When I was a kid, a neighbor was shot in his garage. There were definitely two stories that went around the neighborhood. One said suicide and the other said “cleaning his gun.” One of those was repeated when kids were around. The other when they thought no one was listening.
Years back, I read was a very odd story about the Korean belief that falling asleep in a closed room with a running fan would result in death. This also seems to be a cover story for suicide.
hotel and meal vouchers
In the US? Not in the past decade. I usually get a link to an app that’s like shitty Expedia for local hotels. You can race to compete for rooms with other stranded passengers while your partner tries to re-book the flight for the next day. “I’m sorry - all flights are full until next Tuesday. We can put you on standby, but there’s a list of people ahead of you.”
This probably goes hand in hand with the trend of providing sleepable bench seating in airports. For awhile they were doing the anti-homeless park bench design. You’ll have to fight your fellow passengers for space, but it’s better than the floor at DIA or ORD.
masks in the cabin aren’t designed to keep you awake. They’re just designed to keep you alive.
In that situation I’m perfectly fine with that. More than perfectly fine, in fact. Sounds like a feature I’d pay extra for (don’t tell United).
That’s so charming! It’s my absolute favorite thing today.
Where I grew up there was an urban legend about radioactive deer. It was pre-internet, the deer were legitimately weird, and they lived in the woods adjacent to one of the US’s earliest nuclear research facilities. Everyone had seen them. The facility was active and well guarded. It seemed… plausible. Very plausible.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/4077627323 https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/july-2016/argonne-national-laboratory/
Yeah - I remember reading about how these signs were laughably easy to “hack” a few years ago.
I thought about it for minute when the city installed one down the street. Then I imagined the weird shame I’d feel when my neighbors inevitably caught me, so never tried it out. Actually, in retrospect, they’d probably have helped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Faye_Messner
Some people just like to fuck their shit up.
Oh, those eyes. You are about to be murdered.
Out of idle curiosity about your username, I’d like to ask.
Dune, cryptography, or both?
That would be ideal. I’ve also seen a few with weirdly discrete foot pedals. I like that idea, although the ones I’ve encountered haven’t exactly nailed the design.
This advice always gets downvoted, but it works for me. I’ll offer it for what it is.
When I lose something I’ll take a moment and politely ask the thieving house elves to give it back. Then I stop thinking or stressing about it. I usually find it within a day.
And Des Plaines, La Salle Street… I always keep telling my husband, “no, that’s not what it’s called” and he keeps getting rationally mad.
If we’re feeling the Indiana, there’s always Terre Haute.
Same. That’s why there’s a pass.
People who live there call it the latter.
Unless you’re Sufjan Stevens. I’ll give him a pass on that
It’s honestly not that bad, assuming the power doesn’t go out. Or that it’s not followed up by freezing rain.
No one goes to work or school for a couple of days. People usually stock up on essentials in the days before the storm. (Milk, bread, butter, eggs… the old joke is that everyone has a sudden urge to eat French Toast.)
Plows usually start early, while the snow is still falling. Plow and salt crews work night and day. They’re on call (and paid a stipend) during winter for this exact reason. The main streets are prioritized. Residential streets are going to wait a couple of days before they’re clear. With nothing else to do, the adults start digging themselves out and helping their neighbors dig out. It’s a hell of a workout and a good reason to check on elderly neighbors.
Basically, you wake up, say “fuck this shit,” call in (or not, because your boss isn’t at work), and go back to sleep for another few hours. Then you start digging.
A city that doesn’t get that much snow can get overwhelmed, though. Mayor Mel famously called in the military to clear snow from Toronto back in 1998-ish. That was only a meter, but the city didn’t have the resources to clear it - or more importantly - any free space to put it.
Buffalo though? Buffalo has their snow systems down.
Pretty much. Buffalo routinely gets hosed by blizzard conditions that don’t usually affect the cities on the northern side of the same lake (Toronto, Mississauga, etc). It’s feature of being on the south side of one of the Great Lakes.
I remember hearing about one year where Buffalo got 6 feet overnight, or some other complete bullshit.
I hope the news is positive.
The only reason you stay here is so you can fuck my mother and eat her food. MOTHERFUCKER. FOOD EATER.
Whoops - wrong movie but IMO similar energy.
I just want to know if Denny can finally give a straight answer about what kind of money.
It’s a pretty accurate transcription of the line’s delivery.
It sounds like she had a lot of fun in your home. I try to remember things like that when I’m feeling a loss like this.