Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

@Cadence

Two things.

1. Wager, I assume. The only "friendly water" is gin.

2. In the future, if you have a thread about air conditioning, PLEASE WRITE IT OUT! Every time I see your thread, I think, "Um, I guess I have a 14 AC in the current PbP on Enworld, does that count?" Stop messing with my mind!

 

[Thomas Shey]

I believe the data shows it happened while the lockdowns were in place - you can drive like an idiot when there's nobody else on the road.

Yeah, I was occasionally on the road during that period and, well, its bloody eerie seeing the 105 Freeway in Los Angeles close to absolutely empty. There were less people on it than the day that freeway opened.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I believe the data shows it happened while the lockdowns were in place - you can drive like an idiot when there's nobody else on the road.

Clearly!

But I didn’t start SAYING it until after the lockdowns were being lifted. At that point, it was clear that auto-idiocy wasn’t going away after the streets became more congested again.

Also, to be 100% clear, I could even detect some deterioration in my own driving skills. I’m still not as good a driver as I was in The Before Times.

 

[MNblockhead]

Thought for the day.

After a while you feel like you know people on different internet forums, groups, etc. But a lot of the time, you don't actually know them in RL. I was thinking about this because I had realized that someone hadn't posted in a very long time, and I was like ... mmm.

A while back, there was an amazing place I used to go to - a local hangout. I got to know the owner really well. He was a young guy. Any way, the place was amazing. For the year that I lived that, it was the place I was at every night.

After I moved from that town, I saw a few years later that it closed down. And then I saw that the person I knew so well for that year, that had kept me sane, had passed after that. Sucks.

Anyhoo, this is just a reminder that, to use the phrase, take care of yourself, and take care of the people around you. There will always be another D&D edition at some point to argue about, but instead just go out and have a slice of za with someone you haven't seen recently.

I mean, unless they like pineapple on it. Screw that guy.

Doh! I hit the like button before I read the last sentence.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Doh! I hit the like button before I read the last sentence.

"Screw that guy" crossed a line for you? Respect! You know your limits and you're afraid to police them! Good on you!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Doh! I hit the like button before I read the last sentence.

Arguably, my biggest problem is that I confused a clever meme for an entire worldview that I was required to adopt.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have never seen so many blown stop signs…

I was in the middle of the intersection and a car passed 10 feet in front of me. Good things my breaks work.

Pffft.

I was sitting at the intersection at the exit from my neighborhood. The car in front of me and I were waiting for the light to turn green in order to make left turns. Traffic was light. Gradually, cross traffic in leftmost of the 2 lanes slowed & stoped- the right was empty- so we knew it would be soon.

When ours turned green, we both started going forward into our turns. As my car actually entered the intersection, a car came flying through in the right lane, between myself and the car ahead of me. I didn’t even have time to take my foot off the accelerator.

Fortunately, there was no impact.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Thought for the day.

After a while you feel like you know people on different internet forums, groups, etc. But a lot of the time, you don't actually know them in RL. I was thinking about this because I had realized that someone hadn't posted in a very long time, and I was like ... mmm.

TBH, our ability to know others is limited, period.

A friend of mine recently reconnected with an old boyfriend from WAAAAAAY back. Soon, they were on the path to the altar. But when she found out he had a racist side to his personality, she dumped him pretty quickly thereafter. (Why he made an exception for her is unanswered.)

Tangentially, there are some people I know online as well as some in my RL circle. No, seriously.

And, of course, some people I wish I knew better. When I was attending law school in Austin, I took full advantage of the live music scene. Often, I was one of very few or the ONLY black person in the audience. But there was this one metal club I frequented where 9/10 of the shows were attended by a cute black chick- often the only other POC. We never introduced ourselves or interacted in any way beyond a simple head nod of recognition across the club. I know MY history as a lonely brown metalhead; I often wonder about hers.

 

[Reynard]

I’m a biker I like to get my exercise while sitting down. Even oh the hottest days I don’t feel the heat until I stop.

I live in the US NE and went for a run early this morning. It was only 72 degrees but near 100% humidity and I will tell you I could feel that the whole way. Humidity means you can't regulate your body temp with perspiration and once you get going it feels like 10 or 15 degrees hotter.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

TBH, our ability to know others is limited, period.

A friend of mine recently reconnected with an old boyfriend from WAAAAAAY back. Soon, they were on the path to the altar. But when she found out he had a racist side to his personality, she dumped him pretty quickly thereafter. (Why he made an exception for her is unanswered.)

I mean, it sucks that it happened, but it's great that she found out before it went any further. Dodged a bullet there.

One of my "ways to identify good people" is pretty simply. See how they treat service workers, or others that they don't have to treat well. If they are nice and kind to people that they don't have to be nice and kind to, that's usually a good sign.

And while I might bemoan the spread of the tipping economy to all interactions, I still think that in America, you can tell a lot about someone from how they tip at a restaurant. Not everything, but some things.