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- hydro743
Oh shit, my Krop portfolio is still up. Maybe I should update it.. QBN FTW!
- still holds upNutter
- Travis Barker would love in 2004bainbridge
- Mm. Those horizontal scroll bars are dead sexy.Continuity
- doggydoggdog0
How many days in advance is best to invite people to an event?
I'm having a pop-up painting show that's one day next month.
I figure if I email or post about it now, people will forget.
- 2 weeks ahead of the event, then 1 week ahead with reminder to RSVPutopian
- SimonFFM12
After all the trouble lately, I am happy that the documentary where I appear is broadcast without shitty censorship.
No blurred boobs and it's broadcast before 10pm and rated age 12. And you have to know that national TV is extremely strict and it took 4 months to pass all control committees, which are full with feminists and woke people.
It feels really good to get accepted. I am so tired of the stupid no nipple rules that apply in the rest of media.
I appear in episodes 2, 4 and 8, just in case you would like to have a look.
https://1.ard.de/XXL_Camper_S02_…
https://1.ard.de/XXL_Camper_S02_…
https://1.ard.de/XXL_Camper_S02_…- Gash & Gearsutopian
- Nice, great work!Continuity
- Thank you, Continuity!SimonFFM
- Congrats Simon. My 12yo self would be staying up late to watch this ;)microkorg
- ep2 lol how did you found eachother with this guy? long story short: he wants old rv for a photoshoot, and the dealer was actually a male model for years :Dsted
- lol its so hard to understand the context with out subtites.pango
- ep4 Simon collabs with first-time model in XXL campers. Medea displays skin and talent while ex-model Michael shows his model book and has fun commentsSimonFFM
- ep8 I show the final pics and the guys don't care but agree in the end that I am a good photographer (zero enthusiasm which was funny).SimonFFM
- haha you are way too modest :)
@pango all you need to know is in ep4 at 25:00. nice play with that mirror :)sted - Sehr schön. Super ;)
Nice one Simon, great stuff!
@sted you da real MVP lolBuddhaHat - is it about building the camper or photoshoot? lolpango
- The garage specializes in repairing old US campers. They are rare in Germany. And that's why I used it as a location.SimonFFM
- Yeah sorry I wasn't accurate about what they actually do. To be honest first i just scrolled tough the interesting parts to get a glimpse...sted
- Now I spent some time to watch the whole thing, and damn this is great :) I mean, I love how the nuances of the two profession got mixed.sted
- How you two look for different details on the same subject is what makes this interesting.
Thank you for sharing :)sted - Thank you very much, Sted!SimonFFM
- drgs1
- islandbridge5
I have been feeling lonely my entire life.
I always assumes that a lot of people had it like this, and that it was sort of normal. But the older I get the more it grows, and yeah, the more isolated I fell. The scary part is I can sit in my living room with my amazing kid and girlfriend and still feeling utterly alone.
Im considering contacting a professional to try sort this mess out, but I thought I would try vent it here first.
Am I alone with my loneliness or is this pretty much how we all feel?- Have you tried to sign up for social activities, related to art, culture, sports..., where to contact other individuals?OBBTKN
- We are all alone in life, sometimes being busy and not thinking about it helps ;)OBBTKN
- I have been a lonely guy all my life, but always surrounded by people. Find the group that fits you and you will have done a lot. Good luck!OBBTKN
- Men generally are quite solitary creatures. Once you get past the life stage of doing all the social stuff, and you get to the family unit stage, it can feel...Horp
- very isolating. Some people try and counter it by joining groups. Ultimately I think the secret to success is to just master solitude and learn to enjoy...Horp
- the benefits. In one way I would say I have [zero] friends, but the reality is I have lot sof friends and I choose to only seem them very ocassionallyHorp
- because I've come to enjoy my solitude, and I don't want to be enmeshed in other people's routines and expectations. I see different friends once a year.Horp
- It's enough for me. One big catch up per friend per year, and I'm good.Horp
- The thing is being busy have always been my goto quick fix, but isnt really working that well anymore. thanks!islandbridge
- Well, I would counter that being busy isn't the same as being comfortable with your solitude. It could be a work-around rather than a solution.Horp
- There's a bunch of stupid ass things I like to do for which there is no point, no goal, no outcome. One of them is I go and find bits of driftwood...Horp
- Bring them home & paint gold lines on them with my signwriter kit. There's no purpose to it, but I enjoy the time. I wouldn't describe it as "being busy" thoughHorp
- Try contacting a professional, it doesn't hurt. Have heard stories about people being busy with work, retiring and falling into deep depression as...Nutter
- "keeping busy" was what filled out their life, but with no job they found out there wasn't much else there.Nutter
- ^ thisHorp
- There's a pill for that. You'd be surprised how certain supplements can help our mood. Loneliness is not the same as being ok with being alone.sea_sea
- BuddhaHat1
@islandbridge you are not alone in your loneliness mate. To put it in perspective, Dr Murthy says more people in the US suffer from loneliness than from diabetes (which the CDC says is over 37m Americans). I won't add any more here, maybe you could give the show a listen and start a thread about it... you might be surprised how many people have thoughts to share.
- I think the current lifestyle leads us to isolation. You have to escape from social networks, and be more sociable!OBBTKN
- it may be just me.. but i also think as you get older you get less tolerant.. so you get more selective on who you spend time with which doesn't helpdee-dubs
- thank you. I will give it a listenislandbridge
- Horp24
Loneliness.
I learned quite a lot about myself through the experience of becoming a parent.
Many years back... the 90s really and maybe the first part of the 00s... I was very social, always out, and I always needed to be the crucible for a great time - that was my social role. I had a long stint as a hedonist. Mild hedonism but always full throttle and out every single night.
When that all stopped for parenting reasons, I came to realise that that aspect of my personality was fake. Manufactured. I had a kind of shtick as the party person that I felt obligated to embody because people expected that of me.
It felt like a relief to stop. After a bunch of years though, once my kids were too old to think I was the premium knowledge and entertainment centre of the whole universe, a sense of loneliness and isolation kicked in. Nobody "needed" me any more and I had no desire to start drinking hard and dancing every night to resume my old role in life.
I got into old cars for something to occupy my time, and I loved that for a while. But there's a scene, and the scene is social, and I found myself in that scene.
But it didn't help much ultimately, because I just felt no sense of common ground with the people in that scene.
The classic cars people were all ludicrous caricatures of a stuffy conservative preservationist Britain.
The Hot rod guys who should be cool as fuck were all fat little boors arguing over who had their carburetor set right.
The muscle car guys were all absurd one dimensional tough guy personas learned from the movies, but in the bodies of Hobbits.
The entire ecosystem of old car people was a game of one upmanship and a battle to be regarded as the most bestest ever expert, and almost all of them, racist as absolute fuck.
Was it better to be part of that scene or better to just be by myself...
I did make one friend, very local to me, who seemed a bit less absurd than most other people who devote their entire lives to obsessing over some car from 50 years back. John. He seemed okay, and we struck up a friendship.
But man he would not fucking leave me alone. If we went for a beer one Friday evening, as far as he was concerned we were going to do that every Friday evening from then on. If there was a car thing, we HAD to go together. He'd get all pissy if I said I didn't want to go for a beer, or if I worked on my car and didn't tell him, or if I just quietly decided to go to a car thing and didn't mention it to him. He'd be really irritated because it was breaking his rules of the friendship. I'd find myself having these absurd long text based arguments with him, like we were teenagers in love.
He would also knock on my door at almost any fucking moment, unannounced, and say he was just dropping in for a cup of tea. The longer time passed, the more he did that. It became almost daily, and some days he did it twice.
John found himself on my ex list, and eventually, he got the message, but he doubled down on all of his bullshit until the penny finally dropped.
I joined a local BMX social group for first gen riders like myself. Old blokes, who mostly had original 1980s BMX. We'd meet up. It was so amazing to see all those bikes I coveted in the 80s, which I had never once laid eyes on back in the day.
But same thing there... man could they fucking argue and bitch and quibble and get upset with each other because of Araya rims on a Profile hub or Hutch beartraps on a Skyway or whatever. It was fucking ridiculous. They just fell out with each other constantly.
better to be part of that social group? or better to learn to use my own time in a way that benefitted me and gave me enjoyment.
Doing contract work in agencies, you get the opportunity to join in with socialising with the company.
Some lovely people in many of those places, but you go out for drinks after work and what do people do? They fucking bitch about work and everything that's wrong and who is to blame and how frustrated they are. The more drunk they get, the more into it they get until I find I'm just sat there politely absorbing somebody else's anger and frustration and negative energy, and nodding and sympathising and offering perspectives AND BUYING THE FUCKING DRINKS TOO.
Is that better than solitude?
Eventually I learned to enjoy the solitude I had.
I don't want to feel connected and socially engaged with people. I want people to leave me the fuck alone.
Learn to master and appreciate solitude. You don't need to fill it with humans, you need to fill it with things you like to do.
- Fucking great share and read, thanks Horp. Your description of the car crowd mirrors my experience of car ppl in Oz, but you have a way with words I do not.BuddhaHat
- I share little in common with the party groups from my youth, though I do still see them from time to time at birthdays ending in 0.BuddhaHat
- I agree with your sentiment about finding things I like to do and want to learn more about. The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.BuddhaHat
- "There is no cure for curiosity"
So true!Horp - (To be fair, not ALL of the car people were awful, but there were enough awful ppl on the car scene to make it not worth being engaged with it)Horp
- :)islandbridge
- I feel you man. At 47 I have come to accept that I only have one good friend. The rest of my time I spend at work, at home, or out with my wife somewhere nice.HijoDMaite
- And that’s ok. I enjoy my hobbies and sharing them in some sm groups. That’s enough stimulation for me nowadays.HijoDMaite
- thanks for sharingmilfhunter
- Funny. I just noticed that with my car-friends I don't really talk that much about cars. More about everything else. And with my workfriends I talk about cars.Longcopylover
- I think it's the mix that makes it fine for me. But I feel you, I also like to be on my own very often. Just with my rides, thoughts and nothing/noone else.Longcopylover
- As I was reading this (a great and very personal read) I enjoyed the mystery of who wrote it. Horp, enjoy that solitude, I know I enjoy mine.Ramanisky2
- Wise words, I'm not a fan of unannounced visits. Yeah needy cunts like John can fuck off :)mrAtor
- Great words Horp, enjoyed reading it, and put on an accomplice smile in my faceOBBTKN
- Am older, you will know fewer people as you get older, that's how it is. Distinguish between needing some company vs desperate not to be alone....comicsans
- The 1st is normal, the 2nd is a problem. I enjoy solitude, possibly too much, was never that gregarious.comicsans
- I think its awesome you are into old cars and vintage bmx. We share that passion.
I have a 51 chevy and now I restore old Japanese dirtbikes from the 80s for fuBonSeff - fun. But in terms of the groups, just enjoy them for what they are. Maybe recalibrate your expectations. No reason why you shouldn't enjoy yourself in such aBonSeff
- cool scene. Let the douchebags be douchebags and roll with it.BonSeff
- I think you've aged into Holden Caulfield.hotroddy
- Very well written post. This line got me: "once my kids were too old to think I was the premium knowledge and entertainment centre of the whole universe.."stoplying
- ^ Not looking forward to that day at all.stoplying
- Hahaha Hotroddy
Stoplying: it comes anyway, whichever way you choose to look. *hugz*Horp - Horp and John: https://www.hollywoo…_niko
- Great postdee-dubs
- Solitude is something that I crave! Maybe someday I'll miss people but at this stage of life/work, I just want to be left alonemisterhow
- Niko, re "Horp and John" so funny but when I watched that movie that's what I thought. Doesn't cast me in a good light but yeah, it was like that.Horp
- Had to read it again with a bit more clear head after a rough morning. I can relate to this on so many levels.islandbridge
- Solitude have always been my life companion and place for reflection and change, but lately been darker place than usual. Thank you!islandbridge
- The more time i spend with people the more i like animalsscarabin
- Hey if it feels like it's getting darker then you ought to habe a consultation with somebody. Talking therapy is good, better than pills.Horp
- the more time i spend with animals, the more scratches i have on my hands.pango
- ^
scarab... remember, humans are animals tooOBBTKN - upvotedCalderone2000
- imbecile5
Loneliness is what you get when you breed an entire country to believe in rugged individualism.
people end up wanting their neighbors to admire or be envious of them, when in reality they just want invited over to share the bbq.
I've written extensively on the hypocrisy of patriotism vs minority hate. this falls in line with that problem psychologically.
- whatthefunk33
I recently lost my father and after having lost my mother about 10 years ago I'm feeling a sense of loneliness I've never experienced before. We were extremely close, honest, and respectful of each other and I desperately miss talking with my friend. He too was a solitary man who enjoyed his own company and always counseled me to be sure I liked myself and to be confident in my own decisions as I have to live my life as I want, as he's living his, and others theirs. I'm fortunate to have experienced such a bond.
Grief is a solitary pain and this one cuts deeply.
So it goes, the wheel keeps turning.- that's a fortunate experience, even more fortunate perspective. not everyone had your positive interaction. sharing helps other maintain hope. celebrate him.imbecile
- I can assure you that good food and drinks work miracles sometimes. Some dick will always appear, ignoring them is enough ;)OBBTKN
- ^Argh! Sidenote for previos post, sorryOBBTKN
- Sorry for your loss :(OBBTKN
- With time, grief has the capability of becoming lighter. What a beautiful bond, thank you for sharing. <3sea_sea
- <3Horp
- HugsSimonFFM
- Very heavy read, I’m so sorry for your loss.Ramanisky2
- I feel you whatthefunk... I lost my dad about 8 weeks ago, and I'm having a hard time wit it too.exador1
- Sending love. Lost my pops back in April. If you ever need to talk, hit me up.stoplying
- The fact that you called him a friend is what cuts deep. I'm so sorry for your loss, and you aren't alone. So it goes.garbage
- <3 Thanks all, sincerely!whatthefunk
- i_monk2
Loneliness is what you get when you monetize all Third Places and maximize the time and energy people spend at work (Second Place) and jack up the cost of everything so they can't even enjoy themselves. The sense of community atrophies, interpersonal connections become transactional, neighbours stay strangers...
- Krassy1
- none. the bottle is empty.sted
- Agree on none. Even if the bottle is full it's not enough to FILL one glass.palimpsest
- 3?Krassy
- Depending on the amount and flow rate it could be 1.palimpsest
- 2 pints of a slow pour = 7.palimpsest
- 1-2-3-4 -> you are just dumb
5-6-7 -> you are blind and bumbsted - Hold on, sted is right. You can't get to 7 without going through 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.palimpsest
- even if the liquid overflows the rest you still can't fill no 7. its just your complexity bias talking :)
https://i.imgur.com/…sted - There is no glass.
Then you'll see that it's not the glass that gets filled-up, only yourself.palimpsest - :))))sted
- The water can go from 1 to 7 without going through 2. What am I blind to?monospaced
- Oh. Blocked tubes. Feh.monospaced
- So it’s 4monospaced
- Or 6. I’m just stupid. Carry on.monospaced
- It's 3, happy birthday.palimpsest
- Basic physics will help here.cotton
- Lucky Seven. My liver is twitching.stoplying
- 3 is the only one that will ever fill - and then will overflow anything else additionally poured.theonlyengineerhere
- ^ I'd trust the engineer here on this, folks.Continuity
- It's 3!
(look closely and you'll see that both 6 & 7 are blocked going into from 3)Krassy - 3x3=9+5=14x6=84-35=4...
7 is the correct answer!utopian - rotflsted
- basic physics -> the bottle is empty :Dsted
- I didn’t notice the little blockages. This was just as much a test at noticing the details which kinda takes away from the physics part. Mehmonospaced
- amusingly, it's the 'follow the science' guys who get things most wrongzardoz
- HijoDMaite0
Hey, where is the NFL thread? Anyone want to start a QBN fantasy league?
- I would but I'm already in 3...so what's one more!_niko
- Niko I have three openings leftHijoDMaite
- doggydoggdog-6
Do UPS drivers really make that much?
- canoe-1
Standing as the iconic symbol of the U.S. defense program in Washington, DC, the Pentagon is one of the nation's most highly guarded structures. Defended by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), top measures are in place to guard against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks... but not a commercial jet airliner.
Got it.
- int was before game theory, they never accounted for something so ludicrous._niko
- How you know the important stuffs aren't in the bunker. And the building above the surface is just expendable?pango
- @niko - meanwhile. https://abcnews.go.c…canoe
- @pango - that's like lighting your hair on fire despite your brain. ffscanoe
- It's just a tough story to swallow knowing how much surface-to-air defenses we have all over DC.canoe
- i dont claim to know how pentagon do things. and also doubt they wouldn't lie to the world.pango
- Maybe what Pango said is right and allowing it to plough into the Pentagon was seen as less collateral damage then blowing up a plane above DC with SADsmicrokorg
- They could've shot it out of the air LONG before it reached DC. They have a system for hijacked planes NOT to cause MORE collateral damage.canoe
- maybe they want the panic to give opportunity to destroy some records?pango
- shellie4
I’ve always wanted to get into speaking engagements and today I participate in my very first outside of running programming for affinity group at an agency a couple years ago. I’ll be joining a long time collaborator to speak to an entertainment focused communications class at USC about the evolution of comms channels over my 20 year career and how to adapt as industry trends and technology shift under one’s feet. I’m so excited to share my insights with this group as I’ve worked in this very specific category of advertising movies or working with entertainment IP for most of my career.
The first thing people ask me when they find out what I do is ask how the strike is effecting my work. The short answer is yes but the long answer is that events like these have always been something to work with or around while we wait for our new reality to take hold. Entertainment institutions have been scrambling to make sense of how consumer habits change in lock step with technology, starting with my entry onto the scene at Sony Music immediately after the collapse of Napster. Then, the WGA strike of 2007-08 lasted 99 days after I jumped from music to movies. And now with the current WGA and SAG strikes (on day 126 and counting), their grievances seem all too familiar to the digital shift music made 20 years ago. In my experience, legacy contracts and future focused lawyering is the hardest ball of string to untangle, but still people want their entertainment however they prefer to get it and now. No cats are going in bags — consumers want what they want. Now what? I cant wait to dig in
- doggydoggdog-5
Why did my parents make me work so hard and do all my history and math homework in middle school?
- So that you know how to think and function correctly.monospaced
- It's ok, if you balloon up to 500 pounds or strangle a man for not getting your fry order right, you can blame them!futurefood
- my braincells.. they are giving up. noo. must stop reading... moronic questionsNairn
- Either your parents did you math and history homework for you, or they failed at making you work on your writing skills.monospaced
- how old are you?pango