Gallery of Lights
Unrelated Stuff => Forum Games => Topic started by: GEsoftwhite100watts on February 08, 2015, 01:12:23 PM
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I've had this idea for a few days now. Like "Word Association" except with verbs, for example:
Poster #1: Pacing
Poster #2: Taking on the phone
Poster #1 or #3: Texting and driving
And so on...
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Ah interesting! A more specific version of my game lol. I didn't see this until now. I've kinda been rushing the Forum Games lately since I've been busy with other stuff. Right now I'm restoring a wooden stool for my biology teacher. The seat had cracked in half so me and a friend fabricated a new seat and now I have sanded down the original legs and dowels and tonight I applied the first coat of Minwax red oak stain. Then comes the multiple coats of polyurethane lol.
So, PAINTING! lol
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Listening to music/the radio
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watching (TV)
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Eating
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sleeping
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Snoring
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"catching flies" (sleeping with your mouth open)
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Using an electric flyswatter
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smacking a fly on a window with yesterday's newspaper (black-and-white flashback of a 1950s woman or man chasing a fly around the house with a curled-up piece of paper in a house with intricate wallpaper and lots of windows lol)
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Laughing hysterically picturing same
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psychotic laughter
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Being hauled away by men in white coats (They're going to take me away/there're going to take me away/haha/the funny farm)
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loud clap on thunder and a bright flash of lightning, creating a silhouette of a creepy castle on a rock cliff.
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Bratty kids trick-or-treating, only to be scared by someone jumping out of the bushes, brandishing a chainsaw sans chain
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dropping their candy bags as they run away, shrieking in horror
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Running back to their parent's houses
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chainsaw guy picks up the bags of candy and keeps them for himself, sifting through to grab all the good stuff and putting the "crap" candy back in the basket he has for any more trick-or-treaters.
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Then going straight to the bathroom and throwing up after binging out on all the candy
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BLWAH!
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Turning down the car radio blaring commercials, sitting in crowded metropolitan traffic, and rumaging in the center console for a tube of ChapStick
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sifting through all the stations and every single one has a commercial. Then you find some station playing a crappy song but it's better than commercials so you put it on.
When I drive alone I bring my phone and an AUX cable and play music off my phone's library. Commercial-free and I like every song. I don't do that with my parents in the car. for some reason I feel uncomfortable listening to "my music" around them. They listen to rock too but they probably wouldn't appreciate the heavier stuff I have lol.
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I'm not gonna lie, I had a pretty good "laugh attack" reading that...it's so true! What song do you picture? (For whatever reason Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" instantly comes to mind, even though I LIKE that song!)
And I'm guessing you do what everyone else does at that point and turns it up ridiculously loud? Or do you roll your eyes at those cars when sitting at a red light?
Anyway...
Driving out of the range of a radio station, hearing it subside to static, and flipping through a pretty empty FM dial (rural area) with nothing but NPR, country, and K-love Christian repeaters.
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Not ridiculously loud, but I do listen to it sorta loud. I don't have a huge bass though so it's not that irritating BRUMMMMP-BRU-BRU-BRUMMMP or anything. Rock and metal is more balanced treble and bass so it's not irritating like rap or pop lol. I don't like people to have their music loud enough where I can hear it. I can only imagine how loud it is inside the car when you can hear it outside the car.
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At this point the radio is shut off and since I don't have my phone & AUX cable, I just drive silently.
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Talking with the passenger(s) in the car while driving on a freeway at night
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Getting pissed off at people who think its their "duty"to drive slow in the left lane on the freeway to "slow down speeders" when they should either move over or get off the freeway altogether.
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Passing a semi truck
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HONK HONK of the trucks horn as you shift back into the lane, cutting the truck off
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Honking at people angrily who back out in front of you as you're driving in a crowded downtown area with tons of paralell-parked cars (Read: downtown Sitka; that's the visual that comes to mind for me)
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Sticking up your "Rhode Island Driving Finger" (middle finger) at someone who tries to pass you on a double-yellow line.
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Someone told me yesterday their husband, who's a very courteous driver, got flipped off umpteen times by cars behind them while driving them out of the Boston airport because they'd slow down to let others merge onto the freeway! (Another reason I consider owning one of THOSE vehicles)
Merging onto the freeway in a small economy car (Geo, etc)
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No you shouldn't slow down. You should either speed up to go by the people merging on or move over into the next lane to the left. That's what I always do. Slowing down on a freeway is never a great idea because the person behind you might not be paying attention and hit you and besides, it just screws up the flow of traffic. I've been told New Englanders aren't as friendly as people in other parts of the country though lol. I personally think it's the east coast in general. You go out "westward" (like to Ontario or Michigan for example) everyone is so kind. I'm sure there's a few bad apples no matter where you go but there's no "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" feel in New England lol. People tend to keep to themselves and are less likely to say hi to a stranger and what not. I tend to avoid talking to people I don't know too. I'm sorta antisocial, though you wouldn't know that from the essay-length posts I make here lol. Speaking of essays, I gotta write a history essay due Tuesday on McCarthyism (1950s Communist scare).
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LOL you'd love Alaska then. Not many people around!
LOL essay-length posts..
Anyway...
Driving in rush hour metropolitan traffic in AM General M923, on a miserably hot day with heat waves reflecting off the pavement
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The car suddenly breaks down while in a traffic standstill while on a long length of suspended freeway and takes place when there were no cell phones so you can't call for help.
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So I'm walking for miles "looking for cell phone reception"
Have you spent a lot of time in places without cell reception? I'm typing from one...
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I may have. I don't use my phone often. I don't like talking on the phone. I could lock my phone in a drawer for a month, take it out, and have no missed calls lol.
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Same with mine, since I rarely am even in places where it works. I'll elaborate more in the "off" topic about that.
Dropping a call in the convenience store (Remember that one TV commercial?)
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Nope don't remember that commercial.
Scratches head. Wonders what Andy is talking about. lol
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Laughs. Can't think of anything else sillier/more detailed to put in.
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Gets up. Walks away from the computer. Bangs head into wall until ideas come to mind.
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Next day, repairing a hole in the drywall
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Coughs, theres a lot of dust in the house
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Plugging in an air freshener
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Now the room smells like "Luxurious Lavender" or whatever other corny sounding scents one can think of lol.
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The smell of baking brownies wafting through the house, causing my stomach to grumble
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Throwing up on the new carpet
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1-800-STEEMER Stanley Steemer is "The Carpet Cleaner!"
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Driving a carpet cleaner van in rush-hour traffic to clean up someone's soaked carpet thanks to a "plumbing bummer"
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the van breaks down (sound familiar? lol). Time to call a tow!
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Sitting on the side of the road waiting for the tow truck (Been there, done that). Don't ask why but when that happened once in particular I had that Incubus song "Drive" stuck in my head...every time I hear it I think of that!
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listening to all the Incubus songs in my library.
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Listening to "Fuel Radio" on Pandora.
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reFUELing the car
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Asking for they key to the gas station restroom
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The attendant tells you that you don't need a key and makes you feel stupid.
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Having a "I wish I could disappear of the face of the Earth, I'm so embarrased" moment
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Closing up the house and leaving town, thinking never returning would be too soon (This happened once for me)
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Listening to weak, staticky radio stations
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Tuning an analog radio
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Playing around with a vintage, circa 1978 JVC tuner/amplifier with some major issues, trying to diagnose them, as it's a potential restoration project
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Reading up on how to cure noisy potentiometers
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Doing the "rice" trick