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Title: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 18, 2010, 03:22:25 PM
Today I went to the world's biggest IKEA store. I almost never go to IKEA. I bought a NISSE, and sixpacks of SVALKA, GODIS and MJÖD. It came to SEK 261. I was reminded why I buy my furniture at mid-range stores: IKEA stuff is so incredibly cheap looking.

The filthy rich Nazi was nowhere to be seen.

Speaking of Nazis a week ago I bought a new jacket. A Boss. I like it. It was not IKEA cheap.

My local Thai was a bit bland today. It's usually much better. Not the usual guy in the kitchen today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 18, 2010, 03:25:47 PM
QuoteI bought a NISSE, and sixpacks of SVALKA, GODIS and MJÖD. It came to SEK 261.

:lol:

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on April 18, 2010, 03:27:06 PM
Jätte bra!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Monoriu on April 18, 2010, 08:45:15 PM
Half of my furniture is IKEA.  The rest is custom-built.  I have to say, the IKEA half looks and lasts better. 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 18, 2010, 08:50:29 PM
I miss IKEA. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Threviel on April 18, 2010, 11:40:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 18, 2010, 03:27:06 PM
Jätte bra!

Young kids and their fucking writing styles today. You are not speaking english, do not write one word as two. Jättebra?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on April 19, 2010, 01:43:53 AM
Quote from: Threviel on April 18, 2010, 11:40:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 18, 2010, 03:27:06 PM
Jätte bra!

Young kids and their fucking writing styles today. You are not speaking english, do not write one word as two. Jättebra?

Hans modersmål är engelska.   :smarty:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on April 19, 2010, 06:41:50 AM
Ikea, without it all my furniture would be even more cheap from even more cheap Chinese sweatshop bought from Wal-Mart or Canadian Tire.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on April 19, 2010, 08:19:46 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2010, 03:22:25 PM
Today I went to the world's biggest IKEA store.
:wub: That's practically a pilgrimage. I've been in IKEAs in the UK, France and Hong Kong, but never Sweden, ironically.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Pedrito on April 19, 2010, 08:28:49 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2010, 03:22:25 PM
SVALKA,

White, Red, Bubbles or Schnaps?

I owned 4 or 5 NISSEs, too  :hug:

L.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 19, 2010, 08:59:56 AM
Was there a sale?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcheezpictureisunrelated.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F129084723908442914.jpg&hash=68b302960c08c58ec496666633091408284cd3d8)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: merithyn on April 19, 2010, 09:02:29 AM
Will someone please translate what those things are? :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Pedrito on April 19, 2010, 09:06:31 AM
Quote from: merithyn on April 19, 2010, 09:02:29 AM
Will someone please translate what those things are? :unsure:

Foldable chairs, glasses

L.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on April 19, 2010, 09:17:35 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 19, 2010, 08:59:56 AM
Was there a sale?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcheezpiceisunrelated.files.wordpr%2F129084723908442914.jpg&hash=4a88c0a00536c264dbf85286c198a68b561a2e38)
Slut always makes me giggle. Never seen it combined with spurt though, heh. Always good when you see slut rea on women's clothing stores.
Also good is utfart.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 19, 2010, 11:09:29 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on April 19, 2010, 08:28:49 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2010, 03:22:25 PM
SVALKA,

White, Red, Bubbles or Schnaps?

I owned 4 or 5 NISSEs, too  :hug:

L.

White.

Somewhere on Languish there is a pic where you can see part of my NISSE. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on April 19, 2010, 07:32:07 PM
Where is today's chapter, I was looking forward to it all day. :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 20, 2010, 12:55:35 PM
Today my train home was cancelled so they herded us into a bus like so many resettling Jews. Two ladies behind me talked the whole 90 minute trip. They were hot so I forgave them.

When I got home I had a muffin from the supermarket.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on April 20, 2010, 01:04:13 PM
 :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 11, 2011, 10:48:27 AM
My ticket (first row, balcony center) for the Easter Sunday performance of Wagner's Parsifal at the State Opera has arrived.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 18, 2011, 05:30:13 PM
There was a gay man on the bus today.

Shut up. Everyone is a fucking comedian these days. <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 19, 2011, 01:18:16 PM
Today Princesca and I went to the "Kentucky Crafted" fair at the state fairgrounds, which is supposed to be for Kentucky vendors to showcase their wares.  For some reason there were vendors there from as far away as south Georgia, though. :huh:

We met up with a guy who has a dairy just down the road from us and makes his own cheese, plus offers his own grass-fed beef and bacon.  He is going to give us: a free sample package. :cool:

We also bought a jar of cranberry mustard (who'd have thought those two things go so well together?) from a dude from Montgomery, West Virginia, some vegan umami soup base stuff from a vendor here in Louisville, and a bottle of KICKASS hickory BBQ sauce from a guy down in Bowling Greene.  Helpful hint for the ignorant Euros: when picking a BBQ sauce, always bet on black.  Awwww, NIGGGGAAAH.

When I got home I sprayed Immunox on my apples and went down into the woods to look for maples, since Princesca was bugging me to see if we have any we can tap for syrup.  I didn't find any, but I found a black walnut tree I didn't know we had, as well as another fossil bed at the base of one of the junipers. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on March 19, 2011, 01:26:32 PM
My new internets is up. 15MB.

Farewell AT&T DSL. You served me well for 12 years. But 3MB down speed just didn't cut it anymore.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 19, 2011, 01:28:47 PM
I have AT&T DSL.  It is slow, but it's reliable.  When we had Insight cable the fucking signal dropped all the time. :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on March 19, 2011, 01:31:46 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 19, 2011, 01:28:47 PM
I have AT&T DSL.  It is slow, but it's reliable.  When we had Insight cable the fucking signal dropped all the time. :mad:

Time Warner will FEEL MY WRATH if this shit doesn't stay up.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 02:15:00 PM
My internet was pretty stable - as long as some fucknut didn't go and cut the main fibre cable connecting us to the rest of the world.

And yes - that has happened several times. <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on March 19, 2011, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 02:15:00 PM
My internet was pretty stable - as long as some fucknut didn't go and cut the main fibre cable connecting us to the rest of the world.

And yes - that has happened several times. <_<

hey, I'd go to that much trouble to cut off the latest Jets updates too.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 19, 2011, 03:15:32 PM
I went for a walk.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on March 19, 2011, 11:22:44 PM
I found a lost dog wandering around in the Rio Hondo riverbed while I was on my evening bike ride. I called Animal Control and continued on my way.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 11:24:05 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 19, 2011, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 02:15:00 PM
My internet was pretty stable - as long as some fucknut didn't go and cut the main fibre cable connecting us to the rest of the world.

And yes - that has happened several times. <_<

hey, I'd go to that much trouble to cut off the latest Jets updates too.

Well just start digging along the side of the Alaska Highway.  Apparently the fibre is only buried 6" or something. <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 20, 2011, 01:01:59 AM
Quote from: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 11:24:05 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 19, 2011, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 19, 2011, 02:15:00 PM
My internet was pretty stable - as long as some fucknut didn't go and cut the main fibre cable connecting us to the rest of the world.

And yes - that has happened several times. <_<

hey, I'd go to that much trouble to cut off the latest Jets updates too.


Well just start digging along the side of the Alaska Highway.  Apparently the fibre is only buried 6" or something. <_<

Then they probably get cut by fornicating bison.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 21, 2011, 11:50:44 AM
Today at Burger King there was a horde of Finns BUT the chick who took my order was ultra hott.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on April 21, 2011, 12:41:11 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 21, 2011, 11:50:44 AM
Today at Burger King there was a horde of Finns BUT the chick who took my order was ultra hott.
Were jahuu and that other guy whose name I forget but was a herpephiliac there? :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 21, 2011, 12:41:38 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2011, 12:41:11 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 21, 2011, 11:50:44 AM
Today at Burger King there was a horde of Finns BUT the chick who took my order was ultra hott.
Were jahuu and that other guy whose name I forget but was a herpephiliac there? :)

Ogle? Didn't see them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on April 21, 2011, 12:48:40 PM
Yeah, Ogle. :hug:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 23, 2011, 05:05:57 AM
Conversation at work a few days ago.

Me: "Got to go to the book store later, my order has arrived." (still had birthday vouchers)
Colleague: "What is it?"
Me: "Uhm, you wouldn't know."
Colleague: "Try me."
Me: "It's called 'Slide, Kelly, Slide', it's about one of the first baseball stars in the 1880s."
Colleague: "Oh yeah, I heard of him."
Me:  :huh:
Colleague: "Yeah, in the 80s I lived with a guy in the U.S. - he only cared for two things: surfing and baseball. Every morning he headed to the beach to check the waves, then came back with the newspaper to read the box scores and see how his fantasy players were doing. He named his son 'King Kelly'."




Fragments of phone conversation on the tram today. Young girl's voice, slight Turkish accent:
"... blood might have seeped through the esophagus ... kicked him in the head so many times ... she won't say anything because then she might be held responsible, too ..."
Unfortunately she got off a station later.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 23, 2011, 03:57:20 PM
My headset ceased to maintain structural integrity. It was in routine operation at the time. I blame plastic as a material.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:00:37 PM
I'm so bored, I'm watching MTV. SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2011, 05:04:23 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:00:37 PM
I'm so bored, I'm watching MTV. SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW

Who had 4 days in the "how long into retirement until Boner cracks" pool?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:05:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2011, 05:04:23 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:00:37 PM
I'm so bored, I'm watching MTV. SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW

Who had 4 days in the "how long into retirement until Boner cracks" pool?

IT IS THE DAY BEFORE EASTER. I'M BORED
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on April 23, 2011, 06:23:34 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:05:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2011, 05:04:23 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:00:37 PM
I'm so bored, I'm watching MTV. SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW

Who had 4 days in the "how long into retirement until Boner cracks" pool?

IT IS THE DAY BEFORE EASTER. I'M BORED

Doesn't hiding eggs for that many kids take all day?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 06:24:10 PM
Quote from: sbr on April 23, 2011, 06:23:34 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:05:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2011, 05:04:23 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 23, 2011, 05:00:37 PM
I'm so bored, I'm watching MTV. SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW

Who had 4 days in the "how long into retirement until Boner cracks" pool?

IT IS THE DAY BEFORE EASTER. I'M BORED

Doesn't hiding eggs for that many kids take all day?

One hour. Then I go inside.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 26, 2011, 11:22:54 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

You're having Yi over in 2015?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on April 26, 2011, 12:00:47 PM
I have a bunch of furniture I need to give away by Friday, as I will be moving out on Saturday.

I tried calling Goodwill, but the lady was bitchy on the phone and said they don't pick stuff up, and I will have to bring everything by myself... And then they will inspect it and tell me what they want to keep.  So eff that. 

Then I tried calling a black guy named Mo who moved something for me cheaply before, but like yesterday his phone was turned off, so I left a message.

Is 1-800-Got-Junk in my future?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 26, 2011, 12:04:31 PM
You could probably leave it out by the trash and see it disappear.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on April 26, 2011, 12:10:03 PM
1. Put on Lawn
2a. Put sign "Free to take" or something
2b. Alternatively sign that says "For Sale 30$" & leave it unchained
3. See it carried away.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on April 26, 2011, 02:53:43 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 26, 2011, 12:10:03 PM
1. Put on Lawn
2a. Put sign "Free to take" or something
2b. Alternatively sign that says "For Sale 30$" & leave it unchained
3. See it carried away.
There you are.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 26, 2011, 02:56:09 PM
Yesterday I went to work in the morning.  I came home in the afternoon.  Today I went to work in the morning as well.  I came home in the afternoon as well.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on April 26, 2011, 02:58:19 PM
Isn't abandoning furniture to the front of a nice apt complex rather déclassé?   :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on April 26, 2011, 03:01:20 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on April 26, 2011, 02:58:19 PM
Isn't abandoning furniture to the front of a nice apt complex rather déclassé?   :hmm:

People are less likely to take it away if you put in the back.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20

:huh:

It's not as if we're poor...
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:26:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20

:huh:

It's not as if we're poor...

I was rolling my eyes at the notion that $3000 is too much money since "it's only got 4 years to live".

I don't think less of you for entertaining the notion, since I understand you might not have a bond to the dog other than you'd have for your car or a fancy set of steak knives, but it is completely foreign to me to think that way.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 26, 2011, 03:28:26 PM
It's a valid point.  You can get a shiny new dog for much less, and it will last you 15 years or so.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:28:56 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:26:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20

:huh:

It's not as if we're poor...

I was rolling my eyes at the notion that $3000 is too much money since "it's only got 4 years to live".

I don't think less of you for entertaining the notion, since I understand you might not have a bond to the dog other than you'd have for your car or a fancy set of steak knives, but it is completely foreign to me to think that way.

You have to think that way though.

If he was only going to live another 6 months we wouldn't get the surgery at all.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:39:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:28:56 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:26:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20

:huh:

It's not as if we're poor...

I was rolling my eyes at the notion that $3000 is too much money since "it's only got 4 years to live".

I don't think less of you for entertaining the notion, since I understand you might not have a bond to the dog other than you'd have for your car or a fancy set of steak knives, but it is completely foreign to me to think that way.

You have to think that way though.

If he was only going to live another 6 months we wouldn't get the surgery at all.

If you're poor, sure. If I had four kids to feed, a stay-at-home wife and a shitty job at the plant, it obviously wouldn't be much of a contest. If the choice is between buying a new LCD TV or getting a $3000 surgery for my dog who's going to live another 6 months I wouldn't even think twice about the money. I would speculate on the value of a surgery where the anasthesia might kill him, but the cost? Not a chance.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on April 26, 2011, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

He did, but it was deemed a mongrel and euthanized.  Is "euthanized" a word?  I get little red lines under it, but it looks right.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 26, 2011, 05:34:11 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 26, 2011, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

He did, but it was deemed a mongrel and euthanized.  Is "euthanized" a word?  I get little red lines under it, but it looks right.

They had to test the cyanide on it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 26, 2011, 05:39:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 26, 2011, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

He did, but it was deemed a mongrel and euthanized.  Is "euthanized" a word?  I get little red lines under it, but it looks right.
I thought he euthanized it because it was black? :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Pat on April 26, 2011, 05:54:37 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:39:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:28:56 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:26:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 26, 2011, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Slargos on April 26, 2011, 03:22:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 25, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
We're going to pay close to $3000 for the dog to have his ACL repaired.  Poor guy has been hopping on 3 legs for a week now.

My wife has had the dog for longer than she's had me around.  I didn't have the heart to suggest we not pay the money.

But damn - that's a lot to pay for a dog who is estimated to live 4 more years.

:rolleyes: x 20

:huh:

It's not as if we're poor...

I was rolling my eyes at the notion that $3000 is too much money since "it's only got 4 years to live".

I don't think less of you for entertaining the notion, since I understand you might not have a bond to the dog other than you'd have for your car or a fancy set of steak knives, but it is completely foreign to me to think that way.

You have to think that way though.

If he was only going to live another 6 months we wouldn't get the surgery at all.

If you're poor, sure. If I had four kids to feed, a stay-at-home wife and a shitty job at the plant, it obviously wouldn't be much of a contest. If the choice is between buying a new LCD TV or getting a $3000 surgery for my dog who's going to live another 6 months I wouldn't even think twice about the money. I would speculate on the value of a surgery where the anasthesia might kill him, but the cost? Not a chance.

Yeah, definitely with you on that one. Dogs are members of the family, after all.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on April 27, 2011, 06:52:13 AM
I'm poor. At 3k, dog gets euthanised.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Slargos on April 27, 2011, 07:00:18 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

I did, and he was a tiny scrapper so had to go through surgery several times to fix broken bones and dislocated hips. His courage was alas too big for his diminutive stature.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Slargos on April 27, 2011, 07:01:15 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 26, 2011, 05:39:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 26, 2011, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

He did, but it was deemed a mongrel and euthanized.  Is "euthanized" a word?  I get little red lines under it, but it looks right.
I thought he euthanized it because it was black? :unsure:

Nah, I euthanized him because he was old, sick and frail.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on April 27, 2011, 07:01:53 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 26, 2011, 05:28:05 PM
Do you actually have a dog Slargos?  :hmm:

If I had a dog Slargos I would have put it down, as it would keep barking at people too much.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:10:33 PM
After 3 days of constipation, the dam broke free. Launched was a turd so massive, the Yamato was a digny compared to it.

I FEEL BETTER.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 07:28:29 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:10:33 PM
After 3 days of constipation, the dam broke free. Launched was a turd so massive, the Yamato was a digny compared to it.

I FEEL BETTER.
Did you have any difficulties flushing it?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:47:36 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 07:28:29 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:10:33 PM
After 3 days of constipation, the dam broke free. Launched was a turd so massive, the Yamato was a digny compared to it.

I FEEL BETTER.
Did you have any difficulties flushing it?

I broke it apart with the plunger.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 07:49:15 PM
Ugh, I hate it when that happens.  Did you make sure that no chunks were stuck to your plunger after you put it away?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:54:55 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 07:49:15 PM
Ugh, I hate it when that happens.  Did you make sure that no chunks were stuck to your plunger after you put it away?

After a few flushes, I swirled it in the bowl water before dropping it in the plunger bucket.

The maid might get a surprise.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 08:01:19 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 27, 2011, 07:54:55 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 27, 2011, 07:49:15 PM
Ugh, I hate it when that happens.  Did you make sure that no chunks were stuck to your plunger after you put it away?

After a few flushes, I swirled it in the bowl water before dropping it in the plunger bucket.

The maid might get a surprise.
Hmm, plunger bucket.  That's a clever idea, I like it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 28, 2011, 01:30:37 AM
On a different subject, I'm going to lock myself in a cheap hotel room for 5 days starting this Friday, to prepare for my exam without any distractions.  If that particular Days Inn turns out to be a roach motel, I would be very annoyed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 01, 2011, 03:18:36 AM
I just did my taxes.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on May 04, 2011, 05:32:14 PM
Getting ready for my investments actuarial exam tomorrow.  I really hope I'll do well, and have enough time to answer all the questions.  Failing the same exam for the fourth time would just be too sickening.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on May 04, 2011, 06:45:11 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 04, 2011, 05:32:14 PM
Getting ready for my investments actuarial exam tomorrow.  I really hope I'll do well, and have enough time to answer all the questions.  Failing the same exam for the fourth time would just be too sickening.
"Break a pencil"  :hug:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on May 04, 2011, 06:49:58 PM
Good luck with the exams DGuller.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on May 04, 2011, 08:20:05 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 04, 2011, 05:32:14 PM
Getting ready for my investments actuarial exam tomorrow.  I really hope I'll do well, and have enough time to answer all the questions.  Failing the same exam for the fourth time would just be too sickening.

Unfortantly, those tests often have "anti-Russian" mechanisms do to the innate nativism of the profession.

Example:

QuoteA survey of a group's viewing habits over the last year revealed the following
information:
(i) 28% watched gymnastics
(ii) 29% watched baseball
(iii) 19% watched soccer
(iv) 14% watched gymnastics and baseball
(v) 12% watched baseball and soccer
(vi) 10% watched gymnastics and soccer
(vii) 8% watched all three sports.
Calculate the percentage of the group that watched none of the three sports
during the last year.
(A) 24
(B) 36
(C) 41
(D) 52
(E) Tasty Black Bread! Приятного аппетита!  Моё судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Habbaku on May 04, 2011, 08:24:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 04, 2011, 08:20:05 PM
Russian...do to...

:hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on May 04, 2011, 08:26:06 PM
It's better then my Russian.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on May 05, 2011, 12:04:39 PM
I have only one week left on my contract before I am outta here.   :showoff:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on May 05, 2011, 12:21:07 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on May 05, 2011, 12:04:39 PM
I have only one week left on my contract before I am outta here.   :showoff:

You were contracted to post on Languish?  Damn.  I've been doing it for free.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on May 05, 2011, 12:23:28 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 05, 2011, 12:21:07 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on May 05, 2011, 12:04:39 PM
I have only one week left on my contract before I am outta here.   :showoff:

You were contracted to post on Languish?  Damn.  I've been doing it for free.

It feels that way more often than not.   :wacko:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on May 06, 2011, 02:43:46 PM
I toured the Edmonton Remand Centre today.

It smelled like tinkle.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Camerus on May 06, 2011, 03:17:56 PM
I went to a Chinese fast food place for lunch today and ordered the 3 dishes + rice option for $6.  I've never been given so much food in my life for $6.  I tried to power through it, but stopped at the 50% mark.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: C.C.R. on May 07, 2011, 10:51:28 AM
Wifey took both of the Weiner Kids out to run errands this morning, so after doing the dishes I just sat out in the yard for awhile with Stanley, drinking my coffee, smoking cigarettes, listening to Led Zeppelin I & watching cars go buy...

:ccr
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 07, 2011, 11:49:58 AM
What?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 07, 2011, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on May 06, 2011, 03:17:56 PM
I went to a Chinese fast food place for lunch today and ordered the 3 dishes + rice option for $6.  I've never been given so much food in my life for $6.  I tried to power through it, but stopped at the 50% mark.

Lightweight.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on May 13, 2011, 02:29:32 PM
I bought a bicycle.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ferinabikeworxonline.com%2Fimages%2Fgf11-marlin.jpg&hash=76066a9d9a9a53ca2a55c5d37b67986370ac2426)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: jamesww on May 13, 2011, 02:36:23 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 13, 2011, 02:29:32 PM
I bought a bicycle.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ferinabikeworxonline.com%2Fimages%2Fgf11-marlin.jpg&hash=76066a9d9a9a53ca2a55c5d37b67986370ac2426)

I thought you already had one ?

Weren't you going to buy a rowing machine instead ?

I'm surprised they put more than a 100 gear inches on bike like that.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 13, 2011, 05:22:41 PM
I saw Swedish band Johnossi today.

Yes I was the oldest motherfucker in the crowd. Screw you.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on May 13, 2011, 05:30:43 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 13, 2011, 05:22:41 PM
I saw Swedish band Johnossi today.

Yes I was the oldest motherfucker in the crowd. Screw you.

I'm surprised you weren't arrested. Pedo.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 13, 2011, 05:32:17 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 13, 2011, 05:30:43 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 13, 2011, 05:22:41 PM
I saw Swedish band Johnossi today.

Yes I was the oldest motherfucker in the crowd. Screw you.

I'm surprised you weren't arrested. Pedo.

Many chicks in the crowd were over 14.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 15, 2011, 07:27:39 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 13, 2011, 05:22:41 PM
I saw Swedish band Johnossi today.

Yes I was the oldest motherfucker in the crowd. Screw you.

In the US they're marketed as the Jonas Brothers.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on May 23, 2011, 07:47:26 PM
Gorgeous day, went for a run.  Saw a few hotties on the trail. 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on May 23, 2011, 07:48:58 PM
I need to take a dump.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on May 23, 2011, 07:51:55 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 23, 2011, 07:48:58 PM
I need to take a dump.

Don't take a dump on any hotties...you're not German.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on May 23, 2011, 07:53:23 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 23, 2011, 07:51:55 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 23, 2011, 07:48:58 PM
I need to take a dump.

Don't take a dump on any hotties...you're not German.

Ewww.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on June 03, 2011, 09:23:37 PM
A knock at the door...

"Good afternoon!  I am here to talk to you about (insert giant list of environmental causes here).....bar bar bar"

Phone rings.

"Oh, go ahead and go answer that."

Ok.

"This is a recording to inform you (some crap about a credit card I have)."

Back to the door holding the phone...."Sorry, this call is going to take a while."


It's like two crappy things cancelling each other out.  :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on June 03, 2011, 09:49:52 PM
I guess two wrongs do make a right.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on June 04, 2011, 05:57:38 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 03, 2011, 09:23:37 PM
"Oh, go ahead and go answer that."
You should have said "Don't tell me what to do BITCH." :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 17, 2011, 04:58:53 PM
Neighbors above me are having social fun with Singstar.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 30, 2011, 03:33:59 PM
There were two Japanese women on the bus today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 04, 2011, 06:49:13 AM
Two super cute bambis and their deer mom were playing outside my window just now. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 26, 2011, 09:38:30 AM
The two young chicks manning my local Thai today would make the Languish yellow fever population mastrubtate fuirolsy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on August 26, 2011, 09:54:26 AM
Quote from: The Brain on August 26, 2011, 09:38:30 AM
The two young chicks manning my local Thai today would make the Languish yellow fever population mastrubtate fuirolsy.

You tease and tease.  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 26, 2011, 09:55:19 AM
I have had 1 bowel movement so far today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on August 27, 2011, 06:44:34 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 26, 2011, 09:55:19 AM
I have had 1 bowel movement so far today.
Fascinating, captain.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2011, 12:07:15 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 27, 2011, 06:44:34 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 26, 2011, 09:55:19 AM
I have had 1 bowel movement so far today.
Fascinating, captain.

Most people would be making this comment sarcastically.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on September 07, 2011, 07:17:34 PM
My new grocery store is so cheap. I'd have paid at least half as much at my old one.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 10, 2011, 05:56:45 PM
There was some kind of market in my local square today. The hipsters were out in force.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on September 10, 2011, 05:59:10 PM
I organized the apartment like a fiend today.  It's as if God Himself reached down and cleaned out the cabinets.   :cry:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 10, 2011, 06:10:09 PM
I reorganized my books the other day. Turns out I need more shelf space when I keep buying new books.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Habsburg on September 10, 2011, 10:24:36 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 10, 2011, 05:59:10 PM
I organized the apartment like a fiend today.  It's as if God Himself reached down and cleaned out the cabinets.   :cry:

Come on over!  :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 11, 2011, 03:24:37 PM
I was at a museum today. A young child dismissed the notion that a bronze statue was a stuffed human with "humans can't be stuffed". Ah, the innocence of youth.

THE SPANIARDS KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning. I got the number of the girl taking the blood. I still gots it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on September 22, 2011, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning. I got the number of the girl taking the blood. I still gots it.

:hmm: Sinner!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 22, 2011, 01:42:11 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning.

You should see a doctor.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 07:26:34 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on September 22, 2011, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning. I got the number of the girl taking the blood. I still gots it.

:hmm: Sinner!

*snort*
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on September 23, 2011, 05:22:52 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning.
Diagnosis = AIDS. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Larch on September 23, 2011, 05:36:18 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 11, 2011, 03:24:37 PM
I was at a museum today. A young child dismissed the notion that a bronze statue was a stuffed human with "humans can't be stuffed". Ah, the innocence of youth.

THE SPANIARDS KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

:huh:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 23, 2011, 08:06:47 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 23, 2011, 05:22:52 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 22, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I gave a blood and urine sample this morning.
Diagnosis = AIDS. :(

I don't find that funny.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 23, 2011, 11:47:59 AM
Quote from: The Larch on September 23, 2011, 05:36:18 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 11, 2011, 03:24:37 PM
I was at a museum today. A young child dismissed the notion that a bronze statue was a stuffed human with "humans can't be stuffed". Ah, the innocence of youth.

THE SPANIARDS KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

:huh:

:yeahright:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/943616.stm
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 10, 2011, 02:59:25 AM
Today I didn't buy a lottery ticket.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 10, 2011, 03:07:25 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 10, 2011, 02:59:25 AM
Today I didn't buy a lottery ticket.

Too bad, the stars were in your favor.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 10, 2011, 03:10:02 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 10, 2011, 03:07:25 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 10, 2011, 02:59:25 AM
Today I didn't buy a lottery ticket.

Too bad, the stars were in your favor.

Including Scarlett? :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on November 10, 2011, 05:33:43 AM
I went to an International Fighter (as in fighter jets) conference at the RAF Museum yesterday. Yes, I'm perfectly aware how many of you want my job.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 10, 2011, 06:15:24 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 10, 2011, 03:10:02 AM
Including Scarlett? :(

She only dates rich guys.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 14, 2011, 01:34:39 AM
Seven months after moving in to our new house, I finally managed to get both of our vehicles to park in our garage.  :showoff:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on November 14, 2011, 03:17:31 AM
Quote from: Barrister on November 14, 2011, 01:34:39 AM
Seven months after moving in to our new house, I finally managed to get both of our vehicles to park in our garage.  :showoff:
How did you not run out of gas?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on November 23, 2011, 07:57:55 PM
4:57 PM the day before Thanksgiving and I have to go to the grocery store.  I imagine this will be ugly.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on November 23, 2011, 08:00:24 PM
I'll pray for you too. I assume Cal has been run over by rampaging hill folk in a Kroger's.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on November 23, 2011, 08:04:43 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 23, 2011, 08:00:24 PM
I'll pray for you too. I assume Cal has been run over by rampaging hill folk in a Kroger's.
We ended up deciding to make a bourbon chocolate pecan pie instead since, well, I have gallons of bourbon now.  Oh, Princesca also brought home a free bottle of Courvoisier and some Canadian whisky today, too.  So anyway, we went to Country Mart instead, which contains a lot of human refuse, to be sure, but isn't overcrowded since it's out in the sticks.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on November 23, 2011, 08:11:28 PM
Is that an IGA store? I'd rather go to the grocery stores in the sticks than have to recreate the baatan death march in a Wally World or those new uberKroger's.

Sure I won't be able to get all those fancy foriegn cheeses but dammit, they have Quisp.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on November 23, 2011, 08:15:00 PM
Yeah, the old grocery store in town was an IGA, but they closed it and moved to a new building and rebranded it Country Mart.  Country Mart sucks, but it's like the fucking Taj Mahal compared to the old IGA.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on November 23, 2011, 08:22:55 PM
Quote from: Caliga on November 23, 2011, 08:15:00 PM
Yeah, the old grocery store in town was an IGA, but they closed it and moved to a new building and rebranded it Country Mart.  Country Mart sucks, but it's like the fucking Taj Mahal compared to the old IGA.

They sell groceries at the Taj Mahal? Or do you mean Taj Mart?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on November 23, 2011, 09:09:41 PM
 ^_^
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 25, 2011, 09:07:54 AM
I had my hair cut today. Two thoughts:

1. I certainly understand why women and CdM go to spas and get pampered.

2. What if The War Of Zombie Aggression breaks out when you're in the middle of having a haircut and you look like a disaster area? That has to suck.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on November 25, 2011, 09:16:16 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 25, 2011, 09:07:54 AM
2. What if The War Of Zombie Aggression breaks out when you're in the middle of having a haircut and you look like a disaster area? That has to suck.
Though not directly barber-based, 28 Days Later deals with the half-cut hair/zombie apocalypse dilemma neatly.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 25, 2011, 09:18:50 AM
I'm not tipping my barber if he takes weeks to finish.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Malthus on November 25, 2011, 10:50:47 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 25, 2011, 09:07:54 AM
I had my hair cut today. Two thoughts:

1. I certainly understand why women and CdM go to spas and get pampered.

2. What if The War Of Zombie Aggression breaks out when you're in the middle of having a haircut and you look like a disaster area? That has to suck.

Could be worse: at least you have a variety of sharp bladed implements close to hand.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 25, 2011, 11:20:13 AM
Quote from: Malthus on November 25, 2011, 10:50:47 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 25, 2011, 09:07:54 AM
I had my hair cut today. Two thoughts:

1. I certainly understand why women and CdM go to spas and get pampered.

2. What if The War Of Zombie Aggression breaks out when you're in the middle of having a haircut and you look like a disaster area? That has to suck.

Could be worse: at least you have a variety of sharp bladed implements close to hand.
but with the coordination of a nerdy nuclear scientist he'd probably end up doing more damage to himself then the zombies :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Malthus on November 25, 2011, 12:38:13 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

I'd rather pay for haircuts than for girls. Less financial and legal problems.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on November 25, 2011, 12:59:21 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

I guess you bought a flowbee.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on November 25, 2011, 01:24:38 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

You going bald already?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 01:26:07 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

It's understandable, you can't actually sit down long enough for an hair cut with all the sugar from the reese cup diet you live on.

P.S. You are not Steve Jobs, it's ok to eat more then 1 thing.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 01:46:46 PM
Quote from: Jacob on November 25, 2011, 01:24:38 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

You going bald already?

No.  Shave my head.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 02:14:42 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 01:26:07 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 12:02:48 PM
Paying for haircuts?  Maybe for girls.

It's understandable, you can't actually sit down long enough for an hair cut with all the sugar from the reese cup diet you live on.

P.S. You are not Steve Jobs, it's ok to eat more then 1 thing.
My diet encompasses all the food groups, as illustrated by the following chart:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi637.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fuu91%2FMyasishchev%2FFoodGroups.jpg&hash=33a6974f9004b9aa4630ccd2e4fae763407682f8)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 02:40:08 PM
What's Capsaicin?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on November 25, 2011, 02:41:59 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 02:40:08 PM
What's Capsaicin?

Pepper spray
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: ulmont on November 25, 2011, 02:48:31 PM
Capsaicin is the heat from peppers.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on November 25, 2011, 02:50:06 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 02:40:08 PM
What's Capsaicin?

(CH3)2CHCH=CH(CH2)4CONHCH2C6H3-4-(OH)-3-(OCH3) )
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on November 25, 2011, 03:34:07 PM
You don't eat meat, Ide?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 04:27:42 PM
Not for about three years now.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on November 25, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
When I was in Columbia I made Ide go to a barbecue joint.  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on November 25, 2011, 05:48:09 PM
Ide at dinner:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F25.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luzy7n9UZj1r6m1z5o1_500.jpg&hash=5de55014043383f2f19e2001da1cf694d600d5f6)

Enjoy your pepper.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 07:17:27 PM
I am rather Christlike, when you think about it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 07:18:15 PM
Quote from: Caliga on November 25, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
When I was in Columbia I made Ide go to a barbecue joint.  :Embarrass:

They had french fries and banana pudding.  And anyway I enjoyed the company. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Habsburg on November 26, 2011, 03:23:04 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 07:17:27 PM
I am rather Christlike, when you think about it.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F29.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l8q3smrHoz1qbbjxvo1_500.gif&hash=84a4f29065363ad6bdd0bd9f39358ffd8c269772)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on November 26, 2011, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 25, 2011, 07:18:15 PM
Quote from: Caliga on November 25, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
When I was in Columbia I made Ide go to a barbecue joint.  :Embarrass:

They had french fries and banana pudding.  And anyway I enjoyed the company. :)
I'll probably be back at some point when I visit Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, or Charleston. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 26, 2011, 09:37:32 PM
Solid.  If I'm still here, let me know; but I might be far away.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on November 26, 2011, 11:58:13 PM
Damn home-rolled cigarettes are unpredictable.  A meteor of fiery ash just made contact with the bottom of my left pinky finger.   :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:40:33 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 26, 2011, 11:58:13 PM
Damn home-rolled cigarettes are unpredictable.  A meteor of fiery ash just made contact with the bottom of my left pinky finger.   :(

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Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:41:42 AM
I promised my doctor I'd quit soon though. Apparently I've got the heart of a 42 year old  <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on November 27, 2011, 01:10:56 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:40:33 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 26, 2011, 11:58:13 PM
Damn home-rolled cigarettes are unpredictable.  A meteor of fiery ash just made contact with the bottom of my left pinky finger.   :(
[Gauloises]

Yeah, or my Winstons for $8+ a pack here in Mass....  :glare: 

Or I can get 2oz of quality tobacco, 100 filters, and 200 papers for 10 dollars... plus my time slaving at the little $6 machine rolling them.   They're fine, but they don't travel well.  The tobacco falls out the bottom.   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on November 27, 2011, 01:13:00 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:41:42 AM
I promised my doctor I'd quit soon though. Apparently I've got the heart of a 42 year old  <_<

"Soon" is negotiable.   ^_^
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on November 27, 2011, 04:36:23 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:41:42 AM
Apparently I've got the heart of a 42 year old  <_<
Do you still have his kidneys? :unsure:  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ideologue on November 27, 2011, 09:46:06 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 27, 2011, 01:10:56 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on November 27, 2011, 12:40:33 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 26, 2011, 11:58:13 PM
Damn home-rolled cigarettes are unpredictable.  A meteor of fiery ash just made contact with the bottom of my left pinky finger.   :(
[Gauloises]

Yeah, or my Winstons for $8+ a pack here in Mass....  :glare: 

Or I can get 2oz of quality tobacco, 100 filters, and 200 papers for 10 dollars... plus my time slaving at the little $6 machine rolling them.   They're fine, but they don't travel well.  The tobacco falls out the bottom.   :rolleyes:

I kinda love how in South Carolina they just forgot all about smokeless tobacco and haven't raised taxes on it in like ten years, so that it still costs what I was paying for it (or less) than when I started, while cigarettes cost 50-75% more (though thank God not something Naziesque like $8 a pack :x ).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on December 11, 2011, 12:20:53 PM
I took my FJ Cruiser to the local dealer for it's 30,000 miles service.

The loaner car they gave me.....a Prius.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on December 11, 2011, 04:26:48 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on December 11, 2011, 12:20:53 PM
I took my FJ Cruiser to the local dealer for it's 30,000 miles service.

The loaner car they gave me.....a Prius.
How did you like the electric Prius?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on December 11, 2011, 09:43:34 PM
Quote from: KRonn on December 11, 2011, 04:26:48 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on December 11, 2011, 12:20:53 PM
I took my FJ Cruiser to the local dealer for it's 30,000 miles service.

The loaner car they gave me.....a Prius.
How did you like the electric Prius?

It was ok.  Most surprising is that I fit pretty well in it.

Far prefer my FJ though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 01:13:49 PM
Went to the ER today. For some reason they wanted a stool sample, so I dumped a foot long turd in the bedpan. Gave the cute nurse a smirk.

THERE IS MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM BABY.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 31, 2011, 04:08:00 PM
Damn you're smooth Boner.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 04:12:31 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 31, 2011, 04:08:00 PM
Damn you're smooth Boner.

You should see my moves when I have Ilizarov fixator on my leg.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on December 31, 2011, 04:25:16 PM
What you doing in the emergency room anyways?   :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 04:28:27 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 31, 2011, 04:25:16 PM
What you doing in the emergency room anyways?   :(

Consumption.

Seriously, I hacked up some blood and my wife went into panic mode.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on December 31, 2011, 05:18:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 04:28:27 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 31, 2011, 04:25:16 PM
What you doing in the emergency room anyways?   :(

Consumption.

Seriously, I hacked up some blood and my wife went into panic mode.

:console:  Feel better and add to your narcotics stockpile.  Pure hydrocodone should be coming on the market next year, without any Tylenol crapping it up.   :secret:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on December 31, 2011, 05:37:41 PM
Shit, the Georgians got me soo drunk. Happy New Year, Y'all!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on December 31, 2011, 06:03:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 04:28:27 PM
Consumption.

Seriously, I hacked up some blood and my wife went into panic mode.
Do you still have lingering health issues from your.... "unfortunate accident"? :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 07:24:37 PM
Quote from: Caliga on December 31, 2011, 06:03:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 31, 2011, 04:28:27 PM
Consumption.

Seriously, I hacked up some blood and my wife went into panic mode.
Do you still have lingering health issues from your.... "unfortunate accident"? :)


Nope.

Other than a lingering dislike of metal shelving. They conspire against me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 31, 2011, 07:55:28 PM
I'd drunk. Blow me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 31, 2011, 08:26:55 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 31, 2011, 07:55:28 PM
I'd drunk. Blow me.

:nelson:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on January 01, 2012, 11:06:27 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 31, 2011, 07:55:28 PM
I'd drunk. Blow me.

k.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 15, 2012, 04:27:06 AM
I need more book shelves. I am piling books all over the place like some deranged librarian.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on February 26, 2012, 04:03:28 PM
Today we went up to Indiana to go to a maple syrup festival, at which I bought a bunch of maple syrup in bulk to homebrew with.... think I'm gonna try to make some maple wine or maybe acermead with it.  I didn't buy enough to do a five gallon batch, so I was thinking of picking up a 1 gallon carboy at the beer store near my office.

Anyway, on the way home we stopped by my sister in law's house and her boyfriend was showing me some shit he's working on down in the basement, and we happened to across some antique glass 1-gallon carboys.  I took one of them home with me.  From the handwritten label on it it looks like it was last used to make (grape) wine in 1939. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 26, 2012, 04:15:21 PM
Did you hear it through it?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on February 26, 2012, 09:02:07 PM
Quote from: Caliga on February 26, 2012, 04:03:28 PM
Today we went up to Indiana to go to a maple syrup festival, at which I bought a bunch of maple syrup in bulk to homebrew with.... think I'm gonna try to make some maple wine or maybe acermead with it.  I didn't buy enough to do a five gallon batch, so I was thinking of picking up a 1 gallon carboy at the beer store near my office.



:)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 26, 2012, 09:56:14 PM
You should try making wine with Aunt Jemima syrup.  ;)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on February 27, 2012, 06:05:59 AM
You mean sugar?  They do that in Finland I think. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on February 27, 2012, 06:39:24 AM
The Arab looking Schnitzel delivery guy who brought my Schnitzel+fries yesterday spoke English instead of German with me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on February 27, 2012, 07:42:20 AM
Maybe you got a chicken fried steak by mistake. :o
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on February 27, 2012, 06:45:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2012, 06:39:24 AM
The Arab looking Schnitzel delivery guy who brought my Schnitzel+fries yesterday spoke English instead of German with me.

Maybe he doesn't speak German, and was hoping for a common language?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 27, 2012, 06:46:36 PM
Schnitzel delivery.  What an amazing concept.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 27, 2012, 06:48:46 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 27, 2012, 06:45:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2012, 06:39:24 AM
The Arab looking Schnitzel delivery guy who brought my Schnitzel+fries yesterday spoke English instead of German with me.

Maybe he doesn't speak German, and was hoping for a common language?

Maybe Syt doesn't look German.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on February 27, 2012, 06:58:38 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 27, 2012, 06:48:46 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 27, 2012, 06:45:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2012, 06:39:24 AM
The Arab looking Schnitzel delivery guy who brought my Schnitzel+fries yesterday spoke English instead of German with me.

Maybe he doesn't speak German, and was hoping for a common language?

Maybe Syt doesn't look German.  :hmm:

He looks like he could be American.  But he's in the wrong place for that.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on February 27, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
He looks Pennsylvania Dutch to me. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on February 27, 2012, 10:48:06 PM
:unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on February 28, 2012, 06:19:53 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2012, 10:48:06 PM
:unsure:
If you were fatter you would look like my cousin Wayne "The Pain", who is 100% Pennsylvania Dutch (I'm only roughly 55% myself).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on February 29, 2012, 11:08:16 PM
Well, my middle sister and her family live in a suburb of Pittsburgh - though they plan to move somewhere south because they find the Piitsburgh area too liberal for their tastes (whatever that means).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on February 29, 2012, 11:16:16 PM
Codeword for dazzling urbanites?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on February 29, 2012, 11:16:39 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 29, 2012, 11:08:16 PM
Well, my middle sister and her family live in a suburb of Pittsburgh - though they plan to move somewhere south because they find the Piitsburgh area too liberal for their tastes (whatever that means).

I had a lovely time in Pittsburgh when moving to New York. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DontSayBanana on February 29, 2012, 11:34:11 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 25, 2011, 02:40:08 PM
What's Capsaicin?

Spicy food.  Chili peppers.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 01, 2012, 12:18:00 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on February 29, 2012, 11:16:16 PM
Codeword for dazzling urbanites?

Yeah, that' why they want to move south where there's fewer of them.  :huh:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 01, 2012, 12:19:10 AM
Quote from: garbon on February 29, 2012, 11:16:39 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 29, 2012, 11:08:16 PM
Well, my middle sister and her family live in a suburb of Pittsburgh - though they plan to move somewhere south because they find the Piitsburgh area too liberal for their tastes (whatever that means).

I had a lovely time in Pittsburgh when moving to New York. :)

Yeah, I hear that the quality of life in the 'burgh is pretty good - they seem to have managed the move from steel industry to modern economy rather well.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zoupa on March 01, 2012, 12:23:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 01, 2012, 12:18:00 AM
Quote from: Zoupa on February 29, 2012, 11:16:16 PM
Codeword for dazzling urbanites?

Yeah, that' why they want to move south where there's fewer of them.  :huh:

Pittsburgh is about 25% black, is all I'm saying.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 01, 2012, 01:19:26 AM
Atlanta is 60%. Course, less than a tenth of the metro population is in the city.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 01, 2012, 01:26:13 AM
Come to think of it . . . she did become rather ill-disposed towards hispanics when she was living in El Paso. And towards blacks when she was in North Carolina.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 01, 2012, 01:32:14 AM
If she likes potatoes and sking Idaho might be her speed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: LaCroix on March 01, 2012, 04:27:31 AM
send her to north dakota :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 01, 2012, 06:01:47 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 29, 2012, 11:08:16 PM
Well, my middle sister and her family live in a suburb of Pittsburgh - though they plan to move somewhere south because they find the Piitsburgh area too liberal for their tastes (whatever that means).
Moving away from somewhere for political reasons? :wacko:

That's only non-crazy when you do it as an actual political refugee.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on March 01, 2012, 07:40:33 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 27, 2012, 06:48:46 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 27, 2012, 06:45:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2012, 06:39:24 AM
The Arab looking Schnitzel delivery guy who brought my Schnitzel+fries yesterday spoke English instead of German with me.

Maybe he doesn't speak German, and was hoping for a common language?

Maybe Syt doesn't look German.  :hmm:

He does, believe me. North Germanic stock, as would say our resident goat lover worshipper.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on March 01, 2012, 09:38:36 AM
Quote from: Caliga on March 01, 2012, 06:01:47 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 29, 2012, 11:08:16 PM
Well, my middle sister and her family live in a suburb of Pittsburgh - though they plan to move somewhere south because they find the Piitsburgh area too liberal for their tastes (whatever that means).
Moving away from somewhere for political reasons? :wacko:

That's only non-crazy when you do it as an actual political refugee.

I could see it. See someone moving away from SF. Being liberal has more to do with just the political opinions of the populace but also their general permissiveness.  I could see people taking issue with living in a city that has annual events that allow sex in the streets or allows nudity year round.  That said, I'm not sure that applies to Pittsburgh. :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on March 01, 2012, 10:27:57 AM
Plenty of other reasons to move away from Pittsburgh. 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 06, 2012, 09:22:54 PM
One of the great extra duties of being an NCO...watching people pee into a bottle.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on March 06, 2012, 09:25:02 PM
Speaking of toilets, I launched the IJN Yamato this morning. I think it hissed at me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on March 06, 2012, 09:27:47 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 06, 2012, 09:22:54 PM
One of the great extra duties of being an NCO...watching people pee into a bottle.

HOTT



:unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 06, 2012, 09:29:55 PM
I have found that in the "observer" business, there seems to be two kind of people:

- Those who quickly make sure the pee is coming from where it's supposed to be coming from and then look away.
- Those who stare down the entire time like an umpire thinking a close play is about to happen at home base.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 06, 2012, 09:41:50 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 06, 2012, 09:29:55 PM
- Those who stare down the entire time like an umpire thinking a close play is about to happen at home base.

:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on March 13, 2012, 10:50:16 PM
Day 2 with contact lenses.  Only took ~100 tries to get them in this time.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on March 13, 2012, 10:51:41 PM
 I get sick at the thought of something touching your eyeball, much less mine. :x
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 13, 2012, 10:53:01 PM
I never liked the idea of something sitting on my eyes, which is why I just went all the way and laser blasted them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2012, 11:04:50 PM
I cry like a baby every time they do that puff of air test at the eye doctor's.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 14, 2012, 07:06:04 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 13, 2012, 10:53:01 PM
I never liked the idea of something sitting on my eyes, which is why I just went all the way and laser blasted them.

Meh, I'm so used to contacts after 25 years, I don't even feel fully awake until they're in.  I wear my glasses, I feel sleepy.

And fuck that laser shit.  Too many doctors with substance abuse issues out there in medical boutique-land.  Don't need some piece of shit doctor setting phasers on stun just after he did an 8-ball off his desk.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on March 14, 2012, 11:16:57 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 14, 2012, 07:06:04 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 13, 2012, 10:53:01 PM
I never liked the idea of something sitting on my eyes, which is why I just went all the way and laser blasted them.

Meh, I'm so used to contacts after 25 years, I don't even feel fully awake until they're in.  I wear my glasses, I feel sleepy.

Ditto.

QuoteAnd fuck that laser shit.  Too many doctors with substance abuse issues out there in medical boutique-land.  Don't need some piece of shit doctor setting phasers on stun just after he did an 8-ball off his desk.

I was on a work trip a year ago & went out to dinner with some co-workers from different sites.  A couple of them were evangelizing the laser surgery thing, telling me I was crazy for not doing it.  Both of them had theirs done 6 or 7 years ago & raved about how much it improved their lives.  Funny thing is-- both of them had had to start wearing glasses recently "but only for reading sometimes" :yeahright:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on March 14, 2012, 11:20:54 AM
Also FWIW, I had an eye exam a week & a half ago to update my contacts prescription and the dipshits got my left & right eyes mixed up in the prescription.  I complained about it during the fitting but they kept telling me it was only due to my eyes still being dilated.  Complained a few days later and they told me it was just a stronger prescription and I'd eventually get used to it.

So for shits & giggles the other day I swapped contacts between my left & right eyes and magically I can see normally now.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 14, 2012, 11:29:08 AM
My eye sight has gotten bad in recent years.  Like get in the wrong car, talk to park bench wrong.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on March 14, 2012, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 14, 2012, 11:29:08 AM
My eye sight has gotten bad in recent years.  Like get in the wrong car, talk to park bench wrong.

Mine must be as well.  At first glance I thought you said "talk to the wrong park bench" :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 14, 2012, 06:07:18 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 14, 2012, 11:16:57 AM
I was on a work trip a year ago & went out to dinner with some co-workers from different sites.  A couple of them were evangelizing the laser surgery thing, telling me I was crazy for not doing it.  Both of them had theirs done 6 or 7 years ago & raved about how much it improved their lives.  Funny thing is-- both of them had had to start wearing glasses recently "but only for reading sometimes" :yeahright:

Yeah, they tell up front that how they correct distance vision is unrelated to what causes most people to require reading glasses as they get older.

And, perhaps having a military doc do it lessened the 8-ball risk.  :P

I definitely would not have had it done by some fly-by-night discount laser center.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 14, 2012, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 14, 2012, 06:07:18 PM
And, perhaps having a military doc do it lessened the 8-ball risk.  :P

I definitely would not have had it done by some fly-by-night discount laser center.

Meh, maybe the military docs have a leg up professionally.  I worked in hospitals: great thing about being in security, I knew where the AA and NA meetings were held.  And who attended.  :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 14, 2012, 08:33:57 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 14, 2012, 03:18:31 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 14, 2012, 11:29:08 AM
My eye sight has gotten bad in recent years.  Like get in the wrong car, talk to park bench wrong.

Mine must be as well.  At first glance I thought you said "talk to the wrong park bench" :D

I could have written that sentence better.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on March 14, 2012, 09:09:13 PM
My shits have turned all smelly and floaty. I guess 4 weeks of fast food, vending machine pop tarts and hospital food will do that to ya.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 14, 2012, 09:38:21 PM
My eyes are pretty bad; park benches all look the same to me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on March 14, 2012, 10:07:59 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 14, 2012, 09:38:21 PM
My eyes are pretty bad; park benches all look the same to me.
:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 14, 2012, 11:49:37 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 14, 2012, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on March 14, 2012, 06:07:18 PM
And, perhaps having a military doc do it lessened the 8-ball risk.  :P

I definitely would not have had it done by some fly-by-night discount laser center.

Meh, maybe the military docs have a leg up professionally.  I worked in hospitals: great thing about being in security, I knew where the AA and NA meetings were held.  And who attended.  :ph34r:

I admire you ability and desire to keep tabs on people.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 24, 2012, 06:47:57 AM
I went downtown to do some shopping today. First I had breakfast at that one place (delicious smoked salmon bagels). Then I bought a new Samsonite backpack (my old samsonite starts to show wear/tear after five years . . . it lasted longer than any other backpack I had before).

Then I wento to an electronics store. Nothing interesting there, so I only bought Mortal Kombat for XBox which was on sale.

On I went to a book store where I bought Arabs - A History (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Arabs-History-Eugene-Rogan/dp/0141024690/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332589596&sr=8-1).

Next I visited a perfume store to replenish my supplies of Fahrenheit.

And finally I rounded it off with a steak at the Maredo on Ringstraße. It was ok.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 24, 2012, 06:52:48 AM
They have a casting call today for extras and minor speaking roles in an upcoming film set in Mobtown;  I was thinking about going.

But, knowing my luck I'd probably snag a speaking part that bounces me into a series of low-profile cable roles which gets the attention Joe Gordon-Levitt and I wind up in a major production and the next thing you know I'm splattered all over Entertainment Tonight and TMZ with a domestic violence thing from my on-again off-again off-screen pseudo-relationship with Scarlett Johansson because she's not nearly as possessive as I want her to be which is so fucking depressing that I wind up with an eventual stint in rehab which would break Mom's heart.

And, on top of all that, it's raining.

So not worth the effort for 10am on a Saturday.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 24, 2012, 08:52:12 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2012, 06:47:57 AM
Next I visited a perfume store to replenish my supplies of Fahrenheit.
Thanks for mentioning that... it reminds me that I'm running low on my cologne.
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Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 24, 2012, 10:29:13 AM
Sugebrush?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 24, 2012, 10:38:22 AM
I just had a fortune cookie. "It's not too late to travel the world." :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 24, 2012, 05:14:40 PM
Quote from: The Brain on March 24, 2012, 10:38:22 AM
I just had a fortune cookie. "It's not too late to travel the world." :)

It was meant for the paraplegic at the next table.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 24, 2012, 05:30:14 PM
Fortune favors the brain. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on March 24, 2012, 05:57:47 PM
That's illegal in the UK, though the homeless people I was chatting with today said that things have gotten so easy in London in the last few years that you can sit on the ground, not asking for anything, with no sign, and just be given money by passers-by.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 24, 2012, 06:27:54 PM
I always get vague unhelpful fortunes.

"Now would be a good time to start a business"  What kind of business?  How do I do this?  Where do I get the money?

"You will receive some high prize or award"  In what?  What kind of prize?

"When in doubt, let your instincts guide you"  I've done that.  It led me here.  This has not been a successful plan.

"Help me, I'm locked in the basement forced to make cookies"  Oh, what, now I'm suppose to help you?  I'll send my response in the form of a cookie.

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes."  That's not even a fortune!  You aren't even trying.


Fucking useless. :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 24, 2012, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: mongers on March 24, 2012, 05:57:47 PM
That's illegal in the UK, though the homeless people I was chatting with today said that things have gotten so easy in London in the last few years that you can sit on the ground, not asking for anything, with no sign, and just be given money by passers-by.

This happens to me when ever I go out in public.  "Oh you poor man, what have they done to you?"  or "What is wrong with this country when people like this are left on the street.  Here you go, go get something to eat"  Can't a man sit in a public place and not be given money?  Jesus.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 24, 2012, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 24, 2012, 06:27:54 PM
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes."  That's not even a fortune!  You aren't even trying.


Fucking useless. :mad:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimage1.masterfile.com%2Fem_w%2F00%2F26%2F85%2F700-00268580w.jpg&hash=c40d632a1c4062f466a81966ad302f8067c4fc2d)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on March 24, 2012, 06:49:43 PM
Looks like the mind worms took another victim.  And watermarked him.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on March 24, 2012, 06:49:56 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 24, 2012, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: mongers on March 24, 2012, 05:57:47 PM
That's illegal in the UK, though the homeless people I was chatting with today said that things have gotten so easy in London in the last few years that you can sit on the ground, not asking for anything, with no sign, and just be given money by passers-by.

This happens to me when ever I go out in public.  "Oh you poor man, what have they done to you?"  or "What is wrong with this country when people like this are left on the street.  Here you go, go get something to eat"  Can't a man sit in a public place and not be given money?  Jesus.
:lmfao:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 25, 2012, 12:28:40 AM
Quote from: The Brain on March 24, 2012, 05:34:57 PM
Is it me or are beggars becoming lazy? 10 years ago the gypsies in Stockholm sometimes dragged around small children and had signs that asked for money to support them. Now a guy came up to me and held up a sign claiming that he had starving kids. WTF? If I never gave to gypsies with actual kids in tow why the hell would I give to gypsies who only have a lame note?

It's illegal to use kids for begging since 2010 or so in Vienna. The gypsy gangs replaced the mother/kid combo with people with deformed/missing legs, mostly.

What I hate are the subway gangs. Either you have a woman wailing with a photo of a dead/sick child begging for money, or a guy with an accordeon playing and his son going round with a paper cup. They only stay for one station, then switch trains/compartments, so the authorities have a hard time catching them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 25, 2012, 02:50:30 AM
Every couple of weeks on the DC metro I used to see a black guy get on with no shirt, one arm cut off, and burn scars all over his body.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on March 25, 2012, 03:15:17 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 25, 2012, 02:50:30 AM
Every couple of weeks on the DC metro I used to see a black guy get on with no shirt, one arm cut off, and burn scars all over his body.

I knew DC was a tough town, but I had no idea.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on March 25, 2012, 09:13:31 AM
I am growing more and more convinced that Raz is using us a testbed for his standup comedy gigs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 26, 2012, 06:55:13 PM
"Do ya ever wonder why they put fire extinguishers in bathrooms?  What's gonna catch on fire.... the toilet paper?  WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THAT?"
*cue bass riff*
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on March 26, 2012, 07:00:39 PM
I just ate two Yodels.  :huh:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drakescakesonline.com%2Fimages%2FYBYWCC.jpg&hash=98d23ad0ac49d331ffa9ffa4017e4cf68f395b37)

Haven't had them in ages, but I used to love them as a kid.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:13:21 AM
I made a really good chili this weekend, but only realized on Saturday evening, after the shops were closed, that I was down to my last tp roll.

It turned out fine. And there was no real crisis, anyways, because some supermarkets at railway stations are open on Sundays.

So there.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on April 02, 2012, 06:17:25 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:13:21 AM
I made a really good chili this weekend, but only realized on Saturday evening, after the shops were closed, that I was down to my last tp roll.

It turned out fine. And there was no real crisis, anyways, because some supermarkets at railway stations are open on Sundays.

So there.

These supermarkets would have been much more expensive though, like usual price x 2  ;)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on April 02, 2012, 06:18:39 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:13:21 AM
I made a really good chili this weekend, but only realized on Saturday evening, after the shops were closed, that I was down to my last tp roll.

It turned out fine. And there was no real crisis, anyways, because some supermarkets at railway stations are open on Sundays.

So there.

You people don't have anything open 24 hours?

Barbarians.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:19:17 AM
No. The church and unions forbid it. :weep:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on April 02, 2012, 06:20:06 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:19:17 AM
No. The church and unions forbid it. :weep:

Probably don't get free refills, either.

3rd worlders. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 02, 2012, 06:33:27 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 02, 2012, 06:20:06 AM
Probably don't get free refills, either.

3rd worlders. :rolleyes:

Not in restaurants (oaccasionally a breakfast place will have free coffee refills).

Some Micky D's have it. In one case, in an area frequented by our equivalent of dazzling urbanites (Turks/Kosovars/Romanians), they removed it again after a two weeks. :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on May 02, 2012, 03:07:02 AM
On my commute to work today I sat among a group of Chinese delegates to the Preparatory Committee of the Non Proliferation Treaty of the UN Disarmament Organization.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 03, 2012, 01:24:51 PM
 :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on May 05, 2012, 06:39:53 AM
I think I dropped 10 pounds in the can. Dear God, I never thought a man could shit that much.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on May 05, 2012, 06:49:28 AM
You don't have the expression "I just shat a stone" over those parts?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 05, 2012, 06:52:13 AM
I have yet to expel fecal matter today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 05, 2012, 06:57:16 AM
You bring great shame upon this coffee hut.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on May 05, 2012, 01:10:10 PM
Went with a friend to the Byzantium exhibition at Schallaburg.

Considering they crammed 10 centuries worth of history into fifteen large living room sized rooms they did a good job. First couple of rooms were about the city, and life in it (trade, emperor, church, etc.). The last rooms were:
Byzantium vs. Sasanids
Byzantium vs. Awars
Byzantium vs. Bulgars
Byzantium vs. Seljuks
Byzantium vs. Ottomans
THE END

They had some nice pieces, especially some everyday notes and writs that I enjoyed, like a 9th century student's notebook, an error riddled student's dictation, and merchants' notes. My favorites from the "everyday" section would be:
- A papyrus with an order for building materials for the not yet built Cairo
- A retort of a goldsmith to an unhappy customer that none of his previous customers had any problems, that maybe he had the item repaired by an inferior craftsmen in the meantime and that it was not his fault. The accompanying note mentioned that the writ conatined "a lot of vulgar language and incorrect spelling". Some things seem universal. :lol:

Also plenty illuminated late medieval/renaissance scriptures, two Imperial decrees signed in Imperial purple, artifacts, coins, 1000+ year old textiles etc. The exhibits came from Austrian, German, Italian, Greek and Persian museums. (@DucquedeBraganca: saw some pieces that we missed at KHM/Neue Burg).

Good times, except for: "NO PHOTOS! NO PHOTOS!" So I bought the rather nice exhibition catalogue.  <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on May 09, 2012, 11:49:44 AM
My supermarket has 25% off all liquor today. I bought a bottle of Cragganmore and Laphroaig each. I still have two different shades of Connemara and one bottle of Lagavulin 15y, else I might have gotten a bottle of Ardbeg, too.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 23, 2012, 04:21:45 PM
Flied for the first time of my life in a Dornier plane. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: PDH on May 24, 2012, 07:27:26 AM
Did you terror bomb Rotterdam?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 24, 2012, 10:57:41 AM
I saw an Ide-approved woman in the street today. :x
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on May 24, 2012, 11:13:48 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 24, 2012, 10:57:41 AM
I saw an Ide-approved woman in the street today. :x
Where was that street, in the Auschwitz museum?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on May 24, 2012, 11:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 24, 2012, 10:57:41 AM
I saw an Ide-approved woman in the street today. :x

Did you put any money in her cup?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 24, 2012, 11:17:43 AM
Not the museum, no. And not in her cup, no.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Malthus on May 24, 2012, 11:18:54 AM
Quote from: Valmy on May 24, 2012, 11:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 24, 2012, 10:57:41 AM
I saw an Ide-approved woman in the street today. :x

Did you put any money in her cup?

That would be a bit insulting if she wasn't actually a begger - but at least better than what Ide would put all over her face.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on June 01, 2012, 07:17:15 PM
I met a legit real-life kleptomaniac today... it was pretty sad.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on June 01, 2012, 07:35:39 PM
Turns out the CEO of my company is also the part owner of a punk rock and speed metal bar right by Main and Hastings (the shittiest part of town). We're getting free beer there tonight if we go. Not sure if I am going or not... free beer is less attractive than it used to be.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on June 01, 2012, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on June 01, 2012, 07:35:39 PM
Turns out the CEO of my company is also the part owner of a punk rock and speed metal bar right by Main and Hastings (the shittiest part of town). We're getting free beer there tonight if we go. Not sure if I am going or not... free beer is less attractive than it used to be.

Please, dude, look who you work for.  Somebody gives you a hard time, just steal somebody's car and run over them and get it painted until your wanted level drops.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on June 01, 2012, 08:32:02 PM
Pssst, that was who he use to work for, now a days his boss likes it if you are playing those damn social games on facebook iirc :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on June 01, 2012, 08:33:33 PM
My bad.  Challenge them to Scramble With Friends, then.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 04, 2012, 02:22:54 AM
Quote from: PDH on May 24, 2012, 07:27:26 AM
Did you terror bomb Rotterdam?

Nope and no Unternehmen Strafgericht (désolé Neil).
Nur Blitzreisen für meinen Geburtstag.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 09, 2012, 02:47:57 AM
I went to pick up a package from my corner post office this morning. I had to wait in line for over ten minutes which wouldn't have been so bad.

However, demonstrating the Austrian telekom's digital cable tv offering they had a tv tuned into Serbian music tv BN Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQuJjBPD4kc). :bleeding:

In related news, I'm now a tablet owner:

Asus EEE SL101 slider:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbilder.deltatecc.com%2FTablet%2FAsus%2F17060006125_Asus_Eee-Pad-Slider-SL101-1B079A_600.jpg&hash=9fb6f62200b67485ebdaa490fe8acd49dedf3caf)

It got very good reviews over here. I bought if for two main reasons: it's using Android, not Apple OS, and Asus has a rep for keeping their softwares/OS updated. Also, it has an integrated keyboard, so it can double as mobile typewriter. It's therefore bulkier than "normal" tablets. However, had I bought a different keyboard I would have bought a keyboard, anyways.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Iormlund on June 09, 2012, 03:23:10 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 01, 2012, 07:17:15 PM
I met a legit real-life kleptomaniac today... it was pretty sad.

I met one 20 or so years ago, a 13 yo kid with truly exceptional dexterity.

Turns out his (well off and largely absent) parents were psychiatrists. :frusty:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 13, 2012, 09:01:37 PM
Tomorrow I will hit the road for Lexington, Ken-tuck-ee, for my oldest niece's wedding.  Wedding itself is sure to be a bust, as my brother's family is all churched-up.  But still roadtrips are fun.  See y'all in a couple days.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 14, 2012, 09:08:39 AM
Have a good time Yi, we'll miss you. :cheers:

Thanks! :cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2012, 09:09:55 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 14, 2012, 09:08:39 AM
Have a good time Yi, we'll miss you. :cheers:

Thanks! :cheers:

+1
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on June 14, 2012, 09:55:08 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 13, 2012, 09:01:37 PM
Tomorrow I will hit the road for Lexington, Ken-tuck-ee, for my oldest niece's wedding.  Wedding itself is sure to be a bust, as my brother's family is all churched-up.  But still roadtrips are fun.  See y'all in a couple days.

So, I dont have to crop my quotes for a few days. :w00t:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Scipio on June 14, 2012, 12:29:04 PM
Brother in law visiting for the weekend.  Shiftless layabout rising sophomore from Ole Miss.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 15, 2012, 10:46:21 AM
I was buttcalled today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on June 15, 2012, 10:50:45 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 15, 2012, 10:46:21 AM
I was buttcalled today.

Talking out their ass again..eh
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Scipio on June 15, 2012, 07:04:11 PM
The shiftless layabout mowed my lawn.

I like his initiative!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on June 17, 2012, 04:04:12 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 13, 2012, 09:01:37 PM
Tomorrow I will hit the road for Lexington, Ken-tuck-ee, for my oldest niece's wedding.  Wedding itself is sure to be a bust, as my brother's family is all churched-up.  But still roadtrips are fun.  See y'all in a couple days.
I wonder if any Languishites met up with Yi? :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 18, 2012, 07:57:59 PM
I met Cal and Princessa for lunch on Sunday.  They were both very nice.  :)

Posters were discussed, pictures were taken.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on June 18, 2012, 09:08:02 PM
I need to get that pic off of her phone, and then I'll post it in TBR.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on June 18, 2012, 09:16:52 PM
Why would anyone want to meet Yi?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 18, 2012, 11:45:43 PM
Quote from: katmai on June 18, 2012, 09:16:52 PM
Why would anyone want to meet Yi?
If he's more willing to enter into bets in person than he is online, then I'd really like to meet him.  :hmm: :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:09:58 PM
I won an involuntary commitment hearing on Wednesday.  :)  The psychiatrist was: apoplectic.  ^_^
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 03, 2012, 09:13:01 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:09:58 PM
I won an involuntary commitment hearing on Wednesday.  :)  The psychiatrist was: apoplectic.  ^_^

So when did you get released?  That day?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 03, 2012, 09:15:44 PM
I haven't done shit.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:47:37 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 03, 2012, 09:13:01 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:09:58 PM
I won an involuntary commitment hearing on Wednesday.  :)  The psychiatrist was: apoplectic.  ^_^

So when did you get released?  That day?

:P 

They have 72 hours to re-file if they really want to keep her so bad.  But I think you would have enjoyed the impotent doctor rage moment.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 03, 2012, 09:56:55 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:47:37 PM
But I think you would have enjoyed the impotent doctor rage moment.

I LOL'd.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 18, 2012, 10:07:08 AM
I bought breakfast at the supermarket this morning.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 18, 2012, 11:06:59 AM
A huge spider on the balcony keeps me inside today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: PDH on August 18, 2012, 04:49:37 PM
There was a fly in my house.  I opened the screen door and it flew out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 18, 2012, 04:58:01 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 03, 2012, 09:13:01 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 03, 2012, 09:09:58 PM
I won an involuntary commitment hearing on Wednesday.  :)  The psychiatrist was: apoplectic.  ^_^

So when did you get released?  That day?

:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 18, 2012, 07:01:40 PM
I just shat out what I estimate to be 5 pounds of shit. That was what I get for eating 2 slices of Domino's pizza.  :yuk:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 04:42:11 PM
Today a lesbian sat next to me on the bus.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 21, 2012, 04:55:53 PM
My bowel movements have been erratic. 2 days of nothing, then I launch a foot and half torpedo into the bowl. Then 2 more days of nothing.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 04:56:31 PM
My stool is firm.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 25, 2012, 01:02:05 PM
Today I was at a conference where I encountered people who looked like movie actors. I called them "Gregory Peck", "Richard Burton" and "William Macy". "Gregory Peck" was a woman.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on September 25, 2012, 01:47:49 PM
:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2012, 02:33:08 PM
I had the most awful nightmare last night.
For some reason, I was on the coast of Antartica with my cat, and we slipped off a glacier shelf.  Floating farther and farther from shore, I had to decide if I was going to hang on to the kitty litter box with her, risking us both, or to set her adrift in it alone with a remote chance of rescue.
I set her off, and watched her to the horizon until I succumbed to the water.

Never eat frozen White Castle cheeseburgers from the Rite Aid at 1am, people.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on September 25, 2012, 02:50:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2012, 02:33:08 PM
I had the most awful nightmare last night.
For some reason, I was on the coast of Antartica with my cat, and we slipped off a glacier shelf.  Floating farther and farther from shore, I had to decide if I was going to hang on to the kitty litter box with her, risking us both, or to set her adrift in it alone with a remote chance of rescue.
I set her off, and watched her to the horizon until I succumbed to the water.

Never eat frozen White Castle cheeseburgers from the Rite Aid at 1am, people.
White Castle cheeseburgers are never the root of the problem, although they are an extremely unfortunate complication.  The root of the problem is usually the thing that makes you want to eat frozen White Castle cheeseburgers.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2012, 02:52:07 PM
Quote from: DGuller on September 25, 2012, 02:50:42 PM
White Castle cheeseburgers are never the root of the problem, although they are an extremely unfortunate complication.  The root of the problem is usually the thing that makes you want to eat frozen White Castle cheeseburgers.  :hmm:

Don't get Razzy on me, man.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 26, 2012, 12:50:14 PM
I had cake today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 26, 2012, 09:29:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2012, 02:33:08 PM
I had the most awful nightmare last night.

Sounds like your dreams have had a sheltered life.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on September 26, 2012, 09:41:37 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 26, 2012, 09:29:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2012, 02:33:08 PM
I had the most awful nightmare last night.

Sounds like your dreams have had a sheltered life.

I've had much, much worse.  They just don't involve the cat.  That's when it gets personal.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 03, 2012, 07:33:00 AM
I had an atrocious dream last night that I was in the Vietnam War, but we were in my old neighborhood where I grew up.  I was off in the distance and saw my unit getting overrun and captured, so I dropped the M-60 after a few bursts and hauled ass, no way I was sitting it out in a POW camp with a watch up my ass. 
So here I am, running through the old neighborhood, trying to find the lines and avoid the NVA--these were definitely NVA, I could tell from the central casting WW2 Japanese uniforms--and after diving in a neighbor's pool and holding my breath under the diving board as they ran by, I finally managed to find my old house, and tried to hide in the bathtub, where they captured me.  But I escaped again when they were chitchatting with one another, and holed up in the attic of a friend's house where Christopher Walken--it was either Christopher Walken or perhaps Christopher Lloyd, the dream was morphing at that point--told me it was safe even though I doubted him because he was Agency and working for Air America, but the neighbors were getting foreclosed upon, and the sheriff's office use of tear gas canisters were drawing the attention of the NVA, who came by and as they started rummaging through the house and I could hear them pulling down the ladder to the attic, I woke up.

Don't eat those Halloween special Candy Cakes with the coconut in them before bed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: PDH on October 03, 2012, 07:44:11 AM
It's the toasted coconut, always the coconut.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 03, 2012, 11:01:37 AM
I dreamt that I was training pre-teen girl assassins. Of course, they were all naked.

My brain is a pervert.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 03, 2012, 11:34:50 AM
I met my coworker on the subway this morning and showed him the book I'm currently reading (see the Cloud Atlas thread for details and discussion).

Suddenly a guy from across the aisle who goes for the classic Allen Ginsberg look:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grazian-archive.com%2Fquiddity%2FGinsberg%2FGinsberg_2.jpg&hash=94e8da374bde77dae61f8c734786ca6b08d4e201)

shouts over in American accent (NY-ian?) that it's an absolutely brilliant book and that he's glad I'm reading it before the fucking movie that's going to ruin it is coming out.

I told him that I'm half way through and love it so far, but he had already gone back to his own reading.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on October 03, 2012, 11:49:52 AM
Hey German asshole, you tell us, in this very thread, what book you are reading. Not go send us on a merry fucking chase into another thread.

Asshole.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 03, 2012, 11:52:49 AM
Fuck you, Canuckle-Frog. There's a search function.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 06, 2012, 07:00:21 AM
Today I passed three feet from Joe Abercrombie.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on October 06, 2012, 10:52:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 06, 2012, 07:00:21 AM
Today I passed three feet from Joe Abercrombie.

He had three feet? Is he some sort of mutant?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 06, 2012, 10:54:51 AM
Quote from: Jacob on October 06, 2012, 10:52:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 06, 2012, 07:00:21 AM
Today I passed three feet from Joe Abercrombie.

He had three feet? Is he some sort of mutant?

It would have been impolite to ask him.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on October 06, 2012, 11:04:19 AM
Quote from: Jacob on October 06, 2012, 10:52:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 06, 2012, 07:00:21 AM
Today I passed three feet from Joe Abercrombie.

He had three feet? Is he some sort of mutant?

Marti's dream date?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 06, 2012, 05:51:02 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 03, 2012, 11:49:52 AM
Hey German asshole, you tell us, in this very thread, what book you are reading. Not go send us on a merry fucking chase into another thread.

Asshole.

I just assumed the book was named Cloud Atlas and moved on.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on October 06, 2012, 06:54:46 PM
I didn't care enough to think about it at all.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2012, 07:46:58 PM
Went to the dentist today, and the route takes me through the heart of the UI campus.

One recent fashion trend I heartily approve of is the shrink wrapped leggings ending in boots.  Longish leathery looking boots, like riding boots. 

Almost as good as a high school bikini car wash.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 08, 2012, 08:12:55 PM
I still prefer bare legs, but I guess that's not really an option in Iowa in October.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 02, 2012, 06:10:14 AM
I made somewhat loose stool today. But the initial plug was very firm, almost hard.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 09, 2012, 03:04:33 PM
Today I saw a bull moose.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on November 09, 2012, 03:19:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 09, 2012, 03:04:33 PM
Today I saw a bull moose.

:cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 17, 2012, 09:44:24 AM
Today I saw a Jew.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on November 17, 2012, 02:03:56 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 17, 2012, 09:44:24 AM
Today I saw a Jew.
What did you do to him?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 17, 2012, 02:07:50 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 17, 2012, 02:03:56 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 17, 2012, 09:44:24 AM
Today I saw a Jew.
What did you do to him?

Nothing. I reported him to the authorities.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 06, 2012, 01:52:31 PM
Today I was alone in a waiting room with two HOTT ~20 y/o chick twins. Tall, blonde, looked like models.

Life is almost like a porno. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on December 12, 2012, 01:24:58 PM
In the subway this morning I found a ballpen imprinted with the name and phone number of "The Manse Residential Home", a care home in Cornwall according to the internet:

QuoteThe Manse
15 Cargoll Road, St Newlyn East, Newquay TR8 5LB


Owner: Harris Care Ltd

Person in charge: Mrs P Jewell

Local Authority / Social Services: Cornwall Council (click for contact details)

Type of Service: Care Home only (Residential Care) - Privately Owned , 23 residents

Registered Care Categories*: Dementia • Old Age

Specialist Care Categories: Alzheimer's

Single Rooms: 19

Shared Rooms: 2

Rooms with ensuite WC: 21

Facilities & Services: Day Care • Respite Care • Own GP if required • Own Furniture if required • Pets by arrangement • Smoking not permitted • Close to Local shops • Near Public Transport • Minibus or other transport • Stairlift • Wheelchair access • Gardens for residents • Phone Point in own room/Mobile • Television point in own room
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on December 13, 2012, 10:12:25 AM
Last nights "everyday adventure" was being woken at 2am by my wife telling me that our 8" Christmas tree had fallen over, then spending the next hour anda half wrestling with it to get it back up.  So very, very, tired.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: ulmont on December 13, 2012, 10:22:50 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 13, 2012, 10:12:25 AM
Last nights "everyday adventure" was being woken at 2am by my wife telling me that our 8" Christmas tree had fallen over, then spending the next hour anda half wrestling with it to get it back up.  So very, very, tired.

That's pretty lame, Barrister.  An 8" Christmas tree should take about a minute to get back up.  An 8' Christmas tree, on the other hand, might be a pain in the ass.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on December 13, 2012, 11:02:51 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 13, 2012, 10:12:25 AM
Last nights "everyday adventure" was being woken at 2am by my wife telling me that our 8" Christmas tree had fallen over, then spending the next hour anda half wrestling with it to get it back up.  So very, very, tired.
:yeahright: Really, eight inches?  :hmm: Are you sure that wasn't part of the dream?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on December 13, 2012, 11:06:35 AM
Small Tree is small. The real question is why did it take BB 1h30 to glue it down.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 13, 2012, 02:48:30 PM
Today I put on my white robe and conical hat.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on December 13, 2012, 08:08:02 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 13, 2012, 10:12:25 AM
Last nights "everyday adventure" was being woken at 2am by my wife telling me that our 8" Christmas tree had fallen over, then spending the next hour anda half wrestling with it to get it back up.  So very, very, tired.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthesocialmediasyndicate.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fwp-o-matic%2Fcache%2F22368_spinal_tap_stonehenge_dwarves.jpg&hash=9b270cc591506ec3af7e31f953409ca614255163)
:punk:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on January 17, 2013, 12:49:14 AM
Yesterday on the way to work I sat in the subway across from a very good looking girl. She had a transparent book bag in which she had two textbooks about International Law, a textbook about Contractul Law and a Scrooge McDuck pencil case.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on January 17, 2013, 08:03:18 AM
That's awesome.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 31, 2013, 04:35:24 PM
I met Charles XII.  :wacko: :blink:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on February 16, 2013, 10:16:22 PM
Had a buddy visiting from out of town, and went with another mutual friend to Chaps Charcoal Restaurant (aka Chaps Pit Beef, and featured on Man vs. Food, and Drive-ins, Diners & Dives)  out in east Bal'more.

Smokey-bbq meated subway sandwich.  :mmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on February 17, 2013, 02:00:12 AM
Oh yeah, Chaps is a legend.  The tricom with a touch of horseradish is my fave.

Did you hit the Gentleman's Club while you were there?  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 17, 2013, 03:40:27 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 17, 2013, 02:00:12 AM
Oh yeah, Chaps is a legend.  The tricom with a touch of horseradish is my fave.


What was the horseradish sold as?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on February 17, 2013, 08:31:56 AM
I've been eating this multigrain cornflake cereal and it has been cleaning my colon out. I have sat upon my porcelain throne a bit too much lately.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on February 17, 2013, 03:19:06 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 17, 2013, 02:00:12 AM
Oh yeah, Chaps is a legend.  The tricom with a touch of horseradish is my fave.

Did you hit the Gentleman's Club while you were there?  :P

The meat in there is probably not as good as at Chaps.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 13, 2013, 02:50:45 PM
Today I bought a new headset.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 27, 2013, 01:01:19 PM
I did my taxes.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 27, 2013, 05:46:11 PM
I've shit 4 times. It's spring cleaning time!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 27, 2013, 08:17:59 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 27, 2013, 05:46:11 PM
I've shit 4 times. It's spring cleaning time!

Dear lord. 5 times. Attempting to rehydrate.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 28, 2013, 12:15:58 AM
Can't you push it back in?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 28, 2013, 06:20:33 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2013, 12:15:58 AM
Can't you push it back in?

No. It was coming out, hell or high water.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 28, 2013, 04:51:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2013, 12:15:58 AM
Can't you push it back in?
You can't push on a string.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 09, 2013, 05:40:43 AM
I did my laundry. I also made stool. Type 4.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 10, 2013, 04:52:46 PM
I had a bottle of wine. I now have gas.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 18, 2013, 11:26:35 AM
Today I saw two drunk cripples in wheelchairs chatting retardedly. I called them Ed & MB.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 18, 2013, 11:33:54 AM
I heard there was a car wash going at the supermarket so I sped on over  :w00t:

Turned out to be the softball team.  <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on May 18, 2013, 03:14:10 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 18, 2013, 11:33:54 AM
I heard there was a car wash going at the supermarket so I sped on over  :w00t:

Turned out to be the softball team.  <_<

http://m.sadtrombone.com/
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 07, 2013, 12:51:59 PM
I had my hair cut today. Then I bought clothes. NB I already possessed some clothes.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 07, 2013, 12:58:54 PM
There was a couple in their 40s dressed in Swedish football jerseys on the subway tonight. The got off at the stop "Schwedenplatz".
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 14, 2013, 01:10:51 PM
Today lightning struck approx. 50 yds from me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: fhdz on June 14, 2013, 01:27:50 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 14, 2013, 01:10:51 PM
Today lightning struck approx. 50 yds from me.

God's getting sloppy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 14, 2013, 02:25:16 PM
 :XD:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 14, 2013, 02:49:48 PM
Har har. I was standing approx. 50 yds from an actuary.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 04:07:29 AM
I had coffee this morning. It was from the night before but no biggie.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on June 16, 2013, 07:16:59 AM
Wurst blog ever.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on June 16, 2013, 07:21:47 AM
Quote from: katmai on June 16, 2013, 07:16:59 AM
Wurst blog ever.

Yet, more informative than most blogs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on June 16, 2013, 07:23:01 AM
STFU Liep. You never introduced me to your sister. You are dead to me!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on June 16, 2013, 07:43:41 AM
What, Liep dissed you with his sister?  What a fag.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on June 16, 2013, 07:47:58 AM
I don't remember talks of such an arrangement.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Malthus on June 16, 2013, 10:58:59 AM
This goes here, I think.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341789/Sweden-set-ban-bestiality-scrapping-legal-loophole-legal-animal-did-suffer.html

Sad day for some.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 11:02:11 AM
Whew, it was Daily Mail.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
I was accosted by a beggar while eating at Burger King. Beggars are horrible people, and they're everywhere in Stockholm. Beggars that is.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on June 16, 2013, 02:02:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
I was accosted by a beggar while eating at Burger King. Beggars are horrible people, and they're everywhere in Stockholm. Beggars that is.

Stop eating at BK, DGuller.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 02:03:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 16, 2013, 02:02:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
I was accosted by a beggar while eating at Burger King. Beggars are horrible people, and they're everywhere in Stockholm. Beggars that is.

Stop eating at BK, DGuller.

I was about to, but now I will continue to spite you.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on June 16, 2013, 02:15:57 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 02:03:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 16, 2013, 02:02:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 16, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
I was accosted by a beggar while eating at Burger King. Beggars are horrible people, and they're everywhere in Stockholm. Beggars that is.

Stop eating at BK, DGuller.

I was about to, but now I will continue to spite you.

^_^
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on June 16, 2013, 04:34:51 PM
Yesterday, I gobbled down a whole pint of blueberries in a short sitting.  I thought about posting a thread saying "Guys, I don't feel so good..." and asking for medical advice, but I didn't bother. 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 16, 2013, 11:21:09 PM
 :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 16, 2013, 11:28:41 PM
Quote from: DGuller on June 16, 2013, 11:21:09 PM
:mad:

Agreed. Why wouldn't he post such an entertaining thread?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 16, 2013, 11:40:57 PM
For the record, I did not ask for advice during my blueberry poisoning episode.  I was too paralyzed to post.  I only shared my experience once I figured a way out of my predicament.  :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 18, 2013, 01:48:48 PM
I bought a belt, summer shorts, two pants, four short-sleeve shirts and four white t-shirts today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 18, 2013, 04:17:48 PM
Quote from: katmai on June 16, 2013, 07:16:59 AM
Wurst blog ever.

That would be fine for Germany, at most banal.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 18, 2013, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 01:48:48 PM
I bought a belt, summer shorts, two pants, four short-sleeve shirts and four white t-shirts today.

Whatever happened to the Euroattitude that short pants can only be worn by children?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 18, 2013, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 18, 2013, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 01:48:48 PM
I bought a belt, summer shorts, two pants, four short-sleeve shirts and four white t-shirts today.

Whatever happened to the Euroattitude that short pants can only be worn by children?

I wasn't aware that such an attitude existed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 21, 2013, 11:45:51 AM
A guy in the subway sat next to me, reading L. Ron Hubbard's A History of Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Man). I didn't ask him if he was reading it ironically.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 21, 2013, 11:53:06 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 18, 2013, 04:23:42 PM
Whatever happened to the Euroattitude that short pants can only be worn by children?

I wasn't aware that such an attitude existed.

I would have called it old-fashioned, not European.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 21, 2013, 12:07:29 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 10:14:57 PM
I wasn't aware that such an attitude existed.

I can definitely recall some conversations from Paradox or the early days of Languish in which Yuros gave Americans grief for wearing shorts.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 21, 2013, 12:13:18 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 21, 2013, 12:07:29 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 10:14:57 PM
I wasn't aware that such an attitude existed.

I can definitely recall some conversations from Paradox or the early days of Languish in which Yuros gave Americans grief for wearing shorts.

Americans are obese, which makes it important to cover your body as much as possible,
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on June 21, 2013, 03:51:32 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 21, 2013, 12:07:29 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 10:14:57 PM
I wasn't aware that such an attitude existed.

I can definitely recall some conversations from Paradox or the early days of Languish in which Yuros gave Americans grief for wearing shorts.

Keep in mind that Germans are basically the Americans of Europe.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on June 21, 2013, 05:50:36 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 18, 2013, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 18, 2013, 01:48:48 PM
I bought a belt, summer shorts, two pants, four short-sleeve shirts and four white t-shirts today.

Whatever happened to the Euroattitude that short pants can only be worn by children?

Same with sandles.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on June 21, 2013, 05:51:40 PM
Quote from: DGuller on June 16, 2013, 11:40:57 PM
For the record, I did not ask for advice during my blueberry poisoning episode.  I was too paralyzed to post.  I only shared my experience once I figured a way out of my predicament.  :mad:

Thanks for the break. You should do that more often.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Legbiter on June 21, 2013, 09:38:36 PM
I just came back from Norway. Saw some trees.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on June 24, 2013, 07:18:33 AM
The silent scorn, a true Nordic tradition.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 24, 2013, 07:21:04 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.

You have two fists, don't you?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 08:37:34 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 24, 2013, 07:21:04 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.

You have two fists, don't you?

They are my painting hands.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 24, 2013, 08:41:32 AM
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creativestate.biz%2Fimages%2Ffingerpaint-hands.png&hash=f51d56f18a26829db3a8d54e7578f1bd007ddf4a)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on July 02, 2013, 01:07:43 PM
I almost collided with billionaire and Nike co-founder Phil Knight coming out of an elevator a few minutes ago.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 02, 2013, 01:11:47 PM
Quote from: sbr on July 02, 2013, 01:07:43 PM
I almost collided with billionaire and Nike co-founder Phil Knight coming out of an elevator a few minutes ago.

Did you invite him to Languish?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on July 02, 2013, 01:41:13 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 02, 2013, 01:11:47 PM
Quote from: sbr on July 02, 2013, 01:07:43 PM
I almost collided with billionaire and Nike co-founder Phil Knight coming out of an elevator a few minutes ago.

Did you invite him to Languish?

There were a bunch of things I wished I had said as I walked away and realized who he was.  That isnt in my Top 100 though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on July 12, 2013, 07:57:53 AM
You know, I've just been realizing that I get great customer service pretty much everywhere I am, even in proverbially rude places like Paris or Boston, or from proverbially rude people like African-American federal bureaucracy employees.

Either all the people bitching need to examine their own behavior more closely, or I'm just a damn endearing guy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on July 12, 2013, 08:51:25 AM
Ugh.   <_<  I just popped into Rite Aid to see if by chance they had any seltzer... nope, not there with the soda... Ah, but here's some Rite Aid brand seltzer in the fridge section... Hmm, it's all flavored... Well, that's OK, I'll just grab it anyways...

:yucky:  This is the seltzer they make for obese gentile women, not me.  Fucking 50% Splenda bare minimum.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on July 12, 2013, 08:54:56 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.

:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on July 13, 2013, 06:23:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.
Swedes are a violent people. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 14, 2013, 07:10:33 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 13, 2013, 06:23:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 24, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I was at BK today (ha garbon!) and a garbage feeder pushed past me on his way into the restaurant. Fucking filth, I thought. Then a while later and a few blocks away I was making my way through the hordes of tourists on my way to Old Town, when this same guy gets in my way for a second. I was like fuck man! If I had been carrying I would have capped his bitch ass right there. For sure.
Swedes are a violent people. :(

We have much to be violent about.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 27, 2013, 04:55:52 PM
It was hot today. If you like statuesque tanned blonde women in revealing outfits Stockholm is a nice place right now.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on August 05, 2013, 01:40:53 PM
Just took a walk up to Central Park. Lovely day. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2013, 03:44:32 PM
I think two Mormon missionaries might have just moved in to the apartment building next door.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on August 05, 2013, 03:47:53 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2013, 03:44:32 PM
I think two Mormon missionaries might have just moved in to the apartment building next door.

Coincidentally, as I was on my way home last-night, I passed the local boozer just as two mormon missionaries were entering it.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on August 05, 2013, 04:40:58 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 05, 2013, 03:47:53 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2013, 03:44:32 PM
I think two Mormon missionaries might have just moved in to the apartment building next door.

Coincidentally, as I was on my way home last-night, I passed the local boozer just as two mormon missionaries were entering it.  :hmm:
Can you think of a better place to meet non-Mormons?  :huh:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on August 05, 2013, 04:49:54 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 05, 2013, 04:40:58 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 05, 2013, 03:47:53 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2013, 03:44:32 PM
I think two Mormon missionaries might have just moved in to the apartment building next door.

Coincidentally, as I was on my way home last-night, I passed the local boozer just as two mormon missionaries were entering it.  :hmm:
Can you think of a better place to meet non-Mormons?  :huh:

Sorry, you're right, I was just hoping there might have been a chance that they were temporarily giving into the dark side.   :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 09, 2013, 01:35:40 PM
Today I ate beet.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2013, 10:17:20 AM
My first great-nephew just popped.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 12, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2013, 10:17:20 AM
My first great-nephew just popped.

Congrats. Mine is almost 2 , and the little shit is already bumming money off me. Dame quarter thief.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 12, 2013, 10:54:50 AM
Also, I took a dump and half of them were floaters.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on August 12, 2013, 11:22:41 AM
Baby took a huge dump in the bath tub last night.  Half of his were floaters as well.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 12, 2013, 11:49:19 AM
And I bet he laughed.......
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on August 12, 2013, 02:44:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 12, 2013, 11:49:19 AM
And I bet he laughed.......

Nope.  Looked around as if nothing was wrong.

I wasn't in the room, but his big brother immediately ratted him out.  "Daddy! Andrew pooped in the tub!"
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on August 12, 2013, 08:09:28 PM
Just got back from a quiet meal at Burger King that was sadly disrupted when a Cinnabon-eating sack of shit decided to give me a pointer on manners and I had to scream at him to go fuck himself from across the restaurant.  And now, there's substantial police activity in the room across the hall from mine right now... Ah living in the extended-stay.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on August 12, 2013, 08:30:32 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 12, 2013, 08:09:28 PM
Just got back from a quiet meal at Burger King that was sadly disrupted when a Cinnabon-eating sack of shit decided to give me a pointer on manners and I had to scream at him to go fuck himself from across the restaurant.  And now, there's substantial police activity in the room across the hall from mine right now... :)
Wow, cops in your place sure do take cursing seriously.  Stay safe! :hug:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2013, 08:34:18 PM
What was the nature of the alleged etiquette breach?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on August 12, 2013, 09:44:11 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2013, 08:34:18 PM
What was the nature of the alleged etiquette breach?

Myself was quietly -- definitely sub-conversational level -- talking to my mother on the cell phone while I ate a DG Stacker by my lonesome in the corner, while piped music blasted, drive-through orders were yelled out, etc.  I generally try to have good cell phone etiquette, but I thought a quiet convo in a fast-food restaurant was pretty much OK.  Hell, in Philly I got used to people talking on their phones during the damn movies.  A dude got shot in the leg at a movie theater four blocks from me when I was living there for "shushing" another guy. (Both white men, I feel it's important to note.)

Anyways, I still realize I might have been being borderline rude, especially up here, and I truly would have hung up (albeit a little irked) if he had spoke up to me while he was actually enjoying his sacrosanct meal, so I could stop disturbing him.  Instead, he just gave me a little punk comment under his breath as he unnecessarily walked past me on his way out.  Which was pretty much picking a fight, as far as I could tell; what did he expect me to do, wilt with shame?

However, I did wilt with shame a bit after our little exchange across the restaurant reached the point where I told him to fuck himself and this old lady looked like she was about to die from outrage. :Embarrass:  Also there was a very patient and pleasant family of English tourists with four kids on line behind me while I was standing for about 10-15 minutes at an empty cash register waiting to order (which I did while feeling very mellow and being very nice to the insanely overworked manager), who said funny things like " A chicken sandwich for dinner? :bowler: Hmm, I'm not sure that's entirely proper, lurve. :hmm:" that I know must have witnessed my moment of glory.  :blush:  I also felt pretty conspicuously like an out-of-towner, since the generally mild NY Tristate intonation in my voice flies into high gear during the rare moments when I flip out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2013, 09:47:06 PM
Nigga's wrapped too tight for VT.  Your hardboiled, edgy city attitude may play in Beantown, but it's not gonna cut it in New Jack Burlington, yo.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on August 12, 2013, 09:55:40 PM
I don't understand how people can get bent out of shape over people conversing on a cell phone at a noise level that is comparable to if they were having the same conversation with the same person sitting right next to them.

Screaming children are ok...but OMG GET OFF YOUR CELL PHONE HOW RUDE
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2013, 10:01:19 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on August 12, 2013, 09:44:11 PM
Instead, he just gave me a little punk comment under his breath as he unnecessarily walked past me on his way out.  Which was pretty much picking a fight, as far as I could tell; what did he expect me to do, wilt with shame?

Act like you didn't hear a thing.  That annoys them even more, because then their little slings and arrows fall flaccidly to the floor in failure, in all their alliterative beauty.

Personally, I like to use "fuck you very much" in a variety of situations.  HMMM HUH WHAT I SAID THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on August 12, 2013, 10:34:55 PM
:rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2013, 10:36:10 PM
Or scratch their eyes out with your car keys.  Whatever works.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on August 12, 2013, 10:38:38 PM
Like I would want blood on my keychain ornaments.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 13, 2013, 06:28:18 AM
I approve of Milahi's actions. Should have followed him out into the parking lot too, and then followed him around town.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 13, 2013, 07:47:55 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 13, 2013, 06:28:18 AM
I approve of Milahi's actions. Should have followed him out into the parking lot too, and then followed him around town.

All the while talking on the phone.  CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 20, 2013, 07:49:05 AM
Yesterday on the subway I saw a Turkish guy, in his 40s, slightly pudgy, with the same facial tattoo as Commander Chakotay on Voyager, with haircut to match. :unsure:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvacres.com%2Fimages%2Ftattoo_chakotay.jpg&hash=9a8cdaebf530fd099b23752570d526e9575f1fc1)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 26, 2013, 12:22:43 PM
I just bought my first ever cell phone.  I am no longer: off the grid.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 26, 2013, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 26, 2013, 12:22:43 PM
I just bought my first ever cell phone.  I am no longer: off the grid.

WTF
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 26, 2013, 05:05:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 26, 2013, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 26, 2013, 12:22:43 PM
I just bought my first ever cell phone.  I am no longer: off the grid.

WTF

You know...olds.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on August 26, 2013, 05:10:17 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 26, 2013, 12:22:43 PM
I just bought my first ever cell phone.  I am no longer: off the grid.

Yeah understandable, that semaphore must have gotten tiring.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 19, 2013, 01:55:04 PM
Mid-afternoon I had a significant gas event. Later I made stool, it was somewhat loose.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 19, 2013, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 26, 2013, 05:05:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 26, 2013, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 26, 2013, 12:22:43 PM
I just bought my first ever cell phone.  I am no longer: off the grid.

WTF

You know...olds.  :rolleyes:

Does Seedy have one?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 20, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
Today I saw two moose. I also saw a bovine trying to mount another bovine.

When I got home they hade done som plumbing work so there was air left in the pipes. I got the aggressive faucet fart treatment when I washed my hands. I hate that.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 20, 2013, 12:39:06 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 20, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
I also saw a bovine trying to mount another bovine.

Were you filled with disgust?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 20, 2013, 12:41:17 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 12:39:06 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 20, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
I also saw a bovine trying to mount another bovine.

Were you filled with disgust?

About 90% filled. Part of me likes a bit of kink.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on September 20, 2013, 12:42:45 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 12:39:06 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 20, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
I also saw a bovine trying to mount another bovine.

Were you filled with disgust?
I'd say it was more of jealousy than disgust.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 02:14:44 AM
Today I had a wrap for breakfast. #yolo
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 21, 2013, 08:15:53 AM
I shit out 3 hard turds out this morning.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 08:22:02 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 21, 2013, 08:15:53 AM
I shit out 3 hard turds out this morning.

Why? #yolo
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 21, 2013, 08:26:26 AM
I don't have insider info. #yolosucks
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 25, 2013, 12:42:58 PM
While walking up the stairs from the subway I checked out teen ass (shut up) and it was so nice I almost tripped.

Then at the bus station the guy in front of me (not the teen ass, stupid) stopped for no reason and left a 6 ft gap in the line. Weirdo.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 29, 2013, 03:49:07 AM
I was at the multiplex at 1600 hours to buy some tickets (I was in the neighborhood, normally I buy online of course). There were kids everywhere, high on sugar and Planes. Do prospective breeders ever stop and think?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on September 29, 2013, 06:21:55 AM
No.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 29, 2013, 02:20:17 PM
I haven't had my muffin yet today. I will later.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 29, 2013, 02:34:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 25, 2013, 12:42:58 PM
While walking up the stairs from the subway I checked out teen ass

What was the donkey doing on the subway?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 29, 2013, 02:39:55 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 29, 2013, 02:34:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 25, 2013, 12:42:58 PM
While walking up the stairs from the subway I checked out teen ass

What was the donkey doing on the subway?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Didn't I tell you to shut up?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 29, 2013, 04:16:33 PM
I had my muffin.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 06, 2013, 03:42:46 PM
Today I bought a bag. It came in a smaller bag (!). Then at the checkout the girl put the smaller bag into a bag that was between the first and second bags in size.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 06, 2013, 05:09:10 PM
A bag in hillbilly is called a 'poke'.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 06, 2013, 05:19:54 PM
I'm afraid to ask why.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 06, 2013, 05:29:04 PM
To be more precise, a paper bag.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on October 06, 2013, 05:29:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 06, 2013, 05:19:54 PM
I'm afraid to ask why.

It's an archaic term for bag or purse.  A small one sewn into the clothing is called a pocket.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 13, 2013, 08:15:01 AM
Today I wandered the streets aimlessly. Eventually I found myself in a part of town where I had never been before. Sunlight beat down from a cloudless sky harshly illuminating parts of the streets and leaving other parts in shadow. This is an old city, if medieval counts as old. Buildings from different centuries stared down as I passed, but they were all new to me. I was near the old highway that leads to the south, to the continent, to the world. I could feel the presence of the people that had come on this road, to this city. The papal messenger with an important letter to the Franciscan friars on their little island when the Black Death was still generations away, the farmer bringing his produce to the city to feed the growing capital of Gustavus Adolphus's baltic empire, the young poor man from the provinces making his way to the belching factories of the Victorian city to build a better future for himself and who in doing so would also build our modern nation. A city is very much a living thing, it is both caring and uncaring, and it has a frightening habit of letting you find the destiny you deserve. Such were my thoughts as I returned to familiar streets and the city of today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 13, 2013, 08:28:49 AM
I ordered pizza for lunch.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 17, 2013, 11:47:11 AM
I had a slight headache but then I popped a pill and it seems to be working.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on October 17, 2013, 11:49:25 AM
I bought a pretzel!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on October 18, 2013, 03:03:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 17, 2013, 11:49:25 AM
I bought a pretzel!

The hipsterist of the hipster bars in Metro Detroit serves mall style soft pretzels with day-glo orange cheese for about 10 times what they cost in the mall.  It's completely ironic.  :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 18, 2013, 03:55:12 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 18, 2013, 03:03:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 17, 2013, 11:49:25 AM
I bought a pretzel!

The hipsterist of the hipster bars in Metro Detroit serves mall style soft pretzels with day-glo orange cheese for about 10 times what they cost in the mall.  It's completely ironic.  :cool:

Have the m,i and o keys of your computer suddenly started acting erratically?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: merithyn on October 18, 2013, 04:03:27 PM
I've had five large glasses of ice water today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 18, 2013, 04:56:10 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 18, 2013, 03:03:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 17, 2013, 11:49:25 AM
I bought a pretzel!

The hipsterist of the hipster bars in Metro Detroit serves mall style soft pretzels with day-glo orange cheese for about 10 times what they cost in the mall.  It's completely ironic.  :cool:

A little too ironic.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Razgovory on October 18, 2013, 05:37:58 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 18, 2013, 03:03:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 17, 2013, 11:49:25 AM
I bought a pretzel!

The hipsterist of the hipster bars in Metro Detroit serves mall style soft pretzels with day-glo orange cheese for about 10 times what they cost in the mall.  It's completely ironic.  :cool:

I bought mine at the mall.  I found nothing ironic about the pretzel.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 18, 2013, 05:39:53 PM
Quote from: merithyn on October 18, 2013, 04:03:27 PM
I've had five large glasses of ice water today.

Ice is solid water.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 02:38:09 PM
I went to the dentist today. Then I had lunner at BK.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 03:04:28 PM
I had two Whoppers for lunch today. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 25, 2013, 03:56:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 03:04:28 PM
I had two Whoppers for lunch today. :cool:
What's wrong with Triple Stackers?  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 04:01:43 PM
I had a coupon for a free Whopper with the purchase of another Whopper.  So I had two Whoppers and no fries.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 25, 2013, 04:06:47 PM
I can't eat BK anymore.  Meat tastes soy-ish to me.  Wendy's has spoiled my palate.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 04:11:09 PM
In Sweden it is not uncommon to hear people order "woopers".
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 25, 2013, 05:05:33 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 25, 2013, 03:56:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 03:04:28 PM
I had two Whoppers for lunch today. :cool:
What's wrong with Triple Stackers?  :(

Needs tomato.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 07:58:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.
Thanks for the update.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 07:58:39 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 25, 2013, 04:06:47 PM
I can't eat BK anymore.  Meat tastes soy-ish to me.  Wendy's has spoiled my palate.
Wendy's is better, I admit.  But I had a coupon. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 08:01:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 04:11:09 PM
In Sweden it is not uncommon to hear people order "woopers".
:lol:

When I was in college we had a BK at the student union.  One day I was in line there and this foreign girl ordered a "wooper".

BITCH BEHIND THE COUNTER: A what?
FOREIGN GIRL:  A wooper?
BITCH BEHIND THE COUNTER: Do you mean a WHOPPAH?
FOREIGN GIRL:  I think so?
BITCH BEHIND THE COUNTER:  IT'S CALLED A WHOPPAH, NOT A WOOPAH!  HEY EVERYBODY, SHE THINKS IT'S CALLED A WOOPAH!
*other employees start laughing*
*foreign girl looks embarassed and on the verge of tears*
*Cal examines her boobs and slinks away*
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:03:35 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 07:58:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.
Thanks for the update.

I'm depressed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 25, 2013, 08:12:51 PM
Are you sure she didn't order a whoopin'? Maybe you could have offered her one.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 08:16:57 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 25, 2013, 08:12:51 PM
Are you sure she didn't order a whoopin'? Maybe you could have offered her one.
I don't speak Foreign, so I guess it's possible. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 25, 2013, 08:27:54 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:03:35 PM
I'm depressed.

You're bored.  There's a difference.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:40:33 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 25, 2013, 08:27:54 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:03:35 PM
I'm depressed.

You're bored.  There's a difference.

I've been told I was depressed by the crack doctor Meri. As she knows everything, I'm depressed.

I've got my cure albums out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 26, 2013, 12:38:15 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:40:33 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 25, 2013, 08:27:54 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 08:03:35 PM
I'm depressed.

You're bored.  There's a difference.

I've been told I was depressed by the crack doctor Meri. As she knows everything, I'm depressed.

I've got my cure albums out.

If you have The Cure albums out, there's no reason to be depressed. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 01:58:24 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.

I'm happy for you. My stool has been a bit loose the last few days, requiring heavy wiping.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 26, 2013, 08:39:08 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 01:58:24 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.

I'm happy for you. My stool has been a bit loose the last few days, requiring heavy wiping.

Bowl movements are a lot like the performance of a high-board diver.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on October 26, 2013, 11:07:07 AM
Quote from: mongers on October 26, 2013, 08:39:08 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 01:58:24 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Both bowel movements today were large 1 turd monstrosities that required only one wipe.

I'm happy for you. My stool has been a bit loose the last few days, requiring heavy wiping.

Bowl movements are a lot like the performance of a high-board diver.

Hoping for as small a splash as possible?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 26, 2013, 02:35:39 PM
Went and bought groceries. Bought an apple fritter. Turned out to be cherry. FML.


(jk, cherry fritter wasn't bad)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 26, 2013, 02:38:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 26, 2013, 02:35:39 PM
Went and bought groceries. Bought an apple fritter. Turned out to be cherry. FML.


(jk, cherry fritter wasn't bad)

I went to the grocery store too. I bought lots of cheeses. They all look delicious!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 26, 2013, 04:27:49 PM
Girls are staying over this weekend.  That means plenty of goodies in the house.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 26, 2013, 05:17:38 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 26, 2013, 04:27:49 PM
Girls are staying over this weekend.  That means plenty of goodies in the house.
Yeah, plenty of goodies, but you can't touch them.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 26, 2013, 05:54:21 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 26, 2013, 05:17:38 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 26, 2013, 04:27:49 PM
Girls are staying over this weekend.  That means plenty of goodies in the house.
Yeah, plenty of goodies, but you can't touch them.  :(

Explain.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 26, 2013, 06:14:07 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fT1_zWGIjM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fT1_zWGIjM)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 15, 2013, 07:55:26 AM
I have an increasing tendency to buy new clothes instead of doing the laundry. I think I may be coming down with affluenza. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on December 15, 2013, 11:17:09 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 15, 2013, 07:55:26 AM
I have an increasing tendency to buy new clothes instead of doing the laundry. I think I may be coming down with affluenza. :(

Only if you are throwing out your old clothes. Otherwise, you are just a filthy slob.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 15, 2013, 12:09:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 15, 2013, 11:17:09 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 15, 2013, 07:55:26 AM
I have an increasing tendency to buy new clothes instead of doing the laundry. I think I may be coming down with affluenza. :(

Only if you are throwing out your old clothes. Otherwise, you are just a filthy slob.

Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on December 15, 2013, 12:17:23 PM
What if you pay people to buy you new clothes instead of doing your laundry?  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 15, 2013, 01:40:13 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 15, 2013, 12:17:23 PM
What if you pay people to buy you new clothes instead of doing your laundry?  :bowler:

We'll let Ideologue decide what to do with you then.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on December 16, 2013, 07:38:59 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 15, 2013, 07:55:26 AM
I have an increasing tendency to buy new clothes instead of doing the laundry. I think I may be coming down with affluenza. :(

Just wear the same clothes for a week and you'll have less laundry at the end of the week.    ;) 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 21, 2013, 06:20:59 PM
My butt fell asleep when I played BF4. So when I fondled it it felt like somone else's butt. So hott.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 25, 2013, 06:43:03 PM
Today in the subway there was an old Asian guy who was drunk out of his tiny skull and rocking out to pop tunes in his headphones, occasionally uttering something guttural. I hold the Languish Asian community responsible.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 25, 2013, 08:43:25 PM
I blame all that pristine, unattainable Swedish pussy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 25, 2013, 10:03:12 PM
Did you enjoy your sandwich, Brain?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 26, 2013, 12:45:12 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 25, 2013, 10:03:12 PM
Did you enjoy your sandwich, Brain?

It was awesome. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 02, 2014, 10:43:42 AM
I was at the bookstore today, but I forgot to buy the Battlefield 4 novel.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 02, 2014, 10:46:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 02, 2014, 10:43:42 AM
I was at the bookstore today, but I forgot to buy the Battlefield 4 novel.

Raistlin is in it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 03, 2014, 11:20:21 AM
The good local sushi place was closed, and I ended up getting a salad from the supermarket. The salad dressing came in a type of bag that was new to me (though I hope it has existed for years in more civilized parts of the world). It was completely awesome: easily opened and it gave me complete control and confidence when applying the dressing to the salad. How much went were was under my total control. Then it was closed as easily and I didn't get my fingers (or any other non-food surface) dirty at all. I love the guy who invented that bag.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on January 03, 2014, 11:24:23 AM
I gave blood yesterday. While waiting for my post-donation cup of tea and a biscuit, I heard a dripping sound - I thought someone had spilled their drink. Turns out they hadn't quite turned my tap off, so to speak, and despite the dressings I'd just squirted a cupful of Claret from my arm all over the church hall floor. I'm sure I saw some donors still in the queue make a hasty exit! I didn't realise I'd splashed my jacket quite elaborately with blood until lunchtime today. I wondered why it was so easy to get a seat on the train this morning!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 03, 2014, 11:27:49 AM
They must have thought you had a severe lady moment. :o
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 09, 2014, 12:41:01 PM
Today I heard an owl.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 10, 2014, 09:08:25 AM
Walking to work, I got distracted pondering some "Obama is a Communist"-style bumper stickers ("You Voted For It, Comrade!"), leading me to slip on the ice and hit my head in front of a bunch of school children and concerned parents, and then I discovered that the containers of cottage cheese and hummus I was bringing for lunch exploded in the bag and got all over everything. :weep:

I'm going to sue Obama.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 10, 2014, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 10, 2014, 09:08:25 AM
Walking to work, I got distracted pondering some "Obama is a Communist"-style bumper stickers ("You Voted For It, Comrade!"), leading me to slip on the ice and hit my head in front of a bunch of school children and concerned parents, and then I discovered that the containers of cottage cheese and hummus I was bringing for lunch exploded in the bag and got all over everything. :weep:

I'm going to sue Obama.

Hummus? You must support Bin Laden.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: PDH on January 10, 2014, 09:38:06 AM
I woke up and had a bowel movement that was very satisfying.  Then I had another.  It is my day off so I can afford to splurge.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 10, 2014, 10:14:09 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 10, 2014, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 10, 2014, 09:08:25 AM
Walking to work, I got distracted pondering some "Obama is a Communist"-style bumper stickers ("You Voted For It, Comrade!"), leading me to slip on the ice and hit my head in front of a bunch of school children and concerned parents, and then I discovered that the containers of cottage cheese and hummus I was bringing for lunch exploded in the bag and got all over everything. :weep:

I'm going to sue Obama.

Hummus? You must support Bin Laden.

Al Qaeda had a buy one get one free deal.  :blush:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 10, 2014, 10:24:12 AM
Was it that Sabra shit?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 10, 2014, 10:28:58 AM
Cedars, I think.  A Lebanese outfit from Taxachusetts.

My surviving cottage cheese had road dirt in it. :yucky:  I demand my cottage cheese be as pure as the driven snow.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 10, 2014, 10:29:43 AM
Have you tried the Hezbollah brand?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 10, 2014, 10:34:11 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 10, 2014, 10:29:43 AM
Have you tried the Hezbollah brand?

Zoupa approved.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on January 10, 2014, 01:58:10 PM
Quote from: Brazen on January 03, 2014, 11:24:23 AM
I gave blood yesterday. While waiting for my post-donation cup of tea and a biscuit, I heard a dripping sound - I thought someone had spilled their drink. Turns out they hadn't quite turned my tap off, so to speak, and despite the dressings I'd just squirted a cupful of Claret from my arm all over the church hall floor. I'm sure I saw some donors still in the queue make a hasty exit! I didn't realise I'd splashed my jacket quite elaborately with blood until lunchtime today. I wondered why it was so easy to get a seat on the train this morning!

Vampire!!!!   :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2014, 07:27:23 PM
I saw a milk truck today that had "A PASSION FOR PURITY" written on the side.

Couldn't help thinking to myself... :hmm: Sounds like a good idea -- anybody ever think of trying it on a bigger scale?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 15, 2014, 07:32:37 PM
I was looking for this thread before, couldn't find it.

Last Friday I ended the night/morning learning euchre in a trailer park.

I won too.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2014, 11:03:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 15, 2014, 07:32:37 PM
I was looking for this thread before, couldn't find it.

Last Friday I ended the night/morning learning euchre in a trailer park.

I won too.  :)

Oh, the bar life... ending up in people's homes at 3:00am. :)  Sometimes I miss it, but then I think better of it.  I really wound up in some strange and potentially dangerous places.  And I can't be socializing with my past/current/future clients like that, as I inevitably would be in these towns.

As for euchre, seems to be a Midwestern thing; I've never run into it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 15, 2014, 11:04:40 PM
I've got a wicked case of gas. For the third day running.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on January 16, 2014, 10:58:12 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2014, 11:03:58 PM
As for euchre, seems to be a Midwestern thing; I've never run into it.

I think comes from Wisconsin.  The most important card in the game is called The Bower (from the German word for farmer, bauer.)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 18, 2014, 12:39:39 PM
Today I went to an electronics store and ended up buying some screen cleaner.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on January 18, 2014, 02:36:04 PM
Why is your screen so dirty?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 18, 2014, 03:05:43 PM
You don't get blood and semen on your screen?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 18, 2014, 06:58:57 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 15, 2014, 11:04:40 PM
I've got a wicked case of gas. For the third day running.

Nicotine lozenges can do that as well.  I dropped one in an aisle in Barnes and Nobles so bad, all the Algerian troops broke.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on January 18, 2014, 08:43:52 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 18, 2014, 03:05:43 PM
You don't get blood and semen on your screen?

Rarely at the same time.  :yuk:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2014, 08:46:12 PM
You're not doing it right Brain.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 19, 2014, 04:45:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2014, 08:46:12 PM
You're not doing it right Brain.

Is there a manual I can read?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on January 19, 2014, 04:54:31 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 19, 2014, 04:45:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2014, 08:46:12 PM
You're not doing it right Brain.

Is there a manual I can read?

http://www.evilmonk.org/a/nlaadmg.cfm
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 19, 2014, 10:04:57 AM
Please consult your Bristol Stool chart.

Type 4. Size of the USS Oklahoma.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 19, 2014, 12:42:41 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 19, 2014, 04:54:31 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 19, 2014, 04:45:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2014, 08:46:12 PM
You're not doing it right Brain.

Is there a manual I can read?

http://www.evilmonk.org/a/nlaadmg.cfm

How do I deal with wandering monsters?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: lustindarkness on January 24, 2014, 11:59:56 AM
In other news, my left arm fell asleep last night.

I had pins and needles for like 30 minutes after the blood started flowing. :pinch:

First I was like "Can I just cut it off so I can go back to sleep? :mad:" After a while I was like "I may have to amputate it becasue it is dead. :( ".
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on January 24, 2014, 12:44:14 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 24, 2014, 11:59:56 AM
In other news, my left arm fell asleep last night.

I had pins and needles for like 30 minutes after the blood started flowing. :pinch:

First I was like "Can I just cut it off so I can go back to sleep? :mad:" After a while I was like "I may have to amputate it becasue it is dead. :( ".
It's not dead, but it's probably dying if it takes that long to reboot it.  I hope you're right-handed? :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 24, 2014, 01:01:16 PM
My hands are always like that, you learn to live with it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 02, 2014, 04:06:07 AM
I was carded at the liquor store. Again.

Later I went to a supermarket that was much bigger than my regular supermarket.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 02, 2014, 04:17:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 02, 2014, 04:06:07 AM
I was carded at the liquor store. Again.

You know, some stores have a policy of carding everyone.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 02, 2014, 04:19:57 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 02, 2014, 04:17:41 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 02, 2014, 04:06:07 AM
I was carded at the liquor store. Again.

You know, some stores have a policy of carding everyone.

This chain does not. :)

And it's the only chain in town.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 07, 2014, 07:04:44 AM
Today in the subway a wino/junkie hurled mild abuse at passersby.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 23, 2014, 05:27:09 AM
An elderly woman was triggered by a Black Sails ad poster to launch into a loud rant about how Jesus is awesome and how Satan is just a horrible, horrible person. Like most of my social encounters this took place in the subway.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: lustindarkness on February 23, 2014, 08:15:44 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 23, 2014, 05:27:09 AM
An elderly woman was triggered by a Black Sails ad poster to launch into a loud rant about how Jesus is awesome and how Satan is just a horrible, horrible person. Like most of my social encounters this took place in the subway.

I don't think you are a horrible horrible person.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on March 07, 2014, 05:40:51 PM
I have "Dragostea Din Tei (Numa Numa)" stuck in my head. :frusty: :bleeding:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fd%2Fd3%2FDragonsWhateverCover.jpg&hash=778c429f7abef3f93cabbe96c20b2e6a290a35f2)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brezel on March 08, 2014, 05:18:19 AM
Welcome to 2004.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 08, 2014, 03:52:47 PM
Last night was a zoo at my karaoke joint.  A pimping of South Chicago banger transplants decide to show up and get in all the ladies' faces.  Half the white women decide to go ballistic and start cat fights.  A couple of extraneous ornery farm boy rednecks to balance out the stew.  I spent half the night snuffing out potential trouble.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: crazy canuck on March 10, 2014, 03:22:00 PM
Not a murder of bangers?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 29, 2014, 04:12:11 PM
Today I saw Don Giovanni. I especially liked the commendatore scene. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 05, 2014, 01:28:23 AM
I just squeezed out a grade A turd, big and firm (but not hard).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 05, 2014, 10:46:50 PM
Kind of a weird scene last night at my karaoke joint.  A table of four Phillipina women, no longer spring chickens, with four older white dudes.  One of the dudes was sporting a rug and one looked like Les Nessman.  The ladies appeared to be buds, and the dudes appeared to not know each other.

Mail order brides who came as a matched set?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 04:48:49 AM
Won some pelf at the craps table tonight.  :smoke:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on April 13, 2014, 04:50:57 AM
Pelf?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 04:53:17 AM
Lucre.  Mammon.  Dough-rey-mih.  Bank.  Bread.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 13, 2014, 05:40:54 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 04:48:49 AM
Won some pelf at the craps table tonight.  :smoke:

I'm shocked that the Korean won.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on April 13, 2014, 08:53:08 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 13, 2014, 05:40:54 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 04:48:49 AM
Won some pelf at the craps table tonight.  :smoke:

I'm shocked that the Korean won.

Maybe he just had a yen for the game.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 09:03:44 PM
And now I just won $4 on Powerball!  I am invincible.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 13, 2014, 09:06:01 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2014, 09:03:44 PM
And now I just won $4 on Powerball!  I am invincible.

Somebody has some foldin' money.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Norgy on April 14, 2014, 06:43:54 AM
The Yi pension fund is growing.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 19, 2014, 02:17:01 AM
Funky night at the karaoke joint tonight.  Everybody was feeling funky, white boys dirty dancing with black girls.  Then at closing time of the black girls just wigged out.

I almost got the feeling they was going through the motions, felt like they were obligated to.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 19, 2014, 05:04:29 PM
Today I saw a show with Henrik Schyffert and Fredrik Lindström, two of Sweden's top comedians. It was great, just like their previous show I saw a few years ago.

To an international audience Schyffert may be best known as the guitarist in Whale (back then he was already an established comedian).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on May 17, 2014, 06:49:09 AM
I bought new linen for my bed and a USB stick (not for my bed) today.

Re: Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe was one of the more hilarious/weird videos of the 90s.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 17, 2014, 09:21:36 AM
Today I saw lots and lots of Jesus people marching through Stockholm. I estimate between 10 and 30 million. The ones from Africa seemed to have the most fun.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 18, 2014, 11:59:31 AM
So Starbucks now has an Oprah chai latte. Apparently it is the same as their regular chai latte but you pay more to donate to charity for kids / Starbucks donates.

I ordered a regular chai latte. Bye kids.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 18, 2014, 12:02:00 PM
garbon; see Hitler, worse than.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 18, 2014, 12:03:05 PM
If only we weren't such a nanny state - they could make their own money. :angry:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2014, 12:38:11 AM
Retail operations that ask me for a donation in addition to my purchase need to donate to my fucking fund for a change.   
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on May 19, 2014, 08:12:28 AM
I giggle when they ask for carbon offsets. Fuck trees.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 19, 2014, 08:14:34 AM
Doesn't sound like Starbucks is asking for anything.  They're providing an option.

An option which has the nice benefit of not landing anyone on a junk mailing list.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 19, 2014, 08:15:32 AM
Yeah they didn't even ask me if I wanted Oprah chai instead.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2014, 10:05:55 AM
I bought frames for my Kandinsky prints. My walls are no longer bare.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2014, 04:10:49 PM
I've got a wart on the inside of my thumb I've been bombing with Compound W for a couple months now.  It's hanging on, too much connective tissue to yank off, too little to be comfortable.  :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on June 16, 2014, 04:11:35 PM
I had a beautiful brown baby today. Then I flushed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on June 16, 2014, 04:13:59 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2014, 12:38:11 AM
Retail operations that ask me for a donation in addition to my purchase need to donate to my fucking fund for a change.   

You're not even willing to make an exception for Oprah?  Wow.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 16, 2014, 04:36:20 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2014, 04:10:49 PM
I've got a wart on the inside of my thumb I've been bombing with Compound W for a couple months now.  It's hanging on, too much connective tissue to yank off, too little to be comfortable.  :mad:

Yi, we like you just the way you are, warts and all.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: sbr on June 16, 2014, 08:14:24 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2014, 04:10:49 PM
I've got a wart on the inside of my thumb I've been bombing with Compound W for a couple months now.  It's hanging on, too much connective tissue to yank off, too little to be comfortable.  :mad:

Cover it with duct tape.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 27, 2014, 02:44:24 PM
Today I used a plunger. I didn't attack anyone with it though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 27, 2014, 02:58:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 27, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
Today I found myself in the ghetto for the first time in more than 10 years. It was me and 50 shades of brown.

Allåhu Akbörk?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 27, 2014, 03:19:22 PM
50 Shades of Brown - Reminiscing on the Throne: the official Ed Anger biography.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 28, 2014, 09:14:33 AM
Today I went to the posh department store to do some shopping. Turned out there was a sale... FUUUUUCK! Sales - when the working class (in body or in mind) comes out to play. I grabbed a single non-sale item, paid for it and got the hell out of there.

Later some American tourists asked me to point them the way to the nearest TGIF, which I did. America, fuck yeah!!

Even later I had a major explosishit, the wide angle scattershit kind. The kind where you look into the bowl after the deed and there's little bits of poop everywhere. The walls of the bowl, the underside of the seat... The kind that makes you both worried and relieved at the same time.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 28, 2014, 01:41:43 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 28, 2014, 09:14:33 AM
Later some American tourists asked me to point them the way to the nearest TGIF, which I did. America, fuck yeah!!

Lame. :bleeding:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 28, 2014, 03:12:09 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 28, 2014, 09:14:33 AM
Today I went to the posh department store to do some shopping. Turned out there was a sale... FUUUUUCK! Sales - when the working class (in body or in mind) comes out to play. I grabbed a single non-sale item, paid for it and got the hell out of there.

....

Are you planning on turning into a Swedish Garbon ?  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 28, 2014, 04:35:47 PM
Turning into?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 28, 2014, 01:29:25 PM
Some adorable kids had set up a little store on the sidewalk with odd bits from around the house. I scored some paper napkins. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 28, 2014, 01:31:38 PM
How much were they asking for mom's nice jewelry?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 28, 2014, 01:33:10 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 28, 2014, 01:31:38 PM
How much were they asking for mom's nice jewelry?

Mom was supervising so I didn't dare ask.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on August 28, 2014, 02:14:54 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 28, 2014, 01:33:10 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 28, 2014, 01:31:38 PM
How much were they asking for mom's nice jewelry?

Mom was supervising so I didn't dare ask.
I hate it when moms do that.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 14, 2014, 10:58:58 AM
Today there was some election thing going on so I voted.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 27, 2014, 04:41:18 PM
Tonight I had dinner at the castle. Sheilbh wasn't around though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 07, 2014, 03:24:25 PM
Today I peeked into a café and sitting among the regular customers was an obese woman.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on December 07, 2014, 06:08:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 07, 2014, 03:24:25 PM
Today I peeked into a café and sitting among the regular customers was an obese woman.

OMG
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 09, 2015, 07:04:45 PM
Today when I was in the bathroom having just taken care of some business I discovered that one sheet of paper on my TP roll had suffered a manufacturing error and was deformed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 10, 2015, 10:36:15 AM
Today a gentleman outside the subway loudly and repeatedly suggested that women with big butts should be burnt at the stake. He didn't say if he could lie or not.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on January 10, 2015, 11:21:27 AM
Interesting.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 11, 2015, 06:00:25 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 10, 2015, 10:36:15 AM
He didn't say if he could lie or not.

If he could, he'd lie and say he couldn't.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on January 15, 2015, 08:07:23 PM
I was walking home from work, and I saw a car stopped on the road in the left lane, midway between crosswalks.  The engine was running, but the flashers weren't on, so it didn't look like the car broke down.  I walked up along the grass median to look inside the car, and there was an old black guy slumped over the steering wheel.  I called 911 thinking that the guy had a heart attack while driving, and while I was on the phone, the asshole drives away.  :mad: 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on January 15, 2015, 08:10:58 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 15, 2015, 08:07:23 PM
I was walking home from work, and I saw a car stopped on the road in the left lane, midway between crosswalks.  The engine was running, but the flashers weren't on, so it didn't look like the car broke down.  I walked up along the grass median to look inside the car, and there was an old black guy slumped over the steering wheel.  I called 911 thinking that the guy had a heart attack while driving, and while I was on the phone, the asshole drives away.  :mad:

He was probably drunk.  :P

3.........2...........1............
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2015, 09:04:09 PM
God, you're such an American, DG.  What self-respecting Ukrainian/Russian is going to get out of his car to go investigate if some other driver is OK?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 15, 2015, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2015, 09:04:09 PM
God, you're such an American, DG.  What self-respecting Ukrainian/Russian is going to get out of his car to go investigate if some other driver is OK?

Calling him an American insults my native born citizenship.  :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on January 19, 2015, 12:22:49 PM
Yesterday I was in the oral hygiene aisle at the supermarket buying mouthwash, and I turned around and almost bumped into my dentist.  Freaky. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 19, 2015, 12:23:29 PM
Quote from: Caliga on January 19, 2015, 12:22:49 PM
Yesterday I was in the oral hygiene aisle at the supermarket buying mouthwash, and I turned around and almost bumped into my dentist.  Freaky. :hmm:

Which one of you was outed?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on January 19, 2015, 12:28:18 PM
I don't know.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 19, 2015, 10:51:48 PM
I took a MASSIVE dump. Epic almost.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on January 20, 2015, 11:16:39 AM
Quote from: Caliga on January 19, 2015, 12:22:49 PM
Yesterday I was in the oral hygiene aisle at the supermarket buying mouthwash, and I turned around and almost bumped into my dentist.  Freaky. :hmm:

My dentist has many of my family, cousins and extended family as patients and sees them more often, so the running joke is that I ask him what's new with my relatives and he fills me in on things.   :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on January 20, 2015, 12:45:26 PM
I had to go down to Calgary for a conflict file.  Mrs B and the kids were visiting her parents, which was kind-of on the way, so I went also.

As I'm driving I see the truck two vehicles ahead of me has hurled something out the window.  It sails through the air, lands at the side of the road.  Sure enough - beer can. :mad:

I try to catch up and follow the guy.  He's definitely speeding, going 130.  Driving pattern is not terrible, but he is crowding and even going onto the centre line.  So fuck him - I call it in as a suspected impaired driver.  I then back off.  Unfortunately the truck was quite dirty and I couldn't get close enough to get a plate (plus I didn't like following a guy speeding that much).

I was hoping to see him pulled over in the next town, but no luck. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on January 20, 2015, 02:04:08 PM
Quote from: KRonn on January 20, 2015, 11:16:39 AM
My dentist has many of my family, cousins and extended family as patients and sees them more often, so the running joke is that I ask him what's new with my relatives and he fills me in on things.   :D
Heh.  My dentist always asks me how my wife is doing, which is funny since she's never met her.  She used to be a patient at the same place, but left after she got into a huge fight with the original dentist who owned the practice.  So it probably says on my patient info sheet that my wife is still a patient, and so the new dentist in the practice feels compelled to ask.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 21, 2015, 03:24:26 PM
A gorgeous snowy day, not too fast coming down and only about 2 or 3 inches of accumulation, max. 

So what better reason to get out of the house, take a short trip down to the Royal Farms store in 4WD for a large coffee, two chocolate frosted doughnuts and sit with the rest of the Old Guys and do the Old Guy Thing, watching the world go by. 



Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 21, 2015, 03:25:13 PM
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on January 21, 2015, 03:26:44 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 21, 2015, 03:24:26 PM
A gorgeous snowy day, not too fast coming down and only about 2 or 3 inches of accumulation, max. 

So what better reason to get out of the house, take a short trip down to the Royal Farms store in 4WD for a large coffee, two chocolate frosted doughnuts and sit with the rest of the Old Guys and do the Old Guy Thing, watching the world go by. 

My local McDonald's was missing you this morning.  Next time you're there, make sure you ask for your SENIOR coffee.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 21, 2015, 03:33:35 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 21, 2015, 03:26:44 PM
My local McDonald's was missing you this morning.  Next time you're there, make sure you ask for your SENIOR coffee.

McDonald's coffee sucks ass.  And people get all weirded out when I watch their kids in the ball pit.  :P

I had considered Panera Bread, but I was simply not in the mood for wading into a crowd of obnoxious hipsters sucking up free WiFi with their Apple Products, as that can cause homicidal ideations.  So, it was Old Guys at Royal Farms, which merely induces suicidal ideations.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on January 21, 2015, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 21, 2015, 03:26:44 PM
My local McDonald's was missing you this morning.  Next time you're there, make sure you ask for your SENIOR coffee.
:lol:

Old people are so out of control with their 'senior' this and 'senior' that. :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on January 21, 2015, 04:00:15 PM
Quote from: KRonn on January 20, 2015, 11:16:39 AM
Quote from: Caliga on January 19, 2015, 12:22:49 PM
Yesterday I was in the oral hygiene aisle at the supermarket buying mouthwash, and I turned around and almost bumped into my dentist.  Freaky. :hmm:

My dentist has many of my family, cousins and extended family as patients and sees them more often, so the running joke is that I ask him what's new with my relatives and he fills me in on things.   :D

:D

That would make a nice plot point in an ongoing situation comedy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on January 21, 2015, 05:06:34 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 21, 2015, 03:33:35 PM
I had considered Panera Bread, but I was simply not in the mood for wading into a crowd of obnoxious hipsters sucking up free WiFi with their Apple Products, as that can cause homicidal ideations. 

I live just far enough from downtown to be in a hipster-free zone.  You'd love my nearby Panera.  Nothing but soccer moms in yoga pants, with plenty of free time. 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on January 21, 2015, 05:32:49 PM
Mine only has business people.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on January 27, 2015, 11:55:36 PM
Mrs B is feeling under the weather.  She asks if we have any NeoCitran (apparently sold in the US as Theraflu).  I say "I think so", and start digging deep in some cupboards.

Mrs B sayd "don't bother - it's probably expired a couple of years ago".

I find it, and start laughing.

Expiry date - September, 2007.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 28, 2015, 01:02:31 AM
Mrs. B is still feeling under the weather, but is now fascinated by all the new colors.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 01, 2015, 08:55:13 AM
Today in the subway I overheard a guy talking about God as if He were real. :wacko:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 01, 2015, 12:51:14 PM
God rides the bus, not the train.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on February 18, 2015, 03:58:43 PM
So I took a client to lunch today. Had a great steak each. By the time we got to the espresso and the dessert, we both realised it's Ash Wednesday (turns out he used to be an altar boy). Gotta love (being a) lapsed Catholic. :P

You enjoy life but you still get enough guilt to keep you alert.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 18, 2015, 04:20:15 PM
Shop smart, shop S-Mart.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 18, 2015, 05:35:35 PM
Residual guilt is why lapsed Catholic girls enjoy sex so much.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: alfred russel on February 18, 2015, 11:20:47 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2015, 09:04:09 PM
God, you're such an American, DG.  What self-respecting Ukrainian/Russian is going to get out of his car to go investigate if some other driver is OK?

He was probably wondering if there was something illicit going on that he could report. Remember that above all else, DGuller is a snitch.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 15, 2015, 02:37:56 AM
At the supermarket yesterday I checked the wants/sales offers on their exit area blackboard.

Between the usual cards looking for work/apartments or selling old furniture: "For sale: engraved long sword, 150 cm."
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 15, 2015, 06:37:44 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2015, 02:37:56 AM
At the supermarket yesterday I checked the wants/sales offers on their exit area blackboard.

Between the usual cards looking for work/apartments or selling old furniture: "For sale: engraved long sword, 150 cm."

How much?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on March 15, 2015, 06:44:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2015, 02:37:56 AM
At the supermarket yesterday I checked the wants/sales offers on their exit area blackboard.

Between the usual cards looking for work/apartments or selling old furniture: "For sale: engraved long sword, 150 cm."

Do you still write? This sounds like the beginning of a short story.  :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on March 15, 2015, 06:46:26 AM
Quote from: The Brain on March 15, 2015, 06:37:44 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2015, 02:37:56 AM
At the supermarket yesterday I checked the wants/sales offers on their exit area blackboard.

Between the usual cards looking for work/apartments or selling old furniture: "For sale: engraved long sword, 150 cm."

How much?

Didn't say, didn't ask.

@Mart: no.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 15, 2015, 08:05:31 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 15, 2015, 06:44:20 AM
Do you still write? This sounds like the beginning of a short story.  :cool:

It sounds like the beginning of a dull short story, where some kid listens to some old man prate on about his past.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Martinus on March 15, 2015, 08:07:17 AM
Unless the sword is really Excalibur.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on March 15, 2015, 04:56:14 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 15, 2015, 06:44:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2015, 02:37:56 AM
At the supermarket yesterday I checked the wants/sales offers on their exit area blackboard.

Between the usual cards looking for work/apartments or selling old furniture: "For sale: engraved long sword, 150 cm."

Do you still write? This sounds like the beginning of a short story.  :cool:

Safety not guaranteed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 16, 2015, 12:23:07 PM
Today in the subway I saw an Asian whose countenance was particularly fierce.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on April 16, 2015, 01:17:01 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2015, 12:23:07 PM
Today in the subway I saw an Asian whose countenance was particularly fierce.

And you're in Scandinavia so that's particularly worrisome, for sure.   :menace:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 09, 2015, 03:43:34 PM
Today I saw a cool dog. He was wearing shades and riding in a sidecar.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 10, 2015, 02:44:54 AM
First day off I've had probably in 3 months.  Played an atrocious 9 holes of golf, stopped by the nudie bar, then hit the karaoke.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on May 10, 2015, 07:43:31 PM
I finished planting my entire vegetable garden this weekend. I was only planning on planting two more rows of yellow potatoes to go with the other two rows of Kennebec potatoes. I had figured to plant later in the month, to wait for the soil to warm, but it's been warm here and the soil was warm up to 70 F which is more than ample for planting. I still didn't think I had it in me to plant everything but once I got going I just kept going and got it all done.

Four rows of potatoes, about 70 plants. About the same number of winter squash plants, over a dozen each of zucchini and summer squash, at least 150 pole beans and at least 70 each of bush beans and carrots.

Most of it, except for some garden boxes and pots, watered with a drip irrigation system that's efficient and doesn't waste much water. Else I'd go nuts trying to water it all manually everyday plus I'd be wasting and paying for a lot of water.

Also mowed my lawn for the first time this season.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 10, 2015, 07:53:36 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 10, 2015, 07:43:31 PM
About the same number of winter squash plants, over a dozen each of zucchini and summer squash,

:yuk:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on May 10, 2015, 07:59:23 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 10, 2015, 07:53:36 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 10, 2015, 07:43:31 PM
About the same number of winter squash plants, over a dozen each of zucchini and summer squash,

:yuk:

:)  Hehe, That's all good stuff. I love squash, especially the winter squash.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on May 11, 2015, 08:05:30 AM
I won an invite to the launch party for the new season of my favourite running/undead apocalypse interactive story game app, Zombies, Run!, this evening. I'm such a fangirl. Wonder if they need a comms manager?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 12, 2015, 07:32:22 AM
I'm loving being near so many parks. A bit chilly when the sun dives behind clouds but otherwise lovely in Hydr Park at the moment. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: lustindarkness on May 12, 2015, 08:45:17 AM
Quote from: Brazen on May 11, 2015, 08:05:30 AM
I won an invite to the launch party for the new season of my favourite running/undead apocalypse interactive story game app, Zombies, Run!, this evening. I'm such a fangirl. Wonder if they need a comms manager?

That sounds interesting, what is it again? An app? Game?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 06:47:01 PM
Last quote heard outside by my open window 30 seconds ago, apparently spoken by a white man in a white t-shirt who then walked calmly and defiantly down the street, in a tone of resolve: "I don't give a fuck what you're saying, you dirty whore."

Prior to that, in the hallway, spoken loudly by my upstairs neighbor, a white woman, to her mixed-race teenage daughters, slurring her words just a little:  "Get over here my niggas! Gimme a hug before I start kicking some ass..."
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 07:25:39 PM
Someone with a very shrill voice just yelled "Faggot!!" at me as I walked to the supermarket along a main road.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on June 15, 2015, 07:43:33 PM
In conclusion, Vermonters are a crude people. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 15, 2015, 07:43:48 PM
Real men don't walk.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 23, 2015, 11:11:16 AM
Today I saw a man who vaguely resembled Alexander Skarsgård.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on June 23, 2015, 02:08:14 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 06:47:01 PM
Last quote heard outside by my open window 30 seconds ago, apparently spoken by a white man in a white t-shirt who then walked calmly and defiantly down the street, in a tone of resolve: "I don't give a fuck what you're saying, you dirty whore."

Prior to that, in the hallway, spoken loudly by my upstairs neighbor, a white woman, to her mixed-race teenage daughters, slurring her words just a little:  "Get over here my niggas! Gimme a hug before I start kicking some ass..."

:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 23, 2015, 03:11:27 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 07:25:39 PM
Someone with a very shrill voice just yelled "Faggot!!" at me as I walked to the supermarket along a main road.  :hmm:
:( What about it sounded "shrill"?  :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on June 23, 2015, 03:24:22 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 07:25:39 PM
Someone with a very shrill voice just yelled "Faggot!!" at me as I walked to the supermarket along a main road.  :hmm:

And people call Texans' forced friendliness 'fake'.

Give me forced friendliness anyday over that kind of garbage. I mean I know it is bullshit but I like that I never have to deal with people's nonsense.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 23, 2015, 03:36:52 PM
Quote from: DGuller on June 23, 2015, 03:11:27 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 15, 2015, 07:25:39 PM
Someone with a very shrill voice just yelled "Faggot!!" at me as I walked to the supermarket along a main road.  :hmm:
:( What about it sounded "shrill"?  :mad:

^_^
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 26, 2015, 09:59:41 AM
Today I went to the posh department store. There was a sale (fuck me) BUT I saw a woman who looked like Grace Park.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 08, 2015, 11:13:25 AM
I noticed at a local supermarket today that in some of their displays the barbecue sauces of summer have now given way to the cookies and chocolates of the dark season.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 23, 2015, 12:13:55 PM
Today at the grocery store the two customers before me carried around wads (lol) of cash.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on October 23, 2015, 12:14:59 PM
People still use cash in Sweden? Were they criminals or really old?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 23, 2015, 12:15:35 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 23, 2015, 12:14:59 PM
People still use cash in Sweden? Were they criminals or really old?

No they don't. And that's what was so weird, they looked like norms.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 24, 2015, 06:59:59 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 23, 2015, 12:15:35 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 23, 2015, 12:14:59 PM
People still use cash in Sweden? Were they criminals or really old?

No they don't. And that's what was so weird, they looked like norms.

Swedes with a German background?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 24, 2015, 04:21:43 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 24, 2015, 06:59:59 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 23, 2015, 12:15:35 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 23, 2015, 12:14:59 PM
People still use cash in Sweden? Were they criminals or really old?

No they don't. And that's what was so weird, they looked like norms.

Swedes with a German background?

Is this german to the discussion?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 24, 2015, 05:18:42 PM
Maybe he meant curly haired fat dudes.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Norm_Peterson_drinks_beer.jpg)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 25, 2015, 11:45:37 AM
Today I felt a bit tired.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 25, 2015, 11:55:16 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 25, 2015, 11:45:37 AM
Today I felt a bit tired.
:smoke: ?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 25, 2015, 11:57:53 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 25, 2015, 11:55:16 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 25, 2015, 11:45:37 AM
Today I felt a bit tired.
:smoke: ?

:yes: Work yesterday evening and a bit today and probable cold coming on.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 10, 2015, 12:43:50 PM
I'm an admitted train napper.  It's 20 minutes or so of peace and quiet in an otherwise busy day.

But it's not without risk - twice over the years I've missed my stop because I was sleeping.  Once it caused me to be 30 minutes late.  Which also means that sense of worry prevents you from really sleeping.

But today I finally hit on the solution - set an alarm!  So with my alarm set for 8:12 I was free to nap without worry.  And when my phone buzzing away woke me from my slumber I was 2 stops away from where I get off.   :cool: :showoff:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 10, 2015, 12:45:40 PM
:yes: I've been commuting napping with alarm set for some time now and it's awesome.

Except when there are delays and you have no fucking clue when you will actually get there.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 13, 2015, 03:30:18 PM
Today in the supermarket some guy was speaking loudly and at length in a totally demonic kind of voice, like he was possessed or something. I couldn't make out words, I'm not sure there were any, but I suppose it might have been Aramaic. I kept browsing some aisles away a few extra minutes so he would finish whatever the hell he was doing and leave the store.

It baffles me that it apparently is controversial for a politician today to be for exorcism in cases of actual possession by Satan.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 26, 2016, 06:50:21 PM
Today my cock fell asleep when I was sitting in front of the computer. I had to wake it up.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on March 12, 2016, 12:30:29 PM
I hate to compliment myself gratuitously, but I really know how to pilaf some rice.  Even if it's for breakfast.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on April 11, 2016, 08:13:16 PM
A fabulous barista made me an iced hazelnut latte at Starbucks tonight and put a smiley face after my name on the cup.  My working theory is that he wants my cock.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on April 11, 2016, 11:51:51 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 11, 2016, 08:13:16 PM
A fabulous barista made me an iced hazelnut latte at Starbucks tonight and put a smiley face after my name on the cup.  My working theory is that he wants my cock.

How often do you use that working theory?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 12, 2016, 12:25:29 AM
Counter theory- he put the smiley face on the cup because Cal reminds him of a small child.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Brazen on April 12, 2016, 05:01:03 AM
Since the clocks went forward Postman's Park is open mornings and evenings. I go five minutes out of my way on my walk to and from the train station to see a little urban beauty on my commute. This morning there was a particularly bold squirrel on the path. Then I realised a woman was feeding it peanuts. It made even Londoners smile at each other.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 27, 2016, 01:14:58 PM
Today I got a haircut.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on May 27, 2016, 11:41:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 27, 2016, 01:14:58 PM
Today I got a haircut.

:o So did I. :unsure: :wacko:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 01:03:00 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 27, 2016, 11:41:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 27, 2016, 01:14:58 PM
Today I got a haircut.

:o So did I. :unsure: :wacko:

Are we...? No, that's impossible! Or...? :o :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on May 28, 2016, 02:54:32 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 01:03:00 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 27, 2016, 11:41:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 27, 2016, 01:14:58 PM
Today I got a haircut.

:o So did I. :unsure: :wacko:

Are we...? No, that's impossible! Or...? :o :unsure:

Wait, I'm remembering... Oh no.... There was this youngish-looking blond Nordic-type professional in his 30s with a very well-developed skull getting a haircut while I waited, and he blithely left without tipping the barber in a total breach of American etiquette... Could it be...? :unsure: :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 03:01:07 AM
No, that sounds unlikely. I think we're the same person.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2016, 03:18:08 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 03:01:07 AM
No, that sounds unlikely. I think we're the same person.

Snooze. D4Gul has alreany filled the 2 people in one quota.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Capetan Mihali on May 28, 2016, 03:53:27 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 03:01:07 AM
No, that sounds unlikely. I think we're the same person.

OK, that's a relief.  We would've made a big faux-pas if we were that guy.  He got kind of a stupid-looking buzz cut, too.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 04:48:50 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 03:18:08 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 03:01:07 AM
No, that sounds unlikely. I think we're the same person.

Snooze. D4Gul has alreany filled the 2 people in one quota.

And katmai.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 28, 2016, 06:49:35 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 12, 2016, 05:01:03 AM
to see a little urban beauty on my commute.

You ought to have my commute.  I'm balls deep in little urban beauties every goddamned day.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 28, 2016, 08:43:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.

I would not have believed there would be enough of a fan base to support a Judge Dredd convention.  Sure, maybe as part of a bigger comic convention, but not a Dredd-specific con.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:50:47 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 28, 2016, 08:43:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.

I would not have believed there would be enough of a fan base to support a Judge Dredd convention.  Sure, maybe as part of a bigger comic convention, but not a Dredd-specific con.

Google suggests this is the third time this convention has taken place. I certainly wasn't expecting I was going to run into any cosplayers as I made way to my room. :D

Note: This is taking place in like a 3 room set of large meeting halls. ;)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 08:53:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.

:w00t: I love Dredd. Am I there?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:55:19 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 08:53:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.

:w00t: I love Dredd. Am I there?

I didn't pay the £25 to go, so I don't know. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 09:04:20 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:55:19 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 28, 2016, 08:53:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:36:50 AM
I'm staying in a hotel where a Judge Dredd convention is taking place.

:w00t: I love Dredd. Am I there?

I didn't pay the £25 to go, so I don't know. :(

:(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 28, 2016, 09:16:17 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2016, 08:50:47 AM
Note: This is taking place in like a 3 room set of large meeting halls. ;)

Gotcha.  Not exactly DragonCon, then;  more like "The Embassy Suites Armada Room welcomes DreddCon '16/Weinstein Bar Mitzvah at 6pm".
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 06, 2016, 05:59:16 AM
Today Latinos are building a fence behind my house. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 20, 2016, 05:38:41 AM
Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. :) I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 20, 2016, 06:52:08 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 20, 2016, 05:38:41 AM
Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. :) I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too. :)

A mutual learning experience? :cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 21, 2016, 06:34:13 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 20, 2016, 06:52:08 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 20, 2016, 05:38:41 AM
Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. :) I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too. :)

A mutual learning experience? :cheers:


:yes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 24, 2016, 01:10:00 AM
Interesting conversation in the train to an EURO 2016 game. Belgians start discussing the TOP 5 Belgians of all time, both Walloons and Flemish (more on that later). Mostly footballers (Pfaff Preud'homme etc.), given the context, plus Hergé über alles for his contribution to bande dessinée. Guess who suggested Godefroi de Bouillon AND Léon Degrelle?  :lol: Everybody took it well though. Points for the Fleming who suggested le "bon roi Léopold" of Congo/Heart of Darkness fame. ;)

No mention of J(e)an Tserclaes, count of Tilly, or J(e)an Bart, both too linked to Bavaria and France in the later part of their career I suppose.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on June 24, 2016, 03:18:31 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 24, 2016, 01:10:00 AM
Interesting conversation in the train to an EURO 2016 game. Belgians start discussing the TOP 5 Belgians of all time, both Walloons and Flemish (more on that later). Mostly footballers (Pfaff Preud'homme etc.), given the context, plus Hergé über alles for his contribution to bande dessinée. Guess who suggested Godefroi de Bouillon AND Léon Degrelle?  :lol: Everybody took it well though. Points for the Fleming who suggested le "bon roi Léopold" of Congo/Heart of Darkness fame. ;)

No mention of J(e)an Tserclaes, count of Tilly, or J(e)an Bart, both too linked to Bavaria and France in the later part of their career I suppose.

No Rubens, Magritte? :cry:

No Merckx?   :mad:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 24, 2016, 09:30:00 AM
Well, this was more about footballers in the beginning and got hijacked for the lulz, so don't worry.   :console:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 26, 2016, 06:57:10 AM
Yesterday in Lens, I thought I had finally discovered French football fans showing up  in town when their team is not playing like other teams' fans do to get a feeling of the atmosphere.
So the "French" started with the classic not-so brilliant football chant "on est chez nous" (This is our home!). No shit Sherlock!

Except the "French" were Belgians given their accents and jerseys. Claiming Lens and/or North France/Hauts-de-France/Artois whatever?  :hmm:

Lots of Germans (playing the day after in Lille not far away), Britons (WE trip for cheap booze before it's too late specially for people from Dover I spoke with), Croats (of course), even some Oranje fans and a kilt-wearing Scotsman. Again, I saw the Mexican showing up at various locations throughout the Euro too. Why is he always on the move? No tickets to Copa América? Hunted down and proscripted by Valmy if he sets foot on his own turf ?  :hmm:

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 29, 2016, 03:38:10 PM
Last match day in Paris, obesity seemed to take quite a toll on German fans. Well, the men because most women were not afflicted. I guess they left them in Germany.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 01, 2016, 12:26:06 PM
Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT! :w00t:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on October 02, 2016, 05:58:58 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 01, 2016, 12:26:06 PM
Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT! :w00t:

Don't pretend you didn't buy it because you knew it'd come with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 02, 2016, 07:51:39 AM
Quote from: Liep on October 02, 2016, 05:58:58 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 01, 2016, 12:26:06 PM
Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT! :w00t:

Don't pretend you didn't buy it because you knew it'd come with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT.

Luckily I didn't hear about the car until my second time looking at the jacket when I had already decided to buy it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:15:49 PM
Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on January 04, 2017, 12:55:27 PM
You truly lead a life of adventure and excitement.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:59:10 PM
I am blessed. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on January 04, 2017, 01:02:07 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:15:49 PM
Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.

Were you satisfied?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 01:02:22 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 04, 2017, 01:02:07 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:15:49 PM
Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.

Were you satisfied?

Very. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: katmai on January 04, 2017, 01:05:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:15:49 PM
Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.
stop shitting in the tub :x
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 01:09:22 PM
Quote from: katmai on January 04, 2017, 01:05:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:15:49 PM
Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.
stop shitting in the tub :x

I can't.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 04, 2017, 11:01:00 PM
Sometimes you just gotta do a tub dookie.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 04, 2017, 11:15:45 PM
It's just not a tub with out a tub dookie.  L2EROSION
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 05, 2017, 12:52:55 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 04, 2017, 12:59:10 PM
I am blessed. :)

Cursed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on January 11, 2017, 10:40:03 PM
So coming home from work tonight I text my wife to say I might bit a bit late - I likely missed my bus and would have to wait 20 minutes for the next one.  She replies 'no worries - actually there's a huge line-up on 111th street.'

I look out the window - sure enough it's gridlock out there.  It could take me an hour or more to get home (usual time - 10 minutes if I catch my bus on time).

I don't want to wait an hour.  It's only about a half hour walk - but it's cold.  Weather app says -12c, but windchill makes it feel like -24.  I have a warm jacket and toque, but I'm only wearing my suit underneath and my legs are pretty exposed.

But by the looks of it the wind would be at my back.  I decide to go for it.

Sure enough, I'm passing traffic left and right.  In fact I pass my bus that I thought I would be late for - it too is caught in traffic.  I continue.

My mostly bare legs (this isn't a thick suit) start to hurt, but the rest of me is warm so I press on and make it home in 25 minutes. :showoff:

The fact my legs stung for the next half hour was a small price to pay for not sitting on a bus for an hour.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 11, 2017, 11:57:36 PM
I've been constipated for two days. I eat 4 White Castle sliders and 4 hours later, I launch 2 turds the size of the Graf Spee.

Sweet, sweet relief :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2017, 12:57:04 AM
So all those commercials about Opiod-Induced Constipation are just bullshit.  All we need is White Castle.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 12, 2017, 12:42:28 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 11, 2017, 10:40:03 PM
my legs are pretty exposed.

Source?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on January 12, 2017, 07:02:53 PM
This evening I was taking the train home, and as the train approached next-to-last station, I felt an unusually strong bump.  It was strong enough and sudden enough to almost knock the phone out of my hand.  I looked around once the train came to a stop, but no one was acting like anything was out of the ordinary.  On the next stop, I got off, and still no one was acting like anything was unusual.  I never did find out what, if anything, happened.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on January 13, 2017, 03:57:27 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 11, 2017, 10:40:03 PM
So coming home from work tonight I text my wife to say I might bit a bit late - I likely missed my bus and would have to wait 20 minutes for the next one.  She replies 'no worries - actually there's a huge line-up on 111th street.'

I look out the window - sure enough it's gridlock out there.  It could take me an hour or more to get home (usual time - 10 minutes if I catch my bus on time).

I don't want to wait an hour.  It's only about a half hour walk - but it's cold.  Weather app says -12c, but windchill makes it feel like -24.  I have a warm jacket and toque, but I'm only wearing my suit underneath and my legs are pretty exposed.

But by the looks of it the wind would be at my back.  I decide to go for it.

Sure enough, I'm passing traffic left and right.  In fact I pass my bus that I thought I would be late for - it too is caught in traffic.  I continue.

My mostly bare legs (this isn't a thick suit) start to hurt, but the rest of me is warm so I press on and make it home in 25 minutes. :showoff:

The fact my legs stung for the next half hour was a small price to pay for not sitting on a bus for an hour.

I know the feeling - I hate the thin dress pants. I usually wore something a bit thicker like semi-dress jeans at work during colder months. In winter while not at work I usually wear flannel lined pants, and fleece lined jeans for outside work like snow shoveling. Much better and warmer.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 13, 2017, 08:35:29 PM
Poo report:

I launched the Yamato today.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on January 14, 2017, 07:23:59 AM
While rinsing out an empty small jar of preserves, I managed to fumble it, dropping it into the kitchen sink.  This jar just happened to be just small enough to slide down into the drain of the garbage disposal...so there it is, about four inches down (from the top of the jar to the rim of the drain), just past the rubber ring/flap that always seems to be in garbage disposal drains...the jar's fit is just snug enough that no way can my fingers reach down/in and get any grab to pull it out...

What to do?  Duct tape to stick on the top and pull?  Nope, that rubber flap is tight enough around creating enough friction to make that impossible. 

A vacuum cleaner (I got a nifty, powerful Dyson)?  Nope, same problem.

Find a way to break the jar and pull out the pieces?  Chunks of glass probably wouldn't be good for the disposal.

The ultimate solution?  I take two, long/thin flathead screwdrivers, wrap the ends in duct tape (to create some grip), and push them down each side, pulling it up and out chopsticks-style like a really big, annoying dumpling.

Problem solved.  Sometimes it's just the small victories.  :showoff:

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 14, 2017, 07:39:50 AM
Nice job! Both of you. :)

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 14, 2017, 11:11:16 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 14, 2017, 07:23:59 AM
While rinsing out an empty small jar of preserves, I managed to fumble it, dropping it into the kitchen sink.  This jar just happened to be just small enough to slide down into the drain of the garbage disposal...so there it is, about four inches down (from the top of the jar to the rim of the drain), just past the rubber ring/flap that always seems to be in garbage disposal drains...the jar's fit is just snug enough that no way can my fingers reach down/in and get any grab to pull it out...

What to do?  Duct tape to stick on the top and pull?  Nope, that rubber flap is tight enough around creating enough friction to make that impossible. 

A vacuum cleaner (I got a nifty, powerful Dyson)?  Nope, same problem.

Find a way to break the jar and pull out the pieces?  Chunks of glass probably wouldn't be good for the disposal.

The ultimate solution?  I take two, long/thin flathead screwdrivers, wrap the ends in duct tape (to create some grip), and push them down each side, pulling it up and out chopsticks-style like a really big, annoying dumpling.

Problem solved.  Sometimes it's just the small victories.  :showoff:

Congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 14, 2017, 11:11:55 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 13, 2017, 08:35:29 PM
Poo report:

I launched the Yamato today.

Congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of potty training.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on January 14, 2017, 11:24:23 AM
he never said he did it in the potty :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on January 14, 2017, 11:34:10 AM
Quote from: HVC on January 14, 2017, 11:24:23 AM
he never said he did it in the potty :P

That depends.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 14, 2017, 11:39:50 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 14, 2017, 11:34:10 AM
Quote from: HVC on January 14, 2017, 11:24:23 AM
he never said he did it in the potty :P

That depends.


grumbler is always on the minute.

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Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on January 14, 2017, 07:19:46 PM
HEY YOU KIDS. GET OFF MY LAWN
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 03, 2017, 10:42:46 AM
Today I helped an old lady who had fallen and couldn't get up. :showoff:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on February 03, 2017, 10:51:18 AM
I bought new sweatpants for weekend lounging.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on February 03, 2017, 12:08:13 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 03, 2017, 10:51:18 AM
I bought new sweatpants for weekend lounging.

That word bothers me, conjures up an unpleasant image, why couldn't they have named them something else?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on February 03, 2017, 12:18:23 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 03, 2017, 12:08:13 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 03, 2017, 10:51:18 AM
I bought new sweatpants for weekend lounging.

That word bothers me, conjures up an unpleasant image, why couldn't they have named them something else?

Hotpants? Jesus.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on February 04, 2017, 04:14:21 AM
Quote from: mongers on February 03, 2017, 12:08:13 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 03, 2017, 10:51:18 AM
I bought new sweatpants for weekend lounging.

That word bothers me, conjures up an unpleasant image, why couldn't they have named them something else?

We call them "special needs trousers" in our house, but Syt might not regard that term as an improvement  :huh:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on February 04, 2017, 04:42:48 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 04, 2017, 04:47:25 AM
I used to wear sweatpants a lot, then I moved to Texas. Shorts all year now.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: PDH on February 04, 2017, 09:31:54 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 04, 2017, 04:47:25 AM
I used to wear sweatpants a lot, then I moved to Texas. Shorts all year now.

Sweatpants to sweet pants.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Liep on February 05, 2017, 08:41:12 AM
There used to a random tag on this wall

(https://i.sohn.dk/trump.jpg)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on February 05, 2017, 09:19:56 AM
Well that was odd. Train staff asked me why I bought a ticket originating at a station that is closed on Sunday. Quite strange given I got on a train today from that station. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: alfred russel on February 05, 2017, 11:17:09 AM
I have had no way to watch TV for some time. I have had a TV, but it is only hooked up to a DVD player. A friend gave me an antenna out of sympathy, but I never hooked it up out of concern it would be complicated. Not wanting to go to a super bowl party tonight, but wanting to watch the game, I managed to set it up in under 10 minutes.  :yeah:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on February 05, 2017, 11:23:46 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 05, 2017, 11:17:09 AM
A friend gave me an antenna out of sympathy, but I never hooked it up out of concern it would be complicated.


(https://media.tenor.co/images/830800d4e0fc56b7fd6ccf465c9575fc/raw)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on February 05, 2017, 01:46:15 PM
So even le Comte de Largent made the transition to digital tv without problems but Dorsey did not, until recently?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: LaCroix on February 05, 2017, 01:59:07 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 05, 2017, 11:17:09 AM
I have had no way to watch TV for some time. I have had a TV, but it is only hooked up to a DVD player. A friend gave me an antenna out of sympathy, but I never hooked it up out of concern it would be complicated. Not wanting to go to a super bowl party tonight, but wanting to watch the game, I managed to set it up in under 10 minutes.  :yeah:

fox has a free stream this year of the super bowl. foxsportsgo.com
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: alfred russel on February 05, 2017, 05:19:32 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on February 05, 2017, 01:46:15 PM
So even le Comte de Largent made the transition to digital tv without problems but Dorsey did not, until recently?  :hmm:

Kill your television.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 05, 2017, 05:35:07 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 05, 2017, 05:19:32 PM
Kill your television.

Delete your facebook.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zanza on February 21, 2017, 01:40:05 PM
6:45pm The provisional crown on one of my teeth falls off while having dinner
6:57pm I have made an appointment at my dentist
7:12pm I arrive at my dentist and can immediately see the doctor
7:24pm The provisional crown is safely cemented back to the tooth

Yay for socialized medicine. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 16, 2017, 03:32:56 PM
Today I saw a rat.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on April 16, 2017, 04:42:29 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2017, 03:32:56 PM
Today I saw a rat.

And I saw you, too.


Wait a minute...
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 16, 2017, 04:53:47 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 16, 2017, 04:42:29 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2017, 03:32:56 PM
Today I saw a rat.

And I saw you, too.


Wait a minute...

:w00t:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 16, 2017, 08:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2017, 03:32:56 PM
Today I saw a rat.

Did you smell it too?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on April 16, 2017, 08:48:18 PM
Grumbler didn't even say hello.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 20, 2017, 01:52:12 AM
Just had a minor brush with law enforcement.

Finished work at 1 and headed off to the supermercado for supplies.  On the back road I take there were three cop cars and two civilian vehicles, both empty.  Pretty narrow squeeze, but one cop waved me through with his wand.

Then on the way back the two civilian cars were gone, three cop cars were in the process of leaving.  Two of them parked next to each other to talk about something, blocking the road.  I stopped my car and waited.  Some dude behind me honked his horn.  The two cop cars stopped talking, one pulled into a drive way to turn around.  I started driving, and the drive way guy pulls out and cuts me off.  A little scary.  I jam the brakes and back up a little.  He pulls up next to me and says something about driving around or waiting and that honking is rude.  I told him I wasn't the one honking.  He says OK and heads off.

Probably the rudest a cop has ever been to me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 20, 2017, 02:41:01 PM
:(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 20, 2017, 08:39:30 PM
I shit out a super turd at 2pm.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on April 20, 2017, 09:21:15 PM
Nobody gives two royal rat fucks about your life of leisure, Colonel Assbag.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on June 08, 2017, 10:37:02 AM
Taking the train home last night.  As soon as I get to my station I can tell there's going to be a problem.  There are way more people standing there than there normally would.  A transit worker in giving some instructions - he says that no trains are going northbound, but that they are running southbound.  That's good, cuz I'm going southbound.

But 5 minutes later we're then told that no trains are coming to this station.  We all should go to the next station.  That's not a huge deal - it's only 2-3 blocks away.

But when I get to the next station an announcement is coming over the intercom.  No trains are running most of downtown.  Bussing will be sent... eventually.

But it sounds like trains are running at one station downtown.  By the legislature in the SW corner of downtown.  Which is unfortunate because I work in the NE corner.  But oh well, I head off.

After a half hour walk I get to the station.  Yup trains are running.  I wind up getting home an hour late.  Good thing the kids don't have soccer on Wednesdays.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on June 08, 2017, 10:38:29 AM
Good thing.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on June 08, 2017, 10:56:50 AM
See Meri, that's why people hate public transit eventually.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on June 08, 2017, 11:20:56 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 08, 2017, 10:56:50 AM
See Meri, that's why people hate public transit eventually.

Bah - that sort of thing happens every couple of years.  I remember another time when high winds snapped several crossing arms, which meant the trains couldn't run through those intersections.  I waited for the replacement busses, which took something like an hour, and made me late for work.

But how often are there problems in traffic?  All the freakin time.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on July 27, 2017, 10:19:46 AM
It rained yesterday, so I took the subway instead of walking home. At the exit was a university student doing fundraising for the WWF.

When she tried to talk to me I told her that I'd never forgive them for what they did to Bret Hart in Montreal in '97 and walked on.

She seemed confused.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Larch on July 27, 2017, 10:42:50 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2017, 10:19:46 AM
It rained yesterday, so I took the subway instead of walking home. At the exit was a university student doing fundraising for the WWF.

When she tried to talk to me I told her that I'd never forgive them for what they did to Bret Hart in Montreal in '97 and walked on.

She seemed confused.

She might not have been born back then.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 27, 2017, 05:44:04 PM
And there's a very good chance that she wouldn't consider WWE worth notice.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: 11B4V on July 27, 2017, 09:17:24 PM
I took a dump.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: CountDeMoney on July 27, 2017, 10:03:28 PM
I know.  I want it back.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 09:54:11 AM
Today there was a hot army chick on the bus.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on August 15, 2017, 10:41:52 AM
Somebody tried to kill themselves across the street. So I watched the cops and medics for a bit this morning. Then a scarecenter 7 TV van showed up and I disappeared before they wanted to talk to me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 15, 2017, 11:17:35 AM
Quote from: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 09:54:11 AM
Today there was a hot army chick on the bus.

Did you get her number?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 11:23:20 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 15, 2017, 11:17:35 AM
Quote from: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 09:54:11 AM
Today there was a hot army chick on the bus.

Did you get her number?

We perv on the rank, not the woman.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 11:28:44 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 15, 2017, 10:41:52 AM
Somebody tried to kill themselves across the street. So I watched the cops and medics for a bit this morning. Then a scarecenter 7 TV van showed up and I disappeared before they wanted to talk to me.

How? Fatty foods and no exercise?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 15, 2017, 12:00:34 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 15, 2017, 11:28:44 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 15, 2017, 10:41:52 AM
Somebody tried to kill themselves across the street. So I watched the cops and medics for a bit this morning. Then a scarecenter 7 TV van showed up and I disappeared before they wanted to talk to me.

How? Fatty foods and no exercise?

That's how I'm doing it.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 05, 2017, 12:42:34 PM
Today I got my shots. Afterwards I got a piece of candy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 06, 2017, 03:30:00 PM
Today I saw a free outdoors concert that included Händel's Fireworks Music with fireworks. It was pretty cool. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 07, 2017, 07:57:19 AM
Today I got unlimited music set up on my Amazon Echo. Sitting here chilling out to Cake.  :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 17, 2017, 12:09:14 PM
Yesterday I was at a jazz joint. One of the musicians looked like an old Viking, no longer in his physical prime but still exuding the inner strength that successfully carried him through a lifetime of raiding and fighting.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on September 17, 2017, 06:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 17, 2017, 12:09:14 PM
Yesterday I was at a jazz joint. One of the musicians looked like an old Viking, no longer in his physical prime but still exuding the inner strength that successfully carried him through a lifetime of raiding and fighting.

You should have come up and introduced yourself.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 18, 2017, 12:36:54 AM
Quote from: grumbler on September 17, 2017, 06:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 17, 2017, 12:09:14 PM
Yesterday I was at a jazz joint. One of the musicians looked like an old Viking, no longer in his physical prime but still exuding the inner strength that successfully carried him through a lifetime of raiding and fighting.

You should have come up and introduced yourself.

Should I try the veal?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Minsky Moment on September 18, 2017, 11:48:52 AM
Was it: Anders Jormin?

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Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 18, 2017, 11:52:07 AM
No. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 18, 2017, 01:08:18 PM
He appears to be in berserk mode.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 18, 2017, 01:38:44 PM
Channeling Joe Cocker.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 23, 2017, 11:26:42 AM
Today I had some Thai and then I pooped.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 24, 2017, 11:03:37 AM
Today I was at a military show with airborne rangers parachuting in, infantry attacks, IFVs, APCs, troops inserted by Blackhawks, fighter jets etc etc. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on September 24, 2017, 12:33:30 PM
No raiding of coastal Christian villages?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 24, 2017, 03:51:44 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on September 24, 2017, 12:33:30 PM
No raiding of coastal Christian villages?

Nope! -_-
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 27, 2017, 07:04:59 AM
Today the IKEA robot called me to confirm a delivery. I couldn't take the call so it talked to my voicemail, and despite asking several times it didn't seem to get a satisfactory answer. So I called IKEA and confirmed the delivery manually.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 27, 2017, 07:17:53 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 27, 2017, 07:04:59 AM
Today the IKEA robot called me to confirm a delivery. I couldn't take the call so it talked to my voicemail, and despite asking several times it didn't seem to get a satisfactory answer. So I called IKEA and confirmed the delivery manually.

Is this a parable for the future of Sweden when it's population dies out due to a low birth rate and ageing population? :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 27, 2017, 07:19:14 AM
Quote from: mongers on December 27, 2017, 07:17:53 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 27, 2017, 07:04:59 AM
Today the IKEA robot called me to confirm a delivery. I couldn't take the call so it talked to my voicemail, and despite asking several times it didn't seem to get a satisfactory answer. So I called IKEA and confirmed the delivery manually.

Is this a parable for the future of Sweden when it's population dies out due to a low birth rate and ageing population? :unsure:

:unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 27, 2017, 07:20:44 AM
The population of Sweden is already dead inside.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 29, 2017, 07:05:18 AM
Today I assembled a BEKANT.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 08, 2018, 02:41:34 PM
Today I saw the world's oldest pieces of paper.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2018, 04:06:35 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 08, 2018, 02:41:34 PM
Today I saw the world's oldest pieces of paper.

Only one of them can be the oldest.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 08, 2018, 04:24:01 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2018, 04:06:35 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 08, 2018, 02:41:34 PM
Today I saw the world's oldest pieces of paper.

Only one of them can be the oldest.

Why didn't you word this as a question?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 12:54:46 PM
Today I bought an egg boiler.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.

Not only is the egg boiler convenient, I am also saving the planet.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 05:28:50 PM
And cluttering up your kitchen.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 28, 2018, 05:54:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.

Not only is the egg boiler convenient, I am also saving the planet.

I saved even more of the planet by not buying an egg boiler or boiling eggs.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 07:05:44 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 28, 2018, 05:54:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.

Not only is the egg boiler convenient, I am also saving the planet.

I saved even more of the planet by not buying an egg boiler or boiling eggs.  :P

Boiled eggs rule.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 28, 2018, 08:01:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.

Not only is the egg boiler convenient, I am also saving the planet.
What's the point of saving the planet if that means having to eat boiled eggs?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 29, 2018, 02:50:26 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 28, 2018, 08:01:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2018, 02:37:13 PM
I find pots do the job.

Not only is the egg boiler convenient, I am also saving the planet.
What's the point of saving the planet if that means having to eat boiled eggs?

Someone is jelly. Work hard and some day you too can afford an egg boiler.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on April 29, 2018, 02:51:53 AM
Well they are an important component of egg salad and then I guess also a lovely topping on lettuce based salad.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Ed Anger on April 29, 2018, 08:15:48 PM
And deviled eggs, the elite version of the hardboiled egg.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on April 30, 2018, 12:29:57 AM
True!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on April 30, 2018, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 12:54:46 PM
Today I bought an egg boiler.

I like boiled eggs too. Once I bought a set of plastic thingys that you pour the eggs into to boil in a pot. Supposed to eliminate peeling the boiled eggs, which sometimes is messy as the shells stick. I never used them because they had multiple parts, had to be oiled before use to prevent sticking, and would be a mess to wash afterwards.

Anyways, I found a trick to boiling eggs that mostly eliminates the sticking shells and not being able to peel them. I get the water hot or boiling before putting the eggs in. Sometimes the egg will crack when put in but it still boils up ok. Doing that I rarely have a problem peeling the eggs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 30, 2018, 03:12:34 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 30, 2018, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 12:54:46 PM
Today I bought an egg boiler.

I like boiled eggs too. Once I bought a set of plastic thingys that you pour the eggs into to boil in a pot. Supposed to eliminate peeling the boiled eggs, which sometimes is messy as the shells stick. I never used them because they had multiple parts, had to be oiled before use to prevent sticking, and would be a mess to wash afterwards.

Anyways, I found a trick to boiling eggs that mostly eliminates the sticking shells and not being able to peel them. I get the water hot or boiling before putting the eggs in. Sometimes the egg will crack when put in but it still boils up ok. Doing that I rarely have a problem peeling the eggs.

I was worried that the shells might stick with the egg boiler. But when I use it the shells come off easier than garbon's clothes Saturday night. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on April 30, 2018, 03:30:31 PM
TMI
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on April 30, 2018, 08:03:42 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 30, 2018, 03:12:34 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 30, 2018, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 12:54:46 PM
Today I bought an egg boiler.

I like boiled eggs too. Once I bought a set of plastic thingys that you pour the eggs into to boil in a pot. Supposed to eliminate peeling the boiled eggs, which sometimes is messy as the shells stick. I never used them because they had multiple parts, had to be oiled before use to prevent sticking, and would be a mess to wash afterwards.

Anyways, I found a trick to boiling eggs that mostly eliminates the sticking shells and not being able to peel them. I get the water hot or boiling before putting the eggs in. Sometimes the egg will crack when put in but it still boils up ok. Doing that I rarely have a problem peeling the eggs.

I was worried that the shells might stick with the egg boiler. But when I use it the shells come off easier than garbon's clothes Saturday night. :)

Hmm, maybe an egg boiler is in my future. I got a rice steamer (steams veggies, etc. too) and I really like how the rice comes out in it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 01, 2018, 12:57:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 30, 2018, 03:12:34 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 30, 2018, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2018, 12:54:46 PM
Today I bought an egg boiler.

I like boiled eggs too. Once I bought a set of plastic thingys that you pour the eggs into to boil in a pot. Supposed to eliminate peeling the boiled eggs, which sometimes is messy as the shells stick. I never used them because they had multiple parts, had to be oiled before use to prevent sticking, and would be a mess to wash afterwards.

Anyways, I found a trick to boiling eggs that mostly eliminates the sticking shells and not being able to peel them. I get the water hot or boiling before putting the eggs in. Sometimes the egg will crack when put in but it still boils up ok. Doing that I rarely have a problem peeling the eggs.

I was worried that the shells might stick with the egg boiler. But when I use it the shells come off easier than garbon's clothes Saturday night. :)

Well someone isn't a gentleman.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 01, 2018, 03:14:14 AM
Did Brain kiss and tell?  :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 01, 2018, 03:20:28 AM
I don't rim and tell.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on May 01, 2018, 11:13:07 AM
I have noticed that steaming eggs, vs. boiling them immersed in water, makes them easier to peel without the egg sticking to the inside of the shell and coming apart.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 01, 2018, 11:32:16 AM
I recall that my mother and aunt one year went through all the various bits of wisdom on how to make easy to peel eggs for mass batches of devilled eggs. They found nothing that consistently worked. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on May 01, 2018, 11:59:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 01, 2018, 11:32:16 AM
I recall that my mother and aunt one year went through all the various bits of wisdom on how to make easy to peel eggs for mass batches of devilled eggs. They found nothing that consistently worked. :(

My understanding is that it mostly has to do with freshness - the fresher the egg, the harder it is to peel.

... but I don't remember where I read that, so maybe not.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on May 01, 2018, 12:53:23 PM
Peel it while it's still hot.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on May 01, 2018, 01:42:12 PM
Place the eggs in icewater after boiling.  They don't stick unless they are still hot.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on May 01, 2018, 02:24:16 PM
There's some egg-celent advice in this thread.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 01, 2018, 02:58:56 PM
I just had three boiled eggs. Some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 01, 2018, 03:37:28 PM
47 more and you save all the inmates souls.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on May 01, 2018, 04:02:20 PM
Deviled eggs are nasty.  If I'm starving I'll eat a boiled egg, as long as I have plenty of salt & pepper to pour on it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 01, 2018, 04:08:29 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 01, 2018, 04:02:20 PM
Deviled eggs are nasty.  If I'm starving I'll eat a boiled egg, as long as I have plenty of salt & pepper to pour on it.

Okay, Ohio. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: ulmont on May 01, 2018, 04:44:02 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 01, 2018, 11:32:16 AM
I recall that my mother and aunt one year went through all the various bits of wisdom on how to make easy to peel eggs for mass batches of devilled eggs. They found nothing that consistently worked. :(

Steaming - I do it in a pressure cooker - is consistently an improvement in my experience.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on May 01, 2018, 06:33:59 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 01, 2018, 12:53:23 PM
Peel it while it's still hot.
I would guess that the opposite is what you want.  If you cool down the egg, it should contract inside the shell and let go of it.  Problem is that eating cold boiled eggs is so bleh.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 01, 2018, 06:54:13 PM
When you own an egg boiler every problem looks like an egg.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on May 01, 2018, 07:48:03 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 01, 2018, 06:54:13 PM
When you own an egg boiler every problem looks like an egg.

:D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: derspiess on May 01, 2018, 09:50:39 PM
The best use for a boiled egg is in a Scotch egg. Had one for the first time a few weeks ago from a local food truck and now I wish all eggs were Scotch eggs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 02, 2018, 03:34:40 AM
This morning I had two boiled eggs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on May 02, 2018, 03:42:32 AM
I had a cup of English Breakfast.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on May 02, 2018, 06:19:07 AM
I read about The Brain having two boiled eggs this morning.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2018, 10:53:01 AM
45 to go.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 02, 2018, 11:48:02 AM
I think Luke had a deadline.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on May 08, 2018, 01:30:03 PM
I just received a text message from an unknown number.  The message simply said "happy ending"
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 08, 2018, 02:22:36 PM
This evening I had two boiled eggs.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 09, 2018, 10:39:16 AM
Austria's ex-president Fischer was in front of me in the checkout line at my corner supermarket. It seems he did his weekend grocery shopping with his son.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on August 09, 2018, 11:39:42 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 09, 2018, 10:39:16 AM
Austria's ex-president Fischer was in front of me in the checkout line at my corner supermarket. It seems he did his weekend grocery shopping with his son.

What did he get?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 09, 2018, 11:49:36 AM
Vegetables, fruit, meat, bread and the likes. Some wine. Maybe he has guests coming over (his apartment is around the corner). I didn't ask.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Threviel on August 09, 2018, 12:17:40 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 09, 2018, 11:49:36 AM
Vegetables, fruit, meat, bread and the likes. Some wine. Maybe he has guests coming over (his apartment is around the corner). I didn't ask.

Where do uou live Syt? Fashionable?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 09, 2018, 12:24:15 PM
Upper middle class, close to town hall.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Threviel on August 09, 2018, 12:27:52 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 09, 2018, 12:24:15 PM
Upper middle class, close to town hall.

My wife used to live in Vienna, that's why I asked. We stayed in a hotel above city hall once.

Apparently she's lived in Kastnergasse, Pfeilgasse and Anilingasse.

Which might, or might not be close to city hall.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 09, 2018, 12:37:18 PM
Pfeilgasse is near me; there's student dorms there that used to function as hotels in summer. Due to the vicinity to the university, you have a lot of students here.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 20, 2018, 04:06:29 PM
Today I was at a funeral service in Stockholm Cathedral. It was a wonderful ceremony, and the surroundings made it extra special. All that history, and awesome objects like the big medieval statue in wood and bone of St George and the Dragon. Hearing the medieval bell toll, as it has for so many others through the centuries... Granted I've been to funeral services in older churches but never in anyone as grand. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on August 20, 2018, 09:51:16 PM
I was driving home from the Pocono race, and my navigation system was predicting 45 minutes of traffic.  Not surprising, since the drive home after the race is always a congestion nightmare.  Suddenly my navigation system offers me an alternative route, which would cut 35 minutes of traffic from my drive.  I decided to go for it.

At first I thought my system was nuts, since it was instructing me to turn into the forest.  Eventually I realized that the gravel road cutting into the forest barely wide enough for one car was indeed my route.  :hmm:  I didn't want to be stuck on I-80, so I went for it, GPS always knows best.  After about three miles driving all alone in the middle of completely uninhabited dense forest in the evening, on a gravel road full of tire-killing potholes, I was starting to re-evaluate my latest and hopefully not last life decision.  I made a note for the future that this looked like an ideal place to murder someone and/or dispose of the body.  Luckily, after three more miles, I was back to civilization (well, relatively speaking).

After I got home and retraced my steps on Google Maps, I found out that apparently I wasn't the first one to think about how suitable that road is for certain activities, it turns out there were a couple of murders there in the last decade.  Perhaps I should not always follow my GPS directions so religiously going forward.  Then again, it was right about the traffic I would avoid.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on October 09, 2018, 07:54:32 AM
In a wonderfully careless manner, the gas meters of out apartment building (12 in total) are arranged on the outer walls of the building with everyone to have free access to them. Almost nobody bothered to properly label them.

When we moved in I was shown which one was ours and for sure, our flat number was penned on the information sticker of the meter. About a year ago or so I found this number to be gone and it seemed somebody put a fresh new sticker on the meter. I thought whatever.

Yesterday, as I looked at the gas meter for the first time in 3 months, I noticed somebody scribbled what seems to be a different appartment's number on our meter.  :huh:
This evening, I'll be knocking on that flat's door to see what's what.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 09, 2018, 08:23:37 AM
Quote from: DGuller on August 20, 2018, 09:51:16 PM
I was driving home from the Pocono race, and my navigation system was predicting 45 minutes of traffic.  Not surprising, since the drive home after the race is always a congestion nightmare.  Suddenly my navigation system offers me an alternative route, which would cut 35 minutes of traffic from my drive.  I decided to go for it.

At first I thought my system was nuts, since it was instructing me to turn into the forest.  Eventually I realized that the gravel road cutting into the forest barely wide enough for one car was indeed my route.  :hmm:  I didn't want to be stuck on I-80, so I went for it, GPS always knows best.  After about three miles driving all alone in the middle of completely uninhabited dense forest in the evening, on a gravel road full of tire-killing potholes, I was starting to re-evaluate my latest and hopefully not last life decision.  I made a note for the future that this looked like an ideal place to murder someone and/or dispose of the body.  Luckily, after three more miles, I was back to civilization (well, relatively speaking).

After I got home and retraced my steps on Google Maps, I found out that apparently I wasn't the first one to think about how suitable that road is for certain activities, it turns out there were a couple of murders there in the last decade.  Perhaps I should not always follow my GPS directions so religiously going forward.  Then again, it was right about the traffic I would avoid.  :hmm:

:ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on October 09, 2018, 08:26:00 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2018, 08:23:37 AM


:ph34r:

Is that really surprising from Dorsey?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 09, 2018, 08:26:53 AM
Quote from: Tamas on October 09, 2018, 07:54:32 AM
In a wonderfully careless manner, the gas meters of out apartment building (12 in total) are arranged on the outer walls of the building with everyone to have free access to them. Almost nobody bothered to properly label them.

When we moved in I was shown which one was ours and for sure, our flat number was penned on the information sticker of the meter. About a year ago or so I found this number to be gone and it seemed somebody put a fresh new sticker on the meter. I thought whatever.

Yesterday, as I looked at the gas meter for the first time in 3 months, I noticed somebody scribbled what seems to be a different appartment's number on our meter.  :huh:
This evening, I'll be knocking on that flat's door to see what's what.

I wish I had gas in my flat. I hate cooking on electric. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on October 10, 2018, 04:45:52 AM
I immediately recognised the middle-aged lady who opened the door of the other flat: she's the one who doesn't speak English  :lol: I tried to explain myself, mostly so that anybody else "hiding" in the flat might come out to help but nothng of the sort happened.

So, well, I have tried. I've remembered that on a couple of occassions the boiler safety engineers went down to the meter and at least once shut it off and came back to check something, so it HAS to be ours.
I have now marked it such, and I consider the matter settled.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 10, 2018, 10:59:47 PM
So I'm on the road at a Crown conference, and I dug out my old Dell Inspiron laptop circa 2007 or so running Vista.

It's not entirely horrible, and it does still work to surf the web, but it's not an altogether enjoyable experience.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 10, 2018, 11:15:30 PM
I was wrong - this sucks.  Just trying to download and use Chrome (this laptop pre-dates Chrome) has caused two crashes.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 11, 2018, 12:27:59 AM
Quote from: Tamas on October 09, 2018, 08:26:00 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2018, 08:23:37 AM


:ph34r:

Is that really surprising from Dorsey?
Dude, I think it would be in your best interest to not remind everyone of your mad detective skills.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 11, 2018, 12:35:04 AM
How so? What might he lose?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 11, 2018, 12:52:55 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 11, 2018, 12:35:04 AM
How so? What might he lose?
:hmm: That's a good question.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 17, 2018, 10:01:47 AM
Twice this past year I've called up the water company to ask about my bill as it suggests that I'm using a suspiciously low amount of water. When, I last called in August, my bill told me that they estimate I use one cubic meter of water in a year which is the equivalent of approximately 12 baths or 20 showers.

They informed me there was something wrong about access to the meter (which is somewhere under the sidewalk in the street) and they were sending a repair team to fix that.  Also, got an SMS about a week later telling me the work had been completed.

Fast forward to today and I got a bill that says I used no water between 25th of July and the 19th of September. :o I am being charged though the basic fixed charges to cover the costs of maintaining my account (£14.16!).

When, I called they ping ponged me between departments (for about 30 minutes) before declaring that they'd need to call me back in the next 10 days to arrange when someone could come to read the meter. Though they also read description that it is in the sidewalk, didn't listen to me when I said I don't even know where it is. I guess when the meter reading dept (?) phones perhaps I can ask them why I would need to be present for a sidewalk viewing?

I love how difficult it is to get it setup so that I don't end up one day with a large bill once they figure out all of the attendant back charges. -_-
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on October 17, 2018, 08:26:11 PM
Garbon, that's an interesting development! No water use!

A gas meter reader came to read my meter and also to check it. About a year ago I was smelling gas around it, called the gas company and a technician came, found and fixed a leak.

I have an electrician coming Friday to do some minor work, changing/replacing some outlets inculding an outside shed outlet that I want to put in a safety type plug.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 20, 2018, 04:49:57 AM
Today I cleaned my apartment.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 20, 2018, 05:16:17 AM
That time of year again?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 20, 2018, 05:27:58 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 20, 2018, 05:16:17 AM
That time of year again?

Yes. Leaves are falling.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 20, 2018, 09:31:20 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 20, 2018, 05:27:58 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 20, 2018, 05:16:17 AM
That time of year again?

Yes. Leaves are falling.
You need to get some kind of a roof, that keeps the leaves out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 20, 2018, 10:09:54 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 20, 2018, 09:31:20 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 20, 2018, 05:27:58 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 20, 2018, 05:16:17 AM
That time of year again?

Yes. Leaves are falling.
You need to get some kind of a roof, that keeps the leaves out.

I should leave them out?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on October 21, 2018, 03:03:26 PM
:D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on February 19, 2019, 02:42:51 PM
Woke up this morning to cold air coming out of the air vents.

Go down to restart the pilot light - it goes out every couple of months or so.  But I relight it (it is out), but still no heat.  The furnace won't kick in.  Uh oh.  But I have to get going to work.

So during my 10 minute bus ride I find a number for a furnace repair outfit and text them.  They reply back quickly, and have someone sent over this morning.

Now the question is how much will this cost.  Our furnace is original to the house: 22 years old.  That's about the end of the expected lifetime of a forced-air natural gas furnace.  WIll we be forced to buy a new furnace?

And the answer is: NO!  A brand new thermocouple and we're good to go! :yeah:  Only a $300 repair bill, which not great is still less than I was expecting. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on February 24, 2019, 12:34:05 PM
Fun weekend.

We went on Saturday to catch the Assyrian exhibition in the British Museum before it closed, then move on to V&A for the Dior exhibition (my wife is a member). Next time I guess I'll check beforehand because the Assyrian thing was sold out. And I refused to listen to the weather forecast and dressed for cold so had to carry around my useless clothing the whole time.

But, coming out of the back exit of the BM, saw my first mugging (ever, but also first for London). Middle-aged guy of Indian/Pakistani origin was with his little son and some white guy on a bicycle went past and swooped something from his hand, I assume his mobile. Poor guy.

Then this morning I discovered I had a flat tyre. No worries, wasn't going to be the first tyre change I did, not even on this car. But I also had to discover that something was definitely not right with the bolt lock I have on. It just wouldn't budge. I ended up cracking the key thingie (twice) but it just wouldn't budge. So I'll have to half a day off to have some people over on Tuesday with a new tyre and to unhinge it somehow, and I'll have to take the train tomorrow as we'll have an important meeting at the office.  :mad: At least I did discover that it was flat due to a puncture by a big screw.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 24, 2019, 12:39:42 PM
That's not a mugging.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on February 24, 2019, 02:31:36 PM
True.

What's the word then? Stealing?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 24, 2019, 02:42:32 PM
Well, it is stealing, but a more specific term would be snatch and grab.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 24, 2019, 02:48:26 PM
Yeah mugging has to involve the threat of violence.  Purse snatching is a thing so I guess phone snatching should be too.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on February 24, 2019, 04:10:49 PM
Yup - the legal charge would be "theft", but 'snatch and grab' would be an accurate summary of the modus operandi.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 24, 2019, 04:15:40 PM
I've always disliked the term snatch and grab because of it's pure redundancy.  It's like saying let's go eat and chow.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on February 24, 2019, 04:30:20 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 24, 2019, 04:10:49 PM
Yup - the legal charge would be "theft", but 'snatch and grab' would be an accurate summary of the modus operandi.

Don't know the situation in the UK, but sometimes the 'attacks' can be quite threatening if not violent:

(https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/pri_38689565.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=964%2C642)

Quote

Gang on mopeds pictured riding through central London grabbing people's mobile phones

Harley TamplinFriday
5 May 2017 1:51 pm

This is the moment a motorbike gang brandishing hammers and metal bars terrorised people in central London.

Shocking photos show the gang, with two people sitting on each bike, riding through the capital's Soho area in broad daylight.
Thieves manage to steal £150,000 of diamond rings from wedding show»

The scary incident happened at about 2pm on Thursday.

An eyewitness said the men were riding around in a 'threatening manner' and trying to steal people's mobile phones.

Intimidating scenes included one of the bikes mounting a pavement in a bid to snatch a phone out of the hands of a passer by.
.....

Full item here:
https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/05/gang-on-mopeds-pictured-riding-through-central-london-grabbing-peoples-mobile-phones-6618015/
(https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/05/gang-on-mopeds-pictured-riding-through-central-london-grabbing-peoples-mobile-phones-6618015/)

I'd guess if they were successful, but then caught it would be robbery.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 21, 2019, 02:42:49 PM
Today I picked up a package from Amazon. Flat, heavily damaged box wrapped in plastic from Swedish mail, with a letter from them that disarmingly stated that the package regretfully had been damaged. The books were long gone. Good thing they weren't super important, but I don't see how this stuff happens. Are there even book thieves? And if not, why rip a box to shreds?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 21, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
You bought a physical book?  Ok old man. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on March 21, 2019, 02:52:29 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 21, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
You bought a physical book?  Ok old man. :)

Thank you for your input, Kentucky.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on March 21, 2019, 02:53:25 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 21, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
You bought a physical book?  Ok old man. :)

Why would a person not?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on March 21, 2019, 03:00:56 PM
Do you also ride a horse to work?  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on March 21, 2019, 03:30:09 PM
One advantage of old school books is you broadcast to the world what you're reading on the cover.

Another is you don't look like a hipster doofus.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 21, 2019, 03:34:53 PM
Holding a smartphone doesn't make you look like a hipster.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on March 21, 2019, 04:05:43 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 21, 2019, 03:30:09 PM
One advantage of old school books is you broadcast to the world what you're reading on the cover.

:yes:
I like seeing what people are reading on the train and then judging them for it.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on March 21, 2019, 04:08:40 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 21, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
You bought a physical book?  Ok old man. :)

I don't know man. I have tried to use ebooks and such but they are just unpleasant to read and it is especially bad when I need to quickly flip to different pages, especially when using some sort of technical resource. Also my dead tree books don't run out of batteries.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: ulmont on March 21, 2019, 04:53:03 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 21, 2019, 04:08:40 PM
I don't know man. I have tried to use ebooks and such but they are just unpleasant to read and it is especially bad when I need to quickly flip to different pages, especially when using some sort of technical resource. Also my dead tree books don't run out of batteries.

I converted a decade ago.  Technical resources are what tablets are for.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on March 21, 2019, 06:47:07 PM
I like that you can buy 2nd hand books, something that's not so easy with ebooks.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on April 01, 2019, 10:01:05 AM
Our gas meter is cursed.

For a while another resident in the building claimed it as her own. I had to literally prove it to her that it's ours. Not that I cared whether she cheats or not but she kept writing her flat number on it so I could not really pretend ignorance even if I wanted to. But at leash she has given up on it.

The meter box is out on the outer wall and I guess the admittedly lose door on it (the whole thing is plastic) must have annoyed somebody (my bet is on the tenant on the other side of the wall) when it was perhaps rattled by wind etc. Because this morning I found some pieces of cardboard pressed together and lodged between the box and its door. It's tight AF now but I couldn't open it!

So when I get home I'll try to use a knife to unstuck the cardboard (and avoid being arrested for being seen with a knife in public I guess) and if I can't I'll need to unscrew the door and hope that helps.

FFS.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 01, 2019, 10:48:07 AM
Quote from: Tamas on April 01, 2019, 10:01:05 AM
But at leash she has given up on it.

HOTT
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on April 01, 2019, 11:30:31 AM
 :lol: oops
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 11, 2019, 01:35:20 PM
They found my books and are sending them to me. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 08:50:47 AM
I got my books today. A bit roughed up as you would expect, but nothing serious. All's well that ends well (sorry don't know the original Klingon). :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 09:07:03 AM
I just did my taxes. Took me 5 minutes in total. Thank you Swedish efficiency! :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 18, 2019, 11:13:44 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 08:50:47 AM
I got my books today. A bit roughed up as you would expect, but nothing serious. All's well that ends well (sorry don't know the original Klingon). :)

Hoch vaj megh'an toH
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 12:11:30 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 18, 2019, 11:13:44 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 08:50:47 AM
I got my books today. A bit roughed up as you would expect, but nothing serious. All's well that ends well (sorry don't know the original Klingon). :)

Hoch vaj megh'an toH

I'll have to trust the Crown on this one.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 18, 2019, 12:26:57 PM
I never knew Meghan was a Klingon name.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on April 22, 2019, 04:27:00 PM
I have spent all day Easter Monday, and half the day of Good Friday (both holidays for me) in the office prepping a file that defence says his client is "probably" going to accept an offered deal on, currently set for trial on Wednesday. :grr:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on April 22, 2019, 08:17:39 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 18, 2019, 09:07:03 AM
I just did my taxes. Took me 5 minutes in total. Thank you Swedish efficiency! :)

Nice. I so wish that the US had a much more stream lined system also!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on May 21, 2019, 01:41:06 PM
Bringing back the trailer from camping, I stopped at a small town gas station.  I looked for a snack, and saw to my surprise and horror that they were selling Crystal Pepsi!  Have they been sitting on this stock for the last 25 years?  Had I travelled back through space and time to the early 1990s?

Nope - turns out it's a limited release marketing thing, Canada only.

I didn't mind Crystal; Pepsi back in the day, actually.  But now I wonder if the power of the internet will one day convince Coke to bring back an even more 90s beverage: OK Soda.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on May 21, 2019, 02:57:14 PM
Funny I posted about Crystal Pepsi earlier - I now see that Coca-Cola is bring back, of all things, New Coke!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/enjoy-stranger-things-3-with-a-delicious-can-of-new-coke/

I remember that in the summer of 1985 we actually did a blind taste-test when out at the cottage: and the majority of people in our family actually preferred New Coke.  Which apparently was in-line with what national taste tests resulted in.  Yet the power of the Coke brand was so strong they had to bring back "Coke Classic" just a few months later.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on May 21, 2019, 03:00:13 PM
isn't current coke just new coke? or is that a urban legend
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on May 21, 2019, 03:19:47 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 21, 2019, 03:00:13 PM
isn't current coke just new coke? or is that a urban legend

IIRC current US and Canada Coke was reformulated "Classic" Coke so that it could be made with corn syrup rather than cane sugar.  Latin American (and maybe European :unsure:) Coca-Cola is still made with cane sugar.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 21, 2019, 05:04:39 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 21, 2019, 03:00:13 PM
isn't current coke just new coke? or is that a urban legend

That's what I've heard.  My cousin's wife, who is a professor of flavors (or something like that) and does a lot of industry work on artificial flavors, told me after the New Coke outcry they went back to the old flavor but gradually over time changed it to the new taste without telling anyone.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on May 22, 2019, 07:30:43 PM
I keep ginger ale around, or even coca cola, sometimes for something different especially in hot weather. But I drink very little carbonated stuff over all.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on May 22, 2019, 09:23:09 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 21, 2019, 05:04:39 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 21, 2019, 03:00:13 PM
isn't current coke just new coke? or is that a urban legend

That's what I've heard.  My cousin's wife, who is a professor of flavors (or something like that) and does a lot of industry work on artificial flavors, told me after the New Coke outcry they went back to the old flavor but gradually over time changed it to the new taste without telling anyone.

Well that doesn't make any sense. These days there are like 20 different flavors and varieties of coke. They could easily sell both. The reason there was outcry before was because the way things worked back then they couldn't really have multiple varieties out there so they had to choose just one.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 24, 2019, 09:53:28 PM
On my way home from work I saw police retrieve someone's body from the East River.  Not sure how a body make it to a place with a dozen piers or so without being spotted somewhere earlier, and it's not like anyone goes for a swim in the East River.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 25, 2019, 01:16:19 PM
Turns out it was a somewhat famous Youtuber who was suicidal and disappeared a week ago.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on June 25, 2019, 01:55:41 PM
Yesterday I saw a Toyota Corolla with a rear window sticker of the Imperial Japanese Flag.  BANZAI!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 25, 2019, 02:47:04 PM
Quote from: DGuller on June 24, 2019, 09:53:28 PM
On my way home from work I saw police retrieve someone's body from the East River.  Not sure how a body make it to a place with a dozen piers or so without being spotted somewhere earlier, and it's not like anyone goes for a swim in the East River.

Cosmo Kramer does.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 11, 2019, 02:47:12 PM
Played hockey last night.  My team doesn't win very many games, but we won this one: 6-1.

Most importantly I got two assists on the night.  The last one, on the power play, was a thing of beauty.  I play D, I see everyone's collapsing so I move forward into the slot.  Winger passes me the puck.  I have a good shot at the goalie.  I manage to get some lift on the puck, but probably not enough, but our center was parked in front of the goalie.  He manages to deflect the shot up over the goalie's glove.

I now have 4 points (all assists) for the season, putting me in a tie for 2nd place on the team. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 11, 2019, 02:57:04 PM
:cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on October 12, 2019, 12:53:12 PM
Hit somebody! was what the crowd roared
When Barrister the goon came over the boards
"Coach," he'd say, "I wanna score goals"
The coach said, "BB, remember your role
The fast guys get paid, they shoot, they score
Protect them, BB, that's what you're here for

Protection is what you're here for
Protection--it's the stars that score
Protection--kick somebody's ass
Protection--don't put the biscuit in the basket just
Hit somebody! it rang in his ears

Blood on the ice ran down through the years
The king of the goons with a box for a throne
A thousand stitches and broken bones
He never lost a fight on his icy patrol
But deep inside, BB only dreamed of a goal
He just wanted one damn goal
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 12, 2019, 11:38:30 PM
I was just driving through Hoboken, and some rather pissed off cops were blocking the road ahead.  Upon closer inspection, some car crashed into a building and was completely in flames, enough so that the horn was going off.  Given how angry the cops sounded, I decided that parking and watching it unfold would be unwise.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 13, 2019, 12:27:13 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 12, 2019, 12:53:12 PM
Blood on the ice ran down through the years
The king of the goons with a box for a throne
A thousand stitches and broken bones
He never lost a fight on his icy patrol
But deep inside, BB only dreamed of a goal
He just wanted one damn goal

So I'm no goon.  Hell I play adult recreational no-contact hockey - when you bump into someone else you generally apologize.

But... I played one year of hockey as a kid.  Circe 1984, 1985, something like that.  I was terrible, I didn't like it, I quit.  In that year, I scored exactly one goal.  It's one of those memories that I can remember like it was yesterday.

But yes.  Almost 35 years later.. I just want to score one god damn goal.  Being the assist leader on my team (which apparently I am!) doesn't mean much. I just want. one. goal.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 13, 2019, 06:40:45 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 12, 2019, 11:38:30 PM
I was just driving through Hoboken, and some rather pissed off cops were blocking the road ahead.  Upon closer inspection, some car crashed into a building and was completely in flames, enough so that the horn was going off. Given how angry the cops sounded, I decided that parking and watching it unfold would be unwise.

That's an extra safety feature right?

Car engulfed in flames and the horn will lock full on, just in case one hadn't noticed.  :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 23, 2020, 07:40:17 AM
There is a wasp in my apartment. Probably entered through the open balcony door.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 23, 2020, 07:45:58 AM
It left the same way. I am both relieved and a bit sad.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 23, 2020, 08:12:22 AM
It, or one of its personal acquaintances, is back. My emotions are a tangled mess.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on April 26, 2020, 03:19:55 AM
Today I did my taxes. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on April 26, 2020, 04:40:07 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 23, 2020, 08:12:22 AM
It, or one of its personal acquaintances, is back. My emotions are a tangled mess.

:lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 26, 2020, 08:38:32 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 26, 2020, 03:19:55 AM
Today I did my taxes. :)

Similarly this morning I unblocked the drains.  :x
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 09, 2020, 04:31:40 PM
Today I saw two hot chicks on bicycles. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on May 10, 2020, 11:29:39 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 09, 2020, 04:31:40 PM
Today I saw two hot chicks on bicycles. :)

I guess there's still that, even with lockdown. Truly an everyday adventure  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 10, 2020, 11:38:49 AM
Quote from: Maladict on May 10, 2020, 11:29:39 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 09, 2020, 04:31:40 PM
Today I saw two hot chicks on bicycles. :)

I guess there's still that, even with lockdown. Truly an everyday adventure  :)

I think Brain was alluding to something similar to thingy's fish on a bike image.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 10, 2020, 03:13:42 PM
So few things nicer than a girl's ass on a bike seat.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on May 10, 2020, 07:23:39 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 10, 2020, 03:13:42 PM
So few things nicer than a girl's ass on a bike seat.  :)

[redacted]
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 18, 2020, 03:12:31 PM
Today I danced to Ke$ha in my living room. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 20, 2020, 07:17:01 AM
Today I was eating a salad in front of the computer, and a corn kernel fell on my chair and settled shallowly between the side and the seat of the chair. When I tried to pick it up it slid deeper into the chair. I was reminded of the sign on airplanes (remember those?) that says to call staff if you drop your phone in your chair. I eventually managed to get a firm grip though, retrieve it from the chair, and eat it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 23, 2020, 05:24:18 AM
I went to the movies yesterday night for the first time in 3 months and a half. Cinema was reasonably packed, with one empty seat between people, except if they were part of a group. Queueing was more or less orderly. Lots of people kept their masks during the movie.
Unsurprisingly, the arthouse crowd is less rowdy than the usual crowd. Elephant Man new 4K restoration gets a re-release so that's the next movie I'll watch.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 23, 2020, 09:24:06 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 23, 2020, 05:24:18 AM
I went to the movies yesterday night for the first time in 3 months and a half. Cinema was reasonably packed, with one empty seat between people, except if they were part of a group. Queueing was more or less orderly. Lots of people kept their masks during the movie.
Unsurprisingly, the arthouse crowd is less rowdy than the usual crowd. Elephant Man new 4K restoration gets a re-release so that's the next movie I'll watch.

:ccr:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 23, 2020, 01:02:35 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 23, 2020, 09:24:06 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 23, 2020, 05:24:18 AM
I went to the movies yesterday night for the first time in 3 months and a half. Cinema was reasonably packed, with one empty seat between people, except if they were part of a group. Queueing was more or less orderly. Lots of people kept their masks during the movie.
Unsurprisingly, the arthouse crowd is less rowdy than the usual crowd. Elephant Man new 4K restoration gets a re-release so that's the next movie I'll watch.

:ccr:

Some other arthouse is having a Verhoeven retrospective so Flesh and Blood will follow plus Robocop. Showgirls and Hollow Man are not priorities.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 23, 2020, 01:27:22 PM
Showgirls isn't as bad as its reputation.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on June 23, 2020, 02:25:26 PM
The flesh in Flesh + Blood is better than the blood.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 23, 2020, 02:33:26 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 23, 2020, 01:27:22 PM
Showgirls isn't as bad as its reputation.

The absence of good in Showgirls exactly matches its reputation.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 23, 2020, 02:51:50 PM
As I said, not priorities, but I'll watch it if I have the time.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 23, 2020, 09:06:48 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 23, 2020, 01:27:22 PM
Showgirls isn't as bad as its reputation.

Saw 5-10 minutes a few days ago, I gave up.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on June 25, 2020, 07:17:53 PM
A week ago I was woken up about 2am, heard some kind of animal sounds, like a small critter like a rabbit screaming. I went downstairs,  looked out the windows and all my motion detector lights were on. I didn't see anything at first, but then a very large looking coyote walked through my back yard, into the side yard past my driveway to the street. I could see it clearly. It looked about the size of a German Shepard! I've seen them a few times around town but don't think I've seen one that big.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on June 26, 2020, 05:28:51 AM
Not to many people for the afternoon screening of Elephant Man. While the cinema had AC, it was around 35 °C in the streets yesterday though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on June 29, 2020, 01:08:15 PM
Usually I go to the beach (when it's open) to watch the sunrise on Saturday mornings.  This time of year the sunrise is usually like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/1tRUKHA.jpg)

With vibrant colors across the horizon.  We got the Saharan dust this past weekend which created a much more muted sunrise:

(https://i.imgur.com/dO4vclB.jpg)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on June 29, 2020, 01:24:23 PM
Yeah the Saharan dust made Austin look really weird this weekend
Like suddenly we had a smog problem.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 05, 2020, 02:19:01 PM
Around 10 last night I was sitting at the computer when my neighbor bangs on the door and says dude your house is on fire!.  The wooden deck and siding had caught on fire (from neighborhood fireworks?).  We doused it with the extinguisher and pots of water.

My very first experience with non-medical insurance claims.

My internet is out (cable damaged?) and am using my neighbor's Wifi.  I wish I could remember her name.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on July 08, 2020, 02:57:51 PM
I read this!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 08, 2020, 02:59:02 PM
Vive Renard!  Huzzah!
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on July 08, 2020, 04:13:01 PM
Was the fire department called?  They usually like to know these things even if not needed to put it out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 08, 2020, 04:21:25 PM
Called.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on July 12, 2020, 09:13:29 PM
96 minutes ago I stepped outside to see the ISS go over, not seen it that bright before, almost on the verge of a 'zircon flash' it looked like a fantasy multi-point star.

And just as it was heading off east a small shooting star shot by it in my field of view.

Just off out to see it pass over again.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on July 13, 2020, 11:26:06 AM
I went and got a haircut yesterday.  Wore a mask the entire time (as did the person cutting my hair).

Pro-tip - masks can catch a lot of hairs in them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on July 13, 2020, 06:35:50 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 13, 2020, 11:26:06 AM
I went and got a haircut yesterday.  Wore a mask the entire time (as did the person cutting my hair).

Pro-tip - masks can catch a lot of hairs in them.

I got a hair cut a few weeks ago when the barber shops opened back up. I wore a mask, the barbers had masks, safety glasses and a type of medical gown/covering. After it they entered my phone# in a book for contact tracing. They had been open for a couple weeks and had been mobbed with customers. Several hundred which is way more than usual. During the shutdown they made it through by using savings but it was tough. I know both barbers who run the shop. They do haircuts by appointment and customers wait their turn outside.

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on July 15, 2020, 11:50:22 AM
I don't make a habit of it, but today I got an Egg McMuffin and coffee on my way to work.

I asked for a decaf black, but there's definitely some sugar in my coffee.   :x
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 03, 2020, 05:19:26 AM
I replaced a toilet seat for the first time in my life (the old one was not very nice anymore). That I, a person who is absolutely shit at any handiwork, was able to do it by myself without any extra tools shows how far we've come as a species. :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on October 03, 2020, 05:45:31 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2020, 05:19:26 AM
I replaced a toilet seat for the first time in my life (the old one was not very nice anymore). That I, a person who is absolutely shit at any handiwork, was able to do it by myself without any extra tools shows how far we've come as a species. :P

I can imagine the scene; the 2001 theme music blaring out and the triumphant throwing of the spanner in the air once the seat was correctly fitted  :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 03, 2020, 05:53:58 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 03, 2020, 06:14:38 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 03, 2020, 05:45:31 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2020, 05:19:26 AM
I replaced a toilet seat for the first time in my life (the old one was not very nice anymore). That I, a person who is absolutely shit at any handiwork, was able to do it by myself without any extra tools shows how far we've come as a species. :P

I can imagine the scene; the 2001 theme music blaring out and the triumphant throwing of the spanner in the air once the seat was correctly fitted  :cool:

Save the Zarathustra theme for the first turd hitting the water. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 05, 2020, 07:22:55 AM
Today my FLGS is giving me same day delivery when I ordered at 12:40 even though they only guarantee it for orders placed before 11:00.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on November 05, 2020, 07:42:52 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 03, 2020, 06:14:38 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 03, 2020, 05:45:31 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 03, 2020, 05:19:26 AM
I replaced a toilet seat for the first time in my life (the old one was not very nice anymore). That I, a person who is absolutely shit at any handiwork, was able to do it by myself without any extra tools shows how far we've come as a species. :P

I can imagine the scene; the 2001 theme music blaring out and the triumphant throwing of the spanner in the air once the seat was correctly fitted  :cool:

Save the Zarathustra theme for the first turd hitting the water. :)

No reason why that couldn't happen simultaneously.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
When I went for the Covid lab test today I walked past the French embassy. I normally pass it on my way to work, and the lab is near our office. We've been working from home for over two months, so I haven't been there in a while.

Normally, there's a police guard in front of the entrance. Sometimes they're replaced by a soldier, usually when police is low on resources.

Today there were two soldiers in full tactical gear and Steyr AUG rifles, a rather unusual sight in Vienna. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 09, 2021, 11:36:08 AM
Have they made a Bernadotte ambassador again?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:46:28 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 09, 2021, 11:36:08 AM
Have they made a Bernadotte ambassador again?

It seems we have no French ambassador at the moment, just a head of the consulary section, Vice Consul Clément CALAIS.

I looked up the Swedish ambassador. Mikaela Ruth Gunilla Kumlin Granit. Not sure if that's her main job, because according to Wiki:

QuoteMikaela Ruth Gunilla Kumlin Granit (born November 1, 1967) is a Swedish diplomat who is the Chairperson of the IAEA's Board of Governors for 2019–2020. She is also Sweden's Resident Representative to the Agency and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, as well as Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia.

(https://igc-production.imgix.net/champions/hACCgkI2kPcWD_DTM5lJzgVfuIelXyVQ.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&auto=compress&q=80&w=900&h=900)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 09, 2021, 11:49:53 AM
That's Ted Danson in a blond wig and glasses.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 09, 2021, 11:52:38 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:46:28 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 09, 2021, 11:36:08 AM
Have they made a Bernadotte ambassador again?

It seems we have no French ambassador at the moment, just a head of the consulary section, Vice Consul Clément CALAIS.


Does he know Ben Dover?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on January 09, 2021, 12:33:22 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
When I went for the Covid lab test today I walked past the French embassy. I normally pass it on my way to work, and the lab is near our office. We've been working from home for over two months, so I haven't been there in a while.

Normally, there's a police guard in front of the entrance. Sometimes they're replaced by a soldier, usually when police is low on resources.

Today there were two soldiers in full tactical gear and Steyr AUG rifles, a rather unusual sight in Vienna. :ph34r:

the rifles' model?  :P
Just two soldiers? Pretty low by US embassies standards. Soviet and Russian were once renowned for that too, less so nowadays.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on January 09, 2021, 12:37:10 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:46:28 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 09, 2021, 11:36:08 AM
Have they made a Bernadotte ambassador again?

It seems we have no French ambassador at the moment, just a head of the consulary section, Vice Consul Clément CALAIS.



En espérant qu'il soit calé, ce cher M. Calais.  :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on January 09, 2021, 02:05:23 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 09, 2021, 12:33:22 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 09, 2021, 11:33:17 AM
When I went for the Covid lab test today I walked past the French embassy. I normally pass it on my way to work, and the lab is near our office. We've been working from home for over two months, so I haven't been there in a while.

Normally, there's a police guard in front of the entrance. Sometimes they're replaced by a soldier, usually when police is low on resources.

Today there were two soldiers in full tactical gear and Steyr AUG rifles, a rather unusual sight in Vienna. :ph34r:

the rifles' model?  :P
Just two soldiers? Pretty low by US embassies standards. Soviet and Russian were once renowned for that too, less so nowadays.

It's rather unusual to have soldiers with assault rifles in front of embassies in Vienna. I assume it was more France-specific, because there was just the usual single police officer in front of the Syrian embassy.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on January 22, 2021, 03:02:02 PM
This past weekend CB and I went to St. Petersburg, Florida to the Dali museum.  It's the second largest museum dedicated to Dali after the one in Cadaques (and most critics agree that it's the better as, unlike the one in Cadaques, Dali didn't set it up ;).)  Since it's the only museum in the Tampa area with any draw, it tends to get a number of excellent traveling exhibitions.  We saw a digital immersive biography of van Gogh's life, where the gallery was set up with a number of screens that showed a progression of van Gogh's works from his early Dutch period to his final days in Auvers-sur-Oise.  They animated the background of some of his paintings (similar to the film "Loving van Gogh") and set the exhibit to classical music from the period.  It ends with the field from "Wheatfield with Crows" (possibly van Gogh's last work), then we hear a gunshot and the crows all come flying.

As a sign of the times for Trump's final days the FBI had rented a number of slots on electronic billboards with a toll free number for information about Capitol Violence.  There was also a Trump car (well, mostly pickup truck) parade on the bridge over the Tampa Bay where everyone had their Tump/MAGA flags a-flying.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 22, 2021, 03:07:03 PM
Have you been to the one in Cadaques? :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on January 22, 2021, 03:12:26 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 22, 2021, 03:07:03 PM
Have you been to the one in Cadaques? :)

No, so I can't say definitively the one in St. Petersburg is better.  It does have a comprehensive collection of his paintings from his juvenalia to his final "Atomic Mysticism" phase; but his best known paintings are elsewhere.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 22, 2021, 03:37:38 PM
I've been to the one in Cadaques, but it's a long time ago. It was pretty cool.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 09:08:10 PM
I went out for a quick walk tonight, and when I came back to my apartment, I had four cops in front of my apartment door. :unsure: WTF? 

I walked towards it, not knowing what was up, and then I realized that wasn't my apartment, I was looking left instead of right, mine was diagonally across on the other side of the elevators.  One of the cops did see me try to go in that direction, and noted that it looked like I wanted to come to that apartment.  I assured him I didn't, though I suspect he only fully bought it when I successfully entered my own apartment with my keys.

I wonder what was up with my neighbor, though. :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 30, 2021, 09:36:14 PM
Maybe you shouldn't economize so much on rent?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 09:36:53 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 09:08:10 PM
I wonder what was up with my neighbor, though. :unsure:

Have you checked your files?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 10:44:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 09:36:53 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 09:08:10 PM
I wonder what was up with my neighbor, though. :unsure:

Have you checked your files?
I lost access 10 days ago.  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 31, 2021, 04:12:43 AM
Quote from: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 10:44:30 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 30, 2021, 09:36:53 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 09:08:10 PM
I wonder what was up with my neighbor, though. :unsure:

Have you checked your files?
I lost access 10 days ago.  :(

:console:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: viper37 on January 31, 2021, 08:28:37 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 30, 2021, 09:08:10 PM
I wonder what was up with my neighbor, though. :unsure:
read the local papers? :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on February 26, 2021, 12:04:52 PM
I cut out caffeine several years ago - it made my hands shake too much.  I typically drink decaf coffee, though sometimes I splurge and get it with 1/4 regular.

They didn't have decaf this morning, so instead of just going with water I got a regular coffee, full strength. 

I feel like I'm almost drunk from the caffeine.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on February 26, 2021, 12:15:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 22, 2021, 03:07:03 PM
Have you been to the one in Cadaques? :)
I've been to his house in Cadaques and liked it. But I don't think you like Dali much after seeing it - the insane egotism of his partner's dressing room being entirely wall-papered with pictures of Dali sticks out in my mind.

And since I visited I've seen Brian Sewell's anecdote about his time in Cadaques :lol:
QuoteIs it true Salvador Dalí once asked you to masturbate for him while he took photographs?

Yes it's absolutely true [laughs]. Well, you do things because you can. He took me into the garden at the house at Cadaqués. He said: "I want to show you my Christ [sculpture]." And his Christ is an extraordinary thing: 60 or 70ft long and it's made of bricks and broken rubble and motorcar tyres. It's really quite clever. Um, and you step over it and walk about in it and then he just said: "I want to take a photograph. Lie down." Which I did in all my clothes and he said: "It might be better if you took your clothes off." And from there... And you know, I'm convinced I wasn't the first. I certainly wasn't the last and there was no film in the camera but it seemed grudging to refuse.

That's quite an anecdote.

Yes but there are probably men of my age now all over Germany, Switzerland, Spain, America, Canada and God knows where all telling the same story. Wankers for Dalí.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 07, 2021, 09:06:03 AM
For the first time ever I used one of those two wheeled shopping trolleys a couple of weeks ago; does that mean I'm on fashion or have I started the trend's slow death?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 11:24:24 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 26, 2021, 12:15:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 22, 2021, 03:07:03 PM
Have you been to the one in Cadaques? :)
I've been to his house in Cadaques and liked it. But I don't think you like Dali much after seeing it - the insane egotism of his partner's dressing room being entirely wall-papered with pictures of Dali sticks out in my mind.

And since I visited I've seen Brian Sewell's anecdote about his time in Cadaques :lol:
QuoteIs it true Salvador Dalí once asked you to masturbate for him while he took photographs?

Yes it's absolutely true [laughs]. Well, you do things because you can. He took me into the garden at the house at Cadaqués. He said: "I want to show you my Christ [sculpture]." And his Christ is an extraordinary thing: 60 or 70ft long and it's made of bricks and broken rubble and motorcar tyres. It's really quite clever. Um, and you step over it and walk about in it and then he just said: "I want to take a photograph. Lie down." Which I did in all my clothes and he said: "It might be better if you took your clothes off." And from there... And you know, I'm convinced I wasn't the first. I certainly wasn't the last and there was no film in the camera but it seemed grudging to refuse.

That's quite an anecdote.

Yes but there are probably men of my age now all over Germany, Switzerland, Spain, America, Canada and God knows where all telling the same story. Wankers for Dalí.

Well, Dalí was a huge wanker, both literally and figuratively, so it's no surprise that he demanded it from others as well.  :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 13, 2021, 07:18:39 AM
Today I prepared my balcony for summer.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 27, 2021, 04:35:22 AM
Today on the bus a gentleman with increasing urgency demanded his phone play Baby Jane by Rod Stewart. Eventually it did.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 27, 2021, 08:53:07 AM
You're no gentleman.  :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on May 27, 2021, 10:18:59 AM
So cruel. :cry:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 30, 2021, 07:20:00 PM
First day on the golf course.  9 holes.  1 blow up hole. 

I'll probably keep playing.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 30, 2021, 08:04:10 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 30, 2021, 07:20:00 PM
First day on the golf course.  9 holes.  1 blow up hole. 

I'll probably keep playing.

Yi, just because they also have 'dimples' doesn't mean you can play golf with hand grenades.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 30, 2021, 08:30:17 PM
God bless you mongers.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on June 04, 2021, 03:07:49 PM
The Vero Beach Art Museum has an exhibit on Christo and Jeanne-Marie (the couple who wrapped buildings, bridges, islands and things like that.)  CB and I saw that over the past weekend.  While their work was ephemeral (and couldn't be put in a museum), the renditions and drawings still remain.  (In fact they financed their work by selling artist renditions and the like and took no grant money.)  That is what the exhibit focused on.

There was a fly on the wall style documentary about their piece "Umbrellas"; where they put up a number of giant blue umbrellas in Japan and giant yellow umbrellas in California.  Watching Christo was a riot; he's almost the perfectly stereotypical monomaniacal/egomaniacal artiste.  (This is my installation, I will decide when it is to be open.  No official or act of nature will influence my decision.)  Jeanne-Marie tended to fade into the background.  Even when she was on camera she came across as his sidekick and/or henchwoman depending on your point of view.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 04, 2021, 03:13:00 PM
I still notice Christo-wrapped buildings regularly. It's kind of spooky, but I try not to think about it too much.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on June 06, 2021, 05:25:53 PM
CB and I went to the zoo yesterday; we watched a Black Bear climb a palm tree to get a frond to munch on.  The American Black Bear is native to Florida and they are omnivorous; but I didn't realize the ate palm fronds or would scale palm trees to get them (or that a palm tree could support the weight of a black bear.)

Also while we were there a very young girl near us was disappointed to learn that not everyone who wears glasses is Egon. :(  (I was wearing a hat, of course, I don't have Harold Ramis's magnificent Jew-Fro.  Still that's better than looking like a young Woody Allen. (http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,13.msg1193680.html#msg1193680))
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 06, 2021, 05:35:14 PM
At least she didn't mistake you for Kate McKinnon.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 19, 2021, 05:27:53 AM
Today a big spider is sitting in mein comfy chair on my balcony. A long stick didn't convince him to leave. I have retreated indoors.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 25, 2021, 06:37:55 PM
Yesterday I went shopping in an Ikea for the first and probably the last time.  <_<


Seems like the appropriate thread for this 'revelation'.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 25, 2021, 07:34:40 PM
I've never been in one.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on June 25, 2021, 07:49:45 PM
Ikeas are awesome. I like everything about those stores.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on June 25, 2021, 07:51:44 PM
I can't stand the stores and I don't know anyone who's been to one without having a massive row with someone in their family (normally other half). However the meatballs are nice and the cafe's alright.

Just order online :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 26, 2021, 03:09:05 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 25, 2021, 06:37:55 PM
Yesterday I went shopping in an Ikea for the first and probably the last time.  <_<


Seems like the appropriate thread for this 'revelation'.

You bought everything? :w00t:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on June 26, 2021, 03:45:36 AM
I've been to an Ikea only once, in 2006. I bought two towels. I still have them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: merithyn on June 26, 2021, 07:42:43 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 25, 2021, 07:51:44 PM
I can't stand the stores and I don't know anyone who's been to one without having a massive row with someone in their family (normally other half). However the meatballs are nice and the cafe's alright.

Just order online :ph34r:

You do know someone.  :)

Ikea is okay. I hate the required maze to get out when I'm just going in for one or two things. I now live two hours away from the closest one so it's a non-issue except when I want lingonberry jam. :grr:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 26, 2021, 08:24:00 AM
Lingonberry jam is life.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on June 26, 2021, 08:33:53 AM
I think it's the maze and that - in my experience it takes about 2 hours to get around because of the speed people walk through Ikeas - that prompts rows :lol: :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on June 26, 2021, 10:11:15 AM
Elbows aren't just for making your arm bend.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on June 29, 2021, 08:22:07 PM
The Ikeas(there is 2) in Montreal have shortcuts to cut the maze and you can also avoid it completely and use terminals to find what your heart desires.

Lingonberry jam is life.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on June 29, 2021, 09:14:32 PM
Ikeas all have shortcuts. You don't need to follow the maze at all.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 03:02:57 PM
Two German women are sitting on a balcony nearby, talking, drinking, and singing along to 70s-90s music. Please advise.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tonitrus on July 15, 2021, 03:13:07 PM
Ask for anal.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 03:17:00 PM
My German isn't very good. But of course pushing the verb to the end of the sentence makes sense in this context. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 03:23:34 PM
Shouting distance or talking distance?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 03:24:13 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 03:23:34 PM
Shouting distance or talking distance?

Pretty much talking distance.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 03:24:58 PM
Update: they are now doing 00s music. Toxic, by B. Spears.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 03:41:08 PM
Sprint to the soopermarkt, buy a grill, some salmon, and some champagne (not the Russian stuff).  Start cooking on your balcony and ask them if they'd like some.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 04:10:32 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 03:41:08 PM
Sprint to the soopermarkt, buy a grill, some salmon, and some champagne (not the Russian stuff).  Start cooking on your balcony and ask them if they'd like some.

Pretty good suggestion, but the local shops are closed here now. I do have some white wine though. :hmm:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 04:18:08 PM
Clap after they sing along to a song.  Then ball's in their court.

Do you have any weed?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 04:19:14 PM
I don't have any weed. I do have a replica 15th century helmet though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on July 15, 2021, 04:25:02 PM
You could just start drinking and sing along whenever there's a song you know. See how they react to that.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: crazy canuck on July 15, 2021, 04:39:56 PM
But try that without the helmet.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 04:40:36 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 04:19:14 PM
I don't have any weed. I do have a replica 15th century helmet though.

You score 87 on the creativity test. :cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on July 15, 2021, 04:40:57 PM
Keep the helmet out of view. Bring it out of the situation calls for it....
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on July 15, 2021, 04:53:48 PM
Thank you all. They have now retreated inside. It's possible that I could lure them out again by hollering, but it's almost midnight and I hate to disturb people in the neighborhood who are trying to sleep. Maybe they'll be back on the balcony tomorrow, which is a Friday.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 15, 2021, 04:58:09 PM
Plenty of time to polish the helmet.

Not a euphemism.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 21, 2021, 08:35:00 PM
On the way home from tonight's revelries I was propositioned by a prostitute. This is unusual for me. Of course I declined her services.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 25, 2021, 09:03:19 AM
During a work meeting today, there was suddenly the Soviet Russian notional anthem (yes, it's "national", but after noticing the typo I decided to leave it :P ) heard from outside, followed by the Austrian one.

Our office is near the Red Army memorial, and apparently Russian foreign minister Lavrov was in town and laid down a wreath there.

The music made our meeting slightly more somber and festive while we consumed sushi, rolls, and gyoza. -_-
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on August 25, 2021, 09:09:00 AM
I still go WTF when I hear the Soviet anthem as a Russian anthem.  I know it's been 20 years since it was re-adopted, but it's still jarring, especially since I can't help but think of the Soviet lyrics that accompany it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on August 25, 2021, 09:15:56 AM
Yeah, it's a bit weird. To be fair, the old anthem is pretty good, as a piece of music. Compare with the lullaby that is the Austrian one:

https://youtu.be/BSJjNJYbhxc

(All the more distressing considering the number of great Austrian composers.)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Valmy on August 25, 2021, 11:20:25 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2021, 09:15:56 AM
the Austrian one:

Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze
Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!
Mächtig durch des Glaubens Stütze,
Führ' er uns mit weiser Hand!
Laßt uns seiner Väter Krone
Schirmen wider jeden Feind!

Innig bleibt mit Habsburgs Throne
Österreichs Geschick vereint!

Innig bleibt mit Habsburgs Throne
Österreichs Geschick vereint!

I don't know it is pretty catchy. Oh wait that is not the official anthem anymore?

Quotehttps://youtu.be/BSJjNJYbhxc

Huh. Well that doesn't make me want to die fighting Napoleon at all.


Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: KRonn on August 25, 2021, 08:45:56 PM
I've been seeing a lot of wildlife in my yard and in the neighborhood. Foxes, coyotes (a big one late at night nearly the size of a German Shepard), deer, hawks, lots of squirrels and rabbits. Though the number of rabbits seems to have dropped a bit - maybe the foxes and coyotes are taking a toll. I had to spray animal repellent around my Hosta plants as the rabbits were feasting on them. That has saved the plants.

Kind of surprising to see so many critters around as my town is pretty well built up. But then too, there are still areas of woods nearby, and about a half mile from me is a small river with woods along it. So the critters do have places to hide or hang out when not cruising among homes and businesses.  :) 
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: viper37 on August 25, 2021, 09:58:25 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2021, 09:15:56 AM
Yeah, it's a bit weird. To be fair, the old anthem is pretty good, as a piece of music. Compare with the lullaby that is the Austrian one:

https://youtu.be/BSJjNJYbhxc (https://youtu.be/BSJjNJYbhxc)

(All the more distressing considering the number of great Austrian composers.)
Could be worst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIJrW_auCE
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on August 26, 2021, 12:12:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2021, 09:15:56 AM
Yeah, it's a bit weird. To be fair, the old anthem is pretty good, as a piece of music. Compare with the lullaby that is the Austrian one:

https://youtu.be/BSJjNJYbhxc

(All the more distressing considering the number of great Austrian composers.)
Yeah - in football tournament's Russia's (old/new) anthem is top 5. It's also particularly good for a stadium to belt out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on August 31, 2021, 02:23:10 PM
I needed the password reset so I am able to access all of our electronic files at work.  The usual person in our office who I ask IT-type questions is not around, so I just called the main GOA (Government of Alberta) help desk.  The guy spent 15 minutes with me on the phone, had no idea what to do.  At one point he was going to pass me off to the AHS (Alberta Health Services) help desk - I quickly protested that I'm not with Health.  He eventually just opened a ticket and said someone would call me back.

After lunch, and still unable to access my files, I went to the 'usual person's' office.  She had a sign giving a number for the JSG (Justice and Solicitor General) help desk.  I called them and they reset my password within two minutes.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 31, 2021, 02:30:55 PM
Did you celebrate with coffee/tea? :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Threviel on September 05, 2021, 11:38:45 AM
We took the camper to a small lake in the neighbourhood to fish, my boy has recently found a fishing interest. We spent Saturday evening and Sunday morning fishing which.

Now, I'm the son of a fisherman brought up in a fishing village by the sea, so sweet water fishing with rods is quite new to me, this trip was the family's first real attempt at fishing.

Late Saturday, after putting the kids to sleep I caught some tiny fish, too small to see what it was. And in the morning my boy woke up and ran out and started fishing. No luck.

After a while my 4-year old daughter started to be an annoyance so me and her walked a bit to the side and threw some throws together. I'm theowing and she's reeling and often we catch the bottom. Until one time we don't. It feels like the bottom and I'm hingry and tired so I lightly berate her for reeling too slow. But suddenly there's a splash, it's a fish. And a big one. The whole family gathers as we haul in a pike weighing 3 kg. Big one and the first real fish we've ever caught.

I made some fish burgers out of it and damn, it was delicious.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 05, 2021, 03:48:49 PM
Nice. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on September 05, 2021, 04:06:40 PM
Fish burgers?
I've never heard of this being a thing let alone making it from scratch. Fascinating.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 05, 2021, 05:57:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 26, 2011, 09:38:30 AM
The two young chicks manning my local Thai today would make the Languish yellow fever population mastrubtate fuirolsy.

Update?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on September 05, 2021, 07:03:19 PM
Quote from: Threviel on September 05, 2021, 11:38:45 AM
We took the camper to a small lake in the neighbourhood to fish, my boy has recently found a fishing interest. We spent Saturday evening and Sunday morning fishing which.

Now, I'm the son of a fisherman brought up in a fishing village by the sea, so sweet water fishing with rods is quite new to me, this trip was the family's first real attempt at fishing.

Late Saturday, after putting the kids to sleep I caught some tiny fish, too small to see what it was. And in the morning my boy woke up and ran out and started fishing. No luck.

After a while my 4-year old daughter started to be an annoyance so me and her walked a bit to the side and threw some throws together. I'm theowing and she's reeling and often we catch the bottom. Until one time we don't. It feels like the bottom and I'm hingry and tired so I lightly berate her for reeling too slow. But suddenly there's a splash, it's a fish. And a big one. The whole family gathers as we haul in a pike weighing 3 kg. Big one and the first real fish we've ever caught.

I made some fish burgers out of it and damn, it was delicious.

Very :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 06, 2021, 02:36:30 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 05, 2021, 05:57:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 26, 2011, 09:38:30 AM
The two young chicks manning my local Thai today would make the Languish yellow fever population mastrubtate fuirolsy.

Update?

I haven't seen them again. For several years now it's been a guy there. He's great but he's not eye candy in the same way.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2021, 01:50:09 AM
Made out with a girl at the Regal Beagle.  Hell of a long time since that's happened.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on September 13, 2021, 06:13:59 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2021, 01:50:09 AM
Made out with a girl at the Regal Beagle.  Hell of a long time since that's happened.

:ccr:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 04, 2021, 08:33:40 PM
Scored an eagle today.  Second time in my life.  :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 05, 2021, 07:16:42 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 04, 2021, 08:33:40 PM
Scored an eagle today.  Second time in my life.  :)

:cool:

That's two or three below par?

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on October 05, 2021, 09:26:25 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 04, 2021, 08:33:40 PM
Scored an eagle today.  Second time in my life.  :)
Ok, Brain.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2021, 01:06:47 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 05, 2021, 07:16:42 AM
:cool:

That's two or three below par?

2.  3 is an albatross.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 05, 2021, 01:41:00 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2021, 01:06:47 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 05, 2021, 07:16:42 AM
:cool:

That's two or three below par?

2.  3 is an albatross.

You never shot one yet?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2021, 01:55:22 PM
Never hit an albatross.  Never expect to.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 05, 2021, 01:59:10 PM
Good. Good.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 15, 2021, 11:42:06 AM
Spent the day at the British Museum (to see final days of the Nero exhibit) and the British Library. Almost felt like pre-pandemic times.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 15, 2021, 02:39:38 PM
A year ago my neighbor got railed almost daily. Now there's little sex noises, and sometimes I can hear a baby. What's up with this?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 15, 2021, 02:50:55 PM
Ask them. Unless you don't trust them. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on October 18, 2021, 01:25:07 AM
My supermarket has Kellogg's Pop-Tarts. Nice, but I would have preferred that 30, 35 years ago. :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on October 18, 2021, 04:17:17 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 15, 2021, 11:42:06 AM
Spent the day at the British Museum (to see final days of the Nero exhibit) and the British Library. Almost felt like pre-pandemic times.
Got tickets for the Hokusai exhibition so will be interesting.

I've been to the cinema a few times but only Bond was particularly busy. Going to a play this week though.

I feel like there's totally different masking levels on different bits of public transport too - it's really weird. On the train: 75-80% masked; on the bus: 66-75% masked; on the Tube: 50% at best. Very strange.

Edit: I mean having said that I feel like cinemas and theatres are relatively low risk because (hopefully) not many people are talking. And I've been to pubs and restaurants and work over the last month or two which I think are probably worse in terms of enclosed space with people talking etc.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on October 18, 2021, 04:31:52 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 18, 2021, 04:17:17 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 15, 2021, 11:42:06 AM
Spent the day at the British Museum (to see final days of the Nero exhibit) and the British Library. Almost felt like pre-pandemic times.
Got tickets for the Hokusai exhibition so will be interesting.

Envious.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 26, 2021, 07:27:34 PM
Today I had both an eyesight test and a hearing test; upshot I have some new distance and reading glasses on order, I was also given some new hearing aids, not sure how much those cost the NHS, hopefully not too much.

Rather disgracefully it's probably been about ten years since I've had either of those tests; I really need the shift my subconscious assumption away from I'm immortal and start taking health matters seriously. :bleeding:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Sheilbh on November 03, 2021, 03:43:30 PM
Bit more seaside Kent  - Edit: oops wrong photo. That is Margate.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 03, 2021, 04:35:01 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 03, 2021, 03:43:30 PM
Bit more seaside Kent  - Edit: oops wrong photo. That is Margate.

Weird name to give your penis :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 04, 2021, 12:10:52 PM
Had a prelim today with a 17 year old victim from a knife slashing.  Victim asks me how long I've been a lawyer.

I reply that I was called to the bar in 2001, and joined the Crown's office in 2004.

He replies "that's as long as I've been alive!".

<_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on November 04, 2021, 12:19:05 PM
So, you look young. That's positive.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 04, 2021, 12:19:38 PM
Did you tell him that replies like that is why he's getting stabbed? :P

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on November 04, 2021, 12:22:48 PM
"And that's how long you're going to live if you keep talking like that!  :mad:"
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on November 06, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
Spent the day at Southwark Cathedral where a panel of female authors gave talks on Tudor women. Got to finally see and speak to Alison Weir whose biography of Elizabeth was one of my first sparks of interest in history. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 06, 2021, 12:46:14 PM
I was at a concert on Wednesday. Was totally like pre pandemic times. Winter lockdown here we come.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 06, 2021, 03:38:02 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 06, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
Spent the day at Southwark Cathedral where a panel of female authors gave talks on Tudor women. Got to finally see and speak to Alison Weir whose biography of Elizabeth was one of my first sparks of interest in history. :)

Cool. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on November 08, 2021, 07:20:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 06, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
Spent the day at Southwark Cathedral where a panel of female authors gave talks on Tudor women. Got to finally see and speak to Alison Weir whose biography of Elizabeth was one of my first sparks of interest in history. :)

:cool:

Yes it's invariable cool when one gets to speak with a favourite author.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 16, 2021, 02:12:54 PM
So we had a snowfall warning issued last night.  First big dump of the year.

I was worried about making it to my 8:30 pre-trial tele-conference so I made sure to leave extra early.  Sure enough the roads are not good and the drive in was slow.  Even then I get into my desk at the nick of time: 8:28.

So I call in promptly at 8:30.  I get told "Oh Mr. Barrister - your pre-trial is at 9:30".

<_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Grey Fox on November 16, 2021, 02:37:05 PM
1h early. That's great time.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on November 23, 2021, 07:06:02 PM
Speaking of the roads, today was my best record yet.  It took me 2.5 hours to cover 10 miles to drive home from my dentist appointment in Brooklyn.  It wasn't even because of any accidents or road closures, it was just piss poor traffic management.  NYC has a lot of good things, but at the same time it's also an utter ungoverned shithole with no redeeming qualities.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 23, 2021, 07:44:25 PM
Nobody drives in NY, too much traffic
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on November 30, 2021, 02:52:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 08, 2021, 07:20:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 06, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
Spent the day at Southwark Cathedral where a panel of female authors gave talks on Tudor women. Got to finally see and speak to Alison Weir whose biography of Elizabeth was one of my first sparks of interest in history. :)

:cool:

Yes it's invariable cool when one gets to speak with a favourite author.

Continuing the history tour, I saw Dan Jones at a talk for his new book tonight in Kensington. £5 bought entrance to talk and a glass of wine. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 01, 2021, 08:14:25 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 30, 2021, 02:52:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 08, 2021, 07:20:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 06, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
Spent the day at Southwark Cathedral where a panel of female authors gave talks on Tudor women. Got to finally see and speak to Alison Weir whose biography of Elizabeth was one of my first sparks of interest in history. :)

:cool:

Yes it's invariable cool when one gets to speak with a favourite author.

Continuing the history tour, I saw Dan Jones at a talk for his new book tonight in Kensington. £5 bought entrance to talk and a glass of wine. :cool:

:cool:

That's one of those things I miss from not living in London any more or any other city for that matter.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 02:59:26 AM
Literary episode at my karaoke hang.

I head out for a smoke after a song, i come back, and one of the soccer moms in a group of 10 next to me leaves me a note on her credit card receipt.

"For a good band bang! Calll me Doris [heart] XXX XXX XXXX"

Trippy
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on December 03, 2021, 03:20:04 AM
I hope you corrected her atrocious grammar. :unsure:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 03, 2021, 03:33:14 AM
I talked to her briefly. She seems nice. Go for it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on December 03, 2021, 11:34:49 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 02:59:26 AM
Literary episode at my karaoke hang.

I head out for a smoke after a song, i come back, and one of the soccer moms in a group of 10 next to me leaves me a note on her credit card receipt.

"For a good band bang! Calll me Doris [heart] [deleted]"

Trippy

So are you going to call her?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 06:03:30 PM
No
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Habbaku on December 03, 2021, 06:12:20 PM
Should I call her?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 06:48:57 PM
Depends.  Do you want a good bang?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on December 03, 2021, 11:36:10 PM
Considering this forum is visible to the public and  we have hundreds of anonymous visitors all the time, I'm not sure posting someone's phone number here is a good idea.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 11:48:34 PM
OK
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 04, 2021, 07:21:40 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2021, 11:34:49 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 02:59:26 AM
Literary episode at my karaoke hang.

I head out for a smoke after a song, i come back, and one of the soccer moms in a group of 10 next to me leaves me a note on her credit card receipt.

[spoiler]"  [1973]          Expletive  Deleted       [/1973]    "[/spoiler]

Trippy

So are you going to call her?

BB, now all you need to do is edit out the number in your quoting to follow Syt/Yi's lead.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on December 04, 2021, 11:14:52 AM
 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 04, 2021, 11:19:11 AM
You need to edit it out too, Mongers.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 04, 2021, 12:23:03 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on December 04, 2021, 11:19:11 AM
You need to edit it out too, Mongers.

Yes I know, but I had to quote it to poss.get BBs attention; now I've edited it out.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on December 05, 2021, 12:27:39 AM
Quote from: mongers on December 04, 2021, 07:21:40 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2021, 11:34:49 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 02:59:26 AM
Literary episode at my karaoke hang.

I head out for a smoke after a song, i come back, and one of the soccer moms in a group of 10 next to me leaves me a note on her credit card receipt.

[spoiler]"  [1973]           Deleted Expletive         [/1973]    "[/spoiler]

Trippy

So are you going to call her?

BB, now all you need to do is edit out the number in your quoting to follow Syt/Yi's lead.

I edited it out for Beeb.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 05, 2021, 01:13:08 AM
Hope you wrote it down, Hab.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 05, 2021, 08:54:30 AM
Man, cleaning up cat sick gets old real quick; so I can see how mad cat-person syndrome develops, just leave one lot for half an hour and it's the slippery slope to cathomemageddon.    :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on December 05, 2021, 02:44:38 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2021, 06:03:30 PM
No
Why not?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on December 05, 2021, 03:58:55 PM
Today, for the first time, I made a donation to wikipedia. They do good work, and I use them frequently.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on December 05, 2021, 04:01:22 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 05, 2021, 03:58:55 PM
Today, for the first time, I made a donation to wikipedia. They do good work, and I use them frequently.

That's a good idea.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 09:10:15 PM
Quote from: Caliga on December 05, 2021, 02:44:38 PM
Why not?

1.  Like I said was one of a group of 10.  None of them were heartbreakers and several of them were fugs.

2.  My dick doesn't work any more.

3.  Good chance it was a gag and not a good faith offer.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on December 06, 2021, 12:57:11 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 09:10:15 PM
2.  My dick doesn't work any more.

They have pills for that.  They do good work.  I speak from personal experience.

I won't argue with your other points.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 06, 2021, 01:11:21 AM
I've tried the blue man slut pills.  Indifferent results.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Caliga on December 06, 2021, 09:48:33 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 09:10:15 PM
2.  My dick doesn't work any more.
Oh.  That sucks  :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on December 06, 2021, 11:29:31 AM
Shops in Vienna are in lockdown, but at some you can order online and go there to pick it up.

Bought something at the electronics store above a department store on Mariahilfer Straße (one of the main shopping streets). To pick up you have to go up 3 or 4 floors by escalator through the currently closed store. The usual shopping areas are cordoned off and dark, and security in dark suits make sure you don't stray from the path.

The music on speakers when I arrived?

"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"

:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on December 06, 2021, 11:55:14 AM
they just need some barking guard dogs
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 18, 2021, 07:04:29 PM
My neighbors are having a party and are blasting classical music. Should I intervene and make them play less pretentious genres?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 18, 2021, 09:05:21 PM
Nah, go more pretentious, avant-garde African lesbian musical theater or Romanian folk songs for non-Romanians.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on December 19, 2021, 03:33:26 AM
The party ended fairly soon after I posted. I didn't get to be an ass. :(
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on December 30, 2021, 03:11:37 PM
Supermarkets in Vienna run some sort of radio through their sound systems. There's usually light music interspersed with commercials and weather updates. Anyways, allow me to try to replicate one that amused me a bit today:

(in a lady's voice)
"What makes this time of year so special are our customs and traditions.
And I too have a tradition that is near and dear to my heart.
It involves [brand of champagne sparkling wine].
My tradition is to open a bottle and enjoy every glass of it."

That's it. A lady declaring it a "tradition" to drink a bottle of fizzy alcohol during the holidays. Someone got paid for this. :lol:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 01, 2022, 08:40:10 AM
Ate some shrooms on New Years
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on January 01, 2022, 12:04:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 01, 2022, 08:40:10 AM
Ate some shrooms on New Years

Good time?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 01, 2022, 10:45:32 PM
Not that big a deal.  Some visual effects.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on January 08, 2022, 07:50:27 PM
Well that's a surprise, after 1.5 years of 'ownership' the cat for the first time is sitting on my lap in doors.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 08, 2022, 09:59:15 PM
 :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on January 09, 2022, 11:23:30 PM
My boy got a mini trebuchet kit for Christmas (from his grandparents, but I'm the one who bought it for them to give to him). We assembled it a few days ago and have had a great time shooting d20s at constructions made out of wooden blocks.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 10, 2022, 02:49:23 AM
:)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Gaijin de Moscu on January 10, 2022, 04:57:10 AM
In the village where we live, there's a Singaporean family who owns a large, beautiful villa. I pass them every time I walk my dog.

In the mornings, they blast over loudspeakers the kind of Chinese music you'd expect to hear when one does taichi exercises.

Reminds me of the Soviet times when I used to wake up to the music of "morning exercises" on radio coming from every open window. "Stand straight, now bend over and reach your toes with the tips of your fingers... one-two... three-four..."
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on January 10, 2022, 07:18:39 AM
Quote from: Gaijin de Moscu on January 10, 2022, 04:57:10 AM
In the village where we live, there's a Singaporean family who owns a large, beautiful villa. I pass them every time I walk my dog.

In the mornings, they blast over loudspeakers the kind of Chinese music you'd expect to hear when one does taichi exercises.

Reminds me of the Soviet times when I used to wake up to the music of "morning exercises" on radio coming from every open window. "Stand straight, now bend over and reach your toes with the tips of your fingers... one-two... three-four..."

:)

Two nice pieces of local colour; somewhat different to curtain-twitching English suburbia.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Gaijin de Moscu on January 16, 2022, 04:26:58 AM
Talking about curtains...

We've removed curtains in our veranda, and a bird just flew in. My dog, who is a 35-kilo, powerful Samoyed, blew her head off and went into full elephant-in-a-china-shop hunting mode.

Still recovering from all the dog-wrestling, but this bird is saved. Not all the previous ones had been this lucky.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2022, 12:09:16 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2021, 01:50:09 AM
Made out with a girl at the Regal Beagle.  Hell of a long time since that's happened.

So....I ran in to this chick again, on the mistaken assumption the Beagle was doing karaoke tonight.  And with her was her...husband.  :lol:

That's the third married woman I've made out with in Iowa City.  I've found my niche.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 06, 2022, 02:28:52 AM
Seedy would be proud.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on March 31, 2022, 12:09:43 PM
I had a file in court today.  A family dispute, which isn't unusual, but this family is Kurdish.

Today I learned there are multiple different versions of the Kurdish language.  This family spoke Bahdini kurdish, which isn't even one of the big two languages in Kurdistan.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: DGuller on April 12, 2022, 08:03:22 PM
I was walking home today when some delivery idiot on a motorcycle (or scooter) blew through the red light, at the intersection I was about to cross.  He immediately wiped out at the other end of the intersection.  Lots of people near me cheered the instant karma, until they realized that he wiped out because he hit a pedestrian.

I stayed around to observe the scene.  Thankfully, while both people involved where lying on the ground dazed for about five minutes, they both eventually managed to walk into the ambulance, although the innocent pedestrian was bleeding from his face.  There seemed to be quite a few witnesses happy to describe to police what happened, so hopefully the asshole who blew the red light would get nailed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on May 03, 2022, 12:10:37 PM
I took my son to the local library.
For some reason he was really interested in a book about Checkpoint Charlie.
I said we will go to Berlin one day.
He smiled.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 03, 2022, 01:10:45 PM
Now do it in a haiku.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on August 03, 2022, 05:57:02 AM
Noticed in Waitrose they had small 300g tins of Duchy organic oat biscuits reduced to clear, down to an affordable 6.79 quid a go, bargain!

At the check-out I noticed they're selling a canvas shopping bag for 8 quid, but since it's Heston-thingy branded it must be worth it. :cool:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 03, 2022, 02:16:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 03, 2022, 01:10:45 PMNow do it in a haiku.

Son at library
Wants a Checkpoint Charlie book
To Berlin we'll go.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: crazy canuck on August 05, 2022, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: Josquius on May 03, 2022, 12:10:37 PMI took my son to the local library.
For some reason he was really interested in a book about Checkpoint Charlie.
I said we will go to Berlin one day.
He smiled.

I think it has been taken down
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Zanza on August 06, 2022, 01:05:20 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 05, 2022, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: Josquius on May 03, 2022, 12:10:37 PMI took my son to the local library.
For some reason he was really interested in a book about Checkpoint Charlie.
I said we will go to Berlin one day.
He smiled.

I think it has been taken down
No, it's still there. Now a tourist attraction with a museum on the Berlin Wall nearby.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on August 07, 2022, 08:10:14 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 03, 2022, 02:16:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 03, 2022, 01:10:45 PMNow do it in a haiku.

Son at library
Wants a Checkpoint Charlie book
To Berlin we'll go.

Needs a seasonal reference:

Library visit;
Checkpoint Charley fascinates
Spring will see us there
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on August 07, 2022, 09:10:18 AM
I thought the requirement was for a seasoning reference?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 24, 2022, 05:51:38 PM
A little bit of excitement.

Played golf today.  They've had trouble this year with people hacking up greens, but never knew who was doing it.

I get to the 13th tee (I'm walking) and I see two golf carts plumb in the middle of the fairway, and I recognize Scotty, the co-owner/groundskeeper.  My first thought is he's socializing, which I think is lame but I like Scotty so I light up a butt and let them do their thing.

Then I hear some raised voices, and Scotty grabs the two guys clubs off their cart and throws them in the back of his cart.  Then I hear him say "get the fuck out of here!"  He's an extremely mild mannered guy so I put two and two together.  I've mentioned several times that I'm the most chicken shit guy I know, but I decide I have no choice but to back him up if things get ugly.  So I walk toward them, maybe 200 yards away.  Fortunately for me they start walking away when I'm about 40 yards from them.

The end.

p.s. One of the guys was huge.  Like 6'3".  College kids looked like.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on September 24, 2022, 08:17:01 PM
Is hacking up greens something people do because they very poor at golf, or is it something more deliberate (or deliberately careless)?

In fact... what exactly is "hacking up the green"? Taking big chunks of turf out of green with your golf clubs every time you swing?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 24, 2022, 09:00:44 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 24, 2022, 08:17:01 PMIs hacking up greens something people do because they very poor at golf, or is it something more deliberate (or deliberately careless)?

In fact... what exactly is "hacking up the green"? Taking big chunks of turf out of green with your golf clubs every time you swing?

Hammer it with your putter in frustration after you miss a putt.  It's a very deliberate act.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on September 24, 2022, 10:26:51 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 24, 2022, 09:00:44 PMHammer it with your putter in frustration after you miss a putt.  It's a very deliberate act.

What a shitheel thing to do.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on September 26, 2022, 10:57:51 AM
I played hockey last night with my new team.  It's only our second game of the season, and it became obvious very early on that our team easily outskilled our opposition.  Even I, who is one of our weaker players, realized I could outplay the opposing wingers.

We dialled it back from 100% at the start, to 50% by the second period which ended 8-0.  We went even further back to like 10% which let them back in the game for a final score of 9-4.  Refs were pretty decent but it's hard managing a game like that.  My defence partner (much better player than I) was deliberately not shooting on net, always looking to pass - but even then the Refs told him to "stop being so elusive.  Make some mistakes".

(It should be noted I never get any such warnings)

Our team should get bumped up a division (or even two) fairly shortly.

Anyways, didn't actually mean to type so much about the game itself.  The real "everyday adventure" is this morning.  Didn't get off the ice until almost midnight.  Didn't get to sleep until after 1am.  My Apple Watch says I got 5 hours of sleep last night, and I was yawning my head off.

So I got a cup of regular coffee.  I always drink decaf.  If you're not a regular coffee drinking you forget how fucking powerful a drug caffeine is.  I'm now wide awake, but my head is just buzzing and my hands shaking.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on September 26, 2022, 11:08:10 AM
And speaking of more everyday adventures...

Today Time has a 6:15 hockey practice (supposed to arrive by 5:30), Josh has a 6:50 Taekwondo practice, and Andrew has a 7pm hockey practice (arrive by 6:30).  It'll be an adventure to get three kids to three different practices within an hour or so with only 2 parents and two vehicles...
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: ulmont on September 26, 2022, 05:55:25 PM
Quote from: Barrister on September 26, 2022, 10:57:51 AMIf you're not a regular coffee drinking you forget how fucking powerful a drug caffeine is. 

Also if you are a regular coffee drinker you forget how fucking powerful a drug caffeine is, usually when you get to the point where you can drink a double espresso at 8pm and go to sleep at 10pm with no issue.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on September 27, 2022, 01:26:21 AM
Quote from: ulmont on September 26, 2022, 05:55:25 PM
Quote from: Barrister on September 26, 2022, 10:57:51 AMIf you're not a regular coffee drinking you forget how fucking powerful a drug caffeine is. 

Also if you are a regular coffee drinker you forget how fucking powerful a drug caffeine is, usually when you get to the point where you can drink a double espresso at 8pm and go to sleep at 10pm with no issue.

I, for one, welcome my caffeine addiction. Can't imagine a day at the office without it.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on September 27, 2022, 03:47:12 AM
Yeah I can identify the specific caffeine-withdrawal headache if I hold off the first morning espresso too long for whatever reason.

The second one around lunch time is less critical, but not drinking it definitely slows me down.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 24, 2022, 01:43:14 PM
Drove ~5 hours for a kids hockey tournament at the beginning on November, got a flat tire on the way back.  Had to call a tow truck, but they managed to get the spare on and I drove home (I drive a Toyota RAV4, with a full-size spare on the rear hatch).  The flat spare tire is now on the rear hatch.

Have another hockey tournament coming up this weekend so I need to get the tire fixed or replaced.  I made an appointment at a nearby tire shop yesterday.  I told them the rear drivers side tire is flat.  They say no problem, and by the end of the day they tell me it has been fixed.  Price was really reasonable: $37.

I go and get my vehicle and see why it was so cheap - they "fixed" the spare tire.  The flat original tire is still sitting there on the rear hatch.

So second day in a row I brought the vehicle to them.  I'm now off to see if the correct tire has been fixed...
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 24, 2022, 03:31:00 PM
Proper tire is fixed at no additional charge. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 24, 2022, 03:32:39 PM
:w00t: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 12, 2023, 08:03:37 AM
The neighbors upstairs are redoing their floors after a minor water leak (didn't affect me).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on January 12, 2023, 09:58:07 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 12, 2023, 08:03:37 AMThe neighbors upstairs are redoing their floors after a minor water leak (didn't affect me).

You sure it isn't just the Thor, god of thunder making those thuds in the sky?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on January 12, 2023, 10:22:55 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 12, 2023, 09:58:07 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 12, 2023, 08:03:37 AMThe neighbors upstairs are redoing their floors after a minor water leak (didn't affect me).

You sure it isn't just the Thor, god of thunder making those thuds in the sky?

I am non-religious.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on February 02, 2023, 09:44:40 AM
I've been trying to get cleaned up around the house and one thing I've been meaning to do for a while is get rid of an old bike - I got given it for free years ago though its a bit too small for me and has a few things broken on it.
There's a charity nearby that recycles old bikes, donating to those in need and selling to the general public.
I went for a walk pushing the bike to their place.
My route took me through the Byker Wall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Wall). A pretty infamous mid 20th century housing development.
Like most such developments in the UK it has a horrid reputation for crime and poverty. Its a byword for shit.
But walking through it...You know. It actually doesn't look half bad in places. Not unlike something you'd expect to see elsewhere in northern Europe or the Germanosphere. At one point it even opens right onto the metro station, totally dodging the road below. It really does seem to have all the hallmarks of a development that should have worked.
This view was one that struck me as having potential and looking very non-local.

(https://i.postimg.cc/5yKvxtK4/20230201-125122.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/2Lv3GCfM)

In other places of course its clear to see the build quality is crap, homes that are more sheds than genuine houses. I got a good view through one ground floor window where there was just a lonely dining room chair in the centre of a room...

My girlfriend had a good observation just the other week about Newcastle when we encountered a terribly put together area- its a weird city as you can clearly see the nicer areas where works get done whilst in the poorer areas the council just do nothing but with a slight bit of effort they could be nice.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 20, 2023, 01:19:29 AM
On public transport in Vienna they have those little info screens that display a mix of news, trivia, ads etc.

In recen weeks I noticed they made game recommendations (not ads, since they don't say where to buy them), but it felt a bit retro.

First they had the Tomb Raider reboot from a few years ago. I thought it was strange, because it's not the newest game, not even the newest in the series, but as a budget title - why not.

Last week they had Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time.

And this morning they had "Tired of waiting for Half-Life 3? Why not dive into the series where it all started?", suggesting Half-Life 1.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 20, 2023, 05:23:53 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 20, 2023, 01:19:29 AMOn public transport in Vienna they have those little info screens that display a mix of news, trivia, ads etc.

In recen weeks I noticed they made game recommendations (not ads, since they don't say where to buy them), but it felt a bit retro.

First they had the Tomb Raider reboot from a few years ago. I thought it was strange, because it's not the newest game, not even the newest in the series, but as a budget title - why not.

Last week they had Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time.

And this morning they had "Tired of waiting for Half-Life 3? Why not dive into the series where it all started?", suggesting Half-Life 1.

Nice change of pace and from advertising extolling one to buy the next best greatest thing ever.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 20, 2023, 06:35:08 PM
Found myself along with the museum director painting a couple of galleries for a new temporary exhibition; presumably because many of the 200 odd volunteers consider themselves too posh to 'dirty' their hands with this stuff? :bowler:

On the plus side gave me the opportunity, whilst going to the paint store, to wonder around the now closed off former Stonehenge gallery, which is a warren of small rooms with 80s decore and from which I decanted that last exhibit out of it a few years back.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on April 21, 2023, 02:30:02 PM
I went to the Vero Beach Art Museum last weekend where they had an exhibition on luxury cars from the 1930s and early 1940s.  Almost all were one offs, concept cars, or things that had very limited product runs.  My favorite was the 1934 Packard Twelve Model 1106:

(https://www.wallpaperup.com/uploads/wallpapers/2015/01/24/599436/84eea54aaf23ec3d2ed2d76745a35be4.jpg)

You could not make a more gangster looking car than that; with its enormous engine, running boards and suicide doors.  You should be required to have a Tommy gun in a violin case if you own one of these.

They also had a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster:

(https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/image.jpg?id=30970581)

The one in the exhibition was black, but my pictures can't do justice to these cars.  The one they had was driven by a German baroness who fled to the United States in the late 1930s taking her car with her.  I thought that looked exactly like the sort of car a baroness would drive.

They had a bunch more stuff, Bugatti, Rolls Royce, Pierce-Arrow, the race car that Dubonnet (yes the fortified wine guy) used to drive and even the Buick Y-Job (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Y-Job) from the General Motors Collection (only one was ever produced.) 

They had docents giving tours when I was there; but if you just hung near the old guys (one thing we have an abundance of in Florida) you'd learn a lot more.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on April 26, 2023, 12:06:36 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 20, 2023, 01:19:29 AMOn public transport in Vienna they have those little info screens that display a mix of news, trivia, ads etc.

In recen weeks I noticed they made game recommendations (not ads, since they don't say where to buy them), but it felt a bit retro.

First they had the Tomb Raider reboot from a few years ago. I thought it was strange, because it's not the newest game, not even the newest in the series, but as a budget title - why not.

Last week they had Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time.

And this morning they had "Tired of waiting for Half-Life 3? Why not dive into the series where it all started?", suggesting Half-Life 1.

This morning: Tomb Raider III :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on April 30, 2023, 09:07:12 PM
I went camping today,
......
well I say camping, but a field wasn't involved and no tent was involved, but I did use a trangia stove in the garden!

I had to because the electricity went off for over 8 hours, so I cook some pasta for an evening meal and make some cups of coffee.

Electricity finally back on at 12.30am.  <_<
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 01, 2023, 08:31:09 AM
8 hours?!
Does it happen often, for that long?

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 01, 2023, 09:03:53 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on May 01, 2023, 08:31:09 AM8 hours?!
Does it happen often, for that long?

No Duque, this was due to a small fire in a neighbours shed/garage, that seems to have soemthing to do with the electricity supply in the road outside, so engineers we digging holes late into the night to repair it.

Plus they also damage the water supply pipe so the road/gravel track here was heavily flooded. :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 01, 2023, 10:14:51 AM
I see

I can only remember a somewhat long blackout, 1 hour orso, in the city, in November 2006, lamps went out in NW Europe, due to Germany again.  :P

In the country, brief shortages (a few seconds) happen sometimes.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 01, 2023, 02:36:04 PM
I was out of power for like 7 days when I got derechoed a few years back.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on May 12, 2023, 04:37:22 PM
I went to see the Dead Kennedys tonight.
Only at the start of the show did I learn DH Peligro had died :(
They were pretty good but some suspicions I have had about a certain venue not being very good were confirmed. They were much better when I saw them somewhere smaller a few years ago.

The support band was a local bunch called Raoul Motorhead. This made me laugh more than it should.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 20, 2023, 04:27:01 PM
Amongst the various museums I've been visiting over the last couple of weeks, I seemed to have done a fair few ships:

HMS Belfast
HMS Victory
The Mary Rose
HMS Warrior
The Mathew

and today, my favourite so far,  IKB's SS Great Britain in Bristol Docks, well worth a visit.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on May 21, 2023, 02:36:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2023, 04:27:01 PMAmongst the various museums I've been visiting over the last couple of weeks, I seemed to have done a fair few ships:

HMS Belfast
HMS Victory
The Mary Rose
HMS Warrior
The Mathew

and today, my favourite so far,  IKB's SS Great Britain in Bristol Docks, well worth a visit.

Very cool  :cool:
Did you catch the monitor in Portsmouth as well? It's easily missed.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 21, 2023, 03:00:01 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 21, 2023, 02:36:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2023, 04:27:01 PMAmongst the various museums I've been visiting over the last couple of weeks, I seemed to have done a fair few ships:

HMS Belfast
HMS Victory
The Mary Rose
HMS Warrior
The Mathew

and today, my favourite so far,  IKB's SS Great Britain in Bristol Docks, well worth a visit.

Very cool  :cool:
Did you catch the monitor in Portsmouth as well? It's easily missed.


Spot on Mal. :D

Yes I did miss it, well I had limited time and it closes early.

Maybe I'll go back next weekend and do it, the submarine museum and the D-day museum along at Southsea.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on May 22, 2023, 09:28:48 AM
So many cool things to see in that area. I'm still kicking myself for not allowing enough time to visit Portchester castle and the villa at Fishbourne.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 23, 2023, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 22, 2023, 09:28:48 AMSo many cool things to see in that area. I'm still kicking myself for not allowing enough time to visit Portchester castle and the villa at Fishbourne.

Yes I should pull my finger out and do a few more places over that way, problem is the rail service that way is rather slow.  :bowler:

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 23, 2023, 03:22:08 PM
Made a pot of tea today with water I 'liberated' from the Roman baths complex at Bath Spa; pretty much ruined some good tea, a rather soft, almost soapy water, unlike the nice hard water here.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on May 24, 2023, 03:00:50 AM
First time I've heard someone prefer hard water to soft.  :hmm:

Incidentally, is a resident of Bath called a bather?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on May 31, 2023, 06:19:00 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 21, 2023, 02:36:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2023, 04:27:01 PMAmongst the various museums I've been visiting over the last couple of weeks, I seemed to have done a fair few ships:

HMS Belfast
HMS Victory
The Mary Rose
HMS Warrior
The Mathew

and today, my favourite so far,  IKB's SS Great Britain in Bristol Docks, well worth a visit.

Very cool  :cool:
Did you catch the monitor in Portsmouth as well? It's easily missed.

Yesterday I added your monitor M33 to the list, and later the Landing Craft Tank LCT 7074 down the road at the D-Day museum.

(https://theddaystory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201105_160831-1536x1152.jpg)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on June 01, 2023, 01:14:06 AM
Nice  :cool:

We should have a museum ship thread.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on June 01, 2023, 11:03:19 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 01, 2023, 01:14:06 AMNice  :cool:

We should have a museum ship thread.

You're shipping museums?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on June 01, 2023, 04:38:41 PM
Quote from: Maladict on June 01, 2023, 01:14:06 AMNice  :cool:

We should have a museum ship thread.

:D

I'm running out of doable ships, there's one or two in kent/dover, then it's probably up towards Josq. neck of the woods or over to N.France and the Netherlands.

Though there is a preserved lightship in Gloucester docks I think.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on June 02, 2023, 06:13:00 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 01, 2023, 11:03:19 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 01, 2023, 01:14:06 AMNice  :cool:

We should have a museum ship thread.

You're shipping museums?

I wish.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on June 15, 2023, 11:19:17 AM
I play rec hockey.  I started playing in 2018, so 5 years ago.  Once a week with the boys.  I really enjoy it, but I'm not very good at it.  I typically play defence because I'm not a bad skater, but lousy with the puck.  In particular in those 5 years I've never scored a goal.

So last night we build up an early 5-0 lead.  We don't want to embarrass the other team so we shuffle positions around.  Now I'm playing winger, which I don't like as I don't feel like I know where to be on the ice.

But wouldn't you know it - I score not one, but two fucking goals last night.  My team mates go nuts because they know I've never scored.  And hell - at this division you're only allowed to score two goals - by the end of the third period I'm coming in alone on the goalie and have to look around for someone to pass to.

But anyways - it was one to remember.  Even at 48 years old you can still make sports memories.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on June 15, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
:cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: grumbler on June 16, 2023, 03:08:20 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 15, 2023, 11:19:17 AMI play rec hockey.  I started playing in 2018, so 5 years ago.  Once a week with the boys.  I really enjoy it, but I'm not very good at it.  I typically play defence because I'm not a bad skater, but lousy with the puck.  In particular in those 5 years I've never scored a goal.

So last night we build up an early 5-0 lead.  We don't want to embarrass the other team so we shuffle positions around.  Now I'm playing winger, which I don't like as I don't feel like I know where to be on the ice.

But wouldn't you know it - I score not one, but two fucking goals last night.  My team mates go nuts because they know I've never scored.  And hell - at this division you're only allowed to score two goals - by the end of the third period I'm coming in alone on the goalie and have to look around for someone to pass to.

But anyways - it was one to remember.  Even at 48 years old you can still make sports memories.

Outstanding!  :cheers:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on July 24, 2023, 03:27:36 PM
I was at the Orlando Museum of Art yesterday.  I saw a guy with a "Defund the HOA" T-Shirt, at last a message that speaks for all of America.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Savonarola on July 28, 2023, 12:55:04 PM
I attended an online lecture from the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida about Algorithmic Art.  Like many art movements this one has its own manifesto.  While usually manifestos are a cry for help, and if you do ever catch anyone writing one I strongly encourage you to tell him to seek immediate professional psychiatric care, this one, the Algorist Manifesto, is one that I can get behind:

if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) {
include * an algorist *
} elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm) {
exclude * not an algorist *
}


(While I don't encourage it, if you do decide to write your own manifesto, please use Courier font.  Manifestos are at least 50% more effective when written in Courier font.  Also shooting a prominent artist is a good way to draw attention to your manifesto, though I don't recommend doing that either.)

Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on July 28, 2023, 07:42:52 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on July 28, 2023, 12:55:04 PMI attended an online lecture from the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida about Algorithmic Art.  Like many art movements this one has its own manifesto.  While usually manifestos are a cry for help, and if you do ever catch anyone writing one I strongly encourage you to tell him to seek immediate professional psychiatric care, this one, the Algorist Manifesto, is one that I can get behind:

if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) {
include * an algorist *
} elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm) {
exclude * not an algorist *
}


(While I don't encourage it, if you do decide to write your own manifesto, please use Courier font.  Manifestos are at least 50% more effective when written in Courier font.  Also shooting a prominent artist is a good way to draw attention to your manifesto, though I don't recommend doing that either.)



IIRC I was rather taken with the Stuckists manifesto.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on July 29, 2023, 07:25:24 PM
Found a still decent bike abandoned by the side of our house, with a bag of stuff (clothes) next to it. Posted on the local reddit to see if anyone claims it, otherwise we'll contact to the police and hand it over to them.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: crazy canuck on August 01, 2023, 10:41:08 AM
Sounds like a homeless person's property.  They won't find your Reddit message. I suggest posting a written message near where you found the bike.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on August 01, 2023, 11:01:35 AM
Quote from: Jacob on July 29, 2023, 07:25:24 PMFound a still decent bike abandoned by the side of our house, with a bag of stuff (clothes) next to it. Posted on the local reddit to see if anyone claims it, otherwise we'll contact to the police and hand it over to them.

As CC said, probably "belongs" to a homeless person, but is also highly likely to be stolen as well.  Perhaps check out the serial number here:

https://project529.com/garage

(which is what is recommended by VPD apparently)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on August 12, 2023, 04:55:07 PM
Went around the museum today with the director and some volunteers for a behind the scenes tour of the building works for the new galleries, interesting stuff I'd forgotten about quite a few of the odd nocks and crannies in the place.

Guess that's what happens with a base 15th/16th century building; 500 years worth of bodging potential, especially by the Victorians.

Of course the whole thing is a Grade 1 listed building so lots of difficult decisions and work arounds to bring it's usability into the 21st century.

Odd there was one volunteer who was keen to ask lots of questions, the director didn't recognise them but understandable given the places 150+ helpers, I certainly only know a relative handful.

Turn out apparently they were just a regular tourist who tagged along for a free tour of an extended museum building site, a nice blag. 

Maybe I can try something similar when I visit the Ashmolean next week? :grin:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on September 19, 2023, 05:01:40 AM
Went to the German passport office to file for new passport and ID card (the old ones are expiring). Checked the website, prepared requested documents, made sure I had enough cash with me to pay.

I arrived a bit before my appointment, and a lady was in front of me. No biggie. She seemed to need a replacement passport after losing hers (it happens, I've been there myself). Her boyfriend was hastily making photocopies of all kinds of documents at the public copier in the waiting area (10+ at €0.50 a piece). When I got to the "waiting chair" near the counter, right behind the lady (questionable in terms of GDPR, but whatever), it turned out she was still missing some docs. Oh, and she didn't have enough cash with her - she had known the fee to get a new passport, but did not realize that postage was extra (they only send the docs to you these days and use registered mail and it says so on the site, even though she insisted it didn't). So she needs to come back tomorrow to bring the missing docs and money.

Anyways, when it was my turn I was in and out in 15 minutes, with both applications filed, everything signed and paid for in cash (same as when I had lost my passport 10 years ago).

 :smarty:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on September 19, 2023, 05:12:43 AM
Is paying with cash important?

I recently renewed my passport. Only thing I had to remember was bringing my old (still valid) passport.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on September 19, 2023, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 19, 2023, 05:12:43 AMIs paying with cash important?

I recently renewed my passport. Only thing I had to remember was bringing my old (still valid) passport.

Well, you can pay cash or credit card. My bank card should technically work as credit card but didn't want to chance it. :P

If I was living in Germany I'd only need the old documents and a new picture, too. :)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on September 19, 2023, 06:01:33 AM
Germany is the country which insisted on 500 euro notes being a thing.
Because reasons.
Though I recently read they were being phased out and figured Germany had modernised?
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Syt on September 19, 2023, 06:22:21 AM
Dunno, haven't been in The Old Country in over 15 years. :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 19, 2023, 06:27:58 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 19, 2023, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 19, 2023, 05:12:43 AMIs paying with cash important?

I recently renewed my passport. Only thing I had to remember was bringing my old (still valid) passport.

Well, you can pay cash or credit card. My bank card should technically work as credit card but didn't want to chance it. :P

If I was living in Germany I'd only need the old documents and a new picture, too. :)

Last time I renewed my Cartão the Cidadão (ID) free at the consulate or in Portugal) or passport it was credit card but cash is also accepted I think.
No need for photos, photo at the consulate and it is digitised.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Maladict on September 19, 2023, 10:13:09 AM
Quote from: Josquius on September 19, 2023, 06:01:33 AMGermany is the country which insisted on 500 euro notes being a thing.
Because reasons.
Though I recently read they were being phased out and figured Germany had modernised?

I always forget to get some cash when I go to Germany. It is improving, but most people still insist on using it and plenty of places will only take cash.
The supermarket queues are particularly horrendous.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on September 19, 2023, 04:02:12 PM
Quote from: Maladict on September 19, 2023, 10:13:09 AM
Quote from: Josquius on September 19, 2023, 06:01:33 AMGermany is the country which insisted on 500 euro notes being a thing.
Because reasons.
Though I recently read they were being phased out and figured Germany had modernised?

I always forget to get some cash when I go to Germany. It is improving, but most people still insist on using it and plenty of places will only take cash.
The supermarket queues are particularly horrendous.

So German inefficiency vs Brit paying for stuff on the never, never.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on September 22, 2023, 03:39:29 PM
Came across some pigs pannaging in the forest today; Autumn has definitively arrived.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 02:55:39 PM
I have a rec league hockey game tonight.  I have a game every week, so not much of an adventure really.

But what's different is tonight game is at West Edmonton Mall.  Reportedly the biggest mall in North America.

(https://az837918.vo.msecnd.net/publishedimages/Listings/1125/en-CA/images/1/ice-palace-west-edmonton-mall-L-23.jpg)
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:02:47 PM
Wiki suggests the other mall they own, Mall of America, is the largest though fewer shops.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:07:00 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:02:47 PMWiki suggests the other mall they own, Mall of America, is the largest though fewer shops.

When I googled "biggest mall in north america" I get half the hits saying WEM, the other half saying MOA.

I don't even like WEM and I avoid shopping there so I don't care who gets the title.  It's just a weird experience to play rec hockey in a mall.  Reportedly it has really crappy ice since the air temperature is so warm (due to it being a mall).
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:23:55 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:07:00 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:02:47 PMWiki suggests the other mall they own, Mall of America, is the largest though fewer shops.

When I googled "biggest mall in north america" I get half the hits saying WEM, the other half saying MOA.

I don't even like WEM and I avoid shopping there so I don't care who gets the title.  It's just a weird experience to play rec hockey in a mall.  Reportedly it has really crappy ice since the air temperature is so warm (due to it being a mall).

Fair
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:30:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:23:55 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:07:00 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 02, 2023, 03:02:47 PMWiki suggests the other mall they own, Mall of America, is the largest though fewer shops.

When I googled "biggest mall in north america" I get half the hits saying WEM, the other half saying MOA.

I don't even like WEM and I avoid shopping there so I don't care who gets the title.  It's just a weird experience to play rec hockey in a mall.  Reportedly it has really crappy ice since the air temperature is so warm (due to it being a mall).

Fair

On the plus side, after the game there's probably a decent chance our team goes out to grab drinks at one of the many restaurants/bars attached to the mall.  As long as they don't mind us bringing our stinky hockey gear with us.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 02, 2023, 05:21:02 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:30:51 PMOn the plus side, after the game there's probably a decent chance our team goes out to grab drinks at one of the many restaurants/bars attached to the mall.  As long as they don't mind us bringing our stinky hockey gear with us.

Mall bars. :bleeding:
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: mongers on October 03, 2023, 02:41:40 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 02, 2023, 05:21:02 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:30:51 PMOn the plus side, after the game there's probably a decent chance our team goes out to grab drinks at one of the many restaurants/bars attached to the mall.  As long as they don't mind us bringing our stinky hockey gear with us.

Mall bars. :bleeding:

I've never seen one, but can guess you're correct in all matters relating to bar quality; they sound terrible.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on October 03, 2023, 02:50:08 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 02, 2023, 05:21:02 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 03:30:51 PMOn the plus side, after the game there's probably a decent chance our team goes out to grab drinks at one of the many restaurants/bars attached to the mall.  As long as they don't mind us bringing our stinky hockey gear with us.

Mall bars. :bleeding:

We did not in fact go out to a mall bar afterwards.  Game was over at 10pm on a Monday, people just went home.

Playing at the mall was interesting.  It was incredibly warm out on the ice (since the mall is at room temperature).  It was interesting that people would just stop by and watch for awhile.  What I found funny is how I'm out on the ice yelling at my teammates - ordinarily you'd get asked to leave if you were yelling in a mall like that, but it is quite expected in playing hockey.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: The Brain on November 16, 2023, 10:17:33 AM
Today I was at a conference and there was a guy there who looked like Fred Armisen.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 16, 2023, 11:50:54 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 02:55:39 PMI have a rec league hockey game tonight.  I have a game every week, so not much of an adventure really.

But what's different is tonight game is at West Edmonton Mall.  Reportedly the biggest mall in North America.

(https://az8918.vo.msecnd.net/publishedimages/Listings/1125/en-CA/images/1/ice-palace-west-edmonton-mall-L-23.jpg)

Malls being repurposed (or is this an original build that holds over?) for leisure activities pleases me.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Barrister on November 16, 2023, 11:55:40 AM
Quote from: Josquius on November 16, 2023, 11:50:54 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 02, 2023, 02:55:39 PMI have a rec league hockey game tonight.  I have a game every week, so not much of an adventure really.

But what's different is tonight game is at West Edmonton Mall.  Reportedly the biggest mall in North America.

(https://az8918.vo.msecnd.net/publishedimages/Listings/1125/en-CA/images/1/ice-palace-west-edmonton-mall-L-23.jpg)

Malls being repurposed (or is this an original build that holds over?) for leisure activities pleases me.

West Edmonton Mall is definitely the largest mall in Canada, depending on how you measure it might be the largest mall in north america, and is sadly one of the things Edmonton is best known for.

But anyways it has long had a number of attractions besides being just a mall.  It (obviously) has a skating rink, but it has a water park, an amusement park, a pirate ship, and sea animal attractions.  It used to have submarine rides but they took those out years ago - too expensive to maintain.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 16, 2023, 11:58:44 AM
I see.
Locally we have what was once the largest mall in Europe. It used to have an indoor theme park (again biggest in Europe I think) which was awesome but back in the 2000s as part of a big renovation they ripped this out and built a tonne more retail space instead....
Yet now the trend is very much back the other way with retail on the decline and malls wanting to be leisure destinations.
I find the whole thing quite fascinating. A sort of side-issue to the development of cities overall with some of the same rules and some completely different.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on November 16, 2023, 12:51:30 PM
Yeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 16, 2023, 06:04:30 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 16, 2023, 12:51:30 PMYeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing :P
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on November 16, 2023, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: HVC on November 16, 2023, 06:04:30 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 16, 2023, 12:51:30 PMYeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing :P

Arguing with people on languish is pretty convenient, and Josq seems to like that....
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: HVC on November 16, 2023, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: Jacob on November 16, 2023, 07:56:37 PM
Quote from: HVC on November 16, 2023, 06:04:30 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 16, 2023, 12:51:30 PMYeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing :P

Arguing with people on languish is pretty convenient, and Josq seems to like that....

Every rule needs an exception to prove it :D
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 17, 2023, 02:05:06 AM
I'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: garbon on November 17, 2023, 07:16:40 AM
Quote from: Josquius on November 17, 2023, 02:05:06 AMI'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.

Think a little about some of your stances that would result in less convenience for people.

Malls were once very convenient for people though I'd agree with the age of online shopping, they are less and less relevant.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 17, 2023, 07:31:09 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 17, 2023, 07:16:40 AM
Quote from: Josquius on November 17, 2023, 02:05:06 AMI'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.

Think a little about some of your stances that would result in less convenience for people.

None come to mind. Wanting things to be more convenient for people is kind of my thing.


edit- ah, wanting to see an elimination of domestic air travel and general reduction in flights would have this effect. As is my anti fast fashion/pro repair outlook. Odd place to suddenly bring it up though.
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Tamas on November 17, 2023, 08:13:55 AM
Also your anti-car outlook :p
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Josquius on November 17, 2023, 08:27:24 AM
Quote from: Tamas on November 17, 2023, 08:13:55 AMAlso your anti-car outlook :p
Improving convenience is the key feature of this :contract:
Both on a short term more convenient day to day lives level and a bigger "The ice caps melting and mass die offs would be pretty damn inconvenient"
Title: Re: Everyday Adventures
Post by: Jacob on November 17, 2023, 11:01:47 AM
Yeah, of all the things to hold against Josq "anti-convenience" is a bit of a stretch.

It was sort of funny though.