Raises hand… “What’s a Nubian?”
12 quatloos to whomever gets that.
To whoever gets your goat?
About the pet thread:
My family kept four miniature chickens when I was age 11-13. I’ve never been able to find them on Google or any form of internet search to see what species they were. They were essentially like really big sparrows, but they laid small chicken-like eggs. I’m still trying to find what sort of bird they are exactly.
Bantams?
Damn right
No, they were really just big sparrow-like birds. They were called “miniature chickens” in Taiwan, and laid eggs, but they did not resemble actual chickens. They were these big sparrow like birds that fit in the palm of your hand and laid small chicken-type eggs.
Quail?
Kind of, but I think still not the exact same species.
Is there evidence one way or the other?
As I understand it, the drinking age was raised to 21 in an attempt to cut down on drunk driving. Did it do so? (That is, did instances of drunk driving go down, and if so, is there reason to believe causation rather than just correlation?)
It’s hard to say, because social conventions around drink driving, and the legal treatment of drink driving, also changed.
I oppose the higher drinking age because it’s led to young adults drinking with no adult supervision, and no “norms” around moderate drinking. Binge drinking on college campuses has exploded since the drinking age went up.
There’s an argument that kids shouldn’t be learning to drink and learning to drive at the same time: the drinking age and the driving age should be different. I think we could better serve this purpose with a drinking age of 12. Let kids learn to drink at home, supervised by their parents.
I drank a ton of beer when I was 16-18. A friend’s uncle owned a beer distributorship and my friend would buy cases for anyone who wanted one. We binged hard.
Looking back at that time, we were lucky we mostly survived.
This made me laugh. My gf walks our dogs in the woods, carrying a big golf umbrella as coyote protection. She must have read somewhere about it.
Chasing Amy reference.
[off-topic] I recently joined reddit and made a poll there. I knew reddit was a “big room,” especially compared to here but boy, that poll in a fairly niche sub has 941 votes and 6900 views in 18 hours. [/off-topic]
Same here. It hangs on hook attached to the wall with a suction cup.
We have many squeegies. One in each bathroom, two in the garage for the cars, one in the sunroom, that has an eight foot long handle and multiple heads for washing, rinsing, and squeegieing.
We also have tools to scrape ice off the cars that aren’t exactly squeegees, but are similar in some ways.
I was thinking 14, though I’m rarely brave enough to say so in public.
Lowering the driving age is impractical in most rural areas. But yes indeed, learning to drink while learning to drive – or even learning to drink while licensed to drive – is a bad idea. And I’ll add to this and to your other points: when drinking is something not allowed until one’s 21 – it becomes something Grown Up to do. 18 year olds, and 16 year olds, want to do what the adults can do. So there’s a strong incentive for them to drink illegally and, as you say, without supervision – especially as any adult supervisors often would risk being thrown in jail for doing so. If drinking is something 14 year olds can do – then getting drunk becomes a child’s mistake, not an adult’s goal post. 16 and 18 year olds (and of course older people) don’t want to be seen as silly children.
Thanks.
Mine was an actual livestock reference.
We keep scrapers in the cars during the winter. The wash/squeegee tools are separate things not used for snow or ice.
I have no squeegee.
My sisters and I did, as kids, have guinea pigs, though. Don’t think they appeared in the poll.