The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

Ori, how do you pronounce your kid's name. I wanna see if the sounds my brain is making matches reality.

Brielle...it's pretty

Para — Oh, he's openly gay.

I listened to Erasure a lot in high school — it was like Depeche Mode for your good times. ;D

Two of my favorites: Love To Hate You and Star

And now for my delayed yearly Black Friday ritual - cranking the speakers up and blasting Megadeth's class Good Mourning/Black Friday.

I finally understand that feeling when they say an athlete's body is betraying them as they age.

That or pushing carts for 5 hours in under 40/4 degree weather was harder than I thought.

MY SKATEBOARD IS HERE!!!!! But it's dark outside so I can't do anything and my house is strategically arranged so I have maybe 5 feet of moving space max. Wahhh. Time to practice balance, I guess.

Lerad: Have fun, don't forget your helmet.

Ok time for Tuefel is getting older story. My brothers and I shared a skate board some off brand hunk of wood with generic wheels. However our sense of balance on it wasn't the best so we took to riding it like a wheeled luge. Now the thing to keep in mind is the semi-rural neighborhood, no longer so, was situated on a series of hills in a small pine forest. We would strap on helmets and sit on the board and go screaming down the hill leaning to either side to steer and breaking by sticking out your feet and dragging your heels or putting your hands down with gloves on.

We had two "runs" for this that we shared with the neighbor hood kids. The First started in front of our house.Seen here. Google Map Street level link. A few would go ahead and watch for cars since traffic at the time was very low it was seldom an issue.

Ok to understand the route follow the street downhill until you get to the sharp turn. That was the short fast route. Was great fun on bike or on the board. My parents disapproved of the board so we did it when they weren't there.

Now the long route was a lot more exhilarating and required watchers to make sure the street was clear for a much longer distance. It also required someone to give the rider a running start to make sure they had the momentum to make through the small dips in the hill until they could hit the next downslope. Course two You had to learn to shoot the curves crossing the street at just the right moment in an arc to help maintain momentum and not bleed too much speed. If you did it right you would make to the other course with some decent speed and go faster downhill. Was a lot easier on bike of course and we would sometimes start further up hill and then proceed down at higher speeds if we didn't have a pusher handy. Had to be careful of that intersection though.

At first the course was part of the imagination of being fighter pilots or starship pilots like in Star wars. Then when we got older it was about pure speed, adrenaline, and the challenge of who could navigate the course the best.

In the winter that upper hill made a bang up sledding hill but you seldom made it far on the flat part because of the friction of the snow.

That was over 20 years ago. The house is the same ugly colour as it was over 20 years ago. Same retaining walls and deck I helped my dad put in. Lost that house because the family fell on hard times and the earliest stages of the 2000 housing crash that were showing up in the late 90's were being seen. I miss the place and still have dreams about it sometimes. Mostly I miss the where the forests used to be. It is all more developed now and the woods thinned out from an ice storm and then steadily increasing housing developments. Don't ask whey I am in tree poor Nebraska.

edited 27th Nov '15 6:56:46 PM by TuefelHundenIV

^^^Gabre: Bree-ell.

For th record, Indiana is In-dee-ann-uh ;p But we just call him indy

Whoot! I got it right!!!

Very pretty indeed

I JUST GOT MYSELF A HOLIDAY PRESENT◊!!!!

This is the year I learn to move around in style, apparently. I wanted turquoise skates, but the roller derby shop is closing down. This red pair was the only one left in my size. So I got them, and I'm still THE HAPPIEST CAMPER RIGHT NOW!!

Lera: nice! Skates look badass.

In good news, found out two coworkers play tabletop games. A guy who also works in dairy, and a girl that works in bottling. Best part is the guy G Ms a game of Vampire that Masquerade and the girl and her friend play. So I've been invited to join, so I'm so totally gonna play a crazy Russian Malkavian.

Also means now I more or less have a good sized group interested to play Shadowrun.

edited 28th Nov '15 4:07:58 PM by MarkVonLewis

Hey that is good news man. Always good to find a gaming group.

Things Roller Skates Do Not Like:

Stairs
Really rough cement
THOSE BUMPY THINGS ON THE CURB AT A CROSSWALK

I literally had to give up less than five minutes from my apartment because I couldn't surmount those obstacles. Fuck. Time to practice.

edited 28th Nov '15 4:17:51 PM by Leradny

You CAN do really rough cement. (at least, I could in roller blades). I think with the bumpy things you may have to mince across on your toes...either that or carry a pair of flats in your backpack for long journeys and get used to lacing up.

Lera, you should join a roller derby. It's GREAT for emotions.

The skates look killer, Love them! Yuu should totally decorate them. I'm jelly.

Ah, I'm not going to join a derby, I'm not competitive enough. Looking around for plain old skating lessons, but they're all very far away, so I might just practice at my theater. The stage area is flat with risers instead of a raised stage, so it's reasonably safe.

Man, that makes me wish I skated more when I was a kid.

Goddamn, I used to be able to drink like five bottles of beer in one sitting during Freshman year and now one bottle makes me feel sick in stomach. DX

Wow, ok. You know how one small thing can completely screw up an awesome time? I just had a date at a... let's just say "alternative lifestyle party" with a smoking hot, whip-smart girl who I haven't seen in a while. 99% of it was awesome, but the other 1% means that the only thing going through my mind right now is how much I want to wring a certain creeper's neck.

edited 29th Nov '15 12:03:55 AM by KyleJacobs

So I picked up some Blue Moon seasonal Gingerbread Spiced Ale after work today and man this is tasty. It's not really sweet but you can taste the gingerbread kind of flavor.

And also my two coworkers both like my idea for a vampire character - a Russian veteran-turned-mercenary Malkavian vampire whose madness is occasionally having delusions that he is a soldier/warrior of another time period (i.e Celtic warrior, Red Army soldier at Stalingrad, Japanese Samurai, etc) and claims that due to reincarnation he has been in every major battle in history. Honestly the idea came to me while listening to Motörhead's "Death or Glory".

Sometime I want to play a character I worked out with a roommate in a game that dissolved before we could implement it. Another player had left the party (due to play style differences and real world drama), and we decided that my roommate's character would be affected by he loss of the cleric by having to make frequent Will checks, eventually revealing an evil personality that the cleric had been keeping at bay with magic.

Well, I tried to watch The Wind Rises. Based on the cover and the back, I had assumed it would be a charming adventure about Joseph Gordon-Levitt flying planes and falling in love. Then he started working for Nazis.

After spoiling myself, I've decided to watch it another time when I am prepared for Black and Grey morality and a downer ending.

Ooh, I like that idea.

So I have purpose-made a Tumblr called Anti Social Justice Rogue. The intent is to troll the more unreasonable and belligerent SJW types. Backstab their feelings for 8D6 damage.

That is the worst idea I have ever heard, and double the fact that you broadcasted it in advance.

Yeah in retrospect it is pretty lame. The lulz had were minimal. I deleted it and I shall return to Fallout 4.

Looking back this wasn't merely a half baked idea; the dough was still still in the damn packaging.

edited 29th Nov '15 7:13:09 PM by MarkVonLewis

Thank goodness you stopped before you embarrassed yourself.

Eh, I'm something of an expert on embarrassing myself. I've got it down to a science.