Random Thoughts Thread

[Vuk]

Everyone is going on about how Justin Lin's Star Trek is so much better than the two J.J. Abrams made. I don't get it. I thought that Abram's two films were both much better.

[Vuk]

Even with really good insurance and having met my deductible (but not my yearly out of pocket) I still cannot afford the tests and procedures I need to make sure I don't die before 50 like my dad and his dad, and his dad, and his dad...

[Hooahguy]

I got an A in my statistics class!

[Vuk]

This is totally sweet...

[Fragony]

Friend of me taking a shower here, was in prison for a week because of a fine she didn't pay. Molest someone and you are out the next day. Somethin kinda odd here.

[Hooahguy]

Just three weeks after I finished my summer classes, my fall semester classes begin tomorrow. Ugh.

[Fragony]

ffs now I see them here as well, hoverboards. Mostly American tourists use them. They don't get in the way or anything but these things are so dumb, what's wrong with walking, you will even get to your destination faster if you just walk because this town wasn't build with hoverboards in mind because it's 1400 years old and they didn't have hoverboards then, you will have to carry it every 50 meter or so. Why do you think it makes sense

[Vuk]

lol, I've never seen one.

[Fragony]

lol, I've never seen one.

Please kick them if you do, not a very nice thing to do to guests so I can't. The pokemon go-hoverboard combo especially just deserves a neckshot imho

[Husar]

I have seen two or three here, I also prefer walking, it's what we have our legs for and tends to be healthy, too.
Not sure why they call them hoverboards as they don't even hover, they're more like mini-segways.
I mean once we invent actual hoverboards, people will get confused...

[Montmorency]

I don't think I have ever seen one in New York City or its parks (though as always some people use scooters or skateboards).

Maybe they all ended up in the river...

[Fragony]

I have seen two or three here, I also prefer walking, it's what we have our legs for and tends to be healthy, too.
Not sure why they call them hoverboards as they don't even hover, they're more like mini-segways.
I mean once we invent actual hoverboards, people will get confused...

real hoverboards actually exist

But ffs just walk or get a good bycicle it's much better for you. People using hoverboards are probably the same people who read up on every ingredient when they buy food, hipster thingie that should die

[Husar]

real hoverboards actually exist

Qué?

We're not talking about hovercraft or something much larger than a skateboard now, are we?

[Montmorency]

No.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Fragony]

Qué?

We're not talking about hovercraft or something much larger than a skateboard now, are we?

Real hovering skateboards, Back to the Future style. Don't ask me how but they can, but they aren't in production yet. Could be a prank but a very well done one. gg on both

[Husar]

Real hovering skateboards, Back to the Future style. Don't ask me how but they can, but they aren't in production yet. Could be a prank but a very well done one. gg on both

Only with magnetic levitation like this one and the one from Hendo that they shortly mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvYUq6Ox0Hc

They need a special surface or even rails though to be able to hover due to the entire hovering process depending on magnetism.
It's not quite hovering over everything like in the movies. If you saw something else, it was a prank.

In general I'd think the major advantage of hovering is to remove ground resistance, but as it stands we need far more energy to make something hover than we could save by avoiding ground resistance, which makes the technology seem a bit pointless to me outside of some special needs or entertainment purposes.

[Vuk]

Tonight we will both sup with the Devil...

[Fragony]

howling to the moon sounds better. Just to make your life seem less complicated, I am trying to court a girl who's ex was liquidated two years ago in Utrecht, more than 30 unnecesary ventilations found. Dinner next friday

[Hooahguy]

Speaking of girls, I might be going on a date soon with a girl whose mother died last year from cancer. Not really sure how to deal with the subject should it come up. Obviously I wont bring it up myself, Im smarter than that I would hope.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Speaking of girls, I might be going on a date soon with a girl whose mother died last year from cancer. Not really sure how to deal with the subject should it come up. Obviously I wont bring it up myself, Im smarter than that I would hope.

In my experience women will typically skip past the family medical history on the first date and go straight to sex.

[Fragony]

Lucky you but do you know her

[Fragony]

It's hard to choose who is my favorite character ever, the Marquis de Sade or Oscar Wilde. Both brilliant.

[Viking]

It's July.

[Montmorency]

Which means the world is getting more familiar even though I recognize less.

[Husar]

I need to post something here, too.

[Viking]

The average temperature measured at a local meteorological station for the last 30 days this year (red) and for the time period 1961 - 1990 (black) have recently divorced and are now heading in opposite directions: one of them is heading for the land of winter, the other for the land of summer.

[A Nerd]

I came close to running over an old man that was very slowly crossing the street. I turned a corner and there he was. I note that l came close to being distracted as I made the turn. Thank goodness I watched the road. Also I would like to thank the fact that I drive like an old timer anyway.

Still I contemplate what could have happened if I gave into distraction. Scary.

[Hooahguy]

When your life comes to a point where you are quoting memes in real life you need to stop and reevaluate things. Looking at you Jeffrey.

[Viking]

The problem with multilingualism is that it messes with perceptions. I just instinctively read BCE in an English language context as всё ('everything' in Russian). The more languages I were to get familiar with, the worse it would get.

[Fragony]

I make really stupid mistakes in all languages I (barely) speak even my own. It's a bit of a switch it's hard to do all at the same time