Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 219951 times)

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #2250 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 20:36 »

I'M FAILING MATH LA LA LA LA LA LA WHOOOOOO

(i desperately need to bring that grade up. i just suck at math so hard. i always forget my positive and negative things.)

Also: WHEN AM I EVER GOING TO USE THIS OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL?

IronOxide · « **Reply #2251 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 20:40 »

THINGS YOU WILL USE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL: Positives and negatives. Makes a considerable difference in personal finance.

Hat · « **Reply #2252 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 20:42 »

Quote from: negative creep on 21 Sep 2009, 19:59

Fixed gear bikes are cool because you don't have to shift gears. I never do. And if I wasn't so lazy (and if I'd ride my bike more than about once every two years) I'd have turned it into a fixed gear bike long ago.

I literally cannot understand how people can ride fixed gear bikes for casual transport, it is basically the most suicidal thing I can think of.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2253 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 20:55 »

Quote from: negative creep on 21 Sep 2009, 19:59

Fixed gear bikes are cool because you don't have to shift gears. I never do.

So, fixed gear bikes are good because it is more convenient to hate your legs than move your thumb a little bit? No wonder so many hipsters ride scooters. They wouldn't know what to do on a real motorcycle. There's a gear lever, and a clutch and two brake levers.

tania · « **Reply #2254 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 21:10 »

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 21 Sep 2009, 20:36

WHEN AM I EVER GOING TO USE THIS OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL?

you're not. it's okay though! i barely scraped by with a D in calculus in my senior year of high school but it was okay cos i did so well in all of my other courses that my grades averaged out and i got into university anyway and i never had to do math again (wait except for those three really hard social sciences statistics courses WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT NOISE). just do the best you can and try to pass but don't stress out too much beyond that, you're okay.

negative creep · « **Reply #2255 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 21:14 »

I don't know about scooters. But when I ride my bike(s) I never change the gear. Except when there's a really really steep hill. Which I usually avoid if I'm not riding for fun (which is something I gave up years ago). So for casual transport around town, I really never shift gears.

edit: funny thing how two people quoted the least important part of my post. The part that I almost edited out.

Hat · « **Reply #2256 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 21:53 »

I just want to know if there is some weird taxonomy difference between the US and Australia where "fixed gear bike" just refers to any single speed bike, because I hear about hipsters in the US getting around on fixed-gear bikes a lot and can't imagine anyone riding one around on the street without having some kind of death wish.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #2257 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 22:11 »

There is. You are thinking of fixed wheel being insane, right? Where the wheels do what the pedals do, like no coasting but you can stand still at a traffic light without your feet touching the ground. If so, yes, fixed gear=fixed wheel.

Actually, crap. Now I'm confused. I call the ones you can pedal backwards fixed gear, which are different than one speeds, which is what I have.

Eris · « **Reply #2258 on:** 21 Sep 2009, 22:20 »

I got a haircut today (so did est). It is not as short as I wanted, so I am kinda maybe happy with it but not overly. I will take and post pictures when I am less ambivalent about it.

Metope · « **Reply #2259 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 00:12 »

Huh bluh bluh up way too early and I have classes and work all day. I hate going out the door knowing that I wont be back before until 12 hours because of such tedious stuff.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #2260 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 02:04 »

So my boyfriend was hideously vomitously ill on the weekend and I took care of him, now I am ill also and he took care of me. Listening to each other vomit for the first time is so romantic.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2261 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 04:03 »

Today I start my last week at work! I have only three more shifts including this one and then I face the terrifying abyss of unemployment. It's not that terrifying, I know I can always come back during holidays but still, I've worked there for almost a year (it'll be a year on Friday) and I am now about to enter the most expensive period of my life to date with no reliable pay cheques streaming in.

On the upside I'm seeing a lot of my friends in the next two weeks. On Wednesday I'm meeting up with a friend who's doing an extra year at college so is the only one of our gang still around, and on Friday I might go to my best friend's uni for the day, because he's feeling kind of homesick and it isn't far on the train. Then in the evening I'm probably going out with a friend who I worked with who's about to move away to uni for the second time, and then next week I go to my dad's and then UNI.

It's so weird that almost everyone I see on a day-to-day basis is moving or has moved already. I mean, I knew in theory that my entire age group was about to go off to uni but now it's happened and boy is it odd.

ETA: I still haven't got in touch with the girl from the train

I guess fate is saying "nothing to see here, move along please".

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2262 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 07:58 »

I miss my dog.

Dog shelters should probably do background checks on potential owners. That's probably too much resources though.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2263 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 08:19 »

Way to miss the point, Tommy! You're welcome to come and spend a day with a pair of decent dogs that don't get shouted at, but I dare say it's a bit out of your way... I can't offer the same with children, though, as they're way older than you, so don't count.

Seriously, though, there are inadequate people who shout - at dogs, children, parents, lovers, neighbours, shop assistants - to try and seem less inadequate. They may or may not realise that it doesn't work. These people need your pity, as do the suffering dogs, children, parents, lovers, neighbours, shop assistants...

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2264 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 08:32 »

Quote from: tania on 21 Sep 2009, 21:10

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 21 Sep 2009, 20:36
WHEN AM I EVER GOING TO USE THIS OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL?

you're not.

There's the age-old joke about why do you learn higher-level math? To help your kids with their homework when they take it. That said, my dad and I both use it on a daily basis. For some jobs, it's extremely necessary, but for most non-technical jobs, it's useless.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2265 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 09:04 »

Dogs. Children, even.

Jace · « **Reply #2266 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 10:31 »

I can understand yelling at your dog if it has done something wrong (like, get into the trash when at dinner or eat an entire tray of cranberry muffins off of the counter), but some people yell at their dogs for barking once and it really pisses me off. We only ever yell at our dog if she is barking excessively (ie, it has been like 5 minutes and she is still barking).

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2267 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 11:13 »

The thing about yelling at dogs is that it does not work. The only time that it achieves anything is if the dog is currently doing something dangerous and you want to stop it immediately. But shouting because it did something wrong earlier just makes it think you hate it. Dogs don't understand "You chewed my shoes up again you stupid fucker!" they just hear "SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT".

That said, shouting at children gets my goat too because it just teaches them that shouting is acceptable (and anyone who teaches a child that yelling in a public place such as a supermarket deserves to spend eight hours being yelled at in what is already a noisy environment).

I have nothing bloggy to add, other than that I get to see even more of my friends! Not the one I was going to visit on Friday though, he has a lecture on the history of Scottish independence (why?).

Emaline · « **Reply #2268 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 12:19 »

So, apparently, my boyfriend has coital cephalgia. He is getting an MRI tomorrow, and I am all worried.

Plus sex headaches suck so much ass. But I don't need to go into details about that.

Also, does anyone know if I can buy clove cigarettes via the internet and have them shipped to the US? Not being able to buy them sucks. Fucking stupid laws.

sean · « **Reply #2269 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 12:44 »

try searching clove cigarettes into google!

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2270 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 14:25 »

Wait, what happened about clove cigarettes? They're gone or something? What ever will English majors do to look cool?

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2271 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 14:39 »

I thought that was what they did to look pretentious. Oh my god I'm so confused! Which actions do English majors do to look better than me, and which do they do just to look cool? I can't think that the two are that related, because even acknowledging my existence isn't very cool.

p.s. I'm starting to discover that my first graduate semester of quantum mechanics inadequately prepared me for a future in the subject. How does spin work again?

Emaline · « **Reply #2272 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 15:33 »

Laws have changed recently, so after October it will be illegal in the US to sell clove cigarettes. As of today, Missouri and possibly Illinois(I'll have to give my old clove shop a call) can no longer sell them. Yesterday it was impossible to find most brands of them.

Some bullshit about kids how they get kids to smoke because they are flavored. Which is bullshit because studies have shown that less and less high school aged kids are smoking cloves/starting with cloves.

I didn't start smoking until I was 19, and have always smoked cloves. It pretty much sucks ass for me because I have never liked regular cigarettes. I can't even smoked them now, they make me gag so much. But cloves, sweet, delicious cloves, are amazing. Well worth the $40 I spent on them yesterday.

ETA: That package change someone mentioned, probably isn't so much a package change as it is a completely different product. Clove cigarettes are illegal, clove cigars aren't. And the are double the price(you get 10 for the same price as 20 regular clove cigarettes), so fuck that noise.

Also RE: Bikes
I have never known much about bikes, so I'm fine with a single speed(which I always thought was the same as a fixed speed). I prefer them because I don't know when I'm supposed to switch gears. I do, however, prefer the hand brakes.

Lines · « **Reply #2273 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 15:48 »

WHAT?? NOOOOOOO. I mean, I don't even smoke that much anymore, but that makes me sad, because cloves are the best. I don't even like the flavored ones, Blacks and Supers are fine as is. Stupid country.

I mean, I think it's ok to ban smoking in a business or area, especially if it's family oriented, but making cloves illegal is stupid. Most people I know didn't start out with cloves, they started out with whatever they stole from their parents. They'll probably end up banning shisha at some point too because of this, if they didn't already. Jerks.

In better news, I decided what to be for Halloween and I'm exciteddd. (I'm gonna be Waldo.)

ViolentDove · « **Reply #2274 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 16:15 »

So I woke up at 5am and Sydney was covered in a blood-red haze. Apparently it's not the apocalypse, though.

More photos here.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #2275 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 16:21 »

Wow...the photos for that are all pretty awesome, and slightly creepy. Amazing how a huge amount of red/orange dust can make photos look cool

Scarychips · « **Reply #2276 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 16:26 »

That Luna Park looks incredibly creepy.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2277 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 16:26 »

Wow, that is one pretty picture.

Quote from: Emaline on 22 Sep 2009, 15:33

Also RE: Bikes
I have never known much about bikes, so I'm fine with a single speed(which I always thought was the same as a fixed speed). I prefer them because I don't know when I'm supposed to switch gears. I do, however, prefer the hand brakes.

I always figured I'd switch gears when my legs started not being in an ideal situation (i.e. moving too fast, or having to work too hard). Maybe I've just had geared bikes for such a large percentage of my life (dirt bikes are necessarily multi-speed!) that I don't have any concept of not having grown up with that sort of thing.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #2278 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 16:29 »

You guys ever seen Night of the Comet?

Next thing we'll know all the Aussie's will be dust piles or zombies one. Mark my words.

tania · « **Reply #2279 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 17:15 »

Quote

dogs

for a number of people i know, having a dog is also a bit like having a significant other or having a child in that if you're the only one in your social circle who doesn't have one, you miss out on the conversations and shared experiences and it can be really alienating. my aunt for example got a dog very shortly after my parents did, not necessarily because she wanted a dog but because she wanted to be a person who owns a dog. the result of course was that after the first few months the novelty wore out and she had no idea what to do with a dog so now she just screams at it all the time (it is extremely depressing). i don't think very many people get a dog 100% purely based on peer pressure but maybe for some people, it's a very small push in that direction.

Lines · « **Reply #2280 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 18:13 »

Those pictures are both amazing and terrifying.

Quote from: ackblom12 on 22 Sep 2009, 16:29

You guys ever seen Night of the Comet?

Next thing we'll know all the Aussie's will be dust piles or zombies one. Mark my words.

My vote is zombies. I mean, I think all the crawls are just a sign of what is to come.

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #2281 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 19:27 »

Today at school everyone watched a priest stand in front of us for a pro-life presentation. He stressed the importance of calling "them" pro-abortion and not pro-choice and gave us good flippant questions to ask them when they call themselves pro-choice.

God Bless America!

jhocking · « **Reply #2282 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 19:39 »

Quote from: tania on 17 Sep 2009, 08:45

so excited to never complain about my stupid ancient seven year old laptop ever again

well not for seven years anyway

Quote from: evilbobthebob on 17 Sep 2009, 16:25

I feel all stalker-ish now.

refer to my sig

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 21 Sep 2009, 20:36

Also: WHEN AM I EVER GOING TO USE THIS OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL?

I read a great answer to that in some book, I forget what it was called. Basically, the point of math class isn't that you will be solving algebra equations later on in life, but rather to train your brain. Think of it like weight training. You don't lift weights so that you'll be able to lift a barbell in situations that come up, you do weight training because it makes you stronger for other activities. Same with learning math; the point isn't so much because you need to know those specific equations or whatever, it's so that your brain will be good at using logic to solve problems.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2283 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 19:49 »

Not to come back to the fixed gear bike thing, but...

A fixed gear bike is what I guess BritannyMarie called a fixed wheel bike in my book (and everyone I know's book, some of whom are afore mentioned hipsters who ride fixed gear bikes through New York). It means that if you stop pedaling your bike, your wheel stops turning, and as a result you brake. That's what a fixed gear bike is, and it's also why it's extremely dangerous.

I know people who used to ride fixed gear bikes because it was cool but it started to really hurt their joints since they had to constantly be pedaling. They've now switched back to normal bikes.

Riding with just one gear is not the same as riding on a fixed gear bike.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2284 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 20:22 »

Basically, it's just stupid and dangerous, then?

KvP · « **Reply #2285 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 21:59 »

I've never actually heard of those. I had a one-speed that you backpedaled to brake, but you could still coast on it. That just sounds insane.

Emaline · « **Reply #2286 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 22:18 »

Yeah seriously. That sounds dumb. I've never heard of a bike that stops moving when you stop pedalling.

jodizzle · « **Reply #2287 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 00:46 »

It is red dustign all over QLD too Nick! Just not as pretty! Instead I have dirt in my bed and no nice photos to show for it!

Hat · « **Reply #2288 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 04:57 »

I went for a dust-ride today on a low rider with a bandanna over my face and a bright yellow stack hat aw yeah

holy shit the orange sky. I thought there'd been a bushfire or something.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2289 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 06:32 »

It's not the apocalypse over here yet, but I guess that is mostly because Perth is basically behind the times on everything.

Fixed wheel bikes are mostly ridden in velodromes in competitive sprint cycling. I'm not entirely sure why it is considered less than utterly insane even there. As if riding on a heavily slanted wooden surface wasn't fucked up enough...

I also know that it caught on as a thing to do among bike couriers, but once again those dudes basically have deathwishes regardless so it's not so surprising.

est · « **Reply #2290 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 06:34 »

Quote from: Emaline on 22 Sep 2009, 12:19

coital cephalgia

One of my friends' boyfriends got this, but only after one time having sex with her. At first I thought he was having a lend of her or trying to tell her something, but he went to the doctor and got MRIs done and all that jazz and it turned out legit. The dude was in his mid thirties and it hadn't happened to him before, and now reading up on it on wiki that seems to be a common thing. It gave her a complex about sex with him for a while, which must have sucked.

Yayniall · « **Reply #2291 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 07:03 »

What a bitch!

Spluff · « **Reply #2292 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 07:05 »

I want an organ. Which one of you lovely people wants to buy me an organ?

(hell I'd accept an organ from some of you not-so-lovely people too)

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2293 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 08:12 »

Spluff, you're going to have be a bit more specific. There are a few choices.

Too obvious?

SirJuggles · « **Reply #2294 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 10:07 »

Those pictures are amazing.

To be fair, aren't all unicycles fixed-gear by necessity? That's how you can move back and forth on one.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2295 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 10:22 »

I'm not sure what I would do if I saw someone riding a unicycle on the side of the road. I've seen people riding unicycles in town (maybe not this one), but always as a bit of a gimmick for attention, which means they weren't stupid enough to treat it like a legitimate form of transportation.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #2296 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 10:33 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 23 Sep 2009, 10:22

I'm not sure what I would do if I saw someone riding a unicycle on the side of the road. I've seen people riding unicycles in town (maybe not this one), but always as a bit of a gimmick for attention, which means they weren't stupid enough to treat it like a legitimate form of transportation.

I ride a 36'' unicycle as my primary means of transportation. With 125mm cranks, I can get up to a relatively respectable cruising speed (12-16mph) and in most cases I can keep pace with bikes through city streets (unless there's a long downhill section, since I can't coast and my top speed is limited by the speed I can pedal).

It's cheaper and easier to maintain than a bike, it never gets stolen, I can take it into most buildings with me, I can go down stair sets that bikers can't (useful for college campuses), I can use the sidewalk in a pinch more easily than a biker, and ultimately, it's FAR safer. No matter what direction I fall in if I'm in an accident, I can land on my feet. I don't have handlebars to flip over, and I don't have a big bulky frame underneath me to trip me up if I need to bail. I've been directly doored while riding on the street before, without injury ... I just caught the door with my hands and let the uni bounce off it behind me. There has never been a unicycle-related road fatality, to my knowledge. Furthermore, since I'm upright and I don't have handlebars to hold on to, I am more visible to drivers and I can see them coming from farther away and from more directions (looking behind me while I'm in the bike lane is way easier than it is on a bike, for example).

In an urban environment, at distances up to a few miles, I would pick my unicycle over a bike as a mode of transportation almost every time. I ride it to work, I rode it to class when I was still in school, and I use it to visit friends. Since my hands are free while riding, I can even carry groceries or use the phone while riding without destabilizing myself or putting myself at risk. All in all, it's basically a totally awesome form of transportation.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2297 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 10:44 »

To be honest, though, unless I'm engaging in interesting maneuvers, I'm upright on my bicycle most of the time, too. That's some good insight, though. I've never seen a unicyclist who could actually ride one well.

Metope · « **Reply #2298 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 10:52 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 23 Sep 2009, 10:33

There has never been a unicycle-related road fatality, to my knowledge.

I don't know about other places, but around here I've only seen unicycles at the circus while the roads are pretty much crawling with bicycles. Needless to say I am not surprised about this statement!

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #2299 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 11:06 »

I've been riding for close to 7 years now, and while nowadays it's just transportation to me, I used to do a lot of mountain trail riding and trials riding. I had a 2-foot vertical hop at one point and when I was still practicing freestyle tricks I could qualify as a level 5 freestyle rider on the IUF skill level chart and I could do some tricks that count as level 8. I never got to this level of riding but I like to think I got almost halfway there.

I mean, haven't you seen my username?

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