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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.
Front pocket wallets ftw!
front pocket wallet is the only way to go. no idea how people rock back pocket wallets.
Change purse ftmfw
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.
My pockets are easier to manage since quitting smoking. Several less things to carry around :)
phone front left, money clip/keys front right. i haven't used my back pockets in like a decade.
Replace phone with smokes/lighter and that's me.
Cell phones: I love that you all have them and that I don't.
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.
Front left- money, drivers license, bank card, personal phone, smokes, lighter.
Front right- knife, keys, work phone.
Back left- skoal.
+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 :o omg i'm locked out. o wait. all good. :)
Knife? Supa, you carry a knife around with you? Is that a habit you kept from your ice man days.
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
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.
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.
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".
you got decent screen protectors? My iPhone protector is covered in scratches but the screen underneath is perfect
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.
Yes, the harlem shake is lame, but go to youtube and search "do the harlem shake"
teach me how to dougie?
+1
Do this. Also, look like this.
http://i.imgur.com/ZsZmNHk.gif
Any excuse to watch that again is a good one, amirite?
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.
^^ 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.
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.
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.
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.
never know when you're gonna want to play doctor with a lady
That's right.
Bathroom etiquette: is it acceptable to fart at a urinal?
depends on the establishment I guess but generally yeah, fuck it if not there then where
You're a man. It's acceptable to fart anywhere and everywhere.
Not only is it acceptable, it's hilarious
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.
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-t...chinese-youth/
Sunday morning mulling material.
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.
^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
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
Pictures of said sister would help.
That's some weird stuff, there.
Don't hybrid cars have horns?
I'd be OK with it if they could just make them sound like Jetsons cars.
tis but dilly dallying around for a hundred years or so before fossil fuels kill us all anyways
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.
Agree 100% with Lukkake
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.
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
Yeah, I'm in the MMM/Wuf camp here.
so that's why those cunts have loud-ass electric motors on their pushbikes
damn analogies...
standard son I am disappoint pic that I didn't want to img tag because of format/load time: http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/003/866/nfNeT7YvTozx0cv7ze3mplZpo1_500.gif
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.)
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.
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.Quote:
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.
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 alreadyQuote:
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.)
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
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.
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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.
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?
If they'd hurry up with the muthafuckin flyin hybrids, this wouldn't be an issue.
IM SORRY
http://i.imgur.com/GsNkkv8.jpg
I COULDNT HEAR YOU OVER MY SCIENCE NONFICTION
Someone please post a pegging trip report, k, thanks.
DID YOU HEAR THE THREAD DO A 90 DEGREE TURN, YOU DEAF IDEALIST?!?!
Truly experiencing PMS for the first time in my life, since I had a very major alter integrate.
I'm annoying the absolute fucking piss out of myself, but, I'm closer to being "better", which means holy fuck my college/work/driving shit is gonna happen maybe by the end of the year. I'm terrified, but so fucking excited. I'mma be getting my LPC, which, lol, means a Masters or Doctorate. Oh god, oh god, I'm freaking out more. K - gonna' go look at cute shit and calm down.
What the hell is an alter integrate? My best guess based on context is a sex change.
Boost you make some good points, and I was all set to agree with you but then I realized that Wuf also agrees with you, so there went that idea. :D
In all seriousness Wuf you brought up another good point about parenting. This is just a general point not really relating to the speed bumps thing. A great many things could be solved or prevented by better parenting. For example one argument I have seen laid out as it relates to childhood obesity (and all the health risks/lower quality of life that go with it) is that it is entirely the parents' responsibility to decide what their kids eat, health initiatives be damned. And most especially, government health initiatives be damned. [edit: this is poorly written. I'm not suggesting that the government and not parents should decide who eats what, merely making a point that millions of kids will grow up living off candy and mcdonalds, be fat and miserable, and eventually die at a much younger age than they otherwise would. Where to draw the line on what should be done vs what crosses the line is very much up for debate. I think requiring fast foods to divulge nutrition data, for example, is a good thing.]
That sounds good in theory but how do you go about changing how people parent?! There are times you have to treat the symptoms and not necessarily the cause. And I still think what many kids are regularly eating, especially in schools, is nothing short of a travesty but I don't have the energy to go down that road again lol.
Lukie, I agree, sometimes you have to address the symptoms. But whenever this is the case, it should always be a short term plan, while the long term seeks to tackle the cause. Do you or I know how to better parenting? No, probably not, but it's lame to just throw our hands up and give up on the idea that someone does know how or will know how. The great thing about such a large society is that someone, somewhere is working on this precise problem. But those people lose necessary funding when the non experts decide that the knowledge they seek cannot be found, and so alleviating the symptom gets all the backing.
As for it being completely the parents fault... well you can't be a libertarian and also think it's all the parents fault. Subsidies are the cause of soda, fast food, and junk food being the ever present items in the impoverished diet. In a society with such lopsided subsidies, and where critical thinking is given virtually no class time, can you really expect parents to be capable of making the right choice? And even if they were fully aware of the consequences, there are times when feeding everyone in the family a healthy meal and avoiding future health costs may cost $250 a week, yet they only have $200 a week, and eating junk will only cost them $150 upfront. Can you really accuse them of making the wrong choice when there isn't a choice to be made?
Sure, some parents are fully capable of providing proper nutrition, but are pieces of shit and feed their kids McDonalds instead. But overall this is an issue of poverty and the ramifications of ill placed government subsidies-- not parental responsibility.
I think it's a pretty big stretch to think the parents know any better. Most are not healthy functioning adults either. It's not always poverty, you would be surprised at what you can eat healthy for the same prices as drive through and take out. Boost is right though about the subsidies, those same subsidies that allow the pricing to be so low is also what controls the media, dietary guidelines and general knowledge amongst even the so called "experts" like dietitians and Healthcare providers
to the peoples who donated my sister says thank you very much. i'll be sure to get pics of her freezing her ass off for some laughs and boog
Lol, it's to do with the D.I.D. stuff. Alters are alternate identities in my brain-space. Basically a fucking huge one that gave me a fuck-ton of problems, has integrated, which means that alter is now not an alter anymore, and it's went back into my core identity [me, obv].
I have 4 more alters to do this, which is fucking insane to me, and after those 4 alters are all integrated, and I haven't had a seizure in 6 months, I can do shit that I really, really, really want to do with my life. Had a seizure about 2 or so weeks ago, whereas I was having anywhere from 6-10 a day when shit first started in '08.
I just watched a contemporary SNL skit, and I laughed, a lot.. Head asplode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=m2pK60VlnJ8
Your SNL skit brought me to this one after some clicking on related links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzCqoyUW0I
It's amazing how JT went from a boy band liked by 12 year olds to one hilarious person
Haha, the spoofs were really funny-- everything inbetween? Not so much.
But yeah, it's cool to see the guy get away from his boy band image and be a real human being. Also, check out Leo... he was similarly a teenage girl hearth throb, and now he's a respected actor.
You all know what a prefix is, and you know what a suffix is. So I bet you can guess what an infix is.
There is one infix in the English language.
Can you figure it out?
Spoiler:The answer is un-fucking-believable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekOCpdc6Hc
EXTREMELY NSFW.
this is delightful for lots of reasons, including the musics.
You were right not to post it in the lolpics thread.
I see your $100 and raise you $10,000!!!1!!
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^ Very extremely OMFG if you click this at work and you aren't in Germany you'll probably get fired on the spot!
http://www.npr.org/series/174755100/buried-in-grain
NPR series run this week. I think there are more articles than just those in this 'series', at least I feel like there are more.
I almost posted into that US Federal Budget spun off into a Free Market discussion thread because it's an incredible case study in both the necessity of regulation and the failure of regulation.
http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
Another incredible series run by npr this week about the incredible boom of the rolls of disability. States moving people out of their own budgets and onto a federal program, people who have no idea that you can work sitting down, and the final stage of anyone's career being registered for minimum wage+ earnings for the rest of their days with no way to transition out.
Just gonna keep up with this npr dump.
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/26/175288...g-world-war-ii
Great bit about the struggle of America to decide whether or not to commit to the war.
Spoiler alert, it looked a lot like politics today and was only settled by Pearl Harbor.
holy mackerel
After years of having divisions with 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, and 5 teams in Major League Baseball, they finally evened them out to 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, and 5. :clap: