Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C. S. Lewis

I keep telling my kids, who war with the impulse to be too cool and grownup for stuff they liked five minutes ago, relatively speaking, to not just pitch that all in the trash. Clean the good stuff up, pack it away in a box, and be thrilled in a few years to bring it back out again.

 

[prabe]

I keep telling my kids, who war with the impulse to be too cool and grownup for stuff they liked five minutes ago, relatively speaking, to not just pitch that all in the trash. Clean the good stuff away, pack it in a box, and be thrilled in a few years to bring it back out again.

Or maybe not, but if it's still in good shape someone else can plausibly enjoy it.

 

[trappedslider]

it's cool to see nature healing

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

it's cool to see nature healing

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After so many years of missteps, it was great to see my local B&N start to get good again (starting with not devoting one-third of their floor space to the Nook, long after that ship had sailed). Love to see them coming back. Someone needs to get ambitious and bring back Borders, which was an even better experience back in the day.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Given the age profile on ENWorld I wouldn’t be shocked if some posters had dealt with Ea-Nasir personally.

I resemble that remark.

 

[billd91]

Wow, someone's certainly in a petulant mood!

Yeah, and I wonder if we're thinking of the same person.

 

[RealAlHazred]

it's cool to see nature healing

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Hmmm... Maybe it's time for my venture capital firm to acquire B&N and transfer all of our debts to it...

 

[RealAlHazred]

My daughter spent much of yesterday afternoon and evening throwing up. She's two, and has been sick with a virus since she started preschool at the start of November, but this was new. She threw up about eight or nine times yesterday afternoon to this morning. Took her in to Urgent Care, and the doctor found she had a double ear infection. I'm reasonably certain she didn't have it when we flew down because she didn't complain at all, and I'd think she'd have complained a lot what with the pressurization.

She's on an anti-emetic and anti-biotics right now, so hopefully will be fine for when we fly back in four days. But it's still a sleepless night worrying about your little one, and also doing two full loads of laundry because of the throw-up. Comes with the territory, I guess! It's an Xmas miracle!

 

[overgeeked]

I have a childish sense of humor. I posted the word bewbies some days back and had a giggle at it. I take things seriously when I need to. Maybe I don't take enough things seriously enough. I do my job. I pay my bills. I take care of those I care about. I also stand up for the little guy, whoever that little guy might be. I use my childish sense of humor to mock the guy in power because he deserves it. I know what's important. If I take things too seriously, the stressed would probably kill me. So yeah I come here and post stupid and annoying stuff most of the time. It's who I am. It's my process. It doesn't mean I don't stand in awe of the intelligence, wisdom, and creativity I see here all the time. I'm not just jealous of the one guy because of his perky goth wife. I'm jealous of a lot of people here for a lot of different things. Again I lean on my childish sense of humor to compensate.

My wife and I have similar childish senses of humor. We're basically stuck as 12-year-olds in that regard. Though she can be serious when she needs to be, I'm almost allergic to seriousness. I don't trust it. My sense of humor also has a mile-wide black streak to it. So I kind of live in a perpetual state of tonal whiplash.

 

[billd91]

My daughter spent much of yesterday afternoon and evening throwing up. She's two, and has been sick with a virus since she started preschool at the start of November, but this was new. She threw up about eight or nine times yesterday afternoon to this morning. Took her in to Urgent Care, and the doctor found she had a double ear infection. I'm reasonably certain she didn't have it when we flew down because she didn't complain at all, and I'd think she'd have complained a lot what with the pressurization.

She's on an anti-emetic and anti-biotics right now, so hopefully will be fine for when we fly back in four days. But it's still a sleepless night worrying about your little one, and also doing two full loads of laundry because of the throw-up. Comes with the territory, I guess! It's an Xmas miracle!

Oh, I've been... maybe not exactly there... but in a similar neighborhood. Sounds like she's having a pretty rough time of it. I don't want to just say "It gets better" because it's still pretty tough to get through. But assuming her immune system isn't compromised by something else (always a present caveat), it is getting a workout and will strengthen as a result. Good luck with the rest of the holidays.

And hitting in the height of the holiday season doesn't help. Several years back, my wife had intense chest pains on Christmas Eve. Turned out to probably be related to a bad drug reaction (she doesn't get along well with morphine and morphine-related drugs and she was on one post-surgery), but the ambulance arriving late Dec 24th, the EMTs hauling her down the stairs on a gurney, and then going to the ER - not a great evening for me and the kids. But - she recovered and hasn't had a repeat performance (at least not of that - long COVID and breast cancer, sure, but not the chest pains).