Was having this discussion with a friend tonight. The term "Informal indicators" in this case is used for any non-exact but solid signal of something. For instance, The Economist uses the price of a big mac to indicate the cost of living in a place beyond exchange rates. We were talking about less academic ones.


The most usefull I came up with was: Any bar with a line for the men's room equal or greater to the ladies room almost definitely sucks.

The quality(aka ****ty deliciousness) of diner food increases with how often the waitress refers to you with slang from > the 80s i.e. hun, sugar, darlin, baby doll

The amount of time it takes for the first person to reply to your thread is a pretty good indication of how likely your thread is to be successful and interesting.





Good luck.

I actually think this thread is good, but I can't think of any examples.

my buh-hole becomes itchier the whiter my toilet paper stays

For non-chain cheap restaurants, the older and dirtier the place, the tastier the food.

The shorter the words that someone uses, the better the vocabularly that they have

Not exactly fitting the criteria of the OP, but informative none the less.

i've noticed at the bar i work, that the amount of pregaming done in our parking lot is inversely related to how the economy's doing

People who always complain about gas going up 3cents a gallon usually suck ass.

If you have a vagina your computer probably has a lifetime's worth of spyware and your monitor probably has more fingerprints than an ATM screen.

The ****tyness of the driver can be discerned by (let's leave ethnicity and gender out of this):

- Presence of religious markings/stickers on car
- Condition of car
- Presence of stuffed animals on rear window ledge

The more people talk about how many girls they can get ...

fyp

using a cell phone.

If she smokes, she pokes

was much more applicable in HS cuz in college and beyond everyones putting out regardless

This thread has taken a strange turn, but here's one:

It's useful to find a marginally employed tech professional - ideally a programmer or test guy. The guy you're looking for is a hard worker, but not terribly competent. You want someone who on average employed about 70% of the time in about 2-3 year stretches. Ideally a nice friendly guy.

These guys are MAGNIFICENT barometers of the economy and labor market. When they get fired, it's a leading indicator of an economic downturn. The reason is that they're the first guy to get fired and since they're a nice guy it wasn't because they pissed someone off. When they get re-hired, you know they were the last guy left, so the labor pool is tight and wages are likely headed in a good direction.

I latched onto one of these guys back in college, and he's been 100% accurate. For example, he didn't get fired in this latest "recession" so I knew it wasn't serious. Sure enough, when the final Fed numbers came out it wasn't actually a recession at all.

I used to have this girlfriend and when a new box on tampons showed up I was in for a rough week.

If you are in a group of 5 guys and the bouncer doesn't balk at letting you in, you probably don't want to go in.

Please start a thread and keep us apprised of said friend's employment status.

lol

I'm not sure it's worth a thread unless he gets fired. The outlook for at least Q2 of this year appears to be OK.

The # of a poster's previous 2+2 posts is inversely correlated with the idiocy that any one post of his will contain.

If I'm understanding this right, you obv haven't been to BBV4L

The more you snap your fingers at a bartender/server, the better the service.