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    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by mokz

    Is standup paddleboarding the dorkiest new sports trend?

     

    I mean:

    It doesn't really require any skill, so any old idiot can do it

    It costs relatively lot of money either in rentals or buying the equipment

    It's an impractical way of moving around, how about using a canoe instead?

    Generally you need quite specific conditions to do it, like calm waters and a warm weather

    You look like a dork standing on a board and paddling around

    Just look at this:

    NYC_SUP_boarding-56a6dc1c5f9b58b7d0e5233

     

    I just found out there's also SUP yoga now. Oh me lawd.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    Fucking squirrels and chipmunks keep getting into the garden and pulling vegetables off the plant. They don't even eat the vegetables, they just in there to fuck things up. Going to have build a serious fence and roof thing this weekend.

     

    re: Kerouc "On the road". when i was living abroad, I had a discussion with a friend that i met there - another Canadian. He said he didn't rate it that highly cause he'd already traveled the world by then - much more than Kerouac had done by his age. Which to me is missing the whole point of the book. It's not about the locale - it's the experiences and relationships that you build in life.

     

    And yeah, that kind of hedonism is good fun, for a while, but after some time, you just get to be like that 40 year old guy gurning his teeth off in a grim club. I'm currently listening to Frank Ocean's "blonde" record a lot - and I feel like you can't get that album unless you lived some in the party scene, and experienced the resultant emptiness at the end of it.

    Nowt empty here fella. Still having good times! Don't get old. Adulthood is when childhood turns into a corpse.

    Yeah, lol, guys. I just recently quit my job, put all my stuff in storage and yesterday flew on a one-way ticket to South Africa. And I'm 39. It's a possibility that I'm in my forties when this trip is over. I have no planned end date.

     

    Granted I very rarely go to parties anymore. Couple of beers in a bar and a bit of smoke now and then are enough for me. I'm more interested to going to the desert in Namibia and climb them dunes. And I might be freelancing while I travel if I find customers.

     

    I did a similar thing in 2015 for 8 months so it's not like a "big life changing thing" anymore but I really love to have this kind of off-year once in a while. This is the third time now.

     

     

     

    Yeah that's all cool..I'm talking about, you don't want to end up like this guy.

     

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    Lol, yeah. Just pointing out that there are other options beyond living regular 9-5 working/family life or being a constantly drugged out traveler.

     

    For me the hardest part of these long trips is that it's pretty hard to have a meaningful long-term relationship with these kind of conditions. Dating somebody usually implies that you don't disappear for 8 months and then decide to start living somewhere completely different from where you started..

     

    On the other hand I make much more friends when traveling than "normal" life and the friendships that can stand this kind of testing grow stronger while the weaker casual acquaintances get weeded out.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    Fucking squirrels and chipmunks keep getting into the garden and pulling vegetables off the plant. They don't even eat the vegetables, they just in there to fuck things up. Going to have build a serious fence and roof thing this weekend.

     

    re: Kerouc "On the road". when i was living abroad, I had a discussion with a friend that i met there - another Canadian. He said he didn't rate it that highly cause he'd already traveled the world by then - much more than Kerouac had done by his age. Which to me is missing the whole point of the book. It's not about the locale - it's the experiences and relationships that you build in life.

     

    And yeah, that kind of hedonism is good fun, for a while, but after some time, you just get to be like that 40 year old guy gurning his teeth off in a grim club. I'm currently listening to Frank Ocean's "blonde" record a lot - and I feel like you can't get that album unless you lived some in the party scene, and experienced the resultant emptiness at the end of it.

    Nowt empty here fella. Still having good times! Don't get old. Adulthood is when childhood turns into a corpse.

    Yeah, lol, guys. I just recently quit my job, put all my stuff in storage and yesterday flew on a one-way ticket to South Africa. And I'm 39. It's a possibility that I'm in my forties when this trip is over. I have no planned end date.

     

    Granted I very rarely go to parties anymore. Couple of beers in a bar and a bit of smoke now and then are enough for me. I'm more interested to going to the desert in Namibia and climb them dunes. And I might be freelancing while I travel if I find customers.

     

    I did a similar thing in 2015 for 8 months so it's not like a "big life changing thing" anymore but I really love to have this kind of off-year once in a while. This is the third time now.

    Funny Pictures Part IV - Funny Harder

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by mokz

    It would have to be a very specific lofi kind of music since all you can fit on there is like 5MB.

     

    The most common 3.5" DS/HD disks can only fit 1.44MB.

     

    I'm still gonna say the fucking wax cylinders from ICASEA still take the cake when it comes to using outdated formats.

     

    Edit: ICASEA released a lot of cool stuff regardless of that.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

    Posted

    I rented a van to transport my earthly possessions to a storage. The power steering somehow broke down or went off and while parking and steering hard I busted a tail light from another car. Needed to fill an insurance report on it today. The good thing was that the owner of the other car was really understanding, mostly just saying "these things happen". I thought he would be furious.The rental company guys were pretty mellow also.

    enjoying art from an artist who is less than savory

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    Agree about Richards and Alexander though. I think the success of the show was mostly down to Larry David's writing (the success of Curb Your Enthusiasm confirms this) and the chemistry between the cast and the great side characters.

     

    Imma gonna say it was the chemistry between Larry and Jerry as a writing team that worked really well. Some thing like a Lennon-McCartney of comedy.

     

    You can see how they go back to that Seinfeld like banter if you watch the episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Larry David.

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