SUB+AUX 'BE'+'always'+~ing VERB! (1st Wrld Annoyances)

[jebreject]

Yeah you're totally missing the point

[elpollodiablo]

[Anne the Man]

What Jeb and Grace said. Also, CBS, being part of the 1% on a global scale don't mean shit. It may make you comparatively rich--I'm not dying in a gutter and have clean drinking water, yay--but this doesn't magically enable you to travel. Take my situation, for example--do you have any idea how far away New Zealand is from anywhere? When I do go overseas, I plan to be gone for at least a year, probably more--overseas travel isn't something I take lightly. At least it'll be an option for me (hopefully) if I keep this fulltime job (if our company doesn't go under) and manage to save enough--which, in my case, might indeed be possible if I push myself a little. I can also possibly get some money from family for one-off travel. Lucky me (see me admitting that I have privilege? Want to try it?), and all this still doesn't actually make me rich enough for easy travel.

Now try imagine if I was a person with children to look after. Or a person who had recently been made redundant in a shitty job market. Or a person working through mental illness who was barely able to get out of bed for depression, let alone get a job and save. Or a person with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, same diff. Or a Masters student splitting their time between studying and a part-time job and barely getting enough to eat because they can't get student allowance. (Recently a new friend of mine who I had hoped to better acquaint had to move back to her tiny homophobic hometown to finish her Masters for this reason. She also has chronic fatigue. Doubt she'll be travelling any time soon.) All these situations have happened to people I know, some of them to members on this board.

xpost though and honestly I don't even know if writing all that was worth it because you really are missing the point

Since the nature of privilege is its invisibility to those who have it, maybe if I shut my eyes then the oil crisis, shitty economy and climate change will all magically go away and I can travel everywhere I waaant

[cold before sunrise]

how amazing does it feel to be preparing for a year abroad? what purpose does keeping your attention on the oil crisis, shitty economy and climate change serve? remain ambivalent to these things and head straight towards that which you love. it's only if you're focused on your passions that working through adversity becomes satisfying.

[Thermofusion]

The most racist thing is the eye makeup on Stringfellow Hawke's half-Vietnamese bastard son in the second episode of Airwolf. Everyone knows that.

[dumbfish]

Give 'em a break. It was Los Angeles in the 1980's. It's not like there were any Asian people around to play the role.
Next, you'll say that Mickey Rooney's turn in Breakfast at Tiffany's isn't a charming homage to the Oriental soul!

[dieblucasdie]

go to couchsurfing.org #yolo

[Thermofusion]

Give 'em a break. It was Los Angeles in the 1980's. It's not like there were any Asian people around to play the role.

Yeah man CBS rushed production on the first season order and they couldn't wait til all the Asians had hatched  ('84 was a low yield year anyway)

[Bernard]

Stringfellow Hawke

you have just blown my motherflippin mind

[Thermofusion]

Stringfellow Hawke! Cuz he flies and plays the cello!

[Bernard]

Stringfellow Hawke! Cuz he flies and plays the cello!

[elpollodiablo]

Resolved to not go to the gym today because I was so exhausted from work yesterday. Ended up waking up at 6a anyway and tossing and turning for a fucking hour; going to the gym after all. Fuck you, body

[clare]

Cool, good on you. I did something similar on the weekend with my run. It was all good until sunday night when I felt like I'd been hit by a truck. I think I overdid it again...

[jebreject]

Resolved to not go to the gym today because I was so exhausted from work yesterday. Ended up waking up at 6a anyway and tossing and turning for a fucking hour; going to the gym after all. Fuck you, body

Recovery from my long ride prevented me from going to the gym yesterday, but I'm planning on getting back at it today. Still pretty sore, so we'll see how it goes!

Also: good for you!

[El_Josharino]

Jeb, you probably crushed like 10,000 calories on each day of your ride, so you should be ahead of the game a bit.

[jebreject]

I ate a ridiculous amount of food at lunch and dinner each day, and still ended up with calorie defecits of almost 3,000 calories per day.

jebreject burned 5058 calories doing 360 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Bicycling, 12-14 mph, moderate (cycling, biking, bike riding)"
3 days ago

jebreject burned 4766 calories doing 310 minutes of "Bicycling, 12-14 mph, moderate (cycling, biking, bike riding)"
2 days ago

[El_Josharino]

Whoa, I'm surprised it's not more than that. The times I've done Ragbrai they tell us to plan on burning 8-12 thousand calories biking, depending on the terrain and how hot it is and such. I've never timed myself or kept track of average speed or anything to estimate the actual amount, though.

[jebreject]

I mean, it's certainly possible that it WAS more than that, as it was really hot out and the second day was really hilly. That was just an estimation based on my average speed and total time biking.

[peacocks]

i just had an overwhelming urge to play bust a move.

oh edit to say why it's annoying:

i don't have a dreamcast 

[peacocks]

I FOUND IT ONLINE

[slow west vultures]

Whoa, I'm surprised it's not more than that. The times I've done Ragbrai they tell us to plan on burning 8-12 thousand calories biking, depending on the terrain and how hot it is and such. I've never timed myself or kept track of average speed or anything to estimate the actual amount, though.

my uncles doing that right now

[El_Josharino]

Nice. I've done it the last 3 years with a group of friends, but we skipped this year because we were going to go out to California and put together a tour later on (which is unfortunately not going to pan out this year). But with temperatures being 100+ all week, I'm having a hard time being too disappointed about missing it this year. Has your uncle done it in years past?

[slow west vultures]

no.  he's from arizona and just turned sixty, but he's been doing like marathons and biking for the past decade or so, so i think he's pretty physically fit.  it sounded like it was pretty hard to get in from what he was saying.  i'd love to go back and see iowa someday, but riding seventy miles a day or whatever it is on a bike is probalby not how i want to see it.  i have no idea how the thing works really.  do you camp each night or what?

[El_Josharino]

Yeah, you camp each night. If you properly register, then there's an official bus that takes your camping gear from town to town, and they provide a ride if you break down along the way and all that. They cap registration usually around 10,000 people (which is probably what he had a hard time getting in on), but there are anywhere from 5-8 thousand that do it without registering and either carry their gear or join some sort of charter where a big group of people who may or may not know each other hire someone to drive a bus that carries their gear and such from place to place. In the case of me and my friends, there were about 10 of us, so we just loaded everything into my buddy's truck and took turns driving the truck each day. The camping is pretty nuts, since you're usually in fairly small towns so you just camp anyplace you can find grass. Schools, churches, in front of businesses, some people let you camp in their yard, etc. It's kind of a huge week-long 450-mile party on bikes, it's a lot of fun.

Seventy miles on a bike sounds like a lot more than it actually feels once you do it, I think. You have to train for sure, but the whole event is pretty lax. You wake up, pack up your camp, bike 10 miles, stop for breakfast, bike 10 more miles, stop and refill your water, bike 15 more miles, stop for lunch, etc, etc. Have a couple beers here and there under the guise of taking in carbs. Some of the hilly days are pretty brutal, but once you do the first day, you realize it's pretty manageable.

[cold before sunrise]

fun!