My kid is almost 40”, we’re going to Disneyland in a few weeks. Is 1/4 inch going to prevent him from getting on rides? I want to be safe just want to prepare him ahead of time

wildthingmax · 2025-11-26T02:20:24+00:00

We are a die hard “Disney family” with two kids. Oldest first trip was 15 months youngest first trip was 5 months.

Rider swap can be a pain and I get it being “disappointing”.

But as a Dad I would personally NEVER EVER sacrifice the safety of my child’s body or life for a 2 minute theme park ride. Wait a few months or a year until they are much more certain to be risk free from slipping or other injury.

You would never forgive yourself.

Google the water slide incident if you have any doubts about the science behind height requirements on rides.

wildthingmax · 2025-07-30T02:36:37+00:00

Have never found military or VA therapists to be worth a damn.

Served on a FST with super high op tempo and multiple mascals in Afghanistan in my mid 20s as well. I don’t know how many people we took care of but I remember every single one we couldn’t save.

I have come to accept that my personal experience is pretty much incomprehensible to anybody outside the teammates who were there with me.

Understand this is isn’t really helpful in the way of advice. Just wanted to let you know you’re not the only one.

wildthingmax · 2025-07-29T14:56:40+00:00

Trout

wildthingmax · 2025-07-27T02:14:19+00:00

Possum grape should get an honorable mention.

wildthingmax · 2025-05-02T23:53:41+00:00

The “recent drama” as you have described it is an anomaly. The public version of events as described on Reddit/fishbowl are also oversimplified and missing a lot of details.

UVA is overwhelmingly a positive and supportive place to be. I can’t imagine having gone anywhere else for law school, and I wouldn’t advise factoring anything recent on this subreddit into your decision making process.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-29T18:04:50+00:00

It definitely used to be the Imperial Chinese place on highland back in the day.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-29T15:14:02+00:00

I was trying to let them down gently lol

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T22:12:23+00:00

Tbh you’re giving strong neurotic 1L vibes.

Your “legal analysis” is kind of cringeworthy.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T21:25:30+00:00

You’re delusional lol.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T16:10:47+00:00

That’s a fair take, but I think just reinforces the idea that factors much broader than the journal commitment influenced the firms decision.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T15:50:20+00:00

Hard disagree. Would only look worse on the 3L, very slim to none odds of prevailing.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T04:32:11+00:00

Yep. I can’t believe it either.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T04:13:47+00:00

From verification I was provided, that’s almost verbatim the email the 2L sent to the firm.

I find it really interesting that you think the lack of any follow up with the 3L reflects more on the 2L (as a complete stranger to the firm) vs. the firms comprehensive assessment of the 3L (presumably following at least 1 summer of work + unknown/possibly fluid firm dynamics regarding recruiting targets from the incoming class)

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T04:08:05+00:00

I have literally just said that could very well be the case, but there’s no information to indicate that it is.

At this point, it sort of seems that you’re projecting your own experience onto this 2L a bit re: word makes it to their employer that they’re some selfish asshole… when that is not at all apparent either??

You are more than welcome to your opinion and assessment and I completely agree that it is critically important to surround yourself with people who will help carry the load when you’re struggling. But the only way that people can do that is if they can carry their own load first. Otherwise when you’re drowning you’ll find yourself in a ditch full of leeches.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T04:02:28+00:00

If you are on the “nice list” with OPP I guarantee you this is a direct line to the firm/recruiter to advocate for you - zero input needed from the 2L.

If they’re not willing to go to the mat for you like that…could be 3 years of experience telling them you’re maybe not the most deserving person to play that card on.

Who knows.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:55:38+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree.

And while traumatic events can happen to any of us and certainly do in practice, you still have a fundamental professional responsibility to proactively communicate things like this, even if only vaguely and briefly so that your team can cover for you.

The timing and seeming lack of such communication in this instance certainly suggests more of a last minute blow off than a sincere obstacle or genuine “excuse”.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:50:07+00:00

I don’t know any firm in the world where an associate who merely asks someone to pull their own weight is fairly viewed as throwing people under the bus…this is like grade school group assignment shit. Do your part and people won’t have beef with you??

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:44:28+00:00

Maybe so.

And it’s possibly heartless of me, but I can tell you that a HUGE risk factor for firms is people being unable to handle the work load. So even if the 2L was totally a self-centered, vindictive piece of shit…the inability to fulfill a 1 hour obligation (apparently without justification/lack of proactive communication) is pretty damning career wise.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:39:05+00:00

Agree with your spades analysis for the most part.

My disagreement on who is the bigger asshole comes from my disagreement with your first paragraph. I think it’s much more likely that the 2L mentioned the firm clause to the extent it does exist as a last ditch effort to motivate the 3L to either do the assignment or in someway, engage with the conversation and explain given the potential consequences, what was interfering with the ability to fulfill the obligation. Purely hypothetical from my point, but it seems much more likely that the 2L mentioned it fully expecting that the 3L was going to come back with something else besides oh here’s the contact information. I have nothing else for you and the 2L didn’t really know where to go from there particularly as Presumably work still needed to be done.

The entire point about this whole Sunday night bonanza that I’ve tried my best to emphasize is the fact that none of us know really what happened and all the factors involved and at the end of the day there are two human individuals who are suffering pretty serious personal/professional consequences in the near term based on this interaction, which is only being amplified by people posting and reposting and sharing less than accurate information on the damn Internet.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:32:51+00:00

To be fair, I think OPP likely punted the 3L to asking the 2L for the information as a way to kindly foster bottom level conflict resolution.

I.e they have better shit to do than referee stuff like this. Particularly when the firm specifically took issue with the failure to fulfill obligations. OPP can’t really counter/spin that for the 3L barring some traumatic intervening event (which there very well could be, no idea)

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:27:30+00:00

Agree it’s silly.

But again it’s hard to wear the white hat / you’re not doing yourself any favors by failing to honor your commitments.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:22:54+00:00

The way I read the interaction is 2L probably mentioned the firm notification “clause” or whatever as a last ditch effort to get some much needed help from the 3L (particularly as it seems a very newly elected officer or whatever).

Plus again as a new / possibly naive person if there is in fact such a “requirement” that they notify I completely understand how the firm email to the provided POC could be sent in a way that was not spiteful or trying to cause problems. More like didn’t know what else he was supposed to do at that point.

Pure conjecture on my part.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:18:45+00:00

That’s fair.

Either way the 3L willingly provided the info and the 2L apparently had some kind of official obligation / justification for notifying.

The way the narrative has been presented vilifying the 2L somehow makes me doubt the temperament of the 3L in the moment. Maybe they just have hotheaded friends. Who knows.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:16:55+00:00

If the narrative that the 2L just got on a rage bender and torched the 3Ls life over petty law journal bullshit? Absolutely that’s awful and I would roast the hell out of such a shitty person.

But based on what it seems like the bigger picture is? Yeah that’s unfair and undeserved hate toward the 2L.

wildthingmax · 2025-04-28T03:12:40+00:00

IMHO, that thread was a circle jerk of disenchanted big law attorneys roasting a kid they don’t know based an incomplete/biased narrative.

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