Hikermick @ Hikermick @lemmy.world

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When parking i can get a good view of the immediate area, it's easy to spot pedestrians and oncoming cars. Pulling out is easy. If I have to back out I don't have such a good view. Yeah I get a look as I approach my car but by the time I sit down, click my seat belt, start the car, someone i didn't see could be coming along.

There is always the possibility the clog isn't in the toilet itself but further down the drain. You can test this by running faucets and seeing if the sinks drain properly

US here. I got my first "home computer" a TRS-80 CoCo (16k RAM) sometime around 1981 before PCs were a thing. The internet existed but cost around $7 US per hour plus it was a long distance call to Compuserve the only ISP which would have cost around 50 cents a minute (on a 1200 baud dial up modem). I still have an advertisement somewhere. Also i have a thin book of websites. You had to type in the IP address because domain names didn't exist yet. I couldn't afford any of this so I visited BBS's though I did fumble around with the internet on public library computers. The Macintosh and PCs came out a few years later but few homes had one because they were expensive and you couldn't do much with them besides play games. Businesses of course had them because they were useful. It wasn't until the mid 90's did everyone buy one after the internet got popular.

This one is from nearly 30 years ago. In my dream I'm approached by 2 policemen who tell me my father has been killed and they need me to come with them for questioning. I'm 100% sure my father is alive and this is all a misunderstanding. I get in the back of their police car laughing that it's all a waste of time but whatever, no worries. As the car is rolling along I'm looking out the windows as the landscape gradually changes. First it was all tall pine trees then became rocky, then nothing but rocks. While still moving it all fades away and the car disappears and I'm flying. The only other thing I remember is seeing a bird flying with me. It's a bird I've never seen before even though I'm a bit of a backyard birder. There were teardrop shaped things trailing behind it's wings as if attached by strings. Truly unusual looking. I wake up in the morning and I'm convinced I was tricked into leaving my body by these men claiming to be policemen. Fast forward to just a few weeks ago, someone posts video of a nightjar. A nocturnal bird that looks just like the one in my dream! https://youtu.be/8XqqlC_MoWk

Not many people owned a PC before the internet blew up

Back in my day, if a lady did this in front of you, you were expected to tuck a dollar in her wasteband.

I'm secretly hoping for another housing crash so I can afford a larger house and have my dad move in with me. Donald Trump seems to be my best chance at that

Apparently you're the only one. Fox New's Half Hour News Hour didn't last long. https://youtu.be/KCl_--E3T2c It was their attempt to copy The Daily Show and even the title was recycled. It didn't last long

It's always cringy when "the right" can't come up with an original idea so they imitate something successful on "the left" and swap out words and think it'll get anywhere

No I'm a dick with a full head of flowing lovely hair

Looks like a dick with a toupe

In 1991 two small businesses were busted for being fronts for illegal gambling parlors. 30 Cleveland cops were part of the bust. I lived next to both of them at one time. One was a t-shirt printing shop, I forget what the other was. A year later I moved into a neighborhood that had a pizza shop with a very nice sign, no windows and never seemed to be open. It was not uncommon to see a patrol car parked in front

Is it wrong i like being the little spoon?

Here's the Futureshock documentary I was show in high-school around 1982 for anyone interested https://youtu.be/fkUwXenBokU

Other than the occasional ibuprofen or allergy pill I take zero at 58 years

Now we have a president, vice president and secretary of Defense that wear make up and they're all dudes. I'm all for people being who they want be, gender norms be damned but the hypocrisy is palpable

Imagine being the factory worker making fleshlights.

In this context, fecal is funnier. Feral doesn't make much sense

Zoning sounds terrible until your next door neighbor starts running an auto repair shop out of his garage.

"Mixed use" is also a thing. I know of plenty of examples here in the US, I have lived in one of them. New construction consisting of living space above retail is actually kinda trendy right now.

Also if you live above a greasy diner expect cockroaches

Sounds maybe a plumbing problem.