On my bus ride home from work tonight, I saw the most beautiful woman with really short hair sitting a few seats in front of me. She was staring out the window while running her fingers through her hair and it was the most soothing thing. How do people not just stare at each other all the time? I wanted to compliment her hair but talking to people is, like, not my thing, y'know?
I fantasize about having a job where I'd be traveling/staying in hotel rooms for eighty percent of my life.
Have you heard the Mike Birbiglia piece about the pretty woman on the bus?
I may have but I don't recall. Whenever I think if Mike Birbiglia, all I can think of is Joey Baggadonuts.
It's in the This American Life episode about good guys and is worth listening to!
Quote from: Anna Karina on June 26, 2014, 09:32:39 PM
How do people not just stare at each other all the time?
i think most women would agree that "people" do stare at "each other" literally all the time. we just avoid eye contact because it makes us like 1% less likely to be fucked with.
I'M IN A FEMINIST RAGE AFTER READING COMMENTS ON THE JESSICA WILLIAMS SEXUAL ASSAULT SEGMENT
Yeah I'm strange looking and gender nonconforming so getting stared at is almost like a skill I have at this point.
But like, sometimes you just have this compulsion to look at someone, and it's not a mean to be creepy, there's just something totally interesting going on. I try my best not to stare when I feel that way, mostly because I know what it's like to be stared at with reckless abandon (which is to say, it sucks and is terrifying).
true dat
yesterday an old lady stared at me for a while cause i think she was just confused
staring is at best rude and at worst very terrifying
My staring was pure. :(
And also in no longer than, like, five second increments. Probably less than that but time doesn't move ever. I felt like I was looking at a shot from a Kieslowski film.
(http://i58.tinypic.com/2pynyxd.jpg)
I think I just nonchalantly got a $50/week raise? This pleases me considering yesterday I didn't get the second job I was really hoping for.
Staring is tough 'cause sometimes I just want to look at a person because they are interesting and I like looking at interesting things, but we've latched on so much societal meaning onto eye contact, and it's a drag! Even when people stare at me and I'm almost positive it's, as Brett said, "pure," I feel on edge.
Why is it okay when lil kids do it? I always get, "Look, her hair is blue," from kids, and sometimes the parents are like, "Well, you should say something to her," and that's totes okay.
I don't know what dubstep is.
Can't we just start threads and discuss specific things instead of having a mish mash of topics to wade through?
This is for things that don't really need their own threads.
If you think it should have its own thread, then it wouldn't go here.
Yeah because we're so crowded with topics and all.
These dumb misc. Threads always devolve in to people ignoring each other and just posting news about themselves like it's a social network.
Person A: "horrible heartbreaking news"
Person B: "I just made some awesome cookies this is the best day to be alive!!!!!!111!!!!!1!!!"
Boats are dumb.
Sorry for starting the +/- thread, as it got the same criticism.
I was going to edit and change the title when i saw that but others had already started their ow +/- stuff so it seemed wrong
feel free to delete it if you want
I didn't really intend for this to be the same as the +/- thread. More observations and miscellaneous discussions not worth having their own threads for.
But fine, let's complain about this and I'll not post anything at all.
Thanks.
I've been eating basically nothing but olives and mushrooms for the past two weeks.
Do people eat pickled garlic by itself?
Or just, like, garlic in general?
Meaning regular garlic, not garlic just whatsoever. Garlic rules. Fuck you if you don't like garlic. I'm talking about by itself.
i can't help but stare at almost everyone and everything just because everyone and everything is beautiful to me in some way or another but when it's reciprocated i get a little terrified. i suppose it's my low self esteem. god forbid they might find me nice to look at, in my mind they are making a mental check list of everything that's funny looking, misshapen, unproportionate, disfigured, scared and on top of that they can read my mind and think i'm a neurotic, insane, depraved, raving lunatic and they are anxiously counting the milliseconds till they can get off the subway and break into a kenyan mountain run to get as far from me as possible.
so.. how about them Mets?
and i really miss OTB (off track betting). i spent a many a night in the slums of some shit hole upstate new york dive of a town placing 2 dollar bets on the wild card and getting a slight little buzz, comparable to a weak uninspired orgasm (which is still better than none) at the thought that my 2 bucks could turn into twenty if the old horse with a limp that got spared from being put down by PETA guys picketing and the alcoholic jokey could actually pull in for a photo finish and surprise all the other mutants sitting beside me. and yeah, this is real life not a bukowski excerpt.
the Mets fucking suck
I hate the Mets like the big lebowski hates the Eagles
To hell with shitty teams
I'm going to start making a new thread based on every new post in here. Like this one would be, "Let's Talk About Baseball" and I could talk about how big of a crush I had on Chipper Jones when I was an 11 year old all star softball player.
Blake starts second 'say something nice about person above you' thread because he didn't see the other one
Other one at the end because no one wanted to respond to say something nice about me....
all the damn sad feels....
at least courtney had a crush on a Brave....
the Braves are the best
since re-registering and checking out the pics/life thread, I realized how crazy it is that I know a bunch of really great people around the country/world because of this board and I'm really glad that I got to be a part of it.
that, and, I don't get beer. I mean, what's the point?
Quote from: skuyler on June 28, 2014, 10:13:06 PM
that, and, I don't get beer. I mean, what's the point?
Probably the part where it's delicious.
Careful, Brett! With this and the introduction thread, you're fighting a war on two fronts!
I just opened up a can of Old Chub Nitro. Bring it.
Quote from: skuyler on June 28, 2014, 10:13:06 PM
I don't get beer. I mean, what's the point?
You're a fucking monster
Brett I didn't want to keep derailing the intro thread, but I did want to say that I don't dislike IPAs on the whole, I just sometimes don't want one, but in this little craft beer haven I live in, sometimes a bar will only have IPAs, and I just wont be feeling it that day.
But I have been drinking an inordinate amount of this recently:
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relationships are weird and stupid.
The governor of Idaho is named Butch Otter. Butch. Otter.
How could you see that name on a ballot and not vote for it?
Quote from: momitsnowme on July 02, 2014, 10:03:03 PM
How could you see that name on a ballot and not vote for it?
What if they were running against Femme Penguin? Just saying.
so.. anyone here about how when you die scientists have discovered that at the exact moment death is pronounced the body loses mass and some of the brightest minds (scientifically inclinded/realist/agnostic and/or atheist folks) speculate that the loss of mass is the soul leaving the body. where does it go? what does it want? is it happy? is it free?
i have this fear that the afterlife is like a neverending, eternal DMV or Public Assistance building, where instead of waiting for 12 fucking hours to get a number to wait until 12 just to be told you don't have the papers you need. so yeah, that's hell or purgatory or what have you. you sit in a chair with everyone who ever was waiting for your number to be called to move on to the next room where you wait again for your number. and that's forever.
Can you provide a source on that? Because the whole "the body weighs slightly less after death and that's your soul leaving the body" thing was a popular theory in like the 1800s.
that's probably your body pissing and shit
where do y'all stand on the great debate on whether or not you piss and shit every time when you die
It wouldn't be EVERY time. If you've just taken a massive dump and then keel over, your sphincter will relax but there won't be any poop. Perhaps some mild leakage, maybe.
whatevers left brewing inside the stinkin' ol hunk of meat that your body truly is comes out but like courtney said, if you just dropped a SERIOUS deuce and the strain of squeezing out a dump that could of been mistaken for a baby cow you won't have much left coming out when you croak.
i don't know what's nastier.. death, life or sex. they're all pretty nasty
oh and i'm waching a marathon of the 60's batman tv show. it's awesome. even though most of the people on it are dead and the pretty kids are being spoon fed in nursing homes at this very moment, i'm quite entertained.
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should people be listening to more carole king?