Thufir's Third Random Banter #224

[HalfTangible]

Yeah **** the sun. Eat **** Sol what've you done for me?

>Suddenly the sun goes out

DAMMIT ZODI

[LaZodiac]

>Suddenly the sun goes out

DAMMIT ZODI

Look if the sun didn't want to be harpooned by my magic ice lance and teathered to the ground for eternity, she shouldn't have burnt my eyes every summer. ****** knows what she did.

Apparently the word for female dog that everyone considers a cuss is not being caught by the censors anymore. Weird.

[Peelee]

I'm not talking about the burn victim, I'm talking about the news.

If it's your ****ing job to tell people the truth and you participate in spreading a lie, or you do nothing to stop said lie from being spread, you are to blame for the existence of said lie. You do not get to blame the ignorant masses for your colossal **** up.

Are you talking about the news, though? Did the news report it that way? I don't remember picking up the Washington Post and reading "Woman grabs money from McDonald's through coffee." It's more insidious than that, and it's done through editorials. Walter Cronkite doesn't talk about that, the talking heads on opinion shows and talk shows do.

[FinnLassie]

Sometimes, onions are better than opinions.

Then again, I have IBS so onions are always bad.

[LaZodiac]

Sometimes, onions are better than opinions.

Then again, I have IBS so onions are always bad.

I've found onions to always taste terrible, but that's me.

[Insane Jeenyus]

I thought of an idea of a movie: Patty Cake: Bakers Men. It's about two undercover cops disguised as chefs trying to search the drug lord who been smuggling for drugs in the cooking world. See I'm not being vague on this one.

it actually sounds like a good plot for Martin Lawrence and Will Smith

by the way, I like onions.

[Peelee]

That's not actually possible? Coffee is mostly water, and water at 150C is steam, not anything that sits in a cup waiting to be drunk. The hottest it could have been is 100C.

Water can totally get above 100°C. You can recreate this yourself at home, even! I'd recommend against it unless you know the proper safety precautions to take, though, as it becomes a bit explodey.

If you want to experiment at home, much better to chill water below 0° C. Significantly safer, and a nicer, non-explode effect.

Yeah and American's own that misunderstanding due to their inability to use a real measurement system

Fun fact, infinitely more Americans have walked on the Moon than Canadians have.

[LaZodiac]

Fun fact, infinitely more Americans have walked on the Moon than Canadians have.

That has nothing to do with temperatures

Also if we're talking space stuff, the Canadian Arms are the most important piece of technology to ever be created with regards to space, so you can catch a big double deuce from space from those bad boys if you think walking on a discarded chunk of Earth is all that special.

(I'm exaggerating I love space and the moon)

[Anonymouswizard]

I've found onions to always taste terrible, but that's me.

I've always wondered what people who think that eat? Onions are possibly the most common ingredient in western recipes and are also incredibly common in Asian ones (and we reach the end of cuisines I know).

Also, I want to make French Onion Soup.


Anyway, yesterday I found out that Fullmetal Alchemist is available in really nice hardback editions, each about half as long again as the paperback versions. They don't have the 4-koma or the additional chapters, but if those are all collected in an additional book then the included sketches and colour pages make up for it.

I've also got a friend who's continually trying to convince me that I'll get a date if I use Tinder. Despite the fact that I don't get aby matches on it (or OkCupid* these days, for that matter).

* my favourite dating site by far, because on every other one I've tried I end up screaming 'you call that a profile!?'

[Peelee]

That has nothing to do with temperatures

Sure it does, it makes the Americans cooler.

I WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR THAT JOKE.

[LaZodiac]

I've always wondered what people who think that eat? Onions are possibly the most common ingredient in western recipes and are also incredibly common in Asian ones (and we reach the end of cuisines I know).

Also, I want to make French Onion Soup.


Anyway, yesterday I found out that Fullmetal Alchemist is available in really nice hardback editions, each about half as long again as the paperback versions. They don't have the 4-koma or the additional chapters, but if those are all collected in an additional book then the included sketches and colour pages make up for it.

I've also got a friend who's continually trying to convince me that I'll get a date if I use Tinder. Despite the fact that I don't get aby matches on it (or OkCupid* these days, for that matter).

* my favourite dating site by far, because on every other one I've tried I end up screaming 'you call that a profile!?'

I eat things without onions. It's not that hard. I could give you a list, it's mostly things that can have onions but don't because I don't like them.

FMA is the best. A hard back version of the whole series would rule to have. Oh speaking of manga, Blue gave me his personal copy of the Azumanga Daioh omnibus and it's probably the most thoughtful, heartfelt gift I've ever received from someone to the degree that I'm pretty sure my heart almost burst.

Peelee being a mod won't protect you from being giving you a wedgie over that joke.

[Peelee]

Peelee being a mod won't protect you from being giving you a wedgie over that joke.

Try if you want, but it'd end up with me mooning you.

[LaZodiac]

Try if you want, but it'd end up with me mooning you.

Yeah no thanks I get enough dragon butt watching the birds fly around town.

[Comrade]

Anyway, gonna refocus on something positive again: Today's been a good day of work so far. How's all you doing?

I finally managed to get a paying job in my field after months of searching and struggling to maintain hope, and that's pretty good. My constant and inescapable need to be #1 at everything and for everyone is sabotaging the good vibes from that, and that ain't so good.

I've also got a friend who's continually trying to convince me that I'll get a date if I use Tinder. Despite the fact that I don't get aby matches on it (or OkCupid* these days, for that matter).

* my favourite dating site by far, because on every other one I've tried I end up screaming 'you call that a profile!?'

I'm starting to be of the opinion that dating sites are just awful and it's better to meet people other ways. This opinion was arrived at through no real process or evidence and has been countermanded by the personal experiences of tons of folks I know but I'm stickin' with it.

[Peelee]

I'm starting to be of the opinion that dating sites are just awful and it's better to meet people other ways. This opinion was arrived at through no real process or evidence and has been countermanded by the personal experiences of tons of folks I know but I'm stickin' with it.

I can give the objectively best advice for dating: go with what works. If dating sites work for you, that's your best bet. If they don't, ditch 'em. Everyone's different, if there were one surefire method it'd be one of the best known methods in the world.

[HalfTangible]

Are you talking about the news, though? Did the news report it that way? I don't remember picking up the Washington Post and reading "Woman grabs money from McDonald's through coffee." It's more insidious than that, and it's done through editorials. Walter Cronkite doesn't talk about that, the talking heads on opinion shows and talk shows do.

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[Peelee]

*scrub the post, scrub the quote*

It also doesn't make it news.

[DataNinja]

I've always wondered what people who think that eat? Onions are possibly the most common ingredient in western recipes and are also incredibly common in Asian ones (and we reach the end of cuisines I know).

For me, my issue is with raw-ish onions and tomatoes. Tomato soup? Onion soup? All that good cooked stuff to dilute the taste? I'm very fine with that. I just... cannot stomach them raw. Especially not tomatoes.


In other news: Bleeeegh, it's been perpetually raining here for several days now, and on-and-off for the better part of, like, a month and a half. I just want dry. And to not have squelchy feet because my path to walk from my house every day is soaked. And next to a road where large trucks drive by at high speeds.

[Tvtyrant]

Cooked onions are basically flavorless, raw onions are very strong and few people really enjoy that.

It is raining here too, I'm pretty sick of it. I want some sunshine!

[Bartmanhomer]

News lie sometimes. I don't watch the news on TV anyway because it very desensitized and negative expect sports and weather. I prefer the newspaper instead.

[PhyrexianShovel]

I wish it was raining over here. It's hellishly hot, so much so that I almost got a sunburn from half an hour in the sun today.

[HalfTangible]

It also doesn't make it news.

I'm done with this. Please stop making excuses for evil ****.

[Bartmanhomer]

Today I'm making my own deity in a D&D 3.5 character sheet and man o man it's very difficult than I thought.

[Peelee]

I'm done with this. Please stop making excuses for evil ****.

I'm not. I'm just also not drawing an equivalency between Ari Shapiro and John Oliver, is all I'm saying. I doubt the McDonald's propaganda even made it so far as an op-ed.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Water can totally get above 100°C. You can recreate this yourself at home, even! I'd recommend against it unless you know the proper safety precautions to take, though, as it becomes a bit explodey.

If you want to experiment at home, much better to chill water below 0° C. Significantly safer, and a nicer, non-explode effect.

Fun fact, infinitely more Americans have walked on the Moon than Canadians have.

for those that may not know, higher pressure water then standard barometric pressure require a higher boiling point. a good example of this is a pressure cooker or liquefied, pressurized gasses.

likewise, if at a high altitude/ lower barometric pressure requires a lower boiling point, which is why you must boil something longer at high altitudes to get the same effect as sea level at 30 inches of Hg. A good example of this is that all fluids, including blood and the fluid in eyes, will instantly boil in the vacuum of outer space [ick!].

[Bartmanhomer]

it actually sounds like a good plot for Martin Lawrence and Will Smith

by the way, I like onions.

They both fit very well for this movie.

[Peelee]

for those that may not know, higher pressure water then standard barometric pressure require a higher boiling point. a good example of this is a pressure cooker.

While completely true, I'm talking about STP. Grab some distilled water and have fun with temperature. To superheat, pop it in the microwave. To supercool, throw it in the freezer.

Spoiler: Supercooling it is WAY cooler

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That's not even going into how boiling water thrown into frigid air will instantly form into snow (for this one as well, don't try this at home unless you know what you're doing), or how hotter water will freeze faster than colder water, or that water gets less dense as it freezes instead of more dense.

Water is weird.

[Thufir]

I'm starting to be of the opinion that dating sites are just awful and it's better to meet people other ways. This opinion was arrived at through no real process or evidence and has been countermanded by the personal experiences of tons of folks I know but I'm stickin' with it.

I'm inclined to think the awfulness is not inherent to the sites, but to the people. And not universally so, as attested by the many successful relationships born out of them, but the impression I get is it's pretty much just luck of the draw as to whether you get interesting people or creeps.

[Tvtyrant]

I'm inclined to think the awfulness is not inherent to the sites, but to the people. And not universally so, as attested by the many successful relationships born out of them, but the impression I get is it's pretty much just luck of the draw as to whether you get interesting people or creeps.

I rather like Bumble, because I don't have to get rejected or ignored constantly. That cuts out the worst part of online dating, trying to get someone to read my messages.

[PhyrexianShovel]

While completely true, I'm talking about STP. Grab some distilled water and have fun with temperature. To superheat, pop it in the microwave. To supercool, throw it in the freezer.

Spoiler: Supercooling it is WAY cooler

Show

That's not even going into how boiling water thrown into frigid air will instantly form into snow (for this one as well, don't try this at home unless you know what you're doing), or how hotter water will freeze faster than colder water, or that water gets less dense as it freezes instead of more dense.

Water is weird.

Of course supercooling it is cooler! It can't have been hotter! No, I will not apologize for that pun.
Also, Happy Reptile Awareness day! You don't need to like reptiles, you just need to be aware of them. They're showoffs that way.