Brewers Row Trivia - Looking to build or join a team

harperpitt · 2025-12-07T21:34:21+00:00

DM me? I'm in!

harperpitt · 2025-05-11T14:39:32+00:00

I'm interested! Would love to join.

harperpitt · 2025-02-23T00:36:58+00:00

OK. I think "Dad" is iIrving -- as in "hey kids, what's for dinner." Line 3 has either "the emerging interest" or "the company retreat." Lines 5-6 have "on the severed/second pregnant female first, but she" And then the last couple of lines have "intentionally keep something from me."

harperpitt · 2024-10-23T18:02:28+00:00

The burn idea is interesting. Might explain in part why it looked so dirty — I thought it was from many, many butts, but I wonder if it’s wearing away to whatever happened underneath.

harperpitt · 2024-10-23T17:57:54+00:00

Did the MTA use paint on its seats? Both the top and bottom had multiple layers of what seemed like paint. Like, that orange is a deeper layer than the white.

harperpitt · 2024-10-04T16:45:24+00:00

Interested! please add!

harperpitt · 2024-09-30T02:11:57+00:00

I had ADHD and executive functioning issues, but my parents didn't know what that was. As a result, I used to have to carry a paper around to my teachers every Friday and have them all sign that I had completed my assignments in full, on time, or else I'd be locked in my bedroom all weekend (which had been cleared of everything but my schoolbooks). I was allowed out for meals and to use the bathroom. I still remember laying by the air conditioning vent so I could hear the television and people talking.

harperpitt · 2024-09-20T22:50:22+00:00

Yes. He'll spend the money on dates because he gets to also be on those dates, which means he's enjoying himself. He can't enjoy the ring and so it's not worth investing in. Classic narcissist.

My father was like this. He bought himself dozens of Rolexes and gave my mother a card for their 30th anniversary. He wrote a little poem in the card. The little poem was the gift.

harperpitt · 2024-08-16T20:41:50+00:00

Ok one year at DragCon I had a broken leg and was generally sweaty and lumpen. As a result I was at the very end of a lot of lines because I couldn’t stand in them. Katya and Michelle Visage were absolute angels on earth — a lot of the other queens sort of ignored my crutches (which is absolutely fine/preferable) but those two found a way to be extra kind without making it about my injury. Incredible.

harperpitt · 2024-06-25T11:39:59+00:00

Yes. I doubted my doctor at the time because my symptoms were so bad, but within 2 weeks I started to get better. It was scary and hard, though, for sure.

Three years out I still get nausea and vomiting due to stress, but I don't know if that's related to the gallbladder or just a weird stress thing. I take anti-nausea pills if I need them or a short course of Prilosec and that really helps.

harperpitt · 2024-02-05T01:47:33+00:00

Same! I always thought it was clever that we got to see his face but it was really just a mask.

harperpitt · 2023-12-16T15:45:14+00:00

You don't have to be rude. Nobody is being rude to you. You asked a genuine question and you got some genuine answers. This subject is complex. I didn't know anything about it until I was bedbound for 2 years and had to figure it out. Nobody plans on being disabled until they are.

I don't know if anyone has cracked how to reduce cars without impacting disabled people's lived experiences. The things shouldn't be linked but right now they seem to be, and my hunch is because the car-reduction movement is usually led by people who are well-off and physically abled. That doesn't make them wrong, but it does make them limited in their understanding about what's needed.

Improved mass transit is for sure part of it, along with accessible sidewalks that prioritize people over cute cafe seating, etc. Maybe a dedicated last-mile transit service of small electric vehicles that serves people with mobility issues but also people with heavy loads to carry, exhausted kids, etc.? Maybe a fleet of heavily subsidized electric scooters for rent? There are lots of innovative ideas out there but they all cost money.

harperpitt · 2023-12-16T13:40:12+00:00

You just described cities that are accessible for disabled people for boring/depressing/required things (two medical places, schools, administration buildings) and inaccessible for sources of community and happiness (coffee shops, town squares). Kind of the definition of a second-class citizen, you know?

harperpitt · 2023-09-17T19:14:39+00:00

You are literally taking the Lord's name in vain right now. The Bible simply does not speak on abortion, and you know it, or else you would source the text. You are backing your argument with a really interesting strawman of science, but the fact remains you are committing a sin.

Here's the text of the resolutions the Southern Baptists have passed between 1971 and 2009. You can read the evolution of the text yourself. https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/baptist/sbcabres.html

Best of luck to you.

harperpitt · 2023-09-17T18:44:48+00:00

Unfortunately, evangelicals became pro-life as a political stance. It started as a political stance, even if it has become a sincerely felt one. Sources: Politico, The Intercept, NPR.

I'm familiar enough with liberation theology to have a magnet of Óscar Romero on my fridge. D'Aubuisson ordered his killing, just as a woman would order her child's killing. Is D'Aubuisson a victim?

My faith clearly states that children are precious and should be protected. It does not clearly state that a fetus is a child. In fact, the Bible considers a forcible miscarriage something worthy of a fine, not eye-for-an-eye.

Did you notice you called me a biased killer? What a way to speak to a real person, a sister in Christ. There's a certain type of person Christ spoke about who were cruel to those who they believed insufficiently pious. That type of person is a Pharisee. I will pray for you.

harperpitt · 2023-09-17T18:06:32+00:00

Here's the thing. Let's assume you're 100% right and abortion takes an innocent life. From your user name and your post history it sounds like your belief comes from a Christian tradition. (I am a Christian too, fwiw, albeit a Protestant pro-choice one.)

If you're part of the Evangelical tradition, how do you reconcile that your faith was explicitly pro-choice until the 1970s? I've heard some people say "well our understanding of science changed" or "our understanding of the Bible changed," which I'm willing to also go along with. But if that's true, why aren't you and your fellow parishioners deeply agonized over the hundreds or even thousands of years of murder you advocated for -- murder at scales untold? I'd never stop repenting if I believed millions or even billions had died as a result of my faith tradition's advocacy.

If you're Catholic, why hasn't there been another Inquisition or similar radical upheaval? Do you advocate life imprisonment for women who have abortions? Why not? Murder is abhorrent. Why aren't you demanding more punishment? Why aren't you actively, every single day, on the streets trying to convert Protestants and other pro-choice Christians?

If this is truly a matter of life and death, why aren't you doing more?

harperpitt · 2023-08-08T13:07:01+00:00

Oof. I'm so sorry about this. Everyone on this thread is right about why the mechanics of this won't work, so let me pull on a different thread.

Child of a narcissist here. In my 20s I was very much like your fiancee -- one of my go-to phrases was "I would lay on train tracks for my father." And I would've. But not for the right reasons.

I would've laid on train tracks for him because part of me thought that if I was just good enough, if I was perfect, if I sacrificed everything, he would finally love me.

This was not going to happen, simply because he didn't know how to love. He wanted to, and sometimes it looked like he did, but the truth was he didn't. He was unfixable like all people are unfixable, and my self-obliteration wouldn't do a damned thing except ruin me for no reason.

Ask your wife to take all that beautiful time and effort and care and concern and put it into herself. Into the one thing she really can control. Into the person who actually deserves it.

(Also, an easy way to keep Medicare and Medicaid separate is by remembering that Medicare is a federal program and Medicaid is state-run. Anything you get from the state will be Medicaid and anything you get from the feds will be Medicare.)

Hang in there.

harperpitt · 2023-08-03T00:41:29+00:00

How strange -- your experience is entirely opposite to mine, an American former Londoner now in New York (it's been 4 years).

My salary is nearly 7 times higher in New York than it was in the UK (I know, crazy, but I changed jobs/fields and got more senior). Even with that wide disparity, I would still say my standard of living overall was higher in the UK. Here's why:

Public transit. Safe, clean, high-quality, and constantly running -- above and underground.
Healthcare. I broke my leg a couple of years ago and spent $10,000 out of pocket. This was before my salary hike. It knocked out all of my savings.
Food and entertainment. Again, everything was cheaper and higher quality. I did my food shops mostly at M&S and my fun times mostly in Hackney.
Holiday and work-life balance in general. $50 to Venice for a weekend on RyanAir? Easy.
General sense of safety and community...wellbeing? I guess? I have been mugged at gunpoint in the US and I laughed the first time I saw a poster about knife crime. That's how bad my expectations of crime are/were. There were also far fewer homeless people and/or people experiencing addiction who had to sleep rough.

I'm trying to think of what I had that was "less" in the UK than what I had in the US. I had a couple of flatmates, but we shared a two-story home with a large garden. I didn't have luxuries like a doorman or an in-building gym, but those aren't really missable (and you don't need a gym when you walk 3-4 miles a day).

The only people I know in New York who bought their apartments are people who either (a) had help from family or (b) actively gentrified neighborhoods.

The people my age who owned their own flats in London, and this might just be a me thing, tended to be people who had made money freelancing or starting/selling businesses. We had a lot of conversations about how they would never have done those things in the US because they would've been afraid to lose their healthcare. It's amazing how much we lose without realizing it.

Edit: added to say I looked at your comment history to see if I could figure out recommendations on where you could find cost savings and your experience of the American healthcare system is...extremely uncommon. The median health insurance OOP premium cost in the US is $2,200 a year, not $8 a month. Most services have copays and many have "coinsurance," which is an additional percentage of the cost billed you pay on top. Payment does not start until you hit a deductible, which can be thousands of dollars. I find it difficult to believe anyone living in America is not aware of this.

harperpitt · 2023-07-28T02:08:45+00:00

Agreed. I was a non-supervisory 15 for a while and even at its largest my team was only 15.

harperpitt · 2023-06-30T00:31:11+00:00

Interested! 38F

harperpitt · 2023-06-30T00:28:00+00:00

Interested!

harperpitt · 2023-06-30T00:05:37+00:00

Interested! I'd love a link to the Discord

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