In reply to eastsideTim :
To be fair, you tried something that sounds disgusting... and it was disgusting
In reply to eastsideTim :
To be fair, you tried something that sounds disgusting... and it was disgusting
In reply to eastsideTim :
The Coke Oreos weren't any better, but, I don't like Coka Cola to begin with.
In reply to eastsideTim :
Coke Zero tastes like a chemistry accident.
Any time Ihear someone say rootbeer tastes like medicine, I stop and think, "What berkeleying medicine are you taking?!?!"
I just watched a TV commercial for a hair care product where it was claimed that your hair can grow 590 miles in your lifetime.
Ummm, that'd be about 85 feet per day so I'll go out on a limb here and say no, no it won't.
eastsideTim said:I tried Oreo-flavored Coke Zero. I say this as someone with a massive sweet tooth. It is an affront to every deity that may or may not exist. It is the liquid equivalent to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from Calvin and Hobbes.
My official position:
Oreo-flavored Coke: 6/10
Coke-flavored Oreo: 3/10
Appleseed said:Any time Ihear someone say rootbeer tastes like medicine, I stop and think, "What berkeleying medicine are you taking?!?!"
Root beer doesn't taste like medicine.
It tastes like foamy mouthwash.
If mouthwash was made out of NECCO wafers.
RX Reven' said:I just watched a TV commercial for a hair care product where it was claimed that your hair can grow 590 miles in your lifetime.
Ummm, that'd be about 85 feet per day so I'll go out on a limb here and say no, no it won't.
For anyone wondering, the internet says that hair grows about 0.5 inches a month. Even if someone's hair grew 4 inches a month, and that is uniform from day one, and lived to 100... that would still be about 400 feet.
RX Reven' said:I just watched a TV commercial for a hair care product where it was claimed that your hair can grow 590 miles in your lifetime.
Ummm, that'd be about 85 feet per day so I'll go out on a limb here and say no, no it won't.
Did the commercial say your hair grows 590 miles in a lifetime, or that you grow 590 miles of hair?
A quick and careless internet search says the average human head has about 100,000 hairs on it. If you figure 85 hair-feet per day, that works out to about a third of an inch per hair every month, which seems pretty low.
This unnecessarily dull over-analysis has been brought to you by too much time on my hands.
mtn said:RX Reven' said:I just watched a TV commercial for a hair care product where it was claimed that your hair can grow 590 miles in your lifetime.
Ummm, that'd be about 85 feet per day so I'll go out on a limb here and say no, no it won't.
For anyone wondering, the internet says that hair grows about 0.5 inches a month. Even if someone's hair grew 4 inches a month, and that is uniform from day one, and lived to 100... that would still be about 400 feet.
Maybe they meant the combined length was 590 miles? 400ft x 100k hairs on average human head = 7576 miles of hair end-to-end...which is still an order of magnitude above the ballpark so I guess we have to assume they pulled the number out of their ass after all. Or maybe they asked ChatGPT.
Duke said:Appleseed said:Any time Ihear someone say rootbeer tastes like medicine, I stop and think, "What berkeleying medicine are you taking?!?!"
Root beer doesn't taste like medicine.
It tastes like foamy mouthwash.
If mouthwash was made out of NECCO wafers.
Modify the appropriate terms and I'd ask the same question, "What berkeleying mouthwash are you gargling?!?!"!
Appleseed said:Duke said:Appleseed said:Any time Ihear someone say rootbeer tastes like medicine, I stop and think, "What berkeleying medicine are you taking?!?!"
Root beer doesn't taste like medicine.
It tastes like foamy mouthwash.
If mouthwash was made out of NECCO wafers.
Modify the appropriate terms and I'd ask the same question, "What berkeleying mouthwash are you gargling?!?!"!
NECCO Wafer mouthwash, obvs.
This new season of Futurama is berkeleying horrible. Just absolutely terrible. Let it die already before you ruin the rest of my good memories of it.
Megacorp now has training with AI generated human looking hosts. They are so human looking it took a couple minutes to figure out they weren't real.
The whole concept is concerning. If people can't tell what is real and what is computer generated it is just a recipe for misinformation.
NY Nick said:
The whole concept is concerning. If people can't tell what is real and what is computer generated it is just a recipe for misinformation.
Too late.
Appleseed said:Duke said:Appleseed said:Any time Ihear someone say rootbeer tastes like medicine, I stop and think, "What berkeleying medicine are you taking?!?!"
Root beer doesn't taste like medicine.
It tastes like foamy mouthwash.
If mouthwash was made out of NECCO wafers.
Modify the appropriate terms and I'd ask the same question, "What berkeleying mouthwash are you gargling?!?!"!
I'll ask you: "What berking root beer are you drinking that tastes even remotely palatable?"
In almost 60 years on this planet, I've never even smelled one, let alone tasted one.
RevRico said:In reply to eastsideTim :
The Coke Oreos weren't any better, but, I don't like Coka Cola to begin with.
I didn't terribly mind the Coke Oreos... they were far from my favorite of their specialty flavors (I think the recent Mint Chip ones are pretty high up there though) but edible.
I've not seen the Oreo Coke sold in a single can to try it... I figure it will likely be something I don't have more than once but I'm curious.
Local farmer dies. Kids inherit small farm, don't want it. Kids partner with developer to plan a pretty cool housing development that integrates the old farm and lake, keeping some of this history and green space (including a big farm plot for the residents). All this is just outside Atlanta, so not in a rural area. Farm is surrounded by older houses.
Farm neighbors pitched a fit and throw everything they can in the way to stop the development. Farm gets rezoned but the developer says "f' it" I'm out after all the BS. So now the farm is abandoned and falling apart.
NOW the neighbors are mad that the lake is starting to silt up and trees are falling into it. Hmm, seems the old farmer put a LOT of work into the lake the neighbors have taken for granted for decades. The lake is 100% on the farm land, so it is never been a public lake. But everyone enjoyed it as their own.
I told the neighbors it is time to repay the favor, talk to the kids and offer to maintain the lake themselves. Nope, the neighbors want to FORCE the kids to maintain it via code enforcement. Except it is a private lake. The kids are within their rights to just let it fill in as long as the dam isn't a danger to anyone downstream. Tempted to call the kids and suggest they just drain the lake slowly.
WTF?
You did what?
This door was quoted to reuse the existing hardware as a cost-saving measure.
So why in the hell did you throw the old panel away with all the hardware on it? That's about $300 in pivots and a $1000 mortise lockset you pitched in the garbage.
You aren't going to like the next quote at all.
In reply to Toyman! :
After reading your stories all these years I think you should write a book: "Tales From The Other Side Of The Door". It would be full of all the stupid stuff you've had to deal with.
I'm already toying with a "tales from the NIMBY zone" book.
In reply to slefain :
I'd read both of those.
In reply to eastsideTim :
I agree but geez why feed the beast Megacorp?
slefain said:In reply to Toyman! :
After reading your stories all these years I think you should write a book: "Tales From The Other Side Of The Door". It would be full of all the stupid stuff you've had to deal with.
It would read a lot like Acts of Gord.
Exceedingly minor rant that isn't founded in reason, because different people want different things, but...
Why did seemingly 93% of people buying F250s/F350s from 2005-2015ish spec Crew Cabs and short beds? Didn't they know I want a Supercab and long bed?
I'd be less stupidly indignant if I didn't think a shortbed truck was hardly a truck, despite knowing full well there are other use cases that are still "truck." I keep wondering how badly I'd hate it if I succumbed to the somewhat more available Crew/long combo and I think it would be annoying pretty frequently.
I've had another Mitsubishi Mirage as a rental car for the past week. Yesterday, we drove 3.5 hours into West Texas with to transfer a greyhound to a breed-specific greyhound rescue.
Dear reader, as you can imagine, 78hp and a CVT is not super fun on Texas' 75mph Autobahns. That poor car spent more time at WOT than any car I've ever driven.
Mitsubishi's tag line should be "The Mitsubishi Mirage: It's not a good car, it's good enough.*"
*On surface streets below 35mph with only a driver and no wind. Mitsubishi Motors is not responsible or liable for the definition of " good enough". Your results may vary. Good luck.
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