Random Thoughts Thread

[Vuk]

Stealing bikes is a national sport, if it isn't an expensive one it's more like borrowing. If it was yours that was stolen you curse because you have to walk and buy a new one from a junkie for 10 euro next day.

lol, maybe I just don't understand Dutchland.

[The Lurker Below]

When your wife snores does the sound kind of resemble Wookie speak?

[Fragony]

lol, maybe I just don't understand Dutchland.

The avarage bike in Amsterdam has been stolen 4 times

[Fragony]

Hmmm it will be the 3ds I want this http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mB0Ojk76WvU

[Vuk]

The price of gas is gonna kill me.

[Andres]

Apparently, burglars are now aiming for garden houses in our town. The police advices citizens to put a decent lock on your garden house. Our ancient garden house doesn't even have a door, so a lock seems pretty useless.

We have menacing looking gras though, so I hope that'll keep the burglars away.

[Vuk]

Apparently, burglars are now aiming for garden houses in our town. The police advices citizens to put a decent lock on your garden house. Our ancient garden house doesn't even have a door, so a lock seems pretty useless.

We have menacing looking gras though, so I hope that'll keep the burglars away.

Well, hopefully the police will quickly restore lawn and order!

[Fragony]

Apparently, burglars are now aiming for garden houses in our town. The police advices citizens to put a decent lock on your garden house. Our ancient garden house doesn't even have a door, so a lock seems pretty useless.

We have menacing looking gras though, so I hope that'll keep the burglars away.

Oh the bliss of open borders

ANECDOTE, I didn't have enough money to pay for my groceries, bank was late. So I jokingly said to the cassierre, middle-aged Turkish that is 1.50 at best, that I would have to look my mommy in the eyes really nice. She exploded and I got verbally bitchslapped about responsibility and savings in front of a whole line of customers, and that I should be providing her instead of the other way around. Walked out red as a tomatoe with the eyes of chuckling customers firmly in my back

[a completely inoffensive name]

How much #SWAG could a #YOLOSWAG #YOLO if a #YOLOSWAG could #YOLO #SWAG?

[calculage]

well since its random i sometimes think about the concept of age and how ridiculously meaningless it is ! i mean why would someone celebrate the day they started spinning around the sun and why does it matter and more importantly why keep track of your age ? and some people even use things like age calculator . its like you are gettin closer and closer to your death every hour !

[Montmorency]

All this time I was using the participle "enjoined" when "to injunct" is a legitimate back-formation.

[Montmorency]

If you're going for chain fast food, please don't forget that there are usually coupons floating around that will let you double your money (or save half).

[ReluctantSamurai]

New Yorkers are just....well....squirrelly:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ghborhood-fear

At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodent’s reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.

Anti-squirrel weaponry?

“I came out of the house with a shovel after the first few days but now I think ‘I have the vaccine, I’m wearing heavy gloves, bring it on,’” she said.

Pretty sure you are at risk for rabies there, sweetheart, not COVID-19

[Montmorency]

I just realized --- all those old-timey allusions from the Bible, poetry, literature, or the Classics, that people tended to pepper into their speech and writing up to the early 20th century are pretty much the equivalent of contemporary Internet memes.

You know the sort I mean, 'And here am I as Laocoön before the very Hesperides on the night the poet saw Jericho' or some such

Those allusions, often recurring as stock phrases, had a specific evocative content that is categorically similar to memes.

[Dink1955]

Today's random thought... I hope $GME goes to the moon!

Anyone else on this ride?

[Shmidt03]

hello everyone

[Montmorency]

Say "Did we do the due diligence though?" three times fast.

[edyzmedieval]

Happy New Year everyone.

[spmetla]

A late Happy New Year to you all too! May 2022 be better than the last two!

[Montmorency]

Last fall I bought my first-ever bulk sack of rice. As I went to prepare some of it yesterday, the level finally running low, I figured out the cause of a few problems of mine.

Transfer grains and legumes to an airtight container immediately upon opening, dry rations may come pre-infested.

I had been having an escalating problem with moths, almost as bad as I'd ever seen in my life. Well, now I know. Rice may carry moth eggs, which hatch when exposed to air. Why have I never seen this information on any packaging?!?>

The trigger to the realization was noticing a couple of maggots crawling around in my measure of dry rice, with who knows how many more among the grains. There were even a couple of those small ants in there.

In a recipe I call "The Old-fashioned", I soldiered on with my rations as-is, because if it was more often than not good enough for our ancestors, it would be transitorily acceptable for me.

But it's kind of a miserable experience eating this, *knowing* that your food is contaminated with vermin. The knowledge haunts you with every bite as you ponder the nature of every firmness under the teeth and every sheerness the tongue laps. Also, slightly burned and mushy - because I cooked 6 cups of rice at once so I wouldn't feel bad about trashing the remainder. I forgot that you can't fill up a pot near-limit, the food in contact with the metal is overpressured and loses all its mositure faster than usual.

At least I learned my lesson before I opened my second sack of rice, which I just bought...

[Fragony]

A Chouffe, always a good idea