Stuff not worthy of its own thread

Submitted by Steve Levy Sucks on

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

Wendyk5

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.

Snowden

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.

wlvrine

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.

imablue

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.

Silverware

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..

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

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.

Captain

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.

TTUwolverine

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?

AMazinBlue

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.

shorts

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.

Steve Levy Sucks

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.

Eyebrowse

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.

formerlyanonymous

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.

Crentski

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*