Things You Pondered Today

[doublesteveburger]

Why be loyal to skate brands, or any brand , when they will replace you with the next big thing as soon as you get injured? All while also not offering any benefits outside free merchandise.

You good bud? We can green light orange man if he hurt you

[SneakySecrets]

Don’t sponsored skaters get sick of wearing/skating the same shit all the time?  Seems like it’d be a little bit of a bummer not being able to switch up trucks or woodshops if you felt like it.

I know it doesn’t rank very high in the pantheon of all the possible hardships a person might have to endure and is the pretty much the definition of a “first world problem”... It’d still be kind of annoying though.

I guess one of the benefits of being doo-doo at skating is that no one gives a fuck what trucks I’m riding... so I guess I dodged that bullet.

[matty_c]

Why aren’t shower floors just big grates
for shits

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Why do airports still use carousels? They suck and there has to be a better way.

[SneakySecrets]

Why do airports still use carousels? They suck and there has to be a better way.

You don’t like them?  I think they’re kinda fun.  It’s like you get to play a little carnival game after a long, boring flight.

But then again I’m kinda simple.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

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Why do airports still use carousels? They suck and there has to be a better way.

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You don’t like them?  I think they’re kinda fun.  It’s like you get to play a little carnival game after a long, boring flight.

But then again I’m kinda simple.

One of my greatest regrets is that I never sat on a carousel and high-fived all the bewildered passengers as I rolled past to celebrate the fact that we're still alive. Maybe if I give that a whirl next time then I'll start to appreciate them more.

[Banned from the room]

What was that show that had the girl from space fucking the tribe leader of future primitives?

It was on net flix I think. The cool one had like purple blood or something.

I just wanna skip to the fucking parts

[SneakySecrets]

^Emmanuelle in Space I believe it was.

[childhood]

Kinda crazy the kid who had the worst part in any E.S.T. video is now getting almost a million hits in a day on youtube, doing like a Review/Nathan For You-lite thing for Vice

[straight]

is the joe rogan presidential debate real or an internet meme

[SneakySecrets]

Is it possible to describe what different colors look like to someone that has been blind from birth?

[CrumblingInfrastructure]

Is it possible to describe what different colors look like to someone that has been blind from birth?

I think 311 wrote a song about that

[ihatejulio]

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Is it possible to describe what different colors look like to someone that has been blind from birth?

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I think 311 wrote a song about that

Investigate 3/11

[childhood]

Is this Josh Stewart editing skate footage in an Adobe ad they run on Twitch? Or do I have prosopagnosia?

[silhouette]

If most every skater in the world suddenly becomes unable to nosewheelie, is it a soy pandemic?

[Banned from the room]

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Is it possible to describe what different colors look like to someone that has been blind from birth?

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I think 311 wrote a song about that

[close]

Investigate 3/11

No no no do not call 311. Fuck VS

[Allen.]

If most every skater in the world suddenly becomes unable to nosewheelie, is it a soy pandemic?

Underrated

[silhouette]

I was just reading up on failure neurosis online and first thing, I pondered how frequent and widespread this has to be in professional skateboarding.

A simple definition I found, although there are sharper sources on the subject:

The failure neurosis can also express itself in a collective enterprise, such as when someone suddenly throws himself headlong into conflict with another, immobilizing the joint effort, or when a person decides to leave a cooperative, knowing very well that her departure will produce a crisis that will damage the success of the work.

The failure neurosis also manifests when, once the work is produced, one retrospectively demolishes it, perhaps by falling into a deep depression, or by sabotaging whatever is left to sabotage, like the publicity that will carry the project to the world.

The failure neurosis expresses itself as an indefinable malaise, feelings of guilt, the notion that one is ugly or incompetent in spite of all objective proof to the contrary. In extreme cases, the person kills himself or sinks into madness after having attained his goal.

https://innerself.com/content/living/finance-and-careers/career-and-success/11275-overcoming-the-failure-neurosis.html

[layzieyez]

The reason Zuckerberg will never do anything of consequence to spam or troll accounts is because it's part of his business model.

He has low cost troll farms built up offshore hired as a large scale astroturfing outfit. Along with making money from targeted ads, facebook is paid to target users to be trolled by the right department of trolls or to be fed a predetermined diet of propaganda.

For the truly simple minded and friendless, they are really interacting with nothing more than simplified AI that does nothing more than feed them a steady (though limited) diet of likes.

There are duplicates of your account being run by AI that you are blocked from seeing so you never see your digital doppleganger.

[Banned from the room]

What does this pairing of words make you think about?

"Nihilist Ventriloquist"

[JANUS]

What does this pairing of words make you think about?

"Nihilist Ventriloquist"

It makes me think about post above yours. It makes me wonder if we’re all bots, and if so, who has their hand up my bottom? That or Gabbo.

[masturskater]

Why do all aftermarket car stereos come with remotes? They don't seem like a half assed effort either. They have more buttons than I know what do with. I wonder how much cheaper car stereos would be if they scrapped all of the remotes.

[authentic_creed_bratton]

What does this pairing of words make you think about?

"Nihilist Ventriloquist"

cunning linguists, a group i've never listened to but imagine rap like this

[SneakySecrets]

If you think about it, isn’t Santa Claus just some fucking creepy felon going around committing B&E’s and home invasions? 

And how the fuck does he know if some kid was naughty or nice?  Is he hanging out in elementary school parking lots in his ‘98 Cavalier with binoculars? 

Then of course there’s the whole troubling “sit on Santa’s lap” thing which I won’t even get in to.

[ChuckRamone]

If you think about it, isn’t Santa Claus just some fucking creepy felon going around committing B&E’s and home invasions? 

And how the fuck does he know if some kid was naughty or nice?  Is he hanging out in elementary school parking lots in his ‘98 Cavalier with binoculars? 

Then of course there’s the whole troubling “sit on Santa’s lap” thing which I won’t even get in to.

Also isn't the virgin Mary a woman who cheated on and cucked Joseph then lied about it to the point that people formed a cult around her miracle baby? All the saints must have been serious swindlers and compulsive liars too.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

If you think about it, isn’t Santa Claus just some fucking creepy felon going around committing B&E’s and home invasions? 

And how the fuck does he know if some kid was naughty or nice?  Is he hanging out in elementary school parking lots in his ‘98 Cavalier with binoculars? 

Then of course there’s the whole troubling “sit on Santa’s lap” thing which I won’t even get in to.

I always figured he drove a Pontiac Trans Sport. You know, the van with taillights that sort of look like boobs.

[fakie butt drop]

if freckles dont mean anything, does anything mean anything?

[rawr1922]

With a cool name plus description of ingredients, very shocking that a chimichanga sucks. Occasionally eat one whenever a friend/fam offers one due to ordering too much food. Every time, so underwhelming. Never ordered my own chimichanga,, never will! "Chimichanga better in theory than reality"

[masturskater]

With a cool name plus description of ingredients, very shocking that a chimichanga sucks. Occasionally eat one whenever a friend/fam offers one due to ordering too much food. Every time, so underwhelming. Never ordered my own chimichanga,, never will! "Chimichanga better in theory than reality"

No way. I question the sources of your chimichangas.

Burritos are usually great. Even bad ones can be satisfying. Taking it up a notch by frying the whole thing only makes it better. As long as it's fried crispy and the inside isn't utter shit, I find that chimichangas is usually the best/safest offering of any Tex mex restaurant. That and fajitas.

[rawr1922]

Mastur,

Intrigued after reading your insight. Well the changas I had turn out so bland both taste + texture , forced to smother with hot sauce, enchilada sauce, guac, etc. At that point, might as well get enchiladas. You might be right, maybe never experienced a proper chimichanga. Also havent experienced a lot of Tex Mex.