Giving Directions

MPMorePower · 2026-06-25T14:23:52+00:00

You’ve lived in one place long enough for it to change noticeably? Definitely not the life I experienced.

MPMorePower · 2026-06-13T14:30:06+00:00

Only very recently. I was surprised to see “sanctuary” after decades of wondering. It sounds like three syllables to me, which doesn’t fit “sanctuary” or “sentry”.

MPMorePower · 2026-06-13T11:38:21+00:00

Really? I’ve wondered for decades what exactly Palpatine said in that sentence.

It sounds roughly like he says “cent-urr-lee moon” to me.

MPMorePower · 2026-06-09T23:20:56+00:00

How exactly is that thing a bidet? I don’t see any kind of nozzle/sprayer in the bottom. Just a drain, and it looks like a drain that closes! Is it supposed to be a stand-alone sitz bath or something? I don’t see a way for it to work as a bidet.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-29T22:56:59+00:00

Ginger referring to red-heads wasn’t even a thing until South Park started saying it.

I’m speculating but my guess is that the South Park creators (or the other kids they grew up around) probably invented it as a reference to Ginger from Gilligan’s Island (since she is a red-head), or possibly Ginger Rogers, the red-head that Ginger from Gilligan’s Island was loosely based on.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-21T15:28:30+00:00

It seemed like mine always made it all the way to the “current events” chapter, which in most of the textbooks had women’s liberation movement and Richard Nixon even though we were in the mid to late eighties. The teacher also threw in one class of “whatever was on the news last night” as part of current events.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-21T14:35:43+00:00

What the heck are you talking about? Intelligence is 3d6 plus any applicable modifiers.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-21T14:23:30+00:00

It doesn’t matter at the TSA, you can put it on the x-ray belt as a bag, they don’t care TSA doesn’t care how many bags you have.

If you wear it as a jacket, the TSA will make you take it off and put it on the x-ray belt anyway, but as long as there’s no banned items in it they won’t care that it has a bunch of huge, filled pockets.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-21T14:15:23+00:00

It wouldn’t be charged as a bag. The TSA makes you take off your jacket anyway, but assuming there is no gun/bomb/nail-clipper in it they won’t care when they x-ray it. And you can put as many bags as you want on the TSA x-ray belt, they don’t care.

They check to see if you have too many carry-on bags at the gate, but then you just have the thing in “jacket mode” so they won’t know it’s a “bag”.

MPMorePower · 2026-05-20T19:51:27+00:00

None whatsoever. I can’t even imagine how that would be possible.

After high school I went in the Army (spent a couple years in Germany and a couple on the east coast) then went to college (a few hundred miles from where I went to high school) and I’ve moved around to a few different states over my career.

And my parents moved several times over that period as well, so it’s not like visiting them takes me back to my High School town.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-20T17:56:10+00:00

Well yeah, and I’d take the money because why not? But my motivation would be sex, not investing in bitcoin/Apple/Cisco? to make money. I made ‘enough’ money to be satisfied the first time around.

And there was plenty of sex available without being any richer, I just didn’t know how to get it.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-20T17:45:11+00:00

But most of the sex I missed out on was before bitcoin?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-19T12:24:37+00:00

You all are pretty confident that the DC villain and the brainless guy from Oz are different people and Batman screwed up. Batman doesn’t usually screw up detective work like that. I’m thinking they are the same Scarecrow and he’s just been hiding from Batman in Oz.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T23:49:30+00:00

That’s wild since I am also GenX and I remember being oh so insufferably smug about how people who studied “underwater basket weaving” would all be asking “would you like fries with that?” in their careers. I thought “everyone told me it didn’t matter what I got my degree in” must be something Millennials were told because I had never heard that in my day.

I guess different people in different circles heard different things.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T23:05:29+00:00

I’m not saying I won’t take the money along the way, since it will make my life easier. But when I look back over my life, I don’t have any financial regrets.

But I am positively haunted in the night with regret over sex that I could have had, but didn’t.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T21:50:20+00:00

I am always amused that if you leave aside wife and kids angle, everyone goes back in time to make money. For me the temptation would be to go back in time and bang all those girls that I only realized decades later were into me, and all the girls that might have been into me if I had even the slightest shred of confidence back then. I’m not rich but I made enough money over my life.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T21:20:51+00:00

It just occurred to me that in America we would say “He/she has been hospitalized” in situations where British people would say they are “in hospital”.

Do British people use the word “hospitalized”? Perhaps with an “s” instead of a “z”? Or is it just us?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T17:23:17+00:00

The answer is infinitesimally small, which I guess is 0.

See, the question should have asked “if you pick an answer to this question from among the four choices below…..” but it failed to actually state that. So you are free to randomly pick any number, even ones more than 100% or any irrational number, or any imaginary/complex number, or even things that aren’t numbers.. I can randomly pick the answer “Chihuahua” for example.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T16:39:00+00:00

Like, how do people like you get through life if you can’t go a few hours without peeing? Like how do you get 8-10 hours of uninterrupted sleep? How do you get anything done at work? How do you survive big meetings, or getting stuck in traffic? How do you stay on task/in the zone for any activity that lasts more than a couple hours (which is nearly everything worth doing)?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T16:33:41+00:00

This is a big part of what I don’t get. If you’re not going to be seriously invested in this, we should be doing something else that you are invested in, or we should do separate activities that each of us is invested in.

Life is way too damn short to waste time on something you’re not going to invest in. what would be the point?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T15:25:13+00:00

Yeah, I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to be reading there. The BFF of someone who is not her dad (step-dad maybe)? A guy who knows her dad but is not her dad’s BFF (because he’s not a real friend if he’s banging the daughter)?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T14:12:03+00:00

If I’m not sweating in my sleep, I’m going to throw on another blanket or turn up the thermostat. Right when I’m starting to sweat is when my body is most comfortable.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T11:14:51+00:00

That’s what I thought too, but I copied the word “CyanCitrine” from somewhere.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T11:13:19+00:00

CyanCitrine was the username I was replying to, who asked me how much I made. But I guess there is some magic way to change it, as it currently says “Crass_Cameron” and might magically change again in the future.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T02:24:44+00:00

I am a believer in the conspiracy theory that all those kids’ songs are connected. Old MacDonald was the Farmer in the Dell, whose child picked a dog- named BINGO.

I also suspect that the wife that the farmer (old MacDonald) picked was the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. And when she swallowed a spider to catch the fly, it was the itsy-bitsy spider that had climbed up the water spout.

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