The Aristocrats!

Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.

I personally think it’s because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.

It’s similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn’t a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.

She lived to be 100, and I hope I’m half as cool as she was.

We’re not any smarter than the fascists

I’ve been saying this for a while. Being ‘on the left’ is no guarantee that somebody is intelligent or a good person that cares about others. Anybody can say they’re a leftist, but it’s gotta be borne out of action or it’s meaningless.

Most of the HOAs in my area are a mix of privately owned homes and rental properties owned by the company that built the neighborhood.

Biden tried, no loans were forgiven, some loans were forced to be more ethical, but nobody was freed from the debt.

Factually untrue. My loans got forgiven.

Maybe I’m just old, because I got it right away. Grew up with those ads, so its burned into my brain.

Yeah, the store I’m thinking is a hypermarket sells groceries, but also clothing, toys, furniture, garden plants, tools, etc. We still call it a grocery store, lol.

My town’s store doesn’t even have its own bakery department or meat counter, but the bigger one next town over away has a bank branch and a starbucks inside, but doesn’t sell the range of the big one mentioned above.

Is that close to the grocery > supermarket > hypermarket scale?

Yeah, the walking infrastructure around here is incredibly weird. Like, my town converted an old rail right-of-way to a gravel trail, which is great, but… There’s this warehouse that used to connect to the rail line, so now the trail goes right through the middle of their parking lot/ shipping lanes. You have to cross a truck route to get to it from the residential area anyways, so it doesn’t get a lot of use.

Don’t mind me, I’m just looking for stuff to shove in his face later, because I’m kinda irritated by his claim too, lol.

Oh geeze, we don’t make a distinction between a supermarket and a grocery store either, lol. Most ‘grocery stores’ in the US are apparently supermarkets because they sell stuff like dog food and laundry detergent? I don’t think we have any stores that do just produce, at least not in the few states I’ve lived in.

Going off the wiki link, it looks like I have a hypermarket ~25km away.

What’s a hypermarket?

Yeah, I can’t stomach our tap water, so having to buy drinking water adds to my grocery weight. I guess that’s also not normal for most Europeans.

Good thing I’m soliciting a range of opinions instead of just believing my friend then, right?

Dang, that must be nice. The bus only comes by once every 4 hours for me, and it’s always standing-room only.

On the other hand, nothing wakes you up like standing on a bus going 80km/h on a bumpy road.

Does it have cargo space, or do they just let you take up passenger space? Is the tram not full?

Edit: didn’t see the edit lol

Does the tram allow cargo? My bus won’t let you take anything bigger than you can hold on your lap.

The next closest store is 16km away 😭

Good to know my friend is full of shit about this being the same for y’all.

But, you see, I am a little green goblin wannabe

Yeah. My microwave makes five beeps whenever the timer runs out, regardless if I open the door or not.

In terms of appliance beeping aggravation, I’ve yet to have one that tops an old slow cooker I had. When you turned it on, it just had a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep that lasted for multiple seconds and made me want to throw it out the window every time I had to use it. It was like a goddamn siren alerting the whole apartment complex to the possibility of pot roast in 4-8 hours.

People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.

This is how you wind up with the ‘Waiter: Enjoy your food! Me: Thanks, you too!’ situation