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09-24-2013, 09:43 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Miscellany
THAT IS ME! I AM THE CROSSOVER POINT!
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09-25-2013, 10:18 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Miscellany
Jesuses, Jesuses, Jesuses!
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In his 1584 book On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, Bruno theorized that
there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite… In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.
This was controversial, but it wasn’t grounds for being declared a heretic. However, Bruno crossed a line when he followed his argument to its logical conclusion: if there are an infinity of worlds, and if some worlds have sentient beings created by God, then wouldn’t these planets also need to be saved by the personification of God? By, well, alien Jesuses?
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'Alien Jesus': The Pre-Modern History of Outer Space - Benjamin Breen - The Atlantic
The book: On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
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09-26-2013, 05:21 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Miscellany
Patron told me yesterday that potholes were a sign of the end times. I told him that was just Michigan, but he only got more emphatic. As I switched to ignoring him and not even grunting in acknowledgement, he escalated to complaining about gay marriage and even calling it an abomination. So, yeah, that happened yesterday.
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- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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09-26-2013, 05:48 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Miscellany
Just wait until we start talking about legalizing gay pothole marriage.
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09-26-2013, 06:05 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
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Aren't potholes a sign of Republican governance?
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09-26-2013, 06:42 PM
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Stoic Derelict... The cup is empty
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: The Dustbin of History
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Re: Miscellany
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Chained out, like a sitting duck just waiting for the fall _Cage the Elephant
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09-26-2013, 07:34 PM
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Coffee, tea, anti-Nazi
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Female
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Re: Miscellany
Choose your own philosophy adventure - OpenLearn - Open University
This was sort of a fun choose your own adventure type thing. I'm not sure if I agree with the outcome, I don't know enough about philosophy to really argue with the finer points.
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09-26-2013, 07:40 PM
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Vice Cobra Assistant Commander
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Re: Miscellany
I dunno from the end times, but I can see numerous unrepaired pot holes as a sign of poor governance and possible impending social collapse.
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"Trans Am Jesus" is "what hanged me"
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09-26-2013, 07:47 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Miscellany
No, that's pretty much just Michigan. When I moved back from San Jose in 1996, it was obvious that the roads got progressively worse as I headed east, culminating in Michigan. Utah were the best. Those things were like glass. Michigan was so bad that year that I proposed the signs should read, "Welcome to Michigan! You might want to get an alignment."
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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09-26-2013, 09:03 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Miscellany
Chaotic Neutral FTW
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Much of MADNESS, and more of SIN, and HORROR the soul of the plot.
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09-27-2013, 09:20 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Location: Bortlandia
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Re: Miscellany
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09-28-2013, 05:15 PM
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Stoic Derelict... The cup is empty
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Re: Miscellany
Why does always suddenly get moar hilarious when I'm not looking? You gaiz are mean.
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09-28-2013, 05:30 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: Miscellany
It's like the Heisenberg theorem. The less you observe the the funnier we appear.
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09-28-2013, 06:32 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Miscellany
You stopped giving me opportunities, so I guess I'll have to make some myself. Hornets sting 19 people to death in China.
Help! I'm covered in bees!
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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09-28-2013, 07:02 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Miscellany
We've been getting stupid hang up calls almost every day for the past couple of weeks from some stupid pro-fracking group, and finally today, the fucking goombahs got their robocaller working well enough to play their message.
But now, it's weird! I think my robocaller is also on the fritz and is going to call and hang up on some assholes! I hope that never accidentally happens at like 3AM or anything.
We also got SIX COUNT 'EM SIX hang up calls in a row from a different local number the other day, which I tracked to a realtor. That might also be them. I dunno.
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09-28-2013, 07:48 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Miscellany
Oh and now, ha ha, good luck with your Steam and Warframe accounts, you stupid little twit always signing up for shit with my email address.
If history tells me anything about this dumb little turd, I'll get a flurry of signups over the next few days as he puzzles over why none of his accounts are getting activated.
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09-28-2013, 08:05 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Miscellany
It may please you to know, pea, that the Target Postulation still holds true. The other day I went to the Target looking for some bowls. And then just today I felt like I had to go back - which I did indeed go back. I'm not only angry because I got targeted again but also because in neither trip did I find what I originally went looking for. IT WAS TERRIBLE.
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09-29-2013, 03:27 AM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Miscellany
I want to chew on my gums so bad.
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09-29-2013, 03:59 AM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Miscellany
OH GOD PLEASE LET ME CHEW THEM
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09-29-2013, 04:39 AM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: Miscellany
I am truely sorry for your lots. I am parying for you.
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09-29-2013, 06:11 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Miscellany
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Originally Posted by BrotherMan
I am truely sorry for your lots. I am parying for you.
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10-01-2013, 03:08 AM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: Miscellany
Today my roommate and I went to a new-ish eating establishment. Today would mark our third visit to this place. The previous two visits had left me with a less than good opinion of this particular eatery.
The first visit it took the service a longer than average time to even get around to our drinks request. And the whole meal just went along that line the whole time we were there. So much so, we were given a free appetizer (that we had ordered but never arrived). Now, this first visit was within the first couple of weeks that they opened. And where I live a new restaurant opening is something of a big deal. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Even a brand new staff can be overwhelmed when a lot of people are poured through. The second visit was only marginally better than the first.
Now, the food was excellent. Good, solid, Americana flavors. But that service was just, ugh, you know. The alright prices and the pretty good food just wasn't worth it to me. I was ready to put them off the List forever. But today the roommate wanted to try it one more time. (Besides, the meaty-beefy place he really wanted to go to was closed and wouldn't be open for a few hours.)
This time, finally, we had what I would call standard serve times. But, and you guys should love this but, the meal was not without its own drama. I was completely entertained by my roommate's actions at lunch today. First, he ordered an appetizer. No big deal. It was some queso con carne chips and dip thing. I had a little bit of it, and it was p alright. The side salsa was bright and flavorful - but in that generic spicy but not hot way that restaurants feel they have to be. He digs into the queso with carne bowl. He finishes the chips but there's still some of the goodness left in the bowl. I use my "I know my friend very well" sense and tell him "You're going to start licking the bowl aren't you?" He denies it by saying "Nah, it's already satiating me pretty well. I can feel it." I give him the Spock-brow and then he just continues eating it up. He doesn't lick the bowl (probably because we're in public). This is humorous to me because especially of what happens when the appetizer originally arrived.
See, he had ordered it right when Waiter had asked for drinks. The appetizer came out in good time so my friend hadn't even decided what he wanted for the lunch. He prompted me to go first and by the time I was done ordering he'd likely be ready. I had already eliminated foods I had tried in previous visits. I wasn't really drawn to any particular thing. I have no reason, no logical identifier why, I ordered the Monte Cristo.
I knew what I was getting into and I wasn't looking forward to it. And now, ladies and gentlemen and Gordens of the forum, is when my entertainment for the afternoon reallly began. By the time I had finished my order, my friend was still not ready to order anything. He decided by not deciding: "I'll just be a copy cat today and have that," he said. Something in the way back of my brain twinged. I have never seen him order a Monte Cristo. I have never heard him talk about one. I'm pretty sure that he had never desired one. (Which means that I couldn't be sure he knew what a Monte Cristo was.) Even though I had this running across my mind in the moments after he ordered I said nothing. I just chuckled that he copy catted me. He hemmed and hawed a few more seconds looking over the menu wanting to order something else, something more. (He specifically asked if the had chicken on the bone, which they don't.)
I don't think I've ever talked about it to anyone, but ordering at a restaurant can occasionally be a truly entertaining experience. I ... can't even use words sometimes because there are gestures and nuances in the mannerism by which he orders that are unpossible to convey with textual means. I am normally immune to it as we've been friends for over 20 years now. But sometimes it slips by my defenses. I'm sorry I can't relay it as I experience it. But, friends and borts, this was just the beginning today.
Indeed, my good friend and now roommate who I have known for over 20 years, had indeed never seen a Monte Cristo sandwich. He didn't read the description when it was in front of him. When it arrived he was thrown for a loop. I was hungry enough so I immediately started eating mine. I experienced exactly what I thought I would with my Monte Cristo sandwich. A little savory a lot of sweet, bonded together by ham and cheese. And as with overly breaded deep friend things, it twisted in my belly a little. But the flavors were, well, they were what they were. This Monte Cristo sandwich wasn't different than any other I'd ever had. Though the breading was better than I'd had years before - it was a better flavor, tasting exactly like funnel cake.
Now, how do I describe my roommate's reaction? Modest repulsion? It really wasn't at all what he was expecting, and definitely not what he wanted in a meal. He was grossed out by the funnel cake covering. And not even the melty doughy ham-n-cheese innards appealed to him. Then the rapsberry preserves weren't enough to help him recover from the trauma of the sweet-savory-bready mess that he was doing his best to force down.
If before this whole meal had happened he had asked me about the Monte Cristo, I would have told him the truth. It was just a big fatty awful mess of a sandwich and you probably wouldn't like it. Why didn't I say anything when he copy catted me? I suppose some part of me wanted to see how it would play out. It had been a slow day on the and I thought I could get something out of it? I suppose. But I never expected this.
And that's how Equestria was made.
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10-01-2013, 03:29 AM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Here
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Re: Miscellany
Monte Christos are like Eggs Benedict (and to a lesser extent Muffalettas)...at excellent restaurants it is like Angels partying in my mouth. At a so so or bad place, it's the most disgusting thing invented.
Blue Bayou at Disneyland is pretty much the only place on Earth I've ever ordered a Monte Christo since the one time I tried one elsewhere and was all "What is this shit?" (and I was a youngster too).
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10-01-2013, 02:53 PM
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forever in search of dill pickle doritos
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Re: Miscellany
Weird, whatever you're describing, it ain't what we call a Monte Cristo in Canada.
It's a sandwich with french toast (bread dipped in eggs and fried, in case you're all weird with french toast too ) for bread and has ham, turkey and swiss cheese for the innards.
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10-01-2013, 03:05 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Here
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Re: Miscellany
Same basic idea, a ham turkey and swiss concoction, except here the whole sandwich is battered and fried, not just the bread. It is usually served with compote or preserves.
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