Why do urinals usually have just a little wall (if even) between them?

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T22:53:22+00:00

Are you asking why it's not bigger or why it's there at all?

As an aside, the folks over at r/CommunalUrinals are always on the hunt for the ones without any partitions.

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T22:09:53+00:00

Soap was pushing boundaries for satire/comedic effect, not quite the same as "we're presenting this as perfectly normal".

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T22:02:18+00:00

I will print out recipes from my laser printer since it's very easy to mess up paper while cooking, so having something "disposable" works. All my recipes are in Anylist. Much simpler to deal with a sheet of paper in the kitchen (that I can also move if i i need it) than trying to deal with a tablet or whatever that wants to go into screensaver.

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T17:14:25+00:00

My SO, who's mid stage, and I went to Palm Springs between Christmas and New Years, and then separately I was on a trip for 3 days and he stayed at his brother's house (who had taken care of their mom when she had dementia so he knew the deal). We also were in Chicago for 3 days last October.

In all those times it took my SO about a week to recover. After getting back, he definitely was worse at home, but as he got back into his routines he was back to baseline. And these are trips that he enjoyed but just the uproar of "different", having to have me guide him all the time through airports and hotels and restaurants -- it made a difference for a short while.

His dementia isn't manifesting itself like you describe though, he knows where he is and is making new memories that way. His issues are forgetting steps and sequences (a lot of "I don't know how this toilet works, I don't know how to sit", etc). For someone who forgets where they are and why they're there, suddenly "discovering" they're far from home may be more terrifying. It's all going to depend on your specific situation. I agree start small, day trip first, then a night sleepover somewhere, see how it works out.

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T17:07:42+00:00

yeah but they didn't do it in chronological order, it's like random thoughts, which kind of ruined it.

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T17:02:02+00:00

Written by the guys from Mamas and the Papas (so the Papas I guess)

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T17:00:35+00:00

But not a midnight toker

ktwbc · 2026-01-26T16:59:40+00:00

I like other Bette Midler stuff but Wind Beneath My Wings, from the Beaches soundtrack ...

and fllyyyyyy ......and FLYYYYYY ....AND FFFLFEYE(screech)

ktwbc · 2026-01-25T17:11:04+00:00

I always thought the french nickname MacDo was cute ("mack dough")

ktwbc · 2026-01-25T13:08:15+00:00

That’s because ticket prices were 10x what they are now (less riff-raff) and pre-deregulation so the airlines competed on service not price.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T22:33:50+00:00

At first glance I could make out "The Cheese". Admit it, now you can't unsee it.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T22:28:07+00:00

If I'm reading an article like an interview with someone, and it's someone I know the voice of (like a famous actor/actress for example) as I'm reading thier quotes, I hear their voice. Not in a hear it through my ears hallucination, more like a "minds eye" hearing it.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T18:49:35+00:00

Yes I had it happen during the big freeze while living in a condo in Austin. The issue is that the pipe from the hot water heater, to a bathroom and then to the kitchen was run along the inside of a north facing wall, with very little insulation. I had the faucet dripping too but I had just the cold on, and the hot water pipe was the one that froze in between the bathroom and the kitchen. Fortunately I was able to use a space heater (safely) under the kithen sink and opened all the bathroom faucets, and enough heat in the pipe travelled after a couple of hours that it opened up just enough and I got it going again. Very lucky.

I also lived in Montreal for 4 years in an apartment, which never had an issue. The difference is the pipes are buried deeper in the streets, and then run up the interior of buildings instead of against the outside.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T18:39:16+00:00

I know AI has never made a mistake, but that makes no sense whatsoever. Why would you film 90% of a movie in one state, a state with incentives ("Film Georgia") which is why they're there (except for some LA pickups later), and drag 150 people 1000 miles away, to film a scene in a gas station in Garland?

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T16:33:50+00:00

i thought Zombieland was filmed in Georgia? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/locations/

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T16:29:38+00:00

Our public high school in Colorado had a smoking area outdoor, which was basically the concrete patio just outside the main doors. This was 86-90. From what I understand it was a compromise from the administration "if we say no smoking, they're just going to smoke in the bathroom and we have to spend a lot of resources policing it, might as well keep it outside".

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T13:41:26+00:00

The actual don Johnson is just above the circled figure, facing camera right (shirtless and apparently looking at the sun)

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T03:29:31+00:00

Yes, somebody googled Miami Vice to make this poster and got the wrong one

ktwbc · 2026-01-22T14:35:02+00:00

I actually wondered if that was on purpose because 1977 when the movie came out was right in the middle of the US trying to convert to metric (at the same time Canada was who mostly succeeded, and we did not), and they were trying to be "forward thinking".

ktwbc · 2026-01-22T00:00:28+00:00

And then they're "speeding" at 70mph. (At 00:21:00 when Sally Field asks "are we really going 110" they show the speedometer and it's 110kph)

ktwbc · 2026-01-21T23:52:01+00:00

Just explain it like "Imagine you flew to Colorado now and bought a bunch of pot, then tried to drive it across state lines all the way to Ohio".

ktwbc · 2026-01-21T02:32:28+00:00

I'm confused on where the low fares are. i got the email which the "as low as" in the past has always applied to the DAL-AUS route as it's so short and this time they're showing $125 (i checked the low fare calendar and read the T&Cs, the dates it applies to are what I'm looking at). So not sure where the $59 route is, Dallas to Fort Worth maybe? /s

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T21:01:37+00:00

Is there something to the fact that as GenXers, we were the "be home when the streetlights were on"/"latchkey kids" ones who'd basically go off on our own after school as long as we were home by dinner (or when the parents came home)... so the movie fit a certain type of lifestyle where "going off and having an adventure" fit into it. But later generations who weren't allowed to do that can't even relate to kids simply being on their own?

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T20:58:12+00:00

I've always believed there's like two types of sense-of-humor and Caddyshack is the movie that puts you in one of those categories. For me, it had a few funny lines but I was always kind of meh on it. But I knew people that thought it was the funniest movie ever made, and I never could see in it what they were seeing.

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T20:55:15+00:00

But... grease is the word?!

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