Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[balrog]

everyone settled into the happy ending

I am SO relieved to read that and so sorry for your family's troubles

 

[balrog]

Don't you hate putting a beer in the freezer and forgetting about it for 4 hours?

On an unrelated note, Whalers Rise Pale Ale (Rhode Island), not so bad.

 

[Rish]

donate a kidney to your fast-fading younger sister

You are a great big brother. Sorry you had to deal with all that crap.

 

[Dland]

If there were eight or nine billion individuals of an apex predator species on a fairly small planet that evolved by cooperated in groups numbering a few hundred, and they somehow got beyond that by developing complex hierarchical societies, which almost always tried to expand or gain profit by attacking and killing similar groups of their own species, almost as a matter of habit, while trashing their environment; how do you think it will work out when some of them develop technology most of them have no clue about, and even the creators or the technology can't say where it is going, ? but yet they insist on plowing forward, mostly for short term personal benefit or profit..anyway, to repeat myself; how do you think it will work out?

Now that is what I call a run on sentence. ;}

 

[balrog]

 

[Dland]

^^^ I doubt that either those who subscribe to the belief in such realms or those familiar with the concept of some sort or astral plain would agree with you paradigm. Just sayin,,,,

 

[pvtpublic]

^^^ I doubt that either those who subscribe to the belief in such realms or those familiar with the concept of some sort or astral plain would agree with you paradigm. Just sayin,,,,

You must not like high quality rock n roll, I take it lol

 

[Dland]

You must not like high quality rock n roll, I take it lol

Au contrair mousier,... should I construe from your post that you are a vegetarian ? (or similar non sequitur)

 

[balrog]

It follows logically from the yogurt question.


(when I was in grad school, back when the continents were still shifting, one extremely late night, perhaps after a night out, trying to work on E&M physics homework, my office mate uttered that phrase, out of the blue. I think all 4 of us in the basement grad student office laughed until we passed out. And it's still funny today)

 

[GrogNerd]

It is in my will, my casket is to be wheeled in 10 minutes after my funeral service starts.

My mom always said I will be late to my own funeral, & I'll be damned if my last act on earth is making a liar out of her

 

[balrog]

When people tease you about black clothes and ask "who's funeral is it?"

Look around the room carefully and respond, "I haven't decided yet"

Follow me for more socializing skillz

 

[Broken Crow]

When people tease you about black clothes and ask "who's funeral is it?"

Look around the room carefully and respond, "I haven't decided yet"

Follow me for more socializing skillz

I cannot tell you how many zillions of times I've been asked that throughout the 80's and 90's.. My response was always: "Humanity"....except one aggressive occasion when I said "yours"....I'd best not go into detail on that though.

 

[Rish]

I wonder if it pi$$es anyone else off like it does me when I open a thread, there's a comment or two from a little earlier today and when I go to the previous page and scroll to the bottom I see the last one I looked at yesterday.

 

[day_trippr]

Click bait artists are so jaded these days they are totally just mailing it in

 

[Pkrd]

Haha. Wire needs to go on the positive terminal.

Oh, wait, is that just in the Southern Hemisphere?

 

[balrog]

I know I don't have to be so sarcastic all the time.

But the world has given me so much material to work with, I would hate to be wasteful.

 

[balrog]

Follow up.

I am a grumpy old man.

My level of sarcasm depends on your level of stupid.

 

[GrogNerd]

my username figuratively translates to "mean old man"

 

[Snuffy]

The one thing about aging that pisses me off more than anything else is walking into a room and then realizing some sort of cognitive cache dump has just occurred and now you can't remember wtf you came in there for.

That, and having to run thu the dang ABCs to get that name you know but can't say.

 

[balrog]

The one thing about aging that pisses me off more than anything else is walking into a room and then realizing some sort of cognitive cache dump has just occurred and now you can't remember wtf you came in there for.

That, and having to run thu the dang ABCs to get that name you know but can't say.

Was never good at name recall.
Or password recall.
And I miss programming.
I think.
Can't even force myself to solder one of the breadboarded BrewPiRemixes working for me.
So lazy.
I also need to review what's on all these 50+ pen drives(8-128G) and 30+ SD cards I "absolutely have to keep" (it's a disease)

 

[GrogNerd]

Me, to walmart associate: yes, there so are many people waiting here for these 6 self-checkout stations, why aren't those 6 other self-checkout aisles open?

Associate: we don't have anyone to work them.

Me: defeats the purpose a bit, dunnit?

 

[balrog]

Well it's that time of year again. Time that you have to keep your house and garage and car doors locked, and locked *TIGHTLY*.

Otherwise your friends and neighbors will drop off zucchini.

 

[balrog]

It’s called Work From Home Coffee.

It’s like a regular cup of coffee, except you add whiskey.

Also, there’s no coffee in it.

Follow me for more recipes.

 

[Snuffy]

Well it's that time of year again. Time that you have to keep your house and garage and car doors locked, and locked *TIGHTLY*.

Otherwise your friends and neighbors will drop off zucchini.

And cucumbers.

 

[seatazzz]

The security guard lady at work walked into my office last week late in the afternoon after I'd had a long busy day. Without any preamble, she asked "Do you like BIG zucchini?" I laughed until I thought my teeth would fall out. So did she. It was a priceless moment.

 

[balrog]

I am so going to go with no on this one.

 

[balrog]

I will say however, that one of the best pizzas in recent memory, was in the Tuscany region of Italy, and had a sauce of puréed yellow tomatoes and was FREAKING divine.

Wine was involved. And biking during the day in 105F heat.

But still.

 

[BongoYodeler]

We will never know what it smells like underwater.

 

[seatazzz]

Cars suck. Modern ones anyway. Changed the oil in my 2019 Hyundai Tucson the other day because I didn't want to spend $100 for some grease monkey to do it. Been doing it myself for over 30 years, never made a mistake yet (unless you count the time I mixed up the oil pan and the tranny pan in my old SUV....whodathunk that oil isn't supposed to be red.). Today on the way to work the damned thing crapped out with a P01326 code, which is specific to Hyundai, which means that the knock sensor they installed to counteract the sh***y rod bearings they use went haywire. Four hours later it's towed to the dealership where it will sit for a couple of days until they can diagnose it. Either the sensor gets replaced, or the engine. To add insult to injury, when the tow guy was hefting it up the oil started leaking. I torqued that drain plug to the EXACT torque it needed. So something else is wrong. Why is this in the RDTT? Because I have beer, that's why. And working from home the next two days. Hic.

 

[balrog]

Cars suck. Modern ones anyway. Changed the oil in my 2019 Hyundai Tucson the other day because I didn't want to spend $100 for some grease monkey to do it. Been doing it myself for over 30 years, never made a mistake yet (unless you count the time I mixed up the oil pan and the tranny pan in my old SUV....whodathunk that oil isn't supposed to be red.). Today on the way to work the damned thing crapped out with a P01326 code, which is specific to Hyundai, which means that the knock sensor they installed to counteract the sh***y rod bearings they use went haywire. Four hours later it's towed to the dealership where it will sit for a couple of days until they can diagnose it. Either the sensor gets replaced, or the engine. To add insult to injury, when the tow guy was hefting it up the oil started leaking. I torqued that drain plug to the EXACT torque it needed. So something else is wrong. Why is this in the RDTT? Because I have beer, that's why. And working from home the next two days. Hic.

Man, feelz for ya @seatazzz . I hate car maintenance. And plumbing repairs. And neighbors backing into their driveways by pulling their tires *INTO* my lawn first. Also hail damaging my car. Where was I?