Jan 13, 2017, 4:18 PM
On a similar note to the above. It's three am. It's 87/31 degrees.
Fucking. Heatwave. No wonder California has water now.
RL Anger
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checks temp. 67
What is...winter?
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On a similar note to the above. It's three am. It's 87/31 degrees.
Fucking. Heatwave. No wonder California has water now.
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There's supposed to be a fuck off ice storm moving in tonight. So I expect to eventually be without power and internet at some point tonight. No idea, but apparently I'm told this is totally a thing where I now currently live.
Which is kinda funny, considering I come from a state that's notorious for getting snow dumped on us by the feet. And now, living somewhere else where there is much less snow, but a lot more ice.
I'm not sure which is worse. I'm going to say ice because I spent nearly thirty years learning how to drive in snow.
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@Monogram
The ice is worse.
I grew up in northern MN where we got tons of snow and that was easy to deal compared to the icestorms. I have to deal with now. The biggest difference I have noticed is the damage ice does. The weight will break tress and cause more issues where snow weight usually bends trees then falls off, also while a blizzard would knock out the power now and then back home it was always on again in a day at most. Here in a larger city we had a big icestorm a few years back that had most of the city without power for a week.
I was supposed to get one last night as well and it must have missed my area, we got some but nothing like we were warned about and no loss of power, thankfully.
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Ice is much more dangerous for traveling. Much, much.
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That's what I keep being told. That power outages are a common thing with this. Girlfriend tells me this is just a fact of living in this area. She's used to it and stated that we are not leaving the house until probably Sunday.
She made the comparison of 'You know how we laugh at people in Georgia running around for supplies when they get a quarter inch of snow? It's kinda like that.'
So I'm expecting to power at some point tonight, I just don't know when.
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Glad you are alright.
Also I love the minor storms, where I am. The major once suck, but like last night's was not bad but because it was predicted to be horrible about half the office called in so I look good for braving the storm and can get more done then in a normal day even when figuring in a bit of extra putz around on the internet time.
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Okay, not to be a SJW on a Friday but wtf Highland High School in Salt Lake City ?
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Okay, not to be a SJW on a Friday but wtf Highland High School in Salt Lake City ?
I clicked through to read the whole handout.
...so I'm supposed to have a sense of humor, but not be vulgar and swear?
Shit, I am the worst woman.
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I know this is probably going to be unpopular but... we're hearing an awful lot about what the guys said... do we know what the girls said to the guys about the dates? I mean, either way, that school is fucking stupid... but I kinda want to know if the girls' 'rules' were just as stupid and unreasonable.
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From the article:
'Tips for the boys in the now-ditched assignment, meanwhile, included “Don’t feel entitled to a kiss (or more),” “Use good manners,” “Be honest,” “Don’t drive recklessly,” and “Don’t exaggerate to your friends about what happened on the date.” Which honestly adds up to some pretty good advice — for any gender, that is.'
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Fair enough! I didn't see that part.
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You know... I've been given worse advice to be honest. I remember in HS one of my friends told me if I wanted to get a boy to like me, I should date his friend. That way he would notice me and be jealous.
So really ... most dating advice sucks to begin with. I get where some of it comes from. Like don't put yourself down. It's uncomfortable for people in general around someone doing this. Don't waste his money. Well we are taught to order the salad, take two bites and that's it. We should eat before or after the date; so in context that's better than it has been, etc.
I'm more put off a bit that someone in a school would be giving my child dating advice, not really what it is. What if I don't want my child dating yet? Or what if they are a late bloomer and this just makes them more self-conscious? All in all. I'm not angry at it, even if I don't fully agree with it either.
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I took Home Economics in school. Mainly because the class I really wanted (wood shop - I"m so girly) was full. They never instructed me on how to date. I did learn my fear of the sewing machine (I'm over it now) in there. I learned how to properly measure dry ingredients. I learned what to sub them for. I learned how to take care of a baby (maybe that was health class). However, no one ever instructed me on how to date. #IMustBeOld
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I took Home Economics in school.
I did not. My school didn't offer it. It was a nerd school; I guess no one expected us to actually have a home.
I'd expect such a subject to include modules on:
- Mortgages: how they work, how to bargain for them, where your money goes, and when to consider them, etc.
- Taxes: how to do them, what you need for them, common deductions, etc.
- Family Budgeting: how many accounts to have, what kind of accounts exist, saving for college, etc.
- Cooking: how to fucking read a recipe, how to fucking use a fucking knife, how to make something other than cereal and hot dogs, etc.
You know, the useful shit you really ought to know coming out of high school.
I'd volunteer to teach this kind of course. I'd call it 'Real Shit 101'.
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@Ganymede
I did take home ec in HS and that was about what it covered, though no mention of mortgages, and instead a section on making and mending clothes, which is oddly enough the part of the class I use the most as an adult, the mending part at least not the making.
I took home ec to avoid biology since I did not want to dissect anything,so instead I had a semester of home ec and a semester of welding (which was one of the funniest classes I had in HS but also the word grade I got in HS.) -
HomeEc was split into two classes in my school. For 2 semesters, you learned about nutrition and how to make Rice Crispies treats. For the second two semesters, you learned to sew. I sucked horribly at sewing and failed that class, but I got an E in the cooking class.
We learned about budgeting, mortgages, checking accounts, paying bills and similar things in Math class.
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@RnMissionRun said in RL Anger:
We learned about budgeting, mortgages, checking accounts, paying bills and similar things in Math class.
We learned how to calculate our interest payments and the like in mathematics.
What we never learned was what we would need to sign, how lenders collect in the event of default, how to negotiate a better interest rate, how to calculate a better interest rate, how MPI works, what programs are available to obtain better rates, and so on.
And, yes, I believe these are things that the average homeowner should know about.
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My university required a single class in personal Finance for graduation (at least in my majors). It covered a lot of that plus how to set up your own biz, insurance, and the like.
It helped me out immensely, even almost 20 years later when I was setting up my PLLC.