The Ace Ventura sequel, When Nature Calls. My gooey adolescent brain ate it up and it is one of the few movies from my childhood where I can set aside everything I’ve learned and just enjoy it.

I academically know it’s bad and wildly problematic, I’m not blind, but nostalgia can be pretty powerful.

You hush, I might read them…

One thing I would do is use my water bending powers to open a house painting business (interior/exterior and cabinets). I would promise completely perfect results in 1 day or less with the caveat that the customer cannot be home for ‘safety’ reasons. Oh! I could partner with an air bender and we could have places completely painted, not a drop spilled, and completely dry in 1 hour or less. Without even over charging people we could do so much volume we’d make bank!

I may or may not be painting right now and hating reality.

Jokes on them, they made me take off my glasses that hide aspects of my wonky face but I wear glasses 100% of the time out in the world. You’ll never catch me, copper!

(I know. I just like to think it can’t figure out crooked nose vs glasses. )

Note: I am not an expert in anything. Go ahead and ignore me. I’m just a random person thinking about and answering the prompt. These are just my ill formed opinions, feel free to CMV (even though I don’t take a hard stance) but please be respectful.

Maybe. I lean towards yes that at a certain point you’re way too old to be effective but I feel like the age caps and term limits arguments have some good points in multiple different positions. Which is my roundabout way of saying there are good points on either side but I hate saying that because of the connotations associated with it but here we are.

Anyway.

One argument I think actually holds water and relates to your question is: what age is the cutoff, and why did you pick it?

What criteria merits an age cap? If someone who met or exceeded the cap was able to “pass” the criteria you used for determining that number, what justification then do you have to deny them eligibility? “Because we said so” isn’t a good justification and amounts to age discrimination.

Also, now I fully admit this is a slippery slope fallacy but: once a limit is adopted, the barriers to changing that limit are lessened. Meaning if you cap it at 75 and society undergoes a significant cultural shift it is much easier to reduce it to 45 since there is a framework in place. Yes, this is a fallacy, but one I believe has some bureaucratic believability albeit in a very pessimistic Logan’s-Run-esque sense.

Counterpoint though: there are age minimums for certain positions like the presidency (probably others but I’m not sure) and the same fears of manipulation of the cutoff shenanigans have never born fruit. That said other age barriers are undergoing challenges so… it’s a bit muddy but something worth discussing. Yes, I just countered my counter point.

The current system is supposed to be that candidates run on merit and the people choose whom they believe is the best fit to represent their interests. This is supposed to counteract the election of unfit candidates. Which we clearly see has broken down in places (for a non-inflammatory example: that place that elected a dead person).

I don’t have a solution and all of this is to say it seems like common sense that at some point you have to be too old to do a demanding job like those listed, but when you sit down and try to define where the boundaries are the conversation gets complicated.

Hard disagree. Retail workers have it bad enough and the situation has to have been absolutely awful for this guy to actually get arrested instead of coddled by management.

Samesies. How can it be YouTube Poop if YouTube came way way way later?

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THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR

You guys don’t have Value Village/Savers?

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Oh for sure dude. It’s gon’ be BAAAAAD. The alarms in Orting might give them 5 minutes to run up the hill but downstream is still hosed.

Not just eruption, it is PRIMED for a total sector collapse like Mt. St. Helens.

And that is why I forced my friends to take a map of the lahar hazard zones with them when they were buying a house in Pierce County.

I need an emoji for the closed-mouth-back-of-the-throat snort-laugh-chortle noise.

Clickbait title and paywall before it tells you what he did. But I do know what he was wearing both in text and photo, that’s what’s really important. (/s)

TW: gross

Look, I know this doesn’t compare and is going to sound silly but my best friend in high school ate glass noodles once and had the worst smelling farts that have ever existed on the planet.

I have smelled some awful smells in my time, then and since, and nothing else compares to the foul odor that my friend emitted that day.

For reference, here’s a list of things that my friend’s farts were worse than:

• fresh skunk spray on a dog that had over-full and leaky anal glands that needed expressing

• a pile of rotting salmon and salmon guts in the summer heat

• a seafood cannery that was really bad about following any safety and environmental regulations

• pungent dead mouse or all manner of rotting carcasses for that matter

• pus-filled gangrenous wound that was a pilonidal cyst on a mentally ill heavy drug user (also their breath with an entire mouth full of 100% black rotten teeth)

• open air garbage dump in the height of summer

• paper mill

• mushroom farm that fertilizes with chicken manure and opens vents to let the gas out to keep from exploding which is so strong it sinks up a 3 mile radius

• the noxious gas of a lactose intolerant person with IBS who just slammed a milkshake and garlic jalapeno cheese stuffed jerky sticks

The latter was close but not quite.

Yes. My friend’s farts were worse than all of these. For dumb reasons we were trapped in an enclosed space and I suffered for hours with no access to fresh air while they sat back and cackled.

Some of my frequent grocery purchases come in single use plastics. I wish there was another way :(.

Holy cow we have the same childhood dream!

Today is a Connect day and within the past week they’ve changed it up enough that I’m really enjoying it. Mostly hiding posts, hiding read posts, and marking scrolled past posts as read (so hide on refresh). It’s not perfect but it’s better than it was a few days ago before the most recent update.