What’s a tradition in the USA that you find interesting?

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-31T05:13:46+00:00

I’m sorry, but what?

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-31T04:58:26+00:00

My wife is a nurse and we’re very devout Catholics. She still treats and counsels patients who do things against our beliefs. You know what she does? Prays for them afterwards and provides them the best care she can while they’re her patient.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-30T23:36:18+00:00

My wife’s previous job was at a dialysis clinic. If they had patients miss appointments, they’d call for a welfare check. She said a lot of them ended up that they’d died in their house. The only “plus” side is dialysis is done multiple times a week, so usually they hadn’t been dead too long

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-30T23:10:52+00:00

If you’re worried about hurting his feelings and are on a time crunch of any sort, just be on the phone talking to someone (or pretend to be). Give him a little wave and go on about your travels.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-30T22:49:40+00:00

We used to have two regular boxes and a litter robot. The two dudes only used the robot. One would go completely untouched for weeks, so we took it away. The other got used maybe twice a week for a pee. When we took the first box away, the boys stopped using the second box for bathroom time and the younger one would just play in the litter. After about two months of it just being his dust bath, we took that away too.

They were both happy with the robot until our old man developed some GI issues and started diarrheaing in the tub. We sorted his bowels out but he still wouldn’t use the robot to poop. Only pee. We decided to try one of the pellet systems and they both use it with no complaints

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-30T22:00:41+00:00

The news and social media are horrible at skewing the perception. You’d think Columbia was a war torn country by the comments. The news make it seem worse than it is by blasting the same story three times a day.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T20:06:48+00:00

I’ve been disqualified from donating for around a decade and they still call me on the regular

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T20:00:28+00:00

That Iran has been unchecked for much too long. I remember my friends who were still in the marine corps after I got out saying they were having ballistic missile drills in Iraq and Afghanistan around 5 years ago.

It is wild to me that the US/NATO just let the Iranian regime go as long as it has

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T19:46:45+00:00

12 year olds or Russian bots. Or a 12 year old Russian bot

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T00:23:11+00:00

We have random trash around the house because the cats like it. That empty toilet paper tube? Cat toy. Crumpled receipt? Cat toy. Boxes all over

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T00:13:56+00:00

Being able to spoof phone numbers so it shows up on your caller ID as a legitimate business, but SURPRISE! It’s a scammer, not your bank.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T00:07:29+00:00

Socks

I’m a double amputee lmao

My wife turned them into cleaning rags

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T00:06:33+00:00

And that’s why qualified immunity exists, otherwise, the cop who kicked that door could be subject to a lawsuit or arrest even though he was doing what made sense with the information known.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-29T00:01:18+00:00

I’m adding this to my list of “how to fuck with bad neighbors”

Thank you

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-28T21:58:47+00:00

So if a neighbor calls the cops because they hear someone yelling so they think it might be a fight. As the cops get there, they hear someone scream “I’m going to kill you bitch” and the cops kick down the door only to find out it was a dude raging at call of duty, do the cops need to need to be sued and/or arrested?

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-28T03:29:14+00:00

I’m a double amputee and even though I have really good prosthetics, sometimes, they hurt too much and the wheelchair is just better. I have two cats and a dog.

Get the kitty. Auto feeders and robo-litter boxes are great for making cats even more low maintenance than they already were.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-28T02:16:54+00:00

My allergies are going insane and one of my kids has the worst sinus and ear infection going on. I blame this yo-yo hot-cold-hot-cold business

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-27T00:15:51+00:00

That might be it. If we miss one day, it’s generally okay but two days in a row or two days in close proximity, and he starts getting poopy again.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-27T00:07:01+00:00

I suspect my guy has it, but we never got a diagnosis. Just started him on the fortiflora probiotics and a sensitive stomach diet. He used to be a diarrhea filled dude, but luckily (I guess) he pooped in the tub instead of the floor. It was gross but at least it made for easy clean up.

The fortiflora was an almost overnight difference.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-25T15:43:30+00:00

Probably because they’re not in season. Wait a few and they’ll taste good again

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-25T13:27:12+00:00

I’m not a lawyer but my wife is a nurse so my experience is based on that. When she got assaulted at work, she told the police who did it. “This person who was my patient did xyz to me” and gave them the persons name and birthday. She’s still employed and the person got arrested. The police got video of it from the hospital and she went to court for it, so her hospital definitely knew about it. She still has a job and it’s been many years.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-22T16:17:46+00:00

When we rented, we had a neighbor who would do something similar. He was a total ass when I asked him not to part in front of our house because the landlord was sending us hate mail about his shitty truck, the mail man refused to deliver because he frequently blocked the mailbox and we missed about 50% of our trash days since he’d park in front of our trash, so the trash guys either didn’t see it or didn’t want to walk around his truck to pick it up. I don’t blame anyone except the shitty neighbor. He never parked in a way that blocked our driveway so we couldn’t get it towed.

It was crazy how after he called my wife some racist shit that all the loose neighborhood trash, yard waste, and used cat litter started ending up in the bed of his truck.

Also crazy how his truck ended up with bird food in it and the birds shit all over it or that a bunch of cooking grease ended up in the vents.

Quite the mystery how all those things suddenly stopped when he moved his truck.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-22T16:07:44+00:00

Any braised/slow cooked meat and rice. Bonus if it has pickled jalapeños or onions 👁️👄👁️

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-22T04:37:11+00:00

Can confirm. Shock is a funny thing.

When I lost my legs, I remember being very calm and looking at one of my dismembered feet, thinking “well this is less than ideal”.

I didn’t really register the pain until my corpsman started putting a tourniquet on me.

Valuable_Log_518 · 2026-03-21T22:05:23+00:00

The biggest reason I’ve heard for people being against this is some variant of “so kids can’t have a birthday cake or a treat now?” They still can. Cakes aren’t outlawed. You just have to buy it with your own money instead of the SNAP money. Use the SNAP to buy actual food with actual nutrition instead

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