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  • What is the most useless thing you’ve had confiscated by airport security while traveling?

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  • How about not confiscated?

    Was in New Orleans for the Jazz Festival.

    My wife gets headaches, so we brought an ice bag like this one:

    In the morning we fill it with ice in our hotel, and toss it in a backpack. We empty the water at the end of the day.

    On the last day, we gather our luggage and gear and head to the airport.

    When we got home I realized that my backpack went through the airport scanners with the ice bag full of water. Probably about a quart.

    I think that might be above what's allowed.

  • As nation turns 250, many Americans say the Stars and Stripes is now a red flag

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  • I want to put a flagpole in my yard to fly the American flag, but I want to fly the Ally Pride flag under it. I want it as a reminder that the flag doesn't just represent the assholes.

    My wife won't let me, because she thinks it will make us a target. To me, that's the reason I want to do it.

    She hasn't said yes yet, but I'm still working on it.

  • You are teleported back to Rome CE 75, you can bring three items you have AT HOME - which?

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  • I have a Latin text book from middle school somewhere in the attic. I suspect I'll want that to brush up on my Latin.

    I also have a Smith & Wesson 45 revolver. It's a limited edition collectors item with 6 rounds in a case, but it would shoot and that would probably come in handy. Unfortunately, I have no other ammunition.

    Probably after that the first aid kit.

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  • I'm currently streaming a show on Kanopy.com for free through my library card.

  • How do you REALLY feel about ceremony?

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  • I didn't say theirs didn't take too long. There were a lot of kids. I think it ran around an hour and 30 minutes when they split it into thirds.

  • How do you REALLY feel about ceremony?

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  • Their high school graduations sucked. They have the graduation on the football field. No shade so everyone is baking in the sun. So many kid's in each class that they are announcing the names one right after the other in rapid fire, people are still screaming for their kid so you don't hear your kid's name being called, and you're so far away you can't even see them.

    I have no problem celebrating my kids, but that wasn't a celebration of the kids, but that wasn't what that graduation ceremony was. It was the school meeting an obligation in as cold and meaningless a manner as possible.

    When my daughter graduated in the middle of COVID, they split the graduation up into three groups on three different days, and despite having the crowd being 1/3rd the size, they managed to have it be just as useless.

  • How do you REALLY feel about ceremony?

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  • Graduations don't have much value for me. I didn't want to go to my own, but my mom said I had to. She was paying the bills, so that's what I did.

    I didn't want to go to my kids' high school graduations, but my wife says I had to so I did.

    Two of my three kids graduated college after an odd number of semesters, so by the time they could have gone to their college graduation, they had moved on and had no interest.

    One kid went to art school, and that graduation was one I went to and enjoyed. In addition to the tedious, forgettable speeches, they also had a bunch of music and dancing.

    Edit to add:

    Weddings are different. The ceremonies are tedious and boring, but I consider them important. I think it's just because of how I feel about my marriage and how I felt about my wedding. My wedding was an important milestone in my life that I wanted to share with my friends and family. My wife and I had been dating for 7 years, so it wasn't exactly unexpected.

    Funerals are not really expected to be fun. Like graduations, they're not for the subject of the ceremony as much as they are for the attendees. My father died in May, and we were all surprised that he had decided he wanted a funeral. When his parents died, they had opted to be cremated without any funeral, and I had always assumed he would do the same.

    I'm kind of glad he went the full route with a viewing because I saw him after he died in the hospital, and that wasn't really what I wanted my last memory of him to be. I've always thought people were full of shit when they said the deceased looked good in the casket, because everyone I've ever seen looked absolutely horrible. However they did such an amazing job on my father that multiple people were surprised because it looked like he could be breathing.

  • "There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

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  • More accurately, the Democratic establishment is working for the same people as the Republican establishment. No funding flows from the GOP to the DNC, but they both drink from the same stream.

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  • That sounds like the way to go.

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  • Surely if you've been happily married for 33 years, what you did back then wasn't actually love bombing, right?

    I guess I should ask the wife.

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  • I just realized that I did this to my girlfriend in high school!

    It's pretty clear. Everything fits. I just don't know what to do about it now.

    I mean, we've been married for 33 years. Do we need to break up? The kids are grown and out of the house at this point, but I think they'd still be upset.

  • Swing Voters Are Still Mad at Republicans About Abortion

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  • I'm more of a, "Jesus Christ! AGAIN WITH THIS SHIT? You really make it fucking difficult. Goddamn SOBs. Fine. Fuck. Fine. Yeah ok. I'll vote for you. I hope you fucking choke on it." kind of guy myself.

  • TIL Humans have a tendency to walk counterclockwise over walking clockwise

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  • women of Lemmy, how do you find cooling when you're on your period?

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  • The only thing that bothers me about buying feminine hygiene products is all the boxes look the same to me. There's 10,000 options, and all I have is a small, blurry picture on my phone that doesn't quite match any of them.

    However, that's more related to the struggle of working someone else's grocery list.

  • women of Lemmy, how do you find cooling when you're on your period?

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  • I've never understood the weirdness.

    When my wife and I were dating in high school, she was over at my house on her period and leaked through her pants. I got her clothes to change into, got out the Shout, and washed and dried her clothes.

    The alternative would have been ending the date, which made no sense to me.

  • women of Lemmy, how do you find cooling when you're on your period?

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  • An Ice pack or cool, wet cloth on the back of the neck can cool a person down quickly regardless of their menstruation status.

  • women of Lemmy, how do you find cooling when you're on your period?

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  • Bleeders?

  • Polo is hockey on horseback. What other sports would be better with the addition of horses?

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  • Chess.

  • Nobody wants to haunt a McMansion

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  • The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.

    They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.