150 ft isn’t that far. The acoustics on my street are such that I can here the anthem at 8 am and taps at 10 pm playing from the air/naval base 2+ miles away and I regularly hear entire conversations taking place down the street. If I called the cops every time I could hear someone talking loudly more than 150 ft…

THIS. I live on a dead-end street with an apartment complex at the end. A couple of the residents of that complex ride dirt bikes down the street at an aggressive speed which is ridiculously loud. But I’m not going to call the cops on them. Other residents (and their friends) of the complex drive down the street at…

Yes. If you qualify for aid, your federal loans are generally serviced by nicer organizations, from what I’ve seen. Sallie Mae does private loans though, so they may be servicers for federal loans once in repayment, but if you get a private loan with them, you’re stuck. My federal student loans (the ones I qualified…

Really??? Usually, the Midwest aligns more closely with the East Coast, but in Indiana, it’s definitely just “secret until the last gift is given” (I’ve done both single gift Secret Santas and multiple gift - like a small gift each day for a week). Half the fun is trying to guess who has you and then finding out if…

I don’t doubt that. Human beings are very good at ignoring the obvious if the alternative is painful to consider in any way.

I remember growing up and reading about Nazi concentration camps and wondering how something like that could happen. Then, in German class, I learned how most of the German people were either unaware of the atrocities or dismissed reports of the horrors as “rumors”. I still didn’t understand how so many people were…

What GreyRock said. You can create your own “categories” this way. I found that Apple categorized a scrabble word finder website I use for AI games in WWF with games and some of my games weren’t accurately categorized as such. So I deleted my limits for the categories and manually created limits for individual apps…

Grew up a Chreaster Catholic, and the priest at our local church during my formative years was a young-ish (40s-50s) widower whose homily was notoriously short. Mass was 45 minutes start-to-finish, especially on game days. At the end of the late Sunday morning mass during football season, he’d warn parishioners to…

Triggerfish <- Fun fact. That’s what “triggerish” autocorrects to. I tried to type in the word that was sent and that auto-corrected to “Nigeria”. Although, when I just typed it again to confirm whether it was “Nigeria” or “Nigerian” Siri just let me go ahead with the n-word variation.

Well that explains why I clicked on this with the strange feeling I recognized this guy. The Indy Rafael Sanchez would be out there uncovering this kind of BS, not causing it 😭

I was thinking the same thing. A DRIVER for after school?! Also, if the kids aren’t paying for their own Netflix/Hulu/etc. then there shouldn’t be any extra expense beyond what mom and dad were already paying anyway. Heck. I’m 27, and my dad and I split the Prime bill and my family uses my Hulu account to entertain…

As a white woman, I have only called the cops once in my life, and it was because I saw someone breaking into cars in my old apartment complex. The same complex where the smell of weed regularly wafted through the air accompanied by the discordant sounds of domestic disputes and children laughing. If I were half as…

This. Obviously, shaken baby syndrome is definitely not okay, but I can see how a tired parent might snap in a sleep-deprived haze and shake their baby out of frustration. Again, still not okay, but at least somewhat fathomable. The damage inflicted here though? That’s some psychopath bs. If my niece came home from…

So much this. Additionally, as an overweight woman, I will be the first to tell a dude that it’s okay to say big girls aren’t their thing because 1) I need to know up front that you recognize I’m awesome at any size and won’t make me feel like crap every time I eat something delicious and 2) I will be the first to say…

Generally, I’m not first in line to defend reckless cops, but I think some important facts are being skipped over in the other comments.

IIRC we weren’t required to recite the pledge in high school, but we were still expected to stand. I think it was less about showing respect or anything like that than it was that if you’re seated in a room full of standing kids, it’s harder for the teacher to keep an eye on what you’re doing? I could be wrong though.…

My ex is black and I made the conscious decision to drive if we were ever headed to campus through Martinsville after dark for this very reason. I'm honestly surprised we never got pulled over to be questioned if I was there against my will or something.

When I was at IU, I once had an FBDB yell out his window in broad daylight, “You wanna get raped tonight?!” The frat culture in B-Town is the worst. I went to a small school my freshman year where 50% of the students pledged and the culture was very different.

I worked at the Papa John’s in Bloomington. The Martinsville location was in our franchise and my black manager refused to work there at night because Martinsville is basically stuck in the 1960's when it comes to race relations.

Everyone makes fun of me for watching ID until they get sucked into a show I’m watching. Then, it doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen this show and how much I want to watch something on Netflix, they just HAVE TO see how it ends.