Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

Re: houses & renovations

While you’re doing all your various fixer-upper projects, adding safety bars to your bathrooms should be on the list for any home you plan to live in 10+ years.

My folks built our current house in 1998. Safety rails were planned in the initial build, but were forgotten by the builder. They installed rails in every bathroom a couple years later. Not 3 weeks after installation, they saved MY neck when my right foot improbably hydroplaned out from under me.

And a few years after that, those rails got additional use when I was recovering from an ACL/MCL repair surgery.

I'm sure (no pun intended) that this is going to bite me on the ass at some point. Towel holders are a poor substitute.

 

[payn]

Re: houses & renovations

While you’re doing all your various fixer-upper projects, adding safety bars to your bathrooms should be on the list for any home you plan to live in 10+ years.

My folks built our current house in 1998. Safety rails were planned in the initial build, but were forgotten by the builder. They installed rails in every bathroom a couple years later. Not 3 weeks after installation, they saved MY neck when my right foot improbably hydroplaned out from under me.

And a few years after that, those rails got additional use when I was recovering from an ACL/MCL repair surgery.

While I prefer a nice classic two story, im gonna appreciate my rambler more as the years go by.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That's good advice, @Dannyalcatraz. I've already identified a few handrails that need tightening/replacing; might as well add a few others.

And it’s easier to do if/when everything is already ripped up than later down the road.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm sure (no pun intended) that this is going to bite me on the ass at some point. Towel holders are a poor substitute.

In fact, we replaced some of our towel holders with safety bars.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I wish Medusa would stop objectifying people

 

[prabe]

Ya know, if the vast majority of people doing it manage to make it work, maybe it's not the problem you think it is. I mean, you're probably not so vastly superior to everyone else as all-a-that.

 

[el-remmen]

I just said this in a convo with someone else but it felt too good not to share here. . .

Sometimes the ENWorld forums* feel like the Fox News of RPGs, I experience cognitive dissonance between what many posters on here report as the RPG (particularly D&D) experience and my own experience. The former seems to reflect a world of angry isolated gamers who will not budge from their positions and are just looking to have their position "win," while the latter suggests that in general people are more open to trying things and/or letting others play how they want without thinking of it as an attack on their way of life.

*note I said the forums. ENworld news actually seems fair and balanced.

 

[Staffan]

I just said this in a convo with someone else but it felt too good not to share here. . .

Sometimes the ENWorld forums* feel like the Fox News of RPGs, I experience cognitive dissonance between what many posters on here report as the RPG (particularly D&D) experience and my own experience. The former seems to reflect a world of angry isolated gamers who will not budge from their positions and are just looking to have their position "win," while the latter suggests that in general people are more open to trying things and/or letting others play how they want without thinking of it as an attack on their way of life.

*note I said the forums. ENworld news actually seems fair and balanced.

I suspect it's a "squeaky wheel" thing – people who are loud and obnoxious get all the attention. People who are laid back and don't feel the need to defend their tastes or, worse, foist them on others won't be posting repeatedly in various discussion threads. At most, they'll make a post or two stating their position and then peace out.

 

[prabe]

I suspect it's a "squeaky wheel" thing – people who are loud and obnoxious get all the attention. People who are laid back and don't feel the need to defend their tastes or, worse, foist them on others won't be posting repeatedly in various discussion threads. At most, they'll make a post or two stating their position and then peace out.

I suspect most of the more relaxed people you're describing will not be participating in a thread past the tenth or so page, or whenever it devolves into one of the standard recurring arguments. They'll drop out, and they won't join (though they might look in from time to time, out of morbid curiosity).

 

[The Soloist]

I suspect it's a "squeaky wheel" thing – people who are loud and obnoxious get all the attention. People who are laid back and don't feel the need to defend their tastes or, worse, foist them on others won't be posting repeatedly in various discussion threads. At most, they'll make a post or two stating their position and then peace out.

Correct. I give one or two replies and then move on. I'm retired and don't have time to discuss all day on forums.