Random Thought Thread

Sometimes, raising a small child is almost like a trip to the dentist.

Tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. And painful.

But at least there's music?


Imagine you're at the dentist's office but instead of good music, it's the worst kind of Christmas music.

That would be Caillou.
 
So, for us that would be both of us having a dentist appointment on the afternoon of 11/29 and each coming down with Covid on 12/2.

(Which is what happened.)

Okay, I don't need to know any more than that.

(Actually, the missus got it a day or so later...at least that's when I gave her the test.)
 
sgt1372 said:
Cap'n: I think it was better that she took it upon herself to take the guy on because, as guys know, if any of the guys did it, the fight would have been on.

However, most guys have been taught not to hit a woman (it's ingrained in most of us) so she had the best chance of setting the guy straight.
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Have to be careful with this assumption.

Most men who were raised properly, were taught not to hit a woman. There are subsets of the population who have no qualms about hitting women.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
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Why, that's Larry Fine...

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Having a sticky E/e key is no fun because now I will have to proof read the cr*p which I post or else the autocorrect makes up similar words without the letter e. I don't give a shyte about nonsensical words and sentences which come gobbledygook if I don't pay attention but how would I ever write to Eric 24/7 without my letter E/e?! Thank goodness that our Jo is not a Jo(e). I mean I can live without Eric if it came down to it, but not without our Jo!
 
Casinostocks said:
Having a sticky E/e key is no fun because now I will have to proof read the cr*p which I post or else the autocorrect makes up similar words without the letter e. I don't give a shyte about nonsensical words and sentences which come gobbledygook if I don't pay attention but how would I ever write to Eric 24/7 without my letter E/e?! Thank goodness that our Jo is not a Jo(e). I mean I can live without Eric if it came down to it, but not without our Jo!
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Huh...

I would've thought a sticky E/e key would wind up with

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee

Just like what I've been hearing for decades 😂
 
Blues said:
Matt, I learned my first lesson about getting involved back in 1974, and got slashed for it...resulting in having a bit of finger grafted back on.

In 1977 or 1978, I was about 25 at the time, I was walking down the street with two gals from my office to go to an after work "bowling league" thing we did for fun once a week. As we went down the street, we heard and then saw a guy beating a woman and whipping her with his belt.

I have never tolerated bullies or people preying on the defenseless well, ran down the street and yelled at the guy to fight me if he wanted to fight someone. He stopped, looked at me, (not a big guy at 5'10" and maybe 170 lbs back then), and started making excuses that he didn't hurt her as I pulled the belt from his hand and pushed him back against the car he was beating her against.

A few moments later, the "victim" told me to "mind my own business" and that it was "a boyfriend girlfriend thing".

I told her that they deserved each other and walked off. The two gals from the office dubbed themselves "Charlie's Angels" after that...and I decided if I was going to continue to be stupid enough to interfere in such circumstances, I'd better get training...and joined a dojo.

(It was in fact a year or two later that a girlfriend of mine was attacked, beaten and robbed on the street in Brooklyn, (leading to hospitalization), that led to my pursuing a career in law enforcement, which had never been prominent on my radar prior to that incident.)

All that said, I've been lucky to not have been (badly) injured in any of the scenarios I inserted myself into...but now, at 70, I'm pretty much done with it unless someone's facing grievous bodily harm or death.

Edit to add: The one vow I've made to myself is to never pass an LEO on the street in need of assistance from an assailant. That's a promise I have lived with for over 40 years and don't intend to break as long as I am able.
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About 2.5 years ago, late night at a gas and convenience store in Brewer, Maine, I see a guy pulled off at the edge of the lot ragdolling a girl against the side of his pickup truck. They're shouting at one another, she's sobbing, and he won't give her any space. Then he cracks her one, open handed, and she goes down. I go over, and see old bruises up and down her arms as she struggles to get up. The predictable words are exchanged between me and the guy, and we get into it. Which wasn't my ideal, because Maine is a no-permit-needed concealed carry state, which always lends an edgy awareness of the potential for escalation.

Anyway, a minute or so later, I'm getting up off the guy. He's doing that agonal snoring thing, and I'm thinking about pocketing one of his teeth that are lying on the asphalt. (I'm perverse that way.) I look up just in time to see stars. The girl had gone into the woods, gotten a 4-foot stick about as thick as the butt end of a pool cue, and snapped it across my face. Told me loudly and repeatedly to leave the guy alone. 😂

I understand there is profoundly more than meets the eye when someone has been abused long term. "Complicated" is only a start. But I'd need some immersive education to get my mind completely around that girl's mentality. I dunno... I'd like to say, "Never again", but I know I wouldn't be able to sleep if I ever walked past a man beating a woman.

40 years of scrapping and boxing. Almost 6 years of bare-knuckle fighting (for money) when I was young and stupid in the late 70s/early 80s. That girl was the first to ever break my nose. Heh
 
bluemax_1 said:
Huh...

I would've thought a sticky E/e key would wind up with

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee

Just like what I've been hearing for decades 😂
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I am dumb and I often misspeak! My key E/e is the opposite of sticky. I'm hitting air man!

BTW, I'm now correcting sentences several times! Arghhh...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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Hip shoulder ratio


Definitely a dude. No other possibility.
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Sorry, no.

Men have ring fingers that are longer than their index fingers (mine are about a half an inch longer), while in women these fingers are roughly the same length or the index finger is slightly longer.

XX chromosome presence confirmed.
 
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