What do you think of retirement?

I think there are 2 types of retired people. I am going to illustrate this by telling you about the first one. 3 months after my father retired, I spoke with him at Sunday dinner and asked him …

Top stories for Long   What do you think of retirement? Enrique Cerdo., BS Electrical Engineering, University of Houston (2000) • Answered September 11, 2018 I think there are 2 types of retired people. I am going to illustrate this by telling you about the first one. 3 months after my father retired, I spoke with him at Sunday d... Read more » 1.5K 181   What would a casino do if you turned up, gambled until you made a very small profit, and left, and repeated that every day? Alistair Riddoch, studied Philosophy & Ethics at York University • Answered March 7 It was very very small profit… but yeah, daily. Nobody batted an eye. I was there everyday for a bit, because it made sense. I lived in Ramara Township. Out past the casino, a... Read more » 4.7K 117   Frank Abah, Economist, Seasoned Writer & Digital Marketer • Posted Dec 13, 2024 Hadiyah-Nicole Green, is an American medical physicist, known for the development of a method using laser-activated nanoparticles as a potential cancer treatment. She is one of 66 black women to ea... Read more » 22.2K 35   My son gets a slip home every day from his teacher that needs to be signed because he gets in trouble. Should I sit in on his class for a day? David Standhope, Was a Foster Parent • Updated September 11, 2019 When I was a child, I had one teacher who reported what a "problem student" I was. My mother was somewhat surprised, as I was always a really GOOD student, and even had ext... Read more » 5.6K 177   A police officer came to my door and said he had a 911 phone call from someone in this area from the cell tower and he was legally bound to enter my premises without a search warrant and look around my house. Is this true? Frank Conley, professional in the game of life • Updated February 24 An old neighbor of mine told me this happened to her once, and she told the officer that she did not own a cell phone, and she had only a landline, and if that officer thou... Read more » 9.1K 1K   Is Elon losing it in life due to his presence in politics? Asked in Done with the Bullshit? • Answered by Elizabeth Ann • March 8 Musk had a bad week. First, he angered Carlos Slim, the richest man in Mexico, with a tweet insinuating he was a gangster. Slim, worth $85 billion, canceled all his Starlin... Read more » 14.3K 1.6K   "Once stuck, it can be hard for a calf's Mama and other members of their herd to help them out. Often, herds have to eventually make the heartbreaking decision to move on." Kathy Pennell, Author: 4 Adult and 12 kids' Mysteries, 1 Memoir at Lancaster County, PA (2000-p... • Posted Apr 19 "Elephant calves become orphaned in several ways, including when their mothers die of natural causes, or when they are separated from their herds. Most babies arriving at Reteti are rescued after t... Read more » 725 38   Why is Rhode Island called Rhode Island if it isn't an island? Alice Baker, former Law School Professor (2001-2008) • Updated May 20, 2021 Because of the island my red arrow is pointing to. That's Rhode Island. If you were to jump into a time machine and travel back to the year 1640, you would not have encounte... Read more » 4.5K 286   Why don't we use the fastest possible processors in all devices? Dapid Candra, Supporting users 👥 😊 🔥 • Updated March 23 Let's see. The fastest available processor is now (March 2025) AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX. The 7995WX is a massive workstation CPU that requires a large motherboard (... Read more » 885 69   I sold my car to a dealer 6 months ago, but recently I found that this car is still under my name. I asked the dealer to clarify and confirm the situation, but he refused. What should I do now? Evan, Bartender (1999-present) • Answered January 17 I sold a car about 7 or 8 years ago. I lived right near the dmv and the kid who bought it said he was going right there to change all the paperwork into his name. He did no... Read more » 3.1K 399   If we call the first 100 digits of pi "CPi", at which digit does CPi appear again in pi? Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. • Answered March 14, 2017 "Given Pi as an irrational number, for a given positive number i, all possible number sequences of length i will eventually appear in Pi." This is incorrect. It is a very wi... Read more » 2K 152   What happens when you call for an ambulance in a country with universal healthcare, and how do they decide what treatment you need? Ronald J Brown, lives in Canada (1945-present) • Answered July 5 What happens when you call for an ambulance in a country with universal healthcare, and how do they decide what treatment you need? What on earth do you think happens? The a... Read more » 295 2 Read more in your feed

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