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Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol.5

dragon_nataku

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@Pikochu: You could always cook several portions of something in one go and eat it throughout the week. I do this with miso soup for breakfast because I've not got time in the mornings to do anything but reheat food I've already made. I make like four days' worth at a time. Same with lunch/dinner type meals: I'll make one thing that's enough for maybe four portions so if I don't have time to cook I can just reheat a meal, and it's not rubbish fast food. ^^
 

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@Pikochu: You could always cook several portions of something in one go and eat it throughout the week. I do this with miso soup for breakfast because I've not got time in the mornings to do anything but reheat food I've already made. I make like four days' worth at a time. Same with lunch/dinner type meals: I'll make one thing that's enough for maybe four portions so if I don't have time to cook I can just reheat a meal, and it's not rubbish fast food. ^^
I rarely cook but do so when I decide to do it, just so I'll actually have several portions handy until I'll actually get to cook again.
Also I don't have soup or anything that actually needs cooking for breakfast, I prefer it to be easy and quick to prepare. Else I would be skipping it more.
 

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I can see your point and indeed I can't say much before actually getting my license and own car.

Although I know several people who drive and still don't think of their car as their style, personality or comfort. The rest are valid, though.

I'm sure they do think that but not everyone thinks like that. As a teenager when you get your licence and then you get a car to drive, it is like freedom.
 

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I'm sure they do think that but not everyone thinks like that. As a teenager when you get your licence and then you get a car to drive, it is like freedom.
Perhaps the cultural background difference also has something to do with that. I'm not sure about Australian law regarding minimum age for getting a driving license (is it 16 like in the USA or more?) but over here it is 18, and by that age we are neither teenagers nor is the car the only kind of freedom we can enjoy, as adulthood is like freedom in more ways than that.
 

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(is it 16 like in the USA or more?)

The general rule is 16 in the United States. However, there are exceptions to the rule that is very dependent on the state.

Being able to drive at 16 in the US pretty much raised the social status for me in high school. I became "that one guy" to "that one guy that can give us rides." Since then, I've gotten to know my fellow high school students and became really good friends who otherwise wouldn't met me. Plus, students were less incline to pick on me and be nicer to me simply because I held the key.
 

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The general rule is 16 in the United States. However, there are exceptions to the rule that is very dependent on the state.

Being able to drive at 16 in the US pretty much raised the social status for me in high school. I became "that one guy" to "that one guy that can give us rides." Since then, I've gotten to know my fellow high school students and became really good friends who otherwise wouldn't met me. Plus, students were less incline to pick on me and be nicer to me simply because I held the key.
Indeed.

That's nice. I can see how it matters social status-wise in cases like these. It's just that my friends and I who couldn't enjoy such a luxury have developed a different mentality on the matter. After all, I recently moved from a countryside area in which cars are a necessity to a big city with all sorts of public transport. And that's a transition most people of my age go through over here.
 

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Plus you can do it in your car. Perks! And I guess drive through at 1 am to a fast food joint helps.
 

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I see. Over here there are several fast food shops that offer home delivery 24/7. Few people would actually drive at 1am to get fast food.
 

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There's a lot you can do in a car. All in privacy.
Never thought of it like that considering the car is outside private places such as one's garage most of the time.
I mean, while there is some privacy, it's not really as private as one's home because the car is, you know, still outdoors.
 

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Home has several people, car doesn't.
Right :) Depends on the kind of home you live in.

While back at my family's place there were several people stacked together (grandparents included), I am living all by myself now. Which is both good and bad.
 

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Introducing flying cars to the public won't be as easy. They are either going to be too expensive or just not as fast (at least in the beginning). Not to mention the legislation that needs to be enforced, controlling 3-D traffic sounds way more complicated than the 2-D traffic we have now.
 

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Introducing flying cars to the public won't be as easy. They are either going to be too expensive or just not as fast (at least in the beginning). Not to mention the legislation that needs to be enforced, controlling 3-D traffic sounds way more complicated than the 2-D traffic we have now.


Flying a jet. Not a car. Please I've so flew a car anyway.
 

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Flying cars honestly sound way dangerous....

can you imagine midair crashes happening. No thanks I like to be on the ground.

I wouldnt even want to fly a plane.... I dont even like flying very much.
 

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Flying cars would be immensely impractical if everybody had them. Given the difficulty of establishing any sort of traffic regulation system in mid-air, including basic roadways, it would be a massive free-for-all that would result in many casualties.
Even driving on the ground would no longer be safe, as falling debris could come from anywhere at any time.

As such, I shall invent a flying car and keep it all to myself. That is the most practical usage of the technology.
 

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Flying cars honestly sound way dangerous....

can you imagine midair crashes happening. No thanks I like to be on the ground.

I wouldnt even want to fly a plane.... I dont even like flying very much.

Eh works for some people. I'm going to do it.
 

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I enjoy flying in airplanes, but I don't have any strong desires to be the one flying the airplane.
 
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