Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[passedpawn]

Ah, came up with this also. Hmmm...

 

[balrog]

it's not years away. The technology exists today.

And videos, of you, that you never made, asking Grandma for money.

It is the future.

 

[seatazzz]

Ok I'm tired of scrolling. Where the heck is the Extremely Obnoxious Baseball Trash Talk thread??? Or do we not have one? and if not, why? Because I just sat through 12 innings of nailbiting while drinking beer in front of my computer watching my darling Mariners finally beat the Strangers.

 

[day_trippr]

Here ya go...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/not-so-obnoxious-baseball-thread.232288/

 

[day_trippr]

I can count the number of "mall trips" so far in 2025 on one hand, so it does happen. If I'm at a mall these days it's usually for some item of clothing that I don't trust Amazon to fit my 6'5" 220 pound dad bod...

Cheers!

 

[ehall]

I just chucked a woodchuck...

 

[balrog]

I just chucked a woodchuck...

My BIL tried to Glock a woodchuck, but missed. Really PO’d the wife and sis in law. Traumatized the nieces.

Woodchuck was fine.

Horse barn foundation - still unstable.

 

[seatazzz]

1st official day of staycation, already got the garage/brewery cleaned up (technically yesterday), installed w/help the new HVAC condensate pump, today is all about drinking beer and watching baseball. Oh, and later getting some boneless pork ribs rubbed in brown sugar and Johnny's, later to go in the IP with apple juice, apple cider vinegar, washyoursister sauce, and maybe some garlic. Then to the oven with some sweet baby ray's sauce. This is the life.

 

[doug293cz]

washyoursister

That works if you can't spell (or pronounce) "Worcestershire".

Brew on

 

[seatazzz]

That works if you can't spell (or pronounce) "Worcestershire".

Brew on

I can, I just like that pronunciation better.

 

[Snuffy]

whichchesttoshower

 

[DBerg]

whatsthishere

 

[Snuffy]

Ok. It's a gloomy Tuesday. I'm off all week. I was drinking coffee and wandering around trying to think up something to do because it's going to rain today. The wife knows the look and casually says, "This would be a good day for you to brew. It's gonna rain". I'm about to say, "That's a good idea!" and then I hesitate. This, from the woman who goes in her bedroom and stuffs a towel under the door to escape the smell? I'm wary now. Suspicious. What am I being set up for? Either she's an imposter, cloned by the alien overlords as part of some mystery mind-futz, or I'm being tolerated so the special dispensation can be used against me later when she hits me with whatever it is she's planning that she knows I will hate. I'm intrigued... and yet... uneasy as I begin digging out my gear.

 

[ehall]

we've secretly replaced your wife with Foldger's crystals.... let's see if he notices!

 

[Broken Crow]

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Ok. It's a gloomy Tuesday. I'm off all week. I was drinking coffee and wandering around trying to think up something to do because it's going to rain today. The wife knows the look and casually says, "This would be a good day for you to brew. It's gonna rain". I'm about to say, "That's a good idea!" and then I hesitate. This, from the woman who goes in her bedroom and stuffs a towel under the door to escape the smell? I'm wary now. Suspicious. What am I being set up for? Either she's an imposter, cloned by the alien overlords as part of some mystery mind-futz, or I'm being tolerated so the special dispensation can be used against me later when she hits me with whatever it is she's planning that she knows I will hate. I'm intrigued... and yet... uneasy as I begin digging out my gear.

In most cases I'd say you're looking at a new expense; either for a steam-condenser so the door stays open or for a hidden camera to see what she's doing in there while you're occupied, but it could be that you're just as lucky as I am with my GF and she really loves you.

...hey; it's the drunken thoughts thread and I get emotional when I drink

 

[Snuffy]

In most cases I'd say you're looking at a new expense; either for a steam-condenser so the door stays open or for a hidden camera to see what she's doing in there while you're occupied, but it could be that you're just as lucky as I am with my GF and she really loves you.
..hey; it's the drunken thoughts thread and I get emotional when I drink

I had mentioned I was going to brew sometime this week. I think maybe it's just a way for her to get that over with. And if the woman don't love me, she's sure as heck wasted 42 years.

 

[Broken Crow]

I had mentioned I was going to brew sometime this week. I think maybe it's just a way for her to get that over with. And if the woman don't love me, she's sure as heck wasted 42 years.

Hmm... I just thought of another motive: My GF of 33 years loves me, but if that happened here it'd be because she know's I'll tie up the kitchen for the day, messing up dinner prep and I'd over compensate with a delivery order of ribs and chicken for supper: https://tommysbbq.ca/

 

[seatazzz]

Official day three of staycation. I think it's Tuesday but I might be wrong. I do know it's my daughter's 35th birthday, poor kid has pneumonia as a result of covid. She's getting better but it put a damper on the day (she and her husband live in Boise, we're in Washington). Husband keeps asking when I'm going to finish all the chores 'we' set for me to do this week. Well, 'we' did most of the work cleaning up the garage/brewery, built (okay it was Ikea, put together according to pictures) a desk, vacuumed the house (one of our two dogs sheds his entire coat once a month I swear, he's a vacuum killer), and did the dishes TWICE. Also cooked a really good meal. So, lovingly, tenderly, with all my affection, STFU dear.

 

[balrog]

They say that drinking milk makes you stronger.
Go ahead and drink 5 glasses of milk and try to move a wall.

Now drink 5 glasses of vodka.
Wall moves all by itself.

 

[balrog]

I don’t think I can recognize July 4th as a real holiday.

I mean Reese’s doesn’t make a special peanut butter cup shape for it or anything.

 

[seatazzz]

Yearly PSA: Although I'm sure most of us here are responsible adults (pause for giggling), and many are owned by pets, please make sure your fur kids are safe tonight. Their memories aren't as long as ours, no matter how many times we tell them this happened last year and they were fine. In their minds the world is ending. Many people in our neighborhood let their cats run free, and every year someone will just go out and get a new one because theirs up and skedaddled scared out of their wits. Our cats are currently hiding under the bed, and every time a boom goes off my younger dog looks at me with those emotional Lab eyes asking me WTF mama. The older one is slightly deaf but if something goes off close she yelps. And it's only half past six. It started about 2 days ago, and usually goes on until at least 2am tomorrow morning, especially since today's a Friday. Tomorrow I'll wake up to exhausted pets, and countless bottle rocket (and the larger shooty things) sticks in my yard that I will need to clean up quick before younger dog decides to chew on them.

Curmudgeon? Maybe. Karen? Unless one of the cars gets damaged, or something on fire flies into my yard (or gawd forbid, on the roof), I'm not going to call the gendarmes because they have enough to deal with tonight. Our city 'banned' fireworks (other than sparklers, small fountains, and those cool little paper things you throw at the ground or your sibling that go off like caps) two years ago, and you cannot tell any difference. People are gonna do what they always have, because there just isn't enough law enforcement to catch them all. But I really hate what it does to those who don't have a voice to do anything about it.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Well said @seatazzz And if that PSA isn't enough of a warning of the perils of 4th July activities, then this picture of NFL defensive end Jason Pierre Paul's injured hand from 10 years ago might drive it home. After he had trouble lighting a group of fireworks, they discharged and injured his right hand, leading to amputation of parts of two fingers.

 

[balrog]

If you need to get out of a boring conversation, take off one of your socks and hand it to the speaker.

Follow me for more socializing tips.

 

[seatazzz]

I find that picking my nose in an industrious manner works as well. Also gets one out of any annoying hand-shaking.

 

[day_trippr]

Apparently I'm surrounded by heathens!
Happy 4th anyway!

 

[balrog]

Apparently I'm surrounded by heathens!
Happy 4th anyway!

We are all just visitors here, of our own device.

 

[Snuffy]

We are all just visitors here, of our own device.

"In the maltster's chambers,
They gathered with their yeast..."

 

[Agent]

Just watched "Ready Player One".

The fact there is no Easter egg in the credits is peak irony.

 

[day_trippr]

One should always give 100%. Unless it's blood.

 

[day_trippr]

You can't have a bad day at work if you don't go.

Follow me for more life tips

 

[seatazzz]

I (once again) have fallen down that deep dark rabbit hole known as 'upgrading'. A month or so ago I ran a really long ethernet cable from one end of the house where the router is to the garage so my new PC could be hardwired instead of wifi. The other day I decided it would be cool to run my work laptop hardwired, so put the pc back on wifi. I didn't like that so I got me an ethernet switch, and some short cables because I'm too cheap to buy a crimper and make my own out of some of the long cable I have stashed around here. Today I thought it would be cool to run my nintendo switch off ethernet instead of wifi, except the old ethernet to usb adapter I have is, well, old, and the nintendo doesn't like it anyway. It's always 'I just need one more thing to make this all work', and soon I'm getting questions about my amazon purchases.

 

[Skeeter686]

I still have a partial spool of CAT-5e cable from when I decided that I needed to run an ethernet jack in every room of the house. In my defense, we were still getting together, in person, for LAN party death matches around that time.

We've since moved and the current home has CAT-6 run to every room for phone jacks, so it'd be super easy to convert those to ethernet jacks if I wanted to.

 

[balrog]

I miss LAN parties. Sorta. I have not missed running any wire anywhere. I have the scars. Prior owners put wire lath and plaster then recent owners drywall over that. Like having tile on mud on wire lath on linoleum. Easier to burn the house down and start over.

For some reason, SWMBO is not a fan of that option.

What were we talking about again?

 

[day_trippr]

Warning: potential learning ahead

 

[day_trippr]

When DOOM with head to head (to head, etc) capabilities came out in the early 90s my boys were pre-teens by a scoche - and naturally they loved the heck out of the gory game We had family frag-fests often, and at least a couple times a month had their friends bring their family PCs over for some epic battles.

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

Now I have 7 square feet of fast gaming monitors for a 72" wide array and have no issues playing visually chaotic games. Something happened along the way but damned if I know what Weird...

Cheers!

 

[Skeeter686]

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

A friend of mine used to get motion sickness when she'd play, unless she had a couple drinks first. With a slight buzz, she was fine. I always thought that was so weird!

 

[balrog]

When DOOM with head to head (to head, etc) capabilities came out in the early 90s my boys were pre-teens by a scoche - and naturally they loved the heck out of the gory game We had family frag-fests often, and at least a couple times a month had their friends bring their family PCs over for some epic battles.

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

Now I have 7 square feet of fast gaming monitors for a 72" wide array and have no issues playing visually chaotic games. Something happened along the way but damned if I know what Weird...

Cheers!

Good thing it went away before MS Flight Sim came along, eh?

 

[Snuffy]

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

That CRT was irradiating your frontal lobes. Probably made the hair on your arm stand up when you switched it on.

 

[seatazzz]

For the longest time my monitors were just on their own desk stands, and quite low. Got me a dual-arm desk mounted stand last week; took a while to get used to monitors up higher, but now my neck and back don't hurt as much during long sessions of 'work' (read: mariokart8) or sitting for hours on HBT. And I now have tons more room on the desktop for other things. My cable mismanagement is awful but nothing has caught on fire....yet.

 

[Broken Crow]

Other threads have got me thinking about 'efficiency' and because I'm drunk, I ended up thinking about where my drive for efficiency began;
It was a cold December day in '72 when 5-year old me stood by my fathers grave. At the time I knew there were millions of people on the earth and we'd been around a while and if 'they didn't drop the bomb on us', we'd be around for a while yet... I could understand why someone like Einstein or some discoverer would have a grave and marker but to hear what others said about my father he was just a drunk and a drain on everyone and contributed nothing to the larger world. Why wouldn't they at least bury non-contributors vertically so they take up less space?...after all, with all the folk on earth by the time I die there won't be any room left not just for me, but for trees, stores, houses and factories. OK: so we're raised with an in-built arrogance that makes us think our feelings are worth paying to waste a piece of valuable property...heck; we all just turn into fertilizer anyway, why not raise crops in graveyards then instead of saying 'so-and-so was a waste in life but hey: Good bread!, or Mmmm, Corn!'