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[cuervo72]

Still Team Thomas as far as Heathers go.

[CrimsonFox]

No love for Heather Matarazzo?

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by molson

I don't know how to get the check in European restaurants.

Sometimes I just get up walk over to the server, but, they usually seem shocked by that.

I think I'm supposed to signal them from my table, but I can never get their attention and raising my voice or waving my arm is outside my comfort zone.

I guess culturally I'm supposed to sit there for 2 hours, but, I have a limited time in their beautiful country, we have shit to do.

Of course this also means I'm only getting one beer because they're never checking on us after the food is served. We have somewhat gotten around this by ordering a bottle of wine off the bat instead.

Are you having lunch or dinner?

There usually is an expectation that if you came to a restaurant to eat, you have time to sit and enjoy your meal experience. This is especially the case if it is more than one person. The thought is if you just wanted to eat, you would hit a kebab shop, food truck or street vendor. If you tell the staff that you are in a rush, I have found that they will speed up the service though it won't be American fast.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Randomly watched an old episode of TJ Hooker this morning.

Daaaaaaaayum, 24 y/o Heather Locklear was something else

Complete goddess.

[Edward64]

From that era, I was more partial to Catherine Oxenberg from Dynasty.

[CrimsonFox]

Tiktok Darwin unite for another award.

Disfigured body, 80% burns: Dangerous TikTok challenge leaves US teen 'unrecognisable'

[CrimsonFox]

So I'm curious...I know I've done a few things we've regretted. when we were young and there wasn't even tiktok around. What things have you guys done that risked your life for no reason when you were growing up?

My best friend and I were at Turkey Run State Park on a school trip with german club. We were bored of the normal trails so we just started climbing up any embankments we could find. We climbed up to a rocky stone area up to where there was forest. We walked around but there wasn't really another way down. There WAS however a large tree that had fallen over and formed a makeshift bridge to another high rocky forest plateau. I had me a nice wizard staff by this point (I love walking sticks/wizard staffs) and for no reason we started shimmying across. My friend seemed to make it with no problem. I was scared to death however once I started across. Dropped my stick because it was not good to hold it instead of the trunk. I watched it fall we were over like a path between the two rocky plateaus and saw people. THere werte people too (tho i didn't drop it on them) I shimmied across inch by inch and stopped looking down. Eventually I made it across. Oh boy. That was so dumb. We eventually found another way down where there were a lot of people where the water was flowing over this rock. I was so freaked out. I think back at it. If we had fallen off the tree it was like 100 feet down or so. Onto smooth rock. I'm sure if I searched on youtube I'd find things like this really

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

We had a Roscoe-on-Roscoe murder in southern KY and that feels exceedingly on-brand for KY.

What's a roscoe

[NobodyHere]

Raise your hand if you had "Pinkertons" and "Magic the Gathering" in the same news article.

Magic publishers sent Pinkertons to YouTubers house over leaked cards - Polygon

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Raise your hand if you had "Pinkertons" and "Magic the Gathering" in the same news article.

Magic publishers sent Pinkertons to YouTubers house over leaked cards - Polygon

Not on my Bingo card. Even my 2020s Bingo card, which, well, has a lot of crazy on it



SI

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

What's a roscoe

The name of an inordinate number of backwoods southern people. Some of them even become law enforcement.

[albionmoonlight]

Mrs. A and I were discussing this weekend plants and animals that we all don't even think of as weird because they exist, so they seem normal. But if they didn't exist, and they appeared in science fiction, you'd be impressed with the creativity of the author:

Giraffes
Venus Fly Traps
Caterpillars-->Butterflys
Kangaroos

[Lathum]

Anglerfish

[Kodos]

The platypus.

[NobodyHere]

Watching Others Indulge in Junk Food Can Curb Your Appetite and Aid in Weight Loss - Neuroscience News

So my takeaway of this is that I need to start watching more feedee porn.

[Edward64]

Love Kit Kats.

I know I'm going to try it, hope its a hit.

Kit Kat lovers in the United States can finally enjoy the iconic chocolate wafer taste in their cereal bowl.

After its successful launch in Europe earlier this year, General Mills confirmed that the cereal has now made its way to American shelves.
:
Priced at $5.69, the Kit Kat cereal will be available nationwide starting in May.

[Kodos]

Kit Kats are my favorite, but…. Yuck.

[Ksyrup]

I don't get anyone past the age of 14 liking dessert cereal.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I don't get anyone past the age of 14 liking dessert cereal.

One word ... sugar.

[Ksyrup]

Right. There are so many better ways to get a sugar rush than breakfast food.

[NobodyHere]

I still want to try this one day:

[bob]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Following up on my Hardee's closures post from last week. Looks like the body count in Georgia is at least 14 locations (which joins at least two others that closed last year)

But also on the DL "temporarily" is the BK in the Athens suburb of Watkinsville. It was mostly notable for 2 things: 1) the worst ingress/egress design layout I'd ever seen for any restaurant. Even worse than CFA building on postage stamp sized lots. It was a wreck waiting for a place to happen. local law enforcement protested the design to no avail

And 2) having the longest running severe short staff problem I'd ever seen anywhere. It's kind of a pity. It was really the only BK in the area that didn't feel like it was staffed by Tyrone Biggum's friends & family ... which, come to think of it, actually having some hiring standards might be why it was perpetually shortstaffed.

I saw this online:

Tomorrow's News Today - Atlanta: [EXCLUSIVE] Hardee's Has Quietly Closed More Than Dozen Restaurants in Georgia

[cuervo72]

So, I support the WGA strike but, uh, unless this includes the Jeopardy! clue writers, it won't affect me in the least.

[NobodyHere]

Yeah, there's just so much content out there that I haven't seen so I wouldn't really miss getting new stuff for a while.

But they better still be giving us the new season of Futurama!

[bob]

Does anyone have a good password manager recommendation? Last Pass has pissed me off for the last time.

[Kodos]

I switched from LastPass to BitWarden. Have been happy with the choice so far.

[jcard]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

Mrs. A and I were discussing this weekend plants and animals that we all don't even think of as weird because they exist, so they seem normal. But if they didn't exist, and they appeared in science fiction, you'd be impressed with the creativity of the author:

Giraffes
Venus Fly Traps
Caterpillars-->Butterflys
Kangaroos

Humans.

[Atocep]

The original V series turned 40 and I'm not sure I can handle that information.

[jcard]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I don't get anyone past the age of 14 liking dessert cereal.

Honestly, I have real objections to parents buying that stuff for their kids. It is like when they sell as muffins what are in fact just giant cupcakes. With these cereals, they take an already highly-processed simple carbohydrate product and just add a lot of sugar. If you put the same ingredients in a wrapper and stuck it in the Snacks or Sweets aisles, people would criticize serving that fro kids as a meal. Instead, the word Cereal serves as a fig leaf for being part of a complete healthy breakfast.

The eating habits of this country are beyond embarrassing, and the scourge of avoidable medical conditions that result imposes a real cost on everyone in society. Teaching kids at least good practices and an awareness of the fact that what you put into your body has real consequences should be among the basic standards of sound parenting.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by jcard

Honestly, I have real objections to parents buying that stuff for their kids. It is like when they sell as muffins what are in fact just giant cupcakes. With these cereals, they take an already highly-processed simple carbohydrate product and just add a lot of sugar. If you put the same ingredients in a wrapper and stuck it in the Snacks or Sweets aisles, people would criticize serving that fro kids as a meal. Instead, the word Cereal serves as a fig leaf for being part of a complete healthy breakfast.

The eating habits of this country are beyond embarrassing, and the scourge of avoidable medical conditions that result imposes a real cost on everyone in society. Teaching kids at least good practices and an awareness of the fact that what you put into your body has real consequences should be among the basic standards of sound parenting.

I bet you're just a joy at parties

[jcard]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I bet you're just a joy at parties

I guess others would have to be the judges of that. Generally, the people at the parties I attend do not consider a desire to educate children out of a concern concern for their long-term health to be cause for derision.

[cartman]

Why are baby foxes so damn cute? I noticed some digging near the steps to my house. I set up some game cameras, and there are apparently two litters of kits living in a den they dug under my front steps. I counted 7 of the little things on one of the videos. I've got a bunch of videos of them playing, nursing when the momma foxes come around, and also have vids of the big foxes bringing back birds and mice they've caught.

[stevew]

Turn those into TikToks

[cartman]

does that mean I have to superimpose myself dancing?

[cartman]

trying out YouTube. Believe it or not, I've never uploaded anything to there.

Here's one of the mama foxes nursing, and all 7 of the kits playing

[stevew]

They latched onto her like she was a milk truck.

[Ksyrup]

Posting this here instead of the Shooting thread because it's off-topic and a bit too lighthearted for that thread.

Random/odd personal fact about the place they caught the Texas shooting suspect - Cut and Shoot TX. Memorable name for a town. We lived in College Station for less than 2 awful years in the early 80s and at some point, we made our way through Cut and Shoot (it's roughly between CS and Houston). We stopped for gas and a bathroom break somewhere. My brother, who was maybe 8 or 9 at the time, was going through a phase where he would rate the cleanliness of every public bathroom he came across. That day, he pronounced the bathroom at whatever gas station we stopped at in Cut and Shoot TX to be the cleanest bathroom he'd ever been in.

Last night when the news of the suspect being captured broke and it specifically mentioned Cut and Shoot, we all texted each other roughly about the same time about how we wondered if Cut and Shoot still had the cleanest bathroom.

[Lathum]

lol. Good story

In other news, I have come to the realization I am going to live in squalor and disorganization the next 8 years until my youngest, hopefully, goes to college.

[Kodos]

Yep. I learned that in a case of one neat person (me) versus three not-so-neat people, I'm going to lose. Always. The clutter can never be defeated.

[Lathum]

Our house is 3 neat people, vs 1 very not neat person( my 10 year old) and she is defeating up handedly. It is clutter everywhere she goes.

[Lathum]

I'm being hypnotized today and I am not really sure how I feel about it.

[cuervo72]

Probably however the hypnotist tells you to feel about it.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I'm being hypnotized today and I am not really sure how I feel about it.

you should feel sleepy, very sleepy

[Critch]

Put your underwear on backwards.

Check afterwards that they're still backwards, otherwise they've been off at some point while you were under.

[Kodos]

You'd love to send Kodos a check to help with upcoming college tuition.

[Edward64]

My son went out of state. My daughter is in-state.

Go in-state if possible.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Edward64

My son went out of state. My daughter is in-state.
Go in-state if possible.

Ehhhhhh ... the trick is getting the right offers from out-of-state. Then suddenly it's a completely different ball game. Then the cost difference can be negligible.

The tricky part about that is it's tougher to pull off if you haven't spent several years finagling and focusing on that.

[jcard]

Originally Posted by Lathum

lol. Good story

In other news, I have come to the realization I am going to live in squalor and disorganization the next 8 years until my youngest, hopefully, goes to college.

Is Squalor and Disorganization near Cut and Shoot?

[stevew]

I need this sudden bout with (I think) Plantar Fasciitis to end. It sucks, especially in the morning.

[B & B]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I'm being hypnotized today and I am not really sure how I feel about it.

Is there any way you could just sorta zonk me out? So that I dont know that Im at work. In here. (points to head)

Could I come home and think that Ive been fishing all day or.........