Stuff not worthy of its own thread
I've suggested this a few times and haven't got much response, so - I guess I'll try it. The neg-bangs or pos-bangs will tell me if it was a good idea or not. Some of the other forums I visit on a daily basis have a thread like this, it helps get rid of the 'my dog has a leaky ass' threads.
Whenever someone post something that gets discussion and/or debate going, the mods can start a new thread so we can talk about it there. But typically, these threads are just a bunch of rambling (which most of the OT threads here are) that get a few responses before the subject dies.
I’m not suggesting that we use this thread for good OT threads that get very interesting and get lots of replies, like the ‘movie line’ threads etc. Just for basic, off the wall random observations, bitching, non-bitching, or for thoughts that, well, aren’t worthy of their own thread.
I’ll start
January 21st, 2010 at 9:29 PM ^
i liek pie :)
January 21st, 2010 at 9:35 PM ^
How old is the youngest person on this blog I've always wanted to know how many younger people are blogging.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:36 PM ^
I'm 19, but there are a few high school age folks here too.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:57 PM ^
I'm 29 but most days I feel like I'm 8. My girlfriend tells me I act like it too.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:14 PM ^
I graduated in 1987 from U of M. There, I said it. Even though I'm old enough to be the mom of the 19 year-old (freaky), I still went to fan day last year and stood in line for an hour to get all the QB's to sign my son's baseball cap, and was totally psyched to talk to all of them (Denard was the friendliest).
I think my son is the youngest on here - he's 9. I have no idea what his user name is. He's already hiding shit from me.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:39 AM ^
And you, ma'am, are an amazing woman. I thought this was a dude-only forum, and you have asploded that myth. Shame on me.
I wish my mother was as cool as you, and I can only pray that I marry a woman as tolerant as you are of my internet tendencies. As reductionistic as it might sound: double-X-chromosome + understanding of my internetz tendency = marriagebait
Again: thank YOU for your service.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:46 AM ^
My daughter is a Sophmore at KU Wendy...Tell your son he can have her Facebook once he completes his Michigan MBA.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:06 AM ^
I'm barely 17, but my twin brothers who are 14 occasionally post on here.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:48 PM ^
When I started driving, I could fill up for $.89/gallon any day of the week. That was 8 years ago. I filled up today for $2.55
January 21st, 2010 at 10:04 PM ^
I think you meant eighteen years ago.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:14 PM ^
You know, I was going to say the same thing. I started driving in '95 and gas was around .89 back then, but I thought it was around 2.50 eight years ago, that was like right after 911.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
which was in January 1997, gas was $.99, and I was PISSED. Went to Briarwood and window shopped, cuz I spent all my dough on gas.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:23 PM ^
I vaguely remember a gas war in late 90's where gas slipped to less than a dollar a gallon. But if I remember correctly it did not last for any length of time.
The last time I remember a whole year where gas stayed under a dollar a gallon would have been late 80's early 90's.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:14 PM ^
I fail the interwebs.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^
cuz I started driving 10 years ago and gas was over a dollar a gallon then.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 AM ^
I lived at the source. Houston still had gas under a dollar right until I turned 17 in late 2002.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
of the thread.
But I'm drinking a Mike's Hard Lemonade and have no shame in doing so.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:48 PM ^
have balls to admit such an atrocity.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
Nothing wrong with that. Social norms or no, if it tastes good, you should be able to drink it.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:30 PM ^
I'm too old to act "cool." And I'm pretty sure drinking a Mike's on thursday night is as uncool as it gets, but it did taste great.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 PM ^
Classic Kids in the Hall
January 21st, 2010 at 10:57 PM ^
I'm old enough to remember when gas was 35 cents a gallon,
and I could buy a sixpack of Bud for $1.92, shortly before
we had to pay the 10 cent deposit.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:04 PM ^
No, not that kind.... I mean fuel... Remember when we had the blackout a few years ago? It was actually fun for a bit and then not being able to shower, buy food, or see virtually anything after the sun went down got old.
I luckily had full tank of gas so I drove to see some friends in Chicago.. So worth it..
January 21st, 2010 at 11:10 PM ^
I was in the middle of watching Pirates of the Caribbean. So F that blackout. OF COURSE it would start in Ohio.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:31 PM ^
was a result of something that happened in New York...
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:15 AM ^
That's the vast Ohio-wing conspiracy and its propaganda machine telling you that. I quote the Wikipedia article:
In February 2004, the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force released their final report, placing the main cause of the blackout on FirstEnergy Corporation's failure to trim trees in part of its Ohio service area.
Blackout sequence of events, August 14, 2003[15][16][17] (times in EDT):
12:15 p.m. Incorrect telemetry data renders inoperative the state estimator, a power flow monitoring tool operated by the Ohio-based Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO). An operator corrects the telemetry problem but forgets to restart the monitoring tool.
1:31 p.m. The Eastlake, Ohio generating plant shuts down. The plant is owned by FirstEnergy, an Akron, Ohio-based company that had experienced extensive recent maintenance problems.
The problem kept getting worse in Ohio due to overgrown trees, inattentive operators, and such, and about two and a half hours later the Ohio system tried to gank 2 gigawatts of power from the Michigan system all at once, which caused the cascading effect and shut down everything within about five minutes. So you see.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
It was actually fun for a bit and then not being able to shower, buy food, or see virtually anything after the sun went down got old.
I was in the middle of an epic 1v1, 50 cup vs. 50 cup beer pong game when the sun went down during the blackout. We both had to pull our cars next to the table and rely on the headlights. I don't remember much after that, other than standing on the hood of my own car and urinating on the windshield.
Not my proudest moment.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:18 PM ^
I'm in Arizona and there was just a tornado spotted in northeast Phoenix/Scottsdale. I don't think I can explain how bizarre that is.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 AM ^
and it is really really really fucking bizarre. Not to mention all of those tornadoes in SoCal, which is just unreal. This is definitely the first time I've ever seen a tornado watch in the Mojave desert, and also the first time I've ever seen a tornado watch and a blizzard watch in the same county simultaneously (Greenlee in SE AZ).
[/nerdy science rant]
Also, is it weird that I just got excited about someone talking about the weather on mgoblog?
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:03 PM ^
You may want to consider GBMW, they have doppler over there.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^
didn't graduate from UM. I went to Kenyon College in the smallest town in Ohio. My dad and uncle both received their Graduate degrees from Michigan. I guess I could have gone on as a legacy, but at the time, I didn't think I could hack the academics and shear size of the place. (My H.S. class was only 83).
For those that don't do math, I'm 45, my 5'2" son is 11.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:22 PM ^
Can it be half of each?
January 21st, 2010 at 11:39 PM ^
According to Webster's New World Dictionary (the source for me and most other journalists I know), pecan should have a long "e": pee-con or pee-kan.
That's good because that's how I say it, and I don't intend to change.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 AM ^
What's with the yard barker options at the top of the page? did brian say something about it and i missed it?
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:28 AM ^
yeah, I'm really curious about this too.
One of my favorite things is when you turn the tv on to the right channel and at exactly the start of show you wanted to watch, no commercial wait. bzzt> "The Simp-sonnsss"
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:31 AM ^
I currently have a Sony Ericsson, which has been a great phone, but want to upgrade to a blackberry or something similar. Anyone have the BlackBerry Curve 8310? If so, what's your thoughts, opinions on it.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:24 AM ^
Man, it takes serious commitment to keep up with this thread!
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 AM ^
I hate writing a paper that you have no interest in and could care less about. It just feels like dragging your knuckles over broken glass and in the end means jack shit because it's going to be a crap paper and you'll never read it/use it again.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:51 AM ^
Women who dont perform Oral Sex frustrate me.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^
who perform Oral Sex on other women turn me on
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^
Heterosexual men who dont perfrom oral sex dont deserve to be called a Michigan Man.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:54 AM ^
How many hours a week do the most frequent posters spend on MGoBlog? Do the mods have a tracker that can show which users spend the most time Online?
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
Not a convenient one. We can look at how users navigate the site to some extent. We can track page clicks, but that's all that I think we can do.
As for me, last semester, I was on mgoblog about 40-50 hours a week with my peak weekly usage around 75-80 hours or so, and I probably hit that a few different weeks. Christmas gave me a nice break; I still haven't built back up my usage yet. I've probably only been around 7-10 hours a week over the last 4-5 weeks.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 AM ^
season, at least a few hours a day. Now, I visit about once an hour just to see if anything new has been posted.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
And if it can chuck wood, how is it at running the spread??
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:59 AM ^
...when people come over to my place to party and do not bring their own beer, and drink my favorite that is my own personal 6'er(strongbow).
...when people try to abuse the couch priviledge.
...when people use all my shit tickets and don't tell me I'm out so when I go to use it in the A.M. I have to drive to 7/11 to buy some.
...when any SEC or OSU fan opens their mouth to talk sports.
...when people believe that King James will leave Cleveland (dear baby Jesus I hope not)
...when the jersey shore ended last night *sigh*
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 PM ^
from Mancino's - got an Italian combo and a 3 piece cheese bread waiting for me to eat!
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:07 PM ^
So sorry about the size
January 27th, 2010 at 9:08 PM ^
This made it worthwhile