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Since 2008, not a single Zipper (ride) in the United States has allowed single riders on anymore.  Even Wade Show's Zipper with the new horseshoe restraints does not allow single riders.

Americans are selfish, socially disconnected people.  The entire social atmosphere is confined within closed cliques.  Single riders, especially male single riders, get in big trouble all the time asking to get paired up with someone to go on the Zipper, and people who are not part of a clique have come to realize that the Zipper is forbidden to them.

Complicating it further, not a single Zipper ever bothers to set up a waiting area such as even a table or bench marked "Single Rider Waiting area" or "Single Rider waiting bench" so that single riders can wait for other single riders to come along and take them on the Zipper.  Or even set up a second entrance line for single riders, like at Disney World and Universal Orlando.  It's like they'd rather see single riders go to prison than get paired up with another rider.

A going-away party can be a very sad event. Generally, it is goodbye for good, especially if it is a friend instead of a family member, for God Himself could never, ever, for example, drive from Nashville to Atlanta (61,504 miles one way, absolutely too far) and take a friend out for lunch or ice cream. A long distance move is essentially the same as death.

So why don't people cry or show emotions at moving-away parties like they do at wakes and funerals, knowing it's goodbye for good, 45 to 60 years if they are lucky to see them ever again at all?

One year ago, I rode out Hurricane Irma at my residence in Southwest Florida. There were a lot of trees down and shingles torn off roofs in my neighborhood, but nobody got hurt in my neighborhood. But one thing that bothers me is all the unnecessary evacuations. People as far inland as Lehigh Acres were literally fleeing even to the mountains of Tennessee and West Virginia, some likely even Colorado, as if thinking Irma's storm surge was going to cover the entire State of Florida and even wash up in Nashville, Tennessee. I am sure every single highway in Florida was likely crawling along at 3 miles an hour, and I even hear people were evacuating via commercial jet out of Southwest Florida International Airport, too. And outside of North Fort Myers, there are extremely few other mobile home parks in Charlotte, Lee, and Collier Counties.

So why would so many more people evacuate than necessary as they did with Irma?

I have an old bartender friend who now works as a receptionist at a local hotel. She does not bartend anymore and contacting her through Facebook is almost impossible as she is rarely on there. Is it ever possible to, at least once in a while, stop in the lobby for a few minutes or so and say "Hi" to her? Has anyone ever done that before?

Hi. I was just a few minutes ago looking at a specs sheet for those quadruple beam Sky Tracker searchlights and noticed something very peculiar. One of the features mentioned was "Color temperature constant at 5,600 Kelvin." Now, 5,600 Kelvin is roughly 9,620 degrees Fahrenheit, which is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun, or absolutely no less than at least 5 or 6 times hotter than the 1974 fire at the Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Has mankind really developed materials capable of withstanding temperatures that hot or something?

In case you didn't know, the quadruple beam Skytracker search lights are those lights that project four bright beams skyward that circle around from pointing straight up to a wide inverted cone formation and then back to a single column, basically tracing a sort of "cloverleaf" pattern in the sky.

I read a lot about how, after a hurricane, water is tainted and unsafe to drink. How can that exactly happen? Water pipes are often underground, and unlike earthquakes, hurricanes don't split the ground open or cause the kind of breaking and buckling of the ground that would rupture water mains, such as happened for example in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake near San Francisco, and certainly they only add more water to the local aquifer.

I understand that an earthquake can certainly cause tainted water by rupturing underground water mains. But exactly how could even a powerful hurricane do that, especially more than five miles inland?

According to the latest forecasts, Tropical Storm Erika, while predicted to hit Florida, is only supposed to do so with maximum winds topping maybe 60 miles per hour, which is the equivilant to a lower class severe thunderstorm or even a weak "bow echo" storm.

But as it seems, emergency officials seem to be acting as though Erica were actually going to hit Florida with winds topping 5,000 miles per hour and waves up to a mile high. Basically, they have declared a state of emergency for Florida. I live in Fort Myers, in a one-story slab-concrete apartment building some 12 miles from the ocean, and I certainly am not scared of Erika.

Having grown up in the west suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, I notice that every time there is a destructive severe storm, even trees that have lost a few small to medium sized branches are cut down just a few days later. I mean, even when as little as a sixth or so of the tree's entire canopy is lost and there is no visible splitting in the trunk, the city still comes right in, chain saws and stump grinder, and cuts it down and rips it out. There was even a tree in west suburban Cicero that split in a storm in 1997 and was recovering very well, but then the town of Cicero went and cut it down some 16 years later, even as the wound was still closing.

It really baffles me. Why do so many municipalities do that? It's like they never ever even give the tree a chance to recover and re grow it's lost branch or branches. Even many homeowners don't do that when a backyard tree loses a branch or two in a storm.

I am a major watcher of Youtube videos, and one of my favorite types of videos is those of going down white water rapids, especially, for instance, on the Colorado River, in Gore Canyon, and such. But when I try to watch them, instead of the sound of the river; you know, the roar of the rapids as the water rushes through, splashing up against boulders, splashing into the raft, and such, about 19 out of every 20 of those videos have replaced the sounds of the rapids with worthless music that completely takes away from the enjoyment of the video. Why exactly do so many people like to do that?

Hi. I own one of those vintage/antique space heaters with the big round copper reflector (made of solid copper), and just recently for about the 4th or 5th time roughly, I cleaned and restored the reflector with Wright's Brass Polish. In the past, I also used Brasso as well. However, while the reflector is very shiny and beautiful after I clean it, instead of a solid orange-red type color, it has a slight pinkish tint to it. Is that, in any way, normal when one cleans, restores, and polishes items made of solid copper?

My parents and I own a camping trailer in Wisconsin about 25 miles southwest of Rhinelander. Our camper is in a campground near several county highways as well as near the Wisconsin River, plus a handful of ATV and snowmobile trails, and a few rural back roads. My parents and I recently had a golf cart given to us by a friend of ours. However, there is a catch. My parents think it is illegal in the State of Wisconsin to operate a golf cart outside the campground or outside any private property, and that if I were to operate it outside the campground that I would be arrested. Basically, they think that it is illegal in the State of Wisconsin to operate a golf cart on any road at all, whether county, back road, unpaved, or even on ATV trails.

On the other hand, it seems that I have come across information on the Internet about golf carts being allowed on a bit more than just private property/golf courses per Wisconsin state law. Does anyone know exactly where golf carts are allowed to be operated generally per state law in Wisconsin?

One movie that I watch sometimes, Superman; The Movie (1978) that stars Christopher Reeve, features an earthquake, and during the quake, a huge gaping chasm opens up in the ground and Lois Lane's car falls into the chasm with Lois in it where both get buried.

Doesn't such a thing happen often during earthquakes?

One of the recent games I bought, Grand Theft Auto 5, features a military base called Fort Zancudo, located a few miles north of the fictional city of Los Santos. In the game, if the player flies a plane or helicopter over Fort Zancudo, a fighter jet appears behind the player and promptly fires it's missiles and machine guns in an attempt to shoot the player down. Also, military personell on the ground also fire RPGs and their assault rifles in a deliberate attempt to shoot the player down. Not to mention of course radio messages such as; "You are in the Fort Zancudo No-Fly-Zone! Divert, or you will be shot down!"

In real life, do civilian aircraft actually get immediately shot down if they fly into or through a military base's no-fly-zone? I am highly curious.

As an avid club goer, I seem to notice that every single club I have gone to strictly forbids people, especially guys, from wearing tank tops, some even forbid wearing of shorts, like literally they have junior high and high school style dress codes when it comes to how much of the person is to be covered up. I am not talking about the dress codes that prohibit wearing of gang related stuff, I am talking about the dress codes that prohibit regular clothing that does not fully cover the person from the shoulders to the knee, like schools for grades K-12 have. I wonder a lot, why exactly do nightclubs have that type of dress code?

In my many years of bicycling, I have noticed a lot of things about bicycle seats. However, one same thing is that all bicycle seats are triangular/saddle shaped; basically it starts as a pointed front end that gradually flares out slightly towards the aft end in a sort of triangular or "delta" shape, similar to the shape of a supersonic aircraft. Also, one of my first bicycles I rode as a teenager/young adult had a rather narrow seat, about maybe 4 inches wide at the aft flare, which was very uncomfortable and even left my rear hurting after only about a 5 mile ride. And at the same time, seats I have seen on other bicycles had even narrower (about 3 to 3 and a half inches wide and even highly arched through the width all the way down it's length) seats. I also remember reading a couple or so magazine articles before that mentioned other people saying that those bicycle seats were uncomfortable. And every time I myself got a new bicycle, I always had to remove it's original seat and put a wider seat on it because those narrow seats were uncomfortable.

When I was young, carnivals used to be totally so much fun. As far as I can remember, carnivals of the 1980s had major thriller rides such as the Rock-o-Plane, the Hully Gully, the Tempest, the Gravitron, the Kamikaze, not to mention even one of my all time favorites, the Zipper. But nowadays, carnivals have rides that are no more thrilling than the Round up, the Matterhorn, and the Tilt-A-Whirl. And in fact, just a couple years ago, the North American Midway Entertainment carnival company sold their Zipper, which was the last big thriller they had.

It really baffles me how carnivals seem to have really deteriorated and cut back on the thrills over the past couple of decades. Anyone know why?

I have been watching YouTube videos of severe weather (downbursts, straight line winds, and such) for a few years, and people have gotten some really great home video footage of some of those storms. But as of lately it seems, hardly anyone is taking home videos anymore of severe weather. And this spring and so far this summer has seen tons of severe weather. Straight line winds (even in excess of 70 and 80 miles per hour), hail, downbursts, a few derechos, and even a few tornadoes. Last year, people were filming quite a bit of severe weather; and in fact, one person even videotaped the Washington, Illinois tornado as it passed over his house.

Have people like lost interest in videotaping the weather as of lately? Because when I search Youtube under severe weather terms (severe thunderstorm, tornado, downburst, wind storm, derecho, bow echo, etc) for new storm videos, I set the search criteria to show videos by upload date starting with today. And as of the past 3 months, I have not seen a single new home video of severe weather uploaded to Youtube.

Today, when I logged into my computer, I got a message saying that my "automatic subscription renewal has not been performed" with my Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 software. But I had allready renewed my subscription back in February of this year and it is supposed to be good for a year. Nobody in my house recalls messing around with any files on my computer. When I click the "Fix It Now" button, the window that says "Connecting to Activation Server" and then "Sending Activation Code" and then "Waiting for Response from Server" pops up, only to be followed by another pop up that says; "The key file is not compatible with this application. It is impossible to activate Kaspersky Anti-Virus using the key file for another application. Please check your product." I repeatedly clicked the "Click here to get more information" button but the results give me no help whatsoever.

I am 33 years old, currently still living with my parents, but I am soon going to be moving out of their house. My parents and I currently live in Chicago and I plan to move to Florida. Unfortunately, it seems that my parents have been rather down in the dumps about me moving out of their house. Is it in any way normal for parents to be sad, or as one might call it, "down in the dumps" in any way when children have grown up and they move out on their own?

I recently saw a Youtube video of Choo Thomas talking about tithes. Apparently, she said that Jesus told her that people are to tithe "ten percent of whatever their gross pay, not net pay." But these days, at least 80 percent or so of companies in America deduct the taxes automatically from each employees' pay check and give them only their net pay. Sometimes, I even have thoughts of, for instance, what if, according to Choo Thomas, any work force that deducts the taxes before paying it's employees automatically causes it's employees to become perpetuating robbers of God? I am rather confused.