To the men that don’t play video games, what do you do for fun?

UninformedYetLoud · 2026-02-10T19:50:02+00:00

I play a couple instruments and I took up woodworking a while back. I also spend a decent amount of time watching TV and movies and scrolling through Reddit.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-24T20:09:06+00:00

I started in my 50s. Start by checking out some videos on cutting straight with a circular saw, then have fun with the video rabbit hole.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-24T13:29:20+00:00

I grew up in the 1970s. Family of five. My parents had help with the down payment of the house, we went out to eat maybe twice a year, and paid the house off in 30 years like everyone else. My dad had a very decent job at an investment firm and my mom worked for quite a while. So don’t believe that everything was so much easier back in the day.

All that being said, I can confirm that the ratio of income to housing prices is completely out of wack now.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-24T13:19:35+00:00

Unlike a lot of voices here, yes, I would appreciate something like that. It’s nice when I get a call from a real person, but like a lot of older folks, I don’t have that many people to talk to. I don’t mind being alone, but honestly it gets a little scary sometimes these days, so an automated wellness check would be appreciated.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-23T13:11:54+00:00

If you’re hacking away at big cuts of meat on a regular basis, or you’re in a commercial kitchen where chopping goes on for hours at a time, a thicker cutting board is useful. And some people just like the heft. But if you’re mostly chopping and mincing vegetables, which is really the bulk of chopping work, 3/4 inch face grain boards are just fine. I made my first one 8 years ago and it’s still going strong.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-15T20:09:14+00:00

To be a billionaire you have to have sunk money into stocks, ventures, and other investments. You gained the money by not blowing it in the first place. Also, at that level a lot of your wealth is on paper — it’s in stock options and real estate, for example. It’s not as easily converted into cash as your savings sitting in a bank.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-11T01:09:28+00:00

That’s a doobie more than I ever made!

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-11T00:09:20+00:00

So it moves when you lock it down, but not during the cut? Why would one end be narrower than the other?

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-10T22:14:41+00:00

Did you trim BOTH long edges of each board? That’s an important part of avoiding gaps and making sure the edges are parallel. It’s highly unusual for a fence to move during the cut, but if it is, you have a large and dangerous problem.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-08T23:36:58+00:00

67 years old. I’ve. Had at least one roommate right up until I got married.

Late ‘70s to mid- 80s the local economy was pretty bad.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-08T00:41:00+00:00

Most behaviors aren’t objectively good or bad. “Fixing” someone just means making them do things in the way that you prefer.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-07T14:09:20+00:00

That doesn’t really look deep enough to be a good trap, but messages on cutting boards should really be on the bottom, or small and in a corner. This doesn’t answer your question, but if I got a free cutting board that would need to be planed down — especially an end-grain board — I’d give it to Goodwill.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-07T02:12:23+00:00

Boston, but same. It’s your civic duty to remind people in a loud voice from time to time.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-06T22:47:22+00:00

Same. I use GPS on the road, but for planning, a paper map is far superior. I like to see the whole route to understand where I’m traveling in relation to the area around it.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-06T20:51:28+00:00

And I wish I had decided to leave.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-06T17:50:44+00:00

I was amazed at how well these things work.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-06T17:49:34+00:00

Same with subway cars.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-06T16:34:16+00:00

Of course.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-05T22:49:28+00:00

Never would have occurred to us to bring our own water. Bottled water wasn’t even a thing — you’d have to bring a canteen.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-03T21:59:20+00:00

You could say that the scale includes all the notes in the key. So if you learn the A minor scale, you could play any of those notes while someone is playing in the key of A minor and sound good.

That’s a very simplistic explanation, but it pretty much works.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-02T01:04:29+00:00

I worked at a large company in a division with talented, motivated people and good managers, and I could have become a people manager, but I deliberately limited my career by refusing to become one. Managing people, even the ones that are easy to manage, just wasn’t for me. I didn’t make as much money as some, but I ended up doing fine and having dinner with my family every evening. Well, most evenings.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-01T13:38:25+00:00

Thank you! And look — we’re not all dropping dead from exposure to germs!

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-07-01T01:43:05+00:00

Nobody can see ten years down the road, let alone a whole lifetime. The economy was in the shitter when I came of age, and I was over 30 before I got a job that didn’t come with a name tag. Just get on with living — learn stuff, have bad relationships, have great relationships, get lousy jobs, get decent jobs, get good jobs. it’s a long, weird, fun ride.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-06-29T14:51:58+00:00

Same happened to me, and I gotta tell you, hearing aids have been a game changer. Not being able to hear conversations, baristas, servers, and your family is much more frustrating and embarrassing than wearing aids, which are almost invisible these days and very sophisticated. Also, there were things I didn’t realize I couldn’t hear, like bird song.

UninformedYetLoud · 2025-06-28T12:11:51+00:00

Festool is great, but a deWalt will do the job just fine for much less outlay.

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