Surprised to see Grape so many times! The fake grape flavor of grape candy is my favorite!

The article says he thinks there wasn’t enough time for someone to complain, the restaurant staff was using it as an excuse.

“He said: "After entering I noticed a cash-only sign, so went straight back outside to withdraw my money.

“I went back into the restaurant to place an order, and they told me to ‘please leave’, because in their words I was ‘scaring the customers’, and there had been complaints about me.”

He added: “There had not been enough time between the time I had been there first, and the time I went back, for anyone to have made a complaint about me so obviously the restaurant staff were not happy with the way I looked.” “

I’m 40 and I’d rather play a video game than watch a movie.

Just a game and book come to mind for me right now, plus a music album.

Game: Star Control 2

Book: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

Album: Floating World by Anathallo

Going to name a few that I would be happy with:

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

Mineral - The Power of Failing

Anathallo - Floating World

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Techreport is another one I used to read all the time, but it got bought out and is a shambling corpse of it’s former self.

Gotta second the Miele. We have the C3 and it is fantastic. Our friend who is allergic to cats barely had any trouble when she comes over because of that vacuum, she even ended up buying one too.

They are expensive so hopefully you can find a used one. There are also places that will repair them, so you don’t need to trash them if something breaks.

I like having a roof over my head and food on the table, therefore I need to work.

Whoever is recording that really needs to clean the lens.

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

This is almost exactly the same as my experience as well. My premiums are pretty high (like $500/month out of my paycheck) but when the time comes for the procedures it’s usually not too bad. One caveat, we have not had any large medical expenses except for a relatively minor outpatient surgery that my wife needed last year, bill was over $1000 but the hospital had an interest-free payment plan that let us break it up over the next 12 months with no early payment penalty, so we took advantage of that.

As another poster pointed out, the big issue is the emotional and mental toll of trying to sort things out if the slightest little thing goes wrong. You basically have to do their job for them in that case and can be exhausting.

Edit to add: as you can see in this thread, people’s expenses can vary wildly depending on a lot of factors. For my plan, even if we don’t hit our caps, there is typically still a ‘discount’ and ‘allowed charge’ that the insurance has worked out with the providers, so we still didn’t have to pay the ‘full’ amount of that surgery even though we didn’t hit our deductible or out of pocket. We’ve also been to the ER a couple times for our 7-year old and it’s typically been about $600 a pop for each. It is insanely complicated and I barely understand it all but just thankful the plan my employer offers seems decent.

‘Scene’ kids were the Hot Topic emo kids when I was a teenager 20ish years ago. As someone who was into 2nd wave emo, it always made me die a little that ‘Scene’ is what most people think of when they hear ‘emo’.

Ooh Night in the Woods was good.

Gregg rulz ok

If we could move to Iceland or Finland, we’d do it in a heartbeat.

Really sorry to hear about your duck.

Been really into Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year series, just good fun to make you laugh. They’re all up on YouTube on the duo’s official channels.

Understanding in a Car Crash

Got sick of being sold to, when they got rid of third party apps I bailed.

This is how I feel too. 1984 for me.

Hmm maybe William Basinski? He kinda has droney stuff that fuzzes out and goes on for a long time with piano fragments and stuff. I find his stuff very relaxing personally.

Haha yes!