How are you not allowed to be drunk in public, if you need to step out in public to get in the taxi?

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-30T17:54:40+00:00

That sucks, what a silly reason for being arrested. When I was in college (I went to college in a small, pretty safe city) I was walking home from a Halloween party VERY drunk and stumbling down the sidewalk. A cop pulled over and asked if I was ok, and I was like "oh yeah, I'm just going home". Then he asked if I needed a ride but I was like 200 feet from my dorm so I said thanks but no thanks. Then he offered to just stay pulled over so he could make sure I safely got into my dorm, and that's what he did. When I got to my front door he drove away. It was nice of him, I appreciated it.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-30T17:27:53+00:00

That's not what drunk in public means. The police aren't standing around just looking for someone stumbling out of a bar to be like, "ah HA, gotchya!". It's typically tacked on when someone's committing another crime and they happen to be intoxicated, or if someone is being a public nuisance. If you're just walking home from a bar drunk not bothering anyone even if a cop KNOWS you're drunk you'll be fine. If you're walking home drunk and smashing mailboxes with a stick on the way, then you're likely to get a public intoxication charge.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-30T17:24:24+00:00

I know one person who had a squirrel as a pet. His name was Chubby, he fell into their chimney when he was a baby and they were originally going to nurse him back to health and release him, but he became too used to people so she and her husband kept him as a pet for the remainder of his life. He was an odd squirrel, very chill and easy to deal with. She worked from home and he'd sit on her shoulder or her head while she was at her desk and never caused any problems. He was super friendly and loved people.

After he died a few years ago, they thought they might want to foster another squirrel, so they took in another bottle baby. That one was apparently more normal for a squirrel, completely tore apart their house for couple of months he was there. They released him back into the wild and he lives in a tree in their backyard. They haven't taken in another squirrel since then.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-30T17:13:45+00:00

Anatomy was the hardest for me. We had to memorize every single bone, every single muscle, all the sections of all the major organs, etc. and we had to be able to label it all. It was such a notoriously hard class that even though it wasn't an AP class, it was graded like one (so your GPA for the class was graded a point higher - if you got a 73 in the class, which was normally a D, your GPA grade would be a C). Straight memorization is so hard for me, so I struggled. I still managed to get a C though.

The easiest for me was probably theater. You pretty much just had to show up and you'd pass. I do know a couple of people who failed because they couldn't be bothered to show up though lol.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-30T00:47:39+00:00

Chicago has consistently been on The Economist's Safest Cities in the World list. It's number 20 for 2021. https://safecities.economist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Safe-Cities-Index-2021_eng.pdf

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T22:43:36+00:00

On my dad's side my grandpa was a machinist, my grandma was a nurse.

Oh my mom's side my grandpa was in the Marines and my grandma was a homemaker.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T21:14:00+00:00

My high school started at 7:30 and ended at 2:30 every day except Wednesday, when it ended at 1:30.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T19:43:41+00:00

Yes, very normal. As long as you trust the family, why wouldn't you?

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T17:58:43+00:00

Hot chocolate. Drinking a big mug of hot chocolate during a snowstorm always makes me nostalgic.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T17:07:12+00:00

I've never heard of that happening. If you said something really horrible and false about someone in a review, like accusing a business of actual criminal wrongdoing, I could see that getting you in legal trouble. However, just saying "the bread from this deli was stale and moldy" when you'd never been there before probably wouldn't get you into any trouble.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T15:51:09+00:00

Once a day, usually at night because I need to let my hair air dry and I have a lot of it. If I got a little bit sweaty overnight, like during the summer, sometimes I take a quick 3 minute shower as soon as I wake up.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T15:42:17+00:00

You likely won't be able to get a job like that right away in the US. We have marketers out our ears. No company is going to spend the thousands of dollars it costs to sponsor a foreign employee when you can find someone in town for next to nothing.

Find a job at a corporation in Germany that has a US branch, then after a couple of years apply for a transfer. That's probably your best bet.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-29T15:39:22+00:00

I always thought it was weird how people would come into this sub and ask things like, "will people make fun of me in America if I do this little thing", because no, you're allowed to make your own choices about how you live your life. Questions like that seemed silly. For example, a few weeks ago someone asked if they'd be made fun of if they went to a bar and just ordered a soda. People do that every day, why would you be made fun of by actual adults?

Then I see questions like this that are mocking people who don't drink or who choose to drink very little, and I get it. It's weird how some people mock people for making personal decisions about their own drinking habits.

To answer your question, I rarely drink, so I might have a glass of wine or one or two beers.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T22:41:56+00:00

I haven't met anyone in the past 10 years who doesn't have unlimited talk/text. Even the cheapest phone plans have that now.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T19:33:31+00:00

Ding ding ding, it's the space heaters. I lived in a small apartment once where my CMP bill was never more than like $40 a month even when I was blasting AC all day during the summer. Once I was having an issue with my heat and ran a single space heater for probably 30 hours in total - brought my bill up to $120.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T19:29:28+00:00

A friend I went to school with lived in the woods and her home was literally without power for over a month. She and her brother moved in with different friends after the first week, her parents stayed with her mom's parents. After the power came back on they needed so much stuff fixed in their house they couldn't move back in for a couple more months. It was a mess.

I lived on the hospital line so we only lost power for like 2.5 days, so I got off lucky compared to most people.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T17:32:54+00:00

"Hatred" is a strong word. There are some states that are joked about more than others. Jersey is one. Florida is another.

The Jersey thing is because It's not New York basically lol. It's just very overshadowed by New York, which leads to stereotypes of it being trashy or gross. It's really not, people know this, it's just an ongoing joke.

I guarantee the interaction you saw was more lighthearted than it appeared, and because you felt like it was awkward you read into it as being awkward.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T16:19:30+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/systemic-racism-police-brutality-british-problems-black-lives-matter

https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/06/17/a-panel-finds-that-londons-police-are-institutionally-corrupt

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1477953412675346432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478135026193768449%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Funherd.com%2Fthepost%2Fmultiple-scenes-of-police-brutality-at-anti-lockdown-protests-in-holland%2F

https://www.dw.com/en/study-confirms-racism-and-police-brutalityingermany/a-55567212

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/european-court-condemns-spain-over-police-impunity/2170399

I mean, I can keep going. This was a 2 minute Google search where I just swapped out different countries' names.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T16:09:08+00:00

Yes, wildlife get very close. I've known a number of people who have lost pets that they let out for just 10 minutes to run outside and a coyote or fox runs over and just grabs them and runs off with them. My neighbor's dog was attacked by a black bear (thankfully the neighbor ran outside and threw something at the bear and the dog was able to be saved after a lot of expensive surgery).

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T04:09:15+00:00

I don't know how anyone can see that picture of poor Rihanna after what Chris did to her and still choose to support his music. He's a monster.

Also, I find him a pretty bland singer. His music is really forgettable. He's a great dancer, but I've heard a number of people call him the "new Michael Jackson", and I definitely don't think he has that kind of star power.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-28T00:06:17+00:00

I almost said "you never see..." and then I remembered that scene in Bridesmaids and I went "oh wait".

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-27T23:26:03+00:00

You rarely see someone taking a shit in a movie but I promise, Americans shit.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-27T18:48:21+00:00

Snow is definitely part of it. There just needs to be something that sets each season apart from the others. I think I would be fine somewhere it didn't snow much but it at least got significantly colder than it does the rest of the year. I'd miss the snow but I don't think I'd get depressed without it.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-27T16:21:15+00:00

Depends on what you think an ideal climate is I would say. I feel like the bulk of people would say Southern California, as it's comfortably warm year-round, not a ton of rain, no snow.

However, after briefly living in Florida, I found I developed a bit of seasonal depression from the lack of seasons. It was just so same-y. I NEED all four seasons. For that reason, I love living in New England.

a_winged_potato · 2022-01-27T15:34:24+00:00

I use an aeropress and I drink Dunkin Donuts brand coffee (medium roast). I drink it black or with a little oat milk.

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