Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217

**Insane Jeenyus** · 2017-12-20, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)

Here is a cute little guy:

Spoiler: DANGER !

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**HalfTangible** · 2017-12-20, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)

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WHY

**Mokèlé-mbèmbé** · 2017-12-20, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by FinnLassie

Star Wars episode VIII starting soon. The theatre is full of teens. Gosh darn diddlie damn. >_>

Surely that's to be expected.

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

WHY

At the top of the page, no less.

**enderlord99** · 2017-12-20, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)

Spoiler: A funny Tumblr text-post I found a screencap of

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**LaZodiac** · 2017-12-21, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by FinnLassie

Star Wars episode VIII starting soon. The theatre is full of teens. Gosh darn diddlie damn. >_>

Woo, hope you enjoyed! I know I did.

**Insane Jeenyus** · 2017-12-21, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

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<takes a breath>
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WHY

Originally Posted by Mokèlé-mbèmbé

At the top of the page, no less.

bua ha ha ha ha ha haha!

**DataNinja** · 2017-12-21, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Insane Jeenyus

bua ha ha ha ha ha haha!

You know, it's really not nice doing that. There are some people who really, really hate spiders, and tormenting people just for a laugh isn't very considerate.

**FinnLassie** · 2017-12-21, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Woo, hope you enjoyed! I know I did.

I forgot to count how many "I know" lines there were. Because it felt like a lot.

Also, regarding spiders, I personally find that the smaller, the worse. Because then you never know where they could actually be.

**enderlord99** · 2017-12-21, 11:23 PM (ISO 8601)

Why is ultra-pasteurized eggnog so much less rich?

**2D8HP** · 2017-12-22, 12:03 AM (ISO 8601)

Can one derail the "Random Banter thread?

Anyway, to avoid derailing another thread I'm responding to a post here

Spoiler: @Peelee makes a friendly suggestion to move to Alabama

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Originally Posted by Peelee

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You should come to Alabama. There's some houses for sale near me, we could be neighbors and hang out. I'm pretty sure you could but a house around here outright if you have anything saved. Like, I got a three bedroom, two bath, two garage house, and that's not even counting the free spare house it came with. Nice neighborhood, too.

Also, we got some great sweet tea.

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Alabama?

There be Dragons!

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That's really kind, @Peelee, thanks!

For comparison, this is a smaller than mine (but newer) house across and down the street a short distance from me, that sold this year:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Albany/107...06/home/789966

(I'm not linking to my own house because I don't want anyone to knock on my door demanding that I apologize for not liking the Marvel Avengers movie).

Unfortunately I think that I need to finish earning my pension, because unless there's a large building with courts, a jail, a police station, a coroner's office, laboratory, and autopsy room, all built in the 1950's and still using the fixtures made then, that need constant maintenance, with few replacement parts manufactured so things have to be -re-built "in house", I don't know how I"d earn a living!

I know just enough to know that you guys out there use newfangeled "Pex" piping (and probably other new technologies) whereas in S.F. it's more "If it's good enough for grandfather" (ironic given the whole near Silicon Valley "Tech" thing), while my skill set is all about keeping obsolete equipment working (when I started I was told, "You remember the Dirty Harry movie? Well than this should look familiar because this was the background" [in the autopsy scene]), and there's no way that I could compete with young, strong, fast Alabamans who are familiar with the newer plumbing technology!

And I've got two sons to get through college first (or at least help them find a job), and I'd melt in the heat.

"Sweet tea" a friendly neighbor (and space) does sound tempting.

**Peelee** · 2017-12-22, 12:48 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by 2D8HP

Can one derail the "Random Banter thread?

Anyway, to avoid derailing another thread I'm responding to a post here

Spoiler: @Peelee makes a friendly suggestion to move to Alabama

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Alabama?

There be Dragons!

Spoiler: A longer response

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That's really kind, @Peelee, thanks!

For comparison, this is a smaller than mine (but newer) house across and down the street a short distance from me, that sold this year:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Albany/107...06/home/789966

(I'm not linking to my own house because I don't want anyone to knock on my door demanding that I apologize for not liking the Marvel Avengers movie).

Unfortunately I think that I need to finish earning my pension, because unless there's a large building with courts, a jail, a police station, a coroner's office, laboratory, and autopsy room, all built in the 1950's and still using the fixtures made then, that need constant maintenance, with few replacement parts manufactured so things have to be -re-built "in house", I don't know how I"d earn a living!

I know just enough to know that you guys out there use newfangeled "Pex" piping (and probably other new technologies) whereas in S.F. it's more "If it's good enough for grandfather" (ironic given the whole near Silicon Valley "Tech" thing), while my skill set is all about keeping obsolete equipment working (when I started I was told, "You remember the Dirty Harry movie? Well than this should look familiar because this was the background" [in the autopsy scene]), and there's no way that I could compete with young, strong, fast Alabamans who are familiar with the newer plumbing technology!

And I've got two sons to get through college first (or at least help them find a job), and I'd melt in the heat.

"Sweet tea" a friendly neighbor (and space) does sound tempting.

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Hey, I also disliked The Avengers! It's kismet!

You would absolutely melt, though. It was hammock weather yesterday, and not too far from it today.

**factotum** · 2017-12-22, 03:01 AM (ISO 8601)

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't California just as much of a heat-ridden hellhole as Alabama is?

(Hey, I'm from the UK where two consecutive days above 70F (21C) degrees is considered a heatwave...).

**WarKitty** · 2017-12-22, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by factotum

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't California just as much of a heat-ridden hellhole as Alabama is?

(Hey, I'm from the UK where two consecutive days above 70F (21C) degrees is considered a heatwave...).

California is a really, really big state. The amount of heat you get really depends on which bit you're talking about. Keep in mind it's got about the same amount of latitude variation as the UK does.

**Insane Jeenyus** · 2017-12-22, 07:54 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by WarKitty

California is a really, really big state. The amount of heat you get really depends on which bit you're talking about. Keep in mind it's got about the same amount of latitude variation as the UK does.

I was born in Los Angles and we had variation of temps of lower 40's [typical] to above 100 in the summer with the Santa Anna winds hitting us.

Then I got stationed at an Air Force base in the rain shadow of the San Bernadno Mountains that had variations of Temps from 20's in the winter, with snow, and 120 + in the summer.

In essence, California has a Huge variations of climate, some of which I did not even mention such as central and north.

As the state is 700 miles long, over 1100 Km.

and now my discourse on useless data is done.

as for the spider image, should I remove it?

**2D8HP** · 2017-12-22, 08:16 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by factotum

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't California just as much of a heat-ridden hellhole as Alabama is?

(Hey, I'm from the UK where two consecutive days above 70F (21C) degrees is considered a heatwave...).

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Most of California does get very (to me) hot, but I work in (and for) "The City and County of" San Francisco, where in some neighborhoods (and some nearby communities like Pacifica) it's a good bet that the temperature will be in the 50's (Fahrenheit), day or night, winter or summer.
I live (really just sleep) about a 15 mile drive from San Francisco in a tiny town just north of Berkeley (where I spent most of my childhood), which is next to Oakland (where I was born and lived most of my life), and in a given year, even as much as ten days that it gets below freezing (32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius) is extremely rare, as is getting above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).However 50 miles away in places like Livermore sometime every winter it gets below freezing, and sometime every summer it gets above 100, which is true of most of California, but I generally follow a policy of regarding anyplace that's more than a days walk from a BART station (our subway), or a Cal-Trans train station as "There be Dragons", and accept for work I seldom travel more than two miles from my house.

Ideally I'd like to stay in the "Fog belt" and use a bicycle to get most places, but my wife insists on my driving a car so we can buy "bargains" (I hate driving so much!).

**TheWombatOfDoom** · 2017-12-22, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Insane Jeenyus

I was born in Los Angles and we had variation of temps of lower 40's [typical] to above 100 in the summer with the Santa Anna winds hitting us.

Then I got stationed at an Air Force base in the rain shadow of the San Bernadno Mountains that had variations of Temps from 20's in the winter, with snow, and 120 + in the summer.

In essence, California has a Huge variations of climate, some of which I did not even mention such as central and north.

As the state is 700 miles long, over 1100 Km.

and now my discourse on useless data is done.

as for the spider image, should I remove it?

Spoiler it, I would say.

**Peelee** · 2017-12-22, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)

I think someone once said, "the coldest winter of my life was the summer I spent in San Francisco." Though I kinda felt that way back in September in NYC.

**LaZodiac** · 2017-12-22, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)

Haaah. You guys and your heat.

*bundles up for my daily walk in -30 celcius weather*

**Peelee** · 2017-12-22, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Haaah. You guys and your heat.

*bundles up for my daily walk in -30 celcius weather*

Come to Alabama! I'm sitting around in a really light San Francisco shirt a coworker got me a few months ago, and it's delightful. Granted, it's no hammock weather, but still.

**Mith** · 2017-12-22, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Peelee

Come to Alabama! I'm sitting around in a really light San Francisco shirt a coworker got me a few months ago, and it's delightful. Granted, it's no hammock weather, but still.

I chuckle at this because climate change has hit where I am pretty hard. We were above freezing during the day for two weeks. When the sun was out for 5 C weather, I debated getting the hammock out.

**Insane Jeenyus** · 2017-12-22, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by TheWombatOfDoom

Spoiler it, I would say.

consider it done. There is also a warning attached

**gooddragon1** · 2017-12-22, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)

Very important (not really):

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**HalfTangible** · 2017-12-22, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by gooddragon1

Very important (not really):

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What the heck did I just read?

**Knaight** · 2017-12-23, 03:51 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Peelee

I think someone once said, "the coldest winter of my life was the summer I spent in San Francisco." Though I kinda felt that way back in September in NYC.

I'm just going to leave this here and laugh. Particularly as I'm not actually in Denver, it's just the nearby city with a big enough population to maintain some pretense of anonymity. I'm somewhere slightly colder.

Also that tool is generally a lot of fun.

**Insane Jeenyus** · 2017-12-23, 04:47 AM (ISO 8601)

it is raining cats and dogs outside with flashflood warnings in low creek/bottomland areas. I am on a hilltop about 130 feet above the bottom land so I am safe, but the homeless are not.

**Teddy** · 2017-12-23, 05:29 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Insane Jeenyus

I have sufferred a partial se3peration of my brachial plexis for about 6 years. When I had woke from an induced coma, my left arm would not move and felt/and still feels/ like red hot needles have been jabbed in my arm. Wheeeee! Fun!!

It's not a misery contest, but you win anyway.

Originally Posted by Knaight

I'm just going to leave this here and laugh. Particularly as I'm not actually in Denver, it's just the nearby city with a big enough population to maintain some pretense of anonymity. I'm somewhere slightly colder.

Also that tool is generally a lot of fun.

Oh, yes, this is fun! I stuck my hometown into it for comparison's sake.

**Peelee** · 2017-12-23, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Teddy

It's not a misery contest, but you win anyway.

Oh, yes, this is fun! I stuck my hometown into it for comparison's sake.

Hey, we're like sister cities!

**AMFV** · 2017-12-23, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Peelee

Hey, we're like sister cities!

And Pittsburgh is right between.

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/8...and-Pittsburgh

**LaZodiac** · 2017-12-23, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)

I have added Yellowknife to this.

One of my favorites is the "chance of high winds" graph, where mine is just on another graph, essentially.

Also this graph is slightly flawed. Our tourism is super hug in Winter because the asian countries love coming up here in the winter.

**Peelee** · 2017-12-23, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

I have added Yellowknife to this.

One of my favorites is the "chance of high winds" graph, where mine is just on another graph, essentially.

Birmingham laughs at all of your muggy conditions.

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