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Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.
Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.
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I didn't set out to have an undead bunny. We were on a boat, the boat sank, the rabbit was in its cage. We assumed it had drowned. The GM says "As you are looking through the wreckage, you see the rabbit, still in the cage, looking at you." "Didn't it drown?" we asked. "Probably, yet there it is, moving around," he said. So, we just assumed it was undead from then on, but never tested it to find out. All I know for sure is that I didn't need to buy food for it anymore as it didn't seem to eat.Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.
Hmmm curiouser and curiouser... sounds like a DM plot hook that may lead to elder gods etc...
I have a monster I like to use. its a very high level mimic that masquerades as a rabbit. It looks harmless until it's flying through their air biting peoples head off. That rabbit is dynamite.
I actually had a player encounter it that hadn't seen holy grail. caught them completely off guard.... it wasn't pretty.
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No hook. The GM literally just thought it was funny.I didn't set out to have an undead bunny. We were on a boat, the boat sank, the rabbit was in its cage. We assumed it had drowned. The GM says "As you are looking through the wreckage, you see the rabbit, still in the cage, looking at you." "Didn't it drown?" we asked. "Probably, yet there it is, moving around," he said. So, we just assumed it was undead from then on, but never tested it to find out. All I know for sure is that I didn't need to buy food for it anymore as it didn't seem to eat.Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.Hmmm curiouser and curiouser... sounds like a DM plot hook that may lead to elder gods etc...
I have a monster I like to use. its a very high level mimic that masquerades as a rabbit. It looks harmless until it's flying through their air biting peoples head off. That rabbit is dynamite.
I actually had a player encounter it that hadn't seen holy grail. caught them completely off guard.... it wasn't pretty.
well ofourse. that would be it.
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Earlier today, a beautiful young woman wearing only a bikini and a face mask knocked on my door. She purred "I'll do anything you want for $200." I said "Okay. Pay off my mortgage."
I also would of accepted "Ok give me 300."
Go her for wearing her face mask though.
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I figured I'd go big. After all, my mortgage is a little more than $300.Earlier today, a beautiful young woman wearing only a bikini and a face mask knocked on my door. She purred "I'll do anything you want for $200." I said "Okay. Pay off my mortgage."I also would of accepted "Ok give me 300."
Go her for wearing her face mask though.
I'm just jealous you have a Mortgage. me and the future Mrs. going to start looking for a house in the spring.
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...parking stuff...Why would this bother me? I pay my quarters for parking.You were just complaining about contesting a parking ticket a few pages ago.
I figured celebrating someone else getting tickets might rub salt in the wound.
I'm still fighting it too!
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Aye renting sucks. I remember me and the FMRS. looking for places tiny places itty bitty places and the nerve of the landlords asking prices. Me already aware that they were the kind of land lords who just let the place crumble down around you before doing anything about it. I still want to punch one of them in the face. Said he had a great deal walked in turned around once and saw the tour of the whole place. what a joke. I would of laughed if I hadn't been so angry.
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Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.
There's a ring in Skyrim that if you animate a dead body the next time it attacks something it explodes in a blast of necromantic fire. So I'd kill bunnies and animate them, so I'd have an Undead Bunny Bomb following me around softening up all the wolves and trolls for me as I explored the world.
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There's a ring in Skyrim that if you animate a dead body the next time it attacks something it explodes in a blast of necromantic fire. So I'd kill bunnies and animate them, so I'd have an Undead Bunny Bomb following me around softening up all the wolves and trolls for me as I explored the world.Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.
I played sooo much Skyrim too how did I not know about that... I missed out. wasted all the time kamahamahaing things with the lighting legendary. I could of been a bunny bomber. welp time to pick up Skyrim again.
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It's in the dragon born DLC I think.
Some guy blew all his money on cowardly miners and so you have to kill the draugr that infest the mine and fund further excavation but there's always a unique magic item hidden amongst all the goblets and linen wraps when you do. There's also boots that let you walk on water, which are THE BEST boots in the whole game.
It also works with goats, and I guess people.
But honestly, it's best with bunnies, especially since they still do the whole zombie growl thing.
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Familiars...
In PF1 there isn't a penalty if the familiar dies.
You can do things like cast burning gaze through your familiar.
The best reason...they share your skill ranks. Improved Familiar to get something with hand-like appendages, pump Use Magic Device, and give your improved familiar a selection of your favorite wands and scrolls.
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Damn. Sword art online war of the underworld was amazing. Whhhhaaaaaaaa!!! It is over and I want more!!!
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I am confused by an instruction left for me at work. "Print audit report. Send to Sales." Now, by looking back at the notes for the previous two days, when I wasn't here, I can find an email address where it should be sent. But what report? There isn't one "audit report", but rather an entire menu choose from. And why do I have to email it to them? To do so, I would have to print the report(s), scan it/them, then email it/them to someone who will probably print it/them out again. Why do all this when they can simply login to our system from their office and print it that way? Or walk over, the office is next door. They could come over and get whatever they need. So, I've just written "Which report?" next to the note and will wait until someone says something to me. Which with my luck, a couple of days from now I'll get an angry text demanding to know why I haven't been sending the report(s).
I always wonder whether such people understand that "Sending it via email" = "Posting it on a public bulletin board".
I wonder whether they'd insist on you sending financial data via email if they knew that.
(One of the fun things we did at my original tech job was to turn our demo boards into packet sniffers as proof-of-concepts. At that point we realized we could read all the emails being sent and received by the entire department so we figured we were probably in gross violation of some corporate policy, but it took us all of 15 minutes to set up and voila! Everyone's emails at our fingertips!)
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I like owning my own home, but there are times it sucks. Like putting on a new roof (which I knew I was going to do when I bought the house, so that brought the price down), or replacing the furnace and air conditioner last year, or just having to mow the yard. But, knowing that if for some reason I want to paint the walls, or whatever, I can just do it without needing to get permission is nice. And knowing that no one is going to raise my rent is good too.
Yeah. In spite of all the financial articles that recommend renting when you're young, the combination of:
(1) Not being able to do what you want to the place you live (GothBard's mother even has to ask permission just to hang pictures because the landlord doesn't want nail holes in the walls)(2) Being at the mercy of an often-borderline-psychotic landlord who will randomly insist on barging into your property to make sure you're not doing anything untoward with it
(3) The terrifying and arbitrary rent increases
makes me unbelievably happy to own a home these days.
(When we were just getting started we rented an apartment in Albany. We were forced out when the landlord raised the rent by over 30% in a single year. Oh, while at the same time when our neighbor's floor rotted through he just threw a piece of plywood over it and called it "fixed". And kept insisting that he could be getting 50% more for the apartments so we should be grateful he didn't just throw us all out.)
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Familiars...
In PF1 there isn't a penalty if the familiar dies.
You can do things like cast burning gaze through your familiar.
The best reason...they share your skill ranks. Improved Familiar to get something with hand-like appendages, pump Use Magic Device, and give your improved familiar a selection of your favorite wands and scrolls.
So...suicide familiar? Hm. Interesting.
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I found a channel that shows the old, horrifically dubbed kung fu movies of my childhood. So much Kung Fu Treachery. I am happy.
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Today's Mini-Tirade: Windows Auto-Boot
So, call me old-fashioned, but once I've shut my computer down, I expect it to stay off. Imagine my concern when, over the last two days, every single time I shut down my Windows machine it starts itself back up again. Did I get a virus? Is my hardware failing?
Nope; it's standard Windows 10 stupidity: "Wake to perform scheduled maintenance" (including powering up from being completely off), and the utterly terrifying security loophole that is, "Wake on internet access" (WTF, Microsoft?).
So, I turned all that "stuff" off and now my machine is staying off, as it should be.
But the fact that the default settings are, "Turn on whenever you feel like it, whether or not the user is around" is just so beyond-the-pale awful that I'm surprised even Microsoft came up with it.
Off computers should stay off, thanks.
(Impus Minor blew a circuit breaker two weeks ago when he was running the portable AC unit in his room. He said his computer booted itself and caused the blow. I didn't believe him. Now I do.)
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I found a channel that shows the old, horrifically dubbed kung fu movies of my childhood. So much Kung Fu Treachery. I am happy.
Ooh! Do they have Shaolin vs. Lama?
"I like chicken! I like wine! And I like a good fight!"
(Eve and I love this one for the quotes, which have become family in-jokes because of a certain Thanksgiving dinner over 20 years ago where this movie featured prominently in the evening's revelry.)
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I like owning my own home, but there are times it sucks. Like putting on a new roof (which I knew I was going to do when I bought the house, so that brought the price down), or replacing the furnace and air conditioner last year, or just having to mow the yard. But, knowing that if for some reason I want to paint the walls, or whatever, I can just do it without needing to get permission is nice. And knowing that no one is going to raise my rent is good too.Yeah. In spite of all the financial articles that recommend renting when you're young, the combination of:
(1) Not being able to do what you want to the place you live (GothBard's mother even has to ask permission just to hang pictures because the landlord doesn't want nail holes in the walls)
(2) Being at the mercy of an often-borderline-psychotic landlord who will randomly insist on barging into your property to make sure you're not doing anything untoward with it
(3) The terrifying and arbitrary rent increases
makes me unbelievably happy to own a home these days.(When we were just getting started we rented an apartment in Albany. We were forced out when the landlord raised the rent by over 30% in a single year. Oh, while at the same time when our neighbor's floor rotted through he just threw a piece of plywood over it and called it "fixed". And kept insisting that he could be getting 50% more for the apartments so we should be grateful he didn't just throw us all out.)
So much this.
We still talk fondly of the landlord we had in San Leandro when we were first married, who told us, "Yeah, do what you want; it's your house." Except get a dog. And then we accidentally adopted a dog and he let us keep it. And he gave every tenant at his properties a box of See's chocolates every Christmas. He and his wife even came to our wedding. He was a very kind man.| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
I like owning my own home, but there are times it sucks. Like putting on a new roof (which I knew I was going to do when I bought the house, so that brought the price down), or replacing the furnace and air conditioner last year, or just having to mow the yard. But, knowing that if for some reason I want to paint the walls, or whatever, I can just do it without needing to get permission is nice. And knowing that no one is going to raise my rent is good too.Yeah. In spite of all the financial articles that recommend renting when you're young, the combination of:
(1) Not being able to do what you want to the place you live (GothBard's mother even has to ask permission just to hang pictures because the landlord doesn't want nail holes in the walls)
(2) Being at the mercy of an often-borderline-psychotic landlord who will randomly insist on barging into your property to make sure you're not doing anything untoward with it
(3) The terrifying and arbitrary rent increases
makes me unbelievably happy to own a home these days.(When we were just getting started we rented an apartment in Albany. We were forced out when the landlord raised the rent by over 30% in a single year. Oh, while at the same time when our neighbor's floor rotted through he just threw a piece of plywood over it and called it "fixed". And kept insisting that he could be getting 50% more for the apartments so we should be grateful he didn't just throw us all out.)
So much this.
We still talk fondly of the landlord we had in San Leandro when we were first married, who told us, "Yeah, do what you want; it's your house." Except get a dog. And then we accidentally adopted a dog and he let us keep it. And he gave every tenant at his properties a box of See's chocolates every Christmas. He and his wife even came to our wedding. He was a very kind man.
Lyle and Sandy in Davis. Christmas cookies every year. A polite call from Lyle in his cowboy hat, cowboy boots, cowboy jeans, and button-down denim shirt, still looking amazing in his late 60s or early 70s, coming over to fix our roof or repair our gate or otherwise keep the property in tip-top condition, never waiting for us to call to get something fixed.
There exist good landlords. They're just few and far between.
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I didn't set out to have an undead bunny. We were on a boat, the boat sank, the rabbit was in its cage. We assumed it had drowned. The GM says "As you are looking through the wreckage, you see the rabbit, still in the cage, looking at you." "Didn't it drown?" we asked. "Probably, yet there it is, moving around," he said. So, we just assumed it was undead from then on, but never tested it to find out. All I know for sure is that I didn't need to buy food for it anymore as it didn't seem to eat.Undead rabbit seems less like a pet and more like a science (dark arts) experiment.Also, the rabbit may have been undead....
I don't mind pets. Once upon a time, I had a gnome with a rabbit and a duck as pets. But he didn't take them into combat, and if they died I really wouldn't have cared. But tying your character's abilities to an easy to kill critter is just a bad idea in my mind.
Rabbit-deep one hybrid?
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I found a channel that shows the old, horrifically dubbed kung fu movies of my childhood. So much Kung Fu Treachery. I am happy.Ooh! Do they have Shaolin vs. Lama?
No but there was a lama as a villain in an earlier movie today! His head was so powerful it could knock over trees.
It was not so powerful that it could resist the power of the Shaolin monk's headbutt after he had a flashback from his masters teachings however.
"I like chicken! I like wine! And I like a good fight!"
(Eve and I love this one for the quotes, which have become family in-jokes because of a certain Thanksgiving dinner over 20 years ago where this movie featured prominently in the evening's revelry.)
For that I will show up as a hungry villain at your next Thanksgiving dinner.
If your husband's pupils try to throw me out for being a bad guest and I defeat them all with a single technique that I will pontificate about allllllll evening. Your husband will then fight me, and I will defeat him, embarrassing him totally. Then I will laugh as I walk away, devouring the turkey you cooked with pride.
Your husband, remembering this evening over and over again, will succumb to drink and never practice again, and your and your daughter will take care of him as he ages. Your son, however, will have this evening burned into his memory. He will train with your husband's finest pupil, who did not attend the dinner that evening as he was caring for an ill parent, and was thrown out of the school for disrespecting his teacher so although he was allowed to train in private as he was simply being a dutiful son. Your son, giving himself over to vengeance, will complete his training and seek me out for my poor behavior at that dinner so long ago, along with his best friend, a ruffian who has not been officially adopted by the family, but is known for being quite loyal.
Together, they will roam the land, seeking word of me. They will take on jobs as caravan guards, cooks, rice wine connoisseurs, and more, fighting those I have secretly trained all the while, who just happen to be working at those exact same places. My students will give the next clue they need only upon their defeat. Their journey will lead them in a circle, as my second best student will inform them that I plan to return to next Thanksgiving dinner to ruin the meal yet again.
This time, however, it will not go as it did the year before. As I arrive and make my play for the turkey, with the shattered remains of your husband's school unable to stop me, your son will leap to the turkey's defense. However, then, I will laugh and appeal to my greatest student to defeat this young upstart. Then, his best friend will reveal that he is actually my son by way of my own ill-spent youth, and will attack him in what ends up being the greatest martial arts duel ever.
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Urgh. Blogger finally turned off the option of viewing the interface in Legacy mode. What is the fragging wrong with interface designers and their insistence of fragging them up?
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Congratulation UI design-morons, you broke right align function because of your insistence on pointless changes.
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<.<
>.>
You might have noticed by now, that user interface changes just because are a pet peeve of mine.
Yes, I will probably get used to them one day and will be b!##%ing on when it gets change in a few years.
The issue is that they rarely serve anything but cost me time when I have to waste time relearning the interface again and again instead of using it more productively*. And they keep pushing for dumbed down mobile optimization.
*or more likely on wasting it on things that I want it wasted.
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Now I am sure that blogger's UI designer is a patented moron. Adding labels to the post requires opening a pull-down menu and scrolling through it...
HELLO IDIOT! Some people have blogs with more than a grand total of three labels between all their posts!
EDIT: Why is that bad, you ask? Because I had to spend 30 second doing something that took 5 seconds before. And it never will be as fast as it was with the past method, even with experience, because while the old UI showed full list now it requires scrolling through the list which will take more time than just clicking on the right tags.
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I found a channel that shows the old, horrifically dubbed kung fu movies of my childhood. So much Kung Fu Treachery. I am happy.Ooh! Do they have Shaolin vs. Lama?No but there was a lama as a villain in an earlier movie today! His head was so powerful it could knock over trees.
It was not so powerful that it could resist the power of the Shaolin monk's headbutt after he had a flashback from his masters teachings however.
"I like chicken! I like wine! And I like a good fight!"
(Eve and I love this one for the quotes, which have become family in-jokes because of a certain Thanksgiving dinner over 20 years ago where this movie featured prominently in the evening's revelry.)
For that I will show up as a hungry villain at your next Thanksgiving dinner.
If your husband's pupils try to throw me out for being a bad guest and I defeat them all with a single technique that I will pontificate about allllllll evening. Your husband will then fight me, and I will defeat him, embarrassing him totally. Then I will laugh as I walk away, devouring the turkey you cooked with pride.
Your husband, remembering this evening over and over again, will succumb to drink and never practice again, and your and your daughter will take care of him as he ages. Your son, however, will have this evening burned into his memory. He will train with your husband's finest pupil, who did not attend the dinner that evening as he was caring for an ill parent, and was thrown out of the school for disrespecting his teacher so although he was allowed to train in private as he was simply being a dutiful son. Your son, giving himself over to vengeance, will complete his training and seek me out for my poor behavior at that dinner so long ago, along with his best friend, a ruffian who has not been officially adopted by the family, but is known for being quite loyal.
Together, they will roam the land, seeking word of me. They will take on jobs...
Gary gets all the cookies for today. And any I neglected to designate over the weekend.
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>.>You might have noticed by now, that user interface changes just because are a pet peeve of mine.
Yes, I will probably get used to them one day and will be b!&%~ing on when it gets change in a few years.
The issue is that they rarely serve anything but cost me time when I have to waste time relearning the interface again and again instead of using it more productively*. And they keep pushing for dumbed down mobile optimization.
*or more likely on wasting it on things that I want it wasted.
Oh, just *don't* get me started.
"People like open space on their web pages! Make sure at least 80% of the page is just colorful open space with no text nor images to mess it up..."
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Gary gets all the cookies for today. And any I neglected to designate over the weekend.
Yeah, and then some.
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Congratulation UI design-morons, you broke right align function because of your insistence on pointless changes.
It seems to be even weirder, because occasionally it works - after I mark the whole line, use central alignment and then switch to right alignment. But it works inconsistently.
WTF had they done?
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So, I'm one of the most liberal-minded people I know on recreational drugs, especially considering I'm a former addict.
Yet it really cheeses me when people toke up in their back yards and let the smoke waft into my yard, especially after all the major California wildfires and air quality issues.
It's like, "Could you PLEASE keep your smoke ON YOUR PROPERTY so I don't have to smell it? Thanks!"
The only reason I hate smoking, weed, and vaping is because of the users' views that it's perfectly OK to blow those noxious fumes my way.
EDIT: Removed politics entirely. Let's keep it clean.
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>.>You might have noticed by now, that user interface changes just because are a pet peeve of mine.
Yes, I will probably get used to them one day and will be b%%+!ing on when it gets change in a few years.
The issue is that they rarely serve anything but cost me time when I have to waste time relearning the interface again and again instead of using it more productively*. And they keep pushing for dumbed down mobile optimization.
*or more likely on wasting it on things that I want it wasted.
Yeah. There are certain things I can do purely on muscle memories in UIs.
This was of great help when performing user assistance in windows in other languages then dutch/english because windows likes to keep its stuff in the same place even in freaking Finnish or Turkish.| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
So, I'm one of the most liberal-minded people I know on recreational drugs, especially considering I'm a former addict.
Yet it really cheeses me when people toke up in their back yards and let the smoke waft into my yard, especially after all the major California wildfires and air quality issues.
It's like, "Could you PLEASE keep your smoke ON YOUR PROPERTY so I don't have to smell it? Thanks!"
The only reason I hate smoking, weed, and vaping is because of the users' views that it's perfectly OK to blow those noxious fumes my way.
EDIT: Removed politics entirely. Let's keep it clean.
Call the federal marshals. It is still a federal crime. Or the fire department saying it is a fire risk.
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Call the federal marshals. It is still a federal crime. Or the fire department saying it is a fire risk.So, I'm one of the most liberal-minded people I know on recreational drugs, especially considering I'm a former addict.
Yet it really cheeses me when people toke up in their back yards and let the smoke waft into my yard, especially after all the major California wildfires and air quality issues.
It's like, "Could you PLEASE keep your smoke ON YOUR PROPERTY so I don't have to smell it? Thanks!"
The only reason I hate smoking, weed, and vaping is because of the users' views that it's perfectly OK to blow those noxious fumes my way.
EDIT: Removed politics entirely. Let's keep it clean.
(1) The feds won't show up to prosecute single-joint use, and smoking's legal in your own backyard so the fire marshal won't do diddly.
(2) I like my neighbors, so having them prosecuted for a federal crime for offending my olfactory senses seems quite a bit over-the-top.
(3) A very loud, "P.U.! Is that <neighbor girl>? That really reeks!" was enough to get them to move their activities to a location that wouldn't impinge on us.
It's more the constant unthinking imposition of smokers, tokers, and vapers on the general populace. "I don't care what you believe, what your political views are, or whether or not what you're doing is legal. I personally take offense when your fumes come into my space. Period."
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Uh, it seems that patreon bugged now, and doesn't recognize link as link, thus preventing posting the link...
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Fantasy Monster: Miscriber Gremlin.
Completely unrelated to recent events and complaints.
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LOL. OK. This is so over-the-top that I have to admit, I'm more "appallingly amused" than angry, but still.
We had 30 days straight of "Spare the Air" days, where the smoke was thick enough to be unhealthy.
As part of that, in my very neighborhood we had 7 straight days with an air quality index of 150+ (Unhealthy), including 2 consecutive days at 200+ (Very Unhealthy; put towels in all your doors and windows to make sure the bad air doesn't get in). This all finally cleared up on Wednesday of this week.
So of course, the first weekend we have clear air in over a month... someone on the street is barbecuing up a storm using a charcoal grill.
Seriously, people?
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LOL. OK. This is so over-the-top that I have to admit, I'm more "appallingly amused" than angry, but still.
We had 30 days straight of "Spare the Air" days, where the smoke was thick enough to be unhealthy.
As part of that, in my very neighborhood we had 7 straight days with an air quality index of 150+ (Unhealthy), including 2 consecutive days at 200+ (Very Unhealthy; put towels in all your doors and windows to make sure the bad air doesn't get in). This all finally cleared up on Wednesday of this week.
So of course, the first weekend we have clear air in over a month... someone on the street is barbecuing up a storm using a charcoal grill.
Seriously, people?
Five bucks says they're originally from the Midwest or Texas.
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This all finally cleared up on Wednesday of this week.
So of course, the first weekend we have clear air in over a month... someone on the street is barbecuing up a storm using a charcoal grill
Several days after the end of an emergency, someone is doing something perfectly legal on their own property.
Why does that offend you so badly?
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This all finally cleared up on Wednesday of this week.
So of course, the first weekend we have clear air in over a month... someone on the street is barbecuing up a storm using a charcoal grill
Several days after the end of an emergency, someone is doing something perfectly legal on their own property.
Why does that offend you so badly?
Just like smoking the joint, it's the smoke pouring onto my property that's the issue.
It's very much like the argument that a factory on a river should be allowed to dump whatever it wants to into the river, since the river's on their property. The fact that there exist people downstream must play into the equation.
So, we have all been suffering from smoke inhalation for a month. I would expect a sense of common decency to say, "Let's not pump smoke into the neighborhood for a while, since people are sick of the smell of it."
Instead, now that the air is finally clear, everyone's decided that it's up to them to smoke it up a bit.
Personally, I could do with a week of not smelling smoke, thanks.
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A friend was a high school exchange student in Germany in the 1980's. He said the father of his host family had to schedule a family outing around when it was permissible to mow the lawn. My friend said, "Well in America, we have the freedom to mow our lawns whenever we please." His host replied, "Yes, but here, it is more important to us to have freedom from noise and loud disturbances."
It stuck with my friend because of the difference in attitude between "freedom to" and "freedom from".
I meant this post to be philosophical rather than political; if it offends anyone, I'll delete it.
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My neighbors can't hear my electric mower. My wife can barely hear it from inside the house even when I'm a yard/meter from the windows.
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What is that whistling noise of a high-speed flying object approaching?
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Yesterday, our neighbor behind our house (across the service alley to the north) was throwing one of their infamous Covid karaoke pool parties, with the decibel level around 130 or so.
I like mariachi music. Just not that loud, every weekend.
Now, as this was going on behind our house, I was trying to set up the shade canopy on the SW corner of the yard in frontof our house for WW's birthday drive-past party.
Out comes Catherine, my severely demented neighbor across the street to the west, and starts screaming obscenities at me (and I mean a lengthy string of colorful invective that would have put any New Yorker to shame) because she was convinced that I was to blame. I tried to explain it to her, but you can't reason with advanced Alzheimer's.
Thankfully, her husband Carl came out and gave me the apologetic wave and led her inside. Then he called the cops.
The cops rolled up, they turned it down; fifteen minutes later, it was back to 120 decibels.