I probably do. I'm going to have to look into insurance things. *sigh*
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Singapore’s initiative to get people to get more exercise
My dad finished the last few seasons, got I walk the talk T-shirt for clocking a total of 960 km. He walks regularly 10,000 steps as part of his workday.
Singapore’s initiative to get people to lose weight
I wonder if I should sign up for both, but again I will probably not go for their workout sessions – I do my workouts in my gym, I’m trying to push for 2 classes per day. And possibly bumming off free beat saber whenever I can =P
That's why I was collecting the steps tracker cum heartbeat monitor.
Sorry guys, but I am not going through 466 posts. So what have I missed while my eye has had me out of commission for almost a week?
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Has there already been a discussion of why Nigerian Guinness is different, and I've just missed it? Is it like Mexican Coke?
I think they brew it with sorghum or millet or something - it does taste different to regular Guinness Foreign Extra (which I also like, being smoother, tasting less like treacle, and less obviously 7.5%.
It may all be in my imagination, of course, so clearly more experiments are required...
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WHY IS EVERYONE SMARTER WISER AND STRONGER THAN ME?!
I know that I am none of those, you a$+!%&# who is better than me!
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Has there already been a discussion of why Nigerian Guinness is different, and I've just missed it? Is it like Mexican Coke?
I think they brew it with sorghum or millet or something - it does taste different to regular Guinness Foreign Extra (which I also like, being smoother, tasting less like treacle, and less obviously 7.5%.
It may all be in my imagination, of course, so clearly more experiments are required...
I don't think alcohol taste experiments are particularly accurate if you're doing it while drunk...
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Sorry guys, but I am not going through 466 posts. So what have I missed while my eye has had me out of commission for almost a week?What happened to your eye? Did some human poke it out with a flaming stick?
And bad dragon for not reading posts =P
No cookies for joo!
I had a scratched cornea and an infected eye in my right eye. Fun times were had by all. It is still healing and the infection is not quite gone, but I am on the mend. ~sighs sadly~ I would have preferred to have fought a pesky knight. They are always tasty, once you remove the crunchy outer coating.
Things "go on" in this thread?
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Things "go on" in this thread?
This is the Land of Confusion.
Things "go on" in this thread?This is the Land of Confusion.
WOW. I haven't seen that in a very, very long time. I'd forgotten the cowboy-riding-a-dinosaur bit.
I watch that video every few months.
I generally hate 80s music, but I love that song.
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Love me some Genesis. Even their 80's foray into more pop-leaning songs.
Sorry guys, but I am not going through 466 posts. So what have I missed while my eye has had me out of commission for almost a week?
I've been trying to wrap my brain around what hipsterism actually is. So far I've been told:
- Gentrification
- Free-range, vegan, and organic stuff
- Cultural contrarianism
Which honestly sounds like at least two different subcultures getting conflated under one word, tho I'm sure there's overlap with some people.
Ok, they found my gym towel card.
And I got my $15 back. So that’s one thing off my mind.
Vidmaster7, do you need to see a dentist about your cracked tooth?
Ya usually I am a body that is busy. Nice and busy body.
why...wasn't this TOP?
Love me some Genesis. Even their 80's foray into more pop-leaning songs.
I'm still upset shadowrun wasn't a part the xbone collection, but at least I got all of my phantasy star.
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I watch that video every few months.
I generally hate 80s music, but I love that song.
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My understanding of hipsterism boils down to "I liked it before it was cool," so an ironically more mainstream version of gatekeeping. I consume X differently from you, which means I am morally superior.
This leads to the cultural contrarianism - it's 'uncool' to do things as they always were, so some businesses bring in the gentrification as they try to cater to the increasingly vocal demographic, leading to the surroundings following suit. I think this is also where the free-range, etc. comes in - with the desire to prove Better Than You(tm) comes the idea of "well, MY consumerism is less harmful than yours, sheep."
So you have things that could honestly be overall beneficial if implemented well (more awareness of celiac, alternatives for people who prefer to go meatless, etc.) being co-opted by a demographic with the sole identifying characteristic of "self-righteously obnoxious."
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My understanding of hipsterism boils down to "I liked it before it was cool," so an ironically more mainstream version of gatekeeping. I consume X differently from you, which means I am morally superior.
This leads to the cultural contrarianism - it's 'uncool' to do things as they always were, so some businesses bring in the gentrification as they try to cater to the increasingly vocal demographic. I think this is also where the free-range, etc. comes in - with the desire to prove Better Than You(tm) comes the idea of "well, MY consumerism is less harmful than yours, sheep."
So you have things that could honestly be overall beneficial (more awareness of celiac, alternatives for people who prefer to go meatless, etc.) being co-opted by a demographic with the sole identifying characteristic of "self-righteously obnoxious"
The financial damage is the biggest problem for me. Oxtail has gone up in price significantly, and anime is getting(already got) harder to come by quasi-legally. Let's not get into the housing market.
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Handlebar mustache with perfectly coifed hair while wearing perfectly fitting name brand jeans, a thin flannel shirt from Eddie Bauer, while holding a Starbucks coffee cup at a local organic co-op, that's what a Madison douchebag hipster looks like.
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And the ever fun game: homeless or hipster?
Handlebar mustache with perfectly coifed hair while wearing perfectly fitting name brand jeans, a thin flannel shirt from Eddie Bauer, while holding a Starbucks coffee cup at a local organic co-op, that's what a Madison douchebag hipster looks like.
And if not the handlebar, then a David Letterman beard. Or a David Letterman beard with the handlebar.
And the ever fun game: homeless or hipster?
its all in the hair.
Don't look at me, i shower almost every day.
Handlebar mustache with perfectly coifed hair while wearing perfectly fitting name brand jeans, a thin flannel shirt from Eddie Bauer, while holding a Starbucks coffee cup at a local organic co-op, that's what a Madison douchebag hipster looks like.And if not the handlebar, then a David Letterman beard. Or a David Letterman beard with the handlebar.
Why back in my day they were called ZZ Top beards and they usually meant you were supposed to have a hot rod and two super hot chicks (or whoever you prefer) draped on each shoulder.
Oh how times have changed.
Handlebar mustache with perfectly coifed hair while wearing perfectly fitting name brand jeans, a thin flannel shirt from Eddie Bauer, while holding a Starbucks coffee cup at a local organic co-op, that's what a Madison douchebag hipster looks like.And if not the handlebar, then a David Letterman beard. Or a David Letterman beard with the handlebar.Why back in my day they were called ZZ Top beards and they usually meant you were supposed to have a hot rod and two super hot chicks (or whoever you prefer) draped on each shoulder.
Oh how times have changed.
No, the true ZZ Top beards are left to the bikers.
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I'm still not clear on what hipster means. Mrs. Sunrise says we're kind of hipsters, but I can't keep in my head why. It's all very vague and ethereal, much like culture itself.
Hipsters are kind of a cursory revisiting of some of the progressive subcultures that came before them.
- Theres some beatnik pseudo intellectualism.
- There some hippie-esque dreams of environmentalism.
- There some grungy fashion sense.
- There some remnants of yuppie professionalism.
- There are the gnawed empty bones of the postmodern scepticism.
All smashed together with little care or mind to the contextual origins of the cultural movements from which the hipster liberally burrow.
It seems to me that hipsters creating reproductions, pastiches or otherwise empty shells of (other) cultural phenomena in order to ease its proliferation and consumption, primarily by themselves. Though in doing so much of said phenomena changes, or losses at least part of its original form and meaning, as its integrated into of "hipster-culture".
But hey what do I know…I'm no -ist (despise what some people say…) or an -ian.
Hi everyone. I caught a cold, again. Feel tired pretty much constantly. Wish I knew who gave it to me, so that I can return it. The cold, the gift that keeps on giving. *sigh* Well, at least I've got medicine for it.
*Gives John back-pats, hot tea and a glass of scotch*
Ugh. I got the flue. Including the muscle/joint pain.
Get well soon!
Sick sucks. Get well. ((distant hugs))
Personally I have a headache and I can't tell if it's because of my chronic neck issues or the weather. Saturday night we had severe thunderstorms and 22 tornadoes touchdown in the Central Illinois area. This morning we're getting snow.
You suck at math.
EDIT: Posts going out of order again - this is supposed to be showing up AFTER NH posits that 10,000 comes immediately after 999.
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OK. Now that's out of the way.
GothBard's company holiday party will be... interesting this year, especially considering that they just laid off the guy who organized it and over half the employees in the office it's for.
They should just turn it into a wake.
Awesome. The random-order posting now makes me look like an idiot. Woo hoo!
998
999
10,000
Awesome. The random-order posting now makes me look like an idiot. Woo hoo!
Tell me about it...
It's like we're dueling for who can make the most illogical references based on post order.
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If we play it right, we can just turn the whole thing into a glorious dada mess.
Is it just in Fawtl, or is it happening across other threads?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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Is it just in Fawtl, or is it happening across other threads?
I think it's site-wide.
But now I'm curious as to whether I'm going to respond to you before you even post...
Dun dun DAAAAAAAAAA!
EDIT: Oh, foo.
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Is it just in Fawtl, or is it happening across other threads?I think it's site-wide.
But now I'm curious as to whether I'm going to respond to you before you even post...
Dun dun DAAAAAAAAAA!
EDIT: Oh, foo.
New game - we ask stupid questions and post possibly unrelated answers to see if there's any connection between them, or if it's just 100% surreal.
Peer pressure.