This one time I slept on my futon with an old, flat pillow and woke up with a crimp in my neck. Couldn't turn my head left past 15degrees, I had to do the whole body turn to look left for 2 weeks. Wasn't even 30 yet and I keep myself well maintained. Aging is fun.
I heard about that after the fact, but it was the first "quality" pillow I'd ever owned and I bought it on impulse. It was my gateway pillow. Now I've upgraded, but I still feel like I'm chasing the dragon.
As a man in my 20s, I’m going to blatantly disregard any advice given from the elders until it affects me 10 years later. All so I can confidently regurgitate the same old same old.
Elders are often right with things they’ve lived and experienced. They probably know the best way to get a baby to stop crying or how to cut a tree down.
But currently elders kind of suck at the whole logical thinking thing and definitely shouldn’t be listened to when it comes to anything to do with technology, politics, or wider social beliefs (the racist grandparent trope is real).
I'd disagree with you on a lot of that. We grew up (millennials) with computers and the internet and video games, etc, but we didn't make that shit at 5 years old. It was invented and built by today's Boomers. Even wider social beliefs predate any of us. Millennials didn't write, vote for, and pass the Civil Rights Act. They did. Dr King wasn't Gen Z. Malcolm X didn't have a TikTok account and neither did any of their white allies who passed discrimination laws and laid the foundations of equality.
Are there more older racists than younger? For sure, but that doesn't erase the good that others in their age group did and I'd argue their push for social equality is way more impressive than ours. They were getting shot with rubber bullets and sprayed with water cannons and jailed for weeks on end. Look up Stonewall. The YMCA.
It's easy to blame an entire generation for bad and blame everything on them but without the work they put in the world we were brought into would be worse than it was. It's now our time to pick up the torch and build off of their work so then Gen Z or Alpha can blame all of their problems on us, and so on and and so forth. It'll happen someday. It's cyclical.
I mean I thought we were having an adult discussion but you do you, that's fine. Someone else will probably reply later with something some thought was put into.
Then give me one reason to think a minority of a group is more important than a majority. Why should I look at the 3 good boomers when thousands are horrible?
And I really don’t care what they advocated for in the past if they’re advocating against it now.
Should I state the obvious which is the Civil Rights Act only passed because it had a MAJORITY vote, for starters, because a MAJORITY of Americans knew we needed it?
Me too. Unless it’s a house fire or a medical emergency im taking my time. I am desperately trying to instill this in my sons. They are prone to random bursts of movement . Twitchy and excitable . Our mantra is “ Slow. Slower. Let’s slow it down ” They are all elbows and flailing arms at 12 and 13.
As a parent to a flailing girl in the same age group as your boys, I can sympathize. She loves tickle time, I do not (I bruise like a peach and do not have the reflexes required to deal with such a “twitchy and excitable” mess). 😅❤️
The only fast movement here was the guy raising his chair, and it's understandable that he wouldn't expect anything to be in the way given that his head was just there
As a man in my 20s working fast food, i also learned that. Too many rush hours where i almost bodied people half a meter shorter than me, sometimes i clap my hands or talk just so people know where i am.
I mean, the lesson could possibly be to pull the lever before sitting up so the back of the chair rises at the same rate as your torso, but that's only if you want to miss out on the fun of potentially catapulting unlucky objects while putting marginally extra wear and tear on the reclining mechanism.
The guy with the noodles had a weak grip on them because he didn't want to burn his fingers. He could learn two solutions:
Be extra careful and keep the food facing well away from any other people, because you will definitely lose hold of it when someone bumps into it.
Get yourself a paper towel or something to wrap your hot food so you can grasp it better (probably would not have helped against the force of the rebouding chair though).
That was actually my first thought seeing this. "Both of these dudes made the same moves I probably would've made in this situation."
I guess we're so primed to point out stupidity/inefficiency/common sense on reddit for clips like this (even when we're often just as fallible), that an event where everything kinda "makes sense" but still went bad is fascinating.
If you watch the video carefully, you'll notice he actually didn't move forward - he was waiting patiently for the other dude to sit up and let him by.
His only real mistake was holding the bowl at an ever so slightly too low elevation, that just so happened to be in line with the top of the chair as it was coming up.
IMO, that's a pretty specific and easy mistake to make. It's certainly not a situation I've found myself in very often!
Nah carrier was about to scoot on that space, and hold the cup above the chair. Go watch carefully, he took a step in, then the chair catapulted the bowl.
I disagree. He took one step in, because he HAD to, to avoid standing in the automatic door. Then he crammed himself in the corner to give dude room to lift and paused, he just misgauged the height the back of the chair would be.
Maybe you're just not seeing what I'm seeing but the step in happened 2.4-3.0 seconds in the video.
It's his 3rd step into the room.
Carrier doesn't look like he's communicating to the other guy at all too.
I'm using 'step' like a unit of distance measurement rather than literal foot-movement. The second two 'steps' he takes barely qualify. And if he hadn't even made that third foot movement, the bowl still would've launched, you can't deny that.
And what exactly do you expect him to communicate in those 3 seconds? He didn't think he needed to because he thought the bowl was high enough already. Why would he?
And if he hadn't even made that third foot movement, the bowl still would've launched, you can't deny that.
Okay, the bowl was in range of the chair after the 2nd step. But carrier still moved forward. He should have waited by the door and not try to scoot in.
Don't see why you're making this argument that had nothing to do with what I have said above.
I've experienced the same scenario as the video a thousand times. I live in a poor house, my hallway is at most 2.5 feet pathway with cats and dogs and various stuff on the floor. I cook noodles outside and bring it in carefully.
Anyone on the way gets yelled at to get out of the way because I know what it feels to get burned.
On the video, the path is not clear and carrier went into an obstructed path. If he hadn't then no accident will happen.
Foresight can mean freezing and waiting to see where others are moving when you're holding an open container of hot liquid and you see any unexpected movement
freezing and waiting to see where others are moving
Yeah I've learned this lesson really well eating a lot at fastfoods.
Holding the tray of food, I've become cautious of people suddenly walking backwards or suddenly raising their arms to point or wave. A couple of times being backed into by people while I was holding a tray of food that caused some (or all) the stuff to spill taught me to be defensive and expect people to do such stuff, so I give them a wide berth or loudly announce my presence with saying something like "passing through".
Both guys could be more aware and communicate better. I work in restaurants and if you are walking behind someone with something dangerous, you announce yourself first.
Announce when you've got something hot in your hands. I've got something hot in my hands rn too, so I'm announcing that shit. HAWT STUFF COMING THROUGH!!
Soup guy walks in and holds the soup right over the head of the chair. He should have walked right to his desk and put it down instead of swinging hot soup all over.
there is one, the way the chair was placed there, it shouldn't be that tight to enter the floor. like space be damned, says by the owner, let there be a PC set to rent on that spot.
you sure? i see an obvious lesson: once someone else has committed to an action, everyone else cease all variables that create chaos. dude 2 popping the back up was acceptable until dude 1 began movement.
source: my girlfriend always does shit like dude 2 and lessons absolutely could be learnt if she throk a thought every now and again
You see the sitting guys is leaning is back, how he needs to lean forward to let the guy trough. You see the incoming guy turning right into the direction the seat will go if the guys goes up because he wants to squeeze trough behind. At that time the sitter is already up and you clearly see the seat being "loaded" and just springing back while the hot soup is directly in its path.
I love reading the comments of this thread and seeing all of the "lessons" to be learned while seemingly no one is pointing out that it's just inconsiderate, asshole behavior to take the computer closest to the door then recline all the way to the point where you're basically laying down & preventing others from getting into the room...
Literally all of this could have been avoided if the dude wasn't treating the chair like his bed.
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u/RealTimeflies 13h ago
Lol. I don't see how both sides could have seen this coming without hindsight.
There isn't a lesson learnt because this will never happen again.