Topic: miscellaneous musings (Read 554897 times)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2350 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 15:32 »

Every time I've seen it referenced, the person shouting "IT'S A BIRD!" is equally as excited as the other two.

explicit · « **Reply #2351 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 15:51 »

Maybe it's a really cool bird:

(click to show/hide)

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #2352 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 16:01 »

More than a bird? More than a plane? I guess they must be some sort of BirdPlane

jwhouk · « **Reply #2353 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 20:15 »

I just want to go on the record: Ted Cruz is NOT the lead singer of Stryper. And Michael Sweet is NOT running for President.

Though I think Michael would probably make a better candidate than any of the other bozos out there.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2354 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 20:25 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Mar 2016, 20:15

Ted Cruz is NOT the lead singer of Stryper.

Have you ever seen them in the same room?

explicit · « **Reply #2355 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 20:57 »

So there's this cat that's been the mayor of this town in Alaska for, like, 10 years or so. I think we should vote for that cat.

Also, that cat may or may not be the lead singer of Stryper.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2356 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 20:57 »

Quote from: explicit on 16 Mar 2016, 15:51

Maybe it's a really cool bird:

(click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEkJuGj4_s4

I keep this song on my phone at all times. It is the ideal song to play at awkward moments.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2357 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 23:27 »

I forget where I saw this.

"Look, up in the sky!"
"It's a bird!"
"It's a plane!"
"It's -- "
(movie trailer narrator voice) "It's a town so unspeakably lame that people look up in the sky and point at birds and airplanes".

explicit · « **Reply #2358 on:** 16 Mar 2016, 23:39 »

What real-life town would that be?

(Also, that sounds a lot like Pablo Francisco's schtick)

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2359 on:** 17 Mar 2016, 06:11 »

My town. More with planes than birds, but that happens, too. I'm not gonna name the town for reasons of privacy. I mean, there's not many people here, and I'm paranoid.

hedgie · « **Reply #2360 on:** 17 Mar 2016, 12:55 »

You're not paranoid if they actually are out to get you.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2361 on:** 17 Mar 2016, 18:16 »

I pay close attention to birds and planes. One never knows when Dr. Bees will show up.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2362 on:** 17 Mar 2016, 21:16 »

I find the idea of a man who, when he gets drunk, gets loquacious as shit and turns into a grammar nazi, who types a comment on a forum board, triple checks it, edits it, adds self-aware comments like 'I say this *referring to a prior reference about being drunk* knowing I'm a stereotypical American celebrating a version of St. Patrick's Day completely unconnected to its roots in every way.' and then he talks about how it might not be clear that he is drunk but ooooooo, he totally iiiiiiiiiisssss, and nobody can TELL because THIS motherhugger's a spelling CHAMP!

Maybe you haven't guessed, but it's St. Paddy's day and I think I'm funny, and this just happened here.

Thrillho · « **Reply #2363 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 13:51 »

Watched a documentary about American drugs policy.

So, when Nixon began the war on drugs, 2/3 of the budget was put aside for care for addicts. And I saw footage of Nixon saying, more than once, nobody turns to drugs unless he has exhausted other options, so obviously we want to help addicts.

People are shades of grey, my friends.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2364 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 14:43 »

I'm not going to say Nixon was a good guy, but his policies were to the left of some current day Democrats. The Republicans started heading further to the right with Reagan and never stopped picking up momentum.

explicit · « **Reply #2365 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 15:27 »

Besides the rampant corruption and murdery stuff, Nixon actually had some really good policies. Hell, he started the EPA and really advanced environmental policies in this country.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2366 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 18:22 »

It's been said that Nixon was the last liberal president.

I have recently discovered that chocolate covered coffee beans exist. They are about the same size and shape as chocolate covered raisins. You have been warned.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2367 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 18:44 »

They taste much better, though.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2368 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 19:34 »

I thought they tasted like coffee grounds.

Tova · « **Reply #2369 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 22:41 »

I got to taste some only recently at a touristy chocolate shop.

The rest of their chocolate was way too sweet, but the coffee beans in the chocolate coated coffee beans at least managed to compensate to some degree. They were a bit moreish.

hedgie · « **Reply #2370 on:** 21 Mar 2016, 23:10 »

Quote from: mustang6172 on 21 Mar 2016, 19:34

I thought they tasted like coffee grounds.

The ground are what's left after all the coffee essence has left, and are but mere shells.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2371 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 12:43 »

See, I'll eat plain roasted coffee beans. I don't often, though.

Kugai · « **Reply #2372 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 13:44 »

I prefer mine roasted, ground and in a cup with milk and sugar.

hedgie · « **Reply #2373 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 13:47 »

I'll have to try that. *goes off to grind coffee, and mix with milk and sugar* Hmm. That might work better if my shitty grinder could manage Turkish.

Kugai · « **Reply #2374 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 13:50 »

Use a Hammer

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2375 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 13:56 »

I wonder if Turkish coffee beans are themselves stronger, or if it's just the method of preparation.

Edit: Apparently Turkish coffee is the method itself. Interesting.

Akima · « **Reply #2376 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 14:44 »

Quote from: Thrillho on 21 Mar 2016, 13:51

So, when Nixon began the war on drugs, 2/3 of the budget was put aside for care for addicts. And I saw footage of Nixon saying, more than once, nobody turns to drugs unless he has exhausted other options, so obviously we want to help addicts.

Where I come from, Richard Nixon is regarded as a great statesman. He might have been a scoundrel, but definitely not ignorant, stupid or loopy, and I think he got the big issues of his time right, for America and the world. I've written about this before elsewhere.

Thrillho · « **Reply #2377 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 15:04 »

I am finding that a lot of the American politicians through history that I have respect for have been Republicans.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2378 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 15:07 »

For sure, the Republican party of the present in many respects doesn't reflect its history.

Thrillho · « **Reply #2379 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 15:09 »

But luckily they're the only political party that is accurate for, right?(!)

Akima · « **Reply #2380 on:** 22 Mar 2016, 15:17 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 22 Mar 2016, 15:07

For sure, the Republican party of the present in many respects doesn't reflect its history.

Though I have spoken positively of Nixon, arguably the rot set in, in many ways, in his time.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2381 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 12:34 »

There was one major issue of that time, indeed of my country's whole history, which he got wrong.

Quote from: Nixon's chief of staff's diary

P[resident] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/us/haldeman-diary-shows-nixon-was-wary-of-blacks-and-jews.html

Kicking off the War On Some Drugs, whatever the intent, served that goal effectively.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2382 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 12:35 »

Why is farting possible? Gas bubbles float up, not down.

cesium133 · « **Reply #2383 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 13:02 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Mar 2016, 12:35

Why is farting possible? Gas bubbles float up, not down.

So that's why Donald Trump is rising in the polls.

explicit · « **Reply #2384 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 15:15 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Mar 2016, 12:35

Why is farting possible? Gas bubbles float up, not down.

Short answer: Pressure.

Slightly longer answer: Once food is past your stomach it has no where else to go except out your anus (unless your intestines tear or something). Solids, liquids, and gasses get continually pushed down as more are introduced and because of intestines work like a gross tube escalator.

Welu · « **Reply #2385 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 16:25 »

When I was little I was told burps are farts that couldn't get out your butt so they came out your mouth.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2386 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 19:40 »

Happy World Tuberculosis Day!

pwhodges · « **Reply #2387 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 22:51 »

I had TB when I was 12 - missed two terms of school because of it.

hedgie · « **Reply #2388 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 22:57 »

I'm just rather glad that nothing can survive in my lungs.

explicit · « **Reply #2389 on:** 24 Mar 2016, 23:00 »

That reminded me that my father is a carrier of TB (he does not have any symptoms, but he cannot give blood or be any kind of organ donor because of it). I never really understood how that worked, I should probably read up on it.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2390 on:** 25 Mar 2016, 06:01 »

I've been exposed to TB a couple of times in my career in the DJC. Kinda happens when you have kids wandering in and out on a regular basis. I get tested annually (thus the reason why I have some spots on my arms).

explicit · « **Reply #2391 on:** 25 Mar 2016, 14:06 »

This is now reminding me that I completely forgot to get fucking tested which is a requirement for work. Crap.

Tova · « **Reply #2392 on:** 25 Mar 2016, 22:37 »

Random weird question: Are hot cross buns popular in the US?

cesium133 · « **Reply #2393 on:** 25 Mar 2016, 22:39 »

It's something that elementary school band directors eventually learn to loathe.

Tova · « **Reply #2394 on:** 26 Mar 2016, 02:14 »

I think that's prompted more questions than it answered!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #2395 on:** 26 Mar 2016, 03:18 »

It's a fairly simple melody, so it's good for learning to play an instrument. A bunch of elementary school kids playing Hot Cross Buns ad nauseam (and usually out of tune/time, all slightly differently) would try the patience of Job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndd-6WB5vlo

Kugai · « **Reply #2396 on:** 26 Mar 2016, 13:36 »

Grud! I haven't heard that tune in yonks

*Munches Hot Cross Bun*

Welu · « **Reply #2397 on:** 30 Mar 2016, 17:05 »

A few times over the last couple years, I've looked into egg donation but every time I'm put off by this part.

Quote

On 1 April 2005, the law changed so that anyone who registers to donate their
eggs after this date must give identifying information. This information will be made
available to a child born from the donation, if he or she requests it, after they turn 18.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2398 on:** 30 Mar 2016, 18:39 »

I haven't been voluntarily photographed since October 2014. Is that a long time?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2399 on:** 30 Mar 2016, 18:48 »

Not really.

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