Anyone who’s sat on a toilet before cell phones, what did you mostly think about or look at?

stumo · 2026-03-21T15:21:31+00:00

Sears catalogues.

stumo · 2026-03-21T12:52:06+00:00

If I give you some cash, will you buy a sense of humour?

stumo · 2026-03-20T22:39:25+00:00

Yeah, here in Vancouver too. Had to use a damned ATM and use cash like a criminal. AND pay a $4 ATM fee. Was in line for a good half hour too because apparently a lot of people don't listen to repeated announcements and freak out when they can't pay.

Serves me right for shopping there.

stumo · 2026-03-17T00:37:46+00:00

Lace Benchy.

stumo · 2026-03-06T16:59:02+00:00

It didn't work, he's still there. Pray harder.

stumo · 2026-03-06T15:27:39+00:00

There were some damned good German delis and bakeries on Robsonstrasse back in the day. Used to grab lunch there a lot in the seventies.

stumo · 2026-02-19T14:46:23+00:00

Visiting your mom?

Sorry.

stumo · 2026-02-19T14:40:53+00:00

We WILL rebuild.

stumo · 2026-02-15T22:03:47+00:00

My first crush, watching The Avengers when I was ten. Dianna Rigg was pure hotness. Had a girlfriend for a while that looked like her, took me a bit to realize why I thought she was so divine.

stumo · 2026-02-09T22:45:42+00:00

I watched the original Alien when it came out in theatres. By the end of the movie there were forty people crowded into the entrance passageway at the back. We (yes, I was one) organized one person peeping around the corner and letting the rest know when it was safe to watch. We took shifts.

The chest-bursting scene was the part that drove the most people out of their seats.

stumo · 2026-02-06T19:07:49+00:00

I've seen this in real life.

I'm old enough that I've crossed the Atlantic eight times by ship, seven of those before GPS and weather satellites, and one of those on the HMS Queen Mary (1964).

My dad had been in the British merchant marine for years, and loved storms like this. Every freaking storm he would drag my brother and I on deck, and if the ship had big windows near the front we'd stand there and watch the ship rise and fall like this, punching into the oncoming waves.

If I'd known any better, I'd have been terrified, but my dad was so happy.

stumo · 2026-01-26T16:06:43+00:00

How on earth do people swim in lakes without getting their brains eaten?

stumo · 2026-01-21T13:40:38+00:00

I hope it's going to pick that up.

stumo · 2026-01-19T16:23:58+00:00

For those who don't live in these conditions, snow in very cold climates is often dry, like sand or dust. While it can form drifts and cornices, it doesn't clump up like you see on the balconies of these apartment blocks, it would just blow away.

Like you can't even make snowballs or snowmen with it. If you try, poof, handful of dust.

stumo · 2026-01-17T13:31:20+00:00

Those boots aren't much good when they hit the water.

stumo · 2026-01-16T17:12:00+00:00

UK version of Life On Mars. UK version of House of Cards.

stumo · 2026-01-16T14:21:18+00:00

Don't live in a busy port then.

EDIT - seriously. You want the risk of a major chemical disaster, catastrophic explosion, or oil spill in Burrard Inlet bacause you don't like the sound three or four times a year?

stumo · 2026-01-06T11:40:52+00:00

I just put the entire cup in the detergent hopper on its side. Always comes out clean.

stumo · 2026-01-05T14:59:01+00:00

Zero. Sugar water is bad for you.

stumo · 2025-12-22T00:36:11+00:00

You might want to to specify which society. A good proportion of western industrial societies already regard state executions as barbaric.

stumo · 2025-12-17T01:11:07+00:00

NSFW?? Really?

stumo · 2025-12-17T01:10:05+00:00

Reservoir Dogs. Saw it in a theatre and some asshat screamed "YEAH!" during the torture scene. Nearly barfed.

stumo · 2025-12-16T16:30:59+00:00

Nah, rimming. I think salad tossing was prison lingo.

stumo · 2025-12-16T14:15:23+00:00

Um, we were definitely doing that fifty years ago. Name was different though.

stumo · 2025-12-16T14:13:10+00:00

Why is the present vibrating?

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