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First thing that went through my mind was from American Gods.this was totally not my reaction to this quote"So this is how I died, trying to make dinner, bleeding on my kitchen floor, eventually eaten by my collies."
Bonus: housemate walks in, says, "Why didn't you just ask for help?"
Housemate is one inch shorter than I am.
I am a huge American gods fan, you gotta tell me because it is going to kill me that I cant remember.
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Much like how I cant remember my clothes.
Went to see Shazam. It was a pretty good movie. Debating on whether I'll go see Endgame as well.
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Two of the concussions I still can clearly remember involved a rough game of tag, where I fell backwards and hit my head. The second one I was tying a rope to the monkey bars, for some weird ass plan, tripped over one of the ropes, and hit my head really hard against one of the support bars. That one was enough to knock me out. All I can remember falling, and then waking up in bed.
The other three were there as my parents told me, but I cant remember them specificly. Probably because I was fairly young, and I got bumps and scrapes all the time.
Talking to Zelda I remembered a ninth. Yes, it's true, once you have one, it doesn't take as much to have another. And another...
Twenty years ago in a crappy basement apartment I had with my first wife, I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and I never turned on the lights. On my way out I turned too early and slammed my face directly into the door frame, bounced back and clocked the back of my head against the opposite side of the frame, and then pinged my head again when I hit the tile floor.
I can't imagine how my life would turn out without all of this brain damage.
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*SIGH*. Looks like Impus Major is about to have his first girlfriend, whether he wants to admit it or not, and of course it's going to be a nerve-wracking experience.
On the one hand, I really like the girl. She's sweet-natured, enthusiastic, and fun to be around.
On the other hand, she comes with enough red flags to supply a Chinese New Year festival in Beijing:
I mean, she's dangerous both legally and emotionally for Impus Major, but he's got the maturity of a 30-year-old. It's a hurricane hitting a rock. We'll see how he weathers.
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Good luck with that one, NH. *whistles nonchalantly away, happy that's not my particular barrel*
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I have yet to have a concussion.
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Possibly as a result of that, she has emotional swings of a magnitude I've never seen before. And my best friend was a manic-depressive who killed himself. She'll be happily hanging out. Then sobbing in tears. Then overwhelmed with guilt. Then perfectly happy again. All in the span of 15 minutes.
Sounds like a hidden psychological issue that needs treatment...
She was raised by a, "Physicality isn't an issue," family, so she is going to be pressuring Impus Major for more and more intimate physical acts. And with her 15, and Impus Major 18, that's all kinds of dangerous legal and physical ramifications. She's also the only girl who's flashed our entire living room by accident, because she likes to wear crop tops with no bra. I mention that because it's just an example of her entire, "If it feels good, there's nothing wrong with it," attitude that her parents share. Er, I really don't care how you feel; until she's 18 she's a legal landmine, and I'd rather you NOT teach her any different, no matter your political views on the subject.
I mean, she's dangerous both legally and emotionally for Impus Major, but he's got the maturity of a 30-year-old. It's a hurricane hitting a rock. We'll see how he weathers.
Time to have a talk with IM...
Not the one about flowers and bees (I assume that was done already), but about consent, legal age, and the ability/inability for consent based on quirks of law.
California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
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Possibly as a result of that, she has emotional swings of a magnitude I've never seen before. And my best friend was a manic-depressive who killed himself. She'll be happily hanging out. Then sobbing in tears. Then overwhelmed with guilt. Then perfectly happy again. All in the span of 15 minutes.
Sounds like a
hiddenpsychological issue that needs treatment...
Not my kid, and the parents are a mess themselves, so not much I can do on this front.
She was raised by a, "Physicality isn't an issue," family, so she is going to be pressuring Impus Major for more and more intimate physical acts. And with her 15, and Impus Major 18, that's all kinds of dangerous legal and physical ramifications. She's also the only girl who's flashed our entire living room by accident, because she likes to wear crop tops with no bra. I mention that because it's just an example of her entire, "If it feels good, there's nothing wrong with it," attitude that her parents share. Er, I really don't care how you feel; until she's 18 she's a legal landmine, and I'd rather you NOT teach her any different, no matter your political views on the subject.
I mean, she's dangerous both legally and emotionally for Impus Major, but he's got the maturity of a 30-year-old. It's a hurricane hitting a rock. We'll see how he weathers.
Time to have a talk with IM...
Not the one about flowers and bees (I assume that was done already), but about consent, legal age, and the ability/inability for consent based on quirks of law.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
I am proud to say that HE came to US to get our advice and opinions, and we gave them to him. He's well aware of the law, and he would rather wait 'til she's older. She's unwilling to wait and is thrusting herself upon him, and he's too polite/nervous about making her explode to push her away.
It's unpleasant to watch, but it's a life experience he needs to go through to learn to navigate it; he's going to hit such issues again and again, and no amount of advice or teaching will help him deal with it until he's experienced it at least once firsthand.
I'll advise him, guide him, and be there for him if/when things blow up. But for the moment, I have to have faith that he's going to manage to navigate this himself.
And I do.
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It's unpleasant to watch, but it's a life experience he needs to go through to learn to navigate it; he's going to hit such issues again and again, and no amount of advice or teaching will help him deal with it until he's experienced it at least once firsthand.
I'll advise him, guide him, and be there for him if/when things blow up. But for the moment, I have to have faith that he's going to manage to navigate this himself.
And I do.
My granddad had advise for me with this sort of thing too. He died when I was 9. "Never stick your d*** in anything crazier than you."
He was so wise*. And wildly inappropriate**. He gave me my first driving lesson when I was 2. He gave me my first heart attack about 5 years later when he let go of the wheel and let my then 2-yr-old cousin have his first driving lesson.
*For various definitions of wise.
**I really have nothing to add here. He just was.
I left my Bluetooth headset at home today, meaning I've had to rely on the wired headset at work. In the office it's not so bad. But on my lunch break going for a walk, for some reason having the headset outlet filled means the Google Assistant keeps popping up for no frakking reason. It's incredibly annoying as it stops my music every 2-3 seconds to go "Ba deep!" And pop up the Assistant screen. Only for me to swipe it away, go back to my music, and the whole thing repeat a few steps later.
California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Pretty sure that's a federal law: you cease to be a minor at 18 legally, and the interactions between minors and non-minors is the issue here.
States can go higher, but not lower. Though I don't think any currently do. I know in the past sone states didn't consider you fully adult until 21, but there was a weird limbo state between 18 and 21 as a result where by state law you were still a minor but federal law an adult and thus things could get very messy.
I'm pretty sure that no longer exists though and all states consider you an adult at 18 now. But I admit I could be wrong, I'm not taking the time to Google it at the moment.
Pretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Pretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =P
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Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =PPretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
The feds bullied the states into raising the drinking age by tying it to highway funds, but the age of consent is still a state controlled issue. There are federal laws about taking minors over state lines for illicit purposes. So you can't for example, take ms. fizzyflasher to Arkansas or some more lenient state (with close in exceptions) to get your jollies.
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Find it kinda funny how many of the lowest-age states are also the most rigid in their views on the matter...
Find it kinda funny how many of the lowest-age states are also the most rigid in their views on the matter...
And yet they don't see the irony there...
*SIGH*. Looks like Impus Major is about to have his first girlfriend, whether he wants to admit it or not, and of course it's going to be a nerve-wracking experience.
On the one hand, I really like the girl. She's sweet-natured, enthusiastic, and fun to be around.
On the other hand, she comes with enough red flags to supply a Chinese New Year festival in Beijing:
She's only 15.
She's a "serial dater": Impus Major will be either her 4th or 5th boyfriend. In the last 18 months.
She has absolutely no self-control or thoughts of consequences whatsoever. If it sounds like fun, she does it. Y'know the old myth that girls are more mature than boys? She's the exception that proves the rule. I've dealt with sixth graders with greater emotional maturity.
Possibly as a result of that, she has emotional swings of a magnitude I've never seen before. And my best friend was a manic-depressive who killed himself. She'll be happily hanging out. Then sobbing in tears. Then overwhelmed with guilt. Then perfectly happy again. All in the span of 15 minutes.
She was raised by a, "Physicality isn't an issue," family, so she is going to be pressuring Impus Major for more and more intimate physical acts. And with her 15, and Impus Major 18, that's all kinds of dangerous legal and physical ramifications. She's also the only girl who's flashed our entire living room by accident, because she likes to wear crop tops with no bra. I mention that because it's just an example of her entire, "If it feels good, there's nothing wrong with it," attitude that her parents share. Er, I really don't care how you feel; until she's 18 she's a legal landmine, and I'd rather you NOT teach her any different, no matter your political views on the subject.
I mean, she's dangerous both legally and emotionally for Impus Major, but he's got the maturity of a 30-year-old. It's a hurricane hitting a rock. We'll see how he weathers.
Go for it Impus Major! FORWARD!
More seriously, it can be very important to learn for oneself(i.e. not from a third party) what is and is not acceptable in a relationship, and how to dissuade those that think the things your dad mentioned are cool from creating one with you.
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Find it kinda funny how many of the lowest-age states are also the most rigid in their views on the matter...
I'd be curious to see that map overlapped with ones recording things like abstinence-only sex ed, high rates of teen pregnancy, divorce rates, and/or legalized minor marriage.
I imagine we'd see some interesting patterns....
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About the only thing that reassures me is that, around here at least, DAs are starting to look at the age difference when deciding on charges, rather than just "adult and minor".
Two high school kids, one's 15 and one's 18? That's just teen stupidity.
A 35-year-old corporate exec and a 15-year-old? Somethings really wrong there.
And DAs are finally getting their heads out of their Lawful Neutral butts and seeing that.
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On a completely unrelated subject:
Anybody here know someone who does artistic text logos? I'd like to see about costs and such for getting logo(s) designed for the adventure-writing project Scint and I are working on.
On a completely unrelated subject:
Anybody here know someone who does artistic text logos? I'd like to see about costs and such for getting logo(s) designed for the adventure-writing project Scint and I are working on.
Are you looking for high end professional or more on the cheap good enough type work?
On a completely unrelated subject:
Anybody here know someone who does artistic text logos? I'd like to see about costs and such for getting logo(s) designed for the adventure-writing project Scint and I are working on.
Yes, but he's really flaky and unreliable. His work is really good if you don't mind getting exactly what you didn't ask for.
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The feds bullied the states into raising the drinking age by tying it to highway funds, but the age of consent is still a state controlled issue. There are federal laws about taking minors over state lines for illicit purposes. So you can't for example, take ms. fizzyflasher to Arkansas or some more lenient state (with close in exceptions) to get your jollies.Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =PPretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
the history behind those laws can be disgusting.
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It's unpleasant to watch, but it's a life experience he needs to go through to learn to navigate it; he's going to hit such issues again and again, and no amount of advice or teaching will help him deal with it until he's experienced it at least once firsthand.
I'll advise him, guide him, and be there for him if/when things blow up. But for the moment, I have to have faith that he's going to manage to navigate this himself.
And I do.
My granddad had advise for me with this sort of thing too. He died when I was 9. "Never stick your d*** in anything crazier than you."
He was so wise*. And wildly inappropriate**. He gave me my first driving lesson when I was 2. He gave me my first heart attack about 5 years later when he let go of the wheel and let my then 2-yr-old cousin have his first driving lesson.
*For various definitions of wise.
**I really have nothing to add here. He just was.
I like your grandpa.
I also, very happily, did not take his advice on that first one. Which is a story I may have told you about already.
Find it kinda funny how many of the lowest-age states are also the most rigid in their views on the matter...I'd be curious to see that map overlapped with ones recording things like abstinence-only sex ed, high rates of teen pregnancy, divorce rates, and/or legalized minor marriage.
I imagine we'd see some interesting patterns....
I am 94% sure someone already did it. I will see if I can find it. I think it was aimed more at religious based abstinence education and teen pregnancy than anything else.
About the only thing that reassures me is that, around here at least, DAs are starting to look at the age difference when deciding on charges, rather than just "adult and minor".
Two high school kids, one's 15 and one's 18? That's just teen stupidity.
A 35-year-old corporate exec and a 15-year-old? Somethings really wrong there.
And DAs are finally getting their heads out of their Lawful Neutral butts and seeing that.
that depends heavily on where you live. Some states give parents a lot of legal power when it comes to their kids carnal explorations.
the history behind those laws can be disgusting.The feds bullied the states into raising the drinking age by tying it to highway funds, but the age of consent is still a state controlled issue. There are federal laws about taking minors over state lines for illicit purposes. So you can't for example, take ms. fizzyflasher to Arkansas or some more lenient state (with close in exceptions) to get your jollies.Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =PPretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
You have my attention...
Tequila's Pet Peeve #73: How hard is it to hit Cancel after prematurely pulling your food out of the microwave?!
Tequila's thoughts on Endgame: I'm sure I'll eventually see it, probably when it hits Netflix. But I'm generally burnt out on the superhero classics, I was underwhelmed with Infinity War, I don't like time travel, and I know that somehow Thanos will be defeated and someone will use the time stone to just retcon everyone back alive. I'm much more excited for this week's GoT episode, which I haven't seen yet.
Are you looking for high end professional or more on the cheap good enough type work?
I am definitely on the cheaper side, unfortunately. Not a person with a lot of cash to throw around.
Yes, but he's really flaky and unreliable. His work is really good if you don't mind getting exactly what you didn't ask for.
Does he have a DevArt or some other online gallery? Worst case I can at least see what his past work is like.
Are you looking for high end professional or more on the cheap good enough type work?I am definitely on the cheaper side, unfortunately. Not a person with a lot of cash to throw around.
Yes, but he's really flaky and unreliable. His work is really good if you don't mind getting exactly what you didn't ask for.Does he have a DevArt or some other online gallery? Worst case I can at least see what his past work is like.
Not that I'm aware of.
On a completely unrelated subject:
Anybody here know someone who does artistic text logos? I'd like to see about costs and such for getting logo(s) designed for the adventure-writing project Scint and I are working on.
I mean...I could probably do it myself.
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You have my attention...the history behind those laws can be disgusting.The feds bullied the states into raising the drinking age by tying it to highway funds, but the age of consent is still a state controlled issue. There are federal laws about taking minors over state lines for illicit purposes. So you can't for example, take ms. fizzyflasher to Arkansas or some more lenient state (with close in exceptions) to get your jollies.Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =PPretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Originally, the Mann's Act was used to forbid transportation of women and minors across the state borders for purpose of prostitution, debauchery, and immoral purposes—the big issue was that debauchery and immoral purposes were undefined, allowing for persecution of mutually consensual sexual activity between adult people, especially if they happened to be of different races.
Later, the law was altered to be limited mostly to prevent human trafficking, though as far as I know, it still covers consensual attempts to take advantage of more favorable age of consent laws in another state.
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What do you do when you have an outrageously stressful morning but have the day off due to the g@%!#!n f%#*ing rain.
If you're me you spend your day taking out that frustration on the 7-12 year olds playing Fortnite.
I blame Bethesda for making Fallout 4 so boring, and then making Fallout 76, period.
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Are you looking for high end professional or more on the cheap good enough type work?I am definitely on the cheaper side, unfortunately. Not a person with a lot of cash to throw around.
Yes, but he's really flaky and unreliable. His work is really good if you don't mind getting exactly what you didn't ask for.Does he have a DevArt or some other online gallery? Worst case I can at least see what his past work is like.
My friend Kat is a freelance artist who occasionally does design work as well. For example, she just did the cover for a mutual friend's recent book on Hungarian fencing, for the three people in the world who are interested in historical Hungarian fencing.
Here's the book cover....and here's her deviant art page.
No idea what she charges.
I am a huge American gods fan, you gotta tell me because it is going to kill me that I cant remember.First thing that went through my mind was from American Gods.this was totally not my reaction to this quote"So this is how I died, trying to make dinner, bleeding on my kitchen floor, eventually eaten by my collies."
Bonus: housemate walks in, says, "Why didn't you just ask for help?"
Housemate is one inch shorter than I am.
I am assuming that Vany meant this scene, which is cropped here so you can't even tell that she's in a kitchen and (I believe) even fell off a stool.
Can I say again, I absolutely love how brilliantly this show was cast?
this was totally not my reaction to this quote"So this is how I died, trying to make dinner, bleeding on my kitchen floor, eventually eaten by my collies."
Bonus: housemate walks in, says, "Why didn't you just ask for help?"
Housemate is one inch shorter than I am.
Also, you get cookies.
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My friend Kat is a freelance artist who occasionally does design work as well. For example, she just did the cover for a mutual friend's recent book on Hungarian fencing, for the three people in the world who are interested in historical Hungarian fencingAre you looking for high end professional or more on the cheap good enough type work?I am definitely on the cheaper side, unfortunately. Not a person with a lot of cash to throw around.
Yes, but he's really flaky and unreliable. His work is really good if you don't mind getting exactly what you didn't ask for.Does he have a DevArt or some other online gallery? Worst case I can at least see what his past work is like.
*Raises hand*
Me, and Zoltan, and Attila, though I no longer have a sabre, and Zoltan is presently out of his bonce on brown gyeletinyűszig.
(Seriously, is it on Lulu? I do know people who would be pretty keen on that...)
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What do you do when you have an outrageously stressful morning but have the day off due to the g$@#$$n f#!$ing rain.
If you're me you spend your day taking out that frustration on the 7-12 year olds playing Fortnite.
I blame Bethesda for making Fallout 4 so boring, and then making Fallout 76, period.
That's fine, they're probably also taking it out on you because they had a stressful day at school. Go whack it out, a little planned violence helps with stress.
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I've always been quite conservative about my clothing right until I was rushing to the next gym class. Seeing the long queue, I was like screw it, I'll just change in the locker room. And it was a lot faster. Besides I actually do have some kind of figure these days ^^
Also I was actually diagnosed with a pre asthmatic cough when I was younger and told not to participate in physical education lessons. Man, that really bored me out of my mind.
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Somewhere, the tech gods weep.
After all of GothBard's and Impus Minor's issues with iPhones (and mine), and Apple's intentional throttling of and forced obsolescence of older iPhones, I've decided that I'm going to transition back to a flip phone.
Because my phone is a phone, not a toy.
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Also my house attendance at elementary school was that poor(and when I set out to do stuff, I give it my best shot) that they put me for every event except shot put. That is 100m, 4 x 100 m, 200m, 400m, 800m and high jump. Everything but shot put and high jump were on the same day. Yeah like how do you expect me to run 5 events in a single day?
I did get 3rd prize for high jump(I've sort of been practicing at home and actually broke the ribs of one of the beds - was told not to do it anymore), but told the teacher that I couldn't run that much distance in a single day and said no to the 400m and 800m stuff. Didn't get anything for running since there's a whole load of people who run faster then I do.
I'm a little too heavy for serious jumping, but I can sort of carry it off because I've always had powerful hindpaws.
Now I've gotten older, I know I don't sprint well. More of a long distance type since I can use my mental fortitude to mind over matter things.
You have my attention...the history behind those laws can be disgusting.The feds bullied the states into raising the drinking age by tying it to highway funds, but the age of consent is still a state controlled issue. There are federal laws about taking minors over state lines for illicit purposes. So you can't for example, take ms. fizzyflasher to Arkansas or some more lenient state (with close in exceptions) to get your jollies.Huh. I stand corrected. Guess that's what I get for going off memory alone =PPretty sure that's a federal law. States can go higher, but not lower.California is 18+ state, right?
So much for California being sexually liberal...
Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Originally, the Mann's Act was used to forbid transportation of women and minors across the state borders for purpose of prostitution, debauchery, and immoral purposes—the big issue was that debauchery and immoral purposes were undefined, allowing for persecution of mutually consensual sexual activity between adult people, especially if they happened to be of different races.
Later, the law was altered to be limited mostly to prevent human trafficking, though as far as I know, it still covers consensual attempts to take advantage of more favorable age of consent laws in another state.
said it better than I could have and drejks not even from round here.
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Somewhere, the tech gods weep.
After all of GothBard's and Impus Minor's issues with iPhones (and mine), and Apple's intentional throttling of and forced obsolescence of older iPhones, I've decided that I'm going to transition back to a flip phone.
Because my phone is a phone, not a toy.
android.
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I am sitting in the hospital with mom. She is asleep right now (and in pain. Nothing I can do about that.). I am watching the news, then wheel of fortune then jeopardy before heading home. I would sit at her house with her and watch these all the time with her. This may be my last time watching these with her. I am not giving that up, even if she is asleep, out of it, and can't hear the shows.
Damn, but this does suck.
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Can we please have a cleric come in here and cast a few heal spells?