I could never use resistance bands... I have the probably paranoid fear they’ll snap and take my eye out. Every set I was like “ahhh...here it comes....*wince*”

I mean... i’ve done 10 years as an EMT. Another 10 in Child Protective Services. Currently working with drug addicts. I have seen enough “reality” for my lifetime, I don’t need to see it in my entertainment too. So yes. Blockbusters to let me forget the horrible things in the world, please. THe more unreal the better.

My wife is a teacher and she refused to “wear black” or any other nonsense in school. She got a lot of silence when she told the Trump voting teachers who were organizing this shit, “What did you think would happen when you blindly vote for a party that has been demonizing our profession for decades? You want to help?…

That’s a good run down! Since you seem to know what you’re talking about... are the stat gains when you level random? I’ve seen people say no, yes and “yes, but at max level we’ll all be the same”.

Fucking Camilla, I sit down to play the game and end up going, “Welp, guess I better go masturbate.”

My hope is he is a failed one term president, and his name will become synonymous with corruption and stupidity in the history books. It would basically be the perfect punishment for him.

A network of tunnels and secret passages has been my dream for a house since I was little. If I ever hit it big I’m going nuts with them. I blame Webster, which convinced me secret passages are necessary to thwart burglars.

My wife and I agreed to each tell our closest friend (In her case her sister, in my case an old friend) pretty much as soon as we had the positive pregnancy test. We’d been trying for 3 years and wanted to share the exiting news, and also have that support just in case the worst happened. (everything went more than…

Having worked in CPS and FC I always laugh my ass off when people complain about how much money is spent on food stamps and how they should “cut that off”. Yep... cause then the kids would be in Foster Care and instead of a few hundred a month in food stamps you could now potentially be spening 20k+ per month per kid.…

I thankfully work from home now, so lost the commute. You have my deepest sympathies. We have a lakehouse down at Lake Gaston on the VA/NC border and rather than take the beltway and 95 down we loop way west and take backroads because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. on 95 there is an accident which adds an hour to the trip, let…

And eventually you lose even that! Take it from an old who will watch a movie on HBO and his wife will go, “We saw that in the theater, remember?” “Are you sure....”.

Reading this almost two years later, but that is awful and you have my sympathies. I hope you’re doing well and are approaching that point where you are smiling at the memories of your father more than you are crying at them.

When I moved to DC I saw more traffic accidents in a year than I had in the previous 10 years living in Illinois. Its the fucking wild west here!

When I worked in CPS for 10 years two of my supervisors had done the job for 35 years, starting together. The same shit happens no matter what the year. If anything, the Internet made our job easier thanks to really stupid clients posting about what they were doing along with a much easier time to find and report…

Yeah I’m busy enough I constantly have a backlog of games I want to play. Pre-ordering was for the days before kids and work. Though even now, since I don’t play console games anymore, I’d just buy day one digital if I truly wanted to play the first day. Now I just watch my Steam wishlist and buy stuff during one of…

cause you know if the company got into financial troubles they’d be soooo loyal to you... I view my work almost like I’m a mercenary. You pay me x to do y. If I don’t like x or y or the relation between the two I’m outta here. My first job I turned down a better offer to work where I was cause the company seemed so…

Not sure if they still use them... but there was a time they’d use makeshift submarines!!

Reporters need to attend all future press conferences while snacking on Dippin Dots.

And they only talk about Chicago cause Obama was from there. Bets on how often Chicago gets mentioned a year from now, even if the murder rate got worse or per capita it somehow skyrocketed to number 1? I’m guessing “not at all”.

The first 3 years were roughhhhhh. We’re entering a phase now where they’re more “little girls” than “toddlers” which is really nice. Of course.... off in the distance looms the teenage years.... but we’ve got a good 8ish years before that to enjoy :D