The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

I need rubbing alcohol for snes game cleaning but I've no clue where to get it....I wonder....does vodka work for cleaning electrics (albeit less efficiently)?
Or is it utterly different stuff which would damage them?

[Neil]

I need rubbing alcohol for snes game cleaning but I've no clue where to get it....I wonder....does vodka work for cleaning electrics (albeit less efficiently)?
Or is it utterly different stuff which would damage them?

They don't have drug stores over there?

As for that vodka thing, that's chavoriffic.

[Josquius]

An American friend tells me she can't find rubbing alcohol anywhere here. I've never seen it at home either (not that I've looked too hard I must say), it seems to be somewhat of an American thing.

[Ideologue]

No

I've never been to a hibachi restaurant either.  But it's been beat to death in ads for casinos, etc.

I don't think they're very common here in New England.

Huh, they're certainly all over in the place in the south.  I used to eat at hibachi restaurants all the time.

[sbr]

An American friend tells me she can't find rubbing alcohol anywhere here. I've never seen it at home either (not that I've looked too hard I must say), it seems to be somewhat of an American thing.

It's isopropyl alcohol, rubbing alcohol is a generic name.  You want it at least 70% alcohol but more is better. 

Wiki says you Brits call it surgical spirit for some stupid reason.  You should be able to find it there somewhere, look at a drug store.

[Razgovory]

Jesus Christ.  My stomach hurts.   I feel both constipated and nauseous.  I'm getting more and more like this these days.  I suspect that pretty soon I'll be like my dad and ingesting a daily laxative.

[Ideologue]

It's weird to feel yourself go from reasonably upbeat to despondent in the span of about twenty minutes, for identifiable but objectively inadequate reasons.

Is it still manic-depression if your moods swing only from "entirely shitty" to "normal"?

[Admiral Yi]

I thought Benihana style restaurants were called tepanyaki and hibachi was the little tiny charcoal grill you use at home.

[Jacob]

I thought Benihana style restaurants were called tepanyaki and hibachi was the little tiny charcoal grill you use at home.

Yeah, that's my understanding as well.

[Josephus]

Fourth Grader's WW2 Project Oversimplifes Air Combat.

LOL...I wish I wrote this stuff for a living:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fourthgraders-world-war-ii-project-vastly-oversimp,20910/

[Ideologue]

What [Joe] failed to grasp was the importance of sustained bombing raids conducted across the Western Front

Everyone does.

[Habbaku]

I don't.  They got McNair killed, after all. 

[Neil]

What [Joe] failed to grasp was the importance of sustained bombing raids conducted across the Western Front

Everyone does.

Yeah.  Just imagine if the Allies weren't making the Germans waste resources on air defence.  The Soviets would have had to steamroller even more helpless Germans into paste.

[Neil]

I don't.  They got McNair killed, after all. 

I thought that was his mistress?

[Habbaku]

Did his mistress fly the plane?