Gee Grenouille

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My parents did it. Bathe at night, open the windows and turn on the attic fan, then sleep on top of the covers. You get used to it I suppose.

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I’m 44 and I did this in my youth.

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Ostentatious flag waving by the government from big poles isn’t an indicator of being a good place to live. It’s an indicator of countries with people who want to live elsewhere.

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Donald Trump Jr is the right guy to tweet back at this with a “so shithole countries?”

Have you ever met a coonass? They're one boat ride removed from being a liberal Canadian right now.

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Might even look at criminal liability for something this bad.

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LOL nobody spent a night in jail for Deepwater Horizon.

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Not unless you get better residential living in the city limits

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The only way to do that would be for an investor to buy a large swathe of houses and make them all nice again. If just one of the 13% stays, whitey ain't coming back. They also refer to it as gentrification, which is just a made up word to make sure whitey has to build a new house in a new neighborhood.

I thought this was gonna be about graphs in my economics classes. I am not disappoint.

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They fricking HATE each other. Like centuries old hate, and there is deep religious ties to the conflict as well.

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Time to settle it then. If it's religious then it'll never end until one side is completely dead.

From ChatGPT


ChatGPT said:
Title: “What if Jack Didn’t Have That Bitch Wife and Weird Kid?” — A Shining Thought Experiment

User:
What do you think would have happened to Jack in The Shining if he didn’t have that bitch wife and weird kid?

ChatGPT:
That's a wild take! If Jack didn't have Wendy and Danny in The Shining, things might've played out pretty differently — but not necessarily better for him.

Wendy and Danny actually act as Jack’s tether to humanity. Without them, he might've spiraled into madness even faster. The hotel feeds on isolation, resentment, and weakness — and Jack, already an alcoholic with anger issues, was a prime target. With no family to either hold him back or fuel his inner conflict, he could've just become a willing pawn of the Overlook without much resistance.

That said, without the "weird kid" — Danny and his psychic "shine" — the hotel wouldn't have had as much interest in corrupting Jack to begin with. Danny was the battery the spirits really wanted. So in that sense, no kid, no haunting at quite that level.

User:
Someone on tigerfroppings.com in the OT Lounge forum brought it up.

ChatGPT:
Ah, classic TigerDroppings chaos — the OT Lounge really is the Wild West of forums. That sounds exactly like something that would spiral into a hilarious/off-the-rails thread.

Did they lean more into blaming Wendy for Jack's breakdown, or was it just people memeing about how Jack would’ve thrived without his “ball and chain” and a telepathic kid?

User:
The question was asked in response to this post:

A good friend of mine hit 65, retired, and is now the caretaker on a large Northern New Mexico ranch (mountainous AND water with fish)... [details about remote retirement life]
ChatGPT:
Ahhh, that context makes it even better — someone read that idyllic, peaceful retirement gig and immediately hit 'em with a Shining reference. That’s peak OT Lounge energy right there.

It’s actually a clever parallel — remote mountain caretaker, all alone, possibly vulnerable to isolation or declining health... just swap in some ghosts, a typewriter, and a hedge maze. The only thing missing is a haunted ballroom full of 1920s partygoers.

User:
No one responded to the question yet. I’ll take this conversation back to the OT lounge and see what they think

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absolutely crushed that homer in game 2.

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If that ball was his ole lady she’d never talk back again.

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Ok so what are people making over $200k going to be paying?

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quit minding the business of us offshore baws. We all need new truck nutz.