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[Putnam]

unsubtle satire but still goddamn hilarious

[kaenneth]

Life is too short to hurry.

[SalmonGod]

Spoiler: Re: Traffic/Hurrying (click to show/hide)

I'm on Aqizzar's side.  If I'm going somewhere, it's because I want to be there.  Unless it's work.  In that case, I'm hurrying because I suck at mornings and being late can mean some serious shit.  Anyway, it's not bad allocation of time for me to want to make more of my time than spending it sitting in a car.  And it doesn't pay so much to speed, it's true.  At least not in populated areas.  On the interstate or long country roads, it pays off immensely to speed. 

In populated areas with tons of stop lights and stuff, the problem is people not accelerating worth a damn.  It's a pitifully small fraction of drivers who will put their foot on the gas and keep it there until they're at the speed limit.  Most wait a few seconds before they even notice a light is green and start to slowly roll forward.  Then they'll accelerate up to like 20 mph and then coast at that speed for a block.  Then another 5 mph burst of acceleration and another block of coasting.  And then you've hit the next stop light and the process starts all over again without ever reaching the speed limit at all.  And the worst part is the stop lights are timed to the assumption that people will accelerate at a sensible pace out of a stop.  If I manage to get to the head of the pack, I'm golden.  I will get through every light from then on without being stopped.  If I don't manage to do that, it literally doubles my commute time.  Hence the desperate weaving between cars trying to reach that promised land.

Spoiler'd because it's rage thread material...

So here's a happy.

[Putnam]

A stupid thing Egoraptor did when he was 13 years old

slowed down to normal

[RedWarrior0]

Happy because my state (Michigan) is considering upping the speed limit from 70 to 80.

Totally not related to the above combination.

[uber pye]

one of the prof. at my college was doing a presentation about caffeine today, the happy though comes from one of the subtopics

CHOCOLATE!

she brought good European chocolate to contrast the junky American ones
white, milk, 70%, 80%, and 90%!

I even got to take some home

[Reudh]

one of the prof. at my college was doing a presentation about caffeine today, the happy though comes from one of the subtopics

CHOCOLATE!

she brought good European chocolate to contrast the junky American ones
white, milk, 70%, 80%, and 90%!

I even got to take some home

90%!? So good.

[Tack]

Reading through old threads again.

It's good that I can look at them with the slight 'Awww, that was silly' embarrassment of an adult than the 'Oh god I could die how could I have fished that hard' embarrassment of a slightly-older teen.


Also this was all due to me trying to find the post where I put Aqizzar's shades on his profile pic - probably my biggest achievement on this forum, closely followed by the zomRPG's I made and that time I nearly killed a girl. So not being able to find it put a dampener on my good spirits slightly.


Re: Hurrying:
When I was younger I used to hurry all the time. I figured 'If you have to get from A to B, why take so much time with it?'. However, now that I use a car for most of my travel it's seriously removed the need for me to physically hurry, so it's only really still apparent with stairs, which I go both up and down with reckless speed at all times.

[Sirus]

I have been on Bay 12 for 200 days now. Yaaaaaay.

[Parsely]

I have been on Bay 12 for 200 days now. Yaaaaaay.

41 for me. Still less than 5000 posts. ;-;

[Xantalos]

I have been on Bay 12 for 200 days now. Yaaaaaay.

146 or so.
NOW WUT

[Neonivek]

272 days!

[Rose]

297 days for me.

Now wait for aqizzar or somebody to come along.

[Descan]

do we have to do this again

[penguinofhonor]

87.5 days. I amass Bay 12 time very slowly.

do we have to do this again

Descan, this is the whole purpose of the Happy Thread. I think.