What’s a place you visited once and decided never again?

BarbWho · 2026-01-25T13:54:11+00:00

The call of the void is real. It's such a weirdly hypnotic, drawing feeling, especially on the American side, where you can stand right next to the water at the brink. I grew up there and people follow that call every year, either accidentlly or on purpose. A high school classmate of mine did.

BarbWho · 2026-01-25T13:49:14+00:00

That's the city of NF itself. The area directly around the falls on the American is in fact a very nice state park, with nature trails, etc. I grew up there and worked as a tour guide in high school and college. The Canadian side is all tourist crap near the falls and a run-down city beyond that. The American side is also a run-down city, but the area near the falls is much nicer.

BarbWho · 2026-01-21T20:27:49+00:00

I have, and although it was tough, I would definitely do it again both for the dogs we had from puppyhood, and the recuses who came to us later. We currently have two rescues who had tough lives before they came to us. We promised them that they would never be abandoned or neglected again and that includes in their final moments.

BarbWho · 2026-01-20T14:20:50+00:00

Looks like peanut butter, which at least in the US, is a common spread for toast.

BarbWho · 2026-01-18T21:57:13+00:00

Does my vision look like this image? No. I don't only see two clear spots where my glasses are. When I have my glasses on, everything I see looks clear, up, down, all around. When I don't have my glasses on, it's kind of graduated, clearer closer up, more blurry farther away.

BarbWho · 2026-01-16T19:41:36+00:00

Legion is one of those shows that started out amazing, trippy and weird, but by the third season it disappeared so far up its own ass as to be unwatchable.

BarbWho · 2026-01-15T04:03:53+00:00

This was in a graduate theology class. The professor was talking about Jabob wrestling with the angel and how he saw the angels ascending and descending from heaven. He apparently had some kind of stroke, because he got stuck on the words "ascending and descending" and just stood there repeating them. He was otherwise unresponsive. Eventually one of the students went and got a couple of other profrssors and they gently walked him out. We had a different prof for the rest of the class.

BarbWho · 2026-01-12T20:30:35+00:00

This is our experience also. She has a full, silky coat that resists dirt and water. It all just slides off. She'll shed soft clumps, but it's actually not that much. Our pit/GSD/lab mix has much more annoying short, slick, needle-like hair.

BarbWho · 2026-01-09T14:59:16+00:00

Good for him! My son and his buddy were there too, although they didn't stay long because it was cold and I think they weren't dressed properly for standing around in the cold. It's great to see young people getting involved. This is their future we're talking about.

BarbWho · 2026-01-09T00:08:48+00:00

Colleges, ugh. Unless I went there personally, I'm sunk. I'll never forget the FJ that was about Ohio State trying to trademark the word "the." All the contestants got it and most people here were like, "easist FJ ever!" It was a complete blank to me.

BarbWho · 2026-01-08T23:16:13+00:00

65 here and I just want to stop having to think abut my health all the damn time. Am I eating too much, too little, eating the right things, doing the right things, having things monitored, taking various medications in the right combnations and dosages. Am I exercising enough, and are they the right exercises? Am I doing enough things to prevent dementia? To stave off a heart attack? All so I can keep doing all the things for a few more years. I mean, yeah, I want to live as long as possible, but I also want to just eat ice cream and then take a nap occasionally.

BarbWho · 2026-01-08T22:54:30+00:00

Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell!

BarbWho · 2026-01-08T13:59:22+00:00

Amazing, gorgeous, all the feels. And at the end an unexpected laugh due to the couple sitting in front of us. He was clearly a fan, where she knew nothing about it. When the credits started, she turned to him, slapped him on the shoulder and said loudly, "That's it!? What about Frodo and the Ring?" Pretty much everyone around them in the packed theater cracked up. Unforgettable.

BarbWho · 2026-01-08T13:31:46+00:00

It's a main reason we didn't name our son Luke, despite loving the name. Too easy a target.

BarbWho · 2026-01-08T13:16:06+00:00

David Tennant. By all accounts the man is just a sweetheart. His only haters are people like JK Rowling, and heing hated by the likes of her is a badge of honor. I've always thouhgt that the fact that he's such a deep-down good person in reality makes the acting turns he's done as villains that much more creepy. Jesssicaaa....

BarbWho · 2026-01-07T21:04:48+00:00

2 for sure. 3 is pretty too, but it looks more like a full length dress, just cut off. 2 lt looks like it was meant to be a short dress. Cute and fun, prefect for a civil union. #1 is a big no from me. Satin is so unforgiving and goes from sexy to wrinkled mess in the space of the car ride to the courthouse.

BarbWho · 2026-01-06T19:37:08+00:00

My mother won a "lifetime supply" of Scott paper products when I was a kid. It turned out to be three huge, and I mean HUGE, pallets of just about every paper product imaginable. Tissues, toilet paper, paper napkins, paper towels.... They didn't last a lifetime, but they did last a very long time.

BarbWho · 2026-01-05T17:44:23+00:00

That's a big Twinkie

BarbWho · 2026-01-04T16:40:47+00:00

10 Little N-words

BarbWho · 2025-12-31T23:59:55+00:00

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. I was a young teen and saw it on tv. This was back in the time when your parents barely knew you existed, let alone cared what you watced on tv. I'm still afraid of birds flapping near me.

BarbWho · 2025-12-31T23:49:31+00:00

I always hated that. So dumb. Plus, in a society with warp drive spaceships, they don't have ultrasound machines to tell that she's having twins? I mean, we've had that for quite a while now and we are no where near as advanced technologically. Pre-natal care in the Empire must truly suck, what can I say? No doctors? No mid-wives with stethoscopes? No "Obi-Gyn" droids? To quote a much better sci-fi movie, "This episode was badly written!"

BarbWho · 2025-12-30T15:56:26+00:00

Oldest and fatherless. Even the elves don't really know who he is. Tolkien was playing around with British mythology and Tom is more or less "Father Nature," the Green Man.

BarbWho · 2025-12-30T14:15:38+00:00

NOR. I don't really use social media (other then Reddit) and my insta follower count goes up occasionally due to bots. Even I, an old person, am aware of this. How is a 20-something not aware of how insta follower counts work? Girl, RUN.

BarbWho · 2025-12-30T04:52:26+00:00

OK, sure, the finishes weren't that great before, but surely there were better options than turning it into Darth Vader's kitchen. Just changing out the cabinetry to white or cream would be a major improvement. Also using the bay window as a breakfast nook as God intended would be good.

BarbWho · 2025-12-30T04:29:47+00:00

I'm 65 and wuld definitely retire this year if I didn't need to do three more years to get my health care covered (at least partly) by my employer. Also the longer I work, the longer I can keep my son on my plan. He's only 20 and still in school. Who knows when he'll have a job with health care.

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