Randomness thread, part two.

[MadMojoMonkey]

And a final note for GMML, it's fucking cold at 8AM, fuck going outside when it's under 60 degrees.

I rode my motorcycle to work when it was 8 degrees (that's -13 C) a couple of weeks ago. That was about as cold as I'll ever ride. If it was more than a 20 minute ride, I'd have had to pull over and warm up.

I can't even fathom complaining about 59 degrees.

Perspectives. Made me laugh, though.

[Pascal]

So he's trying to save $30 and a bunch of effort, without giving you anything in return? Like, sure he's a good friend etc but that's early and you'll have to drive home again afterwards. Just tell him look, you need to sleep and it's a bad time cos of the pills, so unless he's really desperate you'd prefer not to. That said, if Tuesday morning is in like 12 hours you're kinda stuck doing it now if you've said you will already. Unless you just wanna lie and ring him right now and say you didn't sleep at all last night so you don't think you'll be safe to drive that early tomorrow.

[boost]

If I asked my mate to do that for me I'd be pretty pissed off if they didn't, although I don't have any friends I'd ask who are on pills that give them trouble sleeping so I probably wouldn't ask you if other people were available.

I'd do the same for any of my mates though and if someone did that for me I'd get them something nice in return, at the least give them the petrol money.

Did you even read past the first little bit of his post? The guy has his own car, and it will cost him $30 to park at the airport for 5 days. It will cost spenda $10 in gas, and probably two hours of time.

I would probably drive him, and right as we pull up, quickly break it down for him, like I just did, and finish with something like, "we're friends, good friends even, I am always there for you, but don't be a fucking dick about it."

[Lukie]

Am I an awful human being for not wanting to drive someone (a good friend) to the airport at 8 AM on a Tuesday morning?

Here is the pertinent info

1. He makes plenty of money, paying for parking shouldn't be an issue, even told me he has a parking discount that would cost him $30 for the 5 days. Drive for me is like 50 miles roundtrip so we're talking ~$10 in gas out of my pocket. Again, not a monetary issue but it's mildly annoying that there's basically no repayment for a favor like this.
2. He knows I typically don't wake up until 11 AM plus I'm on meds that give me insomnia, he knows I don't crash til like 4 AM.
3. It's rush hour in a city of 2M people on a highway that's currently under construction.

I almost feel like he's the bad person for even asking. Seems very selfish but I'm an independent person who hates people so perhaps I'm out of line here. I never have asked him to take me to the airport so it's not like there's some trade-off here. I always drive and park myself b/c who wants to pick someone up from the airport they're not fucking? My thought is we're adults now, this whole ride to the airport thing should be over once you're out of college.

And a final note for GMML, it's fucking cold at 8AM, fuck going outside when it's under 60 degrees.

you don't have to like it, but you should suck it up, put a smile on your face, and do it. it would probably do you good to be friendly, not expect reciprocation (it tends to happen naturally, though), and to get out of that ridiculous sleeping pattern of yours. i have personal experience with all of those things if you want me to elaborate.

and you will get no sympathy for me for having to deal with sub 60 degree weather. you gotta be fucking kidding me. that sounds like a beautiful morning.

i get your point about what your friend is asking. personally i don't like asking for trivial favors like that. if i ask for a favor, it's usually something pretty important, and a lot of times that's when you find out who your real friends are. with that being said, it can be a pretty big hastle to get parking at an airport (at least at cleveland hopkins), and they put you in a shitty parking lot with potholes and guys with crowbars. that last part is an exaggeration, but just barely.

[Lukie]

Did you even read past the first little bit of his post? The guy has his own car, and it will cost him $30 to park at the airport for 5 days. It will cost spenda $10 in gas, and probably two hours of time.

I would probably drive him, and right as we pull up, quickly break it down for him, like I just did, and finish with something like, "we're friends, good friends even, I am always there for you, but don't be a fucking dick about it."

seems like a reasonable approach

[rong]

If you're friends, surely you can also say "Fuck no! Drive yourself you lazy fuck! It's only 30 bucks."

[boost]

seems like a reasonable approach

Sarcasm?

I think it's a good line, because you actually get your point across without it losing out to the reasoning "oh, he's just lazy/a bad friend."

If you're friends, surely you can also say "Fuck no! Drive yourself you lazy fuck! It's only 30 bucks."

Yeah, I don't hate this line either. People who have "good friends" who they can't say this to, I just don't get how you think this is a good friend. If a good friend really really needs it, then he'll say "I know, I know, but [reason he really needs it]" And then since you're a good friend, you go ahead and drive his ass.

But either making up an excuse as to why you can't, or doing it and never breaching the issue of how absurd it is-- they have to be the most socially retarded lines.

[Lukie]

No sarcasm at all... it's a good balance of bringing up the points you want to make while not shunning a friend, for lack of a better term.

[wufwugy]

If you're friends, surely you can also say "Fuck no! Drive yourself you lazy fuck! It's only 30 bucks."

Say that to an American if you wanna watch him wipe the tears from his eyes with his blouse

[rong]

That could never happen, no such American would be my friend.

[Savy]

Did you even read past the first little bit of his post? The guy has his own car, and it will cost him $30 to park at the airport for 5 days. It will cost spenda $10 in gas, and probably two hours of time.

I would probably drive him, and right as we pull up, quickly break it down for him, like I just did, and finish with something like, "we're friends, good friends even, I am always there for you, but don't be a fucking dick about it."

There are various reasons as to why he may not want to drive himself or leave his car in a carpark for a lengthy period of time.

Like I said, if it was my mate I'd have no qualms doing it. But I only have a handful of people who I consider friends.

Tbh though if you have to ask on a forum and you don't straight up speak to your mate about it when he asks and say the things he's said on here and hear the reasons why he wants a lift you can't really be that close.

If he had no good reason for needing a lift (which you should know by talking about it) then then I'd have no problem saying no.

[Luco]

Drive him, then as you pull up ask him for $50 gas money

[MadMojoMonkey]

People who have "good friends" who they can't say [no] to, I just don't get how you think this is a good friend. If a good friend really really needs it, then he'll say "I know, I know, but [reason he really needs it]" And then since you're a good friend, you go ahead and drive his ass.

But either making up an excuse as to why you can't, or doing it and never breaching the issue of how absurd it is-- they have to be the most socially retarded lines.

So this.

[jackvance]

I have friends I could say no to regarding this (are you fucking crazy?) and who could say no to me, but with others it's harder and I'd always feel inclined to say yes (and I think the other way around too). It depends on the person and the kind of relationship you have with them imo.

[Pascal]

Drive him, then as you pull up ask him for $50 gas money

Delay leaving until he's going to be late if you don't, then ask for $50 gas money

[Lukie]

After thinking about it some more, it really is kind of a douchey move on his part to ask for a ride, given all of the circumstances. I kind of thought that before, and it really doesn't change what my advice is, but I was kind of turned away by the tone about reciprocation and 'what's in it for me?' I have had friends like that, ones who I have bought drinks at bars for, had over for parties, gave poker lessons to etc., then as soon as they do something for me, they want something for their efforts. It's a pretty bad way to approach friendships. It doesn't sound like you constantly do stuff to help this guy out and he's never appreciative and never does the same. That's a little different.

[bigspenda73]

The reason I was annoyed about it IS because we're close, as only like a handful of people IRL know what's going on with my health and he's one of them, which is why it annoyed me that he even bothered to ask.

[Savy]

The reason I was annoyed about it IS because we're close, as only like a handful of people IRL know what's going on with my health and he's one of them, which is why it annoyed me that he even bothered to ask.

Did you say anything to him about this when he asked?

People don't always think things through properly and you aren't the #1 priority in his life just like he isn't yours.

The solution really is to speak about it when you're asked rather than to just say yes or no without thinking about it if you do have problems with doing it.

[bigspenda73]

I told him after he asked that I haven't been sleeping and he'll basically have to pry me out of bed to drive him, he seemed ok with it.

Banged on my door this morning and I drove his ass. Got stuck in traffic on the way back which for those who know what's going on w/ me, know is a big issue.

re: weather, I just give leg hell b/c we've had a very warm winter here (outside of like one freak snowstorm) but it was 45 degrees and raining heavily this AM.

[givememyleg]

20 and snowy atm

[Jack Sawyer]

26C and sunny out there right now

[Jack Sawyer]

Btw

http://gawker.com/5983570/did-north-...=recirculation

Time for some duck & cover drills?

[a500lbgorilla]

If I've been following the news as I think I have, the Iranians and North Koreans were working together - the Iranians to give NK the missile technology to launch a satellite and the NK to give the Iranians the technology to build the bomb.

... so... yes, our enemies probably have their own buttons for resting their fingers on.

[BooG690]

I live in Seoul and my family lives in NYC. Awesome. Just awesome.

It annoys me when people make it seem like this is ignorable news. It isn't.

[Chelle]

i'm going camping for valentines day [my idea, never been].

idk wtf to bring to cook. there's gonna be a grill, and obv a fire-pit.

i got a mess kit thingy yesterday, and i'mma bring tin-foil to make foil-packet meals out of. also have a cooler to keep things cold enough to where it won't spoil. oh, and i have charcoal. wtf do i cook? i have chicken, green peppers, mushrooms, but, wtf else?

btw, lol, the low for thursday is like 30ish, lololol, dear god i'm going to freeze, and there will be no internet, and don't know about signal for cells, and gate locks at 6pm, so basically i'm going to be in the middle of a campground/state park, no internet, and limited food supply [kinda].

WHAT IF A BEAR KILLS ME, WITH HIS BARE HANDS!

[kiwiMark]

If I've been following the news as I think I have, the Iranians and North Koreans were working together - the Iranians to give NK the missile technology to launch a satellite and the NK to give the Iranians the technology to build the bomb.

... so... yes, our enemies probably have their own buttons for resting their fingers on.

Nah man it's cool. Now that they have their own, everyone should give up their deathweapons. Uh you guys first though.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Make certain that you have sleeping gear that is temperature appropriate. I went camping once a month for about 6 years when I was in Boy Scouts. The most sure-fire way to ruin a trip is to be under-rested. Always bring extra layers for sleeping, you don't have to use them, but you wont regret bringing them. Never go to bed wearing anything that is wet.

For cooking, you will want a dutch oven. With a dutch oven, you can put it directly on the fire and use it like a frying pan or an oven if you use the lid. Garlic potatoes with butter and onions is one of my favorite camping treats. Put ingredients in dutch oven. Put lid on oven. Put oven on fire. Add a couple-few coals to the lid of the oven. Wait. It can be tricky to monitor the temp in the dutchie, so remember to check it every 10 minutes or so to prevent burning. If the temp is right, you don't need to check it at all, but if it's wrong, you'll burn a good portion of your food and have a difficult clean up.

If no dutchie, then a camping grill is a must. Most pans will need a flat surface to be usable, and you don't want to dump your food in the fire... it sucks.

With either, bring enough vegetable oil to make a 1 - 2 inch pool in a frying pan or dutch oven. Take a roll of biscuits (the kind in a cardboard tube), and poke a hole in the middle of each biscuit with your finger. Stretch it out a bit. Fry that in the oil. It will float, so you'll need to flip it when the bottom is done. Have a plastic bag with some cinnamon and sugar and when the biscuits are done on both sides, let them cool and drip a bit, then toss them in the bag and shake it up. Voila! Donuts!

[kiwiMark]

If no camping grill, then sandwiches and champagne are a must.

[Luco]

If no camping grill, then sandwiches and champagne are a must.

If no sandwiches and champagne, a campsite near KFC is a must.

[kiwiMark]

If no sandwiches and champagne, a campsite near KFC and the Waffle House is a must.

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[rpm]

wp

[eugmac]

was too easy imo.

[kiwiMark]

THANKS FOR SHARING

[eugmac]

sharing is caring <3

[a500lbgorilla]

Nah man it's cool. Now that they have their own, everyone should give up their deathweapons. Uh you guys first though.

Bro, we elected a tree-hugging Hippy. We basically don't have a military now.

[Chelle]

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then a camping grill is a must.

Thankfully they have a grill at the campsite I'm going to be staying at, and a fire-pit. I bought a cute little mess kit, but don't have a dutch oven, though I'm thinking about investing in one, if I enjoy camping, I plan on doing it more.

If no camping grill, then sandwiches and champagne are a must.

First off, I'd make something more bad-ass than a damn sandwich. I'd at least cook before hand, and find a way to heat up said cooked items. Oh, and ew @ champagne/anything wine related, much rather just drink liquor, wine tastes like shit, at least any wine I've ever had, and I ain't paying no outrageous amount on wine to get drunk, when I can buy a big bottle of vodka, that would get me drunk quicker, and last longer. :P!

Btw, I'm almost finished with the beach landscape painting, I can't get completely satisfied with the waves, but, at least it has some type of waveish look to it.

[bikes]

THANKS FOR SHARING

This is the Poster of the Year you damn proles

[eugmac]

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

dashcam footage and photos of damage done by a huge ass meteor crashing down over russia.

[daviddem]

Bro, we elected a tree-hugging Hippy. We basically don't have a military now.

For your edification, most of the rest of the world likes your tree-hugging hippy much better than the lackwit ignoranus warmonger you elected twice before (well at least once, but the saddest part is that he really won the second time).

Maybe you can take revenge and get Wayne LaPierre in the oval office next for good measure? Wouldn't that be a sight to behold? He could take you all responsible law-abiding gun-toting citizens to N Korea to wipe Kim Jong's arse a little.

[jyms]

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

dashcam footage and photos of damage done by a huge ass meteor crashing down over russia.

Funny how we get 50 videos of a meteor crash but we can't get more than one shaky video image or blurry photo of a UFO

[eugmac]

dude what do you think jyms, that the aliens WANT to be discovered? they're not that dumb you know.

[Pascal]

[eugmac]

pretty sure you're supposed to warn people there's danish people in the video before you post videos with danish people.

[jackvance]

Funny how we get 50 videos of a meteor crash but we can't get more than one shaky video image or blurry photo of a UFO

And they all admit lateron they faked the picture.

[a500lbgorilla]

dude what do you think jyms, that the aliens WANT to be discovered? they're not that dumb you know.

In fact, after that lame attack on ufo-evidence, I'd be suspicious of jyms being an alien if his cover wasn't so un-alien-like.

[wufwugy]

brb daneland

[Lukie]

private messages: 85 unread is normal. anything above that means I have a "new" message.

sorry to everyone who I didn't respond to years ago.

[a500lbgorilla]

...

[supa]

Cut my hair this weekend. My hair has been to or past my shoulders since I can remember. Random.

[rpm]

like your beach painting chelle

[rong]

Supa, have you cut it short? I went from shoulder length wild hippy hair to joining the marines short back and sides. It was weird at first but life is so much easier now.

[supa]

Supa, have you cut it short? I went from shoulder length wild hippy hair to joining the marines short back and sides. It was weird at first but life is so much easier now.

Yeah, same thing. About a !/2" long in the back. A little longer on top. It's kind of trippy but I'm mostly stoked about it.

[rong]

You'll find you just made 15 minutes every morning as washing and drying your hair takes a total of 30 seconds. I still miss long hair but from a practical perspective its so much easier. Much less hassle when using a crash helmet too.

[MadMojoMonkey]

...

My cat is dying.

I'm 99% going to have the vet put him down tonight. He stopped eating about 6 weeks ago and has not taken food or meds well. The vet says that it's going to cost more than I can afford to keep going with treatment. The cat is over 17 years old, so it's not a surprise or anything, but still...

I thought I'd be more accepting about it, but I'm broken up a bit.

[Luco]

I love cats so I'll extend my sympathies and not even make a joke about pussy

[kiwiMark]

this is a sad time so I won't even use the word pussygate

[Luco]

this is a sad time so I won't even use the word pussygate

I know what you're doing. I made one post in the tilt thread about the media overuse of the 'gate' suffix, and ever since you've been trolling my posts adding gate to everything.

At first it was funny, then it got annoying. Then back to funny for a while, and now it's just meh.

Still you kiwi, just try harder. Lazygate.

[BennyLaRue]

Just be happy he didn't hashtag it. #gategate

[BennyLaRue]

What did they call the conspiracy when Christina's apple went missing?

[Jack Sawyer]

Today it came to my attention that the UK VAT is at 20%.

Holy shit.

Super holy goddamn shit.

And here as a country we bitch about it going up to 9% locally. It's at 6% now.

[boost]

You'll find you just made 15 minutes every morning as washing and drying your hair takes a total of 30 seconds. I still miss long hair but from a practical perspective its so much easier. Much less hassle when using a crash helmet too.

Yeah, I grew my hair out to the longest it's been in my adult life, recently. I was gonna keep going, but then I just got a haircut on a whim. Every time I grow out my hair, or beard, or pubes, I'm all like "hey man, I can dig this, I'm gonna keep goin and see where the goin gets me.." Then as soon as I cut it off, I'm all, "wtf was wrong with me, minimal hair, minimal maintenance, minimal creepiness, minimal need for a crab comb!"

[rong]

Today it came to my attention that the UK VAT is at 20%.

Holy shit.

Super holy goddamn shit.

And here as a country we bitch about it going up to 9% locally. It's at 6% now.

It's a killer for importing. Not only do you pay vat on the value of the product you import, but also on the cost of shipping and and the vat multiplier is applied after import tax on the products too, so the government charges me a 20% tax on the shipping and 44% on the products.

But hey, we get free Shit healthcare.

[rong]

Yeah, I grew my hair out to the longest it's been in my adult life, recently. I was gonna keep going, but then I just got a haircut on a whim. Every time I grow out my hair, or beard, or pubes, I'm all like "hey man, I can dig this, I'm gonna keep goin and see where the goin gets me.." Then as soon as I cut it off, I'm all, "wtf was wrong with me, minimal hair, minimal maintenance, minimal creepiness, minimal need for a crab comb!"

I don't know why I like having longer hair, but it gives me a strange sense of freedom, prob because every company I've worked for disapproves of it.

[kiwiMark]

I know what you're doing. I made one post in the tilt thread about the media overuse of the 'gate' suffix, and ever since you've been trolling my posts adding gate to everything.

At first it was funny, then it got annoying. Then back to funny for a while, and now it's just meh.

Still you kiwi, just try harder. Lazygate.

I'm gonna keep riding those waves of funny, don't you worry. I've been here before.

[kingnat]

Manti Te'o says there is nothing wrong with secretly hoping that. It's perfectly normal.

Manti Te’o has an invisible friend and its a huge deal. Tebow has one and its perfectly fine…

[bode]

*rimshot*

[Pascal]

Today it came to my attention that the UK VAT is at 20%.

Holy shit.

Super holy goddamn shit.

And here as a country we bitch about it going up to 9% locally. It's at 6% now.

#VATgate

[supa]

You'll find you just made 15 minutes every morning as washing and drying your hair takes a total of 30 seconds. I still miss long hair but from a practical perspective its so much easier. Much less hassle when using a crash helmet too.

Oddly it's the opposite. I take showers at night cuz I work in the dirt so mostly it's just brushing through it in the morning, which I usually do driving to work.

Now, according to the women in my life, I have to do something called "styling" and use something called "product".

[Pascal]

just got my hair cut way shorter to lower maintenance time and increase morning efficiency

[kiwiMark]

Oddly it's the opposite. I take showers at night cuz I work in the dirt so mostly it's just brushing through it in the morning, which I usually do driving to work.

Now, according to the women in my life, I have to do something called "styling" and use something called "product".

You need to go shorter.

[rong]

You need to go shorter.

+1

I tell the hairdresser that if she's cut my hair right it should take me no more than 30 seconds to style it in the morning.

[NightGizmo]

+1

I tell the hairdresser that if she's cut my hair right it should take me no more than 30 seconds to style it in the morning.

Not necessarily shorter. My hair is about 2 inches long. I use product, and it takes less than a minute to style my hair.

[KoRnholio]

Srsly wtf

[givememyleg]

just bought a pair, ty

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