Random randomness

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:50 pm

Here it feels like the sun is just burning you. Heats you hair up and stuff. I go from shade to shade like some kind of vampire.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 5:32 pm

Why are you going outside?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 6:18 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 5:32 pm Why are you going outside?

The mail doesn't come to me.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:55 pm

Unless I'm expecting a package I only check my mail like twice a week.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:25 pm

Yes, but how far is your mailbox from your front door?

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:47 pm

Are you an outlier? I am! I live about 730 miles (Great Circle distance) from where I grew up.

Study: Millennials didn’t stray far from where they grew up wrote:Growing up in mid-sized Virginia Beach, Andrew Waldholtz wanted to live in a big city so he moved to the District of Columbia for college. After four years in the comparatively expensive city, he realized he wanted a place to live that was more affordable.

Waldholtz, 35, eventually found a happy compromise in St. Louis whose Midwestern affordability and opportunities to build his career in corporate compliance had the added bonus that his sister and brother-in-law lived there.

Now living 940 miles (1,513 kilometers) away from Virginia Beach, Waldholtz is in a distinct minority among others who reached adulthood in the 21st century in that he resides a half-continent away from where he grew up, according to a new study by U.S. Census Bureau and Harvard University researchers released Monday.

The study found that by age 26 more than two-thirds of young adults in the U.S. lived in the same area where they grew up, 80% had moved less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) away and 90% resided less than 500 miles (804 kilometers) away. Migration distances were shorter for Black and Hispanic individuals, compared to white and Asian young adults, and the children of higher income parents traveled farther away from their hometowns than those of less wealthy parents, according to the study.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:51 pm

I live...about 200' from the house I was raised in.

But before that, I would have been in the 80% grouping.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:58 pm

Ummm you guys aren't millennials. Actually I wanna say stess is a bit younger, so maybe...

edit: anyway, the majority of members here are Gen X.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:18 pm

I'm 1500 miles from where I grew up and couldn't be happier that I am.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:00 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:58 pm Ummm you guys aren't millennials. Actually I wanna say stess is a bit younger, so maybe...

edit: anyway, the majority of members here are Gen X.

The study looked at the likelihood of people born primarily between 1984 and 1992 moving away from the commuting zone they grew up in.

Indeed. Typical - totally ignoring GenX. Whatever.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:24 pm

Russian chess robot accidentally broke its 7-year-old opponent's finger when making a move.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:25 pm

I live in the same town/county I was born in.

I was born on the south side, grew up to 8 on the NE side and moved to the NW side until 16 when I moved to the West side. Then at 18 I moved to the south side where I am now and have been for 34 years. Will always be here.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:14 pm

I live 45 miles away from my hometown. But it’s the difference between the major metropolitan city of Chicago and a town that still has its outdoor movie theater. And several run down empty business districts plus farm fields. The town’s bookstore options are either religious or school mail-order.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:23 pm

I grew up in Atlanta and Birmingham and live in Philadelphia, 750+ miles away (minimum) from both.

By the time I was mid-Millennial age (say, late 20s?) I was also 700+ miles away in Ann Arbor.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:16 pm

Zarathud wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:14 pm I live 45 miles away from my hometown. But it’s the difference between the major metropolitan city of Chicago and a town that still has its outdoor movie theater.

It has a drive in??? That’s a plus, not a minus!

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:25 pm

I'm 700 miles from where I was born. One millennial child is 1300 miles. The other is only 300 or so from where he was born but he's not likely to stay where he is forever and I so no reason that he'd move back to his birth city. For one thing we moved when he was six months old and he doesn't remember anything!

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:27 pm

Did anyone else have the late-70s Middle-School cultural divide where you could like STAR WARS or KISS but not both?

Only years later did I realize that Darth Vader and Gene Simmons were the same thing.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:33 pm

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that divide before.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:57 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:25 pm I live in the same town/county I was born in.

I was born on the south side, grew up to 8 on the NE side and moved to the NW side until 16 when I moved to the West side. Then at 18 I moved to the south side where I am now and have been for 34 years. Will always be here.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:13 pm

My hometown was run by Jesus and his Republicans, so I couldn't wait to leave. When I was 19 I moved about 50 miles away to go to school. After school I moved another 700 miles to upstate NY, and finally ended up 1,000 miles away in Boston.

Grand Rapids has evolved somewhat for the better since then, but whenever illness and death call me back to West Michigan I remember why I left, and am glad to leave again.

But I'm a boomer and we were a more footloose generation.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:17 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:33 pm I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that divide before.

Yeah, previously it had been Led Zeppelin vs. Deliverance.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:40 am

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:21 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:13 pm But I'm a boomer and we were a more footloose generation.

Interesting way to split it. I always figured it was more of a class thing at least since the silent generation. The poor (working poor / lower middle class) and the rich stay put and the middle to upper middle class moves around. Correlation not causation most likely but tied into whether you feel more pull to roots, family, and tradition or more pull to new experiences and career growth.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:57 pm

I grew up in Oxnard, Clovis, Fresno, Sparks, Reno, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Denver.

I can't live close to where I grew up,short of being drawn and quartered. Twice.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:44 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:57 pm I grew up in Oxnard, Clovis, Fresno, Sparks, Reno, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Denver.

Were your parents running from the one armed man?

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:15 pm

English man, its a mess. is that the man with one arm, or the one man who is armed?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:46 pm

Brain cells crossed paths at the same time and head ended themselves.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:07 pm

Jaymon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:15 pm English man, its a mess. is that the man with one arm, or the one man who is armed?

That's why we invented hyphens.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:22 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:44 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:57 pm I grew up in Oxnard, Clovis, Fresno, Sparks, Reno, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Denver.
Were your parents running from the one armed man?

No, the one-armed bandit.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:23 pm

Fun note! Jaymon just reported Isgrimnur's post with what was intended (I hope) to be a reply to Isg.

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:08 pm

Maybe you shouldn't put the report and the quote buttons so close together.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:13 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:23 pm Fun note! Jaymon just reported Isgrimnur's post with what was intended (I hope) to be a reply to Isg.

I was in my car and wondered why it didn't post.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:15 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:13 pm
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:23 pm Fun note! Jaymon just reported Isgrimnur's post with what was intended (I hope) to be a reply to Isg.
I was in my car and wondered why it didn't post.

I didn't remember which one of you (Jaymon vs. Jaymann) posted it and guessed it was Jaymon since he had a recent post. Oops!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:17 pm

102 out there. Been years since it got that hot up here.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:42 pm

Between the heat and the cost of fuel going up my electric bill is twice that of last month.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:16 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:18 pm

Last month my bill was $118. This month is shows $148.

The food pantry gave me a tiny little can of Ginger Beer. Never seen this type before and by the ingredients its no wonder its burning my throat.

Carb water, organic agave citric acid, ginger extract extracts of chili pepper, coriander cardamom, lime, and orange.

I dont think I was supposed to drink it as it hurts but instead mix it with something like rum.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:21 pm

I took my AC unit out of my window today. We're getting a break from 90+ degrees for at least a couple of days. But man, do we ever need rain. More than 7" below normal YTD.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:27 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:18 pm I dont think I was supposed to drink it as it hurts but instead mix it with something like rum.

The Q Drinks line was designed to be mixed in cocktails, so they aren't generally meant to be consumed on their own

You f-ing hate your kidneys.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:34 pm

Ya I poured it out. Damn food bank trying to kill me . Get me of their feed list.