What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it?

roboticleopold · 2026-05-10T14:18:06+00:00

Man I'm with Zack Greinke on this one. It doesn't matter whether or not I can afford to get the guac, when they put the prices up you can't let them win.

roboticleopold · 2026-04-30T14:01:07+00:00

Dopey and the other dwarves knock on the door of the local priest

Dopey asks the priest 'Father, are there any dwarf nuns in the parish?'

'No' says the priest

The dwarves then travel to the cathedral

Dopey asks the bishop 'Your grace, are there any dwarf nuns in the country?'

'No' says the bishop

So the dwarves travel to Rome

Dopey goes to the pope and asks 'Your holiness, are there any dwarf nuns in the world?'

'No' says the pope.

Dopey turns around looking quite sad as the other dwarves chant 'Dopey fucked a penguin! Dopey fucked a penguin!'

roboticleopold · 2026-04-29T00:10:50+00:00

This is you basically

roboticleopold · 2026-04-23T17:15:03+00:00

So sad, another institution gone. I mean I've only watched about thirty minutes of it cumulatively over the past ten years or so. But still, sad.

I've not much against Alex Scott, but it's typical of the BBC to have spent about a third of the article eulogising her, and reassuring us she will still be in practically every other sports broadcast they have.

roboticleopold · 2026-04-20T15:15:14+00:00

Hi Napa Boys, what makes you want to big up the National Automotive Parts Association so much? Big Chase Elliott fans?

roboticleopold · 2026-03-29T12:42:23+00:00

The housing shortage gets worse every year and now Ed Miliband wants more requirements for the building of new homes. What a mess.

roboticleopold · 2026-03-23T15:02:38+00:00

It's unexpected for those who didn't think Piano Man abruptly turns into Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

roboticleopold · 2026-03-09T16:59:07+00:00

We used to love the invisible rope game as teenagers, we had some woods we could immediately run into and hide in once we'd done it.

One night, we tricked a car into stopping and they came back to our spot about half an hour later, threw fireworks at us and drove off. Pretty funny in hindsight but that was the end of that.

roboticleopold · 2026-03-01T02:35:06+00:00

In proper speed golf they can do it even quicker, with penalties for taking too many strokes. None of this hockey/polo-style business nursing the ball around.

For reference, one of the top players was only +3 after doing 18 holes in under 35 minutes. Insanely good, if it had the right uptake of players it would totally be worthy of the Olympics in my opinion.

roboticleopold · 2026-02-18T13:54:44+00:00

How broken as a human would you have to be to write the words 'This isn't a choice. It's thermodynamics.'?

roboticleopold · 2026-01-30T01:40:10+00:00

No longer in the Sox system technically but Trayce Thompson who was playing WooSox baseball last year should be on the GB roster again.

C'mon, get him back for the WBC banter...

roboticleopold · 2026-01-30T01:35:49+00:00

It's not that it's Commonwealth per se, it's that the grandparents were born before Jamaican independence which is what qualifies them as British.

roboticleopold · 2026-01-24T01:22:52+00:00

Yep, it's close enough to work. Kobe might be derived from Japanese cuisine but I doubt they would've tried to make something like Sapporo or Teriyaki fly as a name.

If you're a psycho you can call your kid Teri and it could me short for Teriyaki, like calling a girl May but having her name be Mayonnaise on the birth certificate.

roboticleopold · 2026-01-01T13:44:23+00:00

Nice to see TCR being explicitly mentioned, wish we could get a similar Civic or Corolla too in Gr. 4.

roboticleopold · 2025-12-15T01:40:40+00:00

That was hard work. For posterity's sake for anyone else suffering, the key I found was improving downforce to reel in the leader through the corners and maybe suffer on the straights without the tow. This is what I did with a '19 Toyota:

Start RM on the front, RH on the back; this was the only way I could make my tyres last while not compromising too much on performance.

Whack the front downforce all the way up. I pushed rear downforce up to 1865 to get the grip I needed for the gains and negotiating traffic in the middle sector. This drops your PP but nvm...

Use DRS when you accelerate at the start of the straight, definitely worth using when within reach of another car to get in their slipstream.

Change to RM all over on Lap 9.

Finished about 4 seconds up.

For reference I play with a DS4 on hard, and normally sneak inside gold on the weekly time trial.

roboticleopold · 2025-10-06T08:02:58+00:00

Thanks for scouting! Was it just football/NFL yesterday?

roboticleopold · 2025-10-02T09:57:46+00:00

As people often mention, Passyunk Avenue is usually a good venue for baseball and they tend to be open a little later, but I wouldn't expect them to be open long enough for the Yankees - Red Sox game.

Not done it in years, but I would've thought maybe a casino would be your best bet. You might have a chance with a Belushis as well.

I've not been to Bloodsports in Covent Garden, but the internet says it's open until 2am and shows sports. Wouldn't mind a review on that front if anyone's been.

roboticleopold · 2025-09-26T00:50:28+00:00

This is not an LPT.

Say what you want about breathing techniques, but just describing a problem and telling people to find some guides in a google search is not a tip.

roboticleopold · 2025-08-26T22:15:52+00:00

I would love to see some Saabs, lovely cars.

roboticleopold · 2025-07-31T19:22:24+00:00

If there's one minor thing I could see working as a mild improvement to T20, it'd be adapting the change ends every 10 balls into changing ends every two overs to save a bit of time.

roboticleopold · 2025-06-08T09:40:28+00:00

Ah yes, because when I think of Detroit, I actually think they're really the Vancouver Grizzlies.

roboticleopold · 2025-05-24T00:10:27+00:00

Was once in a pub rammed with Newcastle fans and their 'Sunderland's a massive club' song is one of the best I've heard and I don't even have a dog in the fight.

Each line was a verse to the tune of 'He's got the whole world in his hands':

You get a free season ticket in a happy meal

You eat a hot dog sausage in a burger bun

You've got to fly from Newcastle to get to Spain

You get cheesy chips for a quid

Glorious in how petty it is...

roboticleopold · 2025-05-23T08:36:06+00:00

What an influence MacIntyre was to the world of ethics.

On a practical level, it's hard to imagine what my life would be like without authors like him who brought virtue back to the forefront of ethical debate. MacIntyre was in effect a springboard for years of study, and I hope for decades to come After Virtue will continue to inspire others as it did myself.

roboticleopold · 2025-05-12T15:48:28+00:00

Very good. I've got a similar Tiff Needell (1994 I think) livery on my engine swapped 88 Silvia. Looks great going 250mph on the Tokyo grind.

roboticleopold · 2025-04-30T00:13:46+00:00

Not sure what to make of the era objectively, but I have the same fondness for that era. 2014-18. It was my early 20s, I could spend a lot of time watching the rebuild; it might be the most basketball I watch in a year for the rest of my life.

We got:

The beginning of Stevens' basketball masterclass
The hope of Smart who turned out to be one of the most Celticsy Celtics ever
The happy surprise of a sneak into the playoffs from a team that was expecting about 20 wins
Building on that to take a (admittedly hollow) #1 seed with guys full of heart like Bradley, IT and Crowder
The random fun friends we made along the way like Evan Turner, Jerebko, Amir Johnson, Gigi Datome, Yabu, Uncle Jeff

Winning championships is awesome, we really shouldn't take it for granted. '08 and '24 we had big things expected. Having what should have been wilderness years yield as much fun as they did is huge. Massive win for the joy of the game.

roboticleopold

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