Penny Arcade - Comic - The Deeps

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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Deeps

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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barcs

deepcrows!

Rhesus Positive

I think this was my dream growing up

And also when I bought my first house in my 30s

ArmsForPeace84

Didn't expect hidden path, in short, no fat coinpurse ahead

sullijo

The basement in the first house we bought had laminate on top of (moldy) carpet on top of asbestos tiling on top of the slab.

It was the first time I realized that homeowners tend to be cheap and lazy.

lwt1973

sullijo wrote: »

It was the first time I realized that homeowners tend to be cheap and lazy.

We had wallpaper over paint over wallpaper over paint.

So lazy.

Gilgaron

I can kinda see why someone would wallpaper over painted wallpaper out of horror, but putting hard flooring over carpet? Carpet is even so shockingly easy to pull up that its a wonder is stays put at all.

Solvent

Haha. From the newspost:

Now, I only wonder - with some excitement - what utterly commonplace, thoroughly ordinary, virtually universal thing is knitting together tumors in my belly right now

My sister once told me that she thought the degree to which we're all using sunscreen now is kinda worth thinking about. I mean, she knows about the benefits, I know about the benefits, we both continue to use it. But she's like, well, perhaps in another fifteen years this'll be one of those things. I still think about that.

Emperor Megaman

Solvent wrote: »

Haha. From the newspost:

Now, I only wonder - with some excitement - what utterly commonplace, thoroughly ordinary, virtually universal thing is knitting together tumors in my belly right now

My sister once told me that she thought the degree to which we're all using sunscreen now is kinda worth thinking about. I mean, she knows about the benefits, I know about the benefits, we both continue to use it. But she's like, well, perhaps in another fifteen years this'll be one of those things. I still think about that.

I'm not sure, except if we're talking about a recent brand in particular or a new type of Sunscreen, I think it's been in use for long enough that it's nocive effect would be known by now.

ArmsForPeace84

Emperor Megaman wrote: »

Solvent wrote: »

Haha. From the newspost:

Now, I only wonder - with some excitement - what utterly commonplace, thoroughly ordinary, virtually universal thing is knitting together tumors in my belly right now

My sister once told me that she thought the degree to which we're all using sunscreen now is kinda worth thinking about. I mean, she knows about the benefits, I know about the benefits, we both continue to use it. But she's like, well, perhaps in another fifteen years this'll be one of those things. I still think about that.

I'm not sure, except if we're talking about a recent brand in particular or a new type of Sunscreen, I think it's been in use for long enough that it's nocive effect would be known by now.

I'll apply sunscreen situationally. How much do I expect to be out in the sun, what's the time of day, what's the latitude? But I hate wearing it on my face, and will only hit those areas if I'm going to the beach with plans to lay around getting blasted by that UV. Otherwise, a nice floppy, wide-brimmed hat goes a long way to shade the face, ears, and neck.

Hats and shades. Two things I'll never understand why more people don't wear when they're out in the sun.

oh3fiftyone

From the news post.
“It's also true that from the very second you get inside the walls of an old house, every sin of its manufacture is laid bare.”

I concur with this and, as an electrician, I can add that sometimes these half-assed hack jobs try to kill me.

Zilla360

My 'new' house had three layers of laminate flooring. You could take a core sample and see striping, a bit like a geological record.

Pyrian

Emperor Megaman wrote: »

I'm not sure, except if we're talking about a recent brand in particular or a new type of Sunscreen, I think it's been in use for long enough that it's nocive effect would be known by now.

Yeah, um, funny thing about that...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/health/sunscreen-recall-cancer-wellness/index.html

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Emperor Megaman

ArmsForPeace84 wrote: »

Emperor Megaman wrote: »

Solvent wrote: »

Haha. From the newspost:

Now, I only wonder - with some excitement - what utterly commonplace, thoroughly ordinary, virtually universal thing is knitting together tumors in my belly right now

My sister once told me that she thought the degree to which we're all using sunscreen now is kinda worth thinking about. I mean, she knows about the benefits, I know about the benefits, we both continue to use it. But she's like, well, perhaps in another fifteen years this'll be one of those things. I still think about that.

I'm not sure, except if we're talking about a recent brand in particular or a new type of Sunscreen, I think it's been in use for long enough that it's nocive effect would be known by now.

I'll apply sunscreen situationally. How much do I expect to be out in the sun, what's the time of day, what's the latitude? But I hate wearing it on my face, and will only hit those areas if I'm going to the beach with plans to lay around getting blasted by that UV. Otherwise, a nice floppy, wide-brimmed hat goes a long way to shade the face, ears, and neck.

Hats and shades. Two things I'll never understand why more people don't wear when they're out in the sun.

I never use sun screen. I wear hat when it's so bright that just being outside is like looking directly at a lightbulb, but I don't like having stuff in my head so I don't the rest of the time.
Good for me I handle the heat pretty well.

Lttlefoot

Sun safety in Australia (hats, shirts, glasses as well as sunscreen) has been pushed so hard that we now all have vitamin D deficiency. Fortunately that’s a lot easier to fix than skin cancer