Random randomness

[Kraken]

Seriously, there needs to be a list if not a thread.

Archinerd will also eat questionable things on a dare. So nothing personal.

This sounds like a job for hepcat.

[Daehawk]

Heaved so much yesterday Im super sore in my abdomen. Ive coughed and sneezed today and it hurts wow. Its like I did a months work of ab training in that few hours.

[ImLawBoy]

We don’t have a thread for stupid stuff Daehawk eats?

We just call it EBG.

[LordMortis]

Seriously, there needs to be a list if not a thread.

Archinerd will also eat questionable things on a dare. So nothing personal.

This sounds like a job for hepcat.

It absolutely does.

[Max Peck]

Given things I've seen on Twitch, the ability to eat weird and questionable food is a valuable skill that can be monetized if you're willing to do it live on camera.

[Daehawk]

Used to watch a YT channel called Steve1969 or something where he ate military MREs and such. Ive seen him eat stuff out of date and waaaay out of date. I mean stuff like from Vietnam days...WW2...I even seen him eat civil war stuff. I mean you can get food poisoning just watching him.

[Sudy]

Steve1989MREInfo. A Youtub tradition since 1981.

[Daehawk]

ah ya 89

[AWS260]

This is extremely entertaining (click through for the full thread).

[Kraken]

This is extremely entertaining (click through for the full thread).

I usually won't click a twitter thread, but that one was worth the effort.

[Isgrimnur]

Agreed.

[dbt1949]

I think half the parking spaces at the VA are for handicapped.
They know their clientele.

[Jeff V]

I think half the parking spaces at the VA are for handicapped.
They know their clientele.

But because it's the gov'ment, those parking spots are the furthest away.

[Kraken]

Mass. is the second-best state to live in, says something called WalletHub. Who's #1?

Spoiler:

New Jersey!

I expect the relevant OO contingent to call bullshit.

[dbt1949]

I think half the parking spaces at the VA are for handicapped.
They know their clientele.

But because it's the gov'ment, those parking spots are the furthest away.

Absolutely fucking right!

[Daehawk]

It amuses me that the $10 toolbox I picked up at Home Depot today is called a Homer Box.

[Daehawk]

As I went into Dollar General today there was an elderly man and a young boy sitting at the entrance. They asked if I had any money. It was hot and humid today and they were thirsty. I dont carry money these days but gave them all the change I had on me. Wasn't much. Couple dimes and a bunch of pennies. They actually did look like they needed it.

They were still there as I was leaving. I wished them luck. I can be dense sometimes. I went in for a pack of 7UP with my bit of food stamps for my continued recoup from food poisoning DOH. I stopped and offered them some of my 7UPs . Weren't cold but were cool from being inside in the AC. I punched it open and let the kid grab a few.

And ya if Id thought even more I coulda got a cold couple from the cooler inside but like I said Im dense. Its a good thing. Its on them if the old guy wanted money for something else.

EDIT: Who am I callin old!?

[dbt1949]

That's good. Scammers would never use a kid to help them.

[Daehawk]

These are pretty good.

[Daehawk]

Im closer in age to my nephew and niece than my sister. My sister is 15 years older than me. I was 8 when my nephew was born and 10 when my niece came along.

[Unagi]

Im closer in age to my nephew and niece than my sister. My sister is 15 years older than me. I was 8 when my nephew was born and 10 when my niece came along.

What’s the name of the bus driver?

[Daehawk]

Phil

[Holman]

Im closer in age to my nephew and niece than my sister. My sister is 15 years older than me. I was 8 when my nephew was born and 10 when my niece came along.

Generations are more flexible than we usually think.

My wife and I are the same age (inside of three months). I had a grandfather in WW2, and she had two uncles in it.

On the other hand, my other grandfather was (because he lied about his age and joined at 16) in WW1.

[Isgrimnur]

I have an aunt, when she was born, was an aunt to her half-sister's kids.

[Blackhawk]

Michelle and I are the same age. My father had already served in one war when her parents were born. I have two sisters and a brother (well half-), two of whom were married (but not to each other ) before I was born. That means that my sister and brother were about the age of most of my friends' parents, while my parents where the age of my friends' grandparents. Upside: I got a good grounding in the culture of the entire 20th century growing up, not just the last generation. Downside: Both of my parents were dead by the time I was 30.

[Zarathud]

My father in law was the age of my grandparents. My youngest sister was born when I was 17. She’s like the kid I didn’t raise.

[dbt1949]

I'm older than my dad.

[Kraken]

My dad was the youngest of 11 children, and was in his mid-30s when they adopted me. My mom was also the youngest in her family. Consequently, most of my relatives were in their 50s and 60s by the time I was old enough to know them. And because I wasn't their blood, they had little interest in knowing me. My extended family was distant and mostly dead by the time I was 20.

My sister recently embarked on a project to digitize all of our old family photos. She asked me to help ID the people in these old photos, mostly from the 1930s-70s, with some dating to the 1800s. Hah, fat chance. I'm the last survivor with my surname -- nobody in my family is genetically related to me or even shares my name. I scrolled through the first couple hundred pics and could only tentatively ID a handful of them beyond our nuclear family.

[Blackhawk]

I outlived my mother this year (by which I mean I exceeded her age when she died.)

It was a really... strange realization. I never knew her as an adult. My mother died when I was eight, so my memories of her were all from the perspective of a child looking at his mother. That means that the child's mental image of maturity, wisdom, worldliness, and experience never got tarnished by being a teenager, seeing their faults, or dealing with them as one adult to another.

So when I realized that I was older and more 'experienced' than she had ever been, I found it disorienting.

[Holman]

My wife's heritage is very mixed American. Her mom's side goes back to New Amsterdam before it was New York, and they have a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Richard Stockton). Her dad's side are Ukrainian Jews who fled pogroms in 1905, and the relatives who didn't emigrate were later killed in the Holocaust.

We gave our kids hyphenated last names, and they're the only two people on Earth who have it.

[Daehawk]

My mom died aged 56 when I was 23
My dad died aged 76 when I was 33

I find it strange when I have a doctor or mechanic or someone in charge of something and they are younger than me. All my life Ive been younger. Now its changing.

[Kraken]

I find it strange when I have a doctor or mechanic or someone in charge of something and they are younger than me. All my life Ive been younger. Now its changing.

Our doc for the past 30 years retired a few months ago. His successor is a child of maybe 50, if I'm being generous with years. Starting over at our age with some new kid is sub-optimal. We've each seen him a couple of times now, and neither of us connected personally, although we're willing to see if a relationship develops. The only alternative is starting over with someone else, so it might as well be this guy. We don't dislike him.

I like having a young mechanic. Young people are unstable and might disappear at any time, but if they stay put you'll appreciate their ongoing existence. My gas station/garage guy (Nader is Lebanese, I think) doesn't remember my name off the top of his head, but he greets me as "my friend" and never asks for my contact info. I'm probably in his phone as "red Miata" or something like that. He also mentioned that he was taking classes for something or other and I hope he fails, because I want him to be my mechanic forever.

[Hrdina]

Mass. is the second-best state to live in, says something called WalletHub. Who's #1?

Spoiler:

New Jersey!

I expect the relevant OO contingent to call bullshit.

Shhh, we pay people to make fun of us just so that the rest of you won't come looking around here...

[Hrdina]

Edit: Man I don't come into this thread for a few days, and end up with a bunch of stuff that I want to respond to...

Im closer in age to my nephew and niece than my sister. My sister is 15 years older than me. I was 8 when my nephew was born and 10 when my niece came along.

Generations are more flexible than we usually think.

My wife and I are the same age (inside of three months). I had a grandfather in WW2, and she had two uncles in it.

On the other hand, my other grandfather was (because he lied about his age and joined at 16) in WW1.

My mom & dad were both born during the early weeks of US participation in WW2.

My wife's dad served in the US Navy later in the war and during the occupation.

I outlived my mother this year (by which I mean I exceeded her age when she died.)

It was a really... strange realization. I never knew her as an adult. My mother died when I was eight, so my memories of her were all from the perspective of a child looking at his mother. That means that the child's mental image of maturity, wisdom, worldliness, and experience never got tarnished by being a teenager, seeing their faults, or dealing with them as one adult to another.

So when I realized that I was older and more 'experienced' than she had ever been, I found it disorienting.

A while ago I had a similar disorientation, but it was because I've been married for almost 31 years, and that is far longer than my mother and almost as long as my dad's total.

My parents separated while I was in first grade, and divorced several years after that. So they were married for 17 years, but only lived together for about 12. My mom was married a second time, for another 10 years or so. My dad married twice more, briefly to my wicked stepmother, and then a third time until he died almost 15 years ago. I think the sum total of his three marriages is slightly more than my 31 years.

My wife's heritage is very mixed American. Her mom's side goes back to New Amsterdam before it was New York, and they have a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Richard Stockton). Her dad's side are Ukrainian Jews who fled pogroms in 1905, and the relatives who didn't emigrate were later killed in the Holocaust.

We gave our kids hyphenated last names, and they're the only two people on Earth who have it.

I have a Stockton in my tree, but despite that branch being in NJ I don't have solid proof of a connection to that Richard Stockton.

My wife's father's side of the family were Ukrainian, but Orthodox not Jewish. Her grandfather came to visit the US in 1913 and decided that WW1 made it unwise to return home. It's fun doing genealogy research on that branch, because for "birthplace" they would answer various ways: Austria-Hungary, Ruthenia, Ukraine, Poland, and maybe a few others.

The last of my immigrant ancestors came from England in 1866 or so. The first of my wife's came in the 1880s I think.

[Holman]

My wife's heritage is very mixed American. Her mom's side goes back to New Amsterdam before it was New York, and they have a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Richard Stockton). Her dad's side are Ukrainian Jews who fled pogroms in 1905, and the relatives who didn't emigrate were later killed in the Holocaust.

We gave our kids hyphenated last names, and they're the only two people on Earth who have it.

I have a Stockton in my tree, but despite that branch being in NJ I don't have solid proof of a connection to that Richard Stockton.

There are a lot of important Stocktons in early America. Richard Stockton was New Jersey's signer of the Declaration, but my wife's family also goes back to another Stockton (also named Richard) who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, a claim to religious freedom in New Amsterdam that established a basis for the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

[dbt1949]

Learned from the TV news today that Fathers Day is a federal holiday.
In that case we should have it on Monday.

[Daehawk]

Bout time. The guy is a legend.

James Hong Gets His Hollywood Star

In August last year, actor Daniel Dae Kim launched a GoFundMe page to campaign for a nomination on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for veteran actor James Hong. It appears to have worked as Hong has now been listed as one of the newest recipients to be given his own star in this year’s honors.

92-year-old Hong is one of the most prolific actors ever in showbusiness, having played almost 700 television and film roles since the 1950s including 469 TV shows, 149 feature films, 32 short films and 22 video games.

[TheMix]

Indeed. Good for him!

[Hrdina]

My wife's heritage is very mixed American. Her mom's side goes back to New Amsterdam before it was New York, and they have a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Richard Stockton). Her dad's side are Ukrainian Jews who fled pogroms in 1905, and the relatives who didn't emigrate were later killed in the Holocaust.

We gave our kids hyphenated last names, and they're the only two people on Earth who have it.

I have a Stockton in my tree, but despite that branch being in NJ I don't have solid proof of a connection to that Richard Stockton.

There are a lot of important Stocktons in early America. Richard Stockton was New Jersey's signer of the Declaration, but my wife's family also goes back to another Stockton (also named Richard) who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, a claim to religious freedom in New Amsterdam that established a basis for the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

(apologies in advance to people who get bored by genealogy)

My 3rd-great grandmother Josephine Stockton (1843-1926) was supposedly the daughter of Benjamin Stockton and Ann Carpenter (according to her death certificate). I've seen multiple places where Benjamin is listed as the son of William Wood Stockton and Ann Lippincott, but those always appear on people's family trees as assertions without evidence. I've seen some evidence that WW had a son named Benjamin, but after that it's all conjecture.

William Wood is usually traced back to Job Stockton (1654-1732) who came from London England to Springfield NJ. Job was supposedly the brother of Richard Stockton II (b 1650 in Flushing) who is perhaps related to your Richard.

I have a handful of other Stocktons in my database, but Josephine and her ancestors are the only direct line I know of.

[Holman]

(apologies in advance to people who get bored by genealogy)

Another fun Stockton fact:

Richard (of Declaration fame) was the only signer who recanted. He was captured by the British and placed in a prison ship, and the experience broke his health (as prison ships were intended to do). He signed a paper rejecting American independence.

Congress later voted to forgive his recantation as it was made under duress. I guess this is why there's a rest stop named after him on the NJ Turnpike.