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Most of the time their mouth is open and you can see some drool.
people are getting older, faster, imo. i'm almost twice the age of my coworkers and they seem to be lagging like old farts. it's also scarey that half of my graduating classmates are dead or dying.
is the fast food killing us?
is the fast food killing us?
You're too old when they put your rigid remains in a box and toss dirt on top of it.
The Texting While Driving: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Almost got killed turning off our highway out here onto my Farm-to-Market Road by one of those <another deleted bad word>. He must've looked up because when I braced for impact and saw my life flash before my eyes, I heard screeching tires and the dumba$$ swerved around me almost flipping a new 2015 Dodge pickup truck. Wish he would have totaled his truck.
And this is why a 16 year old Qualcomm plain phone is in a 16 year old leather hold clipped to my pocket. IT IS A <DELETED EXPLETIVE YELLED LOUDLY> PHONE. Me and our guitarist/keyboardist have normal phones and note the addicted folks everywhere staring at their screens like zombies. Got 2 brand new ones for $5 each on eBay as backups, already used one for its battery.
The Texting While Driving: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Almost got killed turning off our highway out here onto my Farm-to-Market Road by one of those <another deleted bad word>. He must've looked up because when I braced for impact and saw my life flash before my eyes, I heard screeching tires and the dumba$$ swerved around me almost flipping a new 2015 Dodge pickup truck. Wish he would have totaled his truck.
Yes along with the medical cartel and pharma. They like patients for a lifetime of income.....
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When this happens:
1. You read a headline that says "The 10 Best Albums of the Last Decade"
2. You try to think of your own top ten list before you read the article, so you can prove how much better your taste is than the author's
3. You draw a complete blank and realize you don't own and can't even name an album recorded in the last decade
1. You read a headline that says "The 10 Best Albums of the Last Decade"
2. You try to think of your own top ten list before you read the article, so you can prove how much better your taste is than the author's
3. You draw a complete blank and realize you don't own and can't even name an album recorded in the last decade
You know you're too old when you believe the only basses worth playing are a p-bass with flats and tort (the absolute modern bass), a doghouse, or a washtub. Tuba if you're a bit of a weirdo.
I realized I was getting old when one day I was sitting on the couch with excruciating stomach pain like I was about to have explosive diarrhea. so as I got up, and the pain started to subside, I realized I had just been sitting on my balls.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull? I remember him. BAHH!Threads have a life of their own. Is this going to turn into discussion or rantabout smart phones? I'm okay if it does, I'm not in charge around here.
I say flip phone were so much better than the garbage they fost on us these days. I always felt like I was about to say "Beam me up Scotty" when I flipped open that phone. YEAAHHH!
Bring back a Flock of Seagulls.
It was cool to be able to open your flip phone with one hand, sort of like a Zippo flip we old guys used to do.
Really. They just don't make'm like they used to!That poll is too long.
-Mike
TB is as close as I can get to social media. I have tried a couple of the larger sites and just cannot see the benefit. Signal/noise ratio is pathetic.
FWIW, S/N on TB is what keeps me coming back.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I commute on a motorcycle. The bike I ride when it's miserable and rainy is a loud single cylinder dual sport. It's ratty looking, and ratty sounding. Sometimes, it's a lot of fun to ride on sunny days because you can get the cell phone zombies to jump by coasting up next to them when they are moseying across the road and I'm trying to make a turn, then blipping the throttle. BWAAAAAP! BWAAAAP! Yeah, I'm juvenile. It's people like me that's ruining this country.
Hahaha @Gaolee, that cracked me up.
I have really loud exhaust (no tail pipe, dumped at the rear axle) on my Dodge truck. I'll do something similar now and then, open it up wide open next to a bunch of people just standing at a bus stop. I laugh, my wife gets mad, then I apologize to her.
-Mike
I have really loud exhaust (no tail pipe, dumped at the rear axle) on my Dodge truck. I'll do something similar now and then, open it up wide open next to a bunch of people just standing at a bus stop. I laugh, my wife gets mad, then I apologize to her.
-Mike
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
That's the good thing about the bike. My wife won't get on it, so I don't have to apologize. If she ever saw me do something like that, she would be completely unimpressed.
The other juvenile trick I had for a while was to rent a Harley Davidson every now and then. The floorboards are low, which means the drag easily. Going around a street corner all flopped over and dragging floorboards was always good for a reaction. Sparks, scraping noises, Harley noise. It was fun. I mostly save my bad behavior for people who have it coming, usually on account of cell phone use or just gabbing and napping. Just recently, I did a good BWAAAAAP next to the rolled down window of a couple women who would not turn right. They just wouldn't. I don't know why. Not paying attention, I guess. Lane splitting is a useful combat riding technique, especially when you can aim the artillery exhaust at the offender's ears. I'm probably THAT guy as far as everyone else on the road is concerned.
The other juvenile trick I had for a while was to rent a Harley Davidson every now and then. The floorboards are low, which means the drag easily. Going around a street corner all flopped over and dragging floorboards was always good for a reaction. Sparks, scraping noises, Harley noise. It was fun. I mostly save my bad behavior for people who have it coming, usually on account of cell phone use or just gabbing and napping. Just recently, I did a good BWAAAAAP next to the rolled down window of a couple women who would not turn right. They just wouldn't. I don't know why. Not paying attention, I guess. Lane splitting is a useful combat riding technique, especially when you can aim the artillery exhaust at the offender's ears. I'm probably THAT guy as far as everyone else on the road is concerned.
I just have a loud piercing voice. No wimpy ding, ding bell on my bicycle for me. If I am about to get squished I let out with a traffic stopping YO, YO, YO! Blood curdling screams of sheer terror work well too but those are involuntary.
I thought I was getting too old when I discovered that all music nowadays really sucks, but then I started investigating this. My conclusion, the music industry has been taken over by whining lazy emo pansy children, and it really does suck. I said it, it all sucks. No wonder there is such a huge market for old fart bands still touring forty years later, and selling out.
