Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[BongoYodeler]

The Princess of Wales is missing, the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s, France would be looking to invade...

 

[balrog]

The Princess of Wales is missing, the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s, France would be looking to invade...

If this were Game of Thrones, I'd be looking for dragons.

 

[Dland]

The Princess of Wales is missing, the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s, France would be looking to invade...

And any time the 500 years after that too.

 

[balrog]

Ya know what?
I think I'm gonna pass on attending this year.

Not like I have ever attended, that is.

 

[seatazzz]

PSA - Do NOT youtube and brew if you have mild ADD like I do. I FORGOT THE BITTERING HOPS. Let's just make that big for everyone to see:

I FORGOT THE BITTERING HOPS.

Been watching youtube about gaming and just spaced over it. Oh, and did I mention?

I FORGOT THE BITTERING HOPS!!!!!

In a lager!!! I am an idiot!!!!!!

 

[BongoYodeler]

To whoever is making cheese commercials: Save your money!! We're already buying cheese, and we're never going to stop buying cheese.
(Same with toilet paper).

 

[balrog]

Scrolling the interwebz, I just learnt that David Gilmour and Tom Jones did a live version of Purple Rain in 1992.

I am dumbfounded I did not know that.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-jones-david-gilmour-prince-purple-rain-988310/

 

[GrogNerd]

Doc gave me antibiotics, says "no vigorous exercise"

Gee, Doc... do I look like that would be a problem?

 

[balrog]

First there was Aerosmith and "Love In An Elevator", now there's "Yoga In A Storage Unit"

https://lifehacker.com/home/five-le...a-storage-unit?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
"A personal yoga studio is a natural use for a storage unit"

 

[balrog]

As you age, your system changes a little.
So does it mean when you get your bloodwork and your "A1C" is "borderline", that you have to watch carbs? And by carbs, of course I mean sugar in coffee, sodas, bread, pasta, potatoes.

Not beer.


Surely you don't mean beer.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Of course not. Carbs aren't liquid.

 

[BongoYodeler]

I was watching the dog chase its tail and I thought, "dogs are easily amused."
.....then I realized I was watching a dog chase its tail.

 

[GrogNerd]

the wife & I are arguing whether the first or final season of "Firefly" is the best.

 

[balrog]

the wife & I are arguing whether the first or final season of "Firefly" is the best.

They are.

 

[Dland]

I thought there was only one season? Then a movie of sorts.

 

[GrogNerd]

my brother is at a propane convention in NC.

told him if he runs into this dude, get a selfie with him

 

[balrog]

I thought there was only one season? Then a movie of sorts.

Correct. Hence the humor.

 

[GrogNerd]

My attempt at humor fails due to lack of being funny

 

[Agent]

The fact Firefly only ran one season still hurts two decades later...

 

[Sailingeric]

 

[lumpher]

I thought there was only one season? Then a movie of sorts.

Fireflies are very short-lived creatures, like certain food groups in my house... beer and pretzels, cheese, nachos... and YES, they are all their own food groups. Very important to us in the good ole US of Texas...

 

[day_trippr]

Massive jinx, dammit!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/weather/eclipse-forecast-clouds-climate/index.html

 

[lumpher]

Massive jinx, dammit!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/weather/eclipse-forecast-clouds-climate/index.html

Yep. I'm in the path of 100% eclipse, and 100% cloudy.

 

[balrog]

If anyone is feeling a particularly strong disturbance in the Force, it is because of leftovers. I am currently mixing two distinctly different genres. I am finishing off Costco fried dumplings, and Costco tequila in margaritas.

Apologies.

 

[GrogNerd]

on April 7, 1933, the sale of 3.2% ABW (4.1% by volume) beer was made legal again in the United States, ending 12 years of Prohibition. full repeal of the Volstead Act would not come for another 8 months

April 7 is celebrated as US National Beer Day


HAPPY BEER DAY!

 

[seatazzz]

How apropos as I'm brewing today. Quick question: is it wrong of me to keep adjusting the mash temperature in my brewvision app, to match what's actually the temperature of the mash, just to shut up the alarm? Instead of physically getting up from comfy chair (and HBT) and adjusting the burner? Yeah, that's what I thought. Kinda like a smoke alarm.

 

[day_trippr]

Jinx: New England is looking good! The rest of the USA, not so much...

 

[Rish]

I planned to travel to AR (about 6 hours) to see totality but got spooked by weather forecasts. Stayed home and saw onset until max (86%) in my driveway before the clouds blocked the rest. Turns out where I was going had pretty good views.Not really sad that I didn't drive those 12 hours especially since I saw the total in 2017.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Only had to go an hour north to get to a spot (and 2.5 hrs back-wish I had been driving). Very high cirrus clouds that didn't obscure the view at all.
Trying to get pics to this phone to share, but even my autistic boy was able to watch in silence for a minute or two as sun dipped into totality.
Was pretty cool.

 

[balrog]

was in the adirondacks
it were amazeballs

The sun is roughly 110x the diameter of the Earth.
Means those couple of pink flares are bigger than Earth.

 

[balrog]

Bacon alone cannot solve all our problems.


That's what bourbon is for.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

 

[balrog]

It begins.

Yard mowed first time this season. (Western Mass)

<sigh>

Time for a beer!

(Yeah, I didn’t really need the yard mowing prompt for that)

[edit: also, what the fashizzle with the entire lawn being inundated w bittercress this year??!!]

 

[Skeeter686]

[edit: also, what the fashizzle with the entire lawn being inundated w bittercress this year??!!]
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At least you know what you're dealing with. If it were my lawn, I'd just be complaining about all the "not grass" in my lawn.

 

[Rish]

bittercress

https://eattheplanet.org/a-spicy-bittercress-sautee/

 

[GrogNerd]

onion (always) & buttercups (new this year!) in our yard

 

[Dland]

It begins.

Yard mowed first time this season. (Western Mass)

<sigh>

Time for a beer!

(Yeah, I didn’t really need the yard mowing prompt for that)

[edit: also, what the fashizzle with the entire lawn being inundated w bittercress this year??!!]
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Not to worry too much about that particular plant my friend, it pretty much goes away by late spring.

Of course I think people worry too much about lawn weeds in general, and should be happy it is green. I typically blame the syndrome on too many scotts commercials aired during sports games, but for many (mostly men) the affliction is probably generational.

And this from a "lawn care professional" , though I prefer benign neglect for my own lawn, and encourage it in others, at least when it comes to "weed" control.

 

[day_trippr]

Hmm...

https://newatlas.com/technology/paintball-security-paintcam-eve/

 

[balrog]

But if you outlaw them, only the criminals will have paintball/teargas shooting smartcams.

 

[jtratcliff]