Episode 757: Hot Dog Cannon and Ball Washing
Added 2024-04-04 04:10:06 +0000 UTCComments
My mom started smoking at 11. At 7, I declared I was old enough to smoke too. (You know what's coming...) She put the cigarette in my mouth, lit it and had me breathe real deep. I only ever tried one more time in 5th grade when a friend stole his parent's nearly empty pack. We all (him, his bother and I) chocked on a single puff each. I don't know how anyone continues after a single puff.
Asymetra
2024-06-07 01:03:48 +0000 UTCWhen Columbine happened, there was already an average of 26 school shooting a year. Before Columbine, they usually occurred where we expected them (aka, "inner-city" schools), so they didn't make the news, instead being reserved for "expose" pieces so journalists can feel good about "hard-hitting" topics. I remember watching one long before Columbine. Columbine was the white-awakening for school shootings. (Not the Stockton, CA school shooting that occurred 10 years prior, but then again, that was CA and every tragedy in CA is deemed as deserved.) Also, I hate to think of it this way, Columbine tacitly opened up the market for white, middleclass school shootings.
Asymetra
2024-06-07 00:55:54 +0000 UTCI remember the 3 Stooges being mildly amusing as a child. (There wasn't exactly a lot of TV, being only 3 channels.) I don't actually recall laughing at anything. But, once I got older, I could appreciate the subtle jokes outside of the slapstick stuff, like the name of their law firm, Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe. It strikes me that at that time, TV was very influential in shaping culture, while also remaining homogenous, and very white.
Asymetra
2024-06-07 00:38:28 +0000 UTCI can't remember what the cogdis email is, and they don't seem to read it on the show any more, so maybe they will read this. How I clean my ferret ball pit (beer pong balls). Either, fill bathtub with bleach and water, dump them in and stir it every few minutes before draining and rinsing. Or, far easier and better, dump them all in the washer with detergent and bleach and run it on a delicate no spin warm cycle. I imagine the same would work for big balls in an industrial washer
Ferret Maestro
2024-04-09 13:01:22 +0000 UTC@Cecil - I had to laugh at your smoking outdoors story. Like Tom, I've never smoked, but back in the day I worked in the federal public service in Australia and smoking was still legal at work. A lot of the job was answering phonecalls and there was one woman I worked with who had this utter Pavlovian response. The minute her phone rang, it was the signal for her to have a smoke. She was so fast on the cigarette lighter πΉ Love to you both Amanda (motorbike lady)
Amanda
2024-04-05 04:22:22 +0000 UTCI used to watch live pd all the time. Was not boring usually. There was a car flip once and the kid was rescued on live tv.
Anthony Fieno
2024-04-04 21:58:25 +0000 UTCNo diapers, but plenty of greasy, unrecognizable gunk to be found. I canβt imagine we got them terribly clean, but it was at least a chance to clean out the pit itself which was the dirtiest part
Mark H
2024-04-04 12:01:14 +0000 UTCI cleaned the ball pit. We bagged up all the balls in nets, threw them in the back of a pickup truck and took them to the car wash. It wasnβt quite as gross as I expected, but it was gross
Mark H
2024-04-04 11:48:04 +0000 UTCHow I washed the daycare Ball pit: collect all the balls in plastic bins. Sweep/vacuum the area. Clean pit with hot water and diluted bleach. Dry with towels. Then fill a large kiddie pool with hot water and diluted bleach. Dump all balls in water. Get a team of kids. A couple kids with gloves and a sponge to take out a ball and quickly wash it. Second team with towels to vaguely dry them, chuck them into a dry kiddie pool. Wait until dry enough, then put balls back in pit. I did this every few days. Mind you, I didn't work there. But the concept of the ball pit from childhood (born 1989) made me appreciate the magic of ball pits, while a failed attempt at a virology degree made me appreciate good ol' hot water and bleach. I volunteered to do this. Because parenthood is one hell of a drug.
Jessica Oudbier
2024-04-04 05:45:03 +0000 UTCSame
Tammy DeWael
2024-04-04 05:26:54 +0000 UTCMy primary school (grade 1-7) didnβt even have a fence.
Andrew Lindsay
2024-04-04 04:23:46 +0000 UTCWow, school being locked. Thatβs not a thing in Australia.
Andrew Lindsay
2024-04-04 04:22:54 +0000 UTC
