Ah, I can see that.
Mine are usually a similar L-loop, standard C-loop, or flat nylon ribbon loops for having many clip points in a strip. But not exactly what’s In this pic. Usually they’re a bit higher to the waist or near the knee. The higher quality ones have the same synthetic guarding to stop wear from rubbing.
And when they’re loaded, belt eyelets are next!
I have these on a lot of my pants. They’re accessory loops for clipping gear onto with a carabiner. Helmets, gloves, climbing anchors, lights, etc. Stuff that doesn’t fit in a pocket but is used too frequently to keep stored in a pack.
If they’ve entered the fashion world, I assume they’re just to give off the vibe that you’re an adventurer. Outdoor adventuring has certainly become trendy last few years. Kind of replaced everyone wearing fitness clothes for no particular reason.
If you’re holding a speed for four hours, I’d call it cruising.
That generally my cruise time until I need to pull in for a leg stretch, more fuel and snacks, and a pee.
“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.”
Apparently something Epictetus used to say, according to Aurelius.
Good point.
If you drive like the test in Australia, you’ll be pretty good. If you drive like the test in Greece, you’re a rolling hazard. But also doing mandatory motorcycle tests in some SE Asian countries were insanely easy. Just demonstrating bike control and then doing a short 5 min ride around a block, literally breaking the rules to keep in flow of traffic, and they pass you. Though I’ve found in most countries that have that, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to fail, they just tell you what was wrong and have you keep doing it again until you get a tick.
So again to your point, it’d be very country-specific on whether the driving culture there makes the test an absolute nightmare or not.
Crying is literally a natural response to stress. You’re meant to do it to release stress.
Always wondered which came first; the Dunce hat or the KKK hood.
Fair enough. I tend to block before down voting and that’s rare. Haven’t thought of how much votes actually matter, but obviously it does on the smaller scale.
No, there’s been quite a few now. Racist, mocking, socially damaging. It’s clear the company is led by a clueless board.
Makes sense. I’ve lived in three Australian cities and getting around on bike, bus, and rail is much easier than driving. Plenty of friends I met never even got a driver’s licence.
But as you get away from a city centre, things become challenging. By the time you’ve left a city region, you enter the Australian sprawl of nasty climate and nothingness between bits and pieces of civilisation peppered around the national map.
It’s a land where one state would be the 16th largest country (I forgot about WA) 10th largest country in the world. A place where I almost all cities, you can fit several European nations in between your’s and the next closest.
It’s car use and costs on roads reflects its low population having a density per square kilometre comparable to the scarcist places on the planet. But if you are in a city—at least those I was in—the infrastructure for not having a car is great. You’re really punished for driving a vehicle in one, yet many still do and are miserable every morning and afternoon.
In shell
Drawing pictures
Of fence tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Eyestalks raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of pale blue below
Scientists tried to give attention
To the fact that his shell turned left
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his world, but
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Clearly I remember
Pickin’ on the boy
Seemed a harmless little mollusc
Oh, but we unleashed a hedgehog
Gnashed his radula
Shot darts at mantles
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise bump
My shell left hurtin’
Oh, tipped right over
Just like the day
Like the day I heard
Scientists tried to give affection
But the boy was something the others wouldn’t mate
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his world
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Try to forget this… (try to forget this)
Try to erase this… (try to erase this)
From the postdoc paper
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Good.
Whenever I drive in another country, I’ve done some decent research on not just the law differences but the culture difference. But it’s never enough and at the end of each day I look up the things that puzzles me on the road earlier.
You can easily be involved in an accident if you don’t know, “That’s just how they do it here.”
Some countries the standards are loose, others are very tight. Some countries have things unique to a state or region that are totally different in other parts of it. Driving around people that have transitioned from one to the other is always tense.
And at the end of the day, if you can drive how you’re supposed to in Japan, there’s nothing to worry about with the test.
No.
The topic is about Barbie.
If they’re going to continue trying to be relevent to combat declining sales “inclusive”, they can’t be making unrealistic dolls, especially when their whole mantra is a source of women’s weight issues in society.
And this ain’t their first rodeo of making insulting versions of people in an effort to market themselves as inclusive. There are so, so, so many Barbies that show a company has no idea what they’re doing but will sell anything out to flog a buck.
They pump insulin.
They’re inconvenient, but much better than a few years ago. Having an app for the monitor now is a game-changer to avoid people hearing a self-destruct countdown beep under your shirt. But one of my friends actually still prefers shots three times a day, You just kind of get used to that if it’s all you’ve ever known, so for some people it’s not as big a deal as others make it out to be.
So with that out of the way, you may have replied to a comment mentioning insulin pumps, but what do they have to do with the post, anymore than the doll’s hair colour?
Geez. I wonder why they didn’t include all the other ones…
Computer Engineer Barbie of 2010 was great. It included a backstory of accidentally getting a virus on her sister’s computer as Barbie admits she knows nothing about computers, is just a designer, and relies on boys at her school to help. Of course the laptop was pink.
There’s so, so, so many of these all the way up to now… Oreo Barbie, the Doll’s of the World collection, the sleepover ones that have apparel that says “Don’t Eat” on it.
If it’s not clear now, Mattel relies on making Barbies that will make money at the time. So girls can be happy other girls manufactured dolls for them in factories in a country known as “Oriental”. This is the point of the post.
All you’ve done is link their public-facing marketing material which implies it works.
That’s clearly not the point of this entire post and why it’s been posted where it has. Have you read the article? This isn’t about what you’re talking about.
How could someone’s mind possibly extract that from anything I’ve said, or are you just trying to be a troll?
Should just make up that Biden’s name was apparently on it. MAGAs will scream to see the list again.
They could do it if they pull the ol’ Uno reverse on NATO’s superhighway infrastructure, and like…just get away with that.