GabesCavesOfIce

This is you having fun
No crisis
Getting burned by the sun
This is true
This is no social crisis

On 4/1/2024 at 10:47 AM, That One Guy said:

Save the drive by posting for SOCN. 
 

If what you believe can be backed up by words, use your words. 

I didn't raise the c word, but thanks for commenting. 

18 hours ago, goose said:

Thank a conservative.  

For conditions creating the need for squatters...thank you!

16 hours ago, That One Guy said:

Dude you’re talking to someone with a neuropathy himself. 
 

Car dependent areas are unwalkable. Walkable areas are still plenty driveable. 
 

Having three transportation choices is better than one. 

Much too young tog. 

8 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

A lot of elderly people are afraid of driving or completely unable to. Creating areas that are utterly car dependent is a huge middle finger to the elderly, disabled, children, and any adult under 250 lbs. 

 

There are no societal negatives to trading car-only places for places where the car is simply one of 3+ options. 

As someone with unexpected knee and back issues, and that's after 50+ years of zero problems in those areas, including walking a mile or two a day, vitamins daily... I can think of quite of a few senior citizens who cannot deal with a walkable neighborhood in any way shape or form.

I would have loved it two or three years ago for sure. That's why I say wait 40 or 50 years to the Millennials and gen Z's,  perception will change when the nerves tell you something different than what they are telling you now

On 3/28/2024 at 11:37 PM, Timbale said:

This might sound snarky...but I don't mean it to - I think there was some mythologizing around R40 and the idea that they were going out "at the top of their game".  Certainly Geddy wasn't in peak form as a vocalist...and I think Alex had some less than stellar moments on that tour as well.  As for Neil...I think he played very competently, as always...but there had been a fire missing for quite a few tours, I think.  I say that so that you don't beat yourself up too much on missing the tour.  It was a pretty great set list, especially the 2nd half...but it's quite likely you saw a better tour.  

Yes their playing was not at its peak in R 40, but that setlist was the best setlist in decades for those fans who appreciate '70s Rush more than '80s rush. That was the setlist I waited 30 years for.

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

Conservatives overdosing on copium

 

a true epidemic 

FMN

On 3/28/2024 at 6:06 PM, That One Guy said:

There's no such thing as "free parking", there's just parking with the cost baked into the price of what you're there for. And a steep cost it is!

 

If anyone loves free parking everywhere they go, I 100% don't want to hear them bitch about the reasonable concept of public transit not charging at the point of consumption.

The younger generation  strongly believes that we can save the planet with better Urban Design.

While that may be true, just wait 40-50 years, then tell me how much you want  walkable neighborhoods versus driving to where you need to go.

On 3/21/2024 at 5:15 PM, jamie said:

My boyfriend wants to look into being an online juror for mock trials, and I might try it too. It seems like a legit source of passive income from home, even if it doesn't bring in tons of money.

Bull approves

On 3/17/2024 at 9:31 AM, JohnRogers said:

moist 

David Usher 

On 1/15/2024 at 11:30 AM, stoopid said:

They're both Prog bands.  Both are rooted in heavy guitars and slamming drums.  There's certainly similarities.  The important stuff in Prog is in the details though, and digging below the surface how each band goes about their business is entirely different and the results reflect that.  Tool's popularity (and arguably their genius) is taking complex rhythmic patterns and making them consumable by the masses.  They've released a fraction of albums that Dream Theater has but have sold more copies (I think by a wide margin, too).  They've made Prog that the masses can consume.  If for that alone, as a Prog fan, I would be grateful for their contributions. But I also happen to like Tool (since Undertow) and appreciate the development in their sound since their earliest records.

5 albums in 32 years and they are all elite. Their standards for release are impressive.

Imagine a world where Rush expanded their prog from Hemispheres and didn't hurry towards "adult accepted formats" that the "inteligencia" wanted from them. Thats Tool.

On 3/16/2024 at 1:41 PM, jamie said:

Apparently Minneapolis got hit with only a couple bad blizzards this year, which is very odd, and kind of alarming. I'm sure Minneapolis residents were happy with it, but it's not something to celebrate.

3 mild winters in a row here on lawn guy land, first snow in 24 months amounted to 3 inches, great for my aging knees and back but terrible sign for the earth.  Dont tell soakin, they'll deny it from the Flat Planet Café.

On 3/15/2024 at 6:38 PM, That One Guy said:

That's just something hicks afraid of cities say

Johny Hickman agrees.

On 3/15/2024 at 4:12 PM, Mr. Not said:

a few years ago i felt guilty about using amazon so much since it kills independent american retailers, but now i feel like i'm noble for using it instead of aliexpress.

 

...but i am also considering starting an aliexpress for certain things

Amz is building an electric fleet, so you're saving the planet 

2 hours ago, That One Guy said:

Unless you inherited six figures or are a double-doctor-income household, having kids is quite the luxury expense for late millennials and later.

 

I feel like the dead last young generation where it was possible to buy a home without inheritance, and it took serious work. I couldn't afford my own home today

So...

When are you having kids?

10 minutes ago, JohnRogers said:

Yeah, the Tick Tok thread says you’re wrong again. 

DJT will be the best dictator America ever had. 

On 3/8/2024 at 11:12 AM, That One Guy said:

JR, it's a blow to the "you're a calm reasonable collected guy" angle when you go liking batshit retarded KJ posts. Makes me sad. You don't see me slapping like on deranged Taurus posts. 

 

Unless you really think trains and apartments are an inside conspiracy to enslave humanity lol

It's not that the comments tend to be "batshit" as you say its they all drool over him and climb over each other to compliment him.

And the other chap, very nice guy, lawyered me heavy on the biden China thing. A couple weeks later, turns out the star witness was literally a putin plant. Unreal.

Songs 1 to 5 are great for me, because there is no such thing as bad early Rush

As far as disc 2, have at it! I recall  a few times Good News First comes on the random play,  wait what, Rush has a song by this name?

23 hours ago, That One Guy said:

I would take that deal. Doubling their pay would be cheaper for society than mass stock market manipulation and corruption. Pay them 4x what we currently do if lobbying is forbidden.

He was the senator that profited a couple million dollars right before covid started crashing the markets in 2020

On 2/3/2024 at 11:06 PM, That One Guy said:

The fact the powers that be don’t even have to acknowledge Nancy Pelosi and husband having arguably the best performing portfolio in history is a sign of utter dysfunction. They should be required to disclose their stock moves in real-time, not on a delay. 
 

Actually, members of congress and their spouses should be barred from stocks. Period. 

Probably need to pay them more if no stock appreciations.

Now do Richard Burr please.

On 1/21/2024 at 7:21 PM, jamie said:

potatoes, eggs, onions, hotdogs, flour, sugar, butter, tomato sauce and oil go so far

Ein halbes Pfund Butter
Ein Teelöffel Vanillezucker
Ein halbes Pfund Mehl
Einhundertfünfzig Gramm gemahlene Nüsse
Ein wenig extra Staubzucker
... und keine Eier

(Continuing Tool theme)
 

On 1/20/2024 at 1:04 PM, Mr. Not said:

whenever jethro tull comes on at work i say, "nice, tull" and idk why i got into that habit, because it soudns like "tool", which is a completely different band

Bastille Day
Beneath, Between & Behind
I Think I'm Going Bald
By-Tor & The Snow Dog
In the End
Making Memories
Anthem
The Fountain of Lamneth
The Necromancer
Lakeside Park
Best I Can
In the Mood
Fly by Night

...

Working Man
Drum Solo

According to setlist.fm

Quote

Quote

 

 

On 1/15/2024 at 12:49 PM, That One Guy said:

yokels when a train project runs way over budget and schedule, every time: rabble rabble bitch and moan

 

yokels when a road project runs way over budget and schedule, every time: ohhh it's just one of those things

It won't go away.

Defamed.