grasshopper_mouse

grasshopper_mouse , 2 days ago

I’ve set one off while dying my hair.

grasshopper_mouse , 3 days ago

I’m in my mid 40s now but I knew even when I was a kid that I never wanted kids. I see my friends and family now struggling with their own children and I just cannot imagine that life for me. I have no regrets not having kids, but if I ever did, I know it’s better to regret NOT having them than to regret having them.

grasshopper_mouse , 4 days ago

The Comradicons

grasshopper_mouse , 5 days ago

Be excellent to each other

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

This is a tricky one. I think I’d just offer to help them prepare and then specifically ask to be put on vegetable duty. One of my aunts is like this, doesn’t wash veggies, doesn’t rinse the soap off her dishes once she’s scrubbed them (!), so whenever I’m at her house I just offer to help.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

No she’s not. The water is very unclean, super soapy, and she does it “to save water”. There is often soap residue on the glasses and probably the dishes too, you can just see it easier on the glass. She wonders why she’s had stomach issues most of her adult life.

This is also the woman who once let a turkey thaw in her fridge, which then leaked raw turkey juice (bloody water) onto a half slice of watermelon that was on the shelf below it. She then ate the watermelon after washing it off in the sink “because it was wrapped in plastic and was still ok.” It was not ok, she got food poisoning.

I think she’s just unhygienic and has an “I’m always right” Boomer mentality.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

I live in MA. My work and personal cell phones were screeching alerts every hour until it got restored. Kinda scary that it can go down like that.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

I’m a late gen-Xer (born in '80, so I’m more of a “Xennial”). I have a stable job, pension, matching 401k, no kids, no debt (paid off my car and student loans), make 6 figures, and I am STILL convinced that I will never be able to retire. I feel horrible for all those who are in a worse financial situation than me, but we are all really fucked in the next 20 years.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

Social Security is set to run out in the 2030s, and I fully expect the stock market to crash, effectively wiping out my 401k. As others have mentioned, resources like water will start to become scarce, inciting instability.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

I call it realistic. If you think everything is going to work out, you’re delusional, man. But I hope you prove me wrong some day, I really do.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

No, I like surprises

grasshopper_mouse , 7 days ago

He got a degree in architectural design and now tours the country playing the fiddle. He could have been anything he wanted and that’s the life he chose, but I respect him for it. He’s happy and that’s what really counts.

grasshopper_mouse , 13 days ago

I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.

grasshopper_mouse , 14 days ago

They are both intellectually superior to me and my brother, their only children. I’m pretty sure he and I are a bit of a disappointment to both of them, but they would never admit that.

grasshopper_mouse , 14 days ago

Anything computer-related

grasshopper_mouse , 15 days ago

The Large Flying Fox. Absolute unit of a bat.

grasshopper_mouse , 15 days ago

I was lucky enough to spend a semester abroad in NSW Australia when I was in high school and I volunteered at a wild animal sanctuary there and they had some flying foxes. They were so cool, but you had to be careful when you entered their cage because they would either climb all over you or piss on your head.

grasshopper_mouse , 18 days ago

Math

grasshopper_mouse , 19 days ago

Hey, that post on that other instance was mine ;)

grasshopper_mouse , 18 days ago

Definitely

grasshopper_mouse , 21 days ago

Same

grasshopper_mouse , 21 days ago

You need some green chile on this ASAP

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Same. My brother and only sibling hasn’t had it either despite being exposed multiple times.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Can confirm. My coworker in D.C. is just getting over it.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

I couldn’t date a cop

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Not gonna lie, I do miss phones with tactile keyboard buttons. My last dumb phone had a mini qwerty keyboard and I loved that thing.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

I do have Bluetooth keyboard for my current phone, but it’s definitely not the same, plus it’s just another thing to lug around

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

ACPO

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Would this include airplanes flying into NC? Like, if I have a layover in Charlotte and I’m only gonna be at the airport a few hours, I can’t wear a mask on the plane to Charlotte, or at the Charlotte airport? I know planes are owned by the airlines so they’re not “public”, but what about inside an airport?

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor in Doctor Who

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

One of my coworkers left his car parked in his driveway for so long that a pigeon made a nest between the windshield and the windshield wiper, just right in that little space where it comes together with the hood.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

They used to make these things called “Shrinky-Dinks”, which were sheets of thick plastic that you would color with pencils, then cut them out and stick them in the oven and they would shrink down to a smaller size.

Well one day when I was 3, I decided I could do this by myself, except that I put them in the toaster oven on the grate on like 400 degrees. Of course that shit melted through the grate and onto the heating element inside the toaster oven. Thankfully my parents noticed the smell before a fire started. Not sure how much a toaster oven cost in the '80s, but they had to get a new one one.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

I can’t drink as much as I used to without experiencing an all-day headache the following day.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Hah! Yeah, I’ve read about people having multi-day hangovers. I’ve definitely never had that happen before, but I’m “only” 44, maybe time will tell.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

I know we’re not here for this, but her dress is awesome.

That being said, after reading the article, I’m not surprised she was denied her visa when she’s investigating something the Indian government clearly doesn’t want the public to know about. I hope she gets to return some day and complete what she started.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Realistically, how many years do you think Microsoft will support Windows 10? I dread having to switch to 11 some day, at the rate they’re going.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

I’m thinking the same regarding Linux, but I dunno shit about it and while I’m not totally computer illiterate, switching operating systems like that is very intimidating to me.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Omg, this isn’t long enough

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Northernlion/The Library of Letourneau, he plays videogames and just kinda does a stream of consciousness thing that often has nothing to do with the game itself. It’s entertaining and he has a nice voice.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

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grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

My mom us a retired Episcopalian priest. She said there are gluten-free wafers you can get if someone in the congregation needs them. She also said that it doesn’t have to be a wafer, one of her priest buddies once consecrated a pancake to make a point that it doesn’t matter what’s being consecrated, it’s all God’s creation.

Note: I am not religious and do not hold these beliefs myself

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Most songs by Leo are pretty good

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

An oldie but a goody

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Though I’m not originally from there, I moved to CO in '94 with my mom and went to high school there. I joined the army out of high school and was in AIT at the time of the shooting. I’ll never forget the morning after, we were all in formation waiting to get the day started, and the 1st SGT comes out and starts screaming “Who here is from Colorado!?” And of course I’m the only one out of like 300 soldiers to raise my hand, and he runs over to me and just starts screaming “What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you all mentally insane?” etc etc, just chewing me out. I had NO IDEA what he was talking about because no one had cell phones or computers and we weren’t allowed access to TVs or newspapers. I just keep telling him I didn’t know what he was talking about, then finally he backed off and told everyone what happened. I didn’t know anyone that went to Columbine, but years later among people I met in Colorado, it sort of turned into a six degrees of separation thing where everyone knew someone that knew someone who was there.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

I swear all the 1SGs I’ve met are either the coolest person in the world that you wish was your parent, or a complete fucking psycho that gives the impression they wouldn’t give a damn if you died. There’s no in-between. The good ones were amazing and inspiring and you felt honored and privileged to serve with them, and the bad ones made you feel like you were worthless and would never amount to shit.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

I also question why they think it needs to have legs, especially only 2. The dogs seem to have way more stability on 4 legs. Why do they insist on making them appear human?

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Yeah! That’s more like it!

grasshopper_mouse , 2 months ago

Ooo, I’ll get to live through 3 more ends of the world! Excellent. That was a wild read, thanks for the links.