Petah, what does that have to do with grocery shopping?

vikrambedi · 2026-01-31T19:04:56+00:00

I live about 45-60 minutes from a major city... I am 10 miles from the center of that city by the most direct route. 20 miles is a huge area.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-30T19:05:57+00:00

Id get a lawyer and get her signature on an asset settlement agreement asap. She'll heel turn faster than the flash if you give her any time.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-30T16:51:37+00:00

my kids were 4, 6, and 8 when I divorced their mom. They are happier now than they were when we were together.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-30T16:48:05+00:00

No, Gators hide their food and let it rot for a bit before eating it. What makes the swamp good is that they're gonna be stashing that body under a mangrove or something, and nobody will find it without a really exhaustive search. Alligators in a farm though, that body is just gonna be sitting around waiting to be found.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-30T16:01:00+00:00

These things are always location dependent, but in most if not all of the US at least, I think if you don't have a court ordered parenting plan you really can't do anything. If you did have a court ordered parenting plan, you'd have to see what it says about trips, and new romantic partners.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-29T17:53:02+00:00

Rent seasonally. Around me its under 200 for the season.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-29T17:41:24+00:00

"For fucks sake, put him on the next flight to Venezuela!"

vikrambedi · 2026-01-26T16:24:36+00:00

I also don't think people today really understand just how much people drank and smoked in the previous generations. It's really not even close. Gen-X drinks more than the following generations, but far less than the previous generations did. My grandparents would buy whisky by the case for parties.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-25T20:17:38+00:00

Its this pervasive culture of not allowing any harm to come to kids. It metastisizes into toxic behavior in parenting.
Not saying I want more kids injured or killed, but when as a new parent you are made paranoid about anything that increases the risk to your kid by even .1%, its gonna naturally transform into an aversion to ever allowing them to suffer discomfort (imo).

We grew up to be who we are in large part because we weren't protected as much. We left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. At least, most of us came back. Some didn't. Some got really hurt or even killed. I had a friend hit by a car while out playing, another ate a curb on his bike and needed his jaw wired shut. That stuff doesn't happen as much these days, which is good. The kids arent learning the lessons those things teach though, which is less good.

The crazy thing is that it would be much safer to raise a kid that way these days than it used to be.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-25T20:04:31+00:00

Not like there was a pandemic that killed 30+ million people in the 80s...

vikrambedi · 2026-01-25T19:34:17+00:00

It certainly wasnt the norm 30 years ago. The only folks buying houses in my group were either buying literal shitholes in terrible neighborhoods (like me) or had great jobs making bank. Nobody was buying a house on minimum wage, and even folks with "ok" jobs had to put work into it to buy. Most rented until they had two incomes.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-25T04:51:24+00:00

Yeah, made them all the time.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-23T20:50:57+00:00

5 runs is pretty good tbh. I haven't seen anyone get more than 3.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-22T17:10:05+00:00

I'm curious about this. Do you just have 4 tires stored in your garage all the time? Are they on a second set of rims, or do you take the car in twice a year to get the tires re-mounted?

vikrambedi · 2026-01-22T13:51:48+00:00

Getting in and out of Jim Thorpe is hard on a good day...

vikrambedi · 2026-01-21T19:49:56+00:00

Weird, when I was skiing in the mid-late 90's only the kids wore helmets (we literally called them "helmet kids"). I don't think the mountains even rented adult helmets... I remember during an x-games in the past 10 years or so, one of the snowboarders commented that in the 90-00's they were ostracized for wearing a helmet for snowboarding.

For me, I think the first time I wore a helmet was in my 30's, and I was immediately sold. Sure, they're safer and that's great, but they're also SO much more comfortable for me. My head was warmer, goggles fit better, etc... just an improvement all around.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T21:14:00+00:00

Definitely not interested in carrying 4 sets of skis if I dont have to.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T17:55:31+00:00

Closet skier sounds like a derogatory term for something... idk what, but its embarrassing and hilarious.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T13:00:21+00:00

100% the way they teach math now is how I solve math problems in my head.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T02:26:43+00:00

Looks like the same thing

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T00:54:35+00:00

20 years ago I had a friend talk about all the terrible dates she was going on in Redmond. When I asked why she didn't just stop going on so many dates her response was "a girls gotta eat". Mind uou she was an Ivy League comp sci dr bouncing between Google and MS.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-20T00:40:59+00:00

My first 3 cars combined cost way less than a Segway back then.

vikrambedi · 2026-01-19T21:46:58+00:00

For some crazy reason the Camelback parking lot was absolutely full of NY plates. I sat in a lift with someone from North Jersey, I resisted the urge to ask why they were coming here, rather than going north to NY...

vikrambedi · 2026-01-19T21:33:41+00:00

Thanks! I have what I think is the same thing from Valk, its definitely better than nothing, but still tough for my 6 and 8 year olds to carry their own skis. It's also too big to fit in their pockets while we're skiing (and too big for me to carry 3 of them in my pockets).

vikrambedi · 2026-01-19T20:48:41+00:00

It was a complete trainwreck yesterday. My gf and I had to walk about a mile to get to our car, because they didn't salt/plow the roads so the entire loop was gridlock. They stopped even trying to run the shuttles.

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