Watched the original Road House night before last. Told my wife I would have loved to see Patrick Swayze keep on. He wasn’t the best actor of all time, but I could see his performance maturing into something truly strong with another decade or two under his belt.
You’re answering to the exact situation. I’m answering in more general terms.
Only young people think middle age is old. I figure I’ve got another 20 until I really start falling apart.
Yes! Treat them as ignorant, not stupid. Asked my ex-wife why kids like me when I’m don’t like them so much. “You talk to them like real people. They get that.”
The hell are you on about?! I’m merely stating that little imitation was nothing to get up in arms about. Did you actually watch the video? I had expected something utterly heinous.
FFS, the prime minister of Japan chased Trump around a palace today, corralling him like a toddler. Then he ranted to our seamen about fucking magnets. I can hardly be upset that he quoted Modi in his actual accent.
I’ve been banned 100 times for speaking, uh, loudly about this administration. Go check my posts if you think I’m MAGA.
Not a thing the President of the United States should be doing, but that was nothing, at all. He imitated the man, for a single phrase, nothing outlandish. I do that all the time telling stories of personal interactions.
Anyway, we’ll both be banned from lemmy for “inciting racism” or some such. 🤷🏻
Speak to your kids like little adults and their speech and vocabulary explodes. They also sense the respect that many adults don’t give them. I loathe adults that talk down to children.
Yep. My little kids were giggling over skibidi last year. It’s fun because it’s nonsensical. Kid’s love shit like that.
I’m middle-aged with small children. Only heard of this a few days ago.
Let it stand! I see it as more of a question of how people would react to such a disaster in modern America.
Damn y’all are cynical. I’m on the Hurricane Coast and people come out the woodworks to help one another after storms. It’s an awe inspiring thing to see so many come to mutual aid.
Two minutes after the wind dies down, dudes are roaming the streets with chainsaws, rolling in pickups, dragging trees with chains. Those that didn’t get sniped are actively searching for people to help. After Hurricane Ivan, men were going door to door, cutting trees off houses and cars. Power was out so people were cooking up their food before it went bad, grills hot, signs in the yard, “Come and get it!”
Another great example is NYC after 9/11. I’d visited Manhattan in 1992 and was utterly freaked out by how unfriendly everyone was. (Yes, I know, that was partly culture shock on my part.) After 9/11 they pulled together strong.
I’ve written about what all went on in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. Skipping that tonight as I don’t want to cry, but it was awe inspiring.
And all of those events, even in your example, were before we had the organizational abilities and reach of the modern internet.
I don’t think any of this is political, cultural or otherwise dependent on the times. I wouldn’t spit on my MAGA neighbor if he was on fire, but I’d work by his side if shit hit the fan. The vast majority of us jump after disasters, we evolved that way, one of the finest points in our favor.
You had the spirit of the quote:
“The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
He’s naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him!
Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored.
If shit ever truly hits the fan, some y’all are going to starve.
I don’t care if it’s rust or mold. Either way is harmless. Wipe it with your finger and you will know instantly. Almost 100% it’s rust, which happens when you combine salt and iron.
If anyone thinks I’m an idiot, consider the salinity and pH. Nothing is growing in there, nothing can grow in there. I’ve got homemade hot sauce that is several years old, between the acidity and salt, it can’t go bad.
You never know when a gem like Prey, but you gotta deal with hot garbage in the meantime. Wanted to love Romulus, watched it, no idea what it was about, don’t remember a single thing, don’t even have a scene in my head.
Stop that. Yes, luck and heredity are the #1 factors in wealth and success. Stop using those factors as excuses.
Well. Now you’ve done it.
Welsh?! You mean poor stock?! Heaven fucking forfend!
Look buddy, we only allow white, New Englanders, from proper “stock” in this club. (That does not go for everyone in Rhode Island.) Perhaps you come from poor breeding? 🤮
Anyway, I have a black cat named…
Most docs these days aren’t fixing broken bones, straight to the ER. When I broke my first bone, 9th bd, 1980, doc had the services available to get me in a cast on the spot.
Don’t know if it’s a liability thing, or hyper-specialization, but I wouldn’t expect a general practitioner to do more than read the X-ray and say, “Off you go.”
Some good news though! Been sent to the ER 3 times worried about my heart. No, I have zero heart issues despite smoking for 20 years and drinking for 30, but I’m kinda noid about it. Last time I was at my GP, they gave me an EKG and a reading right in the office!
American medicine: 5 steps forward, 4 steps back, don’t be unlucky.
Don’t understand. If the X-ray didn’t show it, I’d figure I had a minute fracture, do what the doc said, go about my day. I’ve had many breaks, no compound fractures, but a few greenstick and the like, plenty that were so minor, wasn’t any care that would make a difference (per the doctors). Not much can be done with ribs and fingers and toes. :)
Can you explain why it took an MRI to see the break? Not in the medical field, not being mean or sarcastic, just can’t get my head around it. As I understand it, that is not what an MRI scan is for.
Yes, without the ACA it would have been far more than you could afford, but not hundreds of thousands. I’ve had a few surgeries, and not even the shattered femur was over $100,000, even with the overinflated prices.
BTW, fixing to lose my Obamacare! Nice, ain’t it?
Look, the guy used to be my rep so I have more reason to hate him than most of you, but I have never understood this. At one point he got some Botox and overdid it, looked a bit uncanny but nothing too crazy. And this isn’t even a picture of that! Also, Botox injections fade fairly quickly, unlike the plastic surgery the Mar-a-Lago women had.