[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

After we watch Jeopardy, if we've felt particularly dumb by not having many of the questions, we watch Wheel of Fortune. We often beat the contestants to the answer to the puzzle. Boy do we feel smart when we get the final puzzle and the contestant doesn't get it. Of course, we cheat and pause the screen to give us time.

You and your wife sound pretty good at that trivia stuff. Did you ever think of going on one of those game shows? You are in Cali and I would assume they are filmed here.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

You and your wife sound pretty good at that trivia stuff. Did you ever think of going on one of those game shows? You are in Cali and I would assume they are filmed here.

I used to think about it. My niece and her husband are both 1-day Jeopardy champions and I go toe-to-toe with them when we play Trivial Pursuit. But, I'm too slow now. The only way I can keep up with the younger contestants would be to have a pause button to give me extra time. I don't think they would allow that!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I used to think about it. My niece and her husband are both 1-day Jeopardy champions and I go toe-to-toe with them when we play Trivial Pursuit. But, I'm too slow now. The only way I can keep up with the younger contestants would be to have a pause button to give me extra time. I don't think they would allow that!

Did you ever consider taking one of those OTC 'brain enhancing' products?

Personally, have not looked in to them so don't know anything about them.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Did you ever consider taking one of those OTC 'brain enhancing' products?

Personally, have not looked in to them so don't know anything about them.

My wife subscribes to Lumosity. She plays it almost every day and she loves it. She says it really helps her. I'm going to have to give it a try.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

My wife subscribes to Lumosity. She plays it almost every day and she loves it. She says it really helps her. I'm going to have to give it a try.

Sounds like good exercise.

[vreihen16]

...when you can't open a plastic spring water bottle without getting soaked by its contents! It seems like these new eco-friendly bottles are soooooo thin that you can't even unscrew the lid and break the tamper seal ring without squeezing the bottle so hard that the contents come spraying out.

For the past week, my DW and I were on a long road trip. Whenever the driver asked for some bottled water, the other person would ask if they wanted to drink it or wear it because both of us were making messes opening the water bottles. I thought that it was just us, until I watched an aging relative who we stopped to visit get soaked opening a water bottle from a completely different bottler in another part of the country.

I was thinking about the design for a self-tapping sipper straw, to pierce the side of the water bottle without removing the cap. Then I had a realization that the new eco water bottles were so thin that they might as well be plastic bags like those silly Canadians use for their milk. It should be way easier to ship flat plastic bags to the bottling plant versus empty round bottles, and it might also skirt the bottle/can deposit law because it technically is neither.

If we want to save the planet from plastic waste, I think that a better alternative would be to use paper cartons like milk and juice come in. I know that there's a small beverage company producing drinking water in kid's juice box sippy cartons as an eco alternative. Maybe that's the best solution (*) to prevent us old farts from getting soaked while staying hydrated?????

(*) Mandatory disclaimer - I own a tree farm so I may be biased.....

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when you can't open a plastic spring water bottle without getting soaked by its contents! It seems like these new eco-friendly bottles are soooooo thin that you can't even unscrew the lid and break the tamper seal ring without squeezing the bottle so hard that the contents come spraying out.

For the past week, my DW and I were on a long road trip. Whenever the driver asked for some bottled water, the other person would ask if they wanted to drink it or wear it because both of us were making messes opening the water bottles. I thought that it was just us, until I watched an aging relative who we stopped to visit get soaked opening a water bottle from a completely different bottler in another part of the country.

I was thinking about the design for a self-tapping sipper straw, to pierce the side of the water bottle without removing the cap. Then I had a realization that the new eco water bottles were so thin that they might as well be plastic bags like those silly Canadians use for their milk. It should be way easier to ship flat plastic bags to the bottling plant versus empty round bottles, and it might also skirt the bottle/can deposit law because it technically is neither.

If we want to save the planet from plastic waste, I think that a better alternative would be to use paper cartons like milk and juice come in. I know that there's a small beverage company producing drinking water in kid's juice box sippy cartons as an eco alternative. Maybe that's the best solution (*) to prevent us old farts from getting soaked while staying hydrated?????

(*) Mandatory disclaimer - I own a tree farm so I may be biased.....

Quit holding the middle, hold right near the top

[iminhell1]

*Water Bottles.

They are just difficult for me because I really think I have something going on with my nervous system or just my limbs. I just don't have the feeling I think I should or it seems like the fine motor skills I should. Something like picking a hair off a shirt is not easy for me. Or actually anything where I have to pinch 2 fingers together, like holding a nut on a bolt. It gets me pretty damn frustrated sometimes (all times).

But the only time it manifests into me getting dirty or wet is those damn water bottles.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Then I had a realization that the new eco water bottles were so thin that they might as well be plastic bags like those silly Canadians use for their milk. It should be way easier to ship flat plastic bags to the bottling plant versus empty round bottles, and it might also skirt the bottle/can deposit law because it technically is neither.

The caps are the culprit also. They are so small, you can't even get a good grip on them.

They actually blow the bottles on site in most of the larger/newer plants as opposed to shipping them in. Shipping those empty bottles was a bitch in the summer. If it was too hot and they were on the trailer too long the bottles would melt out of shape, and that was before they were so flimsy.

I can just imagine shipping water in plastic bags.. What could possibly go wrong?

[vreihen16]

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[sygazelle]

...when your first calculator was a slide rule.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when your first calculator was a slide rule.

Or an abacus, for the really ancient.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when your first calculator was a slide rule.

Or an abacus.

Speaking of, that's how I taught my daughter arithmetic when she was a toddler.

Edit: oops, looks like someone beat me to it.

[vreihen16]

...or fingers, for those wondering where base-10 math came from.....

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...or fingers, for those wondering where base-10 math came from.....

I still use my fingers.

[3.0L]

You didn't crap your pants.

So I'm sitting behind a Jeep at a stop light yesterday when I spotted a small sticker on the back. All I could read was, "Honk if...", the rest was in fine print. So, I pulled up a little closer and saw:

Honk if
you shit your pants

Driver had grey hair.

[3798j]

...you were around when Princess Elizabeth took the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II.

[Bonk!]

when you shout at stupid people on Wheel of Fortune.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by 3798j

...you were around when Princess Elizabeth took the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II.

Yes I was, and I still have my First Day of Issue Royal Cover Coronation Postage Stamps (2 1/2d 4d 1s3d 1s6d). Mounted together on a special envelope, and in pristine condition. And yet today, 70 years later worth approximately jack squat. Still cool though.

[M_Six]

HS graduation was 45 years ago yesterday. Eek.

[Esteban]

^^ Couple of old guys up there.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Bonk!

when you shout at stupid people on Wheel of Fortune.

I did that just tonight! Damn, I'm old.

By the way, you're also old if you think Vanna looks young and hot!