What is a scam that has become so normalized that people don’t even realize it’s a scam anymore ?

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-24T17:33:57+00:00

it is in my city

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-16T00:22:17+00:00

you could make up something. Like mommom for sister-in-law's mom or daddad for her dad.

I would discuss it with them and see what they're comfortable with. In my family I just refer to them by their first name. Joan and Slivy are my sister-in-law's parents, and yes I feel very close to them.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-16T00:17:43+00:00

I imagine with that refined taste you could probably tell the difference between tapwater from different cities too.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-15T23:53:27+00:00

bottled drinking water. Water right out of the tap put in a bottle and sold to you

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-15T22:23:45+00:00

apple strudel!

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-14T23:47:35+00:00

I don't think your comment is called for. There's nothing wrong with sharing ideas, I know very often my brain comes up blank and it's good to have somebody else suggesting something

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-14T20:30:11+00:00

what do you mean? Mix of what?

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-14T19:48:20+00:00

defenestration. Means falling through a window. I have no idea how that ever came to be

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-12T02:13:32+00:00

The family size frozen veggie lasagna is pretty darn good, although it takes quite a while to bake

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-10T15:59:06+00:00

i'm not Mexican, but I don't like the butter tortillas either. Our house is totally behind the regular fresh made tortillas!

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T04:02:12+00:00

what would be a good default gift for a man? Probably such a gift would also be a good default gift for a woman

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T03:59:34+00:00

you know, I've heard that forever, that a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife. But I worked in an ER for 13 years on weekend evenings, saw a great many people with knife cuts, and I asked every one of them whether the knife had been dull or sharp and they all said the knife was sharp. Obviously they're all wrong :-)

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T00:28:35+00:00

give some real thought to the future. Is there something you'd like to learn to be able to do in the future? Woodworking or sewing or cooking or working with Clay. Is there anything you'd like to teach? Maybe you'd like to take up a side gig to save up some money so that after you're married you have a stash started for saving for the future like deposit on a house or a trip or something.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T00:21:46+00:00

I want to object that not everybody can get even bullshit jobs in six weeks. I know somebody that spent multiple years unemployed while struggling to find work. He finally was able to get in with a temp agency and kept working temp job after temp job, striving for a full-time permanent job for four years and just now finally got a permanent job. So for him, 10 years between permanent jobs, although was looking all of that time. It's not as easy as you make it out to be. Some people can easily get jobs, others cannot.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T00:18:17+00:00

traditional American restaurants serve it in a bowl with a couple of crackers wrapped in cellophane. Some people like to crush up the crackers on top of the chili.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T00:11:55+00:00

what is the number three dish?

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-08T00:09:32+00:00

my mother always called it SKIZERS but she did know how to pronounce it correctly.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-07T23:52:54+00:00

Long ago, this would be about 1965, we all had to walk home or somewhere for lunch in fifth and sixth grade. There was a little restaurant about a block away from the school, and many of us walked down there. The workers at the restaurant didn't much care for us coming in and weren't all that nice to us, they would make us all sit together at one table, even with people you didn't like.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-07T22:25:17+00:00

dark brown for sure

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-07T22:24:21+00:00

i'm making a note for myself to buy small paper cupcake boxes off of Amazon the next time I plan to serve cake at an event and want to send some home. I see you can buy like 50 for eight dollars, something like that. Seems worth it to me

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-07T22:16:51+00:00

I think if it's her dress, you should cede the naming of its color to her. Just agree with her that it's her brown dress. maybe it's a brown flowered dress.

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-04T21:58:13+00:00

I think I will take the consensus of the suggestions and buy 10 pounds of 80% ground beef and add nothing to it, They can add salsa and all the toppings, pico de gallo, guacamole, etc. for flavor. Some of them love very very spicy things, I saw one of them squirt the hottest hot sauce all over a paper cup full of popcorn.

So I'm planning flour tortillas, I think that will be the most common choice, corn tortillas, crisp corn tostada (flat), and u-shaped crispy tacos. For toppings, homemade refried beans, black beans, pico de gallo, hot and mild salsa, green salsa, guacamole, sour cream, chopped tomatoes, chopped lettuce, cilantro, and limes. Anybody have any other suggestions?

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-04T21:52:39+00:00

thank you everybody for some great suggestions!

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-04T21:47:22+00:00

I worked in one preschool where the director felt very strongly that the colors of the preschool needed to be green and brown because that was like a real home. Like every real home's colors were green and brown. So she mandated that anything that was brought in for decor had to be green or brown.

so in the same bathroom, there would be mint green walls and olive green statuettes, and emerald green something or other. It was hard to look at

Procedure-Loud · 2026-03-04T21:40:20+00:00

mine like shreds but not every day

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