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This took some serious thought on my part.  For starters I'm only at home 6 days out or every 14, so would be reliant on either my kids or my wife finding the cash (the kids couldn't find 10 of their own fingers most days).  As for the beneficiaries of the $1000 (if found), it'd certainly not be me, but be absorbed in the various exorbitant unnecessary expenses of everyday living with the family.  This all makes $100 in my wallet look pretty damn good.  If someone could prove that money makes one happier then perhaps the $1000 would be best, and I'm only voting that option because $1000 donated to the expensive louts I live with pops me on the moral high-ground to some extent hahaha

I'd take the stuff.  Sell, keep and re-gift as appropriate!

Surely those numbers suggest how long it would take a computer to run through every single possible password combination?  If my PnW rng is anything to go by, the hacker would pick my password of 15 characters (letters, caps, numbers and characters) in the first go!!

I don't watch the news, its all bad or irritating or not news at all.

I think headphones probably have better sound deadening qualities, so I should only hear what is being piped through to my ears (and my tinnitus of course hahaha).  However decent headphones tend to be too expensive, especially since they end up getting ragged about by the kids, so I tend to favour ear buds for those reasons alone.

Diesel probably as that is the best option functionally i.e. towing/traveling long distances etc.  Inexplicably diesel is a load more expensive than petrol, which I can only put down to price gouging.  Perhaps when everyone else has gone electric and the market for fossil fuels bottoms out, maybe diesel will become affordable again.  Or convert it to run on peanut oil/chip fat

Back left as that is the one the coffee pot goes on......has never let me down!

Never heard of terraria, so no vote for it

Halloween because it’s not a holiday here, so the kids are still at school and I get some quiet time!

On 9/30/2022 at 5:48 AM, Micchan said:

Who cares, do you really need more than 20M?

Definitely don’t need more but it’s still better off in our hands than a governments

On 7/29/2022 at 11:41 AM, Joe Schmo said:

where'd you get that from?
I get americans are fat, but I don't think it's the AC doing it to them.

Grave-digging I know, but there is something to be said for good ventilation, and AC only really functions well (affordably) in a closed space.  If you pay power bills then you will know what I mean.  Anyway I also believe that sitting for long periods in air-conditioned spaces impairs your body's acclimatisation to the outside world.  You ultimately suffer more when outside, and have worse BO too.

That is not to say there is no room in our world for AC, just I think people shouldn't disregard fans as unnecessary

I believe thongs is the correct term....as in socks and thongs   Now if everyone did it you wouldn't get that satisfying reaction when you did.

Aluminium belongs only on your head, not coursing through your veins!  Glass bottles rock because you can make Molotov cocktails to throw at government enforcement agencies afterwards 

I nearly always forget, and when I remember I don’t care enough to write something anyway.  

Pine nuts fried with bacon

Growing up we’d (my brothers and sisters) all sit around a kerosene heater morning and night in winter.  Still enjoy the smell of burning kero!!

1 minute ago, Mitsuru said:

She definitely had some sort of medical condition but I am unaware as to the intricacies of it since we were like only 9-10 and thus I didn't have much interest in that. And then after fourth grade we lost contact rather quickly.

 

BUT while she definitely had a condition, she was also a klutz. She broke her foot three times by falling down our stairs each time. I've lived in this house 20+ years and have not fallen down the stairs even once. She also broke several bones in school. Tripping on the school yard, tripping in class, tripping in PE, etc. etc.

Klutziness (not sure if I've spelt that right) is a very interesting phenomenon!  I've been reading up a little on the nature of sensory processing disorders and it seems to be a common feature of (or a concomitant issue) with ADHD and ASD.  Anecdotally I implemented a kind of hodgepodge sensory diet for my eldest boy (who has ADHD and is an extraordinary klutz), and I've seen some transient improvements in both his klutziness and additionally his emotional regulation.

12 hours ago, Nizam Adrienne said:

There's not really, at least to my knowledge. I would agree with you on thinking of things like Dickens and Austen, Plath, the Bronte sisters, Shakespeare, Poe, etc as classics. There is also the category of "modern classics", or basically widely celebrated books that people think will become classics but aren't quite old enough yet, I suppose.

 

https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-modern-classics/

I picked classics in the poll, and have fixated a bit on the definition of 'classic', however I think really I enjoy reading modern literature; more early to mid 20th century stuff than recent works though.

No comparison to your friend Mitsu who sounds like she has some sort of medical condition, however I've broken several bones over the years including both arms, nose (not sure if this counts), ribs, and last year my fibula after dropping a sheet of tin on my ankle.

When people say classic works I instantly think Dickens, Jane Austen etc.  I am not certain if there is a universally accepted definition of the descriptor 'classic' in literature.  The age of a work seems to me a fairly important aspect of what constitutes 'classic' literature, while Wikipaedia uses the terms exemplary and noteworthy, of which there are many many works produced within the last 50 years.  Is a modern piece of writing deemed so because it is young, or just because it is not deemed classic?  Is there a point where a piece of literature is deemed classic purely because of its age even if it lacks noteworthiness?  I do not have the answers, but I'm sure there must be a student of literature here somewhere willing to contribute

Can confirm broken = fractured.  Neither term gives an indication of severity or type.  For most of us it is enough to further classify a fracture by the terms open (compound) or closed.

You had me at cheese

Maybe we should make being fat or sedentary illegal…they too are unhealthy!