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46 sats \ 6 replies \ @unschooled OP 24 Jul \ parent \ on: How To Fix The Economics Of Online Content? With Keyan Kousha & Stacker News podcasts
the pre-ac days sound intriguing! you're saying people actually had to go outside to talk to each other in person?!
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45 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 24 Jul
Yep. My memories are fond, but plenty of arguing and yelling went on too! My grandfather's old girlfriend (thirty years ago) lived on the same block. My grandmother would always chide him as she walked by- "Hey Joe, why don't you go talk to your girlfriend."
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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @unschooled OP 24 Jul
the lesson here: don't have extramarital relationships with people who live on your street.
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45 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 24 Jul
It wasn't extra marital. I didn't describe it well. He broke up with her to marry my grandmother. She was happily married to someone else. My grandmother still wanted to mess with him.
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @unschooled OP 24 Jul
ahh i see. and there you had me wondering: and grandma were cool with their men having affairs! What a time it was indeed!
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 24 Jul
My grandmother would not have been cool with that at all! They did argue about more trivial things. As kids we really enjoyed their half English, half Italian insults that were delivered at high volume. I guess we weren't overly sensitive.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled OP 24 Jul
as someone from a high-volume--and i'll add, rather big--family, i understand not being overly sensitive. definitely a feature, not a bug.
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