Peebles' Perfectly Pointless Popular Prattle - Random Banter #211

[LaZodiac]

Incidentally, Mein Kampf means "My Struggle".

What is it with bad people and struggles?

I thought it was more specifically "My life" but I imagine the idea is that it's like...contextual language. "My struggle filled life."

ON A BETTER TOPIC, nomming pizza with Dad. Best day.

[Solse]

ON A BETTER TOPIC, nomming pizza with Dad. Best day.

I dislike most pizza but one type that I like is the *very* thin-crusted type, almost like matzoh. There's a chain called Coals that has them, and they're soooo good.

[AtlanteanTroll]

All I'm saying is don't be a Debbie Downer. It's not so big a deal.

EDIT: All the good pizza places close down around here early, and there's only two of them. So anything after 9 PM has to be Dominos. Which is okay, but it gets repetitive.

Ah, first world problems.

[HalfTangible]

All I'm saying is don't be a Debbie Downer. It's not so big a deal.

EDIT: All the good pizza places close down around here early, and there's only two of them. So anything after 9 PM has to be Dominos. Which is okay, but it gets repetitive.

Ah, first world problems.

I thought first world problems were things like depression, anxiety, horrible business practices, an increasingly bloated government, stock market crashes and slow internet speeds? >.>

[Solse]

First world problems are usually trivial things. The stuff that you mentioned are experienced by many people outside of the first world. Especially slow internet speeds.

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[VincentTakeda]

First world problems include having to pay thousands of dollars to replace your water heater every few years so that it doesnt rupture, flood your basement and cause damage to all your expensive gaming books amd mtg cards.

[HalfTangible]

First world problems are usually trivial things. The stuff that you mentioned are experienced by many people outside of the first world. Especially slow internet speeds.

</pedantry>

Yeah, but assuming i correctly understand the term, most of the time people in 3rd world countries have far worse problems to deal with. Lack of clean water is probably more important than a lack of internet speed.

First world problems include having to pay thousands of dollars to replace your water heater every few years so that it doesnt rupture, flood your basement and cause damage to all your expensive gaming books amd mtg cards.

My first world problem was the time the bathroom flooded so badly that water started to drip down the balcony into the foyer, but I didn't notice because I was at school taking a test.

[-Sentinel-]

First world problems are usually trivial things. The stuff that you mentioned are experienced by many people outside of the first world. Especially slow internet speeds.

Or what color is that stupid dress.

IT'S BLACK AND BLUE, ARE Y'ALL COLOR-BLIND OR WHAT

[Cuthalion]

Or what color is that stupid dress.

IT'S BLACK AND BLUE, ARE Y'ALL COLOR-BLIND OR WHAT

It's white and gold, I swear.

[Skeppio]

Or what color is that stupid dress.

IT'S BLACK AND BLUE, ARE Y'ALL COLOR-BLIND OR WHAT

It's white and gold, I swear.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science...s-color-dress/

It's blue.

[Somensjev]

Or what color is that stupid dress.

IT'S BLACK AND BLUE, ARE Y'ALL COLOR-BLIND OR WHAT

It's white and gold, I swear.

i myself only heard of the dress a few hours ago, when i stumbled upon a video explaining what colour it is, and why people see it differently

Spoiler: the video

Show

and i always see it as black and blue

[Max™]

Well, I was happier before I understood this: http://xkcd.com/1492/

"Huh, a neat little demonstration of the way the human eye perceives different colors in relation to the contextual cues of background and foreground lighting."

*later*

"Oh dammit all I am so glad I quit facebook when fbpurity broke earlier this month, it's probably spammed with nothing but this nonsense."

For the record, the Xeelee Nightfighter in my avatar is black, and the milky way in the background is mostly blue.

Though in the original picture the nightfighter was a green sycamore seed case on a kinda tan background before I played with it in GIMP for a while.

[Axinian]

There is a difference in how people perceive color, but there also people claiming that your computer screen has nothing to do with it. This is demonstrably false. I can perceive the dress either way, but opening on different screens with different lighting et cetera absolutely makes a difference in how easy it is to see either one. Not just myself either, I've shown several people on multiple screens and the screen and angle absolutely makes a difference.

Also, one's preconceptions also factor in quite a bit. All one needs to do to see it the other way is shift your perception slightly and focus on seeing it the other way.

Then again, I might be an anomaly since a lot of the tricks of perception (like "Did you spot the bear?" videos) don't work on me more often than they do work. Then again, the dress was an interesting challenge and I did get caught up in it. That was fun

[FinnLassie]

Ah. Yes. Mr Nimoy. Also, I've not seen a thread about it. Not all people go to all parts of the forum.



I'm tethering my mobile interwebs to ze laptop and holy poop it's been a looong time since I've used a 2Mbit/s internet on something else than my phone. I remember seeing an ad like in 2002 that was advertising EVEN UP TO 12Mbit/s GET THIS AMAZING OFFER WOOOW.

[enderlord99]

The dress is pale, bluish slate and slightly dark, bronze-ish brown.

Seriously: I actually see it that way.

IRN: I was incredibly good at sweeping the floor when I was younger, but only when I had full access to a dimmer switch on the only source of light for the room.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

To many people, 27/02/2015 will be defined by three things

• Nimoy
• A dress that is polka dot red, obviously
• Net neutrality (whatever that means)

But to me. It's the day I got flamed right out and listened to Masada String Trio enough that I could hear funky bass riffs in everything.

Shame about Nimoy, though. I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan but some things transcend fandom. Regardless it's a shame when anyone dies. I will say this, though: Any time a celebrity dies I'm inspired to check on Abe Vigoda (for some reason) and, yes, he is still alive.

[-Sentinel-]

To many people, 27/02/2015 will be defined by three things.

Pfah, the dress is soooo 26/02/2015. Some of us were debating it before it was cool.

[Teddy]

Technical time! I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that a daemon isn't a protocol type, but a housekeeping program of sorts that runs in the background of your computer. Usually, they're referred to as daemons in all Unix-like systems, not just Ubuntu.

The more you know!

Also if Teddy or Razanir or any other techie could come correct me, that'd be awesome.

I'm no Unix hacker, so I'm not very well-versed in the under-the-hood terminology, but a quick Wikipedia lookup shows that they are indeed background system processes. They're apparently named from Maxwell's demon, which in turn is named from the daemons in Greek mythology...

Incidentally, Mein Kampf means "My Struggle".

What is it with bad people and struggles?

Well, good people are more often accepted by the system and society, so they don't really have to struggle.

I thought it was more specifically "My life" but I imagine the idea is that it's like...contextual language. "My struggle filled life."

Nope, "My Struggle" or "My Battle", but you are correct in that it probably should be read in the context of "My Lifelong Struggle".

[HalfTangible]

{scrubbed}

[AtlanteanTroll]

So my friend made a thing.

[CurlyKitGirl]

It's my birthday in less than a month. Mum's talking about buying me another appointment at the hairdresser's. I've done reds and auburns, I've done purple. I've gone from long to medium, from medium to long; from long to quite short and from quite short to pretty damn short. What next? I could go from asymmetrical pixie to full pixie; not sure how that'd work out.
Can't go blue right now as I'm going to be sending off photos with applications.
Really the problem with short hair is that if you want something more to your hair you generally need to grow some length into it first. Or go shorter still.
Eh screw it, full on pixie here I come. And maybe I'll go blonde. Well, blondish. I've done dark golds and caramels in my hair and quite liked those.

It's amazing how vain one can be about hair the shorter and shorter it gets. And for me with my balding spot front and centre it's annoying.
Maybe I can go get it done by a student and save the rest of the birthday money for something else. I do like that after an age of protesting she's now all enthusiastic about the colours and the shortness and the 'oh, but you should do this, you've always wanted to do this'.
Volte-faces are amazing, but sometimes annoying because it can grate.
It's also strange to think that the Sister with her belly button length hair now has more hair than the rest of us combined. Twice. Maybe thrice.
Surely you'd think she'd get a headache from all that hair, but maybe it's like when you become accustomed to carrying a heavy load for a while and don't realise how heavy it was until you finally put it down?

ION:
A first world problem for the multi-lingual: when you realise you forgot to switch your virtual keyboard from one language to another and don't notice until you're a few sentences into a post because you were touch typing whilst looking at a book.
Four languages, one of which has three different keyboard setting, so six keyboards.

EDIT:

IOON:
And I'm considering going into online tutoring. Weird huh?

IOOON:
@Troll: that's pretty cool.

[FinnLassie]

Nooooooooooooo.... the Finnish RPG Con, Ropecon is a week before Eurovision Song Contest... Which means I'll be dragged to watch that farce live somewhere... Nooo...

[LaZodiac]

Nooooooooooooo.... the Finnish RPG Con, Ropecon is a week before Eurovision Song Contest... Which means I'll be dragged to watch that farce live somewhere... Nooo...

Oh god, Eurovision LIVE? Are you sure you're not going to die from that?

[Septimus Faber]

Nooooooooooooo.... the Finnish RPG Con, Ropecon is a week before Eurovision Song Contest... Which means I'll be dragged to watch that farce live somewhere... Nooo...

Hush! Speak not the horror's name, lest you summon it forth from the void!

<.< >.> Eurovision Eurovision Eurovision

[CurlyKitGirl]

Nooooooooooooo.... the Finnish RPG Con, Ropecon is a week before Eurovision Song Contest... Which means I'll be dragged to watch that farce live somewhere... Nooo...

Bring alcohol. You poor, poor, poor sod. At least if you were watching it on the telly you could skip about ninety percent of it because of the holiday adverts. And maybe enjoy listening to Graham Norton/your resident snippy, snarky presenter who's quietly despairing over his hapless job.
But as is, you can only drink you way to not-quite-oblivion.

[AtlanteanTroll]

ION:
A first world problem for the multi-lingual: when you realise you forgot to switch your virtual keyboard from one language to another and don't notice until you're a few sentences into a post because you were touch typing whilst looking at a book.
Four languages, one of which has three different keyboard setting, so six keyboards.

I've run in to this problem on my phone. Nothing like sending nonsense texts in Japanese to your mother in the middle of a semi-serious conversation.

IOON:
And I'm considering going into online tutoring. Weird huh?

What's weird about that? You're going to be teaching, and tutoring's related. So long as you get paid, yeah?

IOOON:
@Troll: that's pretty cool.

Isn't it! Everyone should watch it.

[FinnLassie]

Welp... I guess this year's Eurovision will be relatively tolerable, as Finland's entry is pretty damn awesome. First time since Lordi's victory that I've actually heard the song before the competition.

[Teddy]

So my friend made a thing.

That's pretty awesome, even though some more advanced artwork would've been cool (if a lot harder). It was fun to see the paint effects on the palette.

Bring alcohol. You poor, poor, poor sod. At least if you were watching it on the telly you could skip about ninety percent of it because of the holiday adverts. And maybe enjoy listening to Graham Norton/your resident snippy, snarky presenter who's quietly despairing over his hapless job.
But as is, you can only drink you way to not-quite-oblivion.

Well, if Finland is like Sweden, there won't be any adverts. Although the intermissions tend to be quite decent...

Although I still claim (quite adamantly) that the bad music is what makes ESC worth watching.

Isn't it! Everyone should watch it.

I... kind of might've watched my way through all of his works. Just by accident...

[Cuthalion]

So my friend made a thing.

That's... really awesome and kind of mesmerizing.

[AtlanteanTroll]

That's pretty awesome, even though some more advanced artwork would've been cool (if a lot harder). It was fun to see the paint effects on the palette.

I dunno, I think the neoplasticism went well with the Legos. But something more intricate surely would have been fun too

That's... really awesome and kind of mesmerizing.

I've watched it several times, and I'm not big on re-watching things.