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Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Grassy Knowles posted:

I�m looking at you, Collectible Lionel Classics: Treasures from the Postwar Era�s Roger Carp

# ¿ Oct 9, 2023 04:24

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:24

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Gripweed posted:

Every American between the ages of 16 and 65 should be required to run the NFL Combine once a year, and their results should be posted on a publicly available database.

Trying to think of a way to nicely with no shame or shade ask you to describe what you think the NFL combine is without you looking it up because I really want to know what you think it is.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 11:03

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Gripweed posted:

It�s a series of tests of one�s physical strength and agility.

Okay close enough. I thought you might have thought it was like an obstacle course or the US presidential challenge or something.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 14:05

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Yngwie Mangosteen posted:

They shouldn't just be allowed, it should be considered a crime to even ask, barring specific safety related positions as you mentioned. It's really hosed up how much privacy we give up in this way and how normal that feels.

My thought is you should have to play through a couple levels of Hotline Miami before your giant crane/
forklift/car/popcorn machine turns on to prove your reflexes are in good working order and that would be more effective at safety than drug tests.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 23:38

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Gripweed posted:

All vampires in fiction should me masters of martial arts. They live forever, they know people are going to try to kill them with sticks, it�s simply unrealistic that a vampire would even half heartedly take lessons to learn how to effortlessly disarm anyone who tries to stake them. Even just weekly lessons, after several decades will add up to pretty impressive skills.

I feel like the only evening classes are for children though so it's basically a Kramer but vampire situation.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2023 02:30

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Someone complaining about others using rice cookers is an all time this thread rear end this thread moment.

Aramek posted:

Many years ago on the forums here I remember reading a post from some goon where she said every time she goes on a blind date she always tells the guy "I only listen to rap, country, and top 40" and she kept being surprised at how many of them would have an aneurysm.

Owns.

drat I thought that was an original bit I was doing.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2023 11:22

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Woolie Wool posted:

The backlash against hair bands also hit traditional and US power metal bands who made totally different music but had long hair and high pitched singing so they were trashed as hair metal, and also as "gay" (this was 1991 and gay was a deadly insult).

Also this entire thread is hot takes by people with axes to grind so I don't know what you were expecting

Like honestly it's a different enough take that I was just hoping to see you argue it a bit harder.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2023 23:18

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I dunno maybe it's different on the east coast but in the places I do most of my regular traveling (Arizona, California, New Mexico) small towns are pretty desperate places, usually without a ton of upside. There are places where the communities are really trying hard to keep it together and even grow it and I could kind of see the appeal of those places, but usually it means living somewhere with no services, no entertainment, dollar general as your grocery store and police openly in the pocket of whatever nearby factory/mine that is in complete control of the town.

Actually I just realized the difference between the two types of towns I've encountered is their proximity to tourist destinations.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2023 23:27

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

For me it's Ronin Warriors.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2023 05:36

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I put up a single string of white lights in my front window than fill my apartment with lights. Well not this year, it's too bad of a year to have Christmas.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 10:01

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Paul Bunyan is real that's why there's a statue of him holding an axe or a muffler or candy cane in every city.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 04:37

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

There's a bull statue with dick and balls in town that people decorate depending on the season. Although it's a cursed business and everyone who moves there goes out of business in two years or less.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 06:33

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

BOOTY-ADE posted:

Thinking about Halloween, I believe more songs should be included in the season that maybe aren't considered 'Halloween' enough. Two that come to mind are Witchy Woman by the Eagles & Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels. I feel like they fit the spirit enough that they should be on anyone's Halloween playlist. I'll even throw it out there - does anyone here have songs they'd consider a fit for Halloween that nobody else has considered/thought of?

These are both on Pandora�s Halloween playlists so at least someone agrees with you.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2024 22:38

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I remember once hearing a story about how Drew Carrey cured his depression by growing his hair out and driving 100 in Montana during that brief period in the 90s when they didn't have a numerical speed limit.

I tried driving 90 in Utah where the speed limit is 80 and it did not cure my depression unfortunately. I guess I needed that extra 10 MPH.

Was a bit scary since private trucks without a limiter were also going 90+, weaving around trucks that were going 60. But also you'd only see other cars every 10 minutes or so and it was the middle of the day.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2024 06:40

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

alexandriao posted:

Making a cake is literally just the ability to:

a) find a list of instructions

b) follow them

you can make a "good enough" sponge in a microwave if you follow the right recipe so i would be incredibly concerned if a high school student or a 20yro is unable to do this

This is true but I have made some pretty complicated dishes that have come out great but I have never baked a single thing from scratch fully successfully. At best I end up with non-Euclidean shaped thing that tastes Fine but I am very glad only I am seeing it.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2024 12:18

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

thetoughestbean posted:

There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work, or being anxious for no reason

# ¿ Feb 4, 2024 05:00

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Gripweed posted:

Nerds Gummy Clusters are the first big step forward in candy in the past decade

I learned today the hard way that me not liking them is in fact a personally held unpopular opinion.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 05:19

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Ommin posted:

What was the "hard way"?!

I have no recollection of these even though I am old enough, but I really want to try them. They were discontinued in the 90s but were brought back to Europe in 2022.

I confidently expressed my opinion expecting everyone to agree and my friends said "wrong." Shattering.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 07:03

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

docbeard posted:

Working remotely isn't suitable for every person (or for every job, obviously) while being a great boon to some people (and some jobs) and that's why workplaces should be flexible but that's too milquetoast an opinion for the arguing thread so I'll just say I am never ever going back to two-hour bus commutes and you can't make me.

Yeah I definitely think flexibility is key

Even prior to covid my medical condition caused doctors to recommend I spend as much time working from home as possible. But I will admit it I kind of liked being in office at time and didn't mind just ignoring the doctor's order since I changed jobs and no one asked for a release at any point. Like honestly it was even easier to work less onsite because people just assume if you're there you're working, and have a lot less expectations for off hour work. And I'll be real if I went to lunch for an hour instead of a half hour, I never felt remotely guilty.

Post covid though, things changed a lot. And not just out of disease avoidance. I got REALLY GOOD at doing my job remotely and it became harder and harder to ever justify going in. I also noticed that my health got DRAMATICALLY better; it turns out the doctor had the right idea after all, go figure; it improved so much I just had a very hard time justifying putting myself in an in office situation again. It did suck that people thought I then worked 24/7, that I felt a lot more like I had to justify my paycheck and that there was a lot more bleed of work into my day to day time, but it ended up being way better overall.

Now in an extended job hunt I'm long past the point where I can reply for remote only and just have to try to get anything. And like I have to think one of the reasons I can't find work is when I go to an interview for an onsite job like in the back of my mind the dread of working in person influences me and causes me to bomb the interviews, when interviewing used to be a primary skill. I just wish that this all wasn't such a hot button issue for people and that it was easier to find a flexible job.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2024 02:00

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

At least locally a lot of the low income care for people without insurance is based on the distribution, or re-distribution of samples, for what it�s worth.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 01:14

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Gripweed posted:

People talk about blue raspberry, red velvet, pink lemonade, etc. like it's bad to just change the color of something and insist it's a whole new thing. But that's actually great, they should do it more.

Well once upon a time pink lemonade meant it had some grapefruit too but that seems to have passed.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2024 13:22

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Now I need an extensive anonymous survey of people to know how prevalent wood porn is exactly.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Mega Man 3 isn't that great a game. A lot of it is just nostalgia. Unfinished, repetitive (the four stages after you beat the Robot Masters, plus Wily's Fortress plus defeating Protoman, plus defeating Wily himself), and unoriginal Robot Master powers (Top Spin ). Both 2 and 4 are better games.

I prefer 3 but for a long time that was the unpopular opinion. It's definitely shifted but I don't know when.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 01:45

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:24

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I might have argued with you a few years ago but these days production that goes into a "big" podcast is kind of wild to me.

Although one thing audio books do that podcasts don't is they keep the actual audio of the spoken word very very clean.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2024 02:49

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