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  1. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    WTF, is this 1995? Fuck links that open in a new tab or window. Thats what right click is for. Why would I want a billion tabs open? Rustled.
  2. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Hagglers period. The price was listed. Is this a goddam third world country? Are we squatting in the dirt arguing with natives over the price of bush meat? No? Then fucking pay the listed price and shut up. A lot of the things that enrage me, I look at my reaction and go "that was maybe a...
  3. Aldarion

    The Prepper Thread

    I dunno, I've had some of the Starbucks instant and a bunch of different kinds in Australia (Australians often tried to convince me it was an acceptable choice). I can't put my finger on why, but they all just taste fake. Better than nothing, and I'd drink it if there is no real coffee available...
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    The Prepper Thread

    If surviving the apocalypse means I have to drink instant coffee, I'm out.
  5. Aldarion

    Moving Options

    Moved twice cross country with PODS, much cheaper than Uhaul. I think it depends a lot on distance. Short moves I think truck is always cheapest.
  6. Aldarion

    The Witcher

    You'll also be shocked to hear that many black women have curly hair WTF is it 2008 in here?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Every child hates onions. I have never understood why. Onions are great, raw, cooked, whatever. And an absolutely essential part of cooking. Cooking without onions is like cooking without salt. Or butter. If my kids know something has onions in it they're all "ewww onions make me some without...
  8. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yeah, I think people forget what grocery stores used to be like. Especially in a small town. Likewise haven't seen it since childhood, I always assumed it was an old-school poor people thing rather than a deliberate decision.
  9. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Thing is, theres dark chocolate and then theres pure fucking cacao that is disgusting. Whiskey makers don't advertise "OMG my brand has more alcohol, buy it". Coffee makers don't advertise "OMG more caffeine, buy it". But for some reason chocolate makers think 86% cacao is a selling point...
  10. Aldarion

    The Witcher

    I feel like you're trying to set up a punchline here but I'm not sure what it is.
  11. Aldarion

    The Witcher

    Ha, fair point! I stand corrected. Still rare but not zero.
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    The Witcher

    Yeah, agreed. But it'd be 100x better if they just did the obvious thing directors have done for decades -- text on the screen. "Five years ago". Its like they've all decided they're gonna do it some artsy subtle way and it always fails. I can't think of a single split timeline movie or show...
  13. Aldarion

    The Witcher

    I'm mostly really enjoying this. Never played it or read the books so I spend most of the time a little confused. Time jumps without "5 years later" text can Fuck Off. Gerald is great. I'm confused about Yennifer, they write her as if she's supposed to be hot post hunchback but cast her...
  14. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I dunno, I've had about 6 and only one of them has ever needed work again. Most of the time IME they are the final solution to problems with a particular tooth. I appreciate that about them.
  15. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yeah, this is my biggest password complaint. Half the sites that require passwords I would literally be perfectly OK with no password whatsoever. It just doesnt fucking matter so much of the time.
  16. Aldarion

    Boomers learning computers for the first time!

    I know people my age that still can't handle passwords. I think it's a specific mental deficiency, not age.
  17. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I swear that either there's been an arms war in headlight brightness or people have started installing the wrong bulbs in their headlights. Because lately every time I drive at night I swear half the cars I encounter are driving around with their fucking brights on. So I do what any normal...
  18. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Fucking hagglers, I share this jimmy rustle. I've come to learn that when someone tries to talk me down from the asking price theyre gonna be a pain in the ass the whole transaction, so I just say its sold.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Forgive me for being unclear What I meant was, all this crap on YouTube videos.
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    Poll What Size of Community Do You Live In?

    After all the city loving in this thread the only things that I miss even a little are the restaurants and having a diversity of high speed internet options. I don't have to drive more than 20-30 minutes to get to the full range of normal stores, which is a shorter drive than in most cities I've...
  21. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I want to believe, and find it interesting regardless of truth (of course it's probably not, but still) I just can't get past the immutable law of literate societies that anything worth knowing will be written down.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    WTF, cranberry sauce is awesome. Even foreigners who don't know Thanksgiving food have loved it IME. Why do you hate sweet tangy deliciousness?
  23. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Ive only had brisket in TX. Ergo I've only had amazing, melt on your mouth, falls apart when you look at it delicious brisket Like my turkey
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    Poll What Size of Community Do You Live In?

    Now that its expanded to "what do you like about city vs suburbs etc" Every city smells fucking terrible. Just not fit for humans to breathe. In NYC it was predominantly the smell of piss. In LA it was exhaust and garbage. Where I live, the air smells like air with an occasional whiff of tree...
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    Poll What Size of Community Do You Live In?

    IMO a town with population 600 (where I live) is a pretty different category than 10k, needs a <1k option! The 2 mile radius rule is funny in my case... I dunno, probably well under 100.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My turkey was awesome. Slow roasted, just the basics. As tender and juicy as brisket. I'm convinced somebody's cooking turkey wrong if they don't like turkey, cause every year I go damn, why do we only eat this once a year?
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    Youtube Post 2020

    Yes, and if its content worth finding it'll be in a written form.
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    Youtube Post 2020

    Ya know, whenever I criticize Facebook someone brings up a legitimate and normal use for the platform. None of which changes the fact that Facebook has been a net negative, a cancer on society. So is YouTube. We are rapidly approaching a post-literate phase of Western society, and YouTube bears...
  29. Aldarion

    Dune (2020)

    Yeah, but Miles Teg.
  30. Aldarion

    Elric Saga Acquired for TV adaptation

    I wouldnt say struggle. More like kept trying to see past the over the top, everyone is basically a god, power levels to find the interesting story I kept reading people talking about. Was never able to find it. I dunno, maybe I should try them again, its been about 10 years. I listed...
  31. Aldarion

    Elric Saga Acquired for TV adaptation

    Not to worry, our superiors in Hollywood have decreed that "acting ability" is all that matters. Elric will be played by a teenaged Afrcan American girl with a spunky attitude. Cause she has "acting ability". These books were too over the top for me to even get into as fantasy, and I generally...
  32. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Never had the honey but Australian butter tastes like distilled asshole. Uniquely, memorably terrible.
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    Parent Thread

    We cured the first two of picky eating but damn, no. 3 is winning so far. A daily battle right now. So nice looking at the first 2 and knowing she's likely to survive this phase.
  34. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Bland food. Like for example sandwiches in grocery stores. It fucking offends me that someone used up perfectly good resources to produce something so tasteless. A little salt and pepper, a little salad dressing, it could be a perfectly valid if ordinary sandwich. Instead its fucking garbage...
  35. Aldarion

    How do you FoH?

    All this talk about being unable to browse from work cracks me up. Corporate culture sounds like Saudi Arabia or something, WTF. Can't imagine if they tried that shit in academia.
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    How do you FoH?

    I actually got a smartphone to use only as a camera. I tried it on that. My actual phone (which hell yes is a flip phone: the pinnacle of cell phone design that will never be topped) doesnt connect to the internet. Cut me a break, its probably the longest message I've ever typed out on a phone!
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    How do you FoH?

    Checked it out on a phone to confirm. Fuck this shit.
  38. Aldarion

    How do you FoH?

    I'll never understand the appeal of browsing the web on tiny ass screens. My monitor in 1998 was 3 times bigger than these things, WTF? Phones are for calls and text if I have to.
  39. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    Trapping and killing racoons with my son after they killed our chickens was some good quality time. But yeah, raccoons are never ending. Had to secure the coop to end the problems. The season we lost so many chickens, I saw a pack of 5 raccoons (mom and mostly grown cubs), I shit you not...