Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Blitzenexx Couldn't agree more. Seems we're more or less forced to take the good with the bad sometimes, depending on which online platform we engage ourselves in...

EDIT:
That sounds off. Could be due to my headache or due to me being too heavily influenced by Dutch grammar. Either way, obviously I meant to say that we can't seem to have any good, without having to accept the bad that sometimes comes with it. And sometimes in ever increasing waves, unfortunately...

@ThanosReXXX Yuck. I’ve been fortunate enough to not experience migraines, but my colleague gets them occasionally. My contribution was to get us small desk lamps so when could turn off the office lights when they strike 😂

Ya, thread is the most well-mannered. I like to think it’s where the cool kids hang out 😜

@ThanosReXXX: Heh, no corrections necessary. I took your intended meaning in the email I received.

Migraines are not fun. Thankfully they're very rare when I do get them. Man can those be crippling.

@ThanosReXXX You could always use NL's version of the Snap, the Ignore button. 😉

@ThanosReXXX I'll take a world full of glass half empty folk, you can have a world full of Beezins. Beezos?

Actual email I just got from my sons middle school (6-8 grade) principal. Some names have been deleted just b/c.

February 15, 2019

Dear Middle School Parents,

As we enter the February recess, I want to bring something to your attention that concerns the health and safety of our student population. There is a new practice called Beezin’ being discussed among some students. This is the act of applying Burt’s Bees lip balm (often menthol or peppermint flavored) to one’s eyelids. Besides causing stinging in the eyes, Beezin’ claims to induce or heighten the sensation of being drunk or high, or create a perceived state of enhanced alertness.

Beezin’ is akin to the Tide Pod Challenge that unfortunately gained a lot of attention in previous years. While discussions of Beezin’ are relatively new in our area (to my knowledge), all research found online indicates that the practice is extremely dangerous – it can lead to pinkeye-like infections, burning of the eyelids and even blindness.

Please be assured that we will be discussing the dangers of Beezin’ with our students. Please also discuss this with your child at home, as we want to reinforce the message of how harmful this practice can be. As we repeatedly say, the health and safety of our students is our district’s top priority.

Thank you for your cooperation and please accept my best wishes for a wonderful mid-winter recess.

PRIDE,
Principal

Maybe you should just snap your fingers and make us all disappear, problem(s) solved.

I’m calling it, it’s the work of Jeff Beezos.

@rjejr Thank you for reminding me of the infinite levels of stupidity that humanity always strives to achieve, especially during the days of our youth (and especially if it includes some way to exercise one's sense of control over other people through manipulation/coersion). Try to do your best to ensure your kin don't fall prey to this year's hot new source of self-mutilation with potentially irreversible consequences. We only get to live once. No one wants to spend 90% of it blind.

@CanisWolfred The bad news is my kids are more cynical than me regarding today's youth and social media. The good news is, see bad news.

I did a lot of crazy stupid stuff when I was a teen, grateful there's no proof, but it seems quaint, and purposeful, by today's standards of stupidity. Streaking just felt good and liberating, drinking beer through a funnel was a quick way to get drunk and I was gonna drink those beers anyway. But a lot of this stuff just seems like stupid for stupid sake. I guess after you get bored of sending people naked pictures of yourself you have to resort to just plain stupid. If we had broadband and PCs with pornhub in the 80's I never would have left my room, much less risk going blind. I'm kind of surprised we havent' seen a headline yet - "Today's Youth Bored of Porn Resort to Eating Tide Pods for Entertainment". Man I'm glad my kids are smart.

@rjejr I’m there with you; there’s a huge leap between doing silly reckless things and...beezin. We used to get the tops of big Tupperware storage bins and use those as shields while we shot bottle rockets at each other. Or in college we wore life jackets and face shields while we had high noon showdowns with plastic pellet guns.

But ingesting detergents, or putting lip balm on my eyelids? No. That’s stupid. 😂

@JackEatsSparrows Yeah, that's the thing isn't it. We did stupid stuff back then b/c it was fun. We were having fun while we were doing stupid stuff. The stupid stuff they do today isn't fun, it's b/c it's stupid. I mean come on, there's gotta be better ways to get a feeling of euphoria than risking blindness. Just sniff some glue. I'm sure it caused brain damage but at least you could see. Eating Tide Pods. Come on man.

I'd rather eat a Tide Pod pizza than a pineapple pizza to be honest.

Joke's on you. I hear tide pods taste like pineapple...

When i was Grade 7, i had been bullied by Grade 9 boys because of this toy.

They bullied me by showing some Tazos i didn't have yet, made me wanted to get them, they passed the Tazos to their friends and one of them tore the Tazos into several pieces in front of me. I had been humiliated by them. 😞😤

@Anti-Matter Are those like Pogs?
@ReaderRagfihs That's sad.

@rjejr No, NEVER. That's not a finger snap, that's bending the knee to losers. I don't bow to losers.

As for the "beezin", that's just kids being stupid and doing things that all kids do at one point. Look in the mirror and tell me that you, like me and plenty of others didn't do stupid things when we were of that age.

Nowadays, it's just the world of stupid internet challenges, and also with many thanks to social media, it's just spreading faster and getting worse than in our time. But to be honest, I don't know that if we would have had access to it in our day, we'd not also be eating cinnamon and snorting wasabi, not because we wanted to, but because of peer pressure and so on, and you can't say for certain that you wouldn't, because in hindsight as an adult, all of the things that kids do and did, look stupid, so nothing strange for us to see there. Doesn't mean their future is ruined, yet.

Don't know why you mentioned Mark Beezos, because I don't like him either, so I don't consider him to be my kind of people. And no sane person should want to be in a world full of glass half empty people, unless you're a barman with enough booze to fill 'em all up, and make some money off of them in the process.

Glass half empty people are useless folk. They are incapable of seeing bigger pictures, primarily think in problems instead of solutions, and have a whole range of other negative tendencies, that don't do themselves, or the world, any good.

For the record: I'm not considering you to be one of them. You're just a New Yorker, but that's perfectly fine.
There's grumpy, and then there's tunnel vision...

Yes tazos are pogs, they called them that here in Mexico too.

@ReaderRagfihs If we could just get rid of all the children the would would be so much nicer....

@rjejr " Streaking just felt good and liberating,"
Now this is a great example of a mental picture I simply did not need.

Well you can just imagine Kermit doing it, it becomes funny.

@ThanosReXXX Not Mark Beezos, Beezos as in Bozos. That might not translate over there but over here Bozo was a clown on TV and growing up if you wanted to insult people you called them a Bozo or you'd say "a bunch of Bozos" to a group. So you put Beezin and Bozo together, you get Beezos. Or so I thought.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bozo

And who's Mark Beezos? Did you mean Jeff of Amazon? We just ran him out of town.

And I am a glass half empty person. Cant' help it, like Lady Gaga I was born that way. And from our point of view glass half full people are just sheep who don't think for themselves and simply believe whatever they are told w/o question. Basically fanbois. Who do you think told the Emperor he had no clothes, a glass half full person or a glass half empty person?

So really, the world would be better off w/ only glass half empty folk b/c we see what's wrong and we would all be working to make the world a better place, w/o us all the glass half full people would just be sitting around like this.

Gotta be careful w/ stereotypes, they can be a double-edged sword. Like, which of these is better:

Look before you leap
or
He who hesitates is lost

Stereotypes, generalizations, over-simplifications, seeing the world in black and white.
"I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."

Also

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Don't confuse glass half empty folk w/ trolls. Glass half empty folk see whats wrong with things and want to make them better, it used to be called "critical thinking" but I think our idiot President banned that concept. Trolls dont' care if something is good or bad, they just want to make everyone around them miserable. I had a friend like that once growing up. We nicknamed him "The Instigator" b/c he was always causing trouble. He was glass half full, one of the happiest people I knew, but he loved to watch people fight and be miserable, part of what made him happy I suppose.

But nobody wins if you Ignore people except you, you don't have to waste your time on them by reading their posts or replying. You're not bending the knee or giving them any power by ignoring them. Only a glass half empty person would see it that way. 😉