Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

To update my hockey love, the Blues just won their first Stanley Cup final game in franchise history to even the series 1-1. They now own home ice advantage for the series.

It was also one of the greatest games I ever watched, in any sport. It was close, physical, emotional, and there were so many amazing plays by both teams. In the first game, the Blues dominated at the beginning, but the Bruins dominated the bulk of the game and won. This time, neither team ever felt like they were dominating It was back and forth all night. Going to OT just made sense.

Saturday will be the first time in the Blues 52 years of franchise history that they will play a game in June.

Let's Go Blues!

Jayhawker wrote:

To update my hockey love, the Blues just won their first Stanley Cup final game in franchise history to even the series 1-1. They now own home ice advantage for the series.

It was also one of the greatest games I ever watched, in any sport. It was close, physical, emotional, and there were so many amazing plays by both teams. In the first game, the Blues dominated at the beginning, but the Bruins dominated the bulk of the game and won. This time, neither team ever felt like they were dominating It was back and forth all night. Going to OT just made sense.

Saturday will be the first time in the Blues 52 years of franchise history that they will play a game in June.

Let's Go Blues!

As a Sharks fan, I heartily endorse this. I want to be the team that lost to the champs.

...not the team known for choking... again... ugh.

I bought a new mattress. Looking forward to fewer mornings waking up with a stiff back.

Gremlin wrote:

I bought a new mattress. Looking forward to fewer mornings waking up with a stiff back.

what'd you go with?

Saw a new eggcorn today (well, new to me):

"Don’t think I’ve played this civ before, what’s up with the Easter island heads?"

"It’s Civ 5."

"Sorry I meant which civ as a pose to which game."

BadKen wrote:

Saw a new eggcorn today (well, new to me):

"Don’t think I’ve played this civ before, what’s up with the Easter island heads?"

"It’s Civ 5."

"Sorry I meant which civ as a pose to which game."

I think this should of been posted in the loathe thread.

Spoiler:

It hurt to even write that.

Demosthenes wrote:

I'm getting my teeth fixed up, FINALLY, on Friday. Went to a new dentist today to get a different quote since my savings were generally moving in a downward rather than upward direction after hitting 12k of my 30k goal/estimate by the last dentist.

7.2k with all the extractions and dentures, including healing dentures and the full-time use dentures after I heal back up.

A. I'm kind of annoyed I just spent the last 4 years NOT having this fixed because of the assholes as my last office... but...
B. I'm also SUPER EXCITED to be done with this and able to smile fully again. I can't even remember the last time I did that.

And yeah, they were done yesterday. Amusingly, the worst part of the process was really the shots for being numbed out at the start. Even the shots themselves were meh, but the friggin "fire in my bones" feeling after not so much. O_o

Anyway, then spent most of the rest of the day being a bloody mess, so that was kind of awful, I never want to be a vampire after smelling, tasting, and even burping that smell for like 12 hours straight. Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

But, took the dentures out for the first time this afternoon, did the first of my cleaning rinses (that reminds me, almost time for the next one) of the dentures, my mouth, etc... then popping them back in. Also so much weird mouth sh*t. Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

But, once back on, bleeding has entirely stopped so no more bloody smile, and I look... pretty good. It's super weird looking in the mirror and seeing a full set of teeth. O_o

The Deadwood movie was so damn good. I love the dialogue writing, shade throwing, and acting so damn much.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

The Deadwood movie was so damn good. I love the dialogue writing, shade throwing, and acting so damn much.

Watching it last night was a hell of a time. It turns out I missed that show a lot.

I will be starting it over here very soon.

Really enjoyed watching it. Was anyone missing? Seems like everyone down to some really small roles came back.

Edit to add... the dialog was damn near Shakespearean, every line. It's been a while since I last saw the series. Was every character so loquacious before?

Congrats Demosthenes! Hope it suits you.

polypusher wrote:

Really enjoyed watching it. Was anyone missing? Seems like everyone down to some really small roles came back.

Edit to add... the dialog was damn near Shakespearean, every line. It's been a while since I last saw the series. Was every character so loquacious before?

They missed a few, but I suspect the narrative demanded it. Hell, they even snuck in the actor who played Francis Wolcott and Jack McCall.
Absent characters in no particular order:

Regardless, it was soo good!

Ricky Jay (Eddie Sawyer) passed away last year too.

How did they sneak in the Jack McCall actor? They had McCall in a flashback but that was old footage. If he played another character I missed it.

polypusher wrote:

Ricky Jay (Eddie Sawyer) passed away last year too.

How did they sneak in the Jack McCall actor? They had McCall in a flashback but that was old footage. If he played another character I missed it.

During the Hearst and unruly mob scene (in a blink and you will miss it moment), he was one of the men with a bushy beard and a quick line.

Demosthenes wrote:

Even the shots themselves were meh, but the friggin "fire in my bones" feeling after not so much.

I’m not sure if that’s a normal side effect. You might be allergic to the anesthetic. Is this harmful or dangerous?

I found this: Anesthesia, and the pit of hell. But I’m not sure how closely related this is to your situation.

RawkGWJ wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Even the shots themselves were meh, but the friggin "fire in my bones" feeling after not so much.

I’m not sure if that’s a normal side effect. You might be allergic to the anesthetic. Is this harmful or dangerous?

I found this: Anesthesia, and the pit of hell. But I’m not sure how closely related this is to your situation.

I dunno, I get that when my face is full numbed up. When the feeling starts coming back it's suddenly crazy hot whenever I move my jaw for a solid hour or so.

Neither situation holds true for me, thankfully. I am strongly affected by locals, and with general, I'm always in a good mood going down. I usually smell cardamom, though, right after the first part knockout dose is delivered. Which is a great sendoff.

Watched an incredible documentary on the Acali raft. It was set up as an experiment to study the origins of aggression and violence with a mix of different classes, religions and nationalities with every choice being aimed at creating strife on the raft as they drifted across the Atlantic. Really worth seeing if you can.

Yeah, that “researcher” was a real psycho. Almost a cult situation there.

Historical Roasts on Netflix. If I started a thread it might be locked or put into P&C. Needless to say, the roast of Anne Frank with Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler seems wrong and unfunny. The former, yes. The latter? Well, let's just say some stuff that was said made me laugh and say "holy sh*t... can they say that!?"

Robear wrote:

Yeah, that “researcher” was a real psycho. Almost a cult situation there.

The documentary perhaps didn't go into the full details but:

Spoiler:

He put women in all the important posts, captain, diver, doctor claiming that he wanted to see if the raft would be more or less peaceful as a result but clearly he was expecting the men with menial tasks to revolt. As the journey went on there were really no outbreaks of conflict or violence. The researcher, Santiago, then set about actively trying to instigate aggression without much success other than to cause most of the folks on the raft to meet one night and discuss various ways to kill him for the sake of their survival, which he was completely unaware of. In the end they decided not to do anything.

None of the male 'subjects' had a problem (as far as the documentary revealed) with the women in charge but Santiago did. The rudder broke and he wouldn't let the qualified scuba diver fix it, instead trying and failing to fix it himself. She went in at night while he was asleep and quickly fixed it. When he found out in the morning he was furious. He also relieved the captain of her command for a while before reinstating her after a near collision with a freighter.

One of the women afterwards said he was so focussed on fuelling conflict that he missed the true result of the experiment which was that a diversity of views and perspectives can be over come with understanding and deep communication.

Today is my wedding anniversary. 13 years!

SallyNasty wrote:

Today is my wedding anniversary. 13 years!

Congrats!

Funny story, we hit 11 about 10 days ago. Both of us forgot to say anything until we got a text from one of our parents at lunchtime.

In fairness we have a 6 month old and are both exhausted. But I guess we're the old married couple who forgot an anniversary finally.

Robear wrote:

She went in at night while he was asleep and quickly fixed it.

Leave it to the trained & qualified ladies to get sh*t done while the faffer is faffing.

Higgledy wrote:

One of the women afterwards said he was so focussed on fuelling conflict that he missed the true result of the experiment which was that a diversity of views and perspectives can be over come with understanding and deep communication.

I haven’t watched this doc yet. It sounds interesting.

Just from reading the posts here, it seems like the nature of human altruism may have also been overlooked. It’s too bad that the “researcher” had such an obvious hidden agenda. In some other social experiments like this, the researchers expected tribalism to ensue. There was an expectation for Lord of the Flies behavior to run rampant, but in almost every case altruism amongst the participants was the dominant result.

The exception to this was when one group was given ultimate power over another group. When this was done the power group quickly resorted to tribalism and dehumanization of the subordinate group. I’m specifically thinking of the Stanford Prison Experiment but there are other examples as well.

RawkGWJ wrote:

The exception to this was when one group was given ultimate power over another group. When this was done the power group quickly resorted to tribalism and dehumanization of the subordinate group. I’m specifically thinking of the Stanford Prison Experiment but there are other examples as well.

I’ve heard of that one. Sounds pretty horrifying. That’s an interesting difference between the two experiments that, sadly, explains the different outcomes.

Higgledy wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

The exception to this was when one group was given ultimate power over another group. When this was done the power group quickly resorted to tribalism and dehumanization of the subordinate group. I’m specifically thinking of the Stanford Prison Experiment but there are other examples as well.

I’ve heard of that one. Sounds pretty horrifying. That’s an interesting difference between the two experiments that, sadly, explains the different outcomes.

This is why most human subjects research is subject to Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight. I've had to go through it for working with anonymized GPS data collected through a third party and running surveys and focus groups on a non-sensitive subject. They take it seriously.

In the IRB investigator training we have to read about the prison experiment, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, and other past violations of the rights of human participants. Whenever I'm mad that a project is getting delayed by IRB red tape, it helps to think of those and be reminded why the red tape exists.

SallyNasty wrote:

Today is my wedding anniversary. 13 years!

Are you secretly related to me? It is also my brother and sister-in-law's thirteenth.

Will try to find links when I'm not on my phone, but I thought the Stanford Prison Experiment has been called into question as largely faked and scripted