someone posted a comment somewhere saying that their child has a lot of activities/classes this summer, the parent had a hard time juggling their schedule & wondered how our parents did it.
i replied with something like; when i was a kid we didn't have summer activities/classes. if you were doing a sport (or played an instrument, or did dance), then you did that. or maybe summer camp for a couple of weeks. perhaps swimming/diving lessons, but that was pretty much it. day camp was starting to be a thing when I was a teen. i feel like all of these activities/classes for kids really came about in the last 20-25 years or so.
when you where a child, did you do summer activities/classes?
if you have children, do/did they have summer activities/classes?
Livejournal written in ru_news December 29 2025, 14:14
LiveJournal: important changes
Friends,
We are completing the outgoing year by serious changes aimed at supporting responsible authors of quality content and protecting against bots, spam and abuse.
Our community is the most important thing we have. To make the discussion space even better, useful and secure for everyone, we introduce some changes to the content publishing rules.
Starting from December 29, 2025, the ability to create new posts, comments and other content will be available to users who make a more significant contribution to the platform’s life. We believe that this will be a new stage in the development of our common space for thoughts and ideas.
What exactly is changing?
From December 29, 2025, users can post new public posts, leave comments, upload photos and videos, users can post at least one of the conditions: connected package " Professional "; the account is linked by the authorization of Sber ID; the value of social capital is not less than 500; the blog is registered in the register of bloggers of Roskomnadzor or has the status of verified.
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In a hypothetical scenario my Brother mentioned the other day; there's a starship with a bunch of people going to the nearest solar system, but it will take 500 years (it's hypothetical) to get there. So it is a generation ship, meaning it will take several generations of people to get there.
People talk about what movies/TV shows/books they would send along for those people, but are there any you would not send?
Such as: Are there seasons of a TV show you don't like & would not send? Or maybe give them the first couple installments of a movie franchise & not the rest?
Perfectly straight, white, dazzling teeth which everyone compliments you on, but, they require (avg.) five fillings per year because they are inherently brittle and decay easily
3(12.0%)
Reasonably straight (not pretty though) yellowed teeth which you are self conscious about [No-one calls you out on them though] which require NO trips to the dentist each year because they are solid, strong and decay-resistant
22(88.0%)
What da helllllll? They renamed 'radio buttons' and 'check boxes' to Single answer and Multiple choice ????
Would you rather have a great job with really good money, benefits (time off, insurance, Etc.), & a retirement plan, but have to stay in the city/state/country you live in now?
Or be able to movie to your dream location; city/state/country, but have a job that is just OK where you make enough money to live off of with some for splurges, and a few benefits?
Suppose your local grocery, or mass market store (WalMart, Target) is out of your preferred item (household cleaning product, personal care product, laundry product) and the stores you're willing to drive/walk/take the bus to don't have it either. You look every time you go to your usual store, but they don't have it for a few weeks and you're close to running out.
You don't want to get it online for whatever reason (it costs more online, don't want to pay shipping, website is a pain to navigate) & you hope they restock soon.
After a month or so they finally have it in stock, do you buy more than one in case this happens again?
Disclaimer: my native regional vocabulary is showing (“shopping cart” also works, although I specified “grocery cart” to specify a store cart rather than a personal cart. Others might know this vehicle as a buggy, dolly, or carriage.)
(Image_description: a photo of the collapsible front compartment of a Winn-Dixie grocery cart, containing a plastic bag of red, orange, and yellow bell peppers; a sack of potatoes is visible in the main basket. The front compartment is backed by a placard; the left half bears an advertisement for a local plumbing company; the right is a guide to products by numbered store aisle, topped with a picture of a happy dog wearing sunglasses in a hammock, captioned, “THIS COULD BE YOUR AD!” and the contact phone number. This front compartment has leg holes and a seatbelt, implying tacit permission to seat small children (and/or well-behaved animals?) there.)
How would you personally describe the smell of musk?
I just realised tonight I have absolutely no recall of what musk is supposed to smell like.
I smell things very acutely, but I tend to pick out very different cues, hve very different associations/links to what I smell - Far from being wrong, it just means other people don't know what I'm smelling when I try to describe it.
I have heard musk spoken about in both positive/fond language and also, in more negative/repelled terms -- idgi. How can it be appealing and ew at the same time?
Brought to you by the financial videos from my YouTube queue: Do you have an emergency fund?
I do, and didn't need a financial advisor to tell me. My own anxiety took care of that. But I have people in my own family who don't think it's necessary OR are just never getting around to set one up, and that's wild to me. (It's not even about the amount - that's such a subjective matter depending on the individual's life, but just having something extra in case things go sideways.)
In memory of Jonathan Joss, what was your favorite "John Redcorn" moment? (As for me, I liked when Dale asked John Redcorn if his people "even celebrate Thanksgiving?" to which John Redcorn retorted "We did....once...")
My Brother was telling me about this situation that happened in High School.
There had been a bake sale by the cheerleaders, or the band or some group, there was a bunch of stuff left over & one of the parent volunteers came over with a big box of cookies and told the students to "take as many as they wanted." Not all of them took something, the ones that did took 1 or 2. But this one boy took 6 (they were not very big) and all of the nearby students started yelling at him for taking "too many." He said; "She said take as many as you want." The other kids replied that's just what people say & don't mean it. The woman told him it was fine, but after she left he looked like he didn't want the cookies any more.
So, my question is; If someone says to you "take as many/much as you want" do they mean it? Or is it just something they say?
And if someone says that to you, do you really take what you want? Or just a few things/small serving?
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