Random Thoughts

[kphoger]

...which means any state route shields are mini-Nevadas in a mini-Nevada in Nevada...

Which means they have a mini "NEVADA" inside a mini-Nevada inside a mini-Nevada inside Nevada.

[1995hoo]

The moment when riding the subway resurrects (pun intended) unpleasant memories of childhood religious education that your parents forced you to attend growing up in a Catholic parish in the 1970s:

[Big John]

^^ It is telling you to exit it.

[kphoger]

The Apostasy Stairs

Stairway to Hell?

[kphoger]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

[Max Rockatansky]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

[Molandfreak]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Mirror selfies haven't made sense since the majority of phones started including front-facing cameras.

[Max Rockatansky]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Mirror selfies haven't made sense since the majority of phones started including front-facing cameras.

Usually, the front facing cell phone cameras are nowhere near as powerful.  The file size and resolution tend to be way lower.  Then again, what actual selfie photos really need high-end resolution?   

[Molandfreak]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Mirror selfies haven't made sense since the majority of phones started including front-facing cameras.

Usually, the front facing cell phone cameras are nowhere near as powerful.  The file size and resolution tend to be way lower.  Then again, what actual selfie photos really need high-end resolution? 

The ones which aren't located anywhere near a mirror. Thankfully, some high-profile destinations have adopted a creative solution.

[Scott5114]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

In Las Vegas they have apparently moved on from that to putting a tripod in the gym bag so they can film themselves working out. When I was doing deadlifts on Monday I had a guy on either side of me filming themselves. I looked over at the one on my right and was able to figure out he was actually FaceTiming his male friend while he was working out.

[formulanone]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Mirror selfies haven't made sense since the majority of phones started including front-facing cameras.

Usually, the front facing cell phone cameras are nowhere near as powerful.  The file size and resolution tend to be way lower.  Then again, what actual selfie photos really need high-end resolution?   

I practice an occasional selfie shot on my own big-boy camera 2-3 times a year, but the tilting the fold out screen makes it easier than previous cameras I've had.

The phone does work so much easier for composition, like getting the whole family in a shot. So did using a disposable camera 20-30 years ago...wasn't going to freak out if I dropped it. 

[kphoger]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Carrie and I are relatively new to the gym scene.  And, till I got her a gym bag and a padlock for Christmas this year, neither of us had really been in the locker rooms except maybe to go pee or something.  So the whole 'odd gym bro phenomenon' is new to me.

Anyway, I asked her this afternoon when we got back into the car after working out:  if women do it too.  Do they admire themselves in the locker room mirror?  And she could already confidently tell me that the answer is yes.  In fact, she already knew it to be true just from seeing women posting gym locker room mirror selfies on social media, but now she also has firsthand experience.

It's still weird to me.  Especially if you're not actually taking a selfie, why can't you just wait till you get home to your own bathroom to admire yourself in the mirror?

[Max Rockatansky]

The mirrors in the gym locker room should have a time limit.  Seriously, how long does it take you to admire your Big Beautiful muscles?

The restroom mirror selfie is an odd gym bro phenomenon that has been a thing since cell phones have had cameras.  It seems as though most men grow out of it around their mid-20s.  Usually, it includes one arm in a bicep flex and a backwards hat.

Carrie and I are relatively new to the gym scene.  And, till I got her a gym bag and a padlock for Christmas this year, neither of us had really been in the locker rooms except maybe to go pee or something.  So the whole 'odd gym bro phenomenon' is new to me.

Anyway, I asked her this afternoon when we got back into the car after working out:  if women do it too.  Do they admire themselves in the locker room mirror?  And she could already confidently tell me that the answer is yes.  In fact, she already knew it to be true just from seeing women posting gym locker room mirror selfies on social media, but now she also has firsthand experience.

It's still weird to me.  Especially if you're not actually taking a selfie, why can't you just wait till you get home to your own bathroom to admire yourself in the mirror?

My understanding is the reason they do the selfies at the gym bathroom is due to being "pumped up" from working out.  Arm muscles tend to loosen back up shortly after a work out.

[kphoger]

My understanding is the reason they do the selfies at the gym bathroom is due to being "pumped up" from working out.  Arm muscles tend to loosen back up shortly after a work out.

Ah.  All the better to take a picture that doesn't actually look like the real you?  Figures.

[Scott5114]

My understanding is the reason they do the selfies at the gym bathroom is due to being "pumped up" from working out.  Arm muscles tend to loosen back up shortly after a work out.

Ah.  All the better to take a picture that doesn't actually look like the real you?  Figures.

Plus, the endorphins from the exercise make you feel like you're hot shit, even when you're not.

[formulanone]

My understanding is the reason they do the selfies at the gym bathroom is due to being "pumped up" from working out.  Arm muscles tend to loosen back up shortly after a work out.

Ah.  All the better to take a picture that doesn't actually look like the real you?  Figures.

"Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are 'camera lies,' inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for 'naturalism' in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures."

- Andreas Feininger

Also, a one-time official roadgeek for the US Office of War:

[Max Rockatansky]

What road is that?

[vdeane]

What road is that?

And what does it have to do with the "US Office of War"?

[GaryV]

What road is that?

And what does it have to do with the "US Office of War"?

Look at the wikipedia link. US 40 in CO, when the photographer was working for the Office of War Information.

[The_Ginger]

In twenty years, this photo will be inaccurate.

Taken here.
18JAN2026

[D-Dey65]

This is odd. Some Asian-Canadians made a video to see how racist a town in Arkansas is. Specifically, Harrison, Arkansas, which was voted the most racist town in the United States;
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/i-spent-a-week-in-america-s-most-racist-town/vi-AA1MAOxZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7b5803c87bdd4338d87a1215b0687a32&ei=91
One way they test the tolerance of the people there is by buying Chinese dumplings and offering to cook food for people in their houses. I don't think they'd let anybody do anything like that even if they were white.

[ZLoth]

With the severe weather that is being forecast for this weekend, I wonder how many... people... will being doing this...

[1995hoo]

With the severe weather that is being forecast for this weekend, I wonder how many... people... will being doing this...

I saw a comment to this effect on another forum. He makes an excellent point.

My brother delivered pizza as a side hustle for a bit. Pizza delivery naturally gets awfully popular during a snowstorm, but when you think about it, it's crazy.  They had a meme going around that said something like: It's too dangerous to go out and get dinner, so let's see if this 17-year-old kid in his 2006 Kia can make it over.

[ZLoth]

I saw a comment to this effect on another forum. He makes an excellent point.

My brother delivered pizza as a side hustle for a bit. Pizza delivery naturally gets awfully popular during a snowstorm, but when you think about it, it's crazy.  They had a meme going around that said something like: It's too dangerous to go out and get dinner, so let's see if this 17-year-old kid in his 2006 Kia can make it over.

And, somehow, some folks will still stiff them on the tip rather than tip extra for such a hazardous drive.

[GaryV]

some folks will still stiff them on the tip rather than tip extra for such a hazardous drive

Well yeah, they were late!