Lewis2
14hr ago
Lewis2
15hr ago
I think you must have misread something, since your comment just restates my own, at least as far as Penelope’s age goes.
Lewis2
1d ago
My understanding is that ancient Greek marriages usually featured men in their 30s and women in their mid-teens, so a 15-20 year age gap. If that were the case for Penelope and Odysseus, she could have been in her mid-20s when the war ended and in her mid-30s when he finally returned. A woman of 35 wouldn’t be every man’s ideal partner, but a woman of 35 who also happens to be queen? That’s a different story. Plus remember that they’d been courting her for years by the time Odysseus revealed himself.
Lewis2
2d ago
One could just as easily say that women used to stay home and so had plenty of time to clean. Now that they work too, they’re more concerned about preventing messes. That also tracks with who usually seems more worried about people wearing shoes in the house. In my experience, it’s rarely the men.
Lewis2
2d ago
I swear almost all Zoomer women have debilitating anxiety. When my department used to go out to lunch every week, I had multiple female Zoomer coworkers ask me to order for them, because they had too much anxiety to order from a stranger. They eventually began to complain if we went anywhere that wouldn’t let you order from a kiosk or iPad, since I and my other older coworkers refused to coddle them in that way. Even the ones who could handle ordering their own food couldn’t handle phone calls. They’d all, without exception, rather cancel an event than spend five minutes trying to work out the details over the phone. And this is even with their friends and coworkers, not people they don’t know. If they can’t figure everything out via text and email, they’d rather skip and stay home. It’s insane.
Lewis2
2d ago
My private school teachers did home visits in the summers before 1st and 2nd grade. I’ve never heard of a public school doing it though.
Lewis2
4d ago
At least until the Boomers die, at which point the Millennials and Zoomers will probably screw over Gen X.
Lewis2
4d ago
I lost my best knife when I accidentally took it into a federal building in D.C. a few years ago. To their credit, the security officers offered to let me turn around and leave with it, but I was miles from the hotel by then. I’d even reminded the rest of my group to leave their knives at home or in the hotel, but my mind was overcome by force of habit. I’m still annoyed by it to this day.
Lewis2
4d ago
The women too? I live in a rural area, and I think I might know one woman who regularly carries a pocketknife. Of course, like you say, the majority of the men do. I’ve been both gently chided and ruthlessly mocked for not always carrying one.
Lewis2
7d ago
How do you think underage callboys got into the white house?
To what does this refer? Google isn’t helping.
Lewis2
10d ago
Just a nit: A quick search shows that there are about 500 filicide cases in the U.S. annually. That’s rare enough that I would expect almost all of those to make at least the local news, even if they don’t become national stories. Sexual abuse, sure, that’s distressingly common.
Lewis2
10d ago
I really wish this stupid, vapid phrase would die. At the very least, I would have hoped no one would use it here, let alone as a standalone, low-effort response.
Lewis2
11d ago
Lewis2
11d ago
“Absence makes average passions decrease and great ones increase,” I think.
Lewis2
14d ago
I think a major region why terrorism isn't such a big issue is that most of the terrorists are basically retarded, they're drawing from a population of retards.
Aren’t Islamic terrorists generally an exception to that trend though? Bin Ladin and the other Al Qaeda leaders were pretty much all college graduates, and ISIS recruits tended to be more highly educated as well. That’s arguably why they were more successful than other terrorist groups.
Lewis2
14d ago
There’s the German U-boat that had a catastrophic toilet failure…
Lewis2
17d ago
For example, reddit now blocks people from viewing old.reddit.com without an account.
My experience is the opposite. I can browse old Reddit all I want, but new Reddit throws up a sign-in screen about 20 seconds after the page loads.
Lewis2
19d ago
That’s a variant I’ve never heard. I grew up with
Beans, beans, the magic fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let’s eat beans with every meal.
Looking back on the rhyme as an adult, I suspect foul influence from the UK.
Lewis2
20d ago
I know this is a predictable response, but I nevertheless want to point out that I am American, and there is literally no sum on earth you could pay me to live permanently in New York. The smaller cities and towns are indeed far different, as other people already told you.
Lewis2
20d ago
Most people with an employer-sponsored high-deductible plan and no dependents. Depending on the employer, you might even pay less with a standard plan or dependents.
Lewis2
20d ago
I share your hatred of debt, but I ended up going with a 30 year mortgage anyway, for the reasons that Amadan laid out below. I calculated that getting a 30 year mortgage but paying it off as if it were a 15 year mortgage would see the house paid off in 16 years. That extra year of payments is not an insignificant amount of money, but I figured the flexibility was worth it in case I should lose my job, get hit by a bus, etc., and find myself short on cash at some point in the next 15 years.
I ended up paying the mortgage down pretty aggressively in the first two years, leaving me with only 15 years of payments to go by last summer. At the time, I debated refinancing to a 15 year mortgage, and I kind of regret not doing it since mortgage rates went back up again. But if I keep paying it off at the same rate, I should be mortgage-free in less than five years anyway, so I’m not sure it matters.
Blue waters? Surely you mean wine-colored.
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