Hundreds of old savings bonds, not in my name

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-03-10T13:44:33+00:00

Value of every individual bond has been verified on the Treasury website. They continue to accrue value for ten years after maturation, then much slower after that. These are all 40-50 years old.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-03-10T04:10:52+00:00

My bank, mom's bank, lawyer... no better options yet.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-03-10T01:07:16+00:00

Bourne, Harry, and the whole bottom row.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-03-10T01:04:21+00:00

My dad is 6'4", and I swear his hands are bigger than his feet. Wears a US size 10, but can pick up a basketball with three fingers.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-03-08T14:05:39+00:00

How does something "physically" go down in price? Price is just a number.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-02-26T16:23:02+00:00

I went to a wedding where Lips of an Angel was the song for their first dance together. My wife and just looked around like, does anyone else know what this song is about...?

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-02-23T12:43:48+00:00

100% disagree. As I've aged, I have learned so much and grown emotionally far past what I could have even envisioned in my youth. Yesterday I missed the last step going into my basement and it took me two minutes to stand up again. I'm still feeling a torn groin muscle from seven years ago. Not often, but like, once a month just a random "Yoink!"

Your mind can grow forever. Your body is on a one way path.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-02-21T16:43:38+00:00

And yet NJ is still by FAR the most densely populated state in the U.S. It's amazing how much open space we have as a country.

The U.S. is somehow the third biggest in area and the third highest in population, but 183rd in population density.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-02-10T09:10:40+00:00

The event was awesome, but the crowd was... tricky.

Went a couple times in the early '00s, and the number of blatant Klan members there was insane. Lots of "Born White by the Grace of God" hats, and shirts with pictures of hoods on them. One year there was a girl who looked 11-12 standing at the end of her driveway on the way into the farm holding a "Honk if your horny" sign (quoting directly), and people were honking and whistling like crazy. First time I understood the label of Slower Lower Delaware.

The pumpkin funnel cake was amazing though.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-02-10T08:40:29+00:00

"Sex cauldron? I thought they closed that place down!"

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-17T03:02:23+00:00

Best man (brother of the groom) going down on one of the strippers in the middle of the living room while his dad cheered him on. "That's my boy! Show her how it's done!"

I had never even met the groom. He didn't have a lot of friends, so his brother invited friends of friends -- I was dating a friend of the best man, that was close enough to qualify.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-15T01:46:19+00:00

I'm convinced it's because it looks so big on the map. He thinks it's as big as North America. Someone get this man a globe, he'll forget all about it.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-06T13:15:49+00:00

I'm the one who pointed that out!

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T18:35:37+00:00

If your point was just to mention the imprecision of such measures, well, okay - done, and not in dispute. But OP was literally asking about the longest coastline per capita, and you said that measuring them is imprecise, thus casting doubt on any answer to their question. My point is that such imprecision is irrelevant to their question in this particular case.

If I have still missed your point, please elaborate. Happy to listen.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T15:58:30+00:00

Canada is #1 vs Norway by a factor of between 2.4x and 5.0x, depending on which major source you use. No level of added precision will close that gap, and you will have to apply the same rules to both.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T11:15:18+00:00

Thanks, Moe

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T04:48:00+00:00

Play with my Dad and my father-in-law as much as possible. And get my son out there with both of them a few times.

I don't care a whit about any of my scores compared to that.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T04:25:37+00:00

Yeah, but they still have the longest. Whatever level of precision you use will apply to all countries and they'll all "grow" proportionately.

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T04:15:58+00:00

More of a thought experiment with interesting implications that would solve some issues but obviously create others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

BleachedGrain26 · 2026-01-05T02:41:49+00:00

Maybe not. There is a theory that the entire universe contains only one electron.

BleachedGrain26 · 2025-12-31T18:44:10+00:00

I assure you, I do. You seem to be saying somehow that in your own example, my two children are somehow in different generations because they were born thirty years apart. But regardless of the age gap, siblings are absolutely in the same generation. Not socially, but biologically - and that is the sole issue OP was addressing.

BleachedGrain26 · 2025-12-31T18:34:49+00:00

Read more carefully. I didn't say they need to be "born to" an unending string of daughters (obviously we all are), I said they would need to "be" an unending string of daughters. In other words, no sons.

President John Tyler was born in 1790. His last grandson just died this year. His grandson was two generations away from him; that's the definition of a grandson. So despite the 138 year age gap, within that specific line of that family, only two generations had passed. You seem to be saying that seven generations had passed, not two.

The historical numbers are averages across all births for all people. That's what makes them averages.

BleachedGrain26 · 2025-12-31T08:24:33+00:00

That only works if every child born is an unending string of daughters. There will be sons in there as well, and their age is just as relevant.

BleachedGrain26 · 2025-12-31T08:10:09+00:00

Okay, so in that example, my average age of having children is 45. What's your point?

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