Men and woman have different mental and physical strengths and weaknesses.

My wife’s Filipino and that’s just their style, like they’re stuck in the 80s.

Had a lot of those come through when I worked at Lowe’s. Many were indeed working trucks, but they were towing monster loads, not throwing shit in the back.

“Bird” is old-time slang for a woman, usually understood to be pretty.

94 was when it really took off and the hoi polloi started tuning in.

https://ourworldindata.org/internet

Be easy to make an argument for a few years later, but 1994 has always stuck in my mind as the take off point. By then there were “information superhighway” items all over the news, everybody got AOL disks, Windows 95 was right around the corner to take the pain out of PCs, stuff like that. That’s the year I’d point to and say the internet was no longer a nerd thing.

1994: I was still fiddling with a 286 (WITH a math coproccesor I installed!), way beyond my skills at the time. LOL, my gf and I had to drive across town a beg a local IBM guy to give us a copy of the BIOS on a floopy when ours crash. He acted like Neo giving Choi the disk, “Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don’t exist.”

Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven’t been for awhile by the trash.

It’s made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole “broken windows” thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:

• People chunking beer cans. I can understand (without condoning) that they’re likely underage and don’t want to get busted.
• Snack wrappers. Again, likely kids given the waste I find. That’s on the parents.
• Crap that floated down from higher ground. People see trash and assume it was chunked on purpose. Nope. Tons of it simply flooded down from spilled trash cans, fell out of the car when exiting, shit like that.

We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I’ve found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. “How the fuck did I drop that?!” Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That’s all a man can do.

LOL, my kid’s when boating, “No daddy! Don’t go mess with that!” Now? They’re actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.

Why would I watch videos on a shitty little screen? My PC is hooked to 40" and 55" TVs.

Because I don’t watch videos on my phone.

YouTube has broken uBlock and Firefox. Still works on Edge, but I’d rather not switch browsers back and forth. Yes, I’ve cleared my cache.

Anyone?

Never occurred to me to even look for such a thing!

We Americans have little past by which to define ourselves, so we fall to “We’re the best!”. There’s a joke to be made about white supremacists doing the same.

Love us or hate us, you gotta admit we’ve had one hell of a run in a very short time frame.

OP’s being a smart ass, but I recently learned that their statement is true, for a certain value of “read”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

There is much literature (heh) that quotes the same numbers, or near enough. So yeah, I’m going to say most Americans can’t read. And BTW, this is one of the most shocking truths I’ve learned in life.

As to your second point, I have a personal hypothesis that cancer is the reason for the middle-aged gut. Hell, guess it could be disease in general. Anyway, with a few extra pounds you have more time to fight.

That makes zero sense on the face of it. Why the hell would a murderer call in witnesses?!

Anyway, like conspiracy theories, the best coverups are in plain sight. But I bet we get some good ones in response to this!

Newly minted atheists are like new linux users. Once they’ve broken their chains, they’re often quite loud and obnoxious about it.

And age!

OP: I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN!

I had no idea!

Aren’t you afraid of being on the receiving end someday?

Done that! Can’t remember a thing, or even which wife it was, but yes, took me a couple of hours to come down off my anger. Really weird as I usually forget dreams immediately.

Weirdly, I dream almost exclusively about people from my past, especially lovers. At some point I know I’ve woken up mad at my wife, but can’t remember any details.