@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?
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.
@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."
@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.
@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.)
@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".
@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.
@Miss-Demeanor said:
I remember the MAIN reason HM switched over to player run plots is because staff ST's wanted to be able to get xp on their player bits for running stories as staff.
I thought the main reason was because Loki drove off the majority of the good staff STs with draconian bureaucratic procedures and a staff application process that relied on you being best friends with him, his wife, and top cronies.
Then again, I could just be bitter.
Bikers. Specifically, the "holier-than-thou inner city" kind of bikers.
Now, I'm a transplant to rural Oregon, and I have to drive to downtown Portland(ia) for school. It's not even that much, as the highway dumps right into the street that has the parking garage. So we're talking, at most, 6 intersections a day, two days a week. I can't even claim to know what all the "rules of the road" for bikes are, but I assume there's a level of common sense to them (this may be an incorrect stance to take, given some of the "native" Portlandia population.)
I can't count the number of times I've been at an intersection. It's a red light. I'm signalling to turn right. When it's clear, I start to make my turn. Meanwhile, there is always one Captain Spandex tearing down the bike lane at 25+MPH, and has the nerve to get indignant (some even start to shout), if I turn in front of him. Now, common sense (maybe even THE LAW) tells me that bikes too have to stop at a red light, or at the very least, stop to see if their ass is gonna get run down by cross traffic. Most of the time, they do stop, and follow intersection signals. Yet there's always one idiot, and I'm the villain when they just about slam into my car because they're too hopped up on GMO-free free-range organic tofu protein shakes to come down and think like a rational person, and stop at a fucking red light.
Luckily, I haven't had anyone get violent. The worst that's happened is some guy pulled out a bunch of large peace stickers and start slapping them onto my back windshield, which, I found quite amusing.
@tragedyjones said:
I will make my own goddamn Promethean sphere. Prepare the abuse of power threads. Also I will let my TS partners play Mages.
Nothing turns me on like a patchwork corpse.
@Cobaltasaurus said:
Cobaltasuari prefer nice neat rows. However, Cobaltasauri are also bothered by the obscene amounts of white space at the bottom of the rows. : /
Kinda in this boat, too.
@2mspris said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
GAME OF THRONES
- Familial Murder
- A Hanging!
- Trials
- Drunken Debauchery
- Weddings
Renown 25 here I come. I've always wanted to make a Lodge of Scars werewolf.