Random Thought Thread

Smithhammer said:
I just found myself strangely interested in watching an ad for Skechers™ "Slip-Ins" shoes. This doesn't end well.
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I wonder if the inventor didn't patent the design/concept? I first saw ads for these types of shoes years ago (Kizik brand) and ended up buying a pair.

They do indeed, make it very easy to simply step into the shoes (coming from someone who still has no issues bending over to put on footwear). Now I've seen numerous brands advertise the feature.
 
Casinostocks said:
Something weird that I can not quite compute! This thought popped to my head after seeing Blues posting old movies YT links:

I can watch older movies with actors and actresses who have since passed away but I am uneasy watching streamed series when lead and fave actors have (recently, within a decade) passed. Maybe this has something to do with these series being newer than the aforementioned movies but I find it difficult to revisit the likes of The Sopranos, The Wire, I dunno, Boardwalk Empire, Bosch, etc... Undoubtedly I have screw loose thinking about my own mortality perhaps? Perhaps the series being too contemporary and because they have multiple episodes and season, that reinforces my own insecurities?

Like said, weird and random / not so random!
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Yeah, I'd definitely say it's related to thoughts of our own mortality.

It's one thing when you know they were way older than you. It’s another thing when you start getting to the age when they passed away (eg. Having watched something as it came out, then watching it again, knowing that the actor/actress is gone).

I OTOH, look at older movies with pride, knowing that despite being older than Wilford ('beetus) Brimley was, when Cocoon was filmed, I look absolutely nothing like that. 😅
 
Casinostocks said:
Begs this question, do kids these days actually know how to tie their own shoe laces? Serious Q!
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Still a lot of footwear and other things with laces, but with the proliferation of velcro etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there are folks who don't know how to tie shoelaces, nowadays, just like there are folks who don't know how to read analog clocks/watches.
 
Smithhammer said:
I'm just surprised that I found myself seriously considering "old guy" shoes. LOL.

But I have a torn meniscus in my knee and am getting surgery later this fall, and they don't sound so bad now.
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I hope you've given PT a solid chance before the surgery. The surgery isn't always an ideal outcome and sometimes PT can do wonders...
 
jlauffer said:
If they don't know how to read/write cursive, why would they need to know how to tie laces?
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Another dying skill.

At least with cursive, print is a perfectly fine alternative (and I'd argue that anyone who writes undecipherable print, would do even worse in cursive). When writing quickly, there's a distinct tendency for cursive users to turn a word into a long vague squiggle (Docs are particularly fond of this 😅. Deciphering Dr. squiggles must be a course requisite for RNs and Pharmacists)
 
Richard338 said:
I hope you've given PT a solid chance before the surgery. The surgery isn't always an ideal outcome and sometimes PT can do wonders...
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Yeah, I have. It's been coming and going for a while (year +), and last month I must have done something that made it quite a bit worse. There are times now when even walking down my stairs is difficult and painful. I also have some free-floating bone chunks underneath my patella, so they're gonna clean all that up.
 
jlauffer said:
If they don't know how to read/write cursive, why would they need to know how to tie laces?
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Hard to believe, but yep it's a fact. My son just started at UNM this semester and was in class taking notes in cursive and a couple of his classmates next to him were like, "You write cursive?! We don't know how to write cursive." My son is just sitting there trying real hard not to say something back at these classmates. 🤣😂
 
Smithhammer said:
Yeah, I have. It's been coming and going for a while (year +), and last month I must have done something that made it quite a bit worse. There are times now when even walking down my stairs is difficult and painful. I also have some free-floating bone chunks underneath my patella, so they're gonna clean all that up.
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Well good luck for a smooth recovery. I imagine they'll have you in PT for at least a while after your procedure.
 
Richard338 said:
Well good luck for a smooth recovery. I imagine they'll have you in PT for at least a while after your procedure.
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Thanks, and yeah, we have an excellent sports PT here in our valley. With all the athletes where I live, he has no shortage of practice. I'm getting a steroid shot soon just to get me through the Fall, and some trips I have planned, and then surgery in early Dec. when I've got some time for recovery, PT, etc.
 
Casinostocks said:
Begs this question, do kids these days actually know how to tie their own shoe laces? Serious Q!
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They know how to but not like when I was a kid. I get irritated watching and waiting on my boys to tie their shoes when we’re heading out the door.

We could tie one shoe in a crouch to standing motion and the other halfway through the first stride and… boom, you were off running. Even the most non-athletic kid in your class could pull this off. My boys are in high school and it’s like watching a three year old tie their shoe.
I just have to turn away. Sometimes walk away or the wrong worded fatherly insights will burst forth.
 
jlauffer said:
I'm a bit weird when it comes to penmanship. Always preferred printing, in all caps, and would rather switch to cursive than try to print in upper and lower case.
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The older I get the worse my writing is. I say that not in glee, but rather having looked up and respected elders throughout my life and having admired their careful and neat writing skills. Somehow, I was hoping to catch and aquire that skill, but did not. I partly blame the day and age we are in and also my job environment for it because we use computers 99% of the workday.
Lol...sometimes I'm trying to read what I wrote and I'm clueless. 😅
 
ironwagon said:
The older I get the worse my writing is. I say that not in glee, but rather having looked up and respected elders throughout my life and having admired their careful and neat writing skills. Somehow, I was hoping to catch and aquire that skill, but did not. I partly blame the day and age we are in and also my job environment for it because we use computers 99% of the workday.
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Me too. It's never been great, but it's been crap for years. Then I do a combination of cursive and printing in the same sentence or word. LOL.

Hell, my signature is different each time.
 
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