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Bittersweet moment, my daughter drove up to see me, only to steal my Halloween decorations for her dorm room. As in, she only wanted the decorations. Ah well, I bribed her into hanging out for a while with Chinese food. First time I've seen her since dropping her off at school, and it was the longest I've ever gone without seeing her. I've always gone to Halloween parties and never decorated my house. This ghost is the first Halloween decoration I ever bought, at her insistence, when she was 4 years old. She has now taken him away to college. He was my household harbinger of Halloween, he always came out October 1 to bring in the season. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Last year was the first year we were in a house in a neighborhood with lots of kids, so we gave out candy for Halloween. This year, with Covid and all, it's obviously not going to be the same. Anyone has ideas for how to execute this year?
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Oct 1, 2020 10:41
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bolind posted:Last year was the first year we were in a house in a neighborhood with lots of kids, so we gave out candy for Halloween. This year, with Covid and all, it's obviously not going to be the same. Anyone has ideas for how to execute this year? Wear gloves and a mask under a halloween mask, you drop candy directly into the kid's bags/pails.
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Oct 1, 2020 10:52
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Dress up like a surgeon, so you're already wearing the gloves and mask. Make a show of sanitizing your hands before dropping the candy in the bags.
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Oct 1, 2020 11:00
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Had to say goodbye to two great workmates this week, one took early retirement and wants to keep in touch on Facebook, the other took the decision to leave because work is becoming a head gently caress. He's going to drop off the face of the earth and probably end up as a bicycle mechanic in Cornwall because he doesn't do any sort of electronic communication, phone or text included. I'm really going to miss them both and told them so and I had the Cornish one in tears when I said that and told him he's taught me a lot in the last 13 years and to take care of himself. Then because toxic masculinity is a cool and good thing I've had no less than 5 people take the piss about "acting like a woman". I loving hate people.
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Oct 1, 2020 11:03
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cakesmith handyman posted:Then because toxic masculinity is a cool and good thing I've had no less than 5 people take the piss about "acting like a woman". I loving hate people. How is that even a thing still? Hell, I cry all the time. If you're not crying, you're not paying attention. How much less of a man does that make me? None, it makes me stronger, because I deal with the poo poo, but still recognize it's poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2020 11:22
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I mean there's a reason men get a bad rap and it's because of dill-holes like that who try and inflict a certain set of 'manly' rules on other men. Imagine being afraid of your own emotions, sounds weak as gently caress to me.
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Oct 1, 2020 11:47
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LloydDobler posted:Bittersweet moment, my daughter drove up to see me, only to steal my Halloween decorations for her dorm room. As in, she only wanted the decorations.  Not a daughter but the sentiment is the same regardless. If there is any one thing I like about the pandemic it's that I'm getting a lot of family time. My son is 16, a junior in high school. Only about a year and a half left.... 
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Oct 1, 2020 15:04
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meatpimp posted:How is that even a thing still? Hell, I cry all the time. If you're not crying, you're not paying attention. How much less of a man does that make me? None, it makes me stronger, because I deal with the poo poo, but still recognize it's poo poo. Bill Burr explains this perfectly when having to get rid of his dog, most men tend to bottle it up and just add it to the "shelf of anger"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxIrm95E4Q I'll admit that I'm guilty of this, but the angry outbursts aren't quite as bad as they used to be 
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Oct 1, 2020 15:11
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trouser chili posted:
That photo makes me happy. Good kid!  Liquid Communism posted:Yep. Related to this, I was reading my daily summary from The Times yesterday, which covered the Proud Boys shout out by Trump. I couldn't contain myself, and posted the article link and exactly what I thought about Trump and White Supremacist shitheads. I may have just triggered some friends, but, pursuant to the conversation here the last few days, if I did, they're not really "friends" you want, are they? I really debated posting my thoughts, but in the end, y'all made me realize that it needed to be done. May be able to clear out my friends list a bit. I'll be honest, though, I haven't been back on FB to see the damage. I kicked the anthill and ran away. Maybe I actually made someone think about their choice of President, though I doubt it. I mainly wanted to be clear about where I stand to family and friends.
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Oct 1, 2020 16:49
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I saw that post. It went about how I expected. I also now know who big dong wanter is on fb which might be the first time that's been true in like, 5 or 6 years? I don't know. I added a bunch of AI people on there years ago without actually realizing who they were and have been wondering ever since.
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Oct 1, 2020 18:30
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That proud boys shoutout really hosed with me. I didn't even watch the debate but I got a call from my buddy after it was over and he told me about it. It bothered me so much I had to straight up go to bed after that. Next day I get the following meme texted to me by one of my sober friends that I used to do dope with back in the day. He had a harder time getting sober and relapsed countless times before getting it together. Anyways this one cheered me up about it so I figured that I'd share it with you guys. 
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Oct 1, 2020 19:30
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kastein posted:I saw that post. It went about how I expected. I’m stunned that it hasn’t attracted more attention, and not sadly surprised at who it did attract. I’ve already got those two guys set so I don’t see their posts on my feed, not that I really even look any more. I wish I could get my mom to see around her single-issue mindset. Abortion isn’t going to matter much when we’re all either destitute or embroiled in WW3. And when we i learn who is who with regards to FB vs. AI, I have a cheat sheet. I kid you not. Also, I need a “Shut up, man” tshirt.
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Oct 1, 2020 20:09
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trouser chili posted:
Showed that image to my wife and she asked if the father was taking or giving, guess it could go either way 
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Oct 1, 2020 20:18
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Darchangel posted:I’m stunned that it hasn’t attracted more attention, and not sadly surprised at who it did attract. I’ve already got those two guys set so I don’t see their posts on my feed, not that I really even look any more. I wish I could get my mom to see around her single-issue mindset. Abortion isn’t going to matter much when we’re all either destitute or embroiled in WW3. When I first got sober I deleted my Facebook because the political posts kept stressing me out and making me want to relapse. I kept blocking people but political stuff kept making its way into my feed no matter what. Honestly I think it was one of my better decisions and I haven't looked back or missed it once since I deleted it several years ago now. Abortion is never going away. It's too useful of a tool. Those laws in GA in AL were pretty much the last stand of the anti-abortion boomers. I know there are a lot of single issues voters on the right who cast their ballot to end "baby murders" or whatever but at this point they should really just cut the cope and accept that it is here to stay.
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Oct 1, 2020 20:22
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64bit_Dophins posted:When I first got sober I deleted my Facebook because the political posts kept stressing me out and making me want to relapse. I kept blocking people but political stuff kept making its way into my feed no matter what. Honestly I think it was one of my better decisions and I haven't looked back or missed it once since I deleted it several years ago now. If you don't pretend you're going to take away abortion the first chance you get!!! (for 40 years) while never doing anything about it in actuality when you own all 3 branches of the government (which they've had twice now), how are you going to get all the single-issue votards to rally behind your poo poo-rear end political philosophy that is otherwise abhorrent to most rational people?
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Oct 1, 2020 22:28
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I would consider being anti abortion pretty abhorrent so really the whole platform is just abhorrent
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Oct 1, 2020 22:53
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TheBacon posted:I would consider being anti abortion pretty abhorrent so really the whole platform is just abhorrent It's not like the rest of the platform is any less abhorrent. They're still trying to redefine marriage as het-only, for gently caress's sake. Although it's kinda darkly hilarious right now because they opted not to do a new platform this year, so the current one is full of potshots at 'The Current Administration'.
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Liquid Communism posted:It's not like the rest of the platform is any less abhorrent. They're still trying to redefine marriage as het-only, for gently caress's sake. They just pay lip-service to those issues to secure the fundie vote. They really just want lower interest rates, tax cuts, and hand outs to their friends. I try not to think about it too much. It's not like there's anything I can do about it outside of voting.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:00
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So, I just bought this contraption for the price of a quality used car:  Hopefully it gives us some more freedom / self reliance to explore on light duty trails when we're adventuring about. E: also, the paint is close enough that I'll be calling it acid green. It was a toss up between this and the fastest colour, red.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:24
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bolind posted:Last year was the first year we were in a house in a neighborhood with lots of kids, so we gave out candy for Halloween. This year, with Covid and all, it's obviously not going to be the same. Anyone has ideas for how to execute this year? If you must do it, find a window or something higher than where the kids are. Get a length of PVC pipe at least 6 feet long, angle down. Slide candy through pipe.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:50
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If you only have a short length of pipe you can always create a candy gun, same principle as a potato gun. You might have to use chip bags as a sabot for the smaller candy though.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:56
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House near me growing up had a like long exterior entryway that was a bit like a tunnel. He used to coat it in aluminum foil and set up a strobe light. He then replaced his front door with a get up like an old 60s squared robot with like ducting for arms. Anyway he would make you say trick or treat very robotic then distribute the candy through the arms. It honestly owned so hard and was always the highlight of my childhood Halloween’s
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Oct 2, 2020 03:11
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its mashup time! from the madman that brought you bustin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE and piss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk6lDkTO0Nw comes the only good thing that will probably happen this stupid rear end month, a brand new album! https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/1311470924651266050
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Oct 2, 2020 05:18
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For reals? E: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/hope-hicks-positive-coronavirus/index.html
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Oct 2, 2020 06:22
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I wouldn't be surprised if Trump doesn't actually have covid and is just faking it for the ratings and to show everyone that there's nothing to worry about and covid isn't that bad.
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Oct 2, 2020 06:30
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That's just great. Either it'll make him more or less incapacitated, adding yet another layer of poo poo on the election, or he'll go through it with minor impact, adding fuel to the "it's no big deal" argument.
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Let's just hope Stephen Miller managed to catch it as well.Bajaha posted:So, I just bought this contraption for the price of a quality used car: Green is definitely better than red, but also I'm impressed with their surprisingly high offroad speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMg0QwKAGI
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 MY WIFE Edit: strong quadricycle vibes from that thing, but it is neat. Also, the green is better than red. A- choice. The blue would have been A+. In any event, hopefully it works for ya'll and you get to explore cool places together. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Oct 2, 2020 07:47
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It would be one hell of a redemption arc for 2020 if Trump died from covid.
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Oct 2, 2020 08:23
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It would be one hell of a redemption arc for 2020 if Trump died from covid.
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Krakkles posted:Biden goes too, Pence installs Amy Conehead Barret, The Handmaid’s Tale turns out to be optimistic. pence gets the rona too and pelosi ascends, only to get beaten by the misogynist socialist in november
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Oct 2, 2020 08:55
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meatpimp posted:
Those numbers would be a lot lower if they hadn't done all this testing
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Oct 2, 2020 09:25
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Guess who has two thumbs and a wife who just got scammed for USD30 for five months in a row on some book club subscription she never asked for. loving scammers I hope you get dick cancer.
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I’m a bit late to bike chat but if anyone is in need of a bike in PA, you can definitely have mine. It’s a 2012-ish GT Karakoram 3.0 29”. I don’t use it regularly anymore and it’s always been kept in the garage. Could probably use a going-over, and there’s a spot in the frame paint that got bit by the chain, but it would probably be better for someone else to use it.  When I had my old job and old house I would ride it 20 miles a day before work, but now I’m on call 24/7 and spend most of my life at the hospital so I don’t have the energy or time. My kid only rides it very occasionally but he’s more interested in motorized transport anymore. Anyway, I wish I’d bought a year truck pass to the off-road park at the beginning of the season. I bought a pass for the bikes but I didn’t have the blazer until later so I didn’t think about it. Would have been only a few bucks more to buy the full upgrade, and paying per session is  At least off-roading is good social distancing. Here’s the boy with nobody within six feet of him. 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It would be one hell of a redemption arc for 2020 if Trump died from covid. I never imagined something good might come from 2020 and I don't feel bad about being a lovely person for saying that in this case
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