Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.

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Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Tom Scola - Apr 20, 2012 9:46:56 am PDT #1828 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

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Devotees will insist that 420 is the penal code section for marijuana use, or the police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress, or the number of chemical compounds in marijuana, or that April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison died. Unless it was Jimi Hendrix, or was that Janis Joplin?

All these theories, and dozens more, are wrong, wrong, wrong.

According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot.


meara - Apr 20, 2012 10:43:43 am PDT #1829 of 30001

OK, question--I suspect that last night's drunkard was probably trying to get into the other townhome at the end of my triplex. I don't know those neighbors at all, except for occasionally seeing them walking in or out--they're renters, and the combo has changed a few times. Is there any appropriate way to ask/warn/remind them that it's NOT OK for them or their guests to scare the shit out of me, wake me up, bang on the door, and then puke on it? (Note, this would not be ok to me even if you were MY guest, but). I mean, it's possible it was not anyone related to them. But.


erikaj - Apr 20, 2012 10:50:11 am PDT #1830 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I know it wasn't when Jimi Hendrix died, because that date is my birthday(Um, not that exact one, like "OMG, guys, they killed Jimi." but three years later


aurelia - Apr 20, 2012 10:56:06 am PDT #1831 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

meara, I would ask the landlord to talk to them.


javachik - Apr 20, 2012 10:57:46 am PDT #1832 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

meara, I think there's no way to approach that with your neighbors based on an assumption. If you saw them ans were already chatty and could tell them what happened without implying at all that they were at all related to it, that would be okay I think. But seeking them out with that as the only point of beginning a conversation with them would not go well, most likely.


meara - Apr 20, 2012 11:03:25 am PDT #1833 of 30001

Yeah, java, that's kind of what I was thinking. I guess I was wondering if there was some sort of "Gosh, this happened to me and I don't know if it also happened to you, be aware" kind of thing, where then possibly the guilty party might be like "So sorry".

In other news...I just got a call from a recruiter for something that, while not my dream job, would be fairly close to it. But that would mean I'd leave this current company (a) right after they finished training me and (b) have that short term thing on my resume. OTOH, I'm really not pleased with the project they assigned me to, and kind of dreading working on it for the next however-long. Asked the recruiter to send me details. Not sure if I should try for it. Ack.


ChiKat - Apr 20, 2012 11:14:22 am PDT #1834 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Because of it being 4/20, we had the drug-sniffing dogs through the school today. We don't have them often, but today? Yeppers.

meara, so glad you called the police last night. That's just scary. And then the "gift" he left you? Would totally piss me off.


flea - Apr 20, 2012 11:31:34 am PDT #1835 of 30001
information libertarian

Sweet fancy Moses, but Cincinnati is segregated. I mean, I knew that, but.

Also, apparently a lot of people live in Ault Park.


Cass - Apr 20, 2012 11:33:40 am PDT #1836 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Is there any appropriate way to ask/warn/remind them that it's NOT OK for them or their guests to scare the shit out of me, wake me up, bang on the door, and then puke on it?

It was a scary / disturbing situation but I think, no, there is no good or appropriate way to accuse your neighbor's of having bad friends. There's the fairly transparent passive aggressive method of leaving a note on all of the doors about your experience as a "courtesy" and "safety" thing. But I think you'd really just be risking having an actively negative relationship with them instead of basically the current nonexistent one.

But it sucks. And I am glad you were careful and called 911 and as disgusting as the vomit is, it probably means drunken mistake and not someone actively trying to cause harm. Smelly silver lining though.


Steph L. - Apr 20, 2012 11:34:54 am PDT #1837 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Also, apparently a lot of people live in Ault Park.

Weird, huh? Same with Mt. Airy Forest.