{"id":27797,"date":"2021-03-03T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27797"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:04:27","slug":"sarah-hoyt-does-not-help-me-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/03\/sarah-hoyt-does-not-help-me-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Hoyt Does Not Help Me Decide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I was torn about the proper catchphrase for this portion of the 21st century<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Springfield area had rolling blackouts during the winter storms a couple weeks ago. I have been trying to get the phrase They\u2019re not going to like the nineteenth century they\u2019re voting for<\/strong>, but it might as well be They\u2019re not going to like the third world country they\u2019re voting for<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a post Teenage Mutant Ninja Idiots<\/a>, it sounds like Sarah Hoyt might favor the former:<\/p>\n

Look, it took me a while to figure out things were going to h*ll. Mostly because…. well. I was raised in the 19th century, and some parts of it were not quite that advanced. Take toilet flushing: you take the full bucket in with you. Well, that\u2019s how I first learned. I don\u2019t know when grandma\u2019s toilet had a flush installed if before or after we moved to my parents\u2019 newly-built house which, d*mn skippy had a flush installed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s a vote for the first one, which to be honest is the one I prefer, too. But she also says:<\/p>\n

Except that even there, you know, it was an European flush. I honestly can\u2019t tell if Europe is just more advanced than us on the war on things that work \u2014 my best friend growing up lived in a Victorian that had perfectly functional elevated flush tanks, with no problems \u2014 or if \u2014 since friend\u2019s house was built by an English consul \u2014 most of Europe (and the world) just cosplays modernity without any clue how it should work. I do know that my parents\u2019 flush was low water before low water was fashionable (in a region of the world that has problems rather with too much water and back then when our water came from a well and was therefore \u201cfree\u201d.) So, you know, you still had a bucket standing by just in case.<\/p>\n

Also, the dishwasher was high water (but low hot water, because that cost money) and got done as soon as I was done scrubbing and rinsing the last pan. Ditto for the washer. We had a tank outside. I actually love hand-washing clothes. At least in summer. In winter, when your hands become painful from going in the water and you find out what \u201cinstant arthritis\u201d means, it\u2019s not so fun.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, you see, in the states any level of \u201cthis is easier\u201d was an improvement. I remember a day in the late eighties, when I sat down and went \u201cThe dishwasher is going. The washer is going. And I have time to write.\u201d It was like\u2026. trumpets sounded, I swear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which sounds like it could also be a vote for the latter.<\/p>\n

I’m still on the horns of a dilemma. Rest assured, though, gentle reader, that I shall overuse the “C’mon, man” formulation in posts for the near future. At least until the lights go out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I was torn about the proper catchphrase for this portion of the 21st century: The Springfield area had rolling blackouts during the winter storms a couple weeks ago. I have been trying to get the phrase They\u2019re not going to like the nineteenth century they\u2019re voting for, but it might as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27799,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions\/27799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}