Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid
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I didn't say you had to do it naked, but whatever floats your boat. 15 minutes exposure won't be dangerous unless it's windy.
granted it won't be dangerous, but i still don't want to.
You have to walk to the car, why not just... keep going?
these days? it's because i don't want to walk 15 miles. i live rather father away from work than i used to.
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i don't want to walk 15 miles
Well, that I completely understand. You need to ride a bicycle instead.
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You need to ride a bicycle instead.
Ride a bicycle?
with These drivers on the road?
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Hey, mods, can we remove fbmac's ability to delete posts until he learns to lock his fucking phone?
Filed under: The only way is to rub his nose in the he makes
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i live rather father
Uhu ... don't be ashamed. There are others around here who live in their parents basement.
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This is actually a valid suggestion. The walk is beneficial to the self, especially if the weather is coldish but dry. Cold and wet is not good. I would (and have) walk it in the rain if it was warm. Walking in the wind is dependant on many factors.
I used to live a few hundred yards from where I worked. Walk or drive, the route was just under a mile and quite often it was considerably quicker (I would quite often pass the same car several times).
Yeah, short journeys will kill a car very quickly in all sort of ways, left alone what it does for fuel economy. I am very reluctant to use the car if it means that the journey ends before the car warms up or had a chance to put the energy used by starting it back into the battery. It's a complicated assessment, but the major factor is how much stuff I'd be bringing back.
I also accept that there are situations where it is considerably safer to drive (or use public transport - you get your exercise walking to and from the pick up point)
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there would be one less of these drivers ...
and one less of me!
i don't care if i'd be in the right or not! when one of them swerves at the wrong time and hits me as a pedestrian or as a biker I LOSE
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Why would you go from reasonable to hellhole?
At least he didn't stay in Florida.
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Just try the level again ...
i'm not a cat! i don't get multiple lives!
and even if i do, i'm not interested in testing the hypothesis! Not every way to lose ends in death.
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i don't get multiple lives!
Did you try catching one of the heart shaped icons? Or eat mushrooms until you grow twice your normal size.
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Did you try catching one of the heart shaped icons?
i have hundreds of the things, they appear to be cheap plastic trinkets.
Or eat mushrooms until you grow twice your normal size.
Unamused fox is unamused.
Winners don't do drugs.
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Winners don't do drugs.
Winners don't do tupperware!
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the journey ends before the car warms up or had a chance to put the energy used by starting it back into the battery.
Yeah, I had that problem for a while. I only lived about a mile and a half from work, and only rarely did any other driving. My battery wasn't happy.
use public transport - you get your exercise walking to and from the pick up point
I rather like using public transport (if it goes where and when I need it to go, which is not the usual case), but waiting in the rain or snow sucks.
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Did you try catching one of the heart shaped icons? Or eat mushrooms until you grow twice your normal size.
I think you're confusing @accalia with @aliceif in wonderland
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I only lived about a mile and a half from work, and only rarely did any other driving. My battery wasn't happy.
Sometimes I take "the long way" to work, which is almost 2.5 miles. I'm not really sure where the "short enough to make the car unhappy" line is.
Fortunately it gets longer trips for shopping and the like.
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Difficult to tell, and there is probably a lot of voodoo involved. As a rule of thumb I like to get 20 mins of engine run time to be sure. The physical damage is in the first couple of mins (depending on how long it has been standing) as the oil has to get to where it needs to be. I am not adverse to letting it idle for a few minutes while I do "housekeeping" stuff like de-snowing, window cleaning and visual pre-flight checks like tyres :P etc - this was easier when I had the Merc, as it auto-started so I didn't even need to get into the car.
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Oh come on, there's a bunch of ways to stop this butt-posting from happening! Stop being an imbecile!
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i don't care if i'd be in the right or not! when one of them swerves at the wrong time and hits me as a pedestrian or as a biker I LOSE
That's why you need to keep your eyes and ears open, your brain switched on, and ride defensively. That's good advice for when you're driving too.
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Sometimes I take "the long way" to work, which is almost 2.5 miles. I'm not really sure where the "short enough to make the car unhappy" line is.
2.5 miles is well under the "unhappy car" threshold. It might take ten minutes to recharge the battery depending on how hard your car starts and how cold it is. It takes that long for the engine to warm up, the oil to reach the right viscosity, and the fuel/air mix to lean out. It takes much longer to evaporate the blow-by from the rich fuel mixture before the engine reaches operating temperature. It also takes a while to get the catalytic converter hot enough to do its thing, or warm up a DPF to burn soot. For the DPF to regenerate you need to continue driving at highway speed for a while too.
Fortunately it gets longer trips for shopping and the like.
"longer trips" need to be half an hour or more and probably at least once a week if you're doing short trips every day. You can mitigate some of the damage by changing your oil much more frequently and keeping your car on a battery tender overnight.
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The physical damage is in the first couple of mins (depending on how long it has been standing) as the oil has to get to where it needs to be.
The oil gets where it needs to be in only a few seconds, but it doesn't reach the desired viscosity until the engine is warmed up properly. That's not really a problem if you drive it appropriately, which basically means go easy on it until it's warm.
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That's not really a problem if you drive it appropriately, which basically means go easy on it until it's warm.
I generally do that, at least.
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Zoom in, use Street view, etc., and examine the stretch of Midway from Keller Sprints to Belt Line, and tell me if you'd be willing to ride a bike on that or walk it day-in, day-out, in rush hour traffic.
Where are the sidewalks?
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Where are the sidewalks?
Overrated. Nothing in that part of town is in walking distance from anything else.
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Where are the sidewalks?
There aren't any on that stretch of street. Just like there aren't on the street I'd be using if I were to walk or bike. Which is why I don't.
Only parts of Dallas are pedestrian-friendly, sadly.
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Overrated. Nothing in that part of town is in walking distance from anything else.
If you follow that street down to Beltline, which is more consumer-oriented, you'll find sidewalks. But other than some restaurants, Midway is mostly non-retail, so nobody bothered putting them in.
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It's time to revive this thread, because man, I thought it was bad last year but Jesus fucking Christ, we are being bombarded by black Friday ads right now. Every single street has nothing but black Friday ads. Every tv ad, black Friday. I saw a newspaper and every page had a Black Friday ad in big letters. Every fucking commercial website I visited, Black Friday.
How crazy is this? Absolutely no one in this country had known about or cared about it before. It's a piece of culture literally being forced into our society by big companies, and we're watching it in real time. Two or three more years and the conversion will be complete.
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@anonymous234 I don't know if "forced" is the right term. It's only successful because people turn up to trample employees to death. If people don't turn up, sure as shit the advertising focus will stop.
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Black friday = cargo cult.
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I'll be at work during British Imported Turkey Food Coma Day, so I will miss all the fun. Though a few online retailers are in on the act so I could order some shit and get it delivered and then no trampling will occur and everyone wins.
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My wife came in while I was getting dressed this morning and asked in a rather puzzled way if I knew why today was being called Black Friday on the TV. (We're in .au, but she'd been watching the NBC news bulletin, which one of our channels carries to fill in time in the early morning.) I explained it to her and also told her about Cyber Monday, which it turned out she'd also heard and been wondering about.
No doubt it's only a matter of time before we start having Black Friday sales here too, even though we don't have Thanksgiving.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
My wife came in while I was getting dressed this morning and asked in a rather puzzled way if I knew why today was being called Black Friday
Dear Penthouse forums...
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@anonymous234 I've been getting non-stop multiple Black Friday emails from pretty much every store I've ever bought anything from, for the past week or two. It's ridiculous.
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Status: WTF, Thought @Keith had returned!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Status: WTF, Thought @Keith had returned!
Status @Tsaukpaetra is still hung over from Thanksgiving and is lost plz get him a cab back to the right thread.
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Relevant to this topic:
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@sloosecannon It's the moooost violent time of the year...
So, time for this to get re-posted:
Filed Under: I'm sure it would appear on Literally Unbelievable again, too. if LU were active right now. Sadly, the site's return this summer seems to have been short-lived.
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The Onion: Reporting news no-one else will since 1786
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Suggestion: Electroshock "therapy" for any marketing dipshit using the phrases "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday." Using either in the context of starting prior to or being extended beyond the literal day should result in the voltage and current being increased to full mains voltage and whatever current that produces in the rather conductive environment of (sub-)human neural tissue.
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@HardwareGeek said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Suggestion: Electroshock "therapy" for any marketing dipshit using the phrases "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday." Using either in the context of starting prior to or being extended beyond the literal day should result in the voltage and current being increased to full mains voltage and whatever current that produces in the rather conductive environment of (sub-)human neural tissue.
Coming this September: It's Early Pre-Black Friday Sales Weekend Event (extended to Thursday)
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From http://blackfridaydeathcount.com :
Couldn't help but notice.
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@Bort said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Couldn't help but notice.
So many shootings. I bet if everyone there was armed that never would have happened.
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@HardwareGeek said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday.
I'm going to start a new marketing ploy Old Skool Thursday.
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@Luhmann you could call it 'throw-back Thursday' and use that Twitter thing to promote it. Maybe shorten it to #tbt
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@Arantor said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
@Luhmann you could call it 'throw-back Thursday' and use that Twitter thing to promote it. Maybe shorten it to #tbt
You could be VP of marketing. No joke.
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@Arantor
#omg #tbt for reelz!