The "What's on your mind?" thread

[Gold Ranger]

What happened to this week's "Coming this week" update on the main page?

[Gold Ranger]

@Dub: message me about relationship stuff, please
@Tsuki: message me about life stuff

@everyone else, Hi!

[civiclx]

I'm at Barnes & Noble and there is this woman sitting near me in the cafe and I want her badly. She's probably in her 50s so maybe a good 10 years older than me and she is She has an Ireland book on her table so we chatted about traveling and places we had been. She's married unfortunately but I might leave her my number just in case life happens.

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by civiclx

I'm at Barnes & Noble and there is this woman sitting near me in the cafe and I want her badly. She's probably in her 50s so maybe a good 10 years older than me and she is She has an Ireland book on her table so we chatted about traveling and places we had been. She's married unfortunately but I might leave her my number just in case life happens.

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

lol I know, I know

[Aloha from Hawaii 73]

Elvis MSG concert turns 50 today

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

@Dub: message me about relationship stuff, please
@Tsuki: message me about life stuff

@everyone else, Hi!

sent a PM

I'd never purposefully cause a crash, but like Tsukiyomi, if a semi were to collide and kill me tomorrow on my three hour drive up north, I'd would welcome it with open arms (Final Destination style). I can't shake and get my mind off of how cruel and unfocused my guy is to me, in wanting to just walk away from me and not say a thing.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

I find this funny and appropriate in my circumstance, that I think and erring to the notion that the guy I'm seeing IS also married (to a woman) but is seeing and using me as a scapegoat in truly expressing his true unobtainable desires and wants, but can't, and won't make the changes to date, see and integrate me more into his life, for a lot of reasons he won't divulge or explain to me in full. yeah, well **** that drama and bullshit, I don't need that in MY life, I won't play second fiddle to his repressed gay side of his bisexualness.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by civiclx

I'm at Barnes & Noble and there is this woman sitting near me in the cafe and I want her badly. She's probably in her 50s so maybe a good 10 years older than me and she is She has an Ireland book on her table so we chatted about traveling and places we had been. She's married unfortunately but I might leave her my number just in case life happens.

If she's drooling, why do you want her?

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

If she's drooling, why do you want her?

Well I do like a woman that uses a lot of saliva

Seriously, I'd give up every girl I've ever had to get with her.
I couldn't tell by looking at her but she's Persian so that explains why I was so attracted to her

[Warm Gun]

Just figured out the 8 1/2 mile bike ride to the remote warehouse I'm gonna work at four days a week, by riding it. There's a bike path around an airport. Dreaded the thought of the place being cut off from walkers and cyclists. Will probably quit in the snowiest months and then apply again in the spring, if they don't clear the snow there. Would rather do that than be one of those people always complaining about rising gas prices and car repair costs. Unless it's as bad a place to work as the news makes it seem. Was really easy to apply. Anyway, **** American city planning and zoning laws. Cities should be designed for people, not cars.

[Member-222782]

Very happy to not contribute to pollution and the further degradation of the Environment by bringing my own bags to shop at the corner market. It genuinely makes me feel good to do so. I see so many of those plastic bags caught up in trees and strewn around the streets it breaks my heart. Having said that, I get really nervous when I do forget to bring a bag and I buy something heavy like a gallon of milk and they sell me one of those flimsy paper bags with handles I've had more than my fair share of close calls with those.

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Very happy to not contribute to pollution and the further degradation of the Environment by bringing my own bags to shop at the corner market. It genuinely makes me feel good to do so. I see so many of those plastic bags caught up in trees and strewn around the streets it breaks my heart. Having said that, I get really nervous when I do forget to bring a bag and I buy something heavy like a gallon of milk and they sell me one of those flimsy paper bags with handles I've had more than my fair share of close calls with those.

I imagine (i.e. hope) that there will be a day when grocery stores just don't have bags. Or, if they do, it's something that you have to pay extra for, hidden away under the counter, and either "rent" with a deposit (that's refunded when you bring said bags back), or purchased outright.

Look, you know you're going to the grocery store. Just have a permanent bin or container already in your vehicle. The grocery cart will get the items from the store to your car.

The idea that they produce these plastic bags to basically carry your groceries one time for about 50 feet, from your driveway to your kitchen counter top, is one of those things we will hopefully look back on one day as so primitively-stupid and wasteful.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by BeastCreatureTrapper

I imagine (i.e. hope) that there will be a day when grocery stores just don't have bags. Or, if they do, it's something that you have to pay extra for, hidden away under the counter, and either "rent" with a deposit (that's refunded when you bring said bags back), or purchased outright.

Look, you know you're going to the grocery store. Just have a permanent bin or container already in your vehicle. The grocery cart will get the items from the store to your car.

The idea that they produce these plastic bags to basically carry your groceries one time for about 50 feet, from your driveway to your kitchen counter top, is one of those things we will hopefully look back on one day as so primitively-stupid and wasteful.

I don't know where you live but in NY they already charge for bags, which I gladly pay for - that's not the issue. The issue is I don't drive. Even if I did I certainly wouldn't drive to a corner store to buy milk lol. That's the problem with people nowadays - everybody drives everywhere. Nobody walks or takes public transportation. Get out of those cars for once - the exercise will do ya some good, you'll save not only money but wear and tear on that hunk of metal

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

I don't know where you live but in NY they already charge for bags, which I gladly pay for - that's not the issue. The issue is I don't drive. Even if I did I certainly wouldn't drive to a corner store to buy milk lol. That's the problem with people nowadays - everybody drives everywhere. Nobody walks or takes public transportation. Get out of those cars for once - the exercise will do ya some good, you'll save not only money but wear and tear on that hunk of metal

Where I live, you basically have to drive pretty much everywhere, and I'm still in a suburban setting, so it's not like I'm in the sticks. It's just that unless you live in a compacted city environment, with public transport readily available, things are so spread out that, logistically, walking distances (especially for grocery hauls) just don't make sense (and aren't even doable).

I would venture to say that the vast majority of the country is car-dependent, which is where I based my initial point off of. Yes, if I lived in a place like NYC, I would rather walk everywhere, especially considering the traffic and the extra pain and expense of owning a vehicle there.

[fighthefutureofhd]

You couldn't pay me to live in NYC. I saw something years ago on 48 hours about how having a heart attack can be a death sentence in NYC due to traffic and the fact that no one wants to get out of your way for anything. That may not totally accurate, but it scares me enough that I don't plan on testing that out anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Just figured out the 8 1/2 mile bike ride to the remote warehouse I'm gonna work at four days a week, by riding it. There's a bike path around an airport. Dreaded the thought of the place being cut off from walkers and cyclists. Will probably quit in the snowiest months and then apply again in the spring, if they don't clear the snow there. Would rather do that than be one of those people always complaining about rising gas prices and car repair costs. Unless it's as bad a place to work as the news makes it seem. Was really easy to apply. Anyway, **** American city planning and zoning laws. Cities should be designed for people, not cars.

Cities ARE designed for people who LOVE their cars. You cannot design cities for just people. It does not work that way. Americans love their cars about as much as they love their guns, beer, babes, and football. The point is, we as a country will not give up our cars. So, to try and think otherwise is futile. Besides that, you don't really need a car these days to get around in cities designed for cars. As long as there is good public transportation and Uber/Lyft, you are good to go. I don't drive, live a car-centric city, and get around just fine

[Scarriere]

I like driving. Other than when I get stuck behind slow drivers or texters or people who struggle with common sense, I enjoy driving.

Though I shouldn't have been, I was surprised to test positive for Covid yesterday. I've had cold symptoms more severe than what I've experienced in the last several days. I'm guessing that the vaccinations worked well for me.

[Warm Gun]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

Cities ARE designed for people who LOVE their cars. You cannot design cities for just people. It does not work that way. Americans love their cars about as much as they love their guns, beer, babes, and football. The point is, we as a country will not give up our cars. So, to try and think otherwise is futile. Besides that, you don't really need a car these days to get around in cities designed for cars. As long as there is good public transportation and Uber/Lyft, you are good to go. I don't drive, live a car-centric city, and get around just fine

Lol, public transportation in most of America. The place I'm gonna work at, the bus doesn't come for one to two hours after my shift ends. I will also work on Saturday and Sunday, and the bus doesn't run at all on the weekend. I live in a city of 200,000 people. It's totally possible to design a city that prioritizes people, cyclists and cars fairly. There's an entire YouTube channel about it called Not Just Bikes, whose discovery a few weeks ago reinforced and helped me better understand what I've been saying about the awfulness of car prioritization and dependency for years.

Pretty disgusting how the auto industry hijacked city planning.

How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town - YouTube

[fighthefutureofhd]

Oh, I don't doubt the car industry did some horrible things. However, the car industry and cars, in general, got a hold of people because people fell in love with them. Pretty quickly and pretty deeply, I might add. it's a two-way street. product has to sell and grab people to purchase said product. And the real sad fact is, many Americans simply never took to bikes much. Or ditched them for cars faster than Coke ditched New Coke. I think you are right though. But it's just not feasible or ever gonna happen. The cat's out of that bag.

[Member-222782]

I departed for work this morning forgetting two of my "essentials": my cell phone and face mask. I would've gone back for the mask but not the phone as I rarely use it for anything other than checking the time lol. I've been slowly dis-using the masks in places other than at work (I'm required to). The first time I didn't wear a mask in public I felt a little weird but I'm slowly getting used to it. Face mask users are now in the vast minority at least in my neck of the woods. Feels liberating in a strange way not to have a cell phone or mask on my person.