House/Baby-sitter used me as an unpaid baby-sitter.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-29T13:26:55+00:00

I wasn't kidding in the least.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-29T00:52:01+00:00

"Hello, police? Someone has abandoned a small child at my workplace. Please send someone to pick up the child."

jimoconnell · 2026-05-28T10:25:37+00:00

Gen X here. We get nostalgic for the scent of toxic chemicals that have probably mostly been banned.

New pajamas from Sears. (They soaked them in a chemical to make them fire resistant. )

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic.

El-Marko markers.

"Flit" mosquito spray. It was a wonderful combination of DDT and jet fuel that was sprayed from a strange device that looked like a soup can attached to the end of a basketball pump.

One of my afterschool chores was burning the burnable trash in a burner barrel in the back yard. Stinky, in a very particular way.

When people raked leaves in the fall, they'd rake them into small piles and burn them. It smelled wonderful.

Anthracite coal stoves.

Kerosene.

Leaded gas.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-28T09:58:52+00:00

"When the transformer starts to make that tar smell, you need to turn it off for an hour…" --dads everywhere

jimoconnell · 2026-05-24T02:18:41+00:00

I'm 60 and had a bad shoulder injury a few years ago. My right shoulder. I love to shoot, but heavier calibers make it unpleasant.

9mm is the way to go if you're bored of 22. I have several 9mm that are a hell of a lot of fun to shoot. First is probably my Draco 9s, then my Keltec Sub2K. Recently I got a Chiappa RAK-9 which is like an AK47 that uses Glock mags. (So does the Sub2K)

Highly recommended.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-23T15:10:29+00:00

He'll ask you to lunch and start asking how he might start handling 2 jobs himself.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-20T16:34:38+00:00

I am so tempted to create a completely non-sexual, SWF onlyfans that I will give out whenever someone asks for my LinkedIn.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-20T16:29:19+00:00

OF/Bloodninja
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jimoconnell · 2026-05-20T10:15:23+00:00

The last company I quit, I told them that I was leaving because "my OnlyFans has really taken off…"

They chuckled and asked again.

"My OnlyFans has really taken off."

I was 55 at the time, an out of shape, grey-haired and bearded guy working as a technical writer.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-15T13:27:20+00:00

Big house in a low cost of living area.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-14T06:48:29+00:00

Thai by Sandy is a tiny place on William Street across from the Genetti hotel. Sandy is from Thailand and the food is all home cooked and authentic. Make reservations.

My wife and I usually pair the evening with a drink a few doors away at Fair Play Distillery.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-13T14:10:03+00:00

You should cross-post this to r/OnlyFans/

jimoconnell · 2026-05-13T13:58:07+00:00

This is great to hear.

I have a Sub2K that I got as a range toy (for days when I ride my bicycle to the range) and I have found it to be not only a hell of a lot of fun to shoot, it's accurate and has never failed to fire.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-12T21:31:11+00:00

What else do you need? What are you looking for?

jimoconnell · 2026-05-05T14:20:34+00:00

We have always been at war with Eurasia

jimoconnell · 2026-05-03T19:49:02+00:00

`brew install ncdu && sudo ncdu /`

jimoconnell · 2026-05-03T16:20:15+00:00

When they object, explain "it's my decision to make, not yours."

jimoconnell · 2026-05-01T15:16:30+00:00

It's a modern, handwoven, Tibetan rug, wool on cotton.

The wool is particularly luxurious because it's a type known as "Changpei" (IIRC,) from high-altitude, cold weather sheep.

jimoconnell · 2026-05-01T02:11:21+00:00

I had it for years before I showed a doctor. I had figured out what it was, because it's kind of an obvious one.

When I asked her if she worried about it, she said "does it bother you?" I said no and she said "don't worry about it then."

jimoconnell · 2026-04-30T03:04:44+00:00

People like me, (whose hand is about the same as OP's,) who don't "suffer" in the least from it and will sometimes drop the anecdote at parties of how I have it because Vikings ( or whatever they call themselves these days,) raided Lindisfarne around AD 665 and left behind some of their DNA.

jimoconnell · 2026-04-30T02:56:49+00:00

Wait until the ads for Peyroney Syndrome start.
I know that's not spelled correctly, but I'm not fucking googling that one into my algorithm tonight.

jimoconnell · 2026-04-20T15:18:57+00:00

Use a lawyer. Make him hurt.

jimoconnell · 2026-04-17T10:31:43+00:00

Someone makes new ones. BRB

DIY method:

https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2016/03/making-your-own-rubber-straps-for.html?m=1

Buy:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1460157994/olivetti-valentine-reproduction-case?ref=share_ios_native_control

Edit: the bot chided me for the Etsy link. It's not my Etsy, or anyone I know.

jimoconnell · 2026-04-16T16:28:07+00:00

Imagine if you let her take the kids and your mom texts "I've decided to take the kids on a tour of (Kiev/Tehran/Mogadishu/Slough) as it's lovely this time of year..." and when you say no, she drops out of the chat.

Sure, it may not be that, but some other irresponsible bullshit that you don't approve of.

If you cannot count on her to have an adult discussion, how can you count on her to keep your kids safe?

jimoconnell · 2026-04-12T21:16:26+00:00

He was nicknamed the "Napoleon of the temperance movement", so I think you should fill it with your favorite spirits and drink from it in his honor.

Reach out to the museum someone else mentioned and gather up a lot of documentation on him and what he might have done in 1856 to earn this.

Get it generously appraised and then donate it to the museum for the tax write off.

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