(May 8, 2025 at 6:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^There's always a catch…

Boru

No, the good ones have laces.

(May 8, 2025 at 10:09 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(May 8, 2025 at 6:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^There's always a catch…

Boru

No, the good ones have laces.

But the BEST ones have buckles.

Boru

(May 9, 2025 at 4:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 8, 2025 at 10:09 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: No, the good ones have laces.

But the BEST ones have buckles.

Boru

And decent heels.

(May 9, 2025 at 4:35 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(May 9, 2025 at 4:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But the BEST ones have buckles.

Boru

And decent heels.

I prefer the indecent ones.

Boru

In 2016, MIT decided to figure out the most important people in history. Their metric? To find the people with the most translated pages on Wikipedia. #3 (behind only Jesus Christ and Barack Obama) wound up being Corbin Bleu. You know, the token black kid from High School Musical?





Yeah, him. For what it's worth, they're still maintaining this list, but Bleu has dropped down to only #17, just below people like Aristotle, Mozart, and Shakespeare. Odder still, the current #1 is someone named David Woodard.

It's page 444, so I'll interject some trivia. I used to work as a mechanic, and I learned a lot about the industry, in general. If you took your vehicle into a Goodyear tire shop, they had a sales pitch called the 4-4-4. Four tires, four shock absorbers and four ball joints (suspension parts on vehicles of that era). They'd prey on young women, and sell them all those parts, which came to a lot of money. My youngest sister fell prey to it, and the mechanic even offered my other sister (who was with her) a ride home, as the car was "considered unsafe". My sister called my mother to come get them instead. My mother was a real spitfire, and went to the tire shop and read them the riot act. Little sis went home without the new tires and all the other shit they tried to hussle on her. I found a tire shop to replace her tires without the extra sales pitch. I ended up buying the car from her, and I did actually replace those parts, years later.

(May 8, 2025 at 8:57 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, the official name of the Dark Side of the Force is Bogan.





Also, the Light Side is called the Ashla, but that doesn't happen to share the name with international slang.

Then there's the Bendu, the one in the middle, voiced in Star Wars Rebels by the legendary Tom Baker.

(May 9, 2025 at 10:12 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In 2016, MIT decided to figure out the most important people in history. Their metric? To find the people with the most translated pages on Wikipedia. #3 (behind only Jesus Christ and Barack Obama) wound up being Corbin Bleu. You know, the token black kid from High School Musical?





Yeah, him. For what it's worth, they're still maintaining this list, but Bleu has dropped down to only #17, just below people like Aristotle, Mozart, and Shakespeare. Odder still, the current #1 is someone named David Woodard.

Stupid metric. Fame doesn't necessarily equal importance.

Boru

(May 9, 2025 at 4:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 9, 2025 at 4:35 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: And decent heels.

I prefer the indecent ones.

Boru

Not indecent, unless they're positioned to be, but...

These are my motorcycle boots (at least a pair of the same brand).

My shop boots:



Boru