anomaly: despite the record of unemployed in Illinois the real estate value in Chicago area was on the raise. Properties sell better than before Covid-19.

 

Ya know, once you go bl....Volvo.....you never go back! I agree with Steve, if you have a choice don't get a dark colored truck. Silver and tan/champagne are the best colors. Show less dirt, not another white truck, and chicks dig em.

OK, that last part I made up. Always cracks me up when old hands actually think chicks dig trucks. What chicks?

 

Come on guys everybody knows that if you want chicks to dig you, you need a nice FLD

 

I had to look it up.

"dig (someone) To like (romantically or otherwise), understand, or approve of someone."

Interesting idiom. I would have never thought that it had positive connotations. It just sounds too harsh phonetically to me to be something nice.
If someone had told me " I dig you"
I would have thought "F.U." or "You Idiot" etc.


So I can use it in a sentence like this:
Even though I am tall and handsome and my volvo is white and sharp, no chicks ever came my way to dig me.
However, would it be appropriate for me to say to a woman with a flirtoucious intent:

I like your mini skirt, I dig you honey. ?

Learning a language never ends.

 

Sorta? I know that that's not an especially helpful answer, but idiom is never necessarily precise. It functionally works, but it sounds weird that way. I'll circle back to this in a little bit, busy morning to start the day.

 

It's been around and widely used in popular culture since at least the early 60's. You've never heard it used in a positive context?

 

I might've heard it but if I did it was not explicit enough for me to register it correctly.
With idiomatic expressions, you often presume their meanings based on context but not always you memorize them and even less aquire them into your own vocabulary. As a teenager learning English I had two Idiom dictionaries, one for British and one for American. Later, I got myself a dictionary of American slang and vulgarities with examples and that was a hilarious read.

 

Good times. I can imagine that it's entertaining trying to see how idiom translates into various languages. I have no talent for languages at all, myself. I can kind of sort of wrap my head around Spanish, but even after four years in high school and a semester in college, I speak just enough to get my ### kicked. Even less now, since it's been fifteen years since I've had a class in it.

Where are you from, exactly, Joe, if you don't mind my asking? I think I recall it being Eastern Europe, somewhere, but that's all I can remember.