@iceshinagami said:
im surprised they don't provide 'fake' facebook pages to link your relationship to and other such social networking gimicks.
I smell Premium Package! Your invisible boyfriend will also like all your posts and post cute comments on selfies.
@Admiral said:
It's only impossible to get a 4.0 GPA if your teachers are asshats and use bullshit grading systems that make perfect scores impossible.
And if they do that? Report their asses.
It's kind of sad that the university system has devolved into this because of grade inflation. "Didn't get an A? Report your teacher!"
It's so common one of my professors flat-out said he modified his grading scale:
A = "You didn't earn it, but I'm sick of doing paperwork for bullshit reports."
A+ = "You actually did A-level work. Feel good about yourself."
Amazon/Sellers charging shipping for each item and not offering a discount if you buy more than one of the same item.
If I want to buy 3 of an item, you shouldn't be charging me $6 PER for shipping.
I find little children in public absolutely annoying, for the most part, because a lot of parents today suck at parenting. (#NotAllParents, etc)
I know if I did half the shit I see some of these kids doing, I'd be in a world of trouble the moment I got home, usually in an "old-school" method. For the most severe incidents, "the belt". I learned pretty quickly that acting like a little shit in public was not in my (ass's) best interest.
I'm not saying everyone should beat their kids when they misbehave, but the new-age "coddle" approach really doesn't work, especially when it just seems to devolve into "ignore the kid, maybe he'll tire out in a few hours". Either leave them at home with a babysitter, or step up and actually do some parenting.
@Ganymede said:
Much like puppies, children can be trained and conditioned. In fact, that's what we are doing through parenting; we just prefer to call it "parenting". Frankly, the only difference between my little ones and the cat is that the cat's a lot smarter than they are: he knows to shit in one area.
Main reason I don't want kids. I'm spoiled with my shepherd; no kid will be able to learn to poop in the right place at 9 weeks old. 
@BetterJudgment said:
Effectively, if you don't move into the bike lane to turn right, it's like you are making a right-hand turn from the center lane of three-lane street. If there is no bike lane at the intersection then the bike can't pass you on the shoulder, but that's not what you say is happening.
I'm gonna need to check your sources.
Source: ODOT Driver's Manual 2014-2015
http://www.odot.state.or.us/forms/dmv/37.pdf
Page 38
Do not move into a bicycle lane in preparation for a right hand turn.
Page 82
Do not move into a bicycle lane in preparation for a turn.
Oregon does not treat a Bicycle Lane like a roadway lane. 99% of the time, you are never supposed to be in the bike lane for any reason. It' is the Holy Lane.
An average Portland street doesn't operate like Lane > Bike Lane > Curb/Sidewalk. Quite often, there are a bunch of other bullshit lanes like a Bus Only lane, a Tram rail lane, and if those are absent, then a street parallel parking area. Which, to the douchebaggiest of bikers, translates into "an extra bike lane". So even if I were to stick myself in the bike lane, the idiots would just cut into a special lane if it's available, or as I see most do, weave between a parallel parked car and a turning car.
Since you doubt my diligence as a licensed driver in the state of Oregon, I went ahead and looked up the bike rules at an intersection:
Source: ODOT Biker's Manual 2010 (latest edition), page 6
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/hwy/bikeped/docs/bike_manual.pdf
Obey Traffic Signs and Signals
So, it is illegal for a bike to pass a car making a right turn on a red light. Cars yield to bicycles when the light is green (just like one would yield to pedestrians using the crosswalk.)
To clarify: I well know what I am supposed to do at an intersection. I don't know what the hell bikers are supposed to do with all the fancy shit painted on the road and whatnot (I just know I'm not allowed there), but I'm almost positive it isn't "don't stop at a red light, zoom right into cross-traffic".
@Miss-Demeanor said:
Ummmmm... in the areas here in Florida that -have- bike lanes? Its a BIG no-no to put your car into the bike lane. Right turn or not. As in, cops will pull you over in a heartbeat for reckless endangerment if you pull your car into the bike lane.
It's a strange product of the bike-progressives on the West Coast.
I know some bike-heavy areas of California and some other big metro areas like D.C. were pushing that cars SHOULD merge into the bike lane to make a right hand turn (and I think that's how it works in most places, don't quote me), because it would force bikers to stop behind the car that was making a turn, and protecting them from getting cut off at a green light. Yet people here argue that by keeping cars out of the bike lanes at all times, it protects them from being hit by cars.
I also found this article HIGHLY AMUSING:
http://bikeportland.org/2013/06/25/94-of-bikes-wait-at-red-lights-study-finds-89025
94% of bike riders wait at red lights, study finds
I must be that lucky guy to run into the 6% everywhere I go. I should play the state lottery more. (6% is also a pretty ridiculously high amount of people running a red light.)
@Bennie said:
Call me a terrible driver. But I'm trying to figure out how I'm ever going to turn left, or right, without somehow passing through one of these bike lanes...
You'll love signs like these:
http://i.imgur.com/PA0jyg5.jpg
They're all over in many variations. 
If I didn't know better, I'd think that city planners are deliberately trying to tell people to GTFO your car. Use public transit.
I guess that's another peeve of mine. There are so many non-standard road designs in this stupid city.
My dog. (Or is it my training skills?)
For years, I wanted to teach him a command that would put him on alert and/or drive off incursions to my property. (We live out in the woods, so there are a lot of critters and not-critters that wander through.) Jokingly, I tried to tie such behavior to the word 'kill'. It never worked.
However, I've come to discover that he has associated this behavior with the rather innocuous word 'look'. So now every time I'm talking at him and I want him to look at something, he switches on to full Alert/Police Dog/ INTRUDER mode. I guess the upside is that he does it on command? He's real intelligence, as he knows a lot of words and gestures I haven't taught him. Any times the keys jingle... oh boy.
I might have missed/glossed over it, but is this using the 2nd Edition rulesets or the original stuff?
I'll have to keep an eye out. I'm interested.
(And it's summer, which means I just have too much free time to stare at words on screens...)
So, I've been busy most of Spring Break because of family reasons, and I haven't really been able to dive into the book because I had a bunch of other less werewolfy books to read for Finals. (Also, I have brain issues reading books for content in PDF form. Print version can't come soon enough.)
Those of you who have had the chance to comb this book front to back a few times already, would it be possible to get a cliff notes version of the major changes? The brief skims I've done make it seem like things got very, very revamped. (Blood Talons are the secret werewolf police? Did I see that correctly?)
Also, is this bookshelf of orangish-brown books I have 100% shelf decorations in light of the 2nd Ed?
My dog. (Or is it my training skills?)
For years, I wanted to teach him a command that would put him on alert and/or drive off incursions to my property. (We live out in the woods, so there are a lot of critters and not-critters that wander through.) Jokingly, I tried to tie such behavior to the word 'kill'. It never worked.
However, I've come to discover that he has associated this behavior with the rather innocuous word 'look'. So now every time I'm talking at him and I want him to look at something, he switches on to full Alert/Police Dog/ INTRUDER mode. I guess the upside is that he does it on command? He's real intelligence, as he knows a lot of words and gestures I haven't taught him. Any times the keys jingle... oh boy.
I just thought I'd make note that Sheltering Sky is a reboot of Metro. YMMV.
@Ganymede said:
Much like puppies, children can be trained and conditioned. In fact, that's what we are doing through parenting; we just prefer to call it "parenting". Frankly, the only difference between my little ones and the cat is that the cat's a lot smarter than they are: he knows to shit in one area.
Main reason I don't want kids. I'm spoiled with my shepherd; no kid will be able to learn to poop in the right place at 9 weeks old.
I find little children in public absolutely annoying, for the most part, because a lot of parents today suck at parenting. (#NotAllParents, etc)
I know if I did half the shit I see some of these kids doing, I'd be in a world of trouble the moment I got home, usually in an "old-school" method. For the most severe incidents, "the belt". I learned pretty quickly that acting like a little shit in public was not in my (ass's) best interest.
I'm not saying everyone should beat their kids when they misbehave, but the new-age "coddle" approach really doesn't work, especially when it just seems to devolve into "ignore the kid, maybe he'll tire out in a few hours". Either leave them at home with a babysitter, or step up and actually do some parenting.
So are all the old books useless in terms of mechanics? Is the lore material all they are worth for now?