Things You Pondered Today

[ok boomer]

The Japanese made the first side scrolling video game… these games always go left to right, but they read right to left. 

I would have expected that someone would naturally program it to scroll in the direction they read, but that’s not what happened.  Why?

Dang that is weird

[SneakySecrets]

I think the real reason they killed Socrates is because he just kept walking around asking people fucking questions all day acting like he was smarter than everybody else.  Gets old after a while.

[matt_2993]

A car full of 30 year olds getting drunk and going to water parks. What's the stance on that?  A few hours drive and there's an entire city dedicated to water parks, am I wrong for wanting to gather the dudes a thousand beers and hitting that shit up?

I mean probably but maybe not?

[Banned from the room]

Proud Boys don't have to pay the subway fare. The cops just escort them though. If I evade they go full terminator try to beat me up.

Smash the filth
Acab

[Banned from the room]

Also people on IG and shit still talking shit on TJ make me suss of racism. There's no other explanation to be this upset at 43. Clearly you are out of touch and should just go play golf or something

[matty_c]

Even though it's a dick move, the guy who's censoring Japanese porn gets to see porn most people will never see.

LOL

[doublesteveburger]

has anyone here won the lottery or know someone who did? how'd that go?

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

my uncle won a gold n64 and a life size spiderman cut out in the 90s off like soda caps. later he would die of Covid-19. coincidence??

[L33Tg33k]

Am I going to die alone? Probably. Will it be of a heart attack or a sleep apnea episode? Who knows?

[landedprimo]

Am I going to die alone? Probably. Will it be of a heart attack or a sleep apnea episode? Who knows?

I certainly hope not, my friend.

[doublesteveburger]

my uncle won a gold n64 and a life size spiderman cut out in the 90s off like soda caps. later he would die of Covid-19. coincidence??

the web keeps spinnin', spinnin', spinnin'...

[SneakySecrets]

A car full of 30 year olds getting drunk and going to water parks. What's the stance on that?  A few hours drive and there's an entire city dedicated to water parks, am I wrong for wanting to gather the dudes a thousand beers and hitting that shit up?

I mean probably but maybe not?

On one hand, you are denying natural law by focusing on selfish and hedonistic pleasure instead of procreating and caring for the less fortunate.  A child in a man’s body, coddled by a decadent society on the edge of economic collapse.  Just another lemming blithely walking towards its doom, whose only thought is “I hope someone wants to ride a water slide with me” like he’s eight years old.

On the other hand, you, like the ancient Epicureans, value simple pleasures and have no guilt in seeking them for both you and your friends.  To live a life of suffering and tedium is most often an individual’s choice.  While so many of us are the walking dead, sleepwalking through a dreary life, you are so on fire with the possibilities of the moment that you cannot help yourself but try to take as many people as you can to experience what a “life fully lived” feels like, if only for one magical, golden day.

[matty_c]

has anyone here won the lottery or know someone who did? how'd that go?

Not really but family won div2 in the 90s, it was from what I got told a dece chunk of change

Bloke I used to work with won 80k a couple years ago and put it into Bitcoin but didn't pull out, we were working together when it was crashing and I remember we were tiling bathrooms and he had his laptop in his bathroom, he couldn't sell or look away...haven't spoken to him in a minute tho

Aaaaand, deadset no cap ex partner and I would play same numbers each week we didn't one week and missed out on something like 1.2,1.4 mil

At the time it sucked but now I'm real glad that happened

Seen blokes on site win lotto and never come back

Hillbilly this old tiler I used to work with he won it twice then got cancer, poor bugger. He hooked his family up real good tho

Dad's mate won almost 4 million on keno when it first came out. This would have been early 90s and that was a metric FUCKTONNE of money at the time

Tldr, Matty associates with gamblers haha

[ChuckRamone]

I banged my shin up near my knee really badly about a week ago when I was skating. A couple days after it happened, I started having terrible thoughts of it causing a blood clot or deep vein thrombosis and causing a heart attack or stroke. Does anyone know about this kind of stuff? Should I be worried about this?

[crob legs]

let's say bam does something terrible. not suicide, that's too dark but something that gains him infamy. would 'bam' as a verb become part of the lexicon? dude had it all but he bammed his life away.
could even be about getting fat off success. he was a good looking guy til he got bammed out.
should i stop trying to make bam work?

[SneakySecrets]

It just struck me that “Half Done Chores” would be kind of a cute name for a mother-daughter acoustic duo. 

[matty_c]

b d p and q are all the same letter

Whoa


You seen those amateur porn stars where they hide their face with a balaclava, right?
I was thinking what it would be like to fuck a girl with a balaclava on
On the girl I mean...seems pretty rapey on the guy

[Mean salto]

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Whoa


You seen those amateur porn stars where they hide their face with a balaclava, right?
I was thinking what it would be like to fuck a girl with a balaclava on
On the girl I mean...seems pretty rapey on the guy

One time with a girl who had this kind of cat mask beanie thing on. It was about the same as usual the hat played very little into it.
Asking a girl to put on a balaclava on is probably a good way to ruin the mood for the girl tho.

[SneakySecrets]

If I had any power upon society, I would put more stress on studying logical fallacies in school.  As in people would know them like they know multiplication tables or basic grammar rules.

I feel like if everyone was constantly thinking about them, they could filter out the vast majority of bullshit of which they are assailed, whether at a personal, professional or political level.

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

yeah but everyone would be so annoying

[SneakySecrets]

Well everyone would know them so they wouldn’t even have to bring them up.  “Ad hominem” or “straw man” arguments would be as self-evident as 2x2=4.  And it would have a prophylactic function: if all these bullshit artists know everyone is armed with this basic debug info, they won’t even try their horseshit to start with.

Same way a mugger won’t go after someone they think is packing heat.

[botefdunn]

Are emotions a better guide than reason when it comes to relationships?

[Easy Slider]

I just realized that I spend most of my spare time alone in parking lots, school yards and industrial sites.

[ChuckRamone]

Did anyone ever figure this out?

[botefdunn]

I just realized that I spend most of my spare time alone in parking lots, school yards and industrial sites.

hey child stay wild

[Mean salto]

Here's me being very out of touch with popular culture but what's actually good about Joe Rogan? Obvs I've still known who he was for a couple years but only ever saw the Trevor Moore, McAuley Culkin and tony hawk eps and just thought he was a dork who weirdly kinda doesn't understand comedy. Lately I keep getting his clips come up and it's the same shit. Seems like every joke goes over his head, he has no idea what anyone's talking about/ just tries to steer the convo to whatever bonehead shit he's thinking about

[landedprimo]

Are emotions a better guide than reason when it comes to relationships?

It depends, we need more context. Emotions can steer you in some crazy directions. Reasoning should come to a conclusion both are happy with.

[SneakySecrets]

So if one wanted to analogize the war in Ukraine with the beginning of World War I, which isn’t perfect, but basically Serbia and Russia of WWI would be today’s Russia; Austria-Hungary would be Ukraine and the US would be Germany, sort of co-signing and backing their response.  But I don’t think Biden and Kaiser Wilhelm II have similar motivations.

[igrindtwinkies]

Here's me being very out of touch with popular culture but what's actually good about Joe Rogan? Obvs I've still known who he was for a couple years but only ever saw the Trevor Moore, McAuley Culkin and tony hawk eps and just thought he was a dork who weirdly kinda doesn't understand comedy. Lately I keep getting his clips come up and it's the same shit. Seems like every joke goes over his head, he has no idea what anyone's talking about/ just tries to steer the convo to whatever bonehead shit he's thinking about

He was a lot less insufferable pre-Covid.  He used to get really good guests, and never really claimed to be an expert on anything outside of combat sports.  He's sucked into the right wing conspiracy now and it's pretty obvious that he's a fucking moron.  I think the quality of the guests went down after he moved to Spotify, I've only bothered watching like 2 episodes in the last couple years.

[Mean salto]

Hey Americans (and maybe Canadians) how did you grow up/ still eat dinner?
It was always weird to me on tv when on whatever show they'd just invite people to stay over for dinner without pre planning and then when they're eating the table is just covered in plates and bowls of food. Like just make a whole massive bowl of peas or each veg or cook multiple kilos of meat just for one meal.
Is this even real or just a tv thing?