What Are You Doing Right Now? (310 Viewers)

[swag]

Just putting my homage out there tonight

 

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[GordoDeCentral]

Exactly Kyle, choose boobs not booze

 

[.zero]

It’s totally possible to choose it all and have it all

 

[IliveForJuve]

Happy hangover day putitas

 

[Bjerknes]

Feeling like a normal Saturday fog to me.

New Year's Eve is like Amateur's night. I usually try to avoid being out late.

 

[swag]

New Years is pretty much the dumbest holiday, period. People get worked up about the date as if it carries some magical properties and significance when the date itself is completely arbitrary. It’s like some bishop played pin the tail on the donkey with a Gregorian calendar, and that’s what we got.

There’s no astronomical significance in the earth’s place in its revolution around the sun. It’s as good as any other date.

And then you get the “occasion” for the date, which includes nonsense like you change calendars (like who uses paper calendars anymore? - even if that was a worthy reason for a holiday). Or you get a rando digit change on the year counter. Which, coincidentally, isn’t observed by Jews and over a billion Chinese anyway, not to mention a number of other populations.

So you have a bunch of drunktards wearing dumb hats and yelling for a countdown as if they’re on a spaceship that’s going to launch, all for an arbitrary date during the year that has no meaning on its own, let alone no meaning to other major cultures on earth. Weee.

Give me something: the end of a harvest season, the longest night of the year, dead relatives leaving their graves… just something that isn’t some random point in the year that has to be corrected with an inserted bonus leap year day approximately every four years.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Crazy. Google is not number 1 site visited. It's freaking TikTok and the difference has been increasing lately.

 

[Dostoevsky]

New Years is pretty much the dumbest holiday, period. People get worked up about the date as if it carries some magical properties and significance when the date itself is completely arbitrary. It’s like some bishop played pin the tail on the donkey with a Gregorian calendar, and that’s what we got.

There’s no astronomical significance in the earth’s place in its revolution around the sun. It’s as good as any other date.

And then you get the “occasion” for the date, which includes nonsense like you change calendars (like who uses paper calendars anymore? - even if that was a worthy reason for a holiday). Or you get a rando digit change on the year counter. Which, coincidentally, isn’t observed by Jews and over a billion Chinese anyway, not to mention a number of other populations.

So you have a bunch of drunktards wearing dumb hats and yelling for a countdown as if they’re on a spaceship that’s going to launch, all for an arbitrary date during the year that has no meaning on its own, let alone no meaning to other major cultures on earth. Weee.

Give me something: the end of a harvest season, the longest night of the year, dead relatives leaving their graves… just something that isn’t some random point in the year that has to be corrected with an inserted bonus leap year day approximately every four years.

People like to comfort themselves saying they are not a total failure where new year gives them a hope for of a fresh start. Like that can't be done in any month, no, but it has to be a new calendar year, new everything, new mind-set. So they wake up with "new year, new me" bullshit. I also noticed people like to compare themselves with others but also with their previous versions, so new year gives them a retrospective.

 

[swag]

People like to comfort themselves saying they are not a total failure where new year gives them a hope for of a fresh start. Like that can't be done in any month, no, but it has to be a new calendar year, new everything, new mind-set. So they wake up with "new year, new me" bullshit. I also noticed people like to compare themselves with others but also with their previous versions, so new year gives them a retrospective.

That’s a very American thing though, no? Yes, Chinese New Year and Indian New Year traditions are very much rooted in superstitions about getting rid of the old for replacement from the new. But America is build on this idea of complete failure and reinvention. So I am a little surprised by that theme’s more global appeal.

New Years resolutions are the dumbest though. I’d be such a cynical gym owner.

So for 2022, I need a new rapper name. Two candidates:

* 2-Ply (my favorite form of toilet paper, even if I have a bidet in my apartment)

* Dead Baby

Any other suggestions?

 

[Osman]

Geriatric Gigolo.

 

[.zero]

Your next duo name: Frosted tips and Rubberfists

 

[Post Ironic]

That’s a very American thing though, no? Yes, Chinese New Year and Indian New Year traditions are very much rooted in superstitions about getting rid of the old for replacement from the new. But America is build on this idea of complete failure and reinvention. So I am a little surprised by that theme’s more global appeal.

New Years resolutions are the dumbest though. I’d be such a cynical gym owner.

So for 2022, I need a new rapper name. Two candidates:

* 2-Ply (my favorite form of toilet paper, even if I have a bidet in my apartment)

* Dead Baby

Any other suggestions?

When I was working as a personal trainer a dozen years ago, the first few weeks of the new year were by far the most entertaining time of year. People watching reaches its zenith in gyms.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Some of my girlfriend's friends are starting the year with "Veganuary", ya know, to improve themselves this year.

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That’s a very American thing though, no? Yes, Chinese New Year and Indian New Year traditions are very much rooted in superstitions about getting rid of the old for replacement from the new. But America is build on this idea of complete failure and reinvention. So I am a little surprised by that theme’s more global appeal.

New Years resolutions are the dumbest though. I’d be such a cynical gym owner.

So for 2022, I need a new rapper name. Two candidates:

* 2-Ply (my favorite form of toilet paper, even if I have a bidet in my apartment)

* Dead Baby

Any other suggestions?

Public Enema

Notorious P.I.G.

 

[swag]

When I was working as a personal trainer a dozen years ago, the first few weeks of the new year were by far the most entertaining time of year. People watching reaches its zenith in gyms.

What's probably even better is that the Serengeti watering hole has some unusual species come around then, unsuspecting of the predators that regularly frequent it.

Some of my girlfriend's friends are starting the year with "Veganuary", ya know, to improve themselves this year.

I prefer Vaganuary myself.

It's as sad as Dry January.

January has become the new pagan Lent.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

People trying to improve themselves, what a shame

 

[Dostoevsky]

There's no shame in that. There's shame in their pussy-ass-quitting attitude. Waiting for a new year to set goals is by default weak fragile mentality. Those always give up first.

 

[lgorTudor]

Walked past a gym today - it was filled to bursting...but only the cardio section, nobody on the weights Classic christmas roast remorse Vaginuary audience

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

New Years is pretty much the dumbest holiday, period. People get worked up about the date as if it carries some magical properties and significance when the date itself is completely arbitrary. It’s like some bishop played pin the tail on the donkey with a Gregorian calendar, and that’s what we got.

There’s no astronomical significance in the earth’s place in its revolution around the sun. It’s as good as any other date.

And then you get the “occasion” for the date, which includes nonsense like you change calendars (like who uses paper calendars anymore? - even if that was a worthy reason for a holiday). Or you get a rando digit change on the year counter. Which, coincidentally, isn’t observed by Jews and over a billion Chinese anyway, not to mention a number of other populations.

So you have a bunch of drunktards wearing dumb hats and yelling for a countdown as if they’re on a spaceship that’s going to launch, all for an arbitrary date during the year that has no meaning on its own, let alone no meaning to other major cultures on earth. Weee.

Give me something: the end of a harvest season, the longest night of the year, dead relatives leaving their graves… just something that isn’t some random point in the year that has to be corrected with an inserted bonus leap year day approximately every four years.

Though I agree it's dumb, most holidays don't really mean anything anyway.

When I was working as a personal trainer a dozen years ago, the first few weeks of the new year were by far the most entertaining time of year. People watching reaches its zenith in gyms.

Those are always the worst weeks to go, so crowded

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

There's no shame in that. There's shame in their pussy-ass-quitting attitude. Waiting for a new year to set goals is by default weak fragile mentality. Those always give up first.

I guess a lot of people do the whole new year resolutions thing where they come up with changes they wanna make just because, and yeah they are the ones who tend to not make it past week 3.

It's arbitrary but new years can be a psychological turning point like Mondays or the beginning of a month where people feel like they can start over or try again.

 

[Bjerknes]

I went to the gym today, which is actually a local college's gym, and it was pretty busy. Lots of people I haven't seen before.

Saw some nice booties though, too. Yummmm.