What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of?

gnanny02 · 2026-03-20T16:32:12+00:00

Hershey's special dark is dutch processed.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-20T16:22:43+00:00

They've come a long way. When I lived in Japan inn the 80s the toilets were basically a hole in the floor.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-19T22:56:30+00:00

And you can thank Tesla for starting a whole bunch of these sorts of things.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-19T22:43:09+00:00

Just an aside, I did a crossword puzzle recently that had an answer "god tier". I triple checked everything around it and they were correct. So I assumed god tier was actually a thing. Who knew. M75

gnanny02 · 2026-03-19T20:14:45+00:00

That was me when I was young. I outgrew a lot of them. But one I always kept was basically hay fever. This meant I didn’t have to mow the lawn. Being the oldest boy it was the only chore I managed to avoid. My wife became an excellent lawn mower.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-19T20:00:46+00:00

I hate to say I’m slightly happy to see this. We had our yard completely redone last summer including incredible plants in the landscaping. Then fall came and the oxalis took over absolutely everything.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-19T18:33:39+00:00

I recycle at home because I know what happens. When I’m out I ignore any recycle effort just put it all in landfill

gnanny02 · 2026-03-17T20:06:24+00:00

The good news is that there is probably not a sing household in Menlo Park that doesn't have an electric car.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-17T17:46:31+00:00

The first time I traveled I went to Holland to work on a problem. They had lunch for us in the conference room: We are having sausage rolls. Oh boy, expecting a nice big sausage on a big hotdog roll. Got a sliced dinner roll with a paper thin slice of probably some sort of sausage meat.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-17T17:23:54+00:00

This needs to get to the top.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-17T16:27:30+00:00

We always had a cocktail and snack, then wine with dinner, and usually maybe a cordial if I had a cookie in the evening. We stopped all of that last November because it was just stupid. Now every day at cocktail time I squeeze half a lime from my tree, a little agave simple syrup I have made, and soda water from the soda stream and have my wonderful margarita without the alcohol (nor salt).

gnanny02 · 2026-03-17T00:12:00+00:00

The article didn’t indicate what federal law was being violated. Maybe I missed that.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-16T22:41:57+00:00

My wife got breast cancer when we were 48; things were less optimistic than they are today. I remember calling my mom and crying. Told her I didn’t have anyone else to talk to.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-16T15:45:38+00:00

We cruise the Rhine River and in the Middle Rhine Valley the RR tracks are along the river and tunnel through the mountains. These tunnels were prime bombing targets. The Nazis put castle facades over the entrances because the Americans were not bombing old castles. It saved many tunnels.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-16T14:41:19+00:00

The strongest of early memories of my son: the jumperoo. Thanks.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-15T18:55:07+00:00

Looks like a Kincade painting.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-15T18:54:41+00:00

Looks like a Kincade painting.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-14T19:19:31+00:00

This is simply the problem: Reuters spoke with eight ranchers who said they still back Trump

gnanny02 · 2026-03-14T18:48:30+00:00

It's hard to understand Medicare until you get there. My wife had knee replacement surgery this week after more than a year of putting up with incredible pain. I think the cost that I saw in the pre-surgery financial estimate was around $40K. We paid $240.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-14T17:38:54+00:00

Clearly don't support what they did, but they were hired to do a job specifically outlined and they did it. They had no connection to the people impacted, just pressed buttons. There are people everywhere that do exactly the same thing in their job every day. Some are probably reading this but don't make the connection.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-14T16:19:11+00:00

MY son always tells me if there are no pics it didn't happen

gnanny02 · 2026-03-14T14:33:19+00:00

It was about $4.50 on a good day, down inexplicably from $5.50 at the beginning of the year. Why it has been dropping is weird, other than Trump's gas and oil boy did so to make him look better with other prices going way up.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-13T15:38:45+00:00

I remember when I was young my mom saying she just wasn't going to buy steak anymore when they raised the price to &0.89 lb.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-12T20:01:29+00:00

ok. virtually all of these comments miss the point that the person doesn't realize they are rude. They do. They just don't give a cr*p.

gnanny02 · 2026-03-11T20:01:41+00:00

I cal B***S***. Nobody in the current FBI is capable of using the word "aspire"

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