In 1987, an "internet" connection was one of those wired phones dialed up and placed down on a reciever.

Inline roller skates were for off-season hockey players. Don't know why anybody else would use them.

I know roller blades and roller skates are different. How wasn't I clear that I was surprised it took at least sixty-odd years to come up with roller blades?


As for why anybody else would use them Putin33, they're cooler.

Putins cool, he reads the dictionary....lol.....:p

It makes me laugh when silly curmudgeons try to cast aspersions on others regarding topics for which they have no understanding - as if there is no difference between roller blades and roller skates, and they can only have a single purpose. The narrow-mindedness is frightening and pathetic, truly.

X is for Y -- I don't know why anybody else would use them....I'm sooooooo smart, because I read it in the dictionary.

People use X even though it was originally intended for Y because it's fun and they enjoy it, and it solves multiple problems.

For example, using roller blades one can traverse a very large college campus in a very short period of time, navigate the interior of a building to find their seat in a lecture hall, and get back home for the afternoon bong hit without fear of some douche stealing their bike, or getting a flat tire, etc. Plus, it has the benefit of providing physical exercise. Plus, it provided various sorts of thrills as roving gangs of high-as-a-kite college kids travesed the campus in search of shit to jump over and slide down.

But....but....but....they're only for hockey players....you can't do that....

<sigh...>

On the contrary roller blades are cool lol. In Dakar, Senegal there is this really interesting subculture of guys who basically get blazed and ride around on roller blades in traffic doing death-defying stunts. For what it's worth, no one ever hears about them getting hurt, but, you know, it's hard to know. They're a rare phenomenon these days, but I did see one guy doing it while I was there, skating backwards between cars on one skate with his two arms doing a wave thing. He had a huge smile on lol. It was badass.

@Putin

So is that why you had so many interesting things to recommend to me about the DRC a few years ago? You recommended that Jeffrey Herbst book right? I think that was his name, about geographical heritage of African states. Anyway, I agree that New Orleans is the pearl of the Caribbean. It's a very special place. I'm lucky to be here.

Yes Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa.

Boots with wheels are not cool. Neither is falling on your face and trying to get up while wearing boots with wheels.

If you ice skate for a living and don't have access to a rink year round, it makes sense. For normal people, no. Roller skates actually have breaks. Use those.

brakes rather

It's amazing how deep your authoritarian impulse goes.

It's amazing how annoying you are.

Ugh fucking everyone stop being dicks. Pleeeeease lol.

How bout some jokes:

Q: What do you call Vladimir Putin's favorite sex position?

A: Boning 32 Turkish proditutes at once, aka, the Putin33

(Please take this is lighthearted jest. Pleeeeease)

Good Lord, but the forum has gone down hill recently. Thucy, you make Nigs look like a comic genius.

As an aside, both roller skates and roller blades are uncool and will remain so until I get good at them.

Fuck off.

Lol just kidding. If "kinder" means "downhill" for you, that's on you lol. I intend to treat you all like human beings, from now on. It will have to be a long campaign, because intent is mighty difficult to transmit online. You all have a wrong impression of me, and I am determined to correct it. No more bad blood.

Damn it, but I miss the old days. By now someone should have made a link between prostitution and people trafficking, claimed that this proves Thucy's joke was a rape joke, and be knee deep in calling him a hypocrite.

Why hasn't this thread evolved into a delightful heated argument revolving around the finer points of militant feminism yet?!?

We have lost so much... :(

Roller skates, for feck's sake!

I would human traffick Octavious into a roller blade gang faster than you can say "for feck's sake"

Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading

when i was a youth, i got into some trouble, and started smokeing oak leaves and sliding around on trash can lids. i was a punk. i was a fool

@Octavious That just gave me a mental image of someone trying to smoke a molotov cocktail while rollerblading.

Have people's brains been corporatized? There is no such thing as Roller Blading.

have people's brains been corporatized? fck yeah they have

*puts out joint, skates away on rollerblades*

IM THE BLADERUNNER BITCHES

Thuc - let's go 'blading and smoke a big fatty. There's a sweet trail behind the library overlooking a pristine lake nearby - we'll talk peace and compassion and bond.

You down?

"There is no such thing as Roller Blading."

And we've always been at war with Eastasia.

Invictus always makes no sense.

You're the one saying roller blading doesn't exist. I wouldn't start throwing stones about making sense if I were you.

Rollerblades are a single brand of inline skates. Rollerblading makes about as much sense as 4FRNTing.

I guess you never use Kleenex to mean any brand of tissue. Or Thermos for any brand of vacuum flask.

Nope.

How about escalator? Or Stetson? Or Tarmac? Or bubble wrap?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks