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mostlygray posted:Whatever is faster than you are. Remember, this is a ridiculous person that participates in all such events. All that matters is that this ghost is always faster than you are, no matter how hard you push it or train, he always beats you to the next stop. You could be riding into a 40 mph headwind in the rain, or with the wind at your back and the sun at your face. Either way, he's always just ahead of you and looks like he's have the best day of his life with his stupid goddamn milk crate on the front of his bike. That milk crate should comfortably fit two sixers of tall boys, my friend. They're the secret to his success.
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mostlygray posted:Whatever is faster than you are. Remember, this is a ridiculous person that participates in all such events. All that matters is that this ghost is always faster than you are, no matter how hard you push it or train, he always beats you to the next stop. You could be riding into a 40 mph headwind in the rain, or with the wind at your back and the sun at your face. Either way, he's always just ahead of you and looks like he's have the best day of his life with his stupid goddamn milk crate on the front of his bike. This sounds like the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
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Aug 25, 2016 04:57
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The rules of silly commuter racing (look it up it's a thing) are quite clear. Non road bike + mudguards + fat tyres + beard + leg hair + flat pedals = massive points when overtaking you.
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Aug 25, 2016 05:08
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Slightly lesser privileged people 'freude in Chicago: Gold Coast residents think gelato place isn't good enough for them: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160815/gold-coast/gold-coast-gelato-wars-some-residents-say-deserve-better-dessert
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Aug 25, 2016 05:20
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Every single person in that story is terrible, and should be put through the gelato-making machine. Every single one.
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mostlygray posted:Whatever is faster than you are. Remember, this is a ridiculous person that participates in all such events. All that matters is that this ghost is always faster than you are, no matter how hard you push it or train, he always beats you to the next stop. You could be riding into a 40 mph headwind in the rain, or with the wind at your back and the sun at your face. Either way, he's always just ahead of you and looks like he's have the best day of his life with his stupid goddamn milk crate on the front of his bike. I can give you a little insight from an old guy I know. They will be in cruise mode and if you pass them it triggers their age rage and they will burn themselves down to look casual while they pass you. That and they have a lot of free time to train.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Slightly lesser privileged people 'freude in Chicago: Gold Coast residents think gelato place isn't good enough for them: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160815/gold-coast/gold-coast-gelato-wars-some-residents-say-deserve-better-dessert Holy loving poo poo, someone in that story that is complaining has the last name Steinreich, which is german and literally means "filthy rich". This cannot be real, this is an onion story, right? quote:"We want to make the Park great again that is all. It is our backyard we want it great," she said in an e-mail.  of course they are Trump supporters.
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Aug 25, 2016 06:16
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Haha, how in the gently caress they got that scared of a random train loony? Have they never ever used public transportation before? They did all the wrong possible things. EDIT: Lol, they got traumatized and don't want to set foot in chicago, that's loving hilarious. the god quotes at the end just make it better, lmao
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nerdz posted:Have they never ever used public transportation before? I'm going to go with no because they seemed totally bewildered at the idea of a rail transit system and explained it to the viewers as if it was some new and exciting space age poo poo: Data Graham posted:In this case I'll stretch the meaning of hayseed to encompass someone who is mystified and enchanted by "I guess like a subway, or maybe a tram, only it's like *makes vague upward motions* up there, like literally above the cars"
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Aug 25, 2016 06:50
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The first time I went to a "big city" was Seattle, and I met a homeless man from Hungary. In broken English he explained how a beer is Hungarian coffee, then showed me his "big strong Hungarian hands" and crushed a can with them. It was pretty good and I went back to Seattle.
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You Are A Elf posted:A hayseed is someone who comes from a small rural town with what little possessions they have and is totally naive, if not a little humble about moving to a big city. 
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nerdz posted:Haha, how in the gently caress they got that scared of a random train loony? Have they never ever used public transportation before? They did all the wrong possible things. Yeah if you have never met someone sketchy who wants to gently caress with you, you need to get out more. I mean it's not something to aspire to but if you go out and do things and meet people there's really no way around it.
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nerdz posted:Haha, how in the gently caress they got that scared of a random train loony? Have they never ever used public transportation before? They did all the wrong possible things. Oh my god they're so precious, I see random train loonies and sketchy people all the loving time. Sure I grew up in a kinda crap suburb of Melbourne but I doubt it was any worse than what they would have grown up with.
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I figured all the rich assholes would've moved out of Chicago ages ago, what with all the murders.
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You Are A Elf posted:A hayseed is someone who comes from a small rural town with what little possessions they have and is totally naive, if not a little humble about moving to a big city. why the gently caress do so many people live in phoenix
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Rebel Blob posted:Phoenix is still basically endless lovely suburbs, someone growing up there is sheltered from anything approaching a dense, urban culture. Jesus, it's Simcity.
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Jose posted:why the gently caress do so many people live in phoenix It's cheap to operate a business there, so more jobs open there, so more people move there to get jobs, which means there's people to hire, so businesses start making jobs there; it's an ouroboros of lovely economics.\ http://www.vice.com/read/reasons-why-phoenix-is-the-worst-place-ever
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Aug 25, 2016 10:53
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Yeah but isn't it also Satan's dusty asscrack only hotter?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Insufferable 19-year-old married couple moves from Arizona to Chicago, settles near Loyola, are frightened by a typical CTA weirdo on Day 1, breaks their lease and drives home in terror, now "homeless" by choice. Chipotle, IKEA, Volkswagon Jetta, "Jaelin," "Babe," White polo... you need a white-people bingo card to play along with this video.
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Cornuto posted:Chipotle, IKEA, Volkswagon Jetta, "Jaelin," "Babe," White polo... you need a white-people bingo card to play along with this video. Whoah, are you telling me white people are into white people things?! Blowing minds here.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Whoah, are you telling me white people are into white people things?! Its a special kind of white person that is *only* interested in the whitest of white people things, I think is what he's getting at.
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I too like white people things.Jose posted:why the gently caress do so many people live in phoenix better question: Why the hot gently caress does anybody live in Arizona? I've got cousins who live in Yuma. It's like cheap imitation Texas, with ugly women, awful food, and worse music. One of them in particular walks around in jeans, flannel, and wears the stupid cowboy hat. "Look how country we are, white people who live in the dusty rear end in a top hat of the US".
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Volcott posted:I figured all the rich assholes would've moved out of Chicago ages ago, what with all the murders. The South Side, yes. Gold Coast (aka Old Coast, aka The Viagra Triangle) is full of old-money retirees who have nothing better to do than complain about anyone brown who comes into their neighborhood. Edgewater is a mixed bag because we still get a few shootings a month. Wednesday night someone unloaded a clip a little south of Edgewater but apparently no one was hurt. There have been several mistaken identity or bystander casualties this year though. Double-backing on the gelato schadenfreude, the owner of Bow-Truss, who employed Black Dog to take over the stand got arrested last week on domestic violence charges. Tadros poo poo-talks his former business partner who owns another smaller local coffee chain, so it couldn't happen to a nicer person.
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A White Guy posted:I too like white people things. At least its not literally a fever-swamp, like Miami. Or DC.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Slightly lesser privileged people 'freude in Chicago: Gold Coast residents think gelato place isn't good enough for them: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160815/gold-coast/gold-coast-gelato-wars-some-residents-say-deserve-better-dessert Where is the best medium to tell this whole neighborhood to go gently caress itself
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Team Great Britain provided luggage to its Olympic athletes. Here's what happens when they all come home at once: https://twitter.com/TeamGB/status/768021797119913984 https://twitter.com/nickdempsey1/status/768020957915123712
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My first encounter with public transport when I went off to college some crazy dude on the bus decided to talk to me and my friend. He went into in depth detail of how he murdered a guy and disposed of his body in a construction site. Besides that he seemed nice enough.
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MrYenko posted:At least its not literally a fever-swamp, like Miami. Or DC. I don't think some of these people understand the southwest. And Yuma has good food - In N Out Burger.
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Helios Grime posted:Holy loving poo poo, someone in that story that is complaining has the last name Steinreich, which is german and literally means "filthy rich". Uh
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mostlygray posted:He would have a milk crate full of groceries bungied to his front handlebars on his comfort bike. He would ride on flat pedals with his heels instead of toes. syscall girl posted:They will be in cruise mode and if you pass them it triggers their age rage and they will burn themselves down to look casual while they pass you. I might be one of these commuter ghost hobos. Until I snapped the frame from overuse last spring, I rode a heavy rear end beach cruiser with fenders, a rack for my school bags, and big fatty tires for riding in Chicago winters. My current bike is more of a regular commuter, but still has the fatty tires, all metal frame, fenders, rack, etc.. I commute everywhere by bike and do ~100 miles a week just getting to and from class / work / wherever else I may be going. I do tend to wear gym shorts and a t shirt for riding though, and change when I get where I'm going, so I'm not sure if I completely fit the bill. That said, I HATE getting passed by yuppies all kitted out in their bike catsuits with their turbo thin tires and carbon fiber bikes, so I know the 'rage,' (not sure if age rage, I'm only in my 30s) and do what I can just to show them up on my shitheap of a 20 pound bike with no aerodynamics, all while looking like it ain't no thing. The looks you get sometimes are just precious. I still get passed by people wearing corduroys and polo shirts, with their Ulocks in their back pockets, who are smoking while riding. I think the strange hobo bike phantasm that passes you no matter what happens to everyone.
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Cornuto posted:Chipotle, IKEA, Volkswagon Jetta, "Jaelin," "Babe," White polo... you need a white-people bingo card to play along with this video. As long as you only stereotype white people, it's not racist. Now, if you said menthols, watermelon, grape/purple drink, molt liquor, and fried chicken followed by back-people bingo. That would be super racist.
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Two Feet From Bread posted:As long as you only stereotype white people, it's not racist. But those are all good things, though?
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Two Feet From Bread posted:As long as you only stereotype white people, it's not racist. But why won't anyone defend the poor white people???!?!?!?!??!??!?!?+?!?! Also am I the only person who rides bikes to commute and for exercise without thinking that the whole world is a loving race jesus christ just calm down people. prahanormal has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Some of the poo poo from that Vice article is weird, like "Forget that Phoenix nightlife is so barren you can stagger downtown at 11 PM and find everything empty." There is no "downtown" Phoenix, there's no center like that. Yeah, if you go to the area by the ballpark and the convention center at 11pm, it's going to be empty. If you go to old town Scottsdale, there will be nightlife (old town Scottsdale is vile in its own ways, but it's not empty). And the "The Environment Is Actively Trying To Kill You" section is silly, it takes way less energy to cool a place from Phoenix summer temperatures to comfortable than it takes to heat a place from pretty-much-anywhere-else-in-the-US winters to comfortable. But on the plus side, Arpaio was just held to be in contempt of court by a Federal judge and might be looking at jail time, which would be *awesome*. Here's something loving stupid I did while out there recently for work travel. Go out to dinner, $40 tab, $8 tip, I write down $48 in the 'tip' section instead of the 'total section and sign it. Expensing that one is gonna be a bitch, I itemized it with the $48 as a personal expense and explained what I did and that I'll just eat the cost myself, we'll see if it goes through.
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Phanatic posted:And the "The Environment Is Actively Trying To Kill You" section is silly, it takes way less energy to cool a place from Phoenix summer temperatures to comfortable than it takes to heat a place from pretty-much-anywhere-else-in-the-US winters to comfortable. Lots of apartments and group housing in "Pretty-much anywhere-else-in-the-US" provide free heat, and there are laws in place that even if you're delinquent on your utility bills they cannot cut power to your heating since that could legit kill you. Also you can put on a sweater or put on some slippers or something rather than heating your house to 80 degrees in the winter. However many people still have inefficient window units for cooling and there's the whole CFC problem. So people don't really feel the bite in their electric bill in the winter that they do in the summer.
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Kurieg posted:Lots of apartments and group housing in "Pretty-much anywhere-else-in-the-US" provide free heat, and there are laws in place that even if you're delinquent on your utility bills they cannot cut power to your heating since that could legit kill you. Not sure what you're talking about with any of that. If you stop paying the guy who brings you fuel oil, he's not going to give you another delivery and no law will require him to. If you have natural gas, there's no way for a utility to know whether you're using the gas you're using for your furnace, for your water heater, for your laundry machines, for your stove, and there's no way for them to cut off those other things without also cutting off your furnace. There is no blanket law that says they can't cut your utilities if you stop paying your bills. Here's a typical set of laws: http://www3.dps.ny.gov/W/PSCWeb.nsf/979df87f099d1063852576880061e6b3/d580f8b12cdac9f985257687006f395e?OpenDocument quote:During the cold weather period of November 1 to April 15, your utility has to make special efforts to determine if disconnection of your heat-related service will cause a problem to your health and safety. It will attempt to contact you or another adult at your home by phone or in person at least three days before the scheduled service shutoff, and again the day of the service shutoff, to determine whether shutting off your heat-related service could cause serious harm to the health or safety of any resident in your home. If the utility finds that harm might result, it must notify the local Department of Social Services, which will then conduct its own investigation. Meanwhile your utility cannot shut off your service for another 15 business days. "It's cold out" isn't the same thing as "unable to protect yourself from neglect or hazardous situations." These provisions in law are so that decrepit old people don't freeze to death, not so that the young and well-off can choose to stop paying their utility bills. quote:Also you can put on a sweater or put on some slippers or something rather than heating your house to 80 degrees in the winter. However many people still have inefficient window units for cooling and there's the whole CFC problem. So people don't really feel the bite in their electric bill in the winter that they do in the summer. You can also use fans, swamp coolers (which work well in dry places like Phoenix), or energy-efficient housing; a lot of houses in Phoenix are just ordinarily built out of materials with big thermal masses which take a while to heat up. The US uses about 4 times as much energy for heating as it does for cooling, and living in cold climates takes a lot more energy than living in hot climates.
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