Lament 3: Cry Hard With A Vengeance

[Bounty]

you stack

duh

[Losonti Tokash]

I need to get a car, since I'm going to be driving all over the state must likely. Ugh.

[Oxymoron]

What I think I'll be doing, is try to get a motorbike license.

[Bounty]

I may get a new (as in actually new, not €300 hand-me-down) car soon if I find a company to sign with. Failing that, I keep spare sticky tape and oil in the Volkswagen. Every trip an adventure!

What I think I'll be doing, is try to get a motorbike license.

Argument against: rain, snow, drizzle, sleet, hail, dignity, IKEA runs, you still need those internal organs

[Oxymoron]

Argument against: [...] dignity, [...]

Huh ?

[Bounty]

Skintight leather does not suit all body types. Neither does getting on and off bikes. I speak from unfortunate experience.

[Oxymoron]

You don't need skintight to ride a bike as far as I know. All moto-riders I know just have an helmet and a special jacket.

[evilsoup]

You need all leather clothes, assuming you want to keep your skin.

[Oxymoron]

Oh well. That's just another incentive to stay in shape, then.

[evilsoup]

it doesn't have to be skintight, though, AFAIK. Just covering the whole of your body. And I think there are suitable materials other than leather.

[Aaron]

No, no, there are alternatives to leather but if you don't wear a protective outer layer and come off the bike (pretty much every accident) you'll lose most of your skin, or have your clothes burned into it. Even with leathers you can get the later anyway.

A Ural will get you through the weather btw (2WD) but you'll be fucking miserable. At least have a banger for winter. Just for heat alone.

[evilsoup]

ah, OK, that makes sense

[Losonti Tokash]

Most common alternative I see is denim which is great because it disintegrates after sliding about 2 inches if you ditch at 30 mph. Even the Kevlar+leather jackets with metal backplates will only take you for 5-6 feet, I think.

[Oxymoron]

I think my stereo system, which I'm using as my PC's speakers, is finally reaching the point where I will have to seriously consider finding a replacement.

It would have held for almost nine years.

I hope it's still going to hold for a little bit longer...

[>:3]

Seems like you'd be better off rolling than skidding due to less abrasion spread over more area.

[Oxymoron]

It's time for some Tactical Faceplant Action !

[joviwan]

Seems like you'd be better off rolling than skidding due to less abrasion spread over more area.

You don't really get to 'pick' which one you want when you've been thrown off your bike.

[timmy]

My dad relates a story from when he was a med student and couldn't afford a car. Riding along the bayside in south Sydney, approaching an intersection he cut around the side of some stopped cars. It was a little bit wet, bike went down hard. Hard enough that there was a repeated noise getting louder each time - like a scrunch scrunch scrunch scrunch - that he realised was his helmet banging against the road as he slid along it at speed towards oncoming traffic.

Fortunately, I am here to tell the tale.

[Aaron]

Man, Hancock is a terrifying premise for a movie (were it not mostly comedy).

To be immortal, watch everyone you know and love die, people destroy themselves.

He was born in Eygpt IIRC and him and Charlize are thousands of years old and been persecuted for what they are.

Its amazing they aren't psychopaths.

[evilsoup]

well he shoves a guy's head up another guy's ass for the lols
are you sure he isn't a psychopath

[Big Orangutan]

Wow my Windows 8 on my laptop can't play videos imported from my WINDOWS phone!

[uraniun235]

I think my stereo system, which I'm using as my PC's speakers, is finally reaching the point where I will have to seriously consider finding a replacement.

It would have held for almost nine years.

I hope it's still going to hold for a little bit longer...

Is it the speakers crapping out or the receiver?

[Oxymoron]

It was doing some faint "bzzt bzzt" sound as I was writing that message, and it has been humming like a cathodic tube television for the last year.

[timmy]

Hey Oxy

This isn't really true but it's still funny

[uraniun235]

It was doing some faint "bzzt bzzt" sound as I was writing that message, and it has been humming like a cathodic tube television for the last year.

do you have an actual stereo system with a receiver and speakers (and maybe even an amp) or is it one of those bullshit 2.1 computer speakers sets




fake edit: or god one of those super-bullshit 5.1 "home theater" boxsets