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On 4/10/2025 at 1:00 PM, BurdineBandit said:

I don't understand the argument for the "zipper" method of entering a line to exit on the freeway. I've heard twice now that it's the efficient method, but it still just sounds like being selfish to me. It's only efficient for the one cutting in line, there's a 95% chance they are making the person behind them brake, and thus starting the chain reaction of braking that causes backups. The constant braking chain reaction is what causes the backup, not that "not everyone is zippering". Did dumbshits just make up a term for "cut the line because I'm too important to wait" and try to make it sound like it's reasonable?

A proper zipper merge would not include the driver slowing down such that cars behind them have to brake much, if at all. If you have to slow down dramatically to merge, then you went too far before merging.

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2 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Didn’t realize streetsweepers have steering wheels on both sides so they don’t crash. 
 

I thought someone was ghost riding it. 

How does that prevent them from crashing? Also, seems odd nowadays with all of the technology we have that the brushes don't adjust automatically to maintain contact with the curb. No reason the driver should have to eyeball it. 

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Every time I see someone at work who has brought their lunch in a tied off plastic grocery bag, it just makes me cringe. I can't explain it. Get a lunchbox, they're not expensive. 

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what would happen if everyone in the south who is 20 years and 3+ months old just started openly imbibing, and then when cited for it, made the argument that life starts at conception and they are actually 21 years old?

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34 minutes ago, Derka said:

what would happen if everyone in the south who is 20 years and 3+ months old just started openly imbibing, and then when cited for it, made the argument that life starts at conception and they are actually 21 years old?

In China, they actually count this way. A newborn baby is 1 year old; their next birthday, they turn 2, and so on.

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A sobering reminder of aging (and not following pop music) is how old you think some music is, versus how old it actually is.

That Gotye song came on the radio and I thought “oh its that recent’ish hit song”. Turns out its from over a decade ago. 

For a teenager now, just getting into their music phase, that song came out before they were born. 

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Flipping through channels and come across a soccer match and learn… 

Austin has a professional men’s soccer team. 
 

That’s a nice looking soccer stadium in Austin. 
 

Herbalife is still a thing( lose weight now ask me how?)and sponsor of one of the teams. 

 

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17 hours ago, Rimbo said:

In China, they actually count this way. A newborn baby is 1 year old; their next birthday, they turn 2, and so on.

It's actually every new years they turn the next "age". Same in South Korea. 

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5 hours ago, 52-80 said:

A sobering reminder of aging (and not following pop music) is how old you think some music is, versus how old it actually is.

That Gotye song came on the radio and I thought “oh its that recent’ish hit song”. Turns out its from over a decade ago. 

For a teenager now, just getting into their music phase, that song came out before they were born. 

I mean I know when songs came out. It just makes me feel old sometimes when I think about when they came out. 

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Stole this from a friend

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Don't forget your Easter duty to go into a local retail establishment and tell the employees what a shame it is that they have to work on a holiday while buying things that provide their corporate overlords with proof that people shop on holidays so they require the stores to be open in the future. It's your obligation as an American.

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On 4/18/2025 at 10:48 AM, SquishMitten said:

A proper zipper merge would not include the driver slowing down such that cars behind them have to brake much, if at all. If you have to slow down dramatically to merge, then you went too far before merging.

Zipper mergers deserve a special place in hell.

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the idea of gliders is fucking preposterous. i mean, i know the physics behind it, and ive even flown small planes myself, but still... the fact that you just find "updrafts" and get free lift and basically stay in the air forever... thats just complete bullshit.

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On 4/19/2025 at 8:18 AM, 52-80 said:

A sobering reminder of aging (and not following pop music) is how old you think some music is, versus how old it actually is.

That Gotye song came on the radio and I thought “oh its that recent’ish hit song”. Turns out its from over a decade ago. 

For a teenager now, just getting into their music phase, that song came out before they were born. 

I'm just hoping I'm somewhat more aware than my dad. We're playing golf with a couple of my buddies yesterday and he comments on a Tejano song that was playing on someone's speaker: "Man I saw that guy on TV the other day, and I couldn't believe that that dude got old!" Yeah, 20 or 30-somethings that had hits in 1994 tend to get old over the course of 31 years. 

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On 4/18/2025 at 12:27 PM, Sandman said:

Every time I see someone at work who has brought their lunch in a tied off plastic grocery bag, it just makes me cringe. I can't explain it. Get a lunchbox, they're not expensive. 

This is more trivial things that make you Surly. And be a man and stop judging people 

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2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

the idea of gliders is fucking preposterous. i mean, i know the physics behind it, and ive even flown small planes myself, but still... the fact that you just find "updrafts" and get free lift and basically stay in the air forever... thats just complete bullshit.

And fuckin magnets. How do THEY work?

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My daughter saw a red MX-5 this weekend and said she wanted one when she started driving.

As a dad who drove the hell out of a first-gen MX-5, I'm totally stoked that she wants a fun car.

 

I'm going to tell her the only way she gets one is if she learns how to drive a stick, which ain't happening because she's completely uncoordinated.

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Saw a truck on the road a while back that's was completely, I mean 100%, rust. Not a drop of paint left on the vehicle anywhere and you just wonder what's holding it together.

And then I saw the license plate:

Spoiler

TETNISS

 

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4 hours ago, Superhero said:

My daughter saw a red MX-5 this weekend and said she wanted one when she started driving.

As a dad who drove the hell out of a first-gen MX-5, I'm totally stoked that she wants a fun car.

 

I'm going to tell her the only way she gets one is if she learns how to drive a stick, which ain't happening because she's completely uncoordinated.

Buy her the automatic if you don't trust your ability to teach her a manual transmission. 

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15 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Saw a truck on the road a while back that's was completely, I mean 100%, rust. Not a drop of paint left on the vehicle anywhere and you just wonder what's holding it together.

And then I saw the license plate:

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TETNISS

 

Cybertruck?

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I got obsessed with this modular sofa system designed by a german guy back in the 1960s.  It's not supposed to be haute ware. It was meant to be affordable and accessible, the modularity meant for mass production for apartment dwellers.

Turns out, if you want to buy a set of sofa + loveseat + chair, it cost the same as a new fucking car.

Secondly, there's a 60 year old company that exist only to sell this guy's 3 product: the pictured sofas, tables, and Elfa-like shelving system.  The pictured shelving system cost about $5000, while the equivalent Elfa cost like $300.

The prices they're asking is amazing. Presumably they've paid out the patent/licensing for decades and fully amortized all their production tooling and processes, so the economics to churn out this stuff today must be incredible.

Vitsoe_Tokyo.jpg

 

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7 hours ago, 52-80 said:

I got obsessed with this modular sofa system designed by a german guy back in the 1960s.  It's not supposed to be haute ware. It was meant to be affordable and accessible, the modularity meant for mass production for apartment dwellers.

Turns out, if you want to buy a set of sofa + loveseat + chair, it cost the same as a new fucking car.

Secondly, there's a 60 year old company that exist only to sell this guy's 3 product: the pictured sofas, tables, and Elfa-like shelving system.  The pictured shelving system cost about $5000, while the equivalent Elfa cost like $300.

The prices they're asking is amazing. Presumably they've paid out the patent/licensing for decades and fully amortized all their production tooling and processes, so the economics to churn out this stuff today must be incredible.

Vitsoe_Tokyo.jpg

 


About 35 years ago I went to visit an old German girlfriend in Hamburg for about 10 days.  She was just moving into an apartment ---- her first "on her own" apartment.  It was really just one room with a small bathroom attached. I'd say it was about 400 square feet and had a murphy bed that pulled up against the wall when she wasn't sleeping. So we went to Ikea to get her furniture. I'd never been to Ikea or even heard of it and was rather amazed. They had all kinds of this modular furniture. We bought a ton of it and they delivered it the next day. We spent a couple of days assembling it all and it was rather cool, how they were able to cram all of these modular things into one apartment.  Of course, it was mostly particle board but it looked a lot like this photo.  A few days later another friend from southern Germany came to stay with us for about a week. She walked in, took a look around, and said "Ikea?"  It just had that look.  Then all three of us spent the next week sleeping together in that one bed. Good times.

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Out picking up fallen branches and twigs and coming to the realization that I’ll be mowing the yard soon… too soon, in fact. But grass looks lush and green with all of the snow and rain we’ve had. 

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2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


Then all three of us spent the next week sleeping together in that one bed. Good times.

How does the particle board take that weight?

Im quite sure Ikea has a track-hung system similar to this. The hardware stores also have their generic versions. 

I did some sleuthing, and actually whats now-known as the Elfa system was introduced (coincidentally by a Swede) in the 30s, and patented in the US in 1948. That’s a full decade before this German guy got credited for “inventing” this.

And somehow theyre asking $1000 for a single bookshelf and a laminate IMG_1250.thumb.jpeg.b9c13a4690c7f6f0d5c3d83ffaf03f28.jpegdesk board. Nuts. IMG_1249.thumb.jpeg.b36cc4df2cac1793901b7bfdffe92617.jpeg

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