The majority of a small child's activities are a genuine threat to the child's life.

I'm naturally prone to anger, so were my parents, in my experience with my parents, and my kids, the line is how you react once angry.

I believe people in the US care about history, but it's around the person, legend, myth, not around objects.

Firearm auctions are pretty common. High bids are definitely often about person/legend/myth, like being at a famous battle, but many others are pretty much just the gun. I think that's because they're relatively common, affordable, usable, and easy to preserve. There's one Girl with a Pearl Earring made of canvas but millions of wood and metal Lee-Enfield rifles.

Cars seem like they'd be similar but I don't know any car collectors. I've also heard of antique furniture auctions, very curious what those collectors are like.

Excuse me, I think you mean Heelys.

My best friend and I still look at each other and say "What? Your mom buy you a Puter for Christmas". That movie had style.

When I was in school it was Hanson's mmmbop, but it didn't work so well because everyone where I was from didn't have so much so it was embraced.

I'll never not upvote The Ministry for the Future. It was such an interesting book once I could get my mind in the space of what it was doing.

People like you are the best type of people out there.

Wild is a nice way of saying crushing my soul. I've worked at companies that give you 10 days, that they choose, for your first five years. I have no clue why we do this to ourselves other than the person in charge is not bound by it, and one day we all hope to be in charge.

> “I've worked at companies that give you 10 days, _that they choose_, for your first five years.”

They choose? I’ve worked in a lot of companies in a lot of parts of the US, and have never heard of employers choosing a worker’s vacation days. That’s awful.

I think they're talking about holidays. Like Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. Pretty much every US company does this.

Wait, basically every single company in the world gives you their local bank holidays off, here in the US we have 10-15 of those depending on what your particular company decides to give, and then additionally I have yet to hear of a white collar company that doesn’t also give you at a min 12, but lately I’ve seen 15-20 be the norm.

Most countries in the world don't do the 'depending on what your particular company decides to give'. California recognizes 18 holidays. Average holidays given is 6 (https://money.com/columbus-day-who-has-to-work-why/)

Lately I've seen a lot of 'unlimited' - read as less than your boss takes

In Europe 20 is the legal minimum

Unlimited isn't the worst possible vacation situation, but it can definitely be bad depending largely on your boss.

I took a job with "unlimited vacation" at one company and then AFTER I started my boss "explained" to me that "Unlimited means 4 weeks here." About two months after I started I was moved to a different team new boss. My new boss (same company) had clear deliverables and said, "Unlimited means Unlimited so long as you hit your deliverables." Glad I was moved to a new team.

I don't own anything at all, but my wife sure does have a lot of stuff I use often that she never uses, and happen to be in a men's large.

G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame once said something on his radio show along the lines of "well, as a convicted felon, I'm not allowed to own firearms. However, Mrs. Liddy has a large collection that she occasionally allows me to use under her supervision."