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    Mmmm we're baking a lime blueberry pound cake with cream cheese frosting in the oven now

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    Quote Originally Posted by icedwarrior View Post
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    What's the story behind everyone's usernames? What's the meaning behind them, and how did you arrive at making that specific username?
    I am terrible at coming up with names. And I liked to play a lot of characters, which made it even harder. My "main" at the time was Grendelcobol, named after a druid I had in D&D. I started seeing people use big words as names, and thought it was a cool idea. I was also 9still kind of am, but less so) obsessed with the band Incubus, and at the time, Light Grenades had come out recently. "Pendulous" is related to a song called "Pendulous Threads", and I thought the word worked well. So that hunter became another main, and I started using it in many places. I still remember those names and my shaman who I healed with occasionally in WOTLK, but my druid was my main healer, and I still love how they healed back then.

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    I like your name, Pend

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    Today is apparently 90's music day on Spotify for us...

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    Every time I read about famous people killed while cycling I get a little more afraid of it myself

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    Dont die while cycling please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xanjori View Post
    Dont die while cycling please.
    I'm doing my best to avoid it!

    He (Helmut Jahn, a famed architect) didn't stop at a stop sign at an intersection that was clearly busy (bystanders said they don't know why) a few dozen miles from the city (I've even biked in the area) and got hit by an SUV in one direction, thrown across the road, and struck again by a car going the other way. Scary stuff. I regularly skip stop signs and red lights myself, but I also go biking super early in the morning, when it's dead, and I'm careful to slow down by intersections so I can verify they're empty before I go through them...

    But, still, accidents happen! I've had a number of close calls with people cutting me off, running me against the edge of the road, sometimes even driving within inches of striking me with a mirror and honking like I'm an asshole for biking in a bike lane.

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    I mean yeah you're already super exposed on a bike, so you've always gotta be extra careful. That just sounds super gruesome though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darsithis View Post
    I regularly skip stop signs and red lights myself

    But, still, accidents happen!
    Feels like these statements have a quite high correlation....


    dunno why though

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    Quote Originally Posted by notJoyful View Post
    Feels like these statements have a quite high correlation....


    dunno why though
    Ha!

    I know it sounds dangerous, I get it. I live in a major city in the United States, and if I stopped at every stop light and stop sign, I truly wouldn't get a workout. A block is only a few hundred feet, I wouldn't even get up to speed between them. I do, though, slow down if I can't see the sides of the intersection as I'm closing in on it, and will stop completely if I see cars passing through ahead of me, or lights on either side. I'm not stupid.

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