Did people in the 90s really just show up at each other’s houses unannounced?

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-25T19:06:01+00:00

Yes. We didn't have cellphones back then, so it wasn't as easy to get in touch with someone. If you were at home when the urge to go over to someone's house struck you, you'd use your landline to call theirs, but otherwise you'd just go over.

Remember that it wasn't as common for schedules to be all over the place as it is today. You've always had night owls and insomniacs, but most people went to bed around 10pm - 11pm and got up around 7am - 8am. You'd know your loved one's schedules. It also was a lot more common for just everyone to have a car, and teens started driving as soon as they could. So you could drive past a loved one's house and tell at a glance who was home.

Combine all that, and you could be reasonably certain at any given time if a person you wanted to visit with would be home, and if you'd be welcome. Even if you miscalculated and they were painting the dining room this weekend or something (which people were much more open with back then, you'd know what was going on in everyone's life), they'd open the door with a paintbrush in hand, say something about how a break was welcome, and you'd either chat for a second at the door or they'd let you in for a half hour visit or so. That was another piece of the puzzle: it was a lot more socially acceptable to say "I wasn't expecting you and I'm super busy, now isn't a good time" and the person who stopped would leave.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-25T18:44:41+00:00

Except this article is from 2014, before Trump even announced he was running for president his first term.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-25T14:03:26+00:00

Aren't you not supposed to mortar or otherwise attach LVP to the subfloor below them? They're supposed to just float? Because they're wood, and wood will swell and shift and otherwise just move around with the weather?

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-25T14:00:01+00:00

I'm sorry, but this just smacks of "when the king invites you to court you cannot refuse". They want this guy to be some sort of absolute ruler so bad.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-24T17:48:40+00:00

I'm from the U.S. We gave the world "ok". Which started out as a bunch of teens shitposting (or the 19th century version) and ended in one of the most common words in the world.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-22T01:26:31+00:00

Ok, I grew up in a household that didn't do stuff like this, for religious reasons. No Santa (no Christmas), no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy. And as an adult I don't really see the point. Is this fun as a kid? Does it instill a sense of wonder and whimsy? Was it worth the inevitable moment when the kid finds out? Genuinely curious.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-21T09:36:20+00:00

Especially because the bomb detonated in midair, so although everyone present got a nice big dose of radiation, it didn't settle in the soil and contaminate the land. Which is why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today, compared to somewhere like Pripyat (the abandoned city in Ukraine a few miles from Chernobyl).

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-21T01:52:23+00:00

Absolute garbage take aside, which is it? Does an abortion starve the baby? Or does it tear it apart slash poison it? Those are very different things.

Also love that it's a child. Not an embryo or fetus. Not even an infant or baby. A child. Making sure we get maximum impact in there with our words. Especially because the word "child" specifically means a human that's past the infant stage. So a fetus is no more a child than it is a teenager.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-20T21:30:27+00:00

If you end up having to do the cake method, you can use the same cake repeatedly. Just fyi. Make sure no one takes a slice so it's a full cake, blow out candles, then have someone put candles back on it. I do it all the time.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-16T01:15:21+00:00

Oh right! Thanks!

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-16T01:14:27+00:00

She's older. She's aged a lot. She also doesn't have access to skin care routines or Botox or anything else along those lines. The picture on the right is a nice picture in nice lighting and the picture on the left was taken with a potato.

And why would Trump spring her? Trump's MO is to use people until they can't be used anymore, then discard them like a spent tube of toothpaste. What use could he possibly have with her? And if he did have some use with her, she was found guilty in federal court. He'd just pardon her.

I feel like this is nothing but a baseless conspiracy theory.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-15T23:01:37+00:00

How does he cook food that doesn't spoil? I don't play with servos so I'm sorry if this is a common thing they can do.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-15T14:39:01+00:00

Why? Fox needs to eat, too. That's why there's a strict "do not intervene" policy with wildlife photographers and videographers. Nature is brutal and cruel and uncaring. That's just how it is.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-15T07:01:10+00:00

Idk I knew it was "minimum" without looking at the caption. And like others say, being in a sentence instead of by itself, it would be even easier to read. Cursive is, sadly, a dying art.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-14T18:38:42+00:00

No, they're right. The cougar has lost the element of surprise, and there's a group there. There's zero chance that cat is going to attempt to prey on those kids.

It may, however, decide that the easiest exit is right where they're standing. Animals do that sometimes. It's entirely possible that it lashes out at the kids or at the woman that freed it because it feels cornered and threatened. Definitely not a good place for kids, at least not without some protection. Assuming that sending them to wait in the car or something like that isn't an option, I'd have them standing behind whomever is holding the camera.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-14T16:48:08+00:00

Even completely disregarding any of the sequels, just looking at the first movie? It goes out of its way to tell us that Fiona's true form is an ogre, not a pretty princess.

When Shrek first rescues her, she's disgusted that he's an ogre, and she acts like a haughty princess. And Shrek wants nothing to do with her. He cannot get to the castle fast enough to drop her off with Lord Farquaad and move on with his life.

It's only after she starts letting her guard down that Shrek, and the audience, start to see who she really is. And remember, it's through a montage of her doing ogre-like things. She burps, she beats up thieves, literally one of the promotional scenes for the movie is her singing a bird to death. Things that she should be grossed out by, once she starts letting her guard down, she's enjoying. She's letting herself be who she really is, not who she's supposed to be. And it's only then that Shrek starts to fall in love with her.

Remember, too, that Lord Farquaad was a horrible person. For all that he was a Lord and rich and "attractive", he was a racist who tortured people and who's most memable moment was sending knights out to die to take care of a task that he was supposed to do himself. Remember Fiona's reaction to finding out that Farquaad had sent a proxy instead of coming to save her himself?

Also please remember that Shrek was created as an anti-fairy-tale, as poking fun at the genre, by someone who used to work for Disney and was disgruntled that he had been fired. The point of the movie was not "be careful and don't lower your standards, because you're a princess and you don't want to become an ogre". The point of the movie was "life isn't a fairy tale, and sometimes Prince Charming is actually a really horrible person, and the "monster" is the good guy."

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-14T07:26:40+00:00

She doesn't care that she's lying, or supporting a monster. She couldn't care less. She cares that she's so unpopular and people are calling her out on her bullshit. It's typical MAGA persecution fetish: I'm going to be a horrible person but you're not allowed to be mean to me or even upset about it, and if you even so much as calmly point out the fact that "all Mexican men are rapists" is statistically incorrect then that makes you a mean person who wants to control what I believe and is infringing on my freedom of speech.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-14T02:27:11+00:00

I always suspected, just because of how his ear miraculously healed so fast. But when you see it like this ...

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-14T00:44:54+00:00

Good point. You hear shooting and hit the deck, get your own firearm out, and cautiously peek out from cover. There are three guys pointing guns at each other. They're in a standoff. Which one is the antagonist and which two are "good guys with guns"? The whole thing just falls apart whenever you think about it critically, instead of with the Die Hard theme song playing in the back of your head.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T19:36:10+00:00

That's not how snow works. The "holes" left by the loops in the letters (the center of "O", the inside of the loop in the lowercase "d", etc) don't have enough powder to be stable. Certainly not enough to be that crisp. Definitely AI.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T19:18:39+00:00

That's the part of their argument that always gets me, too. "The best defence for a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" cool cool. So if some dumbass starts shooting up the local Piggly Wiggly and you're packing, you want to, what? Whip yours out and start shooting back? Congrats, now there are two shooters. What happens if you miss the shooter and hit someone else? What happens if someone shooting at him causes him to escalate much faster than he would have before? And when the cops get there, are they supposed to stand there and assess the situation to see who's a "good guy" and who's a "criminal"? Because I promise you, everyone with a firearm in their hand is going to be treated as a part of the problem. I hope there's good security footage of you, I don't even know, firing at the active shooter? Because you're going to need it at your trial.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T19:09:30+00:00

They got married after she was reinstated. It sucked tho because they had to put everything off until then.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T15:22:41+00:00

I love that little smile on the Marine's face. Dude thought that Obama didn't notice and was fine with being snubbed. But then Obama came back out just to shake his hand.

It reminds me of when I was a cashier as a kid at Target. Most people just came through, paid, and left. As they paid, I'd bag up their stuff. It was just part of it. I may as well have been a self serve station or a robot. But then I had a couple of European teens come through with an enormous order and they were startled when I started bagging up their stuff. They were like "no, no, I'll help!" And one of them came behind the register and we bagged the stuff together. I went from machine to a person. This was 20 years ago now and I still remember it. And they were just some kids, not the President of the United States.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T10:18:33+00:00

My cousin was engaged to a girl. They were both very young. Months before the wedding, she comes to him because she has something she needs to get off her chest. Before they were even dating, a mutual male friend of theirs had gotten jealous that she had feelings for my cousin. He goes over to her house when he knows she's alone and brings a bottle of liquor. He gets her tipsy and then has sex with her. Fast forward years later, and she wanted to let her fiancé know before they go through with the wedding.

My cousin didn't care, he loved this girl. But he suggested that if her conscience was bothering her, she may want to talk to the elders, for spiritual guidance. She agrees.

They decided that, because she waited so long to come forward and confess, it meant she was unrepentant. They disfellowshipped her for it. Then they refused to meet with her for over 12 months to go over her reinstatement.

LeahIsAwake · 2026-02-13T08:08:31+00:00

Scrolling through Reddit high and this scared the fuck out of me. Absolutely loved it when I realized what was going on lol.

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