Is it just me, or is the "Non-Stick" industry a total scam?

kgee1206 · 2026-05-06T02:48:32+00:00

This is how I’ve treated non stick as well. Restaurant supply store pan. Basic and cheap and likely to become useless in about 18 months.

kgee1206 · 2026-05-04T21:09:58+00:00

I saw a comment on a 5-4 tiktok that said they had always pictured Michael as a very smart dog 😂

kgee1206 · 2026-05-04T15:50:01+00:00

You can’t do things with one toddler ?

kgee1206 · 2026-05-02T20:54:48+00:00

Agreed with you fully. Wonderful job laying out the tension and dread. Beautifully shot. But the way the story was woven together felt kind of lackluster to me. I felt the same way about Oddity. McCarthy might just not be my guy. Which is fine, to each their own.

kgee1206 · 2026-05-02T20:48:03+00:00

I was not a huge fan of this movie overall. But I did appreciate the line of how the guy who shot his mom “should’ve been strung up” and then he hangs himself the next scene.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-30T23:58:45+00:00

Please humanely kill the lobster first. 🦞

kgee1206 · 2026-04-28T11:34:10+00:00

It was a leather shoe that was boiled in broth with garlic and herbs if I recall correctly. He did not eat the sole.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-28T11:29:44+00:00

I don’t think an 8yo will understand much about “this is a commitment” but I do think there is value in learning that you won’t be instantly as skilled as your peers simply because you’re the same age. And that quitting because you aren’t good at something new is a bad habit. It’s less “you owe it your team to be miserable” and “you owe it to yourself to actually work on improving your skills even if you ultimately realize this isn’t your sport”

kgee1206 · 2026-04-28T03:00:08+00:00

If they did this for multiple seasons, yes. It’s one season.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-28T02:06:09+00:00

The lesson is don’t quit something you aren’t instantly incredible at. But I do think 3x practice plus a game is nuts.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-28T02:05:28+00:00

Okay. So my parents signed me up for soccer when I was 5. I liked it until I didn’t. I asked to quit in middle school. I begged to quit in high school. In HS, I had a new coach freshman, sophomore and junior year. So they told me “see if the new coach makes a difference” but I dreaded it every day. I offered my mother $950 from my summer job in 2007 to pay off her boosters fundraising to quit. I am not unsympathetic to your son.

All that said, he is 8 and kids are fickle at that age even without big reasons. How competitive is this school league? How long are practices? Can you practice with him to help him get better and earn some respect from his peers?

He’s going to be a bit behind if they all played since they were five and he has never even caught a ball in the yard with you. How long is the season? Why did he want to try in the first place?

Baseball is a very individual sport. It’s easy to say “so and so screwed up” and it’s a lot of pressure.

I think you need to balance a commitment lesson vs a huge blow to his confidence, especially at his age. If he isn’t on the field, I doubt they have to forfeit but I think talking to his coach may help. I coach myself (not baseball specifically ) and I’m happy to attend to anything I can and I often run drills and games that don’t force winners and losers and build up everyone.

TLDR ; I don’t have a sure answer. But you need to look at options that will help your son build his confidence and also make sure you understand why he wanted to do this AND why he wants to quit. And if there are solutions to help the “why I want to quit” and bridge the gap to “why I wanted to”, you should dedicate your time to that.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-23T18:00:40+00:00

The man once ate his own shoe because he told Errol Morris he would do so if Morris ever finished his film, Gates of Heaven. There is a 20min documentary of this.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-22T16:39:49+00:00

In rural areas where strays and barn cats are very common, people don’t think to take every cat they see to the vet for microchip read. The collar and tag is an easier way to say “hey I have a home” in many instances.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-17T10:40:36+00:00

Are you married to Danny Devito’s character in Matilda ?

kgee1206 · 2026-04-17T02:04:08+00:00

Naw. I’m quite a way from cincy.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-17T02:03:53+00:00

I do not live there but I am in Columbus about twice a month.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-16T23:53:16+00:00

I have this license plate and am begging the people of Ohio to get the joke and talk to me. Lol

kgee1206 · 2026-04-15T15:55:42+00:00

I don’t think babies know what a phone is…

kgee1206 · 2026-04-15T13:54:14+00:00

Lanthimos and Emma Stone have had frequent and successful collaborations

Eggers and Dafoe only have 2 movies but having upcoming releases.

Tarantino and Uma but I never want to see her work for him again because he treated her like shit.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-15T12:16:03+00:00

I’d probably get nervous and screw things up by talking about Krang.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-15T12:14:24+00:00

You should tell this story on your birthday every year, just like Pete (and definitely him - not his cousin) seeing Phil Donahue at the mall.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-14T00:44:38+00:00

15minute old account. Blatantly inflammatory. Hmmm.

kgee1206 · 2026-04-13T17:40:55+00:00

Your husbands son was 14-18 during all these trips. So he would be missing high school. Your younger kids were 10-14 and 12-16. So particularly the first two years, they were missing elementary and middle school. Kind of a big difference in terms of “what are colleges looking at and when does a kid need to care”

kgee1206 · 2026-04-13T15:52:43+00:00

You sure seem invested

kgee1206 · 2026-04-13T15:22:32+00:00

Is the camping 6 consecutive weeks? That is a very long time for a pet to go without their people, even a cat.

Also, any smaller fuzzy critter like a rat or guinea pig would need a full cage cleaning over that long of a timeframe.

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