| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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I'll start! ------------------- you know what i'm seeing a lot of lately? people making t-shirts and etc. for their webpages. Their personal webpages. okay staying calm I always have to go look at the goods of course. I just need to know what could possibly warrant the creation and/or sale of a mouse pad/coffee mug/tote bag with your own damn face on it. Anyone able to offer any insight into this (that does not end in me buying a gun) will be awarded a cash prize. I suppose it would make sense if the front had the face + address and the back said I AM SHARING YOUR VALUABLE OXYGEN! of course, then there's the people who buy said merch..... |
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Remember that pic of J and I with our legs wrapped around our necks?Well,we felt Mark deserved a treat,for all the work he puts into this place,so we had the pic blown up,and had it stuck onto a T-shirt,and sent it to Mark. But we haven't tried to sell copies to anyone. |
I bet he wears it often. |
My beef: Wal-Mart moms wupping their children and screaming at them for making a scene and emberassing them in public. |
Super Greg is an ad campaign. That doesn't count. Seanbaby is a humour site with many articles. I'm talking about straight-up, personal webpages with no purpose at all other than "hi! i i'm vain as all fucking hell! read my poetry! i think i might look good as a coffee mug!" that's what i'm talking about. Webpages that have no reason to exist anway, selling shit. (Czarina, that's cool ;) |
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I roll my eyes and grunt something about vanity and "Look at me, Look at Me", and Erin says "Oh, honey, she is just being a little girl". Then erin starts talking about her plays she is now doing and her dancing lessons and etc etc etc. We have a personal website, but I am not vain. It is for other family members that do not live close to be able to see new pics of the kids. Cheaper then sending them all sears pictures. We just get the basic package and I scan them in and post them on the web. As for My beef: Wal-Mart moms letting their children run screaming through the aisles and crying because they cant have "Super Caffinated Sugar Frosted Marshmellow Krisp". |
You are driving on the Beltway at 8 am. You are leaving 100 yards between your front bumper and the car ahead of you. You are probably not in a hurry. The 1,298,719,287,193,742,689,450,928,346,101,203,645,928 other people on the road with you are. Please move up. |
people who insist on riding ass on the roads because it 1) reduces the speed of traffic merges 2) increases the delay when someone decides to hit their breaks and 3) increase the time everyone has to be on the road. something as simple as allowing 100 yards between you and the car ahead of you could reduce traffic congestion dramatically. FUCKOS. |
you mean a picture like *this*??? (if it doesn't work, take off the name and go find it in the directory) |
When you leave 100 yards in front of you in otherwise-bumper-to-bumper traffic, it allows all the people in your neighborhing lanes to pass you and move into your lane, thereby slowing you and all the people behind you down. Tailgating makes me sick, too, but only when the cars are travelling fast enough that they need to use gas to propel their cars forward. In rush-hour traffic, when everyone is travelling at less than 2 miles per hour, please leave no more than 10 feet of space in front of you. No one will get hurt. Everyone will remain calm. |
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one car-length for every 10 miles per hour of speed. or two seconds behind the car in front. a zillion time-consuming and insurance-raising accidents would be avoided if people gave themselves a little space. |
So there, Rhiannon! You're part of the problem, not part of the solution! |
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And yes, Nate and Antigone's site back up my experience... It's part of the reason that they always teach kids to exit a burning school in an orderly fashion. A bunch of kids jammed in a doorway means barbeque. Plus it's so much nicer on your car when you aren't accelerating and braking so much. |
this is why i don't get a real job. |
if people just knew how to merge.... |
(jitzu?) |
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he wins *Post of the Day*! |
leaving their kids in either the toy or shoe departments so the employees can baby-sit. either put their turn signal on for a split second or not at all before they merge within a car lenth ahead of me (scared shirtless). guys that stare at my chest merely because it's eye level (to them at least). urban cowboys driving gigantic suvs and trucks that have never made it out of the metro area. people who come and complain, pushing ahead of customers that have been waiting patiently for the last 20 minutes "i spend my money here". and people that don't realize that you have the right-of-way at a 4-way stop because they're talking on a cell fone. that squirrel ninja is incredibly cute. i'd love to have that printed on my undies. |
A squirrel ninja on some underwear would be interesting to say the least. I like your other drawings as well Wisper, especially the "sleepingjim", that one is incredible. |
when a patron comes to the Exit desk and asks "Do I sign this book out here?" even though we have no computer at that desk. or when they ignore the NO FOOD OR DRINKS IN THE LIBRARY signs that are posted all over the place and try to hide their coffee inside rolled up newspapers and when you remind them they're not supposed to have that here they say "Oh, I didn't know." Then why were you hiding it, stupid? or when they ask if we have a bigger stapler and we say no and they say "Really? Are you sure?" Well yes, we do have a bigger one, but we save it for people who aren't so ugly. or when we walk up right behind some 12 year old checking out porn on the web and ask him what he's doing and he just says "Huh?" or when we catch patrons riding the elevator that is (clearly posted) only for library staff and users with special needs and you tell them they're not supposed to be in there and they say "Oh, well I'm really tired." Oh, okay, so I guess we'll just put library business on hold until you get downstairs. Sorry, no one can retrieve any books until this person is safely out of the building! or when people stand right in front of the exit/information/circulation desks and talk on their cell phones, even though it's CLEARLY POSTED that cell phones are to be turned off in the library. or when people yell at us because we're unwilling to bend the rules for them, and they say "The other guy let me do it!" I don't give a flying fig what some other guy let you do. I'm here now. Or when they ask what time the library closes, five minutes after the last of four announcments saying what time the library closes. or, my all time favorite, when they say: "Uh, I'm looking for a red book, can you help me find it?" that's all I can think of right now. |
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I don't get why these annoy other people so much. I drive one for work sometimes and I love it because it feels a lot safer and you have terrific visibility. Maybe it's the perceived attitude of the driver that annoys? But it seems odd to get annoyed just because you stereotype the people inside. I sometimes get mad at really hate crappy old cars that vomited exhaust gas all over me. But then I get annoyed at myself for being so uppity and try to think more compassionately about why they can't afford a newer car and it doesn't seem as much of a big deal. |
they also are regulated for safety like a truck which means that they don't have to hold up well in an accident |
2) they are built to transport large loads and go off the road. i drive a 14-year old car that gets better gas mileage than the other two drivable cars my family owns. it ends up carrying larger loads than many of these "utility vehicles" do. chairs, bicycles, musical instruments. i'd much rather ride a bicycle, but living where i do that's not an option. |
because if YOU hit one of us, in a "normal" car, we are more likely to be killed. The center of gravity for these vehicles is not designed for urban and freeway driving. they have a high center of gravity for offroading, which most assholes who have these never do. Notice the reasons you say you like it, are only beneficial to you cat, but they actually create more danger to the rest of us on the road. Im jsut as annoyed with people who can meet the emmisions standards for older cars as well. Im all for strict standards. Also the city school buses that need replacing that fart black smoke at every light. The city buses are at least natural gas powered (most). Also, Because the whole "well I may go camping this summer with my family, we can use it "offroad" then argument is bunk, because when most average joes go out into nature they are in state parks with gravel if not paved roads. Further, I drove my civic in nearly 6ft of snow this winter, with chains and it performed like a champ. they re excessive and dangerous cat period. |
fuckit life is short i want my car to be fun i'm getting an suv |
I do get the argument that they're heavy and I certainly wouldn't want to tangle with one face-to-face. When I first drove a bigass Landrover, it really crossed my mind that it was even more possibly lethal than the average car and as such I should be extra careful. I guess that could be reason to hate them, but I still will probably get one when I grow up. However, I'm always always keeping my mini. |
huh? |
Generally speaking, mileages on cars since the the mid 70s on, have been acceptable. Now when you talk about older hot rods, most people who have those dont drive them on a daily basis anyway, they are weekend cars if you will. I think an antique gas guzzling Chevelle that comes out of the garage once a week has far less an impact than a SUV used on a daily basis. Its still our concern because there is onyl X amount of juice we can suck out of the earth to drive these things, and the SUV drivers are helping to tax the resources faster so it is my concern. They have more efficient vehicles to transpost said brochures. Today Congress rejected a bill that would have made the fuel efficiency standards higher for SUVs. Moreover, they are cheaply built (Land and Range Rovers aside). Fird totally admitted that their profit margins on SUVs were much higher. They are no more "durable" than an average economy sedan, they only look that way. |
the bigger the profit margin that is always true, although irrelevant |
the people who regularly seat four in their SUVs are toting children who would not otherwise be driving their own cars. the comparison doesn't work. also, there is no lack of single-occupancy SUVs on the road. at least not where I live. |
it kind of sucks to drive around a car whose gas milage could be 35% better. I ride the bus most of the time and drive a subcompact occasionally. I don't see why an SUV would be more fun. I love that their drivers have a really hard time parking them in the city. |
"it kind of sucks to drive around a NEW car whose gas milage could be 35% better." I also understand the appeal of, say, a '67 chevy mustang. |
I guess I'm trying to say "keep your eyes on your fries". You really can't run around telling people not to drive a car because it consumes too much fuel, unless you're an environmental saint who composts and cycles and grows your own food. Or you can, but you're just being a judgmental hypocrite. I don't know. It just seems pointless to hate something as soulless as a car, but then I dislike people who wear brands on the outside, so I guess I'm a judgmental hypocrite. |
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I'm against offroading. hiking, good. eroding with your big dumb SUV, bad. I also have no problem with people driving old gas guzzlers. every year there are fewer and fewer old cars on the road. it's that people are still driving demand for new big polluters that bothers me. bothers me a little. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that as a species, as a planet, we're fucked. the orangutan and mountain gorilla will surely become extinct in our lifetimes. oh, well! fuck it! |
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the red book? C'mon! |
"If it's on environmental grounds, then that's just being totally judgmental. " Now, just who was arguing for global warming last week? |
That doesn't mean that I understand why SUV drivers are so despised. Apart from it being fashionable among the coolrati to do so. So do ewes also hate fat people because they're consuming more than their fair share of the Earth's resources? And when we talk global warming, aren't we talking emmissions? Do SUV's have environmentally-worse farts? Worse than an old car spewing out leaded petrol fumes? I'm going to shut up now because I'm just debating it for the sake of debating now and I have to save my energy to get drunk at lunch. |
It's only human to pretend that there is logic operating behind one's biases, you know, especially in a society that treasures its democratic nature. Bottoms up! |
don't start passing your pseudo scientific eco freak garbage around this thread, too. |
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i think now is the time for sorabji.com t-shirts. so we can all be ultra geeky and wear them around in new orleans. |
Shirts: What should be on them? My first shirts got bad reviews. If someone else wants to design them, that's sweet too. Just didn't seem like anyone was taking the initiative. Or is there no demand for super-geek sorabji shirts? |
Silly Aussies. They have a picture of a woman wearing "In Case of Emergency, Pull Down" |
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"Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty-five tons of American pride, Canyonero, Canyonero! Top of the line in Utility Sports, unexplained fires are a matter for the courts, Canyonero, Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super-high beams, she's a squirrel squashin' deer smackin' drivin' machine, Canyonero, Canyonero! Woah Canyonero! Woah!!!!" |
So that I can see what a SquirJitzu Ninja Squirriel looks like on someone's crotch. |
1) I was only pointing out that Cat seemed to be flop flippin' on "environtalism judgementalism." 2) In the greenhouse thread I decided that it was pointless to argue about the existsnce of a man made greenhouse effect 'cause I didn't care. 3) It's just my pseudo science versus your pseudo science anyway, so what's the point? |
i realize margins are higher, with higher ticket items, this is the case with many goods. However, with a higher priced car, you expect a greater quality, of workmanship no? This is not the case with SUVs, some anyway, Ford and Chevy. I love the Canyonero episode. cat, i will spell it out once again. SUV drivers are despised, because their cars refect a fragile ego, a sheep-hearded mind, and most of all a selfish gulliable mind. While possesing these qualities is not necessarily bad, to me, you and you and you ....when these dumabsses are on the road, blocking my view, sucking the resources faster, polluting greater, making the roads more dangerous, well then it becomes my problem. |
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However, we are pushing to get either suburbans or a large crew cab pickup for our field vehicle(s). WE'd be using htose things for what they are designed for, though, carryign a large number of peopel and lots of equipment through diverse environments. |
The little shits quickly learned,that they could be as obnoxious as they wanted,and when I'd finally had enough,they'd scamper over the last seat,way out of the reach of a good smacking.And then they'd laugh hysterically. They're laughter quickly died out the first time they looked my "extendo-stick" in the eye.[but it didn't take them long to realize that all that made it an extendo,was the duct tape I used,and they quicky dismantled it] No,no,these are definately not family vehicles. |
doors every where, places where an SUV would come in handy I still don't think they should be used, unless you actually USE IT. And very few people do, what blows my mind is those fucking weirdass people in Washinton And California Who live in the major cities who own them, I mean whats the fucking point? I use to own an 86' Ford Bronco, and I liked it and it took me places, but the amount of time I spent city wise, vs. using it off road was negligable, I mean I took That mofo out a few times, and actually feared I was going to break it the shit we'd do to it, but it worked. The major reason I switched over to the bug I drive now is Gas, that bronco drank about 5 bucks a day. I can go two weeks on 5 bucks of gas now. That and have you ever off roaded in a bug, its fun as shit, I'd reccomend it any time for people who are board. |
that was fun. yes. yes it was. that car could go anywhere. |
Ah, youth. |
the more i hear people going ballistic on the suv, the more i think it must be some kind of conspiracy. but i'm not sure from which side. either the environmentalists decided they had to create a vehicle so ponderous - just this side of a tank - that even bred-in-the-bone wasteful americans (or at least some segment of them) could hate it. or it's a right-wing diversionary tactic. sort of like a burglar and a guard dog - give it a big steak to chew on while you get on with your business. i hate suveez as much as the next guy. but when i do, i feel manipulated somehow. |
i almost flew my moms baretta into a brick mailbox. the sensation though, going down, faster and faster and THEN UP!!!!!! was exhilerating. there were als the beloved ice spins we did when it iced over in greensboro, with my 81 honda civic...with 40s in our laps. get up enough speed and then throw it into neutral and pull the emergency brake.....round & round & round & round we went in a baren kmart parking lot . HAHHAAAA what dumbshits we were. |
whizzzzzzzzz...........SMAK! (that was the bicycle after i jumped off.) |
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I hate everything less than I used to. I have largely resigned myself to the shittiness of the world. I used to regard the possibility of my procreating with a lot more seriousness. now I'm pretty sure I don't want to have kids. enough's enough. |
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a few years back a carload of highschoolers fucked it up and went barrelling into a pole. killed the lot of them. they moved the road. |
Don't ask me about the Neil Diamond thing, my bro drove to his own rhythm in the music stakes. I'd forgotten that until you started talking about it. He didn't have a brother and so he treated me like a boy. I loved that. I got to do things and go places no mere girl was allowed. Now he has two sons and I could just cry when I see how happy he is to finally have boys to play with. I'm going to call him now and remind him about the VW SUV. |
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i havent done one since high school. i jsut thought of em, thought how insane it is, and how gravity has nothing to do with it, it seems |
about as silly as beer bongs, i guess. fuck casual smokers. DOPE IS A FUCKING LIFESTYLE, MAN. |
in that sense, ever bong is a gravity bong |
you call them gravity bongs? we call them bucket tokes beef today: *Leash your fucking dog* |
my spanish vocab is limited to "no habla espaniol" "chica senorita nina" "senor" "gracias" "hola" "nino" "sapatos" "nino" "senora" "quesa" "chili con carne" |
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My beefs today: 1) my right contact is brand new and blurry. 2) I have nothing to do at work. |
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sometime around march my car got towed from a parking lot because i had been there for more than the gracious 1 hour time limit. Luckily my walk home took me past the police station so i could get the number of the company. I called the only person i knew who was back from work, the boy’s bitchy roommate Genni, to take me there. We’re driving. We stop at the bank so i can get the cash to re-claim my car, $175, because of course they couldn’t tow it locally, no, they had to tow it to the other end of the neighboring city, and charge me up the ass. Genni asks me how i am otherwise, and i lay it down for her with all honesty- A textbook shitty day, i got 3 hours sleep, many projects had been taking my sleep time away, i went home early to have a nap finally but realized i needed food before the store closed, i drove to the shopping plaza instead of just walking there because i was exhausted, got held up in line thanks to idiots and their bullshit, car got towed because of it, and now i had a lot of things to do and no time for any of it, especially without my car, sleep or food. I felt perfectly ill and wondered how much more the day could give me. “How much was the towing cost” “$175, plus the parking ticket they’ll probably throw on. I took out $200 to cover everything.” “Holy shit, can you afford that?!” “frankly no, but i don’t have a choice.” THEN SHE ASKED ME FOR 5 BUCKS FOR GAS i know it’s probably easy to ask for money when your friend has $200 cash sitting in her lap, but shit. I got to thinking about it in the shower (for some reason) and it really pissed me off. I guess i didn’t have the time or will to really let the shittyness of it sink in at the time, which happens when you’re very tired. That was plain uncouth. There’s a time and a place, dig? I would have gladly taken her out a few days later for dinner, or something worth much more than 5 bucks of gas. Is that not what common courtesy suggests? And i know gas is dead expensive, but GOD. At least give me a week to sort out the loss and make some more money. At least. Fuck she blows cock. For 5 bucks i could have taken the bus and bought lunch. I gave her all the change i had, which she started alluding wasn’t quite enough. *sigh* it’s just as well i suppose. That was the last of the many last straws i had with her, and she moved out of the boy’s house and i have yet to talk to her since. |
