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I used to think about it. My niece and her husband are both 1-day Jeopardy champions and I go toe-to-toe with them when we play Trivial Pursuit. But, I'm too slow now. The only way I can keep up with the younger contestants would be to have a pause button to give me extra time. I don't think they would allow that! |
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05-30-2022, 05:26 PM | #5020 |
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My wife subscribes to Lumosity. She plays it almost every day and she loves it. She says it really helps her. I'm going to have to give it a try.
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05-30-2022, 07:16 PM | #5022 |
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...when you can't open a plastic spring water bottle without getting soaked by its contents! It seems like these new eco-friendly bottles are soooooo thin that you can't even unscrew the lid and break the tamper seal ring without squeezing the bottle so hard that the contents come spraying out.
For the past week, my DW and I were on a long road trip. Whenever the driver asked for some bottled water, the other person would ask if they wanted to drink it or wear it because both of us were making messes opening the water bottles. I thought that it was just us, until I watched an aging relative who we stopped to visit get soaked opening a water bottle from a completely different bottler in another part of the country. I was thinking about the design for a self-tapping sipper straw, to pierce the side of the water bottle without removing the cap. Then I had a realization that the new eco water bottles were so thin that they might as well be plastic bags like those silly Canadians use for their milk. It should be way easier to ship flat plastic bags to the bottling plant versus empty round bottles, and it might also skirt the bottle/can deposit law because it technically is neither. If we want to save the planet from plastic waste, I think that a better alternative would be to use paper cartons like milk and juice come in. I know that there's a small beverage company producing drinking water in kid's juice box sippy cartons as an eco alternative. Maybe that's the best solution (*) to prevent us old farts from getting soaked while staying hydrated????? (*) Mandatory disclaimer - I own a tree farm so I may be biased.....
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05-31-2022, 01:34 AM | #5024 |
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*Water Bottles.
They are just difficult for me because I really think I have something going on with my nervous system or just my limbs. I just don't have the feeling I think I should or it seems like the fine motor skills I should. Something like picking a hair off a shirt is not easy for me. Or actually anything where I have to pinch 2 fingers together, like holding a nut on a bolt. It gets me pretty damn frustrated sometimes (all times). But the only time it manifests into me getting dirty or wet is those damn water bottles. |
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05-31-2022, 09:06 AM | #5025 | |
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They actually blow the bottles on site in most of the larger/newer plants as opposed to shipping them in. Shipping those empty bottles was a bitch in the summer. If it was too hot and they were on the trailer too long the bottles would melt out of shape, and that was before they were so flimsy. I can just imagine shipping water in plastic bags.. What could possibly go wrong?
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Or an abacus, for the really ancient.
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...or fingers, for those wondering where base-10 math came from.....
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06-03-2022, 02:29 PM | #5031 |
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I still use my fingers.
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06-04-2022, 07:52 PM | #5032 |
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You know you're old if...
You didn't crap your pants.
So I'm sitting behind a Jeep at a stop light yesterday when I spotted a small sticker on the back. All I could read was, "Honk if...", the rest was in fine print. So, I pulled up a little closer and saw: Honk if you shit your pants Driver had grey hair.
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...you were around when Princess Elizabeth took the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II.
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06-05-2022, 10:16 AM | #5035 |
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Yes I was, and I still have my First Day of Issue Royal Cover Coronation Postage Stamps (2 1/2d 4d 1s3d 1s6d). Mounted together on a special envelope, and in pristine condition. And yet today, 70 years later worth approximately jack squat. Still cool though.
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HS graduation was 45 years ago yesterday. Eek.
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