SirSamuel

So you're the dickweed out on the roads doing 10 mph in the snow.

Stay home

Some of us know how to drive in the snow

(Slow on ice is acceptable, but if it's an ice storm, stay home anyway. No reason to wind up in a ditch because you wanted Twinkies)

Dude, he wasn't playing an Indian! He clearly says that his ancestors are from Pittsburgh

(is /s necessary here? Eh, I'll put it in anyway)

/s

Imagine being an animated skeleton.

Imagine that skeleton has a thin layer of nerves over the bones. You know, for touching things

Imagine being allergic to gluten

Imagine your bones itching because your asshole roommate gave you glutenous snacks

"tHeY'Ll jUsT FaLl rIgHt tHrOuGh"

That necromancer was a dick btw

Acht, nae fairies! Pictsies! Nae flitty flitty

Hehehe, I like your funny words, magic man

Isle 6, between the tchotchkes and the ramen.

But the best stuff is next door at the Ace Hardware. The ones by the Duracell batteries are best

Phone home!

Phone hoooooommmmmeeee!

‘Was there anything else on the dinner menu?’

‘Vole-au-vents and Cream of Rat,’ said Gimlet. ‘All hygienically prepared.’

‘How do you mean, “hygienically prepared”?’ said Carrot.

‘The chef is under strict orders to wash his hands afterwards.’

The assembled dwarfs nodded. This was certainly pretty hygienic. You didn’t want people going around with ratty hands.

• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

I learned to read a tape measure, covert fractions to decimal, practical application of the Pythagorean theorem, and quite a bit about the application of dimensions and measurement in three dimensional space.

I didn't think it's bad for a kid to have a job, provided the hours are limited, do not interfere with schooling, and are integrated into school curriculum. Parents also have a duty to monitor the employer, and the employer should view the teenager as a trainee who might make the company money as an adult, not a source of direct profit.

So, you know, a fantasy

This is gross negligence by the boss, and it's very very common in smaller construction companies and crews. Allowing a minor to operate heavy machinery is ~~dumb~~ illegal to start with, but the kid learned unsafe behavior from his coworkers, who likely never had any proper safety training themselves. Garbage in, garbage out. (Walk behind trenchers are shite anyway, pay the extra $50 to rent a ride-on trencher)

There is a place for teenagers on a construction site, but it's not in high risk areas or work. So much can be learned about work ethic, practical skills, and the challenging realities of construction without risking life and limb.

I grew up in a construction household. My dad was a small time contractor. Custom homes, spec builds, one at a time, bank financed, that sort of thing. I go into that detail to say we weren't rich, not even middle-class until I was almost graduated from high school (secondary school). Also this isn't an endorsement for how I was raised, just my lived experience.

I learned to run a skid-steer at 13. I was cutting lumber for the framers by the time I was 15. In many ways the skills I learned as a child set me up for success as an adult. But I also learned so many unsafe practices and endangered myself from a young age because of that casual familiarly with dangerous work and locations. The entirety of my twenties was spent unlearning bad habits and practices. I'm still working at it now.

The only time teenagers should be working on construction sites is if the company has a very strong safety culture, which means they won't put kids in high risk situations. Parents should absolutely be checking these things before allowing their kids to work

there's something kind of sad about

the way that things have come to be

desensitized to everything

what became of subtlety?

I just couldn't get through it. But to each his own, I had a good friend who refused to read Pratchett's Thief of Time because "books need chapters" lol