What did you learn today?

(Bob M) #341

I am terrible at terminology, so I would likely call it a fuse box, too, even though I have multiple electrical engineering degrees. Terminology (and acronyms) is not my forte.

If you did have fuses, I was going to suggest an electrical rewiring. That’s some old tech (not as old as others, but old).

While we’re on the subject of breaker boxes, and something I learned this weekend, they have new breaker boxes that have neutral bus bars in them, so you can have AFCI and GFCI on each circuit, without pigtails. So, if anyone has to upgrade their breaker box, this is an option.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #342

I learned how to install my Anker rev/tran device on my TV so I can use my BT headphones with the TV when I wake up and want to watch TV so I don’t disturb my DH.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #343

Oh great, now I have to learn where to find those locally. Two of my fav foods, together, sounds AWESOME.

#344

Amen sister! Hanging it on a cathedral style ceiling was one of the most painful experiences of my life :weary:

(Bob M) #345

You need a drywall lifter.

#346

Not now I don’t.

(Bob M) #347

Like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Troy-Professional-Drywall-and-Panel-Hoist-DPH11/203900041

(Running from stupidity) #348

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

(Ellen) #349

No worries, my Mum’s old house (approx 140ish years old) did still have an actual fuse box when she moved out (twas “fun” going into dark & damp cellar to check / replace them). Was going to ask if your question was a subset of mansplaining & should I be insulted! :wink:

#350

Thank goodness I had an older brother whose clothes I could swipe and a father who enabled me to be “one of the boys.” My mother has tried raising me as a traditional girl for the past 30 years and still won’t accept that I’m anything but that. She still buys me clothes from the women’s department when she knows the only clothes I buy from there are jeans (sometimes) and bras. Every single time I cut my hair, she has an opinion.

That made me hesitant growing up to learn what were considered “girly things.” I didn’t learn to cook until just a few years ago, same with sewing/etc. It’s not like I wanted to be “not like the other girls” I just didn’t want to be treated like a girl, because I wasn’t one (going to an all-girls college and learning gender/queer theory affirmed that for me), but I also knew I wasn’t a boy.

Now I just think raising your kids arbitrarily by what gender they were assigned at birth is just silly.

(Ellen) #351

It’s ridiculous assigning certain things to a specific gender. You do you and power to you.

(Doug) #352

Well said! :clap: I am only really learning to cook now, and 40 or 50 years ago they didn’t offer Home Economics or the like to boys in our schools. I would have been too afraid to take the class due to perceived peer pressure, but since early childhood I’ve enjoyed doing stuff at home/managing household things/keeping it all together, and would have been partial to that class.

I often wonder what people would be like, were they raised without gender-specific assumptions. Or if they were raised without subjective input from anybody. Would it be a Lord of the Flies type deal? Would they form beliefs in the supernatural?

This is an interesting thing. Are there no real differences between little girls and little boys (other than the obvious physical stuff)? While there is tremendous overlap among people that will often cancel out assumptions about them based on their gender, I do think there are some generalizations to be made.

I remember one of my nephews, roughly age 6, taking a metal rod and using it like a sword, to hack at bushes, beat small limbs off trees, etc. My brother and I both thought this was a stereotypical “little boy” thing. Not that all boys want to do that nor that no girls will, but that more boys than girls will be doing it.

Or does this reflect their upbringing, already affected by the conscious and subconscious input of others?

(Running from stupidity) #353

I read this as “Would they form beliefs in the supermarket?”

#deadset

(Doug) #354

Wearing briefs in the supermarket? Oh yes…

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(Running from stupidity) #355

I learned about janglets.

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(Bob M) #356

Was a coach for 5th graders, boys and girls. For this group, the boys were 100 times harder than the girls to control.

I don’t think one can look at women and men and say there aren’t differences…including in the way they lose weight.

How that applies to what you can do in life is a different story.

#357

I learned another thoroughly ugly word :slightly_frowning_face:

(Running from stupidity) #358

#ilivetoserve

(Doug) #359

Bob, I remember being in 5th grade. :slightly_frowning_face: Man, we were bad, girls and boys both - we literally put a teacher into a mental institution. I do feel that as a group, we boys were worse than the girls. Still and all, how much conditioning had we received at that point, that made us that way?

(Ellen) #360

Nope, it would, I hope, be great, labels / pigeon hopes are useless & divisive. You are who you are regardless. Enjoying cooking & household management as you do @OldDoug doesn’t make you a “girl”. It’s a very interesting topic and as far as I see there’s no one “right” answer.