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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #550 on: 05 Apr 2008, 02:43 »

Your logic is flawed, you can ride while medieval, but you can ride while not medieval as well, stop shaming Samuel L. Jackson.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #551 on: 05 Apr 2008, 05:07 »

correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't medieval armor actual make falling off a bike (or a horse for that matter) worse? because it provides barely any shock absorbency and adds a whole lot of weight to the fall.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #552 on: 05 Apr 2008, 05:47 »

guess where my tax return is going

if you said "assault rifle" you're right

I fire one of those every week or so.

Not that special, really.

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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #553 on: 05 Apr 2008, 13:49 »

AR-15s are still expensive as hell though.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #554 on: 05 Apr 2008, 16:12 »

correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't medieval armor actual make falling off a bike (or a horse for that matter) worse? because it provides barely any shock absorbency and adds a whole lot of weight to the fall.

It's still better than an asston of road rash. And you'd probably just slide hella far instead of rolling and flipping like you would in leather.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #555 on: 05 Apr 2008, 18:36 »

You would spark, too. At least that way, at night, people would know that you had fallen.

And no, I think you would still roll, I don't think the metal encasing you changes the physics of why you roll.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #556 on: 06 Apr 2008, 09:28 »

Idunno, it's a lot slipperier on asphalt than leather is.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #557 on: 06 Apr 2008, 16:55 »

Ah, but the armor would slow down quicker than you would, you would catch up against the side in the direction you are going, your body would try to keep going as fast as it was, your other side would come up over and you would tumble. And I doubt that the armor would stay nice and smooth very long while rubbing at a high speed against asphalt, which isn't extremely smooth either.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #558 on: 06 Apr 2008, 17:37 »

lol, we're talking about falling off of a motorcycle in a suit of armor.

We need friends dude
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #559 on: 06 Apr 2008, 18:44 »

The only one I really talk to is going emo over his girlfriend leaving him. Happens every damn time he gets dumped. My philosophy is simple: If you don't play, you can't lose.

And what is wrong with talking about motorcycle crashes while wearing armor? It is metal! And yes, that was intended as a pun.


...Yeah, I do need a life.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #560 on: 06 Apr 2008, 18:50 »

If you don't play, you can't lose.

But by the same token, if you don't play, your chances of getting a handski are significantly reduced.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #561 on: 06 Apr 2008, 18:52 »

There are certain things in life where not playing IS to lose.

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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #562 on: 06 Apr 2008, 19:25 »

Stop reminding me :s
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #563 on: 06 Apr 2008, 19:31 »

There are certain things in life where not playing IS to lose.
And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play. In this case, though, I figure I save myself a lot of trouble by simply not caring about having a girlfriend. Of course, now that I put this opinion out in the open, I am probably going to end up with a girlfriend for a short time, and then getting horribly torn up when she breaks up with me, because fate is a dick like that.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #564 on: 06 Apr 2008, 21:42 »

If you don't play, you can't lose.

But by the same token, if you don't play, your chances of getting a handski are significantly reduced.

izzat Tommy's rebel outlaw brother?



But seriously, I am not interested either and think that my longstanding tradition of keeping to myself would just make a relationship weird, and it would last all of one week.



Also, the game.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #565 on: 12 Apr 2008, 18:59 »

I'm considering blowing half my tax refund on a laptop... Possibly a mac because I have decided I hate windows so much it hurts my eye(the left one...where I keep my rage).
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #566 on: 12 Apr 2008, 19:03 »

And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play.

Don't bring global thermonuclear war into this. I mean if that isn't decadent, what is?
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #567 on: 13 Apr 2008, 15:31 »

I spent the money I had left on a wallet that looks like a NES controler! I'm saving my less than min wage on the belt buckle!
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #568 on: 13 Apr 2008, 15:42 »

And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play.

Don't bring global thermonuclear war into this. I mean if that isn't decadent, what is?
A hot fudge brownie sundae while still lying in bed?
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #569 on: 13 Apr 2008, 19:18 »

I spent the money I had left on a wallet that looks like a NES controler! I'm saving my less than min wage on the belt buckle!


I have the belt buckle! I wear it to shows and impress the ladies.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #570 on: 13 Apr 2008, 20:30 »

I also use my holy symbol to impress the ladies! (I'm a gamer church strategy priest)
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #571 on: 14 Apr 2008, 03:26 »

Today I went out and bought a new blanket that actually fits my bed (having a double bed with a single bed quilt just doesn't work well enough), some new black sheets, a black quilt cover and some black pillow cases. I also got some fluffy new pillows. The whole lot set me back about $180 which may not sound like much but it's a lot for me. I'm pretty happy with this. They're not fancy Egyptian cotton nor do they have a particularly high thread count but they are comfy and look fantastic. Hurrah.
My next order of business is to replace my chest of drawers with a big black wardrobe and rearrange my room.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #572 on: 14 Apr 2008, 06:23 »

Retro video games.  I buy them cheap but I buy way too many of them.  $7 may be cheap for a Japanese import of a Sega Saturn game, but I already have the North American version.  Why the hell did I have to have them both???  And why the hell am I considering buying the European version!  And I don't even play video games that much anymore.

That's pretty much my only vice.  But it's still a problem.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #573 on: 14 Apr 2008, 16:54 »

$120 red leather high heel shoes. They are beeeautiful! I think I may end up buying a watch that I have been eyeing off because we got my brother a watch as a present and mine is half as expensive as his was. See, logic!
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #574 on: 14 Apr 2008, 16:58 »

Holy SHIT I want shoes that cost that much.  And aren't orthopedic/orthotic.  Pitchas pls?

One of my job offers is for 58K.  Since I would stay in Blacksburg, that would be approximately like 3M anywhere else.  I COULD BUY THIS TOWN.  Be prepared for major decadence if I take it.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #575 on: 14 Apr 2008, 18:12 »

I bought some $110 leather heels last year and already they are ruined because the style sort of has a thin section that holds it all together and that bit kind of snapped. I give up on expensive shoes.
Except for $200 Doc Martens. But I need them. And they last. My previous pair went six years before the sole split. Hooray!
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #576 on: 15 Apr 2008, 17:42 »

Most I have paid for boots was probably a tie between my $100 hiking boots a few years ago and my $100 Rocky jump boots this year, I like my jump boots better, but I really ought to take better care of them, I don't take care of the leather like I should. It is getting really soft where my feet bend, hopefully that is breaking in rather than just breaking.
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« Reply #577 on: 15 Apr 2008, 18:49 »

Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #578 on: 15 Apr 2008, 19:08 »

last spring I bought a python and its setup with a paycheck just because I could, and I'm going to do the same in a few weeks with either a leopard gecko, corn snake, or several tree frogs. maybe a bearded dragon.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #579 on: 15 Apr 2008, 21:10 »

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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #580 on: 15 Apr 2008, 21:43 »

bearded dragon

Every time I hear this species name I can't help but think, "lol, bearded clam" and then I go cry.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #581 on: 15 Apr 2008, 22:57 »

Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.

My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #582 on: 16 Apr 2008, 01:02 »

Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.

My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
Magnum makes a pair of current issue boots with a zipper for around $80, and kudos for not paying full price.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #583 on: 16 Apr 2008, 04:03 »

I put my faith in Doc Martens because the last pair I bought (In 2002, as an impressionable semi-goth youth, with my first paycheck) lasted six years of me wearing (and beating the shit out of) them for five to seven days a week, every week. They are still extremely comfortable and the leather is lovely but the soles are completely worn out and there is a big split in one. I could have had them resoled but I am a lady who likes shoes and buying new things.

Also I purchased cherry red 10-holes, originally hand-made in England in 2001 (and Quality Control checked by Sue, they proudly proclaim), which are quite a bit more expensive than the basic black 8-hole boot.

Please remember as well that I am Australian, and our money is supposedly worthless.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #584 on: 16 Apr 2008, 04:34 »

Lunchy, pay attention to your finance news!

It is their money that is worthless now!

I bought a Trenchcoat/peacoat dealie (it says it's a trenchcoat on the label but it only comes down to just below my waist) for $120 the other. That's maybe the most I've ever spent on a single item of clothing that wasn't a suit.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #585 on: 16 Apr 2008, 06:59 »

Doc Martens
semi-goth youth
I am a lady

This is like some sort of post-feminist poetry.

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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #586 on: 16 Apr 2008, 07:18 »

Wow Joe Hocking you are totally making it with the awesome, relevant comments tonight.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #587 on: 16 Apr 2008, 08:05 »

Poetry is decadent.

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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #588 on: 16 Apr 2008, 09:27 »

Lunchy, pay attention to your finance news!

It is their money that is worthless now!

This is true.

And, yet, Aussie money is still worth less.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #589 on: 16 Apr 2008, 10:25 »

I'm going to go use the contents of my wallet to wipe my ass now.
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« Reply #590 on: 16 Apr 2008, 14:38 »

Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.

My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
Magnum makes a pair of current issue boots with a zipper for around $80, and kudos for not paying full price.
Huh, I didn't know that, the closest place I could find that had any kind of jump boots was a denver army/navy store, and the cheapest they had were the Rockys. Did you get yours at a chain surplus store? I think the cheaper ones I saw in an ad for my local store were $75 or something like that, could have been the magnums, but of course, I saw them a few months after I had gotten the boots, and the day after I had bought my docs.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #591 on: 17 Apr 2008, 14:08 »

I got mine from my dad, I dunno where he got them from, but I also live right outside of an army base so I have more access to uniforms than most.
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« Reply #592 on: 17 Apr 2008, 16:49 »

I bought new shoes today! One of them is a new pair of converse sneakers (not Chuck Taylors, just some sneakers that they had that I liked), and I got a pair of denim Rocketdog shoes that after the buy one get one 1/2 off, were only $7.50.

It was a good day for me.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #593 on: 17 Apr 2008, 18:15 »

Wow.

My parents haven't bought me squat in the last 5 years, and today, as they're leaving to go to Boston to visit my sister at her college for the weekend, they just leave me $100, "for whatever."

Decadence will surely follow.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #594 on: 19 Apr 2008, 05:14 »

Since I was a wee lad, my favorite hockey player was Cam Neely, and I always wanted his jersey.

So yesterday I shelled out $25 on a t-shirt with his name and number on it. Sad part: nhl.com sells the same shirt for $22.
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« Reply #595 on: 19 Apr 2008, 06:24 »

Oh noes, you paid $3 extra for the shirt! An amount that is probably less than the shipping if you bought it at the other place! ridiculous decadence

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« Reply #596 on: 19 Apr 2008, 07:05 »

ITT: Joe Hocking feels insignificant that he still hasn't reached 10,000 posts and aims to change that.
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« Reply #597 on: 19 Apr 2008, 07:31 »

Oh noes, you paid $3 extra for the shirt! An amount that is probably less than the shipping if you bought it at the other place! ridiculous decadence

$25 is a pretty ridiculous amount to spend on a t-shirt when one is unemployed and generally broke.
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Re: Ridiculous Decadency
« Reply #598 on: 19 Apr 2008, 10:31 »

Didn't you buy like $20 worth of socks the last time you were here?  Silly socks... that is ridiculous.
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« Reply #599 on: 19 Apr 2008, 10:49 »

No what's ridiculous is how seldom I get new socks.  I don't know why, I work literally on the same block as multiple clothing stores.  It's seriously a problem.
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