A sign that reflects the eternal truth… You don’t buy beer. You rent it.

You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.

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I think the cleanliness of the blade would be less relevant than the massive infection pouring from your pierced guts into the wound.

when “free water” counted as retail innovation

It depends on where you are. Public consumption laws are local.

Named after a man who went on to chair ANSI and be president of ISO. That’s a dude all about measuring things.

There isn’t near the kind of cultural narrative about stepfathers that there is about stepmothers, especially in media for kids. Kids absorb ideas from the fairy tales they see and hear. Stepmoms have to deal with tropes from “Cinderella” to “My Stepmom is An Alien”. Kids will then carry those notions, amorphous and unexamined, into their new relationship. Kids usually don’t have the capacity to recognize those kind of prejudices in themselves. So now the new stepmom has to deal with the kid’s indignance at a fictional character. But aside from the Dursleys in Harry Potter, I’m hard pressed to recall a wicked stepfather.

Then there’s the puritanical thread, and I’m a dude so I don’t even know what else is lurking in our culture that wants to take a piece out of a stepmom for being the second lady in the family.

Not to reduce what a genuinely good dad has to do, step or otherwise. But if a dad manages to use words to explain something calmly, that’s enough to get kudos from strangers on the street. I don’t think the ladies have the benefit of the same uncomplicated expectations, so they need specialized guidance.

What exactly are you looking for in advice? How to deal with the ex and their branch? How to deal with specific behaviors from the kids? You’ll probably do better to search at the level of those topics than the role of stepdad in general.

I’d suggest going for “How to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” series. To be a good step-parent, you need to be a good parent.

Well that’s after the book was mistranslated through version after version.

Utah has an accurate translation that their prophet found by looking into his hat.

Outstanding response and highly relevant username.

I try to save money anyway, so I guess it’ll be ok. At least as long as nobody needs avenged.

“The Dark Beyond the Stars” by Frank Robinson might fit for you. It’s set on a generation ship that can’t find a good landing spot.

Gary Oldman, in the role of a lifetime.

https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4?si=SecXN-QViUqmRQIS

Engineers aren’t in charge of graft.

Sidetalking 2, electric boogaloo

https://sidetalking.com/original/

Not national parks, but Elephant Rock and Johnson Shut-Ins in Missouri are both pretty neat.

The dark forest doesn’t suppose that nobody ever breaks silence. It proposes that anyone that does ends up becoming a cautionary example to the rest.

All it takes is one civilization to shoot off their mouth and get destroyed by a much more advanced neighbor, in some way that doesn’t look quite natural. That will tend to confirm the cosmic paranoia.

Spud Webb - 5’6", won the 1986 NBA dunk contest

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb