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- Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:24 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 665
Hey, the PBR special will be awesome when i host scenster parties! I've been known to drink a cheap beer [or twelve] from time to time, but I really can't stand PBR. Part of it may be the association with hipsters, but I just hate the stuff. Lately I've become a huge fan of Genessee Cream, the grea...
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:41 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: MATRICULATION: COMPLETE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 209
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:19 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Professional Stress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 276
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:08 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 22 Character Sentences
- Replies: 13
- Views: 283
Can you just not give me challenges like this anymore? It's the kind of thing I can't not do.
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It's a porcupine time!
Sex with a dog = jail?
I fat because eat cake
My dick must be cursed
I drank paint now dead
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:39 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 22 Character Sentences
- Replies: 13
- Views: 283
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Sorry dad, we got high
An Anemone is an enemy
Where are my rebar at?
Psssst...you have AIDS
My pants are now tight
- Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Do you have a budget?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 218
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:43 am
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: The Unpublishable
- Replies: 58
- Views: 839
I've read a few of these, and I think some of it is very good. And I'm not a very forgiving audience. I can offer some more in-depth feedback if that's the kind of thing you're after. One bit of advice, though: I think you've got the wrong attitude about this whole thing. From the name of the projec...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:39 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cooking with cast iron
- Replies: 28
- Views: 357
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:00 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 665
I just can't believe I never properly responded to this; there truly are few topics closer to my heart. My interest in beverages is vast, my preferences are varied, and my passion in this area is rivaled only by my interests in exotic women and plant husbandry. By volume, the primary beverage in my ...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 665
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cooking with cast iron
- Replies: 28
- Views: 357
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:54 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: You Get Caught In Bed With Someone...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 212
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:02 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Air Conditioning
- Replies: 60
- Views: 745
No AC here, and we do pretty well with just a couple box fans. We're relatively tolerant of the heat, but, on the second floor, y'know, the one with the bedrooms, sometimes it just gets too hot. Too. Hot. Usually it's tolerable, if a bit uncomfortable, but there have been nights in the past when I w...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:25 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: You Had Sex With Someone...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 275
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:59 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Utilities
- Replies: 33
- Views: 409
I tend to save about 20% a year on my electric that way, due to the discounts they'll offer by pre-purchasing. Well that makes sense, but I'd always assumed the only benefit is paying the same amount every month, and that just doesn't seem like a benefit to me, though I understand a lot of people p...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Utilities
- Replies: 33
- Views: 409
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Utilities
- Replies: 33
- Views: 409
For reference, I live in a home with two other people, a large number of relatively high-drain electronic devices [computers, digital projectors, etc], no central air, a gas stove, and inadequate insulation. For Comcast cable internet [and also the most basic television package, which I've never act...
- Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:29 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: I'm for sale!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 126
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Other Beverages
- Replies: 51
- Views: 665
tons of permanent tea ...bag... things? I don't know what you call them. They're various shapes and sizes of metal things you can load tea up in and then put in a mug with hot water. I've always heard them called infusers or strainers, but I think technically strainers are the open-topped kind you ...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:45 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
It's very different, more like reading a very detailed history than like reading a narrative, and it suits the story well. I think this is the right perspective. I recommend thinking of it less like standard narrative, with heroes and villains [though, of course, it is also that], and more like a d...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:20 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Designated Taxes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 114
When you start talking about elective expenditures of tax-funds, doesn't it suggest we're taxing at an unnecessarily high rate? If some of your taxed-funds are set aside for general necessities, and you can choose to spend the rest arbitrarily, shouldn't we maybe just not tax that money in the first...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:49 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Writers, Artists, and Commentaries
- Replies: 13
- Views: 156
Art is a dialogue between artist and viewer, and sometimes it can be enriched by a literal dialogue with the artist. Sometimes it can be incredibly enriching. Many artists are actually kind of stupid, though, and either don't properly understand their work, or lack the ability to explain it properly...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:54 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:51 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 389
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 389
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:22 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 389
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:19 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 389
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Agree or Disagree: Cheating
- Replies: 31
- Views: 389
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:20 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
It amused me that they killed Syrio off-screen as well, since there are a couple of (admittedly rather out-there) fan theories that he didn't actually die in the books. I don't think they're that out-there. I just watched the most recent episode, and, I gotta say, they left the Syrio business even ...
- Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:50 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:38 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Next-Gen Desktop OSes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 213
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:13 am
- Forum: The Game's the Thing
- Topic: New Game?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 579
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:11 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Your Rights Online
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1551
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:46 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Your Rights Online
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1551
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:01 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Drama = torture porn
- Replies: 42
- Views: 461
Re: Drama = torture porn
The other issue is one I have with many HBO dramas: "Hey, we're off broadcast TV? We can swear, and show boobies? Then all we're going to do is swear and show boobies! It'll be an all-swearing, all-boobing extravaganza!" When HBO started working its way through every genre one at a time -...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:19 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Drama = torture porn
- Replies: 42
- Views: 461
That said, I've found the number of people who don't care that... This is always my reaction, which I suspect is telling of my priorities as regards various species. When humans die horribly on screen, I couldn't possibly care less, but even being told a non-human animal might have received a hangn...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:37 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Why should you have the right to remain silent?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
The right to silence, and the legal protection against self-incrimination, exist primarily as checks against abusive interrogation. Traditionally this may have meant torture, but now mostly involves coercion by complex lying. The right to silence [distinct from, though intrinsically linked to, the p...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
Of course, magic birds is about all the magic you'll get, and it all seems to happen off-stage. I know more of this will come as seasons go by, but it's still disappointing to me how low fantasy the setting is. It is what it is, and I'm glad it exists, but there are other things I'd like to see. Fo...
- Tue May 31, 2011 7:39 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2769
I pretty much love it more than all other things combined, but I'm such a huge fan of the books, I can't really tell how good the show is, objectively. One impression I get, though, is that it's fucking difficult to follow if you haven't read the books; watching with friends who are new to the whole...
- Fri May 20, 2011 6:38 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: My new toy.
- Replies: 498
- Views: 7835
- Sat May 14, 2011 6:48 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fuel Fury
- Replies: 42
- Views: 425
- Sat May 14, 2011 6:19 am
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: Imorria: A campaign setting.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 294
- Sat May 14, 2011 5:59 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fuel Fury
- Replies: 42
- Views: 425
Jeezus, it's like, after the game is won, you ever see how people play? Nuclear mushrooms blossom like crocus after a sudden rain, everyrone turns into a ravening beast, and the world goes back to the stone age. With guns. It's almost disturbing how many people get a hard-on at the thought of sunde...
- Sat May 14, 2011 5:52 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Hassle Fee
- Replies: 47
- Views: 573
There's also Hot Doug's , world-renowned purveyor of gourmet hotdogs and sausages. Bourdain went there in an episode of his show. Everything about that place except the line out the door looks awesome. I've been there a couple times, on the weekend, no less, and never seen a line. I think I probabl...
- Sat May 14, 2011 5:44 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fuel Fury
- Replies: 42
- Views: 425
Laws that makes executives liable for not making a corporation as profitable as possible, damn the consequences, if that's what we're talking about, are laws that shouldn't exist. I think there's some confusion here [which is understandable, because it's confusing]. There actually aren't laws that ...
- Sat May 14, 2011 4:37 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fuel Fury
- Replies: 42
- Views: 425
I thought you won Civilization by building the first spaceship? My roommate uninstalled CivIV the other day because, after an epic, multi-day game, he was defeated by George Washington, who won a cultural victory by having the most hit records, or something. So I guess that's how you win Civilizati...
- Sat May 14, 2011 4:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fuel Fury
- Replies: 42
- Views: 425
- Sat May 14, 2011 2:39 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Hassle Fee
- Replies: 47
- Views: 573
And I very much recommend getting the macaroni and cheese instead of french fries because, well...just trust me on this one.
There's also Hot Doug's, world-renowned purveyor of gourmet hotdogs and sausages.
There's also Hot Doug's, world-renowned purveyor of gourmet hotdogs and sausages.
- Fri May 13, 2011 8:50 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Hassle Fee
- Replies: 47
- Views: 573
I was in Chicago a couple weeks ago, and stayed with a friend who lives in Ukrainian Village, so naturally we had dinner at Lockdown . It's really hard to describe these places to someone who hasn't had been, but they're just otherworldly. I had this , the Lockdown Warden, and it was the best burger...
- Fri May 13, 2011 8:26 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Osama Bin Laden dead, time for the end credits?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 1025