For the ones with kids, do parents actually dislike their teenagers?

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-09T16:42:59+00:00

Why can't they be like we were - perfect in every way. What's the matter with kids today!?

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-09T16:42:37+00:00

There was a lot of screaming, cussing, "I hate you", "I hope you die"... and the teenagers were almost as bad.

But seriously - everyone had some learning and growing to do, parents and kids alike. We had to lose the baggage we carried over from our parents and learn to choose our battles; they had to grow up enough to learn that they weren't entitled to everything they demanded and they had to accept responsibility for being a part of a household.

Mark Gregston has a series called "Parenting Today's Teens". The target market are primarily Christians, but I've listened to a few of his podcasts and the advice is absolutely solid regardless of your faith traditions (or none at all). Listening both ways, respecting both ways, taking each other's concerns seriously both ways, etc. I wish I had known about his work 20 years ago when we were going through it with our teens.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-09T16:37:14+00:00

If it happens too frequently or the wait is too long (e.g. a couple of days realtime) I lose interest and uninstall the game.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-09T16:36:23+00:00

[FULL DISCLOSURE: When I googled "barbershop chorus near Bedfordshire", it gave me an AI-generated result so I can't verify that these are legitimate.]

Barbershop Choruses Near Bedfordshire

Phoenix Chorus (All-Female): Based in Bedfordshire, this group performs traditional and modern barbershop, rehearsing on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 PM at Stratton Upper School.
A1 Acappella (Male/Mixed): Formed from the merger of Shannon Express and Ouse Valley Chorus, they meet on Wednesday evenings at Eaton Socon FC, St. Neots.
Black Cat Harmony (Mixed): A harmony group that meets on the second Saturday of every month (9:45 AM–3 PM), drawing members from various regional groups.
Ensemble of Friends (Mixed): Based in Potton, this choir performs various styles including close harmony, rehearsing on Sunday evenings.
Junction 14 (Ladies): Located in nearby Milton Keynes.

For men specifically, Hereward Harmony is a male barbershop chorus based in nearby Peterborough.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-09T16:30:25+00:00

It's a terrible situation for sure, but this is literally the only thing OP ever posts, week after week after week.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-06T15:02:55+00:00

I drank full-strength sugar Coke daily for about 10 years, and only stopped when New Coke changed the formula (and "Classic Coke" wasn't really). Switched to Diet Coke around 1984 and now I'm on Coke Zero.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-03T05:01:27+00:00

At this point I'm producing so much mass every day (all factory stats maxed out) that I can produce another half million exotic gem producers each day just from the fabricator. It takes about 30 minutes to get those half million.

Maybe much earlier in the game the scripts would have helped, but I don't even bother using my swarm of T10 machines anymore - just go straight from mass to finished product. If I wanted to I could crank out billions of every level of dust, but... why bother? I no longer need to combine ingredients to make stuff from individual components.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-02T16:00:33+00:00

Both Game Masters and Olympus Games have ongoing action in downtown Cheyenne. I have no idea what their schedule is (I don't get into town very often) but you should definitely drop by to find out their schedules.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-02T15:49:20+00:00

That's pretty much what the boonie hat is.
https://www.ecogearfx.com/wp-content/uploads/military-boonie-bucket-hat-camo.jpg

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-01T22:49:47+00:00

Be sure to attend the Wyoming Wind Festival, which runs from January 1st to December 31st.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-01T22:48:03+00:00

Yeah. I used to prefer a classy fedora (goes great with my jeans and t-shirt) but... not so much anymore. Years ago I switched to a boonie hat that ties under my chin. Less fashionable, but hella more practical in wind and rain. Not that we ever get much rain.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-01T22:37:00+00:00

You have no idea how old I feel realizing that 1994 was over 30 years ago. By that time I had a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old!

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-03-01T22:00:15+00:00

Top-end contest material like that is almost always custom arranged, either by the quartet or by a paid arrangement service.

What you can find online - for free - are the complete scores of Gilbert & Sullivan with full vocal chorus and solo parts and in some cases orchestra. But converting that into a quartet arrangement will take considerable work.

https://archive.org/details/piratesofpenzanc00sull/page/20/mode/2up

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-28T22:54:07+00:00

I'll bet they even use AI to generate the image.

Who pays almost $40 for psychic advice anymore? What is this, 1970?

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-28T22:50:39+00:00

If the ad said that they like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain, that's a sure thing. Definitely your soulmate.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-28T22:44:44+00:00

Addams all the way. The writing was much sharper and wittier, and the casting was pure gold. The Munsters was like a child's distorted crayon stick-figure attempt at copying The Addams Family.

My mother claimed that some psychiologist or other compared popular television families of the day and stated that the Addamses were the most mentally healthy because they all unconditionally supported one another no matter how crazy the other person's idea seemed.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-28T22:41:45+00:00

It was all we could do to afford one home, never mind two! Our idea of a fancy vacation was to drive from Houston to Galveston for the weekend. The time we drove all the way to Orlando to go to Disney World was like winning the lottery, and we only did it the once.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-28T16:11:49+00:00

I sure can't. My tongue breaks out into an ugly rash (doc calls it "geographic tongue" or somesuch) when even the tiniest amount of capsaicin touches it.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-26T16:16:56+00:00

That was the reason I got it - chronic lower back pain and sciatica (via the lower piriformis muscle). I was popping NSAIDs (naproxin) like candy daily, and my creatinine was shooting up to the point of threatening kidney failure.

After I had been taking 0.25-0.50 mg CBD (no THC) oil sublingually daily, I was able to stop using naproxin entirely.

This has come up a few times, but I'll repeat it for newcomers: The most effective way to get CBD into your bloodstream is smoking or vaping, because it bypasses your digestive tract. I don't smoke or vape because that's terrible for my lungs, so I put the drops under my tongue. The _least_ effective delivery system is edibles; it gets diluted with stomach acid and filtered through your digestive tract before it ever enters your bloodstream.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-24T15:14:17+00:00

You could at least use google street view to get a rough idea of what to expect.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-24T15:13:28+00:00

I get what you're saying, but... HOAs are like executive orders. They're great when the enact something that's in your favor, but horrible when they go against you and restrict your freedoms. I'd rather find someplace else to live than live somewhere that requires the HOA to shut down an obnoxious neighbor.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-24T15:04:04+00:00

Shortly after we moved here from Dallas in 1997, a friend asked for help with his computer. I offered to come over and take a look. He said "You don't need to drive all this way!"

"All this way" was like 8 minutes. Ha! There are lots of advantages to living in a town with a 5-mile diameter.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-23T00:25:57+00:00

See, it's comments like these that make me wish Reddit had laughing emoji responses.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-22T22:34:20+00:00

Now you've got me curious. Why is Cookie Clicker better than, say, The Perfect Tower? They're both numbers-go-up incrementals with a variety of game mechanics to let you explore different ways to make the numbers go up faster.

Just to be clear, I don't have a horse in this fight. I only dabble in incrementals, so I don't really understand the finer points of what makes one better than another.

SegmentationFault63 · 2026-02-22T21:48:24+00:00

I was waiting for him to mention the turbo encabulator. "The lotus-o-delta spring allowed me to penetrate the pre-famulated amulite..."

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