The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • I use public transport a lot more often now that there is a train

    cuz I guess on some level I'm still super hype about trains
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    At campus I have to park on the far end of campus and travel a mile and a half to my classes so you can bet I take the campus buses 95% of the time.

    Once I get my bike fixed up that might change.
  • Haven said:

    Doot doot doot
    Actually taking the bus on the weekend
    doooooooot

    (female announcer voice) Next stop: Princess Alice's Palace
    All roads lead to the Palice
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Hee hee, "Palice"

    ALSO while I'm thinking about it

    Do the buses where y'all live have pull cords or push bars to request a stop?
  • They have pull cords but also little red buttons on the bar by the back door
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Tories are planning to scrap free school meals.

    #feedtherichtothepoor

    And for fun, here's a direct quote from their manifesto: "We will support families by providing free meals to all infants."
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Haven said:

    They have pull cords but also little red buttons on the bar by the back door

    That's how most of ours are now, too.

    The older ones still have the push bars, though.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Meanwhile, the University's buses stop at every stop, which makes the cords/bars completely useless. :P
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Oh ffs

    they are evil, and they don't care
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    every few days it's another damn thing
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    . . . i shouldn't jump to conclusions

    all kids get free school meals now, so maybe this won't apply to families below the poverty line

    i hope it won't, anyway
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Page is abbreviated p. Makes sense.

    But "pages" is abbreviated pp. Why?
  • kill living beings
    because it's more than one page c'mon try to keep up
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Is that really it? Double the abbreviation to indicate there's more than one? That seems kind of absurd, somehow.
  • kill living beings
    nah i have no idea lemme check, i'm guessing it's some latinism we've all forgotten
  • kill living beings
    In some languages, the convention of doubling the letters in the acronym is used to indicate plural words: for example, the Spanish EE. UU., for Estados Unidos ('United States'). This old convention is still followed for a limited number of English abbreviations, such as SS. for Saints, pp. for the Latin plural of 'pages', paginae, or MSS for 'manuscripts'.
    wow i was double right
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    holy crap, DOUBLE right
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    not gonna lie this seriously weirds me out

    like "there's more than one, so i'll write it twice!" seems like four-year-old logic to me, not something that should be in formal writing
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    granted, i'm biased because I always resented that we can't just use "pg." and "pgs." in formal writing the same way we do in informal writing because ~tradition~ or whatever
  • kill living beings
    well i mean it's actually how some languages indicate plurals

    burmese sometimes, japanese sometimes (hito = person, hitobito = people)
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Language is still pretty arbitrary.  i mean, i don't see how doubling it is any less logical, or mature, than stripping out the vowels.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    well i mean it's actually how some languages indicate plurals

    burmese sometimes, japanese sometimes (hito = person, hitobito = people)

    ...touche.

    I'll just concede ignorance on this one, I suppose.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Kids don’t need to learn that the real world is unfair and they just have to deal with it.

    Kids need to learn that the real world is unfair and it’s their duty to do everything they can to make the parts they can control a little bit more fair.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I suppose I have this idea of a personified Truth that plays favorites and picks on certain people.  Like reality is a rigged game.

    So, in the fact of a game that is rigged, I would like to refuse to play, and instead kick over the table of ideas and opinions and just yell "INDULGE ME".  Either that, or not ply in the first place, which means either agreeing with what anybody says, or keeping silent when I disagree.

    I mean just once, just flipping ONCE, I'd like to be right and everyone who disagreed with me to have been terribly wrong.  Something so I can be on the other side of this dogpile, and so my stupid whim defines reality, and so I get to gloat and laugh at the people who foolishly disagreed with me.

    Like, a moment where everyone goes all, "aw, dang, Aliroz was right all along!  Marijuana is responsible for global warming and our frequent f-bombs caused the hole in the ozone layer.  Nutella is not actually delicious.  Steven fry's voice isn't actually all that easy on the ears!  Alcohol is yucky and disease can be avoided by not showering ever"!

  • You're probably right about alligators pretty often.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You were right about getting President McKinley's name off Denali
  • when I heard about the Denali thing I immediately thought of Aliroz
  • edited 2015-09-06 22:14:32
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Yeah, but that's when I've done research and studied and stuff.  That's when I've served Truth, rather than the other way around.

    I want my stupid ideas to redefine reality, as though my emotions can fundamentally alter the state of existence.

    I am pretty psyched about the Denali thing.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    naney said:

    when I heard about the Denali thing I immediately thought of Aliroz

    Me too.
  • Aliroz said:

    Yeah, but that's when I've done research and studied and stuff.  That's when I've served Truth, rather than the other way around.


    I want my stupid ideas to redefine reality, as though my emotions can fundamentally alter the state of existence.
    I mean you're not alone in this.

    I would love for homophobes and transphobes etc. to disappear so I can stop hiding my identity like some kind of war criminal, but you know.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Aw man, homophobes and transphobes should totally stop being homophobes and transphobes.  Or maybe stop being.

    Well, it's comforting to know that my desires are shared by other people.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    what is Truth
  • edited 2015-09-06 22:26:06

    Time's roommate that she has a slightly awkward unspoken crush on
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    1. 1. Oh say, what is truth? 'Tis the fairest gem
      That the riches of worlds can produce,
      And priceless the value of truth will be when
      The proud monarch's costliest diadem
      Is counted but dross and refuse.
    2. 2. Yes, say, what is truth? 'Tis the brightest prize
      To which mortals or Gods can aspire.
      Go search in the depths where it glittering lies,
      Or ascend in pursuit to the loftiest skies:
      'Tis an aim for the noblest desire.
    3. 3. The sceptre may fall from the despot's grasp
      When with winds of stern justice he copes.
      But the pillar of truth will endure to the last,
      And its firm-rooted bulwarks outstand the rude blast
      And the wreck of the fell tyrant's hopes.
    4. 4. Then say, what is truth? 'Tis the last and the first,
      For the limits of time it steps o'er.
      Tho the heavens depart and the earth's fountains burst,
      Truth, the sum of existence, will weather the worst,
      Eternal, unchanged, evermore.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I like naney's answer
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I hate these fawning genuflections to The Simpsons
  • thing is not even a thing that happens

    or it shouldn't 8e

    it is a 8ad stupid non-color-having thing
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Odradek said:

    I hate these fawning genuflections to The Simpsons

    ?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Model: Alicorn PrincessBook 2230
    OS: Windows 9 Ultimate (37-bit)
  • There's a small furry gray thing in my room. It mews at me every so often.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Vriska said:

    There's a small furry gray thing in my room. It mews at me every so often.

    it's a lesser spotted fluffspider
  • Vriska said:

    There's a small furry gray thing in my room. It mews at me every so often.

    it's a lesser spotted fluffspider
    Ah, that makes sense!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Things I hadn't noticed until now: the thread-closing button is hidden in the cog menu now.

    That just shows you how infrequently I close threads.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    close reality. embrace the void, eternal and perfect.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Anonus said:

    Odradek said:

    I hate these fawning genuflections to The Simpsons

    ?
    I hate them
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