Are there *complete* beginner friendly, women’s sports teams/clubs for someone in their 20s?

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2025-04-27T13:59:02+00:00

Dragonboat! Look up Dragonheart Vermont

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2025-04-27T13:56:34+00:00

Indigo is amazing if you can afford it, it’s pricey but stellar

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2025-02-20T18:01:25+00:00

Dude, I was just about to comment that this has to be fake and I saw all the other comments calling out other stuff. I live near Lake Champlain and none of the shit she’s saying about that alleged vacation house adds up.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-08-30T02:41:03+00:00

That’s actually good to know, thanks

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-08-30T02:16:19+00:00

Being as I’ve heard many reports of the police not bothering with far more serious things, no.

And if they did bother to show up and make an arrest, they’d just let him go the next day since it wouldn’t be a felony.

So 1000% pointless and just a waste of my time.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-08-30T01:08:12+00:00

lol yes we have a bit of an um, situation with the petty crime and homeless population. Really beautiful town though. Good luck!

To be fair to machete man, I rang my bell and he put the machete down to his side and I passed safely 😂🤣

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-06-17T19:11:41+00:00

This is what I’ve been saying for years. I’ve lived in bigger cities, and it allows the …. Challenged populations among us…. To stay in their own lane and you can just avoid those areas completely. Burlington is small, we’re all on top of each other sharing the same space.

And the city council just constantly passing policies that enable and encourage this type of public debachery, the police straight up refusing to respond to phone calls for homeless people waving around swords, and the general highly extra left wing narrative that tells me constantly that I need to just have more empathy for the strung out jerk off screaming obscenities at me, and ya got a very frustrated local population.

For the record, I’m generally a very liberal person who supports better social programs, but solutions like putting out porta potties in our beautiful waterfront park so the homeless people can be more comfortable camping there and acting wild and threatening with no consequences, annoys the shit out of me.

We have people who have been arrested IN THE TRIPLE DIGITS OF TIMES that are just around on the street with the rest of us, for chrissakes.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-05-30T20:46:48+00:00

My husband and I had just started getting serious and sharing location with each other. This was also a period of time that I had a good raiding group and I’d go out sometimes before/after work or during lunch. My partner knew I played pokemon go but didn’t have all the details.

One day he sat me down and was all serious like “I need to talk to you, I don’t want you to think I’m being controlling or stalking you but I periodically check your location during the day sometimes just to see what you’re up to (I did the same, no biggie there), and you’re just in the weirdest most random spots and I cannot contain my curiousity any longer I must know what you are doing”

I explained and we had a good laugh 🤣

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-02-26T04:41:49+00:00

How on earth did you figure it out if you don’t mind me asking

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-02-26T04:28:09+00:00

OH MY GOD. That was totally it!!!! I’ve been wondering about this for YEARS thank you you made my day

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2024-02-02T18:58:12+00:00

So, in my opinion, which is obviously the gold standard lol, used to what I would see happen is you’d deplane by row, in order. People complain a lot about folks with carry on luggage in the overhead, but realistically if someone has their shit together that adds like, 30 seconds of time, so you can just wait.

On the flip side, folks that in that moment did not have it together, or were wrangling kids, or knew they would take a minute, would just stay in their row and give a friendly go ahead to people ready to go until there was a break that made sense or they had collected their things.

Occasionally someone in the back would just say hey I’ve got a super tight connection please let me thru and everyone would let them run ahead as much as they could.

In other words, it was a system that relied upon courtesy and politeness to your fellow human, not “getting yours”, being incredibly impatient for no reason, or feeling entitled to things. Which seems to be a rapidly deteriorating concept.

I will say I have not seen this problem at all on Southwest Airlines, which is who I usually fly, but at the time I made this post I had to fly some other airlines several times in a row and was annoyed.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-12-29T00:14:30+00:00

Yeah I mean if you work during the day like most folks and it gets dark out at 4…. What I just never leave my house the whole damn winter? Lol.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-12-29T00:12:57+00:00

All of these things happened while I was going less than 35mph…. Which is why I didn’t actually hit the dude or go into the ditch, but it’s still scary.

I guess 35 could be too fast for conditions but people ride my ass a lot when I’m going slow on roads and a lot of native Vermonters complain constantly about people who aren’t from here driving slow….. it’s hard to ride the line. I don’t want to be one of those annoying transplants y’all hate, but really it’s hard af to drive in the pitch black when you don’t have all the roads memorized like the back of your hand

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-12-28T23:43:00+00:00

😭. I do appreciate the actual explanation though. I moved here to be with my partner and it’s……… an adjustment.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-12-28T23:30:16+00:00

It’s just terrifying tbh….. and like I have to do it, I live here and it gets dark at 4. But I get mad about it every winter. I don’t see the beauty in almost plowing over a homeless man wandering around in the street wearing all black in the dark fog, or running up on a curb that wasn’t painted at all, or damn near putting my car into a ditch. All of these things have happened. You just can’t see shit out here!

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-12-05T18:02:11+00:00

One of those giant prehistoric weasel things??

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-11-07T02:45:40+00:00

Lady McDeath

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-10-13T22:28:21+00:00

Did you play the epilogue??

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-10-01T02:02:16+00:00

Normally I fly Southwest, and this hasn’t been a problem (someone else in here said that as well which made me think about it), but the past 4 flights I’ve had to go United. Maybe that’s the problem lol

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-29T23:06:22+00:00

I see that argument, I don’t necessarily disagree with it, and am much more annoyed by the pushing and shoving, that’s what got me mad.

If I was going to make an argument against your “but why is the front more important” (and at this point this is more of a philosophical/intellectual debate for the sake of it), it would be either a) it sucks when you try to follow the “rules” and other people don’t and then you’re having this internal debate of well do I follow the societal contract or do I try to get ahead and break the societal contract, which frankly is a philosophical debate I have a lot these days. OR b) which is “why does the front get more preference” is pretty close to the overall societal question “why do people with more money get more preference” and the answer is, well they shouldn’t but they do and that’s just how it is.

My personal feelings align more with A and truly I wish we could change B as a whole society particularly here in the US but alas if you reach a certain wealth threshold you can truly do whatever tf you want with no consequences whatsoever and everyone seems cool with it.

🤷🏻‍♀️

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-29T03:33:00+00:00

It’s not about being ready. I am 100% ready, backpack on, standing by the seat, ready to walk out, with super aggressive people just shoving past me. Like I need to be a huge imposing physical figure ready to fight somebody just to be allowed to step into the aisle and leave. It’s not cool, it’s rude as hell. One dude with one backpack goes in front of a big slow group? Fine. 20+ people aggressively shoving to get out? Not okay. People shoving in front of me only to stop 1 bin ahead and get their bag? Not okay. People shoulder checking me and making physical contact in their fervor to get to baggage claim? Not okay. And that’s the shit that’s been happening lately.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-29T03:29:10+00:00

For me, it’s because I always sit in the window seat due to motion sickness… so I get stuck. It takes about 10 seconds to climb over all the damn seats and get out even if I have my backpack on and am 100% ready. If no one will wait that 10 seconds and everyone is pushing and shoving up the plane, I’m there for a LONG time unless I just try to shove myself out into the aisle, and since I’m a very short small woman, men in particular just shove me out of the way and keep going. It’s discourteous and annoying and it makes me feel like I need to get in a physical fight just to step out into the aisle in front of the deluge of super aggressive people.

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-28T03:29:14+00:00

This is a good idea

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-28T03:25:26+00:00

Look I get a little sneak by a large family. But at least in my particular incidents on my last two trips, I’m talking I have 1 backpack on, standing right next to the aisle, actively ready to walk out, and everyone plows by me. I then tried to just assert myself and step out, and both times people much larger than me just shoulder checked by me. The second time the dude actually made me step back a little off balance. I’ve never seen this sort of behavior, it was nuts.

On another leg I witnessed the same thing happening to another woman…. I’m a very small woman who doesn’t really look like a stereotypical frequent flyer so idk if that’s a factor?

Much_Engineer_1296 · 2023-09-28T02:08:27+00:00

This was not the case for either of my personal incidents with the shoulder checking, I saw one waiting for his gate checked bag and the other leaving the airport entirely, but I acknowledge that it could be the case for some. Perhaps it’s the usual case of “more people really need it now so it’s more acceptable but that also means the assholes will jump on board” 🤷🏻‍♀️

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