The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

So for Thanksgiving my sister in law is hosting, which she's done before.  But this time she's cooking the meal   She bought a huge 26 pound turkey that will take her forever to cook, meaning she'll probably get impatient and end up undercooking it.  Everything else is coming from a can or is pre-made.  She *bought* mashed potatoes at Kroger FFS.

Thankfully Frau Spiess will be cooking "a few things" to bring over-- they'll pretty much amount to an entire backup meal.

[Martinus]

Jimmy Kimmel's Children Thanksgiving Pageant:

https://youtu.be/DR8W_O_TRAk

[Zanza]

A German court has ruled breast implants are no impediment to a woman becoming a police officer.

The ruling by the administrative court in the western city of Gelsenkirchen Wednesday came after a 32-year-old woman appealed a police doctor's assessment that her silicone implants were likely to rupture during physically demanding law-enforcement work.

Justice has prevailed!

[Syt]

[Ed Anger]

I'm back after a not so relaxing holiday week. Flew in my French mistress/back up chick and my frog kids from dying Europe. Made it hilarious during thanksgiving. Some relatives are such prudes. Fuck 'em.

Also ordered a new computer. Found an all in one with a gay force 960 in it.

Didn't eat much and that ended up on the floor when I didn't make it to the can in time.

But I feel a bit better. 

[garbon]

I smell like an ashtray. Join civilised society, Germany!

[Ed Anger]

Hitler was right about smoking.

[The Brain]

I'm back after a not so relaxing holiday week. Flew in my French mistress/back up chick and my frog kids from dying Europe. Made it hilarious during thanksgiving. Some relatives are such prudes. Fuck 'em.

Also ordered a new computer. Found an all in one with a gay force 960 in it.

Didn't eat much and that ended up on the floor when I didn't make it to the can in time.

But I feel a bit better. 

New computers are nice.

[Syt]

I smell like an ashtray. Join civilised society, Germany!

There was an attempt at a general smoking ban some years ago, but IIRC it was decided it's a state, not federal matter. Here in Vienna restaurants, cafés, and bars above a certain size must have separate smoking and non-smoking sections. However, often the separation is imperfect, and even in the non-smoking area you acquire the nicotine smell. Doesn't help that more often than not the non-smoking area is tucked away in the back, while the entrance area, or bar, or way to the toilets is smoking area.

Fortunately, total smoking ban is coming in 2018 (and it will herald the end of restaurants/bars/cafés, apparently). And some proprietors have already said they'll refuse to take responsibility if clumps of smokers in front of their establishments block (the sometimes very narrow) sidewalks in the inner city.

Until then, though, I will stick to non-smoking restaurants, cafés (relatively easy) and bars (harder).

[celedhring]

Fortunately, total smoking ban is coming in 2018 (and it will herald the end of restaurants/bars/cafés, apparently).

Same was said over here - and I presume every country that introduced a general smoking ban - and it didn't happen.

[Eddie Teach]

civilised

Duuude. 

[Syt]

Catching up on Cinema Snob reviews (I kinda tired out with his three part Heaven's Gate review):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBMU25hpRk

"Black Is Beautiful - Africanus Sexualis"

[garbon]

civilised

Duuude. 

I wrote it with a z but my phone autocorrects. I'm not going to spend time fixing what is a technically correct spelling.

[CountDeMoney]

Catching up on Cinema Snob reviews (I kinda tired out with his three part Heaven's Gate review):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBMU25hpRk

"Black Is Beautiful - Africanus Sexualis"

See, this is what happens when people simply choose to willfully ignore anything beyond the front-page culture memes of the late '60s and early '70s. 
Holy shit, that actually happened?  Why, yes.  Yes, it did.



and LOL, 3-part "Heaven's Gate" review.

[Liep]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

Catchy, fun, Yoda.