Randomness thread, part two.

[wufwugy]

yes. if you have a taste for the kind of film it is, then very

[Lukie]

today I was experimenting with different ways to carry my stuff in my pockets. usually it goes something like wallet: back right, keys front right, phone front left. i experimented with the wallet back left, front left, and front right. i pretty much copied what i normally do but i kept bringing out the wallet with the contents facing down, a complete mindfuck. i was doing it EXACTLY like i always do it (appropriately adjusting for the left side.)

i started doing it like i always do it with my right hand, and it hit me that i have always opened it up basically facing down-- back right pocket, with the solid/middle part facing up, and with the top/opening of the wallet facing the midline of the body. somehow in ~20 years of carrying a wallet nothing has ever fallen out.

double random: i recently read of an idea to omit cream/milk in coffee and use butter instead. further advice was to put a slab of butter into the coffee pot before it started brewing. yeah that lasted all of one sip.

[Hawk]

Front pocket wallets ftw!

[Savy]

yes. if you have a taste for the kind of film it is, then very

It's a watchable, was hoping for better really. Emma Stone though I'd leave her mildly dissatisfied any day of the week.

[NightGizmo]

Front pocket wallets ftw!

No wallet is better, imo. Cash, one ATM card, and 2 credit cards in my back pocket.

[bikes]

front pocket wallet is the only way to go. no idea how people rock back pocket wallets.

[Luco]

Change purse ftmfw

[kiwiMark]

how do your cards not snap if you leave them to their own devices in the bac pocket?

I go front-left phone (or ipod then phone gets bumped to front-right), front-right nothing or coins, back-left wallet, back-right keys.

[Luco]

My pockets are easier to manage since quitting smoking. Several less things to carry around

[givememyleg]

phone front left, money clip/keys front right. i haven't used my back pockets in like a decade.

[MadMojoMonkey]

usually it goes something like wallet: back right, keys front right, phone front left.

Replace phone with smokes/lighter and that's me.

Cell phones: I love that you all have them and that I don't.

yeah that lasted all of one sip.

Simply terrible. I don't know where they do this, but they're all mad, there. There might be more sure-fire ways to ruin your coffee, but none of them also lose you a pat of butter.

[supa]

Front left- money, drivers license, bank card, personal phone, smokes, lighter.
Front right- knife, keys, work phone.
Back left- skoal.

[eugmac]

today I was experimenting with different ways to carry my stuff in my pockets. usually it goes something like wallet: back right, keys front right, phone front left.

+1. My phone often ends up in my jacket pocket though, and then it takes me way too long to find my phone when it rings because I forget which pocket it's in. Also panic sets in if for some reason my keys end up in a different pocket and I go omg i'm locked out. o wait. all good.

[rong]

Knife? Supa, you carry a knife around with you? Is that a habit you kept from your ice man days.

[jyms]

I think the Maury Povich show is the ultimate racist level. There is no way he is doing this to help. Maury is a racist

[Hawk]

back-right keys.

You sit on your keys?

[NightGizmo]

how do your cards not snap if you leave them to their own devices in the bac pocket?

Because my ass doesn't have any hard, sharp angles? I've never had a card break in my pocket. Never lost a card, either. Been doing this for over 10 years: back-left cards, back-right cash, front-left keys, front-right phone.

[jyms]

I could never stand to have anything in my back pockets ever. I also have never owned a wallet. Most of my ID is in the unused ashtray in my vehicle. I carry cash and bankcard in my front left and now 2 phones (one is a Note 2 in my right front. I have over 20 keys (Building manager) so they are all hooked on my belt loop with a carabiner.

[kiwiMark]

Because my ass doesn't have any hard, sharp angles?

Your ass may not, but the surfaces you sit on surely do? I've had a card snap in the back pocket even in my wallet, is why I'm surprised.

Perhaps your answer is the same as mine to whomever asked if I sit on my keys - I take the wallet and keys out of my back pockets if I'm sitting at a cafe or pub and put them on the table, although if I'm gonna be drinking a lot then I just cram everything into the front pockets.

[rong]

Left front phone and coins, right front wallet, back right keys, back left smokes. Everything in back pockets come out when I sit.

Keeping your wallet in your back pocket is just asking to have it picked. I saw an interview with Henry hill (goodfellas) where he calls your back pocket your the sucker pocket "because that's mine, sucker".

[jyms]

Left front phone and coins, right front wallet, back right keys, back left smokes. Everything in back pockets come out when I sit.

Keeping your wallet in your back pocket is just asking to have it picked. I saw an interview with Henry hill (goodfellas) where he calls your back pocket your the sucker pocket "because that's mine, sucker".

What kind of phone? I would lose it if I scratched my glass on coins while walking or sitting. I have to stack my phones in my pocket always worried about the glass so I have my note glass against my leg and the Nexus glass against the back of my notes case.

[Pascal]

you got decent screen protectors? My iPhone protector is covered in scratches but the screen underneath is perfect

[NightGizmo]

Your ass may not, but the surfaces you sit on surely do? I've had a card snap in the back pocket even in my wallet, is why I'm surprised.

Perhaps your answer is the same as mine to whomever asked if I sit on my keys - I take the wallet and keys out of my back pockets if I'm sitting at a cafe or pub and put them on the table, although if I'm gonna be drinking a lot then I just cram everything into the front pockets.

No, I just sit with the cards in my pocket, I've never had a problem. Maybe our butt-curvatures are different, but I'd rather not compare.

[NightGizmo]

Left front phone and coins, right front wallet, back right keys, back left smokes. Everything in back pockets come out when I sit.

Keeping your wallet in your back pocket is just asking to have it picked. I saw an interview with Henry hill (goodfellas) where he calls your back pocket your the sucker pocket "because that's mine, sucker".

Nothing sharp/hard goes into the same pocket as my phone, I do not want my screen scratched. Coins go with my keys in the front left.

If I'm somewhere I'm worried about pickpockets, my cards/cash move to one of my front pockets.

[rong]

Coins drop to the bottom of the pocket so the screen is fine. I've never scratched my phone in my pocket, its when I take it out I have to worry.

[Hawk]

Yes, the harlem shake is lame, but go to youtube and search "do the harlem shake"

[bikes]

teach me how to dougie?

[MadMojoMonkey]

+1

[Hawk]

teach me how to dougie?

Do this. Also, look like this.



Any excuse to watch that again is a good one, amirite?

[supa]

Knife? Supa, you carry a knife around with you? Is that a habit you kept from your ice man days.

I'm actually surprised more people don't carry a knife of some sort. I carry one because I need a knife on a daily basis for work, but I carry it all the time because it's useful in my daily life. When I don't bring it with me I always wish I did. You'd be surprised how often you use one when you have it, and once you're used to having one it sucks when you don't.

[MadMojoMonkey]

^^ for real. I miss my pocketknife.

I once used a little screwdriver as my key fob, and I was using that thing on a daily basis. It's shocking how useful some things can be when they're in the right place at the right time.

[wufwugy]

Modernism is rebellion and confusion. It embraces classicism and its rebirths but also rebels against them due to existential threats and civil apathy. Skinny models, sickly and weak, exemplify the modernist era by appealing to its uncertainty. The individual is uplifted yet impotent, thus the kind of women its men find attractive are ones so emaciated that its weakness is hidden.

[BennyLaRue]

double random: i recently read of an idea to omit cream/milk in coffee and use butter instead.

What's the advantage supposed to be? I don't get it.

[Lukie]

What's the advantage supposed to be? I don't get it.

The idea was that it was supposed to taste really good and be an easy way to get a little grass fed butter into the diet, although I didn't actually have any grass fed butter.

It tasted awful. Then again that probably doesn't come as a surprise to anybody reading this. I do not recommend trying it.

[Lukie]

Another generally useful thing that everyone should probably carry with them: a flashlight. For most purposes you don't even really need to carry around a hand-sized one; something that fits on a keychain works fine. Actually I think it's one of the only things useful enough to be on my main keychain besides essential/commonly used keys.

[kiwiMark]

never know when you're gonna want to play doctor with a lady

[Lukie]

That's right.

[rong]

Bathroom etiquette: is it acceptable to fart at a urinal?

[kiwiMark]

depends on the establishment I guess but generally yeah, fuck it if not there then where

[Hawk]

You're a man. It's acceptable to fart anywhere and everywhere.

[wufwugy]

Not only is it acceptable, it's hilarious

[NightGizmo]

Another generally useful thing that everyone should probably carry with them: a flashlight.

Does an iphone count?

[Lukie]

Does an iphone count?

I have used a flashlight app on my droid before in a pinch if that's what you are getting at. It's inferior in several ways to just having a small flashlight.

[BennyLaRue]

be an easy way to get a little grass fed butter into the diet

So, this is specific advice to those who are butter-deficient. Got it.

I saw a commercial for butter deficiency. I had no idea it was so widespread.

[Lukie]

pro health tip: most people would do well to swap out their cheap cooking oils and use butter, fresh/high quality EVOO, or coconut oil instead. there are others but those are 3 good ones. similarly drop out the fake creamer and all the gunk/hydrogenated oils that go along with it and drink coffee black or use real cream or milk instead. i prefer it black or with a little milk personally.

[KoRnholio]

Bathroom etiquette: is it acceptable to fart at a urinal?

There are very few situations where excreting noxious gas from one's anus ISN'T funny.

[a500lbgorilla]

Bathroom etiquette: is it acceptable to fart at a urinal?

You're in the bathroom, you need to fart, and you're a man. I don't see any question marks in this situation.

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-t...chinese-youth/

Sunday morning mulling material.

[a500lbgorilla]

Literally now means figuratively.

Opinions?

[NightGizmo]

Literally now means figuratively.

Opinions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM

[Galapogos]

Literally now means figuratively.

Opinions?

That one actually bugs me. It seems like they're caving in to the people that don't understand what they're saying. I have no problem with a language evolving but not for that reason. I feel strongly about this because I had a teacher that used the word incorrectly wayyyyy too much, so it became a huge lifelong pet peeve within a semester.

[wufwugy]

^I tend to agree, but I think I'm okay with an addition as long as it's clarified as being colloquial in nature. There are a few words with strange etymological paths already

[bikes]

hello frandz, my sister a far more extroverted and personable/well to do, person is going to walk in the freezing cold weather of late march michigan to raise money for the american cancer society. she would really appreciate any support you could lend her way. i wish i was far more articulate about these things but i'm not so umm yeah.


http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px...i1tw06.app312b

[BooG690]

Pictures of said sister would help.

[bikes]

Pictures of said sister would help.

HAR HAR HAR

[a500lbgorilla]

hello frandz, my sister a far more extroverted and personable/well to do, person is going to walk in the freezing cold weather of late march michigan to raise money for the american cancer society. she would really appreciate any support you could lend her way. i wish i was far more articulate about these things but i'm not so umm yeah.


http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px...i1tw06.app312b

I literally donated.

[boost]

http://www.businessinsider.com/autom...e-rules-2013-3

[MadMojoMonkey]

That's some weird stuff, there.

Don't hybrid cars have horns?

[Hawk]

I'd be OK with it if they could just make them sound like Jetsons cars.

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-t...chinese-youth/

Sunday morning mulling material.

You haven't read this yet and you should.

[wufwugy]

tis but dilly dallying around for a hundred years or so before fossil fuels kill us all anyways

[Lukie]

http://www.businessinsider.com/autom...e-rules-2013-3

I don't know the specifics about how loud they are supposed to be and all the legal mumbo jumbo, but in principle I agree that electric cars should have to make a certain minimum of noise. In my eyes it is somewhat of a public safety issue and there are enough drunkasses and people who swerve all over the place while texting out there. Of course as a pedestrian near a road or parking lot you should always have your eyes peeled but sound is a big part of situational awareness as well.

On that note, next time you walk through a parking lot, note other pedestrians who are doing something (texting), oblivious to the world. It's fairly regular for people just to walk right up behind cars who have a driver ready to back out.

[Jack Sawyer]

Agree 100% with Lukkake

[d0zer]

[MadMojoMonkey]

I'm familiar with horribly inefficient things that spew unnecessary noise which the manufacturers try desperately to reduce. Your thing is quiet, and unfamiliar. Will you please do something ridiculously inefficient to your thingy so I can be more familiar with it? Thanks.

Yes, your quiet thing is too fast. Either slow it down or loud it up.

[wufwugy]

The car/noise thing is like speed bumps: the solution doesn't solve any problem, it is focused on a terribly minor thing, and it isn't addressing an actual problem

[boost]

Yeah, I'm in the MMM/Wuf camp here.

[kiwiMark]

so that's why those cunts have loud-ass electric motors on their pushbikes

[Lukie]

The car/noise thing is like speed bumps: the solution doesn't solve any problem, it is focused on a terribly minor thing, and it isn't addressing an actual problem

damn analogies...

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I hate speed bumps as much as the next guy, but they do make me slow down (and I try to roll one tire off to the side or in the 'break' between the bumps.) If whoever put them there had the goal of making people drive slower through parking lots or residential neighborhoods, they work and arguably are addressing a problem of speeding? Obviously at the expense of annoyance to a great many drivers. Just thinking out loud here... why are we talking about speed bumps again??

Analogy aside, the sound thing is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. However, it does preemptively solve what would become a very real problem if 'quiet' cars were to become more widespread: that is that there are a lot of awful drivers out there who, if they even passed a driving test within the last 70 years, are more concerned about what their face looks like, eating, or what is on their phone than the well-being of people around them. The noise thing is terribly minor thing in comparison, and if you want to address those other issues so be it. As a pedestrian though I want every advantage I can get and being able to hear a car from 100 feet away is a good thing in my estimation.

Also, given our past discussions, I am surprised that we are each taking the positions we are taking (relating to liberterianness and value of a life/suffering etc.)

[wufwugy]

damn analogies...

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I hate speed bumps as much as the next guy, but they do make me slow down (and I try to roll one tire off to the side or in the 'break' between the bumps.) If whoever put them there had the goal of making people drive slower through parking lots or residential neighborhoods, they work and arguably are addressing a problem of speeding? Obviously at the expense of annoyance to a great many drivers. Just thinking out loud here... why are we talking about speed bumps again??

The goal isn't to get drivers to slow down, but to not hit kids, aaaaand it hasn't done shit about that because kids being hit was never a problem in the first place. It's just Standard American Paranoia, Blame-Game, and Lackadaisical Parenting that Refuses to Teach Kids that Cars are Dangerous.

Analogy aside, the sound thing is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. However, it does preemptively solve what would become a very real problem if 'quiet' cars were to become more widespread: that is that there are a lot of awful drivers out there who, if they even passed a driving test within the last 70 years, are more concerned about what their face looks like, eating, or what is on their phone than the well-being of people around them. The noise thing is terribly minor thing in comparison, and if you want to address those other issues so be it. As a pedestrian though I want every advantage I can get and being able to hear a car from 100 feet away is a good thing in my estimation.

This situation doesn't seem applicable. There are a very narrow set of circumstances where a pedestrian avoids being hit by a car because he can hear the motor. We'd save way more lives by banning jogging, looking over bridges, being outside when it's raining, etc.

Also, given our past discussions, I am surprised that we are each taking the positions we are taking (relating to liberterianness and value of a life/suffering etc.)

That is an interesting irony. However, I have always been pretty libertarian, and I contend that the "libertarianism" I argue against isn't libertarian at all, but a logistically impossible delusion. For example, many self-described libertarians espouse positions that claim that established regulatory bodies are problematic because without them organic regulations will arise, yet for some reason they fail to see that those organic regulations become the established regulatory bodies and that our currently established regulatory bodies are borne of the organic processes of our culture already

I also don't like frying small fish when there are bigger ones. By focusing on things like this, we trick ourselves into thinking we're solving problems when all we're really doing is ignoring the causes of real suffering in the world

[boost]

damn analogies...

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I hate speed bumps as much as the next guy, but they do make me slow down (and I try to roll one tire off to the side or in the 'break' between the bumps.) If whoever put them there had the goal of making people drive slower through parking lots or residential neighborhoods, they work and arguably are addressing a problem of speeding? Obviously at the expense of annoyance to a great many drivers. Just thinking out loud here... why are we talking about speed bumps again??

Analogy aside, the sound thing is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. However, it does preemptively solve what would become a very real problem if 'quiet' cars were to become more widespread: that is that there are a lot of awful drivers out there who, if they even passed a driving test within the last 70 years, are more concerned about what their face looks like, eating, or what is on their phone than the well-being of people around them. The noise thing is terribly minor thing in comparison, and if you want to address those other issues so be it. As a pedestrian though I want every advantage I can get and being able to hear a car from 100 feet away is a good thing in my estimation.

Also, given our past discussions, I am surprised that we are each taking the positions we are taking (relating to liberterianness and value of a life/suffering etc.)

You make some great points, but nonetheless I think that solving this problem (is it even really that much of a problem?) by way of adding noise pollution when reduction of noise pollution is a benefit of the technology seems backwards.

It's like this story I heard on NPR recently. Some state legislator is attempting to pass a hybrid/electric car tax. The tax is designed to penalize hybrid/electric owners for the tax revenue lost at the pump.

Also, how many lives are low emissions vehicles saving by reducing pollution? Obviously this number would be hard to quantify, but it is a real number, and so it must pay off at least some of the ninja car injury/death debt.

And lastly, go visit California. Probably has the highest per capita low emission vehicle ownership, and from my anecdotal experience, it's cities also have by far the most pedestrian friendly roads. Cross walks are well lit, including flashing lights when in use at most, and drivers actually respect pedestrians. So maybe the issue isn't quiet cars, but a driver culture of disdain for pedestrians.


edit:
In addition, I'd like to ask: when exactly is quiet too quiet? Because I can modify a traditional combustion motor to be near silent. I can also modify one to be ear piercingly loud. Why is this being targeted at hybrids and electrics. What about small economy cars, with small motors, and very quiet exhausts? If it were simply a law that mandated that all vehicles had to be within a certain decibel range, I'd still think it was absurd, but at least it would be consistent. As is, it's just utter nonsense made to pander to older voters who routinely shake their fist in frustration at the changing world around them. It's just sad that so many others have been convinced by this absurdity.

[a500lbgorilla]

I'm familiar with horribly inefficient things that spew unnecessary noise which the manufacturers try desperately to reduce. Your thing is quiet, and unfamiliar. Will you please do something ridiculously inefficient to your thingy so I can be more familiar with it? Thanks.

Yes, your quiet thing is too fast. Either slow it down or loud it up.

I'm picking up what you're putting down.

How will we ever have silent cars if no one's allowed to learn to live around them?

[d0zer]

I wonder if deaf people get hit by cars more or if they overcompensate by being more attentive or if they can sense the vibrations in the ground with their deaf superpowers?

[a500lbgorilla]

I wonder if deaf people get hit by cars more or if they overcompensate by being more attentive or if they can sense the vibrations in the ground with their deaf superpowers?

A yellow diamond reads "hearing impaired person" as a warning to motorists that someone might be ripe for the hitting.

[BennyLaRue]

If they'd hurry up with the muthafuckin flyin hybrids, this wouldn't be an issue.