Mostly just the sick ones and the babies. Lions generally don’t go after prey that large. They generally avoid giraffes too. They have to be pretty desperate to go after an elephant because they can’t kill it like most of their prey by either suffocation or breaking their neck.
My father was an academic and the thing academics do when they visit each other’s houses is to bring a bottle of something. So they had a cellar room full of booze. It was awesome when I was in high school in the mid-90s. My parents didn’t drink beer though, so there was no beer in the house except for a six-pack of Michelob at the back of the room that had pull tabs on it. They stopped making pull tabs in 1980. So it was at least 14-year-old beer. It was one of the few things I didn’t think about and/or decide to steal.
They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.
My mother is pre-Boomer (born soon after the U.S. entered the war) and has been incredibly progressive her entire life. She has never voted for a Republican. She marched for civil rights. She wanted me to know that women and men are equal and that color and religion and ethnicity should not make you dislike someone. She taught me about sex (appropriately) when I asked about it at 3 or 4 years old rather than shielding me from it. My brother and I both have (had in my case, but that’s another story) gay best friends who were also best man at both of our weddings. She always welcomed them even though my brother and his friend became friends in the mid-1980s. I remember asking my mother what she would do if I was gay and she said she would love me no matter what I was. I don’t specifically know her politics, but my dad, born even earlier (1931) was mostly the same way. He definitely had his prejudices- although he would deny it- and he was a lot more sexist than he thought he was, but he was also an outspoken socialist until the dementia got too bad for him to be outspoken about it. One of the last things I was able to tell him before he was too far gone to understand was that Bernie was running for president.
I have certainly had a lot of issues with Boomers and people older than them, but it is far from universal, but I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.
The OED goes very in-depth into etymology in the way other English dictionaries do not. It’s the size of an encyclopedia. This is the print version of the second edition, which has been supplemented several times since:
Have you ever had a non-fresh fried egg? They taste like misery and egg whites. This is a whole pile of them. It’s horrific. Why would anyone do this to the world?
There was a show in the 80s called Captain Power and you would use the tie-in toys to shoot at the screen and if your character’s vehicle got shot in the show, the toy would eject them.
My parents wouldn’t get me the toys so I have no idea how well it worked.
Now he thinks of it (lemmy.world)
YOOOOOOOOOOOO (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and the Blustery Day (lemmy.world)
Housing is a Human Right, Hording unimaginable sums of Wealth, is not. (lemmy.ml)
fun facts (lemmy.world)
Face the consequences - Work Chronicles (workchronicles.com)
Original: workchronicles.com/face-the-consequences/
You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Do i need to install a driver? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php
I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)
We at the Westville Marriott want you to know that we hate you and hope you die. (lemmy.world)
You're welcome for making your Tuesday just a little bit worse. (lemmy.world)
Anachronism (lemmy.world)