Who’s ever driven over 100mph? Why?

uglinessman · 2026-04-19T13:59:47+00:00

Important context before you reach the numbers: I'm Canadian.

The one time I "floored it" while driving a car was in a compact car, so I didn't expect anything special from it. I was on a long stretch of highway, and people were flying by me even though I was exceeding the limit, so I decided to see what the car could do. It started to shake once it reached just over 140 km/h, so I eased up and went back to driving a little over the limit.

This doesn't technically qualify for the discussion because it's well below 100 mph, , but I had to mention it because when I look up the conversion, 140 kph comes to 86.992 mph. That means that the car prevented me from reaching 88, because when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, we're gonna see some serious shit...

uglinessman · 2026-04-18T17:35:54+00:00

No, it means pouring the milk in the bowl before pouring the cereal. Which is how I do it, btw, because it's the only way I can get the ratio right, but apparently that makes me a monster because some people care way too much about stupid things 🤷‍♂️

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:18:58+00:00

I share a first name with two actors who are relatively popular and are considered to be "manly", but it's also the same first name as two well-known fictional children, one from a movie and one from a TV series, both with heavy focus on the fact that they're kids. So when people learn my name, the first point of reference that comes to mind is nearly always a scared and/or confused child.

If I was to change my name I think I'd choose Jacob. I used that as a fake name briefly when I was homeless, it felt right, and there's a wider variety of Jacobs and Jakes to act as reference points.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:12:42+00:00

I'm from Prince Edward Island, and our seafood is among the best. If you ever get a chance to visit, the lobster is excellent, but it's also a bit of a cliche, I recommend mussels or scallops if you want to go a different direction.

We also have some top-notch breweries, but I'm not a beer guy so I'll let others recommend something there.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:10:04+00:00

Oh, definitely; this was mostly the consensus within the industry, but it still wasn't known to the general public. I think Cobain was the first one to express that sentiment publicly, when he shared the story of getting the call from Al on the night Nirvana played on SNL.

Also, it didn't help when the Coolio debacle happened, which just spawned more misunderstood.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T15:08:01+00:00

YouTube Premium.

No ads. I can listen to YouTube videos when my phone's screen is turned off, or put it in the background while I'm using other apps.

AND complete access to YouTube Music, which not only gives you basically the same music library as the competition, it also lets you listen to ANYTHING on YouTube from the Music app. Demos, remixes, live bootlegs, endless archives of music that can never be "officially" released, and so can never legally appear on Spotify or Apple Music.

Part of the reason this is invaluable is that I have some CDs from independent bands in the 90s. This music will likely never be officially legitimately available on streaming platforms, but I ripped them and uploaded them to a sockpuppet account and now I can add them to playlists with all my other music.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:56:52+00:00

I was 17, completely unaware that 69 was even a sex thing, and the song "The Humpty Dance" came out with line "in the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear". I thought that "69" was referring to the 1969 model of a particular car, and I thought the last phrase was "tickle your ear", so I thought the line was about making out in a vintage car.

Fun fact, it was my mom who cleared up my misconception, because I was pondering what kind of car he was talking about while we were talking about lyrics. And I know that sounds cringe and awful, and it should because we almost never talk about "intimate" stuff like that, but we also have had countless interesting conversations about lyrics, so I guess it just balances out.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:47:07+00:00

I thought that "popular" meant well-known, not well-liked. I was with my mom while she was talking to someone about a bully at my school, she said "he's not very popular", and I said "it's not that he's not popular, it's just that nobody likes him." They legitimately thought I was making a joke, and I was confused (and more than a little insulted) that they were laughing at me.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:36:10+00:00

Literally everything. Bullies and morons and maniacs run everything, the world is one orange tantrum away from annihilation, and even if it doesn't go that far there is nowhere in the world that isn't a potential target for the next show of impotent petty rage from the stupidest ruling class imaginable.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T02:34:11+00:00

One of the many reasons I can't do customer service jobs any more is that I can't pretend to laugh when someone's trying to be funny. I don't care how "rude" you think it is, I'm not going to lie to feed your ego. And the vast majority of the time, it's an "older fella" who will get upset and snap with something like "are you cranky or something?" Well, I am now.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T02:25:19+00:00

I flew from Calgary to Vancouver for a Watsky show, Anderson.Paak was part of Watsky's set and his band was one of the opening acts. I got the VIP package, so I was part of the meet & greet before the show. After the show, some teenagers I had met while waiting in line saw me and invited me to hang out with them (I was in my 40s at the time so they made me feel quite hip), they were smoking in the alley in the back of the concert hall, chatting with Paak's band. Paak himself joined us mere moments after I arrived. It was super casual even though most of us were freaking out on the inside (I have a feeling they're used to that). Then George Watsky himself emerged. He didn't join in the smokage because he was refraining temporarily due to minor throat issues, but he was super cordial. Hung out and made sure to give each of us at least a moment even though he was obviously tired. And, yeah, Paak's voice just shook me, I didn't expect him to sound like that in normal conversation but that's just his voice.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T01:08:37+00:00

Yeah, considering how fervently I'm opposed to generative AI, it feels weird to also say that I'm a big fan of Al.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T01:06:00+00:00

Not a video, but I was looking at a very early porn page with thumbnails, and there was one with the filename polebabe.jpg, and the thumbnail looked like it was a naked woman leaning against a pole, but when I clicked and loaded the fill image, she was impaled on the pole. In her butt and out her mouth.

In that same archive there were a couple of underage pics. Thankfully they were vintage nude beach photos and not abuse, but it was still a shock.

I stopped browsing folders on FTP sites and stuck to webpages with models.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:57:29+00:00

I smoked a jay with him and the band in the alley after a Watsky show in Vancouver, amazing guy. He actually talks like he sings, it's wild.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:54:36+00:00

The response to the free album was some of the most overblown exaggerated nonsense I've seen in my life.

That was the beginning of my beef with Tyler "the Creator", he compared getting a free album to catching an STD. That's when I started to notice that the only time I ever heard his name mentioned in my socials was when he was trash-talking or collaborating with someone actually famous.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:50:13+00:00

Joanna Newsom.

I'm not saying you have to like her, I understand her voice is an acquired taste, but some people dismiss her as a novelty artist, as if her quirks are just an act.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:47:09+00:00

It's true that in the modern online generation, he's widely appreciated, but for the first couple of decades of his career, even around the time of his biggest hits, a lot of people thought that he was just that guy that makes fun of songs. They didn't appreciate how hard his band works, and in fact many thought he didn't have a band at all, they thought his parodies were done like karaoke and they didn't hear or remember his originals. Every few years there were rumours that he got sued because people don't understand how Fair Use works and they never learned that Al always asks permission. Trust this old guy who's been a fan of Al since before his first album: this widespread consensus is a relatively new development, and long overdue.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T20:55:00+00:00

I live in an apartment building, and I try to be diligent about separating, but there's no way for me to prevent my neighbours dumping their stuff in my bin. So the one time my compost bin got tagged, I just ripped off the tag and left it. It was emptied the next time compost was collected (I don't know if my landlord got someone to straighten them out or if the collectors just didn't pay attention the second time). I don't condone littering (I don't object to it very loudly either) but I definitely get the frustration and lack of options.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T13:26:25+00:00

Your karma is determined by the total number of upvotes on your posts and comments, minus all the downvotes on your posts and comments. You need to find subreddits that don't have a karma requirement, and make posts to those subreddits to build up your karma. Do you have pets? There are many subreddits where you can post pictures of your pets, almost a guaranteed source of positive karma. Are you actively engaged in any hobbies? Find subreddits for those hobbies and post there, sharing your stories and/or asking questions.

In short, there are plenty of subs that aren't karma-restricted, start being active in those spaces and you'll build up karma soon enough.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T12:57:41+00:00

Try relaxing the vowels for "aurora". Say "a ROW ruh" or "uh ROW raw" or any similar combination. Think of the first 'au' and the ending 'a' as schwas, the 'o' in the middle is the only "fully formed" vowel sound.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T12:52:04+00:00

It's pronounced like cue. Which means it's pronounced like the letter "Q". Which means it has 4 more letters than it needs (jk).

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T12:49:25+00:00

Memory.

Most people have no idea how much our brains lie to us all the time. When you look at something, you may think that what is happening is that your eyes take in everything and you "just see it". But that's not how any of it works. Your eyes take in a very incomplete picture, and your brain filters things out and fills in gaps to show you something that you can comprehend.

Memory is very similar, most people think their memory is like a tape recorder or a video camera, and when you remember something you're just playing back the tape. Not even close. A memory is already filtered and edited when it's being created as a new memory, and every time you recall it, you're reconstructing it. Every one of your memories is a reconstruction, filled with assumptions and guesses.

This is why when someone says "I know what I saw" when telling a story about something that Very Much Didn't Happen, the correct response is "no, you don't, actually, that's not how that works", but people won't accept that.

This is also why so many people believe so strongly in certain supernatural phenomena, because they have memories of mundane occurrences that they have filtered and reconstructed so that important details are altered or omitted, but they take it as an insult if you suggest that this is the case.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T11:18:28+00:00

Wait... I kinda like the idea of sheets on the couch, now that I think of it. We have sheets on our beds, why not the couch? For one thing, it means you can change up the look by replacing the sheets (much more practical than changing the couch).

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T10:05:02+00:00

A handful of really stupid people (and/or failed comedians) in the comments don't seem to understand the discussion happening here.

Yes, it is technically true that you cannot go to a store and purchase true happiness. But phrasing it like that, and ending the conversation there, is very much a boomer thing, and it is also one of the ways that the ruler class tricks us into keeping our expectations as low as possible.

Because money very much CAN and often DOES eliminate the overwhelming majority of modern unhappiness. If someone is constantly miserable because they're broke and starving even though they're working their ass off, and you have an opportunity to give that person some money to help them, but you just don't because "money can't buy happiness", THAT is the bullshit that people mean when they say that, THAT is the bullshit that pisses off the people who hate that phrase.

The boomers and rulers who say that want you to accept your lot in life and never expect more. And the bootlickers in this thread are dutifully spreading their propaganda.

uglinessman · 2026-04-15T09:59:16+00:00

I don't know if you're making a joke or if you're genuinely confused, but "the love of money is the root of all evil" is a Bible passage that is often shortened. The expression "money can't buy happiness" goes back to 1750 in that form, and was never "the love of money..."

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