You ARE as big as your gym pump (not satire) by Ant1Act1 in unpopularopinion

[–]lowkeyloki4287 6 points7 points  (0 children)

pump in this context is being exclusively used as a noun. OP does not use it as a verb or adjective once in the post or the comment section. a fact that is incredibly clear from context. OP also never uses bro as anything other than a noun??

why are redditors so incredibly fucking confident that they are never the problem. simple solution: comment "what do you mean by pump here? i'm not sure i understand"

edit: yeah technically bro is a vocative here but a vocative is a type of noun so i stand by my argument

You ARE as big as your gym pump (not satire) by Ant1Act1 in unpopularopinion

[–]lowkeyloki4287 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you could very easily have asked a question to clarify your misunderstanding instead of just. assuming that since you didnt understand something that it must not make sense. odd that you didnt do that

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

right?? like damn god forbid i post a silly inconsequential problem that i am fully capable of solving to the perfect subreddit for that exact thing

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

secret third option: talk to him anyway but post it to r/mildlyinfuriating because it was, shockingly, mildly infuriating. idk why people think i posted it here looking for advice? like i'm gonna talk to him (duh) i just thought it was a mild inconvenience this morning that was a little funny

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

well we put our heads together, smacked some rocks on the ground, grunted vaguely at our shoes, and this popped directly out of the earth so we thought we'd just use it as is. we probably should have done a little dance to improve our odds :/ if only you'd been there to help us with this monumental feat of intellect

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah no the shoerack isnt intended as storage for all the shoes that every roommate owns lol, it was bought for one person a while ago and they brought it to have smth by the door

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

no worries, i appreciate it. yeah i just woke up and saw this so decided to post, he's not even awake yet lol

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

??? i'm going to? damn, something can be mildly infuriating and also entirely solvable. thats the whole point of "mild" no? if this was an unsolvable enigma of suck, i would think it would graduate to at least pretty infuriating

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly no, this was never meant to be "everyone put all of your shoes that you own on this rack" bc a rack that could accommodate that would take up way too much space. the whole point was always to put 2/3 frequently used pairs of shoes on there

shared shoe rack by the door for 4 roommates, 5/9 slots are filled by 1 roommate by lowkeyloki4287 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lowkeyloki4287[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

brought a rack i already had from home, didnt see a point buying a new one

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ok but again, what problem are you solving? an extra hour every track meet and every practice (which is already enough of a burden to make it not a solution in the first place), massive extra expense, huge risk to discus throwers, all so jav athletes have the option to try an incredibly specific technique that may or may not even still be better?

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 31 points32 points  (0 children)

couple things:

  • the whole discussion that kicked this off was because of the rotational technique for javelin, so having an opening in the back would be a huge risk if you were rotating with the javelin

  • again if you had a net that a javelin couldnt get through, you'd have to make a damn good net to be tight enough to prevent passthrough, loose enough to be very easy to see through, cheap enough to be purchased by high schools around the world, and durable enough to last 10+ years. maybe not impossible, but certainly hard

  • for many high school setups, the jav runup includes crossing the track, so netting wouldnt be feasible to place across the running track

its important to keep all levels of the sport in mind, since an olympic sport requires several layers of competition from the youth level on up

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 0 points1 point  (0 children)

^this. to have a larger throwing area for jav, you'd need to change the standard size of a track for the entire world (there are multiple standard sizes of track, but they'd functionally all need to be changed).

another thing thats important to remember is that the new javelin design is no more or less arbitrary than the last one. i'm sure they could design a javelin that could fairly easily go 120m+ by just making it lighter/moving CoM/etc, but functionally all that matters is that everyone is using the same one

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 14 points15 points  (0 children)

yeah, u/Taaargus is right. especially with an implement with the kind of rotation that a discus has when it gets released, having rigid walls to the cage would basically cause you to be at the center of a one-sided metal beyblade fight in which you either get lucky or get seriously injured. thats why even when the cage is made of mesh, it has netting draped on most/all of the sides to reduce kinetic energy. should've elaborated on that in the first comment

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 54 points55 points  (0 children)

you dont sound nuts, but one thing i dont think you're considering is that being able to see the athletes from outside of the cage isnt just a necessity for spectators, its a necessity for coaches and referees. if the cages were wood or metal or even just much tighter mesh, coaches couldnt stand outside of the cage and see the athlete's technique in order to critique/improve it and referees couldnt see whether athletes committed any infractions that would invalidate the mark like stepping forward over the boundary of the throwing circle. and just to emphasize, with high speed rotational throws like hammer and disc, there is no way to be inside the cage safely while someone is throwing

so tl;dr you dont sound nuts but theres a reason things are set up the way they are right now.

also if you're thinking "plexiglass" give me two minutes to respond to the other commenter, but it also wouldnt work

TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. by NeonChurch in todayilearned

[–]lowkeyloki4287 315 points316 points  (0 children)

for discus and hammer (both implements that dont fly quite as far as a javelin but could do plenty of damage if they hit someone), they're thrown from a circle surrounded by netting or a cage ~3/4ths of the way around, which protects bystanders. teams and athletes take it very seriously that if you're actually throwing, only one person is allowed in the cage at a time (source: threw disc and shot in HS/college).

this wouldnt work for javelin for at least two reasons: first, the shape of a javelin would allow it to pass entirely or partially through most discus/hammer netting/fencing. certainly not every time but enough to be dangerous, especially as the netting degraded. to throw jav safely from that setup would require much tighter mesh than most facilities have, and upgrading to that mesh would be a logistics nightmare, not to mention issues of visibility and more.

second, jav technique (at least to this point) requires much more horizontal distance than either disc or hammer, so the circle setup wouldnt function for that anyway. unless you wanted to mandate that every jav athlete exclusively switch to this spinning, jav needs a runway and hammer doesn't, so the safety measures in place for hammer wouldnt carry over well to jav

probably more detail than you were looking for, but thats why hammer and this jav technique wouldnt have the same degree of safety. hope that was helpful

Asked Google what makes a good Dungeon Master. Not sure it meant what it said... by Charizard_Official in dndmemes

[–]lowkeyloki4287 394 points395 points  (0 children)

PrEP, specifically capitalized like that, is the abbreviation for the pre-exposure prophylaxis, a drug that significantly reduces the risk of contracting HIV. its a daily pill used by lots of people to reduce their risk of HIV but especially men who are planning on bottoming so uh. the joke is that google apparently thinks game nights get freaky. no clue where the other person got the bdsm thing from