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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4770 on: January 06, 2021, 04:17:35 PM »
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i think i want to get a pet lizard. like a tegu maybe. i love dogs, but i am not a dog caring type person, and cats are cool, but they cost a lot because of the vet. tegus can be walked on a leash, too, so i could walk him outside in the little frontyard.

they live mighty long as well, i like that. just initial cost might be an issue. there is no enclosure big enough for them, has to be made diy, and that would take up a lot of room. but they don't wreck as many things as cats, let alone dogs, and are pretty hardy and apparently have less diseases than cats and dogs, so the costs might even out.

reptiles rule.
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I have a bearded dragon and she is awesome. Yes reptiles rule.

I have a leopard gecko, herpetology gang

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4771 on: January 06, 2021, 07:26:08 PM »
I was at a Dollar Tree today and saw this in the frozen food area and wondered who is buying a frozen chili dog. it just seems weird with the bun and it being a single dog to me. I don't know maybe I'm the weird one.


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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4772 on: January 07, 2021, 03:50:27 AM »
I was at a Dollar Tree today and saw this in the frozen food area and wondered who is buying a frozen chili dog. it just seems weird with the bun and it being a single dog to me. I don't know maybe I'm the weird one.



Hey don’t knock it til you try it.  To me, there’s nothing better than starting the day by taking a bite off a rock hard frozen dollar store chili dog and letting it melt in your mouth on a cold winter’s morn.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4773 on: January 07, 2021, 03:58:45 AM »
I was at a Dollar Tree today and saw this in the frozen food area and wondered who is buying a frozen chili dog. it just seems weird with the bun and it being a single dog to me. I don't know maybe I'm the weird one.


Andy Anderson?

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4774 on: January 08, 2021, 05:55:19 AM »
People saying nate jones or nik stain skating is ‘average’ in another thread.. i dont even know what im pondering but their perspectives have me fucked up

Reese forbes too like whaaaaat

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4775 on: January 08, 2021, 06:51:39 AM »
People saying nate jones or nik stain skating is ‘average’ in another thread.. i dont even know what im pondering but their perspectives have me fucked up

Reese forbes too like whaaaaat

plz don't fall for these needless provocations my good man! i agree these people need help.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4776 on: January 08, 2021, 12:07:32 PM »
Maybe this is obvious to everyone and I'm just slow, but is Saul Goodman's name from Breaking Bad a nod the phrase "it's all good man."?


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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4777 on: January 08, 2021, 12:41:54 PM »
Maybe this is obvious to everyone and I'm just slow, but is Saul Goodman's name from Breaking Bad a nod the phrase "it's all good man."?

I've had the same thought for a while. I'm under the impression it is; maybe it's explained in Better Call Saul? I need to get back to watching that.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4778 on: January 09, 2021, 12:25:05 PM »
How did “Euro gaps” get their name?

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4779 on: January 09, 2021, 01:54:18 PM »
Maybe this is obvious to everyone and I'm just slow, but is Saul Goodman's name from Breaking Bad a nod the phrase "it's all good man."?
Yes. He definitely says it in Better Call Saul, but I think he also makes that statement a few times in Breaking Bad.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4780 on: January 09, 2021, 02:02:57 PM »
How did “Euro gaps” get their name?

I believe it's because that style of obstacle was so ubiquitous at those big late 90s/early 2000s European contests

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4781 on: January 09, 2021, 02:30:59 PM »
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How did “Euro gaps” get their name?
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I believe it's because that style of obstacle was so ubiquitous at those big late 90s/early 2000s European contests

Someone should do a little show or something where they discuss where trick names and other little skate lingo and trends started. Loveletters was kind of like that, but it was mostly just Grosso talking about what he thought was cool and lame.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4782 on: January 09, 2021, 03:11:06 PM »
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How did “Euro gaps” get their name?
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I believe it's because that style of obstacle was so ubiquitous at those big late 90s/early 2000s European contests
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Someone should do a little show or something where they discuss where trick names and other little skate lingo and trends started. Loveletters was kind of like that, but it was mostly just Grosso talking about what he thought was cool and lame.
That makes sense.

Yeah, I immediately thought of Grosso when I started reading that. It would definitely have to be another OG like him who starts some show or series like that.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4783 on: January 09, 2021, 03:15:42 PM »
No one can tell you you wasting your life so long as you can live the the consequences of your decisions
Plz stop killing each other
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4784 on: January 09, 2021, 08:47:29 PM »
No one can tell you you wasting your life so long as you can live the the consequences of your decisions

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4785 on: January 09, 2021, 10:40:48 PM »
Did the advertising people that created that pornographic Mr. Bucket jingle ever face any criminal charges? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGkaY9vvMPA&feature=share

They knew what they were doing.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4786 on: January 10, 2021, 01:26:25 AM »
Goddam it woulda been so sick to be one of those coked out ad people back in the day
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4787 on: January 10, 2021, 04:35:08 PM »
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How did “Euro gaps” get their name?
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I believe it's because that style of obstacle was so ubiquitous at those big late 90s/early 2000s European contests
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Someone should do a little show or something where they discuss where trick names and other little skate lingo and trends started. Loveletters was kind of like that, but it was mostly just Grosso talking about what he thought was cool and lame.

in europe we call them london gaps.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4788 on: January 10, 2021, 04:37:22 PM »
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How did “Euro gaps” get their name?
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I believe it's because that style of obstacle was so ubiquitous at those big late 90s/early 2000s European contests
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Someone should do a little show or something where they discuss where trick names and other little skate lingo and trends started. Loveletters was kind of like that, but it was mostly just Grosso talking about what he thought was cool and lame.
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in europe we call them london gaps.
no joke

and if a box to grind on is leveled we call it curb, if it is angeled (down something) we call it ledge.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4789 on: January 10, 2021, 05:15:29 PM »
Ever woken up not feeling like someone else but not the person you were when you fell asleep? Then eased yourself back into things with things you remember about “yourself”? Feels like when you catch deja vu midstream and remember things in real-time. What the hell is this?

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4790 on: January 10, 2021, 05:42:24 PM »
Ahh it happens when the code is altered, I wouldn’t worry about it
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4791 on: January 11, 2021, 03:40:52 AM »
Ever woken up not feeling like someone else but not the person you were when you fell asleep? Then eased yourself back into things with things you remember about “yourself”? Feels like when you catch deja vu midstream and remember things in real-time. What the hell is this?

Sounds like the absent seizures I was having before a massive epileptic fit.
Either that or a glitch in the matrix.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4792 on: January 11, 2021, 03:44:34 AM »
Ever woken up not feeling like someone else but not the person you were when you fell asleep? Then eased yourself back into things with things you remember about “yourself”? Feels like when you catch deja vu midstream and remember things in real-time. What the hell is this?

I think this is called “waking up”.
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« Reply #4793 on: January 13, 2021, 03:37:05 AM »
i just had the thought and i assume it's ignorant and i haven't looked into yet, but why not share...

so ten pin bowling is a thing {a sport?}.
i am assuming there is professional bowling. i'm aware that people play amateurly. so yeah whatever, it just doesn't seem that hard. i'm not great at bowling but i've bowled some strikes and stuff, i think most people have. i have gone bowling less than twenty times in my life i would say}. i've seen random people, like people that were in my school class when we did bowling or my brother for example, who also don't bowl but are a lot better than i am and don't find it that hard to get strikes most of the time/often. they don't play, they don't practice, they just turn up and do that. bowling just doesn't seem that hard. fun, but not hard, which is totally fine and cool and great and i'm not trying to fuck with it.

but if you actually practiced bowling you'd obviously be considerably better than the randoms i know, who to my mind are quite good at it. so like, how good can you be? is professional bowling just the first to make a mistake loses? is amateur bowling kind of the same? am i way off?

sorry i had to write so much to get my point across, i'm not sure if it was necessary.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4794 on: January 13, 2021, 03:53:50 AM »
To me there’s two types of bowlers in the world:

-the people that have some sort of accoutrement on their hand and can make the ball curve and take that shit seriously

-people like me that get a running start from behind the seats and throw the heaviest ball they can as hard as they can straight down the middle and then watch what happens. 
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4795 on: January 17, 2021, 11:03:50 AM »

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« Reply #4796 on: January 17, 2021, 05:08:42 PM »
I recently watched Hamilton Morris' podcast with Eric Andre and I enjoyed it a lot. What I wondered though, was this online chat that we all have to deal with seams like it makes people stop and actually process what people have said, and they give a better answer or remark than what they would have if it was given live.

Basically what I'm saying is, are there any other good things to come out of this pandemic besides " wash your hands doo doo head"?

link to the podcast by the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXRcly_jDoM

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4797 on: January 17, 2021, 06:10:27 PM »
i just had the thought and i assume it's ignorant and i haven't looked into yet, but why not share...

so ten pin bowling is a thing {a sport?}.
i am assuming there is professional bowling. i'm aware that people play amateurly. so yeah whatever, it just doesn't seem that hard. i'm not great at bowling but i've bowled some strikes and stuff, i think most people have. i have gone bowling less than twenty times in my life i would say}. i've seen random people, like people that were in my school class when we did bowling or my brother for example, who also don't bowl but are a lot better than i am and don't find it that hard to get strikes most of the time/often. they don't play, they don't practice, they just turn up and do that. bowling just doesn't seem that hard. fun, but not hard, which is totally fine and cool and great and i'm not trying to fuck with it.

but if you actually practiced bowling you'd obviously be considerably better than the randoms i know, who to my mind are quite good at it. so like, how good can you be? is professional bowling just the first to make a mistake loses? is amateur bowling kind of the same? am i way off?

sorry i had to write so much to get my point across, i'm not sure if it was necessary.

I suck at bowling, like am absolutely abhorrent at the game but have a lot of memories at the bowling alley.

Most of family bowled in leagues and shit from the 70s until the local ten pin shut down a few years back. It was a community thing- hang out with friends/family, get drunk (bowling alley had the cheapest drinks anywhere), smoke weed, have cheap entertainment, fun, and release competitive energy. As someone who grew up around people who bowled at least once a week, what I can say is that to be consistently good at bowling is hard as fuck and takes a lot of practice. My Dad is an upper mid range bowler, probably 180 average. He's bowled one 300 (all strike) game in all the years. He's a dude that's above average, but not pro/sponsored grade (with the exception of road racing) at every game he plays. Talented, focused, and competitive. If he didn't use every game as a to get shit faced, he'd be even better. My uncle is a slightly better bowler who has bowled numerous 300 games but he's a hyper competitive athlete, one of those dudes that was a beast at every game he plays- horseshoes, darts, softball, volleyball, golfing, fuck, even his job of framing houses. Like all those other games, the dude bowled at least 1 day per week for a 3 or so hour long stretch, for decades. Like I said, to bowl well with consistency is hard as fuck.

In a league, they generally bowl 3 games per match. there's 10 frames per game, I think with the possibility of throwing 3 extra balls at the 10th frame- so that's, max, 26 balls at the end of a game, 78 balls bowled at the end of the night. Those balls probably weigh 14-16lbs. That's a lot of work and you'll see a lot of long time bowlers wearing wrist braces. Then, like when shooting pool, there's techniques like spin and English that get put on the ball.

Pretty sure to qualify as a pro you need 205 average.
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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4798 on: January 17, 2021, 08:14:42 PM »
I ponder this pretty often, because I eat a lot of bananas, but I saw on Japanese TV once that chimpanzees peel bananas from the end without the stem and I was wondering if that's the better way to do it. I vaguely remember doing that as a kid but I changed it up when everyone else was doing it the other way. I guess that makes me more simian than other people. Anyway, maybe I'll start peeling bananas that way too because captive chimpanzees seem like they know a thing or two about eating bananas. I just have to remember to do it next time.

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Re: Things You Pondered Today
« Reply #4799 on: January 17, 2021, 09:15:29 PM »
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i just had the thought and i assume it's ignorant and i haven't looked into yet, but why not share...

so ten pin bowling is a thing {a sport?}.
i am assuming there is professional bowling. i'm aware that people play amateurly. so yeah whatever, it just doesn't seem that hard. i'm not great at bowling but i've bowled some strikes and stuff, i think most people have. i have gone bowling less than twenty times in my life i would say}. i've seen random people, like people that were in my school class when we did bowling or my brother for example, who also don't bowl but are a lot better than i am and don't find it that hard to get strikes most of the time/often. they don't play, they don't practice, they just turn up and do that. bowling just doesn't seem that hard. fun, but not hard, which is totally fine and cool and great and i'm not trying to fuck with it.

but if you actually practiced bowling you'd obviously be considerably better than the randoms i know, who to my mind are quite good at it. so like, how good can you be? is professional bowling just the first to make a mistake loses? is amateur bowling kind of the same? am i way off?

sorry i had to write so much to get my point across, i'm not sure if it was necessary.
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I suck at bowling, like am absolutely abhorrent at the game but have a lot of memories at the bowling alley.

Most of family bowled in leagues and shit from the 70s until the local ten pin shut down a few years back. It was a community thing- hang out with friends/family, get drunk (bowling alley had the cheapest drinks anywhere), smoke weed, have cheap entertainment, fun, and release competitive energy. As someone who grew up around people who bowled at least once a week, what I can say is that to be consistently good at bowling is hard as fuck and takes a lot of practice. My Dad is an upper mid range bowler, probably 180 average. He's bowled one 300 (all strike) game in all the years. He's a dude that's above average, but not pro/sponsored grade (with the exception of road racing) at every game he plays. Talented, focused, and competitive. If he didn't use every game as a to get shit faced, he'd be even better. My uncle is a slightly better bowler who has bowled numerous 300 games but he's a hyper competitive athlete, one of those dudes that was a beast at every game he plays- horseshoes, darts, softball, volleyball, golfing, fuck, even his job of framing houses. Like all those other games, the dude bowled at least 1 day per week for a 3 or so hour long stretch, for decades. Like I said, to bowl well with consistency is hard as fuck.

In a league, they generally bowl 3 games per match. there's 10 frames per game, I think with the possibility of throwing 3 extra balls at the 10th frame- so that's, max, 26 balls at the end of a game, 78 balls bowled at the end of the night. Those balls probably weigh 14-16lbs. That's a lot of work and you'll see a lot of long time bowlers wearing wrist braces. Then, like when shooting pool, there's techniques like spin and English that get put on the ball.

Pretty sure to qualify as a pro you need 205 average.

thank you for your response. a guy i work with bowls once or twice a week i think, he pointed out a few weeks ago that they have the cheapest drinks anywhere in town. i don't drink so i don't really care, but that's an interesting consistency.

just for clarification, i don't find bowling easy myself. i totally suck. i just assumed people who were good must be like, perfect. i hope your dad can pull another 3oo at some point. sorry you lost your bowling alley.
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