They got a prehensile penis instead.

Did you actually read my post?!

Subsidised? Don’t think you know what Habit for Humanity does.

Anyway, I’m not baggin’ on young people for rent ills. Were you able to read, I’m saying they should be extra pissed off.

Little off topic, but I remember my college roommate and I watching a TV ad around '91 or so, “Oh no! Ground beef again? What will I tell my husband!?” We. Were. Screaming.

“Fuck you bitch! We’re on our last can of boiled carrots and frying flour in the last of our oil and topping it with the last of our ketchup!” We were picking pecans off the roof and frying them in the last of our butter and seasoning salt. (A fine meal!) We were scheming on swiping a duck while we picked black walnuts at the campus pond. I’d get dressed nicely and shoplift our Sunday meals.

Kids today: We. Are. Literally. Dying. McDonald’s is SO expensive!

It’s not that we olds think you deserve to suffer because we did, but… we did… Kinda hard to entertain modern complaints.

Don’t start me on rent though. That place was the attic of a 107-yo house that was literally tilting over, held together by wires in the basement. Landlord was not a smart man to begin with, utterly senile by the time we met him. As in, worse than Trump senile. Not even trying to be funny. Still, $250/mo.

$600 in 2025 money, exactly our Habitat for Humanity mortgage today. Please fucking call Habitat and merely ask when the next meeting is! It’s almost certainly not what you think. One phone call changed my life.

This will piss you off. I got turned down for a lease in the 90s because landlords wanted you to take home 3-4x the rent. If you couldn’t make rent in 7-11 days, you were a poor risk.

Tried actual Band Aid™ brand? Hate to sound like I’m shilling, but I get beat up a lot in the woods and on the water. Never had a hydrocolloid fail, even if it was mushed in my tiny aid kit for months. Again, Band Aid™ brand works way better. Easier to get out the package, sticks way better, comes off better.

Hate buying the brand name because it costs so much more, but, get what ya pay for.

You obviously weren’t around for the 1980s, and that’s OK! But don’t try to shoehorn current events into what we dealt with in the past.

Most people won’t run an ad blocker.

You have got to be fucking kidding me. This is a snarky post, right? Not serious?

You forgot ozone layer depletion. :)

Incels. Interlinked.

Ever used hydrocolloid bandaids? They are the best! Yeah, they’re more expensive, and as usual, Band-Aid brand is by far the best. I’ve used them in the field dozens of times.

Would not use them on puncture wounds and they seal the bacteria in quite nicely. But for surface wounds they’re antibacterial and a bandaid all in one.

Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.

Didn’t use a profile pic but I’ve posted several pics of myself. With very little effort you could end up on my front porch.

I figured I’ve commented enough on here that anyone that cares could track my down even without the more obvious clues. I simply don’t care.

Been beat up on here, twice, for suggesting people just roll their own. Took me a couple of hours of carefully following directions, never touched it again, been 6 years. LOL, don’t think I can even log into it anymore, key’s lost.

Verizon was always the best for me. Moved to T-Mobile because Verizon wouldn’t activate my funky new phone. Promptly lost the phone and wish I had never changed. T-Mobile isn’t awful, but they are compared to Verizon.

If that’s how management is, I’m not shopping there. Not like I buy new clothes anyway, but if I did!

I know a guy with monster certs and degrees in plumbing, plus practical experience. He designs the gas and water for military bases and hospitals. Makes bank.

Ah! But you’re not accounting for radio, then television and now the internet. Mass communication is squashing languages and dialects and accents flat, while at the same time working for archival purposes.

Spoken, live languages? Very damned few. Archived languages? We might do pretty well.

In my lifetime I’ve seen accents disappearing in America. Doing tech support in the early 90s, I played a game of guessing what state a person was from. Did quite well! I could almost always match their accent. (Midwestern was my kryptonite, very generic.)

We’re seeing regional accents and dialects disappearing very quickly due to the internet, and formerly, TV in general.

For example; I haven’t heard a deep Cajun accent in ages, unless I look for it on YouTube, and even then it’s mostly intelligible. I talked to people 25-30 years ago I could not comprehend, and I’m good at languages!

Another example; Go watch Steel Magnolias from 1989. (Great movie BTW!) That deep, propuh, Mississippi female accent is all but gone except for the oldest, and those women only use it amongst each other.

In any case, English seems to rule the internet, a modern lingua franca, don’t see that changing any time soon.

“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species.”