topflightpro

Doesn't everyone?

miyata man

Nahbrah, the chamois cream is disinfectant. Not like anyone but me is ever going to wear these bibs.

GC, can you poll your group to see if he intimated to anyone he'd like to be handed a cap and offered a shoulder?

himespau 

Is it a sign that I have a problem (other than the problem of being a ****ty mechanic) that I just spent 10-15 minutes adjusting the bearing play on the cup and cone bottom bracket of my almost 3-year old's 16" wheeled bike? The cranks spin so buttery smooth with so little resistance now, not that he'll ever notice or care. To be fair, it's not like I took his bike apart just to get less friction on the bb. We'd been using the bike as a balance bike (so I'd pulled the pedals, crank, chain, etc.) but now he's been asking for pedals.

Ygduf

I'd just keep pooping and making sure everyone knew! It's pro.

caloso

I completely reassembled the BB and coaster brake on my son's Target Lightning McQueen (tm) bike. Probably the only kid at the playground with a bike that smelled of Phil's Tenacious.

himespau 

Didn't feel like digging into the coaster brake myself, but I briefly considered it. I'm too cheap for Phil's though.

miyata man

When you start throwing real money (ceramic bearings) at it or they slice their leg open due to the absolute lack of friction when touching the pedal. you have a problem.

Some of you might find this humorous but I will trudge on. Today I bought 30 lb library display quality unabridged dictionary for my personal library. I questioned whether this was a bridge too far. After some thought, a large well made comfortably upwards tilting display turn table which necessitated frequent dusting would have been a bridge too far. This option has not been ruled out.

Ygduf

you bought a dictionary? so you can look up and better use your thesaurus words?

miyata man

No I bought a trove of information on far ranging subjects. Beyond the full English language it contains abridged German, Italian, and Spanish (both to and from English!) dictionaries. Then it goes on to depict every symbol currently in use worldwide in any professional capacity, full copies of the Declaration of Independence/US Constitution/Bill of rights/UN Charter, rather extensive lists of important dates in world history and geographical data, and finally a full atlas (interplanetary & earth). This was by no means encompassing. I just randomly flipped to a page which landed in the midst of a list detailing major reference works in all significant fields of study.

So beyond the capability to mock your blithely disrespectful views on my posts. It will serve as a quick reference guide bereft of advertising and paid results which overwhelm search engines. An uncommon solution to be sure, but one I believe will serve me well. Yes, it will also allow me to challenge you with words like colpotomy.

furiousferret

It's too bad there's not a trove of information on far ranging subjects in digital form somewhere.

miyata man

You may have missed my palpable frustration with internet sources. Anything of true intellectual worth is behind a paywall.

No wait, tell me you mean Wikipedia. Please tell me you meant Wikipedia.

Enthalpic

So funny - the internet wins; even Librarians accept that.

miyata man

Given the tenured status of at least a few people here that has the makings of a very interesting conversation. Truth is public libraries are not very good sources of useful information of the kind I'm referring to. The shelves were cleared of reference materials to be replaced with ___ for dummies guides if anything at all. Instead they focus on safe space unpaid babysitting, renting out their meeting spaces, and high frequency fee systems on trashy pop novels. All this on the way to cutting highly educated employees for morons with degrees who are rented out for data entry and research purposes. The last explaining their reliance on the internet.

Waitasecond. You don't happen to be a librarian or closely related to one do you? The above might detail a long developing grudge that started when my local system decided on a scheme to soak people who rent more than X books a month. For $30-$75 by simply forgetting to log them into their system correctly. When I, and numerous other politely fuming patrons, pulled them off the shelf and shoved them under the nose of the fine collector they simply hid them in storage and claimed full permissible value through a debt collection service. As you might imagine this set off a chain of events that coincided with the above mentioned nationwide trend.

Enthalpic

Sorry I meant library science; journals are all online now and very searchable.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

miyata man

Phew, I was almost sure your wife, or even worse a kid, worked in a library. Thank you for the link. Biomedical science is actually something I rarely have need to explore but it will be a welcome resource.

Ygduf

bolded the first obviously incorrectly used word I came across.

bereft is negative. Deprived of.

Deprived is also negative. Means lacking necessities.

So you bought a book that is lacking necessary advertisements and paid results. I guess.

Weird thing is you're probably as smart as any of us in here, but you try so hard it's always ****ed up. Like a chef putting too much on the plate. The more you venture the more likely there's a mistake.

I'm not mocking you. Just saying you should tone it down.

Lions are super strong, but they wait in the grass and strike when it's smart.

miyata man

I'm not amazed you are trying to argue against, wait for it because this time it really is a good one, a dictionary. In doing so you aptly described the problem with looking up the word in question online.




Edit: The colpotomy reference was unnecessary slight of hand. I forgot about that and have toned down my reply by removing a wink smiley. Devoid is the better modern interpretation of what bereft means in common usage.

My vocabulary is fairly highly vetted. GMT questioning my use of the word disabuse a few weeks before it saw a very distinct rise in popularity, comes to mind. Frankly there has been too many instances to count. Over time I have made an effort to tone down challenging others with examples of how good words have a few meanings and better ones have many more.

Also I can't expect to win a battle about the internet with someone living in the SV peninsula.

topflightpro

Miyati Man reminds me of the time Mr. Jimmy James had his business book translated into Japanese then back into English.

hubcyclist

I actually always think of a character on a current PBS show my son likes, Agent Obfusco https://oddsquad.wikia.com/wiki/Agent_Obfusco_(Agent)

miyata man

That is quite good. Obfuscate was another heavily refuted, pulling hair out in tufts, example in this war on my words. Memory is of that not actually being a real word because the internet didn't yield sufficient evidence of it's existence.

miyata man

Bravo! At least you got the tv character right.

Ygduf

I don't even know where to start. Is this /r/iamverysmart copypasta?

aaronmcd

That only makes sense to me. He doesn't want ads. The book lacks ads. How is this usage incorrect?

Not sure how the internet loses in this case. I found the definition with no solicitations for payment and exactly zero advertisements from this google search.
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topflightpro

I learned this morning that if I eat a 600 calorie honey bun for my second breakfast, I'm really not hungry the rest of the day.

miyata man

Alright already, what started as a bad joke on myself got taken too far. Mainly by me.

None of us could resist making their kid's first bike less awful for the 6 months before they outgrow it. Realizing a life dream of owning a large outdated book is way nerdier. Let's just move on.