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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

ursus said:
I have been convinced by Gen Z members of staff to participate in the miniature golf tournament today in the middle of the day. I'm so uncomfortable. HR here is really really into these little activity things, and the Gen Zs always wanna do them. I feel stupid.
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I'd feel the same as you. Especially that I don't play mini or life size golf.

Try to have fun. You can impart some wisdom to the Gen Z's. Something about how much aluminum foil to wrap on the TV antenna to get the best signal.
 
michaelskis said:
I am not a happy person at the moment. It looks like someone has had access to the lunch money account for my oldest and has emptied it little by little since school started. My oldest in absolute that he has not used it all year and has not purchased anything.
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Using a secret discord server, your 14 year old secretly contacted the Greater Buffalo Niagara Parental Money Exchange (GBNPME), a non-profit organization dedicated to redistributing parental wealth to low-income children in South America so they can buy Mountian Dew. Its tax dedecutible, dont worry.
 
ursus said:
I have been convinced by Gen Z members of staff to participate in the miniature golf tournament today in the middle of the day. I'm so uncomfortable. HR here is really really into these little activity things, and the Gen Zs always wanna do them. I feel stupid.
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The last one of those I dragged myself to was a happy hour at a bar with a couple of bocci ball courts in its basement - the junior staff thought it would be hilarious to name the teams playing bocci "Gen Z" and "Old People". I was so irritated that I refused to put down my beer for my throws, and I still beat those snot-nosed kids like a rented mule. :cool:
 
ursus said:
I have been convinced by Gen Z members of staff to participate in the miniature golf tournament today in the middle of the day. I'm so uncomfortable. HR here is really really into these little activity things, and the Gen Zs always wanna do them. I feel stupid.
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Do it.

And bore them to death with 'elder' wisdom about wearing a big yellow onion on your belt because the war and make up the most ludicrous 'advice' as possible and watch them squirm.

Or make every other sentence a dad joke and/or full of Gen X slang. Make them suffer for this indignity

Bubba said:
The last one of those I dragged myself to was a happy hour at a bar with a couple of bocci ball courts in its basement - the junior staff thought it would be hilarious to name the teams playing bocci "Gen Z" and "Old People". I was so irritated that I refused to put down my beer for my throws, and I still beat those snot-nosed kids like a rented mule. :cool:
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skating old man GIF
 
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JNA said:
Around here we had 2 minature golf courses that have been converted -
both into vacant lots
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The only(?) mini-golf course left in my hometown is also the longest contiunusouly operated mini golf course in the State of Michigan.

It is such a piece of the native diaspora's nostlagia that every summer the customers keep coming. And it's adjacent to the nicest City Lake Huron beach.

I love Lee's Miniature Golf.
 
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Spoke with the school this morning and they know who it is and while they didn't say this, it sounds like there have been past issues. They asked if we want to press charges and after speaking with my wife, we will be. The amount is high enough that it will be class A misdemeanor larceny and identity theft.
 
mendelman said:
The only(?) mini-golf course left in my hometown is also the longest continuously operated mini golf course in the State of Michigan.

It is such a piece of the native diaspora's nostalgia that every summer the customers keep coming. And it's adjacent to the nicest City Lake Huron beach.

I love Lee's Miniature Golf.
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Actually there two more a bit outside of the City, but still in the 'community'

Dinosaur Gardens and Arzo Park

Lee's is still the best and best location.
 
michaelskis said:
Update:

Spoke with the school this morning and they know who it is and while they didn't say this, it sounds like there have been past issues. They asked if we want to press charges and after speaking with my wife, we will be. The amount is high enough that it will be class A misdemeanor larceny and identity theft.
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Kinda floored that paid lunch is still a thing in schools.. but yanno, California is a failed state /s
 
Getting annoyed at my departments use of the term natural grade. There is no natural grade. It is all finished grade. Trying to call the ground around your house natural is like a celebrity saying they haven't had work done.
 
DVD said:
Getting annoyed at my departments use of the term natural grade. There is no natural grade. It is all finished grade. Trying to call the ground around your house natural is like a celebrity saying they haven't had work done.
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Natural grade is non-existent in our newest subdivisions. Mass grading and massive retaining walls tames the toughest slopes. It's all finished grade. Of course, nothing is flat here without tons of engineering, so it all looks out of place.
 
Everything is flat here except for the mountains, but everything is developed here so even the mountains are hard to call natural grade.
 
DVD said:
Getting annoyed at my departments use of the term natural grade. There is no natural grade. It is all finished grade. Trying to call the ground around your house natural is like a celebrity saying they haven't had work done.
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I also hate that term. If there ever was a natural grade I sure as hell don't have any idea what it was anymore! Unless NASA is going to make these determinations for us SHUT UP with the natural grade talk. Your house is too tall, get over it! :)
 
See what happens when I am a) in the habit of getting to work early, so I can beat traffic and get a walk in, and b) get a full hour lunch?

That weight I lost while out of work may stay off.

Fernley City Hall, by the way, may hold the record for “most randomly-placed government building.” It’s in a low-slung, low-density residential area (but PF zoned), not downtown where it belongs. There is, however, a small park across the street* and a library next door. No matter: the work we do inside is what counts.

* a collector street, even. Not an arterial or thoroughfare.
 

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