I hate irony

[Candy]

Mostly using a car nowadays, or just the per pede method of transportation. Somebody stole the valves off my bike so I can't ride on it (got new valves without an air pump, so I'm still not moving). Car I use is either my friends or my parent-in-law's second one. Neither is my posession, so...

I mostly develop in evening hours and during some stolen minutes at school. Nobody there seems to have the brain to distinguish between developing a game (for a school assignment), an aibo (project) or an OS, so...

Other than that, I use commuter trains for working out concepts and ideas. Needless to say, I'm stuck with loads of ideas and no time to work them out. Gotta get a laptop with a decent battery some day...

[distantvoices]

@srg: I fully understand you.

Here in Vienna, we have a good public transport system. The problem is:

1. drug dealers in the wagons - you can watch them.

2. drug addicts puking the soul out between chairs in a full wagon.

3. lots of clochards who don't even care about WASHING THEMSELVES, dirty lot thou' they are, reeking like crap and urinate and vomit. (I understand having bad time being sad and having tough days to go throu, but letting go is no option) They usually sit in the fullest wagon during rush hour. Believe me, you get fed up by them dirty, filthy, stinking morons. Sorry, I have no understanding for being a reeking scumbag despite so much public possibilities to have a decent wash 'n' shave here in vienna.

4. Beggars: you leave u4 at karlsplatz and be sure sooner or later one crosses your way asking for a handful o bucks - and know what: that's not even a poor lad, it's a young, fresh man in his full strength - nah.

5. gangsters and pick pockets: You canna be sure that some don't encircle you and deprive you of your wallet. Other passengers don't even care about what's happening.

6. very seldom but it happens (in s45 f. ex. I've read about:) some "exhibists" (In german it's 'Exhibitionist') let go their trousers in front of women and jerk off.

7. school kids not knowing how to spell the word 'manner'. They are my least problem for I can deal with them with just a grim stare and low voice and they obey usually.

I could also mention dogs for I 'm not good with 'em, but that's not the dog keepers fault that I canna stand their dearest beastie. No, I am not dog-phobic.

Well, usually I like going by tube, as you get from a to b quite faster than by car - at least here in vienna, where the streets are usually overcrowded by cars and lorries.

[I Lostalim]

Beyond Infinity, "Exhibitionist" is also the English term for same... though I've never heard of incidinces going so far as self-gratification - but it doesn't surprise me, not really.

Too bad srg doesn't like the UK's transport System... I don't know what end of the UK srg's from, but I was in London about 8 years ago (where'd the years go, I feel old) and was actually quite impressed by London's Public Transport system.

Of course, in Canberra we don't have a rail system, not even light rail - though they keep promising we'll get one, and keep promising, and keep promising (bloody politicians)..... and whoever developed our bus system needs a good "hit over the head with a 2 by 4" to paraphase from Lucas Arts.

Suffice it to say the fares may be cheap-ish, but they make up for it by forcing you to have to change buses so bloody frequently.... to get from point A to point B, you have to go through points C through G consecutively... ok I exagerate, but you get my point.

[srg]

Beyond Infinity, "Exhibitionist" is also the English term for same... though I've never heard of incidinces going so far as self-gratification - but it doesn't surprise me, not really.

Too bad srg doesn't like the UK's transport System... I don't know what end of the UK srg's from, but I was in London about 8 years ago (where'd the years go, I feel old) and was actually quite impressed by London's Public Transport system.

Of course, in Canberra we don't have a rail system, not even light rail - though they keep promising we'll get one, and keep promising, and keep promising (bloody politicians)..... and whoever developed our bus system needs a good "hit over the head with a 2 by 4" to paraphase from Lucas Arts.

Suffice it to say the fares may be cheap-ish, but they make up for it by forcing you to have to change buses so bloody frequently.... to get from point A to point B, you have to go through points C through G consecutively... ok I exagerate, but you get my point.

London's public transport system is nothing to do with ours here. Our busses are Arriva Southern Counties, not london. Different branch.

Actually, our train provider, Connex South eastern was stripped of it's franchise because of it's rubbish service. At the moment it's half nationalised untill they get someone else to do it.

srg

[Solar]

...and whoever developed our bus system needs a good "hit over the head with a 2 by 4" to paraphase from Lucas Arts.

On a different tangent... what does "2 by 4" refer to? I figured that it means a lengthy piece of wood, but so far I was unable to find out what the numbers refer to.

[Candy]

...and whoever developed our bus system needs a good "hit over the head with a 2 by 4" to paraphase from Lucas Arts.

On a different tangent... what does "2 by 4" refer to? I figured that it means a lengthy piece of wood, but so far I was unable to find out what the numbers refer to.

I thought it was a figure of speech with 2x4 referring to a 2-wheel drive car (with 4 wheels), since 4x4 refers to a 4-wheel drive car.

[srg]

...and whoever developed our bus system needs a good "hit over the head with a 2 by 4" to paraphase from Lucas Arts.

On a different tangent... what does "2 by 4" refer to? I figured that it means a lengthy piece of wood, but so far I was unable to find out what the numbers refer to.

a 2 by 4 is a piece of wood. I think hitting someone by it comes from american wrestling, I think it was a gimick of one of them, I think - don't follow it.

srg

[CESS.tk]

It's inches. Though as I understand it, if you buy a 2?4, it's usually about 1.5 by 3.5 inches.

[Calum]

Can anyone explain why this thred is named ? hate irony' when it ain't terribly ironic that his truck got hit by hail... Dictionary.com defines irony as: "The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect."

Form what i gather, irony is more like when a gravedigger gets cremated, or something along those lines. Having a brand-new truck get hit by hail isn't irony, it's just funny

[AGI1122]

Well glad you had a laugh.

So the day after I get a truck and my first vehicle it hails on it... and that's not ironic?

I mean it isn't like we get hail here often. Infact this is the first time I had seen hail here since I have lived here.

[Calum]

I really put my foot in it didn't I? :'( I'm sorry

[AGI1122]

Don't take what I said the wrong way. There is no need to apologize for something like that.