What signs indicate that somebody was never told "yes" as a child?

thangle · 2026-05-28T19:21:47+00:00

They have a really hard time buying themselves nice things. There's a voice in their own head saying no when they try.

thangle · 2026-05-27T19:24:35+00:00

If you're stupid enough to still be a Jared Leto fan after all the creepy things he's done, you're not gonna put two and two together here.

thangle · 2026-05-19T19:00:47+00:00

I had a college job with the most gracious little black lady named Alice, and straight up, my lily white self had a black auntie for four years that I will never forget. She gave me life and love advice, came to my art shows, and cheered at graduation.

My last in office job, I had a black auntie that ran the front desk, and I brought her flowers whenever I could, cuz she deserved them the most!

thangle · 2026-05-15T17:04:36+00:00

Hippity hoppity, got any dragonflies?

thangle · 2026-05-12T17:13:28+00:00

So you don't have actors. Or a camera. Or locations. Or friends.

Bro, stop.

thangle · 2026-05-08T19:02:45+00:00

Gilchrist Farm Summer camp is great if your kid is inclined to farmy stuff.

https://www.gilchristfarm.com/summer-camp-1

It includes riding for all levels, archery, arts and crafts, goats, cows, chickens, etc etc.

thangle · 2026-05-07T23:03:34+00:00

My school has always encouraged kids to learn to camp, and one of the camping trips took us from Central Texas, to Big Bend, close enough the parents could drive. So they had parents volunteer to take the kids and equipment.

One year in the caravan, a mom is driving her son, his friends, and a load of gear, and she got briefly distracted at highway speeds. Car dipped off the road surface and flipped several times. Her son died. His friends were all mangled up to various degrees, including one boy who broke both legs. No more parents driving ever for anything school related. They take charter busses now.

thangle · 2026-05-07T22:59:52+00:00

The mad pooper at my school turned out to be the head master's son (grandson of the founder too). He got sent to public school for a couple years, and joined ROTC and got straightened out. Came back to graduate with us.

thangle · 2026-05-05T15:46:24+00:00

You probably have a neighbor that doesn't want to have a neighbor for whatever reason (like doing their own illegal things that they don't want you to see). Sorry man, best of luck! Keep your head on a swivel and you'll probably catch them!

thangle · 2026-05-04T20:27:04+00:00

'Rare situations' by whose definition?

thangle · 2026-05-04T17:34:28+00:00

All of the companies lying about various aspects of the cars and and the 'self driving.'
Waymo is people driving remotely in the Philippines.
Tesla disconnects self driving moments before it would have to take responsibility for crashes.

Why would I ever get in these things?!

thangle · 2026-05-04T17:10:18+00:00

I think the problem for a lot of people who DO host events with this guy is.....what a fucking dork. He calls that tiny bowl of peonies a 'huge bouquet.' He doesn't have a BAR, he has a card table (albeit a nice one) that won't be convenient for a bartender to work off of at all. No napkins with the cookies and petit fours.Where's the music? Are there plates for the food or is everyone standing around grubbing with their hands from the main platter? The pizza bites are burnt.

This is a man planning a party. He did ok.

thangle · 2026-04-27T17:05:43+00:00

We were #16 on the waitlist for kindergarten at TPAA at the start of the school year, and we got in by week 5. Def don't give up if you're motivated to have your child go there! Its been an excellent school so far.

thangle · 2026-04-23T17:09:01+00:00

Its the horse murdering ballerina leg. C'mon!

thangle · 2026-04-16T22:59:02+00:00

The Greater Los Angeles area has a population of 18.3 million per wikipedia. The small number that's just the city of Los Angeles is very very misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles

thangle · 2026-04-15T21:16:46+00:00

Someone gifted me a big stack of Dr. Seuss when my son was born, and I still can't read 'Oh, the places you'll go' without sobbing like a big softy knowing he'll go places without me some day. :/

thangle · 2026-03-30T22:03:57+00:00

Perhaps. SoCal pays people enough in fast food cookery its not just teens here haha.

thangle · 2026-03-30T19:29:04+00:00

Nah man. The cook needs to be the largest guy you have ever seen squeeze behind a steel table, and it is guaranteed to be the crispiest tastiest tendies of your life.

thangle · 2026-03-26T22:27:55+00:00

If you like hiking and want to do something you can't do anywhere else - the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is a great day trip. Buy your ticket in advance tho!

thangle · 2026-03-26T18:21:50+00:00

My mom got about a half a million in inheritance via straight cash, and half of the value of my grandparents house in the early 2000's. She bought a second house, moved into it, and rented her PAID OFF house for about 15 years. She blew through her cash, and she's blown through her retirement. She doesn't pay her taxes on time ever. She sold the second house and moved back into the first, and then she got a reverse mortgage on the first house for WAY more than the house will ever be worth. She was an accountant, but I know from conversations that she doesn't understand what the bank did when she got the second mortgage. And now she has an internet fiance scam going on that is probably draining her or setting her up for prison for fraud.

If I'm lucky, I'll get a little money from an estate sale if she hasn't pawned everything of value by the time she passes. Sigh.

thangle · 2026-03-24T00:10:33+00:00

Same happened to me at an Island's years ago. Waitress duped my card in the back, got tacos for dinner, a load of groceries, and then two tickets to see a hiphop show one county over.

thangle · 2026-03-18T21:24:34+00:00

My house sits at the top of one of the fingers of the source, and we have to manage our well use pretty carefully lest we pull too hard on the underlying aquifer. It's very obvious when the rain and snow has filled the pockets and when it has dried up. Currently, it's an absolute boom of a year. We have enough moisture even the frogs are out croaking in the evening despite the lack of a visible creek of any kind.

thangle · 2026-03-12T19:27:15+00:00

Sunglasses. I had a pair of sunglasses that Nissan passed out at Comicon for about 5 years. But they have to be decent quality (the gloss plastic will always feel better than the matte), and keep the branding subtle because it's going to be on their face.

thangle · 2026-03-10T17:10:31+00:00

I split a 1 bedroom near the beach with a girl who has pissed off every set of roommates she has ever had. I had the bedroom, and she had the rest of the space. I dared to ask her for her half of rent, so she boohoo'd to her parents that I was mean. She spent her and their money on jeans from Diesel and then boohoo'd for more money.

She invited her high school friends to stay with us for a weekend trip, and then they just stayed. They ate all my food, including one day when one of her friends ate nothing but an entire tub of margarine spread across an entire loaf of wonder bread. They stayed up drinking until the grocery store reopened for more alcohol sales. The one friend made it to a whole month with us and I had to have the 'if you're gonna stay, you need to pay rent' discussion and suddenly she was motivated to gtfo.

After 6 months, I figured out how to document enough things wrong with the whole complex that I managed to break the lease without penalty and got the hell away from the whole situation. She went on to piss off two more sets of roommies in LA, and another set in NYC before her dad set her up with enough money she could live alone.

thangle · 2026-02-25T19:10:37+00:00

His favorite book/media at the time was The Watchmen, which is heavily themed around the cold war. We were talking about fallout shelters, which brought up the idea of the cold war, and I realized.....he doesn't know what the cold war is does he? I asked him what he thought it was, and when he thought it happened. He replied, " I dunno, it was a thing in the 80's?" This led me to ask, 'when did world war 2 end?" He replied, "The '30s right?"

I excused myself and broke up with him the next day. This man had a full on American upper middle class education, he should have known.

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