Complete Randomness

[VelvetElvis]

High five, Jan! We can start an eyebrow pencil thread when we're old. On pweb 45.0.

[starlooker]

All the way. All the way.

That's what she said.

HAHAHAHAHA!

*snorts*

[Mich]

Adam if that is a Diamond Age reference I will kiss you. Everyone's all like "Woo, I read Snow Crash, I'm so awesome." And I'm like "Diamond Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage" and they're like "what?"

Also you guys do not want to start with the "That's what she said"s. I have to fight the urge to put one of those in almost every thread daily. Don't make it acceptable or it will happen.

[Syphon the Sun]

I have to fight the urge to put one of those in almost every thread daily. Don't make it acceptable or it will happen.

This.

[GS]

[VelvetElvis]

I love a good "That's what she said."

[locke]

Adam if that is a Diamond Age reference I will kiss you. Everyone's all like "Woo, I read Snow Crash, I'm so awesome." And I'm like "Diamond Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage" and they're like "what?"

Also you guys do not want to start with the "That's what she said"s. I have to fight the urge to put one of those in almost every thread daily. Don't make it acceptable or it will happen.

pucker up,

[Mich]

*smack*

I mean, not that it's actually rare, I guess; it's a pretty influential book in terms of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk, but still. Snow Crash gets tiresome sometimes.

[GS]

Given the crazy tension on Pweb the last couple days, I have added everyone to my Foe list!


*evil laugh*

[Wind Swept]

Given the crazy tension on Pweb the last couple days, I have added everyone to my Foe list!

*evil laugh*

Posts like these make me really wish we had a like button. I was perusing mods just now in search of one. The options are Facebook Like buttons—which is not what I want. I want it to say "Wind Swept liked..." not "Chris Fried liked..." nor do I want it to show up on my Facebook profile—or there are poorly translated Russion "Thanks" mods that need a lot of tweaking.

I'm thinking we could play with Pweb Stamp of Approval idea. As opposed to Liking posts, we could stamp them approved.

[VelvetElvis]

Yesterday, I got my flu shot. About an hour later my arm started to hurt pretty bad, and it still hurts today. I've never had a shot hurt this bad!

[locke]

I just watched contagion and now I want a flu shot. :-p

[LilBee91]

My roommate, who is from Georgia, tells me that everybody there pulls over for funeral processions. I have never seen this where I have lived. (Though, in all fairness, I don't know if I've actually ever seen a funeral procession...) Are Westerners jerks, or is the South just very polite and proper?

[VelvetElvis]

I would be horrified if I saw someone not pull over for a funeral procession.

[Syphon the Sun]

I would be horrified if I saw someone not pull over for a funeral procession.

Ditto.

[starlooker]

Likewise.

[neo-dragon]

I can't recall the last time I saw a funeral procession, so I don't even know what the common practice here is.

[neo-dragon]

*Double Post*

Can anyone else here wake up without opening their eyes?

[LilBee91]

I think I can. But maybe I just close them before I notice they were open.

[VelvetElvis]

I can!

[Luet]

My roommate, who is from Georgia, tells me that everybody there pulls over for funeral processions. I have never seen this where I have lived. (Though, in all fairness, I don't know if I've actually ever seen a funeral procession...) Are Westerners jerks, or is the South just very polite and proper?

I don't pull over, as in pull onto the shoulder. But if a funeral procession is going by, then everyone stops at intersections and red lights to let them go by unimpeded. Because really, once they start pulling out of where they are coming from, then they are all in one continuous line and the only people that need to stop are at intersections, right? Well, maybe there are more issues in cities but around here, there isn't much traffic.

[steph]

Everyone in my home town (except for a few jerks) always pulled over.

[VelvetElvis]

I pull over, pull over.

[Mich]

I've only seen one funeral procession, and I was in it, and it was in Minot, so of course everyone pulled over. I imagine only people in (relatively) small towns or cities have processions, and thus only people there need to pull over. But I may be overestimating the number of responses who currently exist in smaller towns.

As for waking up without opening your eyes, that's pretty much how I function by default. Although my mom always claimed she could tell whether I was awakened or not.

[Luet]

I feel like I'm defending myself because I'm not a rude driver and I would pull over for a funeral procession if I ever had the opportunity to, but what I was saying is that I've never HAD an opportunity to. Around here, if you happen to be near the cemetery when they start pulling out, then you stop to allow all of them to pull out and be in the procession together. Then, after they pull out they go 20mph or less so they never approach cars ahead of them on the road. If anything, there is lots of traffic backed up behind them. You are either way ahead of them, stuck behind them, or stopping at an intersection to let them go by.

[VelvetElvis]

The very thought of pie triggers my gag reflex and has since I was very young. I make that statement very literally.

[Claire]

[GS]

I imagine only people in (relatively) small towns or cities have processions, and thus only people there need to pull over.

Are you trying to say that people in large cities do not have funeral processions? That would be wrong.

Not only have I seen more funeral processions that I could count (probably in the hundreds), I have, unfortunately, been in more than I can count (probably close to 30). In Philadelphia, it is kind of an uneasy cohabitation of the road between funeral processions and normal drivers. Given the number of drivers on the road, the number of cars in the processions (some numbering over a hundred), and the fact most processions use main roads or highways; pulling over just isn't always and option nor is it practical. On side roads and single lane roads, people pull over for the most part. However some (most?) high volume roads in the suburbs are one lane and no shoulder. Trying to pull over here is actually more dangerous that not. I try to pull off on a side street, turn around and wait for the procession to pass or pull off and take an alternate route. There are two major highways that funerals typically travel. One, is essentially stop and go traffic from 6 AM until 7 PM, so you allow them to merge on, don't merge into them and then they are just stuck in the flow of traffic. The other highway, is more free flowing and more lanes. It is harder for the procession to stay together because they are traveling at higher speeds. Also a lot more people changing lanes. I once unintentionally ended up in a funeral procession on said highway. Needless to say, I felt like a giant dick.

Overall, driving in a funeral procession around here is dangerous. I have almost been hit multiple times. The stress of having to drive in one of these on a horrible day for everyone in procession makes going to a funeral even worse.

[Mich]

Are you trying to say that people in large cities do not have funeral processions? That would be wrong.

Well, I did say that I imagine it. I clearly was imagining a nonrealistic universe. Interesting that you've seen so many! I've seriously seen a single funeral procession ever, and I've lived in a moderately-sized city for most of my life. I can see how they'd be freaking scary.

[Luet]

When my husband moved here from California (Santa Cruz, a very touristy town with not much available land), he was freaked out by how many cemeteries there were here. I guess where he lived there just weren't that many because of the high cost and low availability of land. Maybe that also impacts how many funeral processions you see? I maybe see a couple a year but they are pretty small; 20-30 cars in each. I'm in a small town which is a far away suburb of a relatively small city.

[VelvetElvis]

My husband is singing in the shower. To the dog.

[GS]

he was freaked out by how many cemeteries there were here.

There is an intersection a couple blocks from the house that I grew up that has four different cemeteries on each corner. I bet that would have freaked him out. People always said it is the only such intersection in the US, but I never found out if that was actually true.

[Noodle]

he was freaked out by how many cemeteries there were here.

Around here the mortality rate is edging up around 100%.

There's a rather prominent cemetery in Milwaukee near Miller Park. As you drive into the city on the freeway it's on both sides of the interstate. The cemetery used to be right where the freeway is. It's an old cemetery and it is half military half public. They had to get permission to move all the deceased in order to put the freeway where it is. Now, they want to widen the freeway but there's no way that will happen because they aren't going to get permission twice.

I drive past another rather large cemetery all the time and I've only been stopped by a funeral procession once in 9 years. I assume they are fairly frequent occurrences (see above) but I must not be driving on the road at prime funeral times.

[starlooker]

Claire, that made me laugh out loud for real.

[steph]

he was freaked out by how many cemeteries there were here.

There is an intersection a couple blocks from the house that I grew up that has four different cemeteries on each corner. I bet that would have freaked him out. People always said it is the only such intersection in the US, but I never found out if that was actually true.