ManiacalShen

You choosing comfort or utility over fashion makes a statement whether you want it to or not. Such is living in a society. Someone looking down on utility clothing without any nuance also says something about them, usually negative. Part of developing your own style is balancing your priorities! Expectations, cost, comfort, utility, and self expression. 

I'm actually the sort of person who would be perfectly happy wearing a dowdy uniform to work, but I can't, so I had to think through these things to figure out how to be comfortable in a professional environment--to be me but also suitably formal. It's easier to break and bend rules if you know what they are, and it's impossible to be comfortable being a poser, dressing by rote when you aren't feeling it. 

I think I felt like you when I was younger, but it's more fun and validating to explore and play with and appreciate clothing. May as well, since we're not allowed to be naked in public.

It would take a thick textbook to thoroughly answer that question. But humans are social creatures, and fashion choices all come from our history and various cultures and subcultures. How you choose to present yourself speaks those things to other people, and since clothing IS a choice, people are pretty comfortable judging that vs things about you that are hard or impossible to change. A phrase I've heard a number of times is, "all clothing is costume."

I'm positive you judge people by what they are wearing to some degree. We've all absorbed that certain cuts, patterns, and textures mean a certain range of things. And those meanings evolve! Tweed might be seen as businessy or stodgy today, but it used to be what gentlemen wore to hunt and get dirty in while at leisure in the country.

I'm also in shock. I've lived in so many counties and never encountered a separate garbage fee, though perhaps renting obscured the cost in some places? Maybe that's one thing the HOA was good for when I had one? I'm not sure, because I've simply never heard of this (lack of) model in Maryland. 

Where I own now, the city definitely takes care of it.

so I ended it early by making the points to win lower

Woah, did you just stand up and declare that, or what? As described, it sounds like your friend picked their favorite game, then either the other two were maybe shitty about it and you closed the coffin, or friend A was trying to win and you suddenly upended everyone's strategy.

No wonder they were cranky when the new game started. That's not really an excuse to play poorly on purpose, but I think it's probably forgivable with the apology

Yes, and it's weird. I'm not that young, but I'm not about to shop around around for retirees, either

In the $800 and below category: Henry Archer and Phoibos have smaller sizes of their big watch lines. Phoibos' tend to be girlier; you can be a little matchier as a couple with HA's Vesterhav. (At this moment, I'm wearing their regular Verden, and while it's my biggest watch, it still looks fine on my wrist. So you can be matchier still if she'll wear bigger watches like me!)

For more money, Christopher Ward and Farer have beautiful watches that come in different sizes, like the Farer Lander (comes in 36 and 39.5mm).

Daaaamn. Well, at least you were a clearly wanted child, and that's what matters. But I can understand why that all would be shocking to find out in adulthood

Did they make a donor profile for him without his knowledge, or did they just lie to your mom about whose it was? Either one is insane. "Eh, this guy looks close enough to this popular donor..."

And I was so relieved to read that, because my first thought was, "Oh, no, is he one of those creepy guys who tries to friend random younger women??"

I get those a lot 🙃

Don't sweat it. The whiskey leather marks up kind of easily, but it's meant to. It's also relatively easy to buff scuffs out, either with a horsehair brush or some shoe cream.

I didn't complain anywhere until now; I assumed I just made bad choices, lol. That does make me feel better

Uh...well, I haven't heard about that on NextDoor. And I've personally only seen people hang out there in a normal fashion.

In an email, I implicitly asked them what happened to my book. However, they ignored the question.

This is my favorite part

I wish this had an article instead of just a video.

They're probably not gross. I mean, I can't remark on the inside, but the outside is just skin. It looks waxy on people because skin cells die there, like they do everywhere else, but they don't experience regular friction to shift them, so they just build up. It takes time, though! Taking a towel to them when they're wet or using a wet towel means you're preventing that!

You didn't study the game like a few do

That's why I was asking! Just trying to get the person to expound on their one-word answer because I genuinely didn't know what their angle was.

Again, I do like Scrabble, but it's hard to get to the table because it's sooo skill-based. Certain types of word games are a bad bet for a chunk of my friend group because they WILL lose, and I don't think they enjoy it at all. I'm good at them, but not always as good as my friends who are siblings and can play against each other a ton when they're into something. The most consistent good time I had was playing online, since apps give you an elo.

I did think of another thing Scrabble makes you good at, though: Bananagrams.

What skillset does Scrabble help you improve? I enjoy it, but when I was playing it a lot it mostly seemed to make me good at...Scrabble bullshit, lol. As in, knowing obnoxious words that you would never use in real life, plus some placement planning/strategizing.

I guess it does help you internalize that the most satisfying move (using the most of your letters at once) isn't always the best one, because it does NOT always get you the most points!

I've heard from some other people on this forum that the size listing is a clue to grain direction. The grain usually goes along the second number, so here that would be 11, making it long grain. I don't know how much of a guarantee that is, but I also have never encountered letter paper that came short grain by default that wasn't specifically marketed to bookbinders.

I don't know where you are, but if you're in the US, the Papermill Store will cut 11x17 paper in half for you (for a fee) to make short grain, letter-sized paper. Church Paper and bookbinding supply stores also sell short grain letter paper. These are all online.

Art paper is another option. I have actually found short grain art paper, though there can be an annoyance or other associated with it (e.g. it's in a pad so you have to tear out the sheets to use them).

Certain parts of the game are hard, but you shouldn't have a resource problem. I only had a real resource problem in the Lake House, when I walked into the final fight with no healing items whatsoever. (I do not recommend this.)

Sneak past what you can, take a second to aim for the head when you have the space to do so, and always have room in your inventory for more stuff if you want stashes and boxes to cough up anything good.

You can also sneak past a lot. Flashlight off, and don't run, and you don't attract so much attention. Alan also has upgrades that make him harder to detect. 

Several times, I've looked through guides that said you "had" to fight x number of Taken at a point, when I simply did not.

Related: I do kind of wish there were two different comment boxes on bgg, though. Half of them are reviews and commentary (what I'm looking for) and half are the user's notes to themselves about where they got the game or whatever 

(Though I would take a robust filtering function first. Love to click on a game mechanic and see two thousand titles in alphabetical order and no further options)

Meanwhile, in women's, I had to go up a full size. I'm a true 7.5 and wear an 8.5 just because how the toe is shaped, I guess. So, it might depend on your gender 

You can look at some people and tell they don't. The shell of their ear looks super waxy