Random Thoughts Thread

[Pelado]

I have never been a rootbeer guy at all. Too sweet. And yet, every day after football practice I used to get two cans of cream soda and down them on the way home. There are still few things I can think of more satisfying than drinking them in my exhausted dehydrated state. But jumping in the pool at the beach house after my run yesterday was awfully good.

Cream soda is delicious.

[BigFatMeanie]

Further evidence that our society is soft, decadent, and ripe for conquest:

https://www.ksl.com/article/50253569...in-august-snow

Basically "Make a Wish" for pets.

[Soccermom]

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all down at the same time. Now please someone take out Tik Tok and keep it permanently down. Our high school has been vandalized thanks to the stupid Tik Tok challenges. Soap dispensers and urinals ripped from the walls. This month the challenge is apparently to smack a staff member on the back side. Nice, moving from vandalism to assault. Then November is to kiss your friend's girlfriend. Why stop at assault when you can get sexual assault? And December is deck the halls and show your b***s in school halls. I really hope we do not have students stupid enough to do these challenges, but I kinda thought they would not be stupid enough to do the vandalism ones.

[falafel]

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all down at the same time. Now please someone take out Tik Tok and keep it permanently down. Our high school has been vandalized thanks to the stupid Tik Tok challenges. Soap dispensers and urinals ripped from the walls. This month the challenge is apparently to smack a staff member on the back side. Nice, moving from vandalism to assault. Then November is to kiss your friend's girlfriend. Why stop at assault when you can get sexual assault? And December is deck the halls and show your b***s in school halls. I really hope we do not have students stupid enough to do these challenges, but I kinda thought they would not be stupid enough to do the vandalism ones.

These are the same kids that ate Tide Pods. I guarantee they are stupid enough to show their boobs in school.

[Soccermom]

These are the same kids that ate Tide Pods. I guarantee they are stupid enough to show their boobs in school.

The boobs challenge is not until January actually. The December challenge is an anatomy part that rhymes with halls. And sadly you are probably right.

[BigFatMeanie]

The boobs challenge is not until January actually. The December challenge is an anatomy part that rhymes with halls. And sadly you are probably right.

It's OK to say "balls" on this board; although you may need to use that little blushing smiley when you say it. You could also go with nutsack, ballsack, nads, and numerous other terms.

[falafel]

It's OK to say "balls" on this board; although you may need to use that little blushing smiley when you say it. You could also go with nutsack, ballsack, nads, and numerous other terms.

Deck the halls with all your baaaallllsss, falalalalaaaa, let's seeeee your ballllls!

[Lost Student]

The boobs challenge is not until January actually. The December challenge is an anatomy part that rhymes with halls. And sadly you are probably right.

I'm surprised that these challenges are planned that far out in the future. What teenager is both so malicious and organized? Here's a list of future challenges I found:

September: Vandalize school bathrooms

October: Smack a staff member

November: Kiss your friend’s girlfriend at school

December: Deck the halls and show your balls

January: Jab a breast

February: Mess up school signs

March: Make a mess in the courtyard or cafeteria

April: “Grab some eggz” (another stealing challenge)

May: Ditch day

June: Flip off in the front office

July: Spray a neighbor’s fence

https://www.distractify.com/p/tiktok...nges-list-2021

[BigFatMeanie]

"Jab a breast" - what could possibly go wrong?

[PaloAltoCougar]

I'm surprised that these challenges are planned that far out in the future. What teenager is both so malicious and organized? Here's a list of future challenges I found:

September: Vandalize school bathrooms

October: Smack a staff member

…

The schools in my daughter's district (Highlands Ranch, CO) published that list and distributed it to all students and their families, with some helpful additional info:

August - Sleep in and be late: NO CRIME – Not a great idea to start the year - School based consequence

September - Mess up toilet/vandalize restroom: Criminal Mischief / Criminal Tampering – Class 3 Misdemeanor to Class 6 Felony

October - Smack a staff member on the backside: Harassment / Unlawful Sexual contact – Class 3 / Class 1 Misdemeanor

November - Kiss your friend’s girlfriend at school: Harassment – Class 3 Misdemeanor

December - “Deck the halls and show your ***** in school halls” (expose): Indecent Exposure – Class 1 Misdemeanor

January - Jab a breast: Harassment / Unlawful Sexual Contact – Class 3 / Class 1 Misdemeanor

February - Mess up school signs: Criminal Mischief – Class 3 Misdemeanor to Class 6 Felony

March - Make a mess in the courtyard or cafeteria: 2^nd Degree Criminal Tampering – Class 2 Misdemeanor

April - Grab some “eggz”: Theft – Class 1 Petty Offense to Class 3 Misdemeanor

May - Ditch Day: NO CRIME – School based consequence based on attendance

June - Flip off front office: Disorderly Conduct – Class 1 Petty Offense

July - Spray a neighbor’s fence: Criminal Mischief – Class 3 Misdemeanor to Class 6 Felony

[smokymountainrain]

"Jab a breast" - what could possibly go wrong?

show your balls, smack a teacher, vandalize bathrooms, spray a neighbor's fence, kiss your friend's gf, mess up school signs - most of them apply.

[Lost Student]

BTW I have some doubt that “grab some eggz” is actually a stealing challenge. Some article (perhaps written by an old) speculated that this one will challenge students to sneak eggs from their school's cafeteria. Do high school cafeterias even have eggs sitting around anymore? They probably get pre-processed egg liquid in a plastic bag if they're making scrambled eggs.

So, yeah, I think the April challenge is more ball sqeezin' than egg stealin'. I guess we'll find out then!

[Pelado]

After I returned from my mission in Argentina, I undertook to read the epic Argentine poem Martín Fierro in its original Spanish.

I encountered much difficulty in understanding the 19th-century gaucho poem, even with my Spanish-English dictionary at the ready. Many of the words I didn't understand weren't even found in the dictionary.

After a while, I started to sound out the lines, and that helped immensely. I realized that many of the words I had been trying to look up weren't actually words at all - they were the phonetical representations of the rural pronunciations. In some of those cases, I already knew what the lines meant, I just hadn't recognized their spelling.

While that realization helped me understand more, I still eventually abandoned the project well before finishing it.

[Bo Diddley]

I didn't know fractionate was a word.

[clackamascoug]

I didn't know fractionate was a word.

So you're probably unfamiliar with the word unfractionate as well.