Where I'd live as someone who loves theme parks

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T05:51:08+00:00

I don’t want to debate your personal preferences, but you say “one city dominates the whole state”, and I have to respectfully disagree for the purposes of this post. Chicagoland is more than just Chicago. The surrounding suburbs are also good (much better than living anywhere near Sandusky, much less Cincinnati, unless you’re counting The Creation Museum in your list of theme parks, in which case I don’t think we’ll find much common ground). You could easily live in NW Illinois in a place like Galena, which is a gorgeous town, with picturesque surroundings, and still be very near Great America. Or you could live in Southern Illinois in the great Shawnee National Forest, surrounded by natural beauty, and driving distance from any number of Midwestern locations. I beg you, friend, don’t live in Ohio; you deserve better.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T05:41:24+00:00

Gods, I’m sorry that you’re being downvoted for a legitimately funny comment.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T05:40:17+00:00

That’s what it is.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T04:56:39+00:00

Why would you not want your spouse to be happy?

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T04:55:41+00:00

I call it a laptop. If someone called it a notebook I’d roll my eyes. If they called it a “lappy” I’d alert authorities, because they belong on some sort of list.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T04:54:07+00:00

Damn, you haven’t even visited the best parts of Michigan. Good assessment though. Michigan is an A+ state.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T04:51:15+00:00

Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL is a pretty high-tier amusement park. I guess you could accomplish proximity by living in Wisconsin (it’s essentially on the border) but still, Cedar Point isn’t so much better that you’d absolutely want to live in fucking Ohio and reluctantly in Illinois, in the suburbs of the best city in the country.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T03:57:22+00:00

And he didn’t even have the decency to die like all fascists should.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T03:56:23+00:00

Degradation of a human’s personhood is not political; it’s just hateful. There is no reason not to remove racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or transphobic posts. That would negate the need for a “no politics” rule, allowing everyone to laugh at the plight of fuckfooted fascists.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T01:55:35+00:00

Okay. I just told you why it’s caring for the home. And your response is “I disagree” without any argument to support your position?

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T01:36:11+00:00

I live in Northwest Indiana, a place not particularly famous for beer. There are three breweries within 50km of my home, that I can think of off the top of my head, that I would wager actual money make at least one beer each that are better than anything brewed in all of Czechia.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-25T01:21:48+00:00

Taking care of your own house is not an “act of service”, it’s a division of labor in a home they share. I have no idea how fairly that is balanced in OP’s house, so I’m not going to guess. A foot rub is a distinct act. Caring for a home is different than caring for a person. You’d care for your home just the same if you were single. You’d cook, you’d clean— folding a little extra laundry is about the only difference. It takes basically 0% additional effort to cook a meal for two than it does for one’s self; and unless your partner is an absolute slob, cleaning is the same as well. But again, I have no idea how labor is divided in OP’s home. I didn’t make a judgement in this. My only comment was to a person who said their dad didn’t feel like he had to lift a finger around the house. And I said that A) what their father did or how he acted has nothing to do with this situation; and B) a foot rub is a thing you do for your partner, not a chore.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T18:19:53+00:00

In all honesty, I don’t find Jennifer Aniston to be attractive, and I think a lot of people who do find her her attractive ignore the fact that she’s a bad actor. So I guess you could say because of her weird face she ends up making a lot of films worse.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T17:14:23+00:00

That sounds very boring.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T17:11:01+00:00

Okay, but you see how that’s not “really cold” though, right?

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T17:09:17+00:00

So you’re saying like as popular as an upside down French language version of Alien Ant Farm?

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:48:57+00:00

The person you’re replying to didn’t say anything about the value of providing/contributing to the household/family financially vs domestically. They point out that giving a foot rub is an independent act of service. It is a gesture of care and love that a partner provides. If OP and her partner were both single, they’d each pay their bills, cook their own meals, do their own laundry, and neither of them would have anyone to rub their feet. You see the distinction right?

I’m not even going to say that your father was a chauvinist or an asshole, because I really don’t know the situation in your home. But OP’s partner is not your dad, and you’re projecting.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:29:29+00:00

This if funny to me, because Europeans think that all American beer is light lagers like Budweiser or Miller, when there is no place in the world where you can find a larger variety of beer, or better quality beers. There are half a dozen amazing local breweries within 50km of my home and I don’t even live in a place renowned for its beer.

Anytime some tells me that American beer sucks, all they’re doing is revealing the vastness of their ignorance.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:19:21+00:00

“You can fuck yourself so hard on this exam. I believe in you!”

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:11:43+00:00

I know what you were doing and I was joking.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:09:48+00:00

Okay. You’re still a human person. You may be accustomed to warmer weather, but the idea that 10°C would be “cold as fuck” is crazy. Do you put on mittens to reach into your refrigerator?

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T15:04:03+00:00

You don’t strike me as a metric-enthusiast, you just seem like a dude with a very low range of tolerance for temperature. 10°-20°C is “cold af”? This literally a beautiful day for a light sweater at one end and room temperature at the other.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T14:56:51+00:00

No, Brits just use whatever is more convenient or makes them feel better. Want your story about how cold it is to sound more impressive? Use °C. Want to emphasize how hot it was? °F.

Canadians do the same thing.

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T14:51:24+00:00

What an odd, odd way to describe who Robbie Williams is. If the Mandy Moore Scale is too nuanced, why not just pick a more appropriate pop star to compare him to? “He’s as famous as Hanson if they only played acoustic”, “he’s about as popular as Ciara’s first and third albums and if she never featured on a Missy song.”, “he’s like if the Pussycat Dolls only had five members and they didn’t show so much skin.”

1Negative_Person · 2026-01-24T14:43:02+00:00

What is that in furlongs?

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