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Your father smelt of elderberries!

I had deep fried cheesecake and deep fried oreos. Oreos weren't that good. Cheesecake was like heaven. Had it at place called Man vs Fries.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Your father smelt of elderberries!

Well, yeah, that's why I had to taste the wine. A bit more "dry" than the blueberry wine. Still very good.

Your mother was a hamster?

I've secretly been taking video of my new upstairs neighbors:

Sent a picture of my 2 week old to a friend and he said, "Your burrito has a face." Made my day.

I was finally diagnosed with Graves Disease (overactive thyroid). Why not post in the loathe thread? Well, it's kinda nice to finally have a label for why I've been feeling so crap this year.

I'm on medication now, and while side effects can be pretty severe, I'm finally feeling normal again. I forgot how this felt. It feels great! I'm not sweating every day, I'm not constantly hungry, my heart has calmed down!

Not a love nor a loathe. It's a sh*tty situation, but it's nice to get some relief.

I make the coffee.
Notice dead insect floating in pot.
What is it like to drown in blackness

I wash out the pot
I make a new pot of blackness
I wonder if there are souls drowned I can not see
IN THE COFFEE
IN THE BLACKNESS

Cream, Sugar, Alcohol
The blackness swallows them all
Swallows them like hell swallows evil souls

Insects in your coffee is gross.

Roo wrote:

My weird taste in white wine includes Liebfraumilch, 4 euros/bottle (which one of my friends likes to call "the whore of wines" for some reason...) and fairly expensive Chardonnays. That sign does *not* inspire me to purchase the latter there. You like what you like.

Wine tasting is mostly crap. Particularly in California, you can get exceptionally good wines for very little money. People will turn up their noses because they're cheap, but in real blind testing, they rate as well or better as very expensive ones.

Basically, the whole snobby part of that industry is a big game to pretend that some people are better than others. It's about seeking status, not about truth. They don't do blind testing of wine for a reason: they want to hoax you into thinking that the expensive wine tastes better.

I mean, sometimes it actually does. It's not like all expensive wines are crap. Many are very good indeed. But many cheap wines are excellent; they're only cheap because the label isn't as well known, not because they're bad. Do some blind tests with your friends if they don't believe you.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

I make the coffee.
Notice dead insect floating in pot.
What is it like to drown in blackness

I wash out the pot
I make a new pot of blackness
I wonder if there are souls drowned I can not see
IN THE COFFEE
IN THE BLACKNESS

Cream, Sugar, Alcohol
The blackness swallows them all
Swallows them like hell swallows evil souls

Insects in your coffee is gross.

Aggressive snapping

So I've been playing games on my PC with an extra PS4 controller I had lying around, but am I correct to believe that an XBOne controller would probably work better?

Depends on what you consider as better and the game. Many games have direct support for the xbox controller to the point they only show xbox prompts even if you using a keyboard. I have never seen that for a ps4 controller but just like a keyboard I have never had a game not work with one except if the game used rumble or pressure. I don't have a xbox but usually use it on a pc or switch. I use the PS4 controller only on the console or using emulators.

Problematic as he can be, I can see why Chris Rock is considered one of the best comedians of his generation. I really do. But boy do I loathe his "repeat the punchline ad inifinitum" schtick, to the point where I can't bear watching him anymore. I know, other comedians to it too, especially Americans, but he's the worst offender.

I have a strange craving for fondue today.

dejanzie wrote:

Problematic as he can be, I can see why Chris Rock is considered one of the best comedians of his generation. I really do. But boy do I loathe his "repeat the punchline ad inifinitum" schtick, to the point where I can't bear watching him anymore. I know, other comedians to it too, especially Americans, but he's the worst offender.

To his credit he stopped doing that n-word bit about wanting credit for doing what you’re supposed to do, ie, “I take care of MY kids!”, and, “I ain’t never been to jail!” “Good. You’re not supposed to go to jail.”

That said, none of his stand up specials in the past ten years have made me laugh. He was charming that Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee episode. He’s no Dave Chappell. As problematic as Dave can be (very) he leaves me in stitches practically every time. When I’m not shaking my head and groaning that is.

More embarrassing: Being overdressed at an event or being underdressed?

I guess it matters what kind of event it is, because looking like a slob when everyone else is dressed to the nines is bad, but overdressing when everyone else is business casual can make you look like a real jackass (says the guy who showed up to the office holiday party in a suit when the dress code was actually "wear nice sneakers").

It's easy to dress down a little if you show up overdressed. Take off your tie and jacket, unbutton your top couple buttons, roll up your sleeves. You're not quite down to "wear nice sneakers" level, but you're not so overdressed as to make folks uncomfortable.

Hard to go in the other direction. If you show up to a suit and tie event in nice sneakers, you can't turn your nice sneakers into a tie.

Prederick wrote:

overdressing when everyone else is business casual can make you look like a real jackass

Or you just lean into it and show up in a tuxedo for every event. When someone asks why you're wearing a tux, sniff and say "it's after 6pm, what else would I be wearing?"

Definitely better to be overdressed than underdressed.

Prederick wrote:

More embarrassing: Being overdressed at an event or being underdressed?

I guess it matters what kind of event it is, because looking like a slob when everyone else is dressed to the nines is bad, but overdressing when everyone else is business casual can make you look like a real jackass (says the guy who showed up to the office holiday party in a suit when the dress code was actually "wear nice sneakers").

hbi2k wrote:

It's easy to dress down a little if you show up overdressed. Take off your tie and jacket, unbutton your top couple buttons, roll up your sleeves. You're not quite down to "wear nice sneakers" level, but you're not so overdressed as to make folks uncomfortable.

Hard to go in the other direction. If you show up to a suit and tie event in nice sneakers, you can't turn your nice sneakers into a tie.

Turn that tie into a headband and start a conga line.

As far as what’s LESS embarrassing... overdressed is less embarrassing. The thought of showing up in a Star Wars tee while everyone else is wearing suits makes me cringe.

Coldstream wrote:
Prederick wrote:

overdressing when everyone else is business casual can make you look like a real jackass

Or you just lean into it and show up in a tuxedo for every event. When someone asks why you're wearing a tux, sniff and say "it's after 6pm, what else would I be wearing?"

What am I, a farmer?

Back in the day, I really disliked the political satire of Stephen Colbert. I love how he was able to ditch all that and just speak his angry mind and actually be funny.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Back in the day, I really disliked the political satire of Stephen Colbert. I love how he was able to ditch all that and just speak his angry mind and actually be funny.

Yeah. It was a good schtick when he was opposite Jon Stewart. That whole thing was a parody of the “equal time” policy of mainstream news, where if they were covering a progressive issue they would give equal time to some crack-pot righty so he could spew hate and misinformation. That policy is an example of the false equivalency fallacy.

Yeah, I love Colbert now, but in his persona, sometimes he wasn't so much funny, as just mean. I watched an interview with him on the Colbert Report with Paul Simon, and thought, "Okay, now you're just being a dick, and it's not funny." and stopped watching him.

Now, I wake up (here in Greece) and watch his monologue in the morning on Youtube, while eating breakfast, before going to work...

After my younger sister's wedding, I went back to my parent's house and the bridesmaids staying with us wanted to watch a movie we didn't have, so I offered to rent it from our local Family Video. I knew the girl who worked there and as I was paying for the movie, she asked me why I was in a suit and I hit her with my best Donaghy.

Thinking back, the store closed not too long after and she moved on so the last words I ever said to her were "It's after six. What am I, a farmer?"

I just wrote something and deleted it.


I just wrote something else and then deleted it. This could go on for a while. I’m just going to stop.
Roo wrote:

Yeah, I love Colbert now, but in his persona, sometimes he wasn't so much funny, as just mean. I watched an interview with him on the Colbert Report with Paul Simon, and thought, "Okay, now you're just being a dick, and it's not funny." and stopped watching him.

While I agree Colbert is a lot more palatable as himself, his Colbert Report persona was always an intricately crafted act. He was never intentionally being a dick to anyone. If you watched Fox News the same years his show was on, far worse things happened on that network. Look for a serious interview with Colbert some time -- the man is a genius, and he takes his work as a comedian very seriously. He has talked about how the years of doing the Colbert Report really weighed on his soul.

To be honest, I sometimes felt the same way about Colbert Report "interviews." The character on The Colbert Report was always a smug, self-righteous prick. It was hard to watch sometimes. But for me, it was always easier to watch than Fox News (which, thanks to my father, was always on the TV when I lived with my parents for a while). It served as a reminder that people were being fed that kind of cruel, insensitive nonsense, and worse, 24 hours a day on another network. Even worse, some people took the Colbert persona at face value and were convinced he was actually a True Believer.

I remember an interview he did about the Colbert Report where he said he didn't let his children watch it because that's not daddy, that's a character daddy plays and they were too young to know the difference and he didn't want them emulating that character on accident.

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I randomly Googled "why do birds sing" tonight, and this picture is on the first article and I've been giggling at it for like five minutes now, because that bird doesn't look like it's singing, it looks like it's screaming.

Which, I mean, it kinda probably is, considering that birds sing to mark their territory and look for mates. So that bird is just going "CHECK OUT MY PAD NO DUDES COME NEAR MY PAD LADIES WHO WANTS TO F**************************CK"