Random Thoughts 9: Attack of the Vapid Posts

[aimeeandbeatles]

Has anyone else listened to a bunch of kids playing with their eyes closed and imagine little monkeys running around a forest? It's freaky how similar kids sound to monkeys sometimes imo

In one of my old apartments, some of the neighbour kids would run out to play and spend multiple hours just constantly screaming at the top of their lungs. It was horrible.

 

[EgonSpengler]

…what if you're all out of gum?

Then you'll have to just kick [butt], obviously.

Spoiler :

 

[Takhisis]

Finally the right answer. Has nobody played Fallout 2?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Nope FO1 was enough for me

 

[choxorn]

Fun tail fact: Human embryos actually start developing tails in their very early weeks, then decide they don't actually need them and destroy them, leaving just the tailbone behind.

 

[The_J]

Source?

So I went to the dentist and it turns out my aches are probably not wisdom teeth related after all. It's probably more due to jaw clenching. So I guess I'll have to sort that out.

A lot easier to deal with, good.
Csn still get annoying though if you are stressed.

 

[Takhisis]

Fun tail fact: Human embryos actually start developing tails in their very early weeks, then decide they don't actually need them and destroy them, leaving just the tailbone behind.

Source?

The link posted earlier by Morty:

well, we do have a tailbone - and yes, it's a leftover from descendants who did indeed have a tail.

Very much a link aimed at kids (teenagers?) but explains it all very nicely - https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2019/10/03/why-do-we-have-a-tailbone/

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Has anyone else listened to a bunch of kids playing with their eyes closed and imagine little monkeys running around a forest? It's freaky how similar kids sound to monkeys sometimes imo

I try not to listen to kids playing. I have neighbors two suites away who let their bratschildren run up and down the hall, screaming and squealing, and they seem to love doing a lot of that outside my door. It not only annoys me, but it also bothers Maddy.

I've talked to the manager about this - it's a standard part of everyone's lease that they're not supposed to allow kids to disturb other tenants like this. But we don't actually have anywhere for the kids to play - not so much as a sandbox, though they'd be useless this time of year anyway. The owners spent $$$$$ on "artwork" for the halls and social room, when what we really need here is somewhere for the kids to play. Even a swing set would help, and there's ample room for it in the back. All the manager can do is pass the suggestion upward. He doesn't get to make money decisions here; they require approval from his boss (sometimes from others even higher-up).

 

[Ajidica]

Finally the right answer. Has nobody played Fallout 2?

I tried it, got confused with who I needed to talk to in the first settlement and was put off by the muddy graphics using all the many shades of brown and grey available in 1998.
It was like I stepped into the 70s, everything was brown, brown and browner. Throw in some rust orange and plum and its dead-on!

 

[Zardnaar]

I try not to listen to kids playing. I have neighbors two suites away who let their bratschildren run up and down the hall, screaming and squealing, and they seem to love doing a lot of that outside my door. It not only annoys me, but it also bothers Maddy.

I've talked to the manager about this - it's a standard part of everyone's lease that they're not supposed to allow kids to disturb other tenants like this. But we don't actually have anywhere for the kids to play - not so much as a sandbox, though they'd be useless this time of year anyway. The owners spent $$$$$ on "artwork" for the halls and social room, when what we really need here is somewhere for the kids to play. Even a swing set would help, and there's ample room for it in the back. All the manager can do is pass the suggestion upward. He doesn't get to make money decisions here; they require approval from his boss (sometimes from others even higher-up).

Apartments are generally a no go here. We've got them but not many.

Neighbors kids have permission to use the front part of our property and there's a small park 5 minutes away.

The ideal is quarter acre section. Ours is close to that iirc.

Some times they have school friends over and they're patting our cat. He loves it though so it's win/win.

Apartment living for kids is kinda like a cage imho. It's something for professionals and tertiary students.

Unfortunately things are getting expensive and the yard sizes I grew up with are in the way out. You need a lawn or three for the kids, a washing line and a peach/plum/apple tree. 2.5 kids, white fence and room for dog right?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Apartments are generally a no go here. We've got them but not many.

Neighbors kids have permission to use the front part of our property and there's a small park 5 minutes away.

The ideal is quarter acre section. Ours is close to that iirc.

Some times they have school friends over and they're patting our cat. He loves it though so it's win/win.

Apartment living for kids is kinda like a cage imho. It's something for professionals and tertiary students.

Unfortunately things are getting expensive and the yard sizes I grew up with are in the way out. You need a lawn or three for the kids, a washing line and a peach/plum/apple tree. 2.5 kids, white fence and room for dog right?

Far too many people can't afford houses anymore. The house we had in the country was on 5 acres (mostly forested; we had wild animals that came around, which is why I was never allowed beyond the tree line alone). It was miles out of the city, half-snowed in during parts of the winter, but we did have a white fence and room for a dog and four geese (which made better watch animals than the dog). Milk was delivered, and the mailman came 6 days/week, both delivery and pickup. We had a well with clean water that tasted incredible. People who have only had tap water in cities have no idea.

I didn't have any other kids around to be noisy with, and much of my play time happened either with my grandmother (always up for a game of catch) or in my imagination. But there was certainly enough room for it.

Apartment buildings here can't be adult-only anymore, so the companies that own them should realize that they have to provide amenities for kids. A swing set and sand box would be great here, but I'm guessing that because there are playgrounds nearby (medium walking distance for older kids, a bit far for little kids), they don't think it's a big deal. Someone suggested letting the kids play in the social room, but that would mean paying someone to supervise them. There's a fitness room here, but kids aren't allowed in there unsupervised.

 

[Zardnaar]

Far too many people can't afford houses anymore. The house we had in the country was on 5 acres (mostly forested; we had wild animals that came around, which is why I was never allowed beyond the tree line alone). It was miles out of the city, half-snowed in during parts of the winter, but we did have a white fence and room for a dog and four geese (which made better watch animals than the dog). Milk was delivered, and the mailman came 6 days/week, both delivery and pickup. We had a well with clean water that tasted incredible. People who have only had tap water in cities have no idea.

I didn't have any other kids around to be noisy with, and much of my play time happened either with my grandmother (always up for a game of catch) or in my imagination. But there was certainly enough room for it.

Apartment buildings here can't be adult-only anymore, so the companies that own them should realize that they have to provide amenities for kids. A swing set and sand box would be great here, but I'm guessing that because there are playgrounds nearby (medium walking distance for older kids, a bit far for little kids), they don't think it's a big deal. Someone suggested letting the kids play in the social room, but that would mean paying someone to supervise them. There's a fitness room here, but kids aren't allowed in there unsupervised.

I ended up hating apartment living. Did it when I was younger.

Need green. Never really lived out in rural area for more than a month or two for work.

Cities and towns are fairly green they're not very built up.

IDK how I would do urban planning if I was a dictator. Some of those European Cotes are amazing.

I'm not convinced apartment living is good for long term stress. Better than the street. I hated using the dryer for clothes.

 

[amadeus]

I’m not sure what a cardinal sin is, but I’m not really that into birds.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Finally the right answer. Has nobody played Fallout 2?

Now that you mention it, I never did play the second one.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Apartment living for kids is kinda like a cage imho. It's something for professionals and tertiary students.

Not if you live in a good neighborhood with lots of playgrounds and open spaces. My neighborhood is awesome and we're trying to have kids which is why I fought to stay right here for so long during my job searching last year. My number 1 goal was to avoid having to move but to this day most employers don't allow work from home even when there's 0 advantage to being in the office everyday so I turned down a lot of good offers.

The whole thing was an eye-opening experience for me when it comes to the problem of people staying in 'bad neighborhoods' and those that end up suffering from gentrification. I did not really get why people try and tough it out - as an Army brat I never got a chance to put down roots and did not understand the phenomenon. Now, it groks.

 

[Farm Boy]

I’m not sure what a cardinal sin is, but I’m not really that into birds.

Probably for the best, they are kinda small. Have you ever tried using cardinal directions? They make a sort of sense but I always get turned all around about noon.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I’m not sure what a cardinal sin is, but I’m not really that into birds.

There's a whole thread for this kind of thing over in Humor and Jokes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I ended up hating apartment living. Did it when I was younger.

Need green. Never really lived out in rural area for more than a month or two for work.

Cities and towns are fairly green they're not very built up.

IDK how I would do urban planning if I was a dictator. Some of those European Cotes are amazing.

I'm not convinced apartment living is good for long term stress. Better than the street. I hated using the dryer for clothes.

The laundry companies have a neat racket going. The dryers never get the clothes completely dry in the first cycle, so people tend to pay again for another cycle. One of my neighbors here told me a trick she'd discovered to get an extra 10 minutes for free, but I just decided to get a drying rack and extra clothes hangers and let the damp stuff finish drying in the apartment.

We're not allowed to dry clothes out on the balconies (apparently it might offend someone, even though most people here have bikes, tires, and lots of stuff in garbage bags on their balconies; they use them for extra storage). In my case, I don't keep anything on the balcony because of the way the wind blows here. The parking lot is a bit of a wind tunnel, as it's between the tall building I'm in and the row houses across. I get all kinds of dirt, sand, leaves, twigs, and debris blowing onto the balcony when the wind gets serious. Hanging laundry out there is out of the question, even if we were allowed.

Red Deer does have a lot of green space, though. One of the best decisions the City ever made was to create the Waskasoo Parks system - miles and miles of walking, hiking, and biking trails through the parks, with other areas of the park meant for wildlife migration. It's not unusual to see deer in various areas of the city, and visitors to the wildlife sanctuary are reminded not to pick the berries - they're reserved for the animals. At certain times of the year the Gaetz Lakes are off-limit to humans as that's nesting season for some of the migratory birds (these lakes are unsuitable for swimming; they're small oxbow lakes created when the river's course shifted a long time back, and now they're wetlands for birds and other animals).

 

[warpus]

I was having a discussion with some people about what a sandwich actually is, and one guy was saying that tacos, burritos, and even wraps are sandwiches. Using his logic I was able to successfully argue that a cream of cheddar soup is a pizza.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That is amazing.