Conversation Starter #22

I admire...

People who have the motivation to work without needing to remind themself why they need to do it. Sure, I study well in advance before exams, but that doesn't mean I didn't force myself to do it. There is usually just a bunch of stuff I'd rather be doing...

Conversation Starter #21

I've always wondered why...

Erm... No I don't really wonder anything... If I don't know what it is, how it works, or what's going on, I do the research and find out.

Conversation Starter #20

Ten years ago I...

Was ten years old. Ten years old + Ten years ago = 20^th conversation starter. Believe me, this was quite a coincidence. I didn't even notice until I wrote ten twice. Ten years ago I was still in primary school, lived in Sandringham, and didn't know quite as much as I do today. Knowledge increases with age.

Knowledge = age × ((learning constant) ÷ (brain depreciation)). Units are arbitrary.

That is, you're always learning something; your knowledge is always increasing. Every person has a different "learning constant" and as such, people learn at different rates. Over time, "brain depreciation" affects you, and as it increases, it forces the amount of learning you'll do in a year down. Brain depreciation will take on an exponential system as time increases (and as such, has an equation in its own right). You'll still learn, you always do, just less.

Oh, and I made that all up on the spot from empirical observation.

Crunch!

Some people just don't pay attention on the roads. For example, looking before changing lanes.

Green P-plater decided he liked my lane cruising along at 80km/h. He changed lanes. Into me.

I look over at him (after recovering from the shock I just had a car smack into me) and shrug that universal "What the FUCK, man?" thing. He shrugs it too. His girlfriend shrugs it too.

I pull over into a slip lane to assess the damage and say hello to the guy who was probably more interested in the topic of conversation with his girlfriend than he was on the road. He keeps driving.

I have white paint on my car now. And a bump on my driver's side door. The plastic trim took most of the damage. And I'm a little shaken. Else ok. Not worth the insurance claim anyway. Still, unimpressed James is unimpressed.

I'd put him on my shit list, but I was sorta stunned from the shock that he hit me to get details. Sigh... So if someone see a white car with green P-plates and blue paint on the passenger side, let me know. Cheers.

Also, the sound two cars make when colliding is different to what I expected. Sounded... crunchy...

Conversation Starter #19

If I could go back in time...

I'd get bored very quickly. History is something that we should only learn the lessons from, not the stories. We can't change the past, only the future. Learn from others mistakes, and don't repeat them. If you send me back in time, send me back to before the big bang. That actually might be interesting.

Avast, me hearties!

Arrrrrr! T'day be a day ta waggle ya tongue like a a fellow buccaneer! T'day be "International Talk like a Pirate day" which ta me sounds som'tin' like "Drink rum and sail the seven seas day."

I, arrr, trottle into my waterhole t' other day wit my ships wheel on the front of my trowsers. The barman says ta me: "What that wheel be thar for?" and I says "I donno, but it's drivin' me nuts!"

And so I be needin' a new thing wit buttons soon; and happen t'pick a new ship out already - http://www.arrrrrr.com/corsair.jpg

She be a beauty...

Arrrrrr!

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