READING + WALKING

crazy peoples: Reading while walking

that's how my husband's uncle got through university. actually i think he hopped around the table.

Agreed. What's wrong with those people?!

SOMETHING

xpost Agreed? You don't know fucking know my husband's uncle!

i can do this

anyone can do this que, only insane people do tho.

I get bored walking.

i do this sometimes. I R INSANE

I used to do this on my previous commute. I'd read on the bus, then continue reading for the 15 minute walk to the office. That was a walk through a boring suburban area though, so there was no traffic or anything else to look out for.

3/4 of people I see doing this look like they are full of shit.

QUE, OYSTEIN: INSANE.

Anyone who doesn't/can't do this is a non-multitasking pussy.

Jhoshea, if you're going to steal my Ø, you'd better be more respectful, son!

DAN: INSANE.

jhoshea: NON MULTITASKING PUSSY

^^^ qft

WHAT IS THAT I HEAR? THE JABBERING OF THE MENTALLY UNWELL? HOW SAD INDEED!

I do this sometimes, too. What can you do when it's your bus stop but you're not at a stopping point in the book? There is NO OTHER OPTION.

KENAN, DOM: INSANE.

I mean, I can't imagine anyone setting out to walk somewhere and bringing along a book specifically for the purpose of reading + walking. That would be a little insane, yes.

I SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE DELIGHT VISUAL IMAGERY OF KILBURN HIGH ROAD WHEN I'M WALKING, YES?

THAT IS AN INTERESTING CLOSED KEBAB SHOP. THAT IS A FASCINATING MOBILE PHONE REPAIR STORE. AREN'T I GLAD I'M LOOKING AT THESE WONDERFUL IMAGES RATHER THAN EXPANDING MY MIND WITH A BOOK.

kenan any point in a book is in fact a suitable stopping point. you can get through this buddy. there is a wellness-light at the end of this batshit-tunnel.

POSTING ON ILX + WALKING
Dom can has scaring me

dom dont worry someday you will look back on your comments here and chuckle to yourself thinking wow i was really fucking crazy back then when i used to read and walk at the same time oh my

It's not necessarily a matter of not being able to do this as preferring to be aware of your surroundings when walking, and being entirely engrossed without having to worry about staying in motion while reading. But then, I don't even like to wear headphones while walking in public.

i do this sometimes with blackberry, but wouldn't recommend it

if reading + car ride make me sick ill probably die if i'll if read while walk.or get my head bumped on a pole.

plus,the topics on ILE are getting more and more esoteric.

But then, I don't even like to wear headphones while walking in public.

Okay this = totally crazypants.

What a bizarre coincidence! I was thinking of starting a thread on this exact subject this morning while walking from the subway to my job.

While walking and thinking about this, I was also READING A BOOK.

I only do it from subway station to my job in the a.m. (one avenue block) and I have to be really into the book I'm reading for it to happen, so that I can't bear to let go until I get off the office elevator.

The one guy in middle school who would do this walking home from the bus stop, we used to mock as a freak. Little did we know he was utterly OTM.

I have read while walking and wearing headphones in downtown Chicago, but then again my insanity is well established, if not here, but most other places in the universe.

I don't prefer to be aware of anything while I'm walking, it's an occasionally painful, unrewarding exercise in futility because you always get places more slowly than you think you will, and you're covered in a sheen of sweat when you do. I hate it. I will ride my bike to the grocery store THREE BLOCKS away even if it means carrying it down the apartment stairs. Reading while walking is, if the streets aren't too crowded and inefficient, a perfect way to distract my mind from my irritation and boredom.

LAUREL, JON, NICK: INSANE.

THE EVIDENCE IS MOUNTING, YOU INEFFICIENT BAG OF WALKING BONES.

APPARENT FIXATIONS OF THE INSANE: EFFICIENCY, MULTI-TASKING, STOPPING IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

I'm getting the feeling this thread will be used to decide who gets committed/executed when the psychologists finally take over.

No DSM4's for you, ilxors, oh no.

APPARENT FIXATIONS OF THE BRAINLESS AND UNEVOLVED: ... ... ... I'M SORRY, DID YOU SAY SOMETHING? I WAS JUST GAZING AT THAT PHONE BOOTH.

IT'S AWFULLY...RED.

DON'T YOU THINK?

I'm getting the feeling this thread will be used to decide who gets committed/executed when the psychologists finally take over.

lol if all the psychos would just follow me through this door here plz - yah ok np bring yr book

As a child I used to do this all the time. The last time I did it I was reading a particularly hilarious Private Eye article and almost got creamed by a truck motoring up Mare Street.

We won't be around for the end times, jhs, the matter transporters should be finished soon....very soon.

lol walking while reading scifi

I read during part of my walk in to work in the morning if the book's any good. The only issue I've had is attracting the attention of this man who has turned it into a talking point and now won't let me pass until I tell him about what I'm reading. But then one day he DID say I've turned him on to reading, so I guess that's something.

Did he insert a pregnant pause?

YOU'VE TURNED ME ON...

...TO READING.

It would be kind of awesome if you kicked him in the nuts after that.

I do this, when I have to walk somewhere and am annoyed because I'd rather be reading my book. Of course it means I can't concentrate fully on walking OR reading, but better than putting down the book. So fuck you all!

Yeah, I disagree that any place is a good place to stop. What if something awesome is about to happen? You can't just stop reading in the middle of sex or violence!

xxpost: grady to thread

unless all robot sex is gay sex

WHY DON'T I OWN THIS?
http://media.idahostatesman.com/smedia/2007/08/16/11/534-BOOKS_VICTORIA_BECKHAM.sff.embedded.prod_affiliate.36.jpg

She's terrifying.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/poshbaseball4AP_468x431.jpg
aaaayo im tired of usin technolooooogy

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/6/7/2/13262766-13262768-large.jpg

wtf?
http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/D20060226/2306_553626655_karl_H152351_L.jpg

That is the greatest picture. They match! Also, the book isn't available yet in the US. Don't ask why I know these things. xpost

Also - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

lagerfeld is in a league of his own really

I think the fug girls have mentioned on several occasions that Posh's autobiography is kind of amazing.

lagerfeld is basically the most important person who ever lived on this planet

"person"

u read this right http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/19/070319fa_fact_colapinto

Ok - I just looked again and the guitar Karl pic is actually terrifying.

His starched shirt had a four-inch-high collar that fit snugly under his chin, and his hair—whitened with a gesso-like dry shampoo—was pulled into a ponytail. His large belt buckle was encrusted with diamonds; his tie, looped with silver chains, was fixed with a jade Cartier clasp from the nineteen-twenties. He was wearing fingerless black biker gloves that bore silver grommets, etched with the Chanel logo, on each knuckle and were equipped, at the wrists, with small zippers that carried faintly S & M overtones. “Très chic, non?” he said, holding up a hand to be admired. A chunky Chrome Hearts ring adorned the pinkie finger, over the glove.

god

i started reading that article all lol look @ this crazy guy and finished it genuinely inspired

He hates the telephone, and communicates with the outside world primarily through faxes, which he writes in flowing script with a fountain pen.

I don't really like the telephone either so I should probably start doing this, right?

The sad part is that when KL landed from that jump he shattered both knees -- v sad about the osteoporosis and the slow discorporation. Doctors report a near-total lack of bone mass, or in fact any other kind either.

ahhh faxing SO AWESOME

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2083985/2112643/2120488/050608_Fa_Lagerfeld_tn.jpg

total lack of bone mass = Samuel L. Jackson in "Unbreakable"?

If I remember correctly his "diet trick" is taking a spoonfull of Nutella, letting it "float" around in his mouth and then SPITS IT OUT. I'm not sure if that's the most vile thing I ever heard or the most insane thing. Probably both. That said, he is a GOD and his arrogance, which must be on par with Usher if not greater, is part of why he's so great. He knows it. Would be kinda daft if he was this modest person. You want him to be so smug. I think he also made that Fendi two-tone pattern, I think... Could be wrong though. Also, I need to check the Chanel collection. What I saw, was kinda meh but then I don't even know if he still designs the Chanel collection.

Also, reading and walking is insane you guys. You know it. You are just in denial.

BTW drinking 2 Gallon Starbucks Coffee, you DESERVE to fall on the ground. You insane woman you. Who drinks that shit?

i know who is insane on this thread

which country will rich spice seek to conquer after she fails in america?

I think maybe it was not literally 2 gallons but rather the schef was employing hyperbole.

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/3795/nonmultitaskingkt0.jpg

Use it! Abuse it!

http://i12.tinypic.com/6aq4n83.jpg

sweeeeeet

THAT looks like a man who can walk and read at the same time

:-D ^_^ :-D

Dan has always been tuff like that.

- Vest
- Pretty Hate Machine t-shirt
- Nabisco's increasing nostalgia for early 90s

It all comes clear.

Read that list while walking to whatever store will sell you Helen Hunt's wardrobe circa 1992.

http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20060911/wyourpics0911/goldblum1done.jpg

Louis Jagger?

THE OLD ITALIC TAG/IMAGE TAG MISHAP.

http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20060911/wyourpics0911/goldblum1done.jpg

Also, why isn't Louis Jagger being auto-googleproofed?

LOUIS JAGGER

wasted mod privileges in a argentina soccer beef

the 'blum is supposed to look like honest-abe-but-jewish, not he-who-shall-remain-nameless, mr. jaymc.xls!

http://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/elektra/busta_rhymes/busta_rhymes.jpg

This is serious
We can make you delerious
You should have a healthy fear of us
'Cuz too much vulva is dangerous

hahahaha oops wrong thread (OR IS IT...?)

"That's what kids do these days, they make porn at school," said a Wesleyan University student

From the name you'd think it was a Christian seminary

this thread has now been killed with the following:

*boobies
*vulvas

WHAT'S LEFT?

you forgot PORN STUDIES, mr. que

saw someone knitting + walking today

Not sure my dog would get walked without this one neat trick