:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Toddler did some drawing in my computer screen, with a red colored pencil. It was unexpectedly easy to clean with a wet towel
Had that happen. Baby wipes work too.
Well, yeah, but baby wipes work for everything: ink, dust, crap, dry snot, marines, firearms.... I even hear that you can clean a baby's bottom after a poo with them!
Almost as good as WD-40 and duct tape.
Just don't apply the duct tape to the backside.
If you do, baby wipes will help with removing it.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Arantor The breaks were needed to absorb the story, something that modern films don't really have anymore.
No time for story, we’ve got explosions to film!!!11
On the plus side, pyrotechnics budgets have skyrocketed. My brother always said he wanted to be a pyrotechnician... (Sadly, he went into civil engineering instead.)
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My brother always said he wanted to be a pyrotechnician... (Sadly, he went into civil engineering instead.)
There's a career to be had in knocking down structures other civil engineers built.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Arantor The breaks were needed to absorb the story, something that modern films don't really have anymore.
The really old ones had intermission breaks in the middle, just like theatrical performances.
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@sockpuppet7 And this post is just a break for you to absolve this thread.
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Arantor The breaks were needed to absorb the story, something that modern films don't really have anymore.
The really old ones had intermission breaks in the middle, just like theatrical performances.
Some did. It depends on how long the movie was. I can only think of a couple off the top of my head.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Arantor The breaks were needed to absorb the story, something that modern films don't really have anymore.
The really old ones had intermission breaks in the middle, just like theatrical performances.
Some did. It depends on how long the movie was. I can only think of a couple off the top of my head.
Was half the reason for the intermission to change the movie reels? Or were those separate breaks?
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Arantor The breaks were needed to absorb the story, something that modern films don't really have anymore.
The really old ones had intermission breaks in the middle, just like theatrical performances.
Some did. It depends on how long the movie was. I can only think of a couple off the top of my head.
Was half the reason for the intermission to change the movie reels? Or were those separate breaks?
Separate. The reels were swapped out while the movie ran.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The reels were swapped out while the movie ran.
Having worked as an AV tech, which included being a projectionist for movies in the school auditorium, during uni, I can explain how this worked (and still does in any theater that still uses film rather than video).
There were two projectors, side-by-side. The first reel was loaded on one projector and the second on the other. Near the end of the reel, a small dot appears briefly near the upper right corner of the image. The first time this dot appears is a cue to the projectionist to start the second projector. The second time the dot appears is a cue to flip a switch that closes the shutter on the first projector and opens the shutter on the second. The change is normally arranged to occur during a scene change with a significant change in location/lighting/mood/etc., so that any slight difference in brightness, color temperature, or whatever between the projectors is unnoticeable, and while there's no action, so if the projectors aren't perfectly in sync or the timing of the change is a little off, it won't be particularly noticeable, either.
If there's a third reel, it's loaded into the first projector after the second one is started, so it's ready to go when the second one is done, and so on.
A bit of "inside baseball": The projectionist winds the film onto the reel with a penny trapped between the layers of film a few seconds before the first dot. When it clatters out of the reel onto the table supporting the projector, that's the heads-up warning to be watching for the dots to do the reel change.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A bit of "inside baseball": The projectionist winds the film onto the reel with a penny trapped between the layers of film a few seconds before the first dot. When it clatters out of the reel onto the table supporting the projector, that's the heads-up warning to be watching for the dots to do the reel change.
And it's used as a plot point in one of the episodes of Columbo.
(I know, I know, this is the thread, not the thread)
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
And it's used as a plot point in one of the episodes of Columbo.
I used to watch that before I went to uni, but I don't remember seeing an episode with that plot point. I definitely didn't know about the penny trick until I was taught it by the head AV tech at uni.
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But there's this comment :
my problem with the episode is the murder of the projectionist. I worked as a projectionist for a few years right at the time this episode was made. I ran projectors just like the ones in the episode.
There’s no such thing as putting a nickle in the reel of film. It would not fall onto the floor. There is a door over the reel, and the nickle would fall to the bottom slot where the film is feeding out. It would probably get caught and scratch the film or stop the film and cause the sprocket holes to rip out.
And there’s no need for it. The projector itself has a wheel which rides on the film. When there is about one minute of film left, the wheel drops causing a bell to go off. This tells the projectionist to turn on the lamp and get ready to turn on the film and switch the light to the next projector based on cues on the screen.
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The projector itself has a wheel which rides on the film. When there is about one minute of film left, the wheel drops causing a bell to go off.
For a professional, 35mm projector in a real, commercial theater, that might be true, but my uni had 16mm projectors without such fancy features. We really did use the penny trick.
Or maybe our lead was just an idiot. You wouldn't get much argument from me against that claim.
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Driving from church to home earlier today.
(2.5yo): Weee... innacar.
: Yes. We're in a car. Congratulations. *brief slow clap, as I'm driving*
: Car turn around?
: Hmm... Nope. Not turning. I'd very much like to continue straight on home.
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: Why?
: Because I'm hungry.
: ...
: Okay.
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My daughter's school is obviously promoting Women's History Month. They get to dress up as their favorite "Wonder Woman" for this month's Spirit Day.
We've repurposed her Wonder Woman costume a few years and she was Sally Ride one time. Mostly we try to encourage something that we have things to dress her as.
She wants to dress up as me.
We did try to discourage her.
So, how does she dress up as me?
Looking through my swag T-shirts, we found the perfect one from jfrog.
The front has an image of a frog dressed up as Wonder Woman with the text, "Save the binaries, save the world."
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@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"Do you think there are coal mines at the North Pole?"
Took me two months to think up a good reply, but here it comes.
"Near the North Pole there's a country called Poland, it's full of coal mines. Because the land is all covered in white snow, they have to go underground to get coal black like this. Then they send it to homes all around the world."
They will think you're bullshitting them, but later they will learn it's all real and hate you even more.
There are no coal mines at the North Pole, but there are coal mines in Svalbard, which is pretty close (and above water). No idea if the mines have much coal left…
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@dkf I said near the Pole, not at the Pole. Poland is 52°N, which is about as far north as Edmonton, Canada. And coal mining is (or used to be up until recently, not sure) one of the most, if not the most important Polish industries.
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I would like everyone to know that I am a complete sucker.
Yesterday, around 3, I realized that I had just enough time to take my daughter to a trampoline park. She was in pajamas, so I asked her about getting clothes on, getting in the car, and going to "big trampoline." She refused; changing out of pajamas was a non-starter. After a little chasing, where my daughter demonstrated she really didn't want to change out of her pajamas, I gave it up. I know she'd enjoy the trampolines, but if she doesn't want to go, I'm not about to make her.
About an hour later, she said "big trampoline." I told her no, because now there wasn't enough time to get home in time for bed. (Side note: she's autistic, and she's not huge on words, so I often give in to her requests to encourage more words. But we're also preparing for daylight savings next week, and I didn't want to have her staying up later just before we move bedtime much earlier.)
And half an hour after that, just as I was leaving to shop for groceries, she insisted on getting dressed so we could go out. So just as I'm getting in the car, my wife opened the front door to let a dressed, crying daughter out to come with me.
So I went to the trampoline park with her. Apparently, "bedtime" is going to be one of those myths she tells her children.
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@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dkf I said near the Pole, not at the Pole. Poland is 52°N, which is about as far north as Edmonton, Canada. And coal mining is (or used to be up until recently, not sure) one of the most, if not the most important Polish industries.
That "Pole" thing regularly gets some of my pupils as well (usually the ones not being the brightest candle on the cake).
I've now had to request several times that there are no "western" or "eastern" magnetic poles and, no, they're not located in Poland either.
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@PotatoEngineer protip: never ever tell kids about an option to go somewhere today. Always tell them it's at least tomorrow.
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dkf I said near the Pole, not at the Pole. Poland is 52°N, which is about as far north as Edmonton, Canada. And coal mining is (or used to be up until recently, not sure) one of the most, if not the most important Polish industries.
That "Pole" thing regularly gets some of my pupils as well (usually the ones not being the brightest candle on the cake).
This is just embarrassing. Germany has 460 kilometers of border with Poland. You literally started the World War over our territories! The current north-east Poland is where your imperial dynasty comes from! How can ANY German not know where Poland is!?
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@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dkf I said near the Pole, not at the Pole. Poland is 52°N, which is about as far north as Edmonton, Canada. And coal mining is (or used to be up until recently, not sure) one of the most, if not the most important Polish industries.
That "Pole" thing regularly gets some of my pupils as well (usually the ones not being the brightest candle on the cake).
This is just embarrassing. Germany has 460 kilometers of border with Poland. You literally started the World War over our territories! The current north-east Poland is where your imperial dynasty comes from! How can ANY German not know where Poland is!?
Considering that it was a mere speed bump for our tanks...
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@Rhywden you made such a big deal of all that Lebensraum you need to not die but now it was a mere speed bump ヽ( ͠°෴ °)ノ smh
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
no, they're not located in Poland either.
I can see why they're confused. The majority of Poles are in Poland, after all
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@Zerosquare only barely.
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I almost included a ": I'm not sure it's actually the case, but ". But the kneeling warthog spirit prevented me from doing so.
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Quick, what do you call a Polish pickup artist?
Magnetic monopole.
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@Applied-Mediocrity thought you're gonna say garbage collector.
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@Gąska A very important profession. I would not want to live in a city which didn't have any.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I would like everyone to know that I am a complete sucker.
Yesterday, around 3, I realized that I had just enough time to take my daughter to a trampoline park. She was in pajamas, so I asked her about getting clothes on, getting in the car, and going to "big trampoline." She refused; changing out of pajamas was a non-starter. After a little chasing, where my daughter demonstrated she really didn't want to change out of her pajamas, I gave it up. I know she'd enjoy the trampolines, but if she doesn't want to go, I'm not about to make her.
About an hour later, she said "big trampoline." I told her no, because now there wasn't enough time to get home in time for bed. (Side note: she's autistic, and she's not huge on words, so I often give in to her requests to encourage more words. But we're also preparing for daylight savings next week, and I didn't want to have her staying up later just before we move bedtime much earlier.)
And half an hour after that, just as I was leaving to shop for groceries, she insisted on getting dressed so we could go out. So just as I'm getting in the car, my wife opened the front door to let a dressed, crying daughter out to come with me.
So I went to the trampoline park with her. Apparently, "bedtime" is going to be one of those myths she tells her children.
Bedtime is a myth in our house too. She does need to change out of obvious pjs, but often we let her sleep in street clothes, so no changing required.
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Gąska A very important profession. I would not want to live in a city which didn't have any.
Or write code in a language without one?
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Yesterday, my 2.5yo took his milk glass from the dinner table and started to walk around. We'd told him often enough to not walk and drink. But but he still does it.
He managed to drop the glass, spilling milk all over the floor. And then he took another step forward and slipped. Fell straight on his back, in the middle of the puddle of milk.
I giggled until I was almost done mopping up the milk. My wife had to ask me to stop. I blame sleep deprivation.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
We'd told him ... but he still does it.
2.5yo
Welcome to the terrible twos.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Bedtime is a myth in our house too. She does need to change out of obvious pjs, but often we let her sleep in street clothes, so no changing required.
We do bathtime just before bed, so PJs are a given overnight. (Yes, even though she's of an age that she doesn't really need a bath daily, it's now part of the bedtime routine.) But then, my daughter doesn't really seem to care about what she wears, aside from having a preference for PJs over all else. If you do the "this shirt or that shirt?" bit with her, she just ignores you.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Yesterday, my 2.5yo took his milk glass from the dinner table and started to walk around. We'd told him often enough to not walk and drink. But but he still does it.
He managed to drop the glass, spilling milk all over the floor. And then he took another step forward and slipped. Fell straight on his back, in the middle of the puddle of milk.
I giggled until I was almost done mopping up the milk. My wife had to ask me to stop. I blame sleep deprivation.
They mostly bounce at that age.
But I still struggle holding in my reflexive sharp inhale to wait to see how the kid reacts.
Now, I'm usually far enough away that it goes unnoticed.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Bedtime is a myth in our house too. She does need to change out of obvious pjs, but often we let her sleep in street clothes, so no changing required.
We do bathtime just before bed, so PJs are a given overnight. (Yes, even though she's of an age that she doesn't really need a bath daily, it's now part of the bedtime routine.) But then, my daughter doesn't really seem to care about what she wears, aside from having a preference for PJs over all else. If you do the "this shirt or that shirt?" bit with her, she just ignores you.
I think the preference for pjs is pretty universal.
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As seen on Facebook:
Adventures with a seven year old.
So at 2:27 this morning Danny (7) comes running into my me and the wife’s room, jumps on the bed , and is yelling for help. I jump up asking What’s wrong Danny? Dan responds with “It’s talking to me!”. By the time this registers in my brain I’m already in his room and hear said talking. I have a flash of impending physical and spiritual warfare with a cursed stuffy. Luckily for all, his alarm clock was accidentally set and went off and said talking was a poorly tuned in radio station. That got my heart pumping at 2:30 am. Fearlessly I unplugged the offending clock radio and all were able to return to bed.
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I've now had to request several times that there are no "western" or "eastern" magnetic poles and, no, they're not located in Poland either.
You see: after stealing the poles, they know how to hide them properly.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Everyone needs a cute little corn snake to snuggle with.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Everyone needs a cute little corn snake to snuggle with.
I'd prefer ball pythons. But I did get a chance to hug a boa that was bigger.
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Decided to try for a 4th and final baby. 5th baby decided to come along for the ride. They're due in November.
Damn off by one errors
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On a related note, my oldest's school is doing a silent auction to raise funds and one of the prizes is a private vasectomy
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Decided to try for a 4th and final baby. 5th baby decided to come along for the ride. They're due in November.
Damn off by one errors
Congratulations!
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
On a related note, my oldest's school is doing a silent auction to raise funds and one of the prizes is a private vasectomy
As opposed to a public one?
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
On a related note, my oldest's school is doing a silent auction to raise funds and one of the prizes is a private vasectomy
As opposed to a public one?
I think the contrast is to a vasectomy performed on some part of your body other than your privates.
I imagine this kind of vasectomy is vastly less effective than a traditional one performed on your junk.