*** VD 13 Commentary Thread ***

[DMT]

My wife's family was kind of like this, but with Spanish. For them, there was a lot of pressure to assimilate to white culture so they made all the kids converse only in English. Most of her family one generation up can speak at least some Spanish but her generation didn't get much at all.

My wife's family somewhat similar but with Hindi. My wife and her siblings understand and can get by, but none are fluent.

[Ken]

My family is similar but they all speak only English unfortunately.

[Bene Futuis]

It's crazy the pressure non-English speaking families feel. It sucks.

[hacko]

My mom was a coblentz - her grandma was Mennonite now my family is going In the mixed race direction - half of my -Parents branch is Black. 40 years ago when my brother got married to a black women this did not make my Grandfather very happy - he ask my Dad to stop it and when he told him he wouldn’t my Granddad would not come. Grandpa Coblentz on the other hand had no problem with it.

[jmaeroff]

My wife's family was kind of like this, but with Spanish. For them, there was a lot of pressure to assimilate to white culture so they made all the kids converse only in English. Most of her family one generation up can speak at least some Spanish but her generation didn't get much at all.

Ditto my wife's family, but with Kikuyu.

[Bene Futuis]

The North Pole is every longitude. #deepthoughts

[Ken]

The North Pole is every longitude. #deepthoughts

Is it really deep though?

Some might say it's the least deep place, depending on your perspective.

[Bene Futuis]

There are stars that are larger than the distance between earth and mars.

[cavebird]

There are stars that are larger than the distance between earth and mars.

That's the problem with exploring. We don't have a TARDIS.

[chancellor]

There are stars that are larger than the distance between earth and mars.

Moderator, nully stole Bene's password again!

[heyelander]

There's a click-bait add on the cover of my bing right now that says "Incredible blanket instantly puts humans in a deep sleep in minutes!"

Setting aside that "instantly … in minutes" is questionable, I feel like it's advertising some kind of date-rape blanket or something.

[Bene Futuis]

Damn, is there a better lawyer name than David Vigilante? Now that's how you respond to an attempt to stifle free speech!

[Bene Futuis]

There's a click-bait add on the cover of my bing right now that says "Incredible blanket instantly puts humans in a deep sleep in minutes!"

Setting aside that "instantly … in minutes" is questionable, I feel like it's advertising some kind of date-rape blanket or something.

The most surprising thing about this is that you're using Bing. I kind of am intrigued by the instant / not-so-instant magic blanket, though.

[heyelander]

The most surprising thing about this is that you're using Bing. I kind of am intrigued by the instant / not-so-instant magic blanket, though.

it came with the computer and I haven't changed it yet. I should probably set the default to NPR.org

[The Feral Slasher]

it came with the computer and I haven't changed it yet. I should probably set the default to FeralSlasher.org

Good call