Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Aragorn]

I used to watch a couple soap operas as a teenager. My question today is how can a viewer care about anything when none of it matters? By that I mean nothing that happened on the show has to stick. Kids that are 10 one day are 25 the next. A character is recast and is suddenly 10 years younger and six inches taller, and could now easily destroy the character that's been terrorizing him for the past 5 years. On one soap, an Asian character was recast and suddenly she became white. On another soap, a kid that was killed by a drunk driver and had his organs donated turned out to be alive later on.

 

[Fantasy Lover]

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THIS! So much this. I swear if I hear one more ignorant, insufferable, arrogant boomer or silent gen saying my generation has it easy because our generation didn't walk in 12 miles in the snow or whatever the boomer/ silent generation did before the TV was invented I'm going to lose my shit. YOUR generation had it easy, you didn't had to raise your children, the older children raised the younger children and YOU raised 12 children with ONE income! YOU just had to go the store and hand in your resume and then you got hired and you had to learn your jobs skill on the job! MY generation has to deal with EIGHT rounds of interviews to even get a job! So fuck you, STFU and touch some grass. Sincerely, a tired millennial whose exhausted of being wrongly accused of everything going wrong in the world

 

[auntiehill]

 

[tomalak301]

Happy Singles-Awareness day everyone!!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I used to watch a couple soap operas as a teenager. My question today is how can a viewer care about anything when none of it matters? By that I mean nothing that happened on the show has to stick. Kids that are 10 one day are 25 the next. A character is recast and is suddenly 10 years younger and six inches taller, and could now easily destroy the character that's been terrorizing him for the past 5 years. On one soap, an Asian character was recast and suddenly she became white. On another soap, a kid that was killed by a drunk driver and had his organs donated turned out to be alive later on.

Didn't one soap actually have ALIENS appear on it?

 

[Fantasy Lover]

God, I'm so tired of being alone. I have no one to come home to, no one's waiting for me and no one's happy to see me when I'm home. I have a interview for a cohabitation project on Friday, I hope I have it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Didn't one soap actually have ALIENS appear on it?

Oddly that was the comedy called Soap I think one of the characters is whisked away by a UFO

 

[JD]

My mom and I were both shocked to see a pair of raccoons when we were out walking the dogs this morning. Neither of us realized that we had raccoons down here in the valley. We thought they lived up north in the forests, not down here in the desert.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Oddly that was the comedy called Soap I think one of the characters is whisked away by a UFO

Yeah, I remember that bit!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Well look at it this way if an asteroid hits Earth in the next few years we won't have to worry about elections

 

[Fantasy Lover]

I read that scientists want to do armageddon in real life if that happens

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Finally got my bill back from my 3 week stay in the hospital, total amount I got to pay: 330,18€. But the amount my health insurance has to pay is crazy: it's 20 231,14€! I'm so grateful for my health insurance

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So I call the electrician and he comes all the way out to my house to check why the overhead light in my kitchen doesn't work....

...And it was just two burned out bulbs.

I never even thought to check that. That's never happened in all the decades I have owned this house - two bulbs burning out at the same time. I thought it was an electrical fault of some kind.

Still, $130 to change two fucking bulbs. How very embarrassing...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So I call the electrician and he comes all the way out to my house to check why the overhead light in my kitchen doesn't work....

...And it was just two burned out bulbs.

I never even thought to check that. That's never happened in all the decades I have owned this house - two bulbs burning out at the same time. I thought it was an electrical fault of some kind.

Still, $130 to change two fucking bulbs. How very embarrassing...

That kind of thing happens to everyone at one point or another

 

[scotpens]

My mom and I were both shocked to see a pair of raccoons when we were out walking the dogs this morning. Neither of us realized that we had raccoons down here in the valley. We thought they lived up north in the forests, not down here in the desert.

I occasionally see raccoons here in suburban West Los Angeles. And opossums. One time, I actually saw a skunk in Torrance.

 

[JLA]

I'd like some gumbo at Sisko's

 

[fireproof78]

So I call the electrician and he comes all the way out to my house to check why the overhead light in my kitchen doesn't work....

...And it was just two burned out bulbs.

I never even thought to check that. That's never happened in all the decades I have owned this house - two bulbs burning out at the same time. I thought it was an electrical fault of some kind.

Still, $130 to change two fucking bulbs. How very embarrassing...

It happens.

Better than the guy who called the fire department to change the battery in his smoke detector.

I occasionally see raccoons here in suburban West Los Angeles. And opossums. One time, I actually saw a skunk in Torrance.

How about the Freeway Chickens?

Hollywood Freeway chickens - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Cryogenator]

I don't understand "social" fraternities. They never seem to be good for anything and they most definitely do not create well-socialized people.

PCU (1994) comedically depicts a college which has outlawed the Greek system.

 

[publiusr]

I am mad as a hornet about the current administration that looks to kill the rocket that doesn't spray debris on the Caribbean every other flight.

Lots of folks have complained about how their tax dollars go to SLS--well, I don't want my tax dollars going to a death trap with no launch abort capability.

My senators are (groan) a ball coach and a stepford wife --but I see an opportunity for pro-NASA folks on either side of the isle to come together and pass legislation such that only Texas tax dollars go to Starship development or payloads.

I would urge folks in SLS states to work together in a bipartisan capacity to ensure NASA doesn't become Elon's slush fund.

 

[Aragorn]

My prescriptions used to be free under the work insurance. Not everything was free, just happened that my medication was. So the doctor changes my meds and I still have an entire bottle full, no big deal. Well they changed the insurance and now none of it is free, so what do I do? Spill a week's worth down the drain.