@LuFins-Dad said in How is it: A toddler can’t focus on a single project for more than 10 minutes, but we can spend 50 minutes pretending to be firemen putting out a fire and rescuing a cat over and over and over and over? We learn a lot through unregulated play. It helps us more than rotework at early ages. (Any age, really.)

Amazing how realistic that is!!

@taiwan_girl said in The Forger's Masterclass: I have no painting talent I can't draw a straight line, let alone a stick figure. I enjoy watching people who do. Bob Ross made a career out of this. Check out this guy's other videos in which he had his "students" imitate Van Gogh and other masters.

My sister-in-law sets up events for the local Legion. This sort of thing is a lot more common than it used to be.

You guys are just teasing me.

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke: Goldberg, the Never-Trumper who used to be at National Review? Who since co-founded Dispatch Media which seems to be doing quite well. But it’s just a jocular take on the magnitude of the settlement. It’s not serious, besides, Dominion will own MyPillow soon anyway.

@Axtremus said in Meanwhile, Chinese giggle-switches flow across the border...: @Jolly said in Meanwhile, Chinese giggle-switches flow across the border...: The things don't work. Even the gunsmiths at the ATF had a hard time making them work. Is incompetence a valid defense? Ok...You decide you're going into the LSD business. It's not hard to make and with the cyclical nature of illicit drugs, ought to be back in favor pretty soon. You set your lab up at home, turn out your product and someway you screwed up getting that O2 molecule attached. It ain't LSD, but it's pretty close. You sell it on the street as LSD, but the only way your customer is getting a trip, is to call Uber. Did you commit a crime?

weirdos

I just got an email from them, pretty much stating the same around the Chapter 11. Strange since I was just in the store yesterday, looking for some white washcloths, they had none. Went next door to Target and picked some up. I hadn't heard anything prior and was wondering why the store had limited selections out but I guess this explains it.

The species has lost its way.

One of my favorite word trivia: boondocks (n.) "remote and wild place," 1910s, from Tagalog bundok "mountain." A word adopted by occupying American soldiers in the Philippines for "remote and wild place." It was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II. Hence, also boondockers "shoes suited for rough terrain," originally (1944) U.S. services slang word for field boots. Another explanation I've heard is that bundok meant, basically "over there," or "yonder."

The food and entertainment was already paid for.

@LuFins-Dad said in "Adults only": @Mik said in "Adults only": Good. I would have no objection if these parades were modest, but they never are. The parade is allowed. It’s allowed in front of kids. It’s just not allowed to include nudity, twerking, and blatantly sexual acts in front of kids. It’s kind of telling that they don’t want to do it if they can’t be lewd in front of kids. Preach on!

@jon-nyc LOL.