Please choose from the following:
How about white? If we have black, we could also get white, right? (p.s. black/white, from what I remember, weren't considered colors, right?)
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that's light. If you talk about pigment is the other way around.
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That's true about light, in that white light contains the other colours of light, but strictly speaking about colours, I believe white is a tint, not a colour, as black is a shade. You can't mix coloured pigments to generate a white pigment (because they work by absorbing light of wavelengths that we don't see, e.g. red pigment absorbs green light, preventing it reflecting back into our eyes). Regardless, black does look a little out of place in a list of colours. I find it hard to choose a colour out of context. Black can look good on a car (that I don't have to clean or worry about getting dented or scratched) but I much prefer my fruit to look red.
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Yeah, we wouldn't get very far if we unquestioningly accepted what we were told instead of exploring things from different perspectives. However, I believe my contribution to the philosophy of colour is done for the day.
:-)
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I am!
...if I stand on an upturned bucket. ;-P
Also, I am in Australia and I see that you are in Finland. I think I might have a few doppelgangers around the world.
I do have a Scandinavian name! (my first name, anyway) but I have never been to Finland. The closest I have got is when I spent a week in Stockholm one January about 10 years ago, but I do like akvavit and vodka, and I know how to shut up and drink. ;-) I also like to think I can speak in the flat Finnish style, learnt mainly from many years of watching WRC. I always thought it was hilarious when the on course presenter (who was a real idiot) at Rally Australia used to ask Tommi Makinen about his tactics immediately before tackling a super special stage - every time, Tommi would just matter of factly say, "I'm going to be driving flat out". Juha Kankkunen was actually my favourite driver when I first started watching, but he was more in touch with the public relations side of the sport and he was more tolerant of the idiot presenter than the stereotypically Finnish Makinen.
Oh, I also want to buy some parts from Brisa and make a puukko - I'm practically Finnish, right?
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I'm not Häjy! Hahaha! xD
Okay, I might be a little bit naughty, but I'd definitely stay away from knife fighting. I wouldn't be using a traditional Saami knife as a weapon, anyway - you'd cut your fingers the first time you tried to thrust.
There have been a lot of great Finnish race drivers. I suspect the fast slippery roads and the lifestyle in rural areas mean that many people learn car control early and get to practice driving on the limit of grip quite a lot. I don't know if there is also a focus on race driver development these days thanks to the history of great rally drivers. That's what's needed for Formula 1. You can't just be a good driver, it's a multifaceted package that you have to arrive with, including sponsorship, etc. I think there must be a focus on development in France. They also seem disproportionately represented just because of how often Sebastien Loeb won - he is ridiculously talented, like Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher. I remember when he burst onto WRC. They described him as a tarmac specialist. Then he started racing on gravel and winning. Then they started saying that he was probably pretty good.
I hadn't seen that Gronholm clip - great choice of words and the descriptive gesturing to punctuate it was hilarious!
That's interesting about Rally English. :-D I hadn't heard about that before. I just watched a little video about it. As I understand it, it's kind of different to how you might be taught to speak English at school, more of a hybrid, with the English words spoken using the Finnish sounds. It appears to me (imagining from a very different world in Australia) that the Finnish language has developed to suit the cold weather of the north, with the softer consonants conserving your breath (and heat), as well as the general frugal use of words. Do you think there may be something in that? The effect of the accent and the economical use of words is amplified by the Slavic flat delivery (in terms of tone variation, Finns speak much more like Russians than Italians, for example), and it can make for some fantastic humour (kind of like when someone that is normally very uptight and restrained swears - there's something about the incongruity and the release of tension that makes you laugh). There are some great examples in the videos for My Summer Car, including his description of Early Access, which he dedicates an entire video to explaining, e.g. "Early Access sauna is a cold place". Hahaha! Check it out - it's hilarious. I don't have the game yet, but it's on my wish list. You'll have to let me know if it's authentic to your misspent youth.
I very much enjoyed my week in Stockholm. I was impressed at how much thought had gone into designing things so that they were beautiful and functional (everything, even rubbish bins) and they do architectural and interior lighting very well. This is in stark contrast to Australia, where most people have a consuming obsession with money and consequently seem to value speed of construction and price over quality, beauty and functionality (a value that I do not share). If you do go to Stockholm, I recommend visiting the Vasamuseet and dining at Pelikan. I found that the average Swede had a mastery of English that puts many Australians to shame, and it made me feel embarrassed about how poor my non-English language skills are. I found the people very friendly. They seemed confused that I had visited in the middle of winter when they are depressed about the short days, but it seemed to reassure them that I was genuine about wanting to see what it was really like there. It probably lifted their spirits to see my brother and I frolicking in the snow like little children - I had never seen snow fall before.
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Gronholm does look just a like an innocent little boy! I think the messed up hair from removing the balaclava helps this image, but it is also his communication style with the wide innocent eyes. I get the impression that he likes to make people laugh and would be fun to spend time with. I once had the honour of driving a van full of rally legends, including two world champions, at the end of the festivities when I was a volunteer at Rally Australia. I had a very drunk Carlos Sainz (he was retired from WRC be then) next to me and Petter Solberg in the back giving me directions, because I didn't know the location of the restaurant they were going to. Sainz kept criticising my driving and Solberg's "pace notes", saying "that corner was flat!", meaning that I should not have braked or even lifted my foot off the accelerator - Hahaha! I said, "maybe not in a van", but King Carlos just couldn't respect me and my timid driving. Having subsequently caught a taxi in Barcelona, I think maybe the average Spanish taxi driver might have attempted to take these turns flat, as Carlos had suggested. I think that was the first year that Mikko Hirvonen won. I had escorted him and Jarmo Lehtinen to the celebration after they had won, and they almost did not say a word - very different to most of the other drivers. I don't know - maybe they were a little in shock, not expecting to have done so well, but I think it is also their personalities to be quiet and reserved in classic Finnish style.
Okay, it was you that made the original post that let me find My Summer Car! We have gone in a full circle. :-D I don't know if you've watched his other (non-Steam) videos, but they are also great - you can hear him drinking beer while he is narrating the footage! Hahaha! Yes, I can also relate to it a little, because I grew up in a semi-rural area on the outskirts of the metropolitan area. I remember one day when it rained and I discovered that the windscreen wipers on my old Valiant didn't work (it doesn't rain very often here but when it does, it rains hard!) I learnt that I could still see through the windscreen if I kept the speed above 80 mph! (approx 130 kph - it was an old car that didn't have metric instruments) :-/ It handled like a boat but the 4.3 L engine made a huge amount of torque so I could easily slide the rear to make it turn more tightly. Hahaha! Crazy times.
The Swedes were mostly pretty quiet, but friendly if approached (although some were more outgoing). I think they are more similar to Finns than the people of both countries like to think. :-) They perhaps sound more animated when they speak just through using a more varied tone of voice than the average Finn, but this also was not consistent. I remember meeting one girl from the northern countryside whose voice had a singing quality to it a bit like a bird, very different to the average Swede I met in Stockholm. She was small too and made me think of an elf. :-)
I did see one thing that made me understand why people might not like the winter so much. I wish I had photographed it. There was someone shovelling dirt and filthy, slushy snow from the entry of a McDonald's store. He was wearing a jacket with the big McDonald's logo on the back, and underneath that, it said, "I'm loving it!". I thought it was hilarious because he was clearly not loving it. One other thing I saw that I hadn't expected - a bouncer dealing with an unruly bar patron by holding his face into a snowbank!
I really would love to see the Finnish countryside. The night sky is one of the things I really enjoy when I go to the bush here.
I've sent you a friend request on Steam, where I have a different name.
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Australian cars back then were very much made in the American mould - big, overpowered and poor handling but comfortably soft - like limousines. They were actually quite practical for our wide, flat, sometimes rough roads, especially for people that needed to be able to tow a trailer. Performance was only assessed in terms of drag racing and nothing else. The Valiant was a joy to work on! It had a straight six cylinder engine in an engine bay designed to accommodate an even bigger (much wider) V8. I could literally stand inside the engine bay (with my feet on the ground) alongside the engine...on either side!
I remembered something that you can tease the Swedes about - they seem to like to line up in a queue and take a number whenever buying anything - very orderly. The other thing that I remember noticing was that you could use EFTPOS cards for everything - even just buying a single beer at the bar. Even now, 10 years later, it can be a chore to make small purchases with a card here.
The guy that had his face held in the snowbank by the bouncer deserved it - I had been watching for a while. I was just surprised and impressed by the tactic. It was very effective at subduing him and left him unharmed. Here, they beat you to within an inch of your life, and sometimes beyond, and then they destroy the security footage to escape criminal conviction.
Australia is nowhere near as dangerous as people think, except for the heat and dehydration in remote areas, in much the same way that the cold can kill you in Finland. Also, we don't have fucking bears! Hahaha! The only Australian animal that I am genuinely afraid of is the Estuarine crocodile, because they will definitely kill you if you give them the chance (just by being near the water). Fortunately, they are more than 1,500 km away from where I live. Snakes are timid and usually only bite people when handled. Sharks don't actually like eating people - if they did, there's no way legless corpses would be getting pulled out of the water by their mates. Tourists will never get attacked by a great white shark (unless they are spearfishing or have a bag of lobster on their hip) because the attacks always happen in conditions of poor visibility: soon after dawn on heavily overcast days, when tourists would rather be somewhere more pleasant. That is why the victims are always surfers, swimmers or paddlers who go into the water every day religiously, regardless of the conditions.
I actually picked Sal_Monella to play thehunter - I thought it was appropriate for a game that involves shooting and harvesting game animals. ;-) I had previously used cicchis0 everywhere because I had been forced to use it for a job and I didn't see the point of learning another name when this one served the purpose of being a unique identifier and was never already taken. However, as I started doing things that involved voice chat, I wanted a name that people (including me!) could pronounce.
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On cue, just to illustrate my point: Man killed by crocodile
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Older Australian (and American) cars are even easier to work on than the old cars you'd be used to for a few reasons - they are generally a lot bigger, so things aren't packed in as tightly, but they were also almost exclusively rear wheel drive, so the engine bay didn't need to accommodate the transmission. The VH Valiant was wide even by the 1970's muscle car standards, and one of the engines was a V8, so the engine bay was wide enough to accommodate this. The 265 cubic inch (4.3 L) six cylinder was not a V6 (two banks of 3 cylinders) but an inline (or straight) six, which is longer and narrower than the V8. This was mounted longitudinally as in all rear wheel drive installations, so there was plenty.of room on either side of the engine. I've attached a couple of photos, and here's a video of somebody getting an old one started (a station wagon/estate car, unlike mine, but they front half is the same) to give you an idea of scale, because I doubt you've come across too many cavernous engine bays like this - https://youtu.be/ENze3eW2JMg?t=4m4s
I must admit that I didn't take a ticket to order a beer in Sweden, but they did use the system in a bakery/cafe. Here, for some reason I can't explain, the ticket system only ever seems to be used for delicatessen counters inside supermarkets, and at takeaway fish and chip shops. We do love our queuing here, too.
We have the same bizarre legal peculiarities that allow someone to sue you for the injuries they suffered when breaking into your property, but they don't get enforced too much. I thought the Swedish bouncer did a good job using the snowbank and I was impressed. He could have tossed the guy in the freezing river and got away with it (it was on a wharf - the bar was on a boat). We have had quite a few people killed here through what have been labelled "one-punch assaults" or "king hits" (which they've attempted to rebrand as "coward punch"), when people have struck unsuspecting, usually drunk, lone strangers with an enormous haymaker, knocking them out. For some reason, they manage to avoid culpability - it gets reported as the person being killed when their head struck the pavement, not from the punch, but I fail to see the distinction. It's so common that they've made up special "one-punch laws" (I think it's a political thing - I can't see why they can't prosecute under standard assault laws) and a former world champion boxer (Danny Green) from our city (Perth) has made a television campaign to try to stop it - https://youtu.be/Esapgv5AuYY. My mate didn't die but he spent months in hospital when it happened to him because his eye came out of its socket when he hit his head on a brick wall. His wife was standing right next to him and the guy was prosecuted but only ended up being fined a few hundred dollars. It's happened to me twice (and I rarely go out) but both times I've seen it in the last split second and ducked my head enough to catch it on the forehead. These guys, like most of them just get away. These are generally committed by other members of the public, but there have also been several cases involving hotel bouncers, who should know better. What's worse is that there is active protection of them. There are security cameras outside most venues (it might even be a requirement), but the first thing they do is wipe the video tapes. I have a friend who was instructed to lose the tapes several times when working as a bartender at a nightclub. I was with him when he was assaulted by a couple of bouncers. I choked the craziest one into submission (he was clearly high on methamphetamine) and called the police, but the sergeant refused to attend. When I urged him to come before they could erase the security tapes, he instructed me stop telling him how to do his job and threatened to charge me. The problem is that there is a lot of organised crime here. Hotel security is run by an organised crime cartel that assaults you and/or burns down your premises if you don't hire them. Controlling the door lets them control the illicet drugs trade, which is a big deal here. Several hundred police officers were forced to quit the martial arts training club associated with the criminal gang, but there are still strong ties. A lot of crystal methamphetamine (ice) is used here, which I think is part of the reason for these violent assaults. Alcohol has always been a problem, but now the kids are also taking ice and steroids and watching UFC.
Yeah, most animals will leave you alone rather than confront you, but crocodiles will actively hunt you, as will packs of wild (feral domestic) dogs. Spiders aren't so bad, although redback spiders don't have many friends. Fortunately, they don't wander and they have distinctive webs so they are fairly easy to avoid. I think it's possible for them to kill some people, but it's extremely unlikely (maybe tiny kids and frail old people). My dad's been bitten (I think it was inside a glove) and he said it was excruciatingly painful for a couple of days and that painkillers were completely ineffective.
Every job here that involves a computer involves you getting assigned a username that you don't get to choose. Nobody uses it to address you - it's just for access to the computer network. Sometimes it's your employee number or a practically meaningless code, and sometimes, like in this case, it is generated from your name. If you have a fixed desk, you don't need to remember it all the time because it will be cached as the last entry in the login field, but I was working on a mineral processing plant as a mechanical engineering vacation student, which is only a 12 week contract in your final university break, and I had to make use of whichever PC was available on the day in whichever building I was in. I didn't even get to choose my password! They assigned me a practically meaningless seven digit alphanumeric code. That was even harder to remember because at least the username was generated from my name, so I had some chance of working it out
That's kind of funny but also ridiculous that Heiluri is banned for inciting racial hatred. Why Heilurimies - is that a nickname the ladies gave you? Hahaha!
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My mate didn't get the money that the guy that hit him had to pay - it was a fine for a minor offence, being drunk and disorderly in public, or something similar. The sort of thing that if you were arrested for it, they put you in the police lockup overnight to let you sober up but you don't get a criminal record.
The scariest thing about crocodiles is that they are very patient ambush predators, so you don't get to see them before they kill you. For example, if you clean fish by the river at the same spot for a few days in a row, it will recognise the pattern and anticipate you coming back. They can hide unseen beneath the water for over an hour and the first thing you know about it is when it grabs you and drags you into deeper water to drown you or rolls to unbalance and dismember you.
I've heard about people just lying down to comfortably sleep to death in the cold and also people suffering severe hypothermia that die without their clothes because their brain tells them that they are warm.
What was scary about the Walking the Nile show was how fast it happened to a healthy person and that this was a group of experienced people with all the administration requirements (legal and safety precautions) of a British television production but there was nothing they could do. It was really powerful television, as this explains: http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/05/i-saw-him-take-his-last-breath-walking-the-nile-shows-last-moments-of-journalist-matt-power-5009273/
You'd definitely be feeling hot-hot-hot here. The weather forecast is 37 degrees C for today and 39 on Thursday (Australia Day). I actually like the heat much more than most other people here (although I wouldn't like to trek in those conditions, carrying everything I needed). It very occasionally gets to 45 degrees here, but I suspect that it was also humid in Uganda, whereas here we usually have a very dry heat, which is much more tolerable. High humidity, and even still air (no wind) to some extent, reduces the evaporation rate, so sweating doesn't cool you anywhere near as effectively. I enjoy the feeling of the sun on my back even when it's over 40 degrees, but if you are doing any sort of labour, you'd be amazed by how much water you need to drink just to replenish what you sweat out. Also, any skin exposed to the sunlight quickly gets burnt. I have quite fair skin and when it is really bright like it is in summer, I will get sunburnt in under 15 minutes, and under 45 minutes even with SPF 30+ sunscreen on.
I also have a reputation associated with drinking alcohol (as do engineering students in general here). A girl I went to school with tagged me in this video the other day: https://www.facebook.com/DailyMail/videos/1844331235626616/
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I find saunas difficult to handle - you Scandinavians are crazy! :-D
It was 42 degrees here yesterday! Also, it was Australia Day, which for hundreds of thousands of people means standing in a crowd on the sunny riverbank and drinking all day to get a good vantage point for the fireworks show at 8 pm. I can't think of many worse ways to spend the day, so I don't do that. It actually was cancelled at 5 pm when one of the planes flying around to distract people so they don't start fights crashed into the river, killing the two people on board. On the footage, it looked to my untrained eye like he must have been trying to fly the same lines as the stunt plane he was flying with, except he was in a "flying boat" type seaplane, not exactly designed for aerobatics and the turn was too tight, so the plane stalled (aerodynamically - the wing angle of attack was too great) and he was way too low to have any chance to recover. It's fortunate that he didn't hit anyone on the ground or the water - there are typically tens of thousands of boats on the river for the event.
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The heat can kill you very quickly just like the cold. Did you see the British TV show "Walking the Nile"? That was pretty scary: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2920383/I-pleaded-breathing-delirious-desperate-fight-save-Levison-Wood-s-Walking-Nile-companion-died-45C-heat-just-two-hours-feeling-unwell.html
Also, even if you do realise you have a problem, I'm not sure that knowing you are about to die makes it any easier when there's nothing you can do about it. Where we go on fishing and camping trips, you have to take everything. Even with a four wheel drive vehicle, you are several hours from the nearest means of contacting another person, fresh water or even shade.
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Depends, if he thinks scientifically white would be the sum of all colors, as an artist it'd be black. But by definition they both aren't.
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I like purple potatoes (the misleadingly named Royal Blue variety has purple skin and yellow flesh) unless I'm making gnocchi, when I like white (Sebago) or pink (Desiree) ones for their drier, more floury flesh.
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Anywayy.. as I was saying.. Prepare the grill (medium-high heat). Whisk the oil, mint, lemon juice, basil, and garlic in a medium bowl to blend. Season the lemon and olive oil mixture with salt and pepper, to taste. Brush the swordfish steaks with 2 tablespoons of the lemon and olive oil mixture (if you don't have spoons you can use a fork). Grill the steaks until just cooked through, about 3 minutes per side (depending on thickness of steaks). Transfer the steaks to plates. And there you go, delicious swordfish for 2.
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since there's no pink, i'll go with black
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are we the randomizer to pick out an item/objects color? or are you having an alien baby and we're guessing what color it will be?
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Sorry but I'm not picking a color, there isn't a pink option...
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Everything but yellow ¯\ (ツ)/¯
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Thanks
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