The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

I spent all of today playing poker in Atlantic City.  The day was frankly going awful for me, one of my worst ever, so I wasn't in a good mood.  Even worse, the guy next to me was very bad at following the action, and pretty much every hand the dealer had to remind him to play his hand.  If you played poker live, you know how annoying that can be.  I must've been so annoyed that I was shaking my head, and unlike the poker action, that wasn't missed by my neighbor.

Neighbor:  "You can shake your hand all you want, but at least I'm up.  You're not up, are you?  You had a lot more stacks before, and now you don't.  You look tilted, I guess because you're not up?"
Me: " I'm tilted because you can't follow the action and you waste everyone's time."
Neighbor: "At least I'm up.  You're down, way down.  You had a lot more stacks when I started than you do now."
Me: 

I brushed him off, but immediately I started dreaming of a scenario where we get all-in, I take his chips, and then I'll go "You're not up now, are you?"  Half an hour later, I get two aces, and we get it all-in pre-flop.  He had two tens, so it was a pretty bad play by him to wind up all-in with so much money against my two aces.  He didn't get lucky, so I take almost all of his chips.

Neighbor: "Good hand!  Very well played.  Really good hand.  Congratulations, you earned it. *fist bump*"

The situation I dreamed of came about, but now this guy is being a perfect gentleman, and giving me kudos for a hand well-played.  It would be a real dick move for me to taunt him now.  So I go: "You're not up now, are you?  "

This has to be the least DGuller-ish post I have read in my life.

[Syt]

https://youtu.be/ltVtnCzg9xw

"Welcome to Britain" (1943). An Army movie informing G.I.s how (not) to behave in Britain, starring Mickey The Penguin Burgess Meredith with a cameo from Bob Hope.

I wonder if they showed this movie to Tonitrus and AnchorClanker before they moved there and if they still view giving candy to school children favorably.

Most awkward was pointing out that people might be less racist in Britain than Americans were used to.

Appropriately, about 1/3 of the movie was about pub etiquette.

[Tonitrus]

https://youtu.be/ltVtnCzg9xw

"Welcome to Britain" (1943). An Army movie informing G.I.s how (not) to behave in Britain, starring Mickey The Penguin Burgess Meredith with a cameo from Bob Hope.

I wonder if they showed this movie to Tonitrus

Appropriately, about 1/3 of the movie was about pub etiquette.

"They" had not...but I like watching these kind of old films, so I had certainly seen it before coming over here. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

The film was very enjoyable 

I thought the advice in it was pretty good.

[Syt]

I liked the teacher.
"What's this town? Where did I go to school?"
"Cambridge?"
"Oxford on Thames. 'Camebridge' is somewhere up there."

[Legbiter]

Still relevant advice.

[Tonitrus]

The film was very enjoyable 

I thought the advice in it was pretty good.

Though I will admit to being negligent in giving away candy to schoolchildren and chasing pretty lasses on bicycles. 

My favorite line, to the gentlemen outside his old, thatched-roof home:

"You've lived there all your life?"
"Not yet."

[Legbiter]

The eruption at Fagradalsfjall is ongoing. It's been remarkably consistent in output, with 8 craters opening and closing. I've hiked up to it twice now, it is a spectacular sight, especially at dusk. This is probably the start of centuries of volcanic activity on the peninsula.



Satellite image of the eruption. The pale blue dot at 1 o clock is the famous Blue Lagoon tourist trap.

[Eddie Teach]

This has to be the least DGuller-ish post I have read in my life.

You misspelled "most". 

[Syt]

Though I will admit to being negligent in giving away candy to schoolchildren and chasing pretty lasses on bicycles. 

My favorite line, to the gentlemen outside his old, thatched-roof home:

"You've lived there all your life?"
"Not yet."

That was good, yes.

[DGuller]

This has to be the least DGuller-ish post I have read in my life.

[alfred russel]

This has to be the least DGuller-ish post I have read in my life.

If you showed me that wall of text and asked which person posted it, I'd be 100% certain it was DGuller.

[DGuller]

 

[alfred russel]

I meant nothing disparaging at all.

[ulmont]

Lennon, Joplin, Hendrix  - not necessarily my favorites of the list (that would be Bowie), but they still had a long career ahead of them when they died.

Joplin's a bad choice, as are frankly Jackson, Morrison, and Cobain at a minimum.  Anybody who was pretty much self-destructing is only gonna do it again given another chance.

I take your point regarding long careers, though, which leads me to Mercury, Hendrix, and Lennon.  I may be underrating Shakur.