The General Chat Thread (2024)

medtran49 said:
Get a motion sensor for the stairs, or get a bed alarm, unless he gets up for the bathroom in the night.
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Yep. Motion sensor on the stairs would do it. Only problem is I would have to get up and go down. Because i am down here already I can often stay in bed and tell him to go back up. If he doesn't go, I monitor him by listening in my semi sleep state. If he does anything odd I will wake up.
 
So we are staying at a resort in Tennessee until Sunday, which is when we head south to our eventual destination in Florida (overnight in Alabama on the way). It's a timeshare resort and we agreed to sit through one of their member updates where they try to sell members additional timeshare products. We got a $75 gift card in exchange for listening to the sales spiel and it was worth the hour spent doing so (plus today was cloudy, cool, and scattered showers so we didn't have anything better to do, other than go spend the gift card at the grocery store after).

So the salesperson was a complete whacko. We sat down with her and within the first few minutes, she said something like, "Well I don't know where you stand with politics" and I already knew I wasn't going to like it. She said, "Did you know that the government has lithium batteries on the bottom of the ocean floor that helps them control the weather?" I just told her to stop right there, and she moved on with her sales spiel. I was irritated for the duration.

I know where she got her misinformation and it's just unbelievable to me that people are so stupid to believe whatever lies some congresswoman from Georgia is spreading around. I knew there were some bassackwards people in Tennessee, but geeze! Otherwise having a nice time here...
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I know where she got her misinformation and it's just unbelievable to me that people are so stupid to believe whatever lies some congresswoman from Georgia is spreading around. I knew there were some bassackwards people in Tennessee, but geeze! Otherwise having a nice time here...
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Unfortunately, it's not just some congresswoman...
 
JAS_OH1 said:
So we are staying at a resort in Tennessee until Sunday, which is when we head south to our eventual destination in Florida (overnight in Alabama on the way). It's a timeshare resort and we agreed to sit through one of their member updates where they try to sell members additional timeshare products. We got a $75 gift card in exchange for listening to the sales spiel and it was worth the hour spent doing so (plus today was cloudy, cool, and scattered showers so we didn't have anything better to do, other than go spend the gift card at the grocery store after).

So the salesperson was a complete whacko. We sat down with her and within the first few minutes, she said something like, "Well I don't know where you stand with politics" and I already knew I wasn't going to like it. She said, "Did you know that the government has lithium batteries on the bottom of the ocean floor that helps them control the weather?" I just told her to stop right there, and she moved on with her sales spiel. I was irritated for the duration.

I know where she got her misinformation and it's just unbelievable to me that people are so stupid to believe whatever lies some congresswoman from Georgia is spreading around. I knew there were some bassackwards people in Tennessee, but geeze! Otherwise having a nice time here...
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Oh dear. She sounds unwell.
Unless it’s normal to open a conversation with strangers on politics? Here it would be like you say an immediate “whacko” warning.
Even so $75 sounds good, hope that bought some nice goodies?
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Oh dear. She sounds unwell.
Unless it’s normal to open a conversation with strangers on politics? Here it would be like you say an immediate “whacko” warning.
Even so $75 sounds good, hope that bought some nice goodies?
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No. It's rude to discuss politics with strangers (and risky these days to have that conversation with acquaintances and sometimes friends and family members) and it's downright crazy what she was saying. But here in a "red" right-wing state, it's probably a common belief and just because her neighbor's wife's best friend's cousin said it was true, she believed it. People like this woman actually believe that the left-wing government is manipulating the weather for hurricanes to hit republican states so that they have a better chance of winning the election. SMH.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
No. It's rude to discuss politics with strangers (and risky these days to have that conversation with acquaintances and sometimes friends and family members) and it's downright crazy what she was saying. But here in a "red" right-wing state, it's probably a common belief and just because her neighbor's wife's best friend's cousin said it was true, she believed it. People like this woman actually believe that the left-wing government is manipulating the weather for hurricanes to hit republican states so that they have a better chance of winning the election. SMH.
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It’s just frightening.
 
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