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229 posts I wonder if anyone else is still playing catch up.
Look, from only yesterday, you guys created five daggum pages. Dang it.
EDIT: sighs, *gets dressed*
Netflix's Voltron - Legendary Defender is pretty damn awesome.
It's really, really good!
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I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetween
But the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
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I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenBut the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
People on the West Coast view potlucks as a way to try out for both being a judge and contestant on Masterchef.
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Please, please, please, upgrade the KFC to wingstop... It's so much better....Louisiana rub ftw!
But at least most people will take KFC.
I've never heard of Wingstop.
I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenBut the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
Pretty much spot on.
Little Caesar's
Yay!
Papa John's
Ugh.
There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetween
So... many... store-bought... chocolate... chip... cookies... :(
(For clarity: I love chocolate chip cookies. But people flock to purchasing the cheap and kind of make-you-feel-sad-inside premade store-bought kind en masse, and it's always such a daggum shame.)
Most everything else
Yay!
Please, please, please, upgrade the KFC to wingstop... It's so much better....Louisiana rub ftw!
But at least most people will take KFC.
I've never heard of Wingstop.
Seconding this!
Also, I think more people would balk at the spicier stuff.
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You haven't experienced hell until you've been to a good old fashioned Midwestern potluck/barn dance.
Someone will bring Lutefisk, and then insist that everyone HAS to try it (do not try it).
And then the dance, my gosh, I have a notoriously terrible sense of smell, but even I can smell the stench of a large group of people that had just eaten lutefisk and are jostling around in a poorly ventilated barn.
*shudder*
That's very Wisconsin/Minnesota specific. Maybe extremely northern Iowa. Lutefisk just doesn't get served anywhere else in the US.
If you think muscle memory isn't really a big deal, try brushing your teeth with your other hand.
Or wiping after going potty. Sigh. That was... painful.
EDIT: I'm really glad I was ambidexterous, but the experience made me realize exactly how thoroughly trained I was for certain things by society's collective presumption of how they worked. There were so many little, tiny, seemingly inconsequential things that were just... wrong, when trying to do them with the other hand. It's made me intentionally branch out and experiment more with both hands and, while I'm pretty far from "competent" (I'm much, much better at certain jobs with one hand than the other, from sheer experience/training), I've gotten much better at using both of them.
Sometimes I think my high energy is more dog-like then cat...So we're back at you being a 'Caog' again ^^
(I'm discounting 'dat' as its sounds too much like 'that')
True "'dat!"
If The Purge was a real thing, most of the violence would probably be caused by rival corporations using private armies to try and kill off the competition.Ah, Shadowrun.come oooooon return of magic!
Would you be surprised if you woke up as an elf, dwarf, orc or troll?
I'd want elf, but, let's just be honest: I'd be the suckiest half-dwarf/half-troll of all time, with the worst elements of both.
EDIT: Ooh! Ooh! If we're choosing, I go with drow*! I want to sense magiiiiiiiiic~!
(Preferably drow noble, but, hey, I'll take what I can get.)
*
what are you doing nowadays?Always good when one enjoys their work, I love mine after all.Cap will agree with you. He works in landscaping and honestly seems to enjoy it.I'd say that sounds fun, but I'm not sure you'd agree with me. In the end it should at least be rewarding?Wow! So much mud.I gotta ask Cap'n, what are you up to in the mud?A little bit of everything today.
A timber planting box, moving some boulders, and a wall, so far.
After three years in Houston I left the town and a decade+ of pest control to move to Boca Raton Florida....
** spoiler omitted **
How about you?
'Eeeeeeyyyyy~! Another Floridian! Let me know if you're in Ocala at some point!
Two pages?!?
That was one night!!
Look, dude, I'm working on fiiiiiiive.
Lucky! I did hard-core Tae Kwon Do (22 hours a week!!) from 20-23 and fought at 155 lbs, but quitting cold and continuing to eat 5000-6000 calories a day is detrimental to your body shape. I ballooned to 185 within 2 months, and have stayed within 15 pounds of that for most of the last 27 years.
I know, right?! I'm the only guy I know in my TKD class that regularly accidentally breaks or messes up things from hitting them too hard, but I simply cannot shed the weight or get big gains in my stamina. Slow, incremental ones, sure... right up until I get sick and lose the last three months of progress over a couple days... but ugh.
In terms of fashion, I'm wearing much the same stuff (loose cotton pants and T-shirts), but skate pants with skulls 'n' such went out of fashion, so I've switched to Chefwear. Explaining the many references to me and "fish pants".
Sounds... AWESOME!
No kidding! I fought Muay Thai from 20-24. Quit fighting after meeting my wife. Of course now I pay for thinking I was indestructible back then.
I still have not learned my lesson. I'm basically a barbarian, without any of the bonuses, when I actually get into sparring. It sucks!
shut up, the two of you.
Master Freehold, you continue to weigh 230-something, and-
I SAID SHUT UP!
Try closer to 240-260 range (I'm not really sure where, in that range, I am at the moment, but I'm somewhere around there, I'm certain - I always am).
And at 5'6"... I'm fat.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaate the jogging and push-up parts of TKD, at present. Situps are a pain, but awesome, but the jogging and/or pushups just leaves me spent and in agony, later.
(My Sabonmim is kind of trapped between telling me not to overdo myself, and helping me lose weight... which I'm not really losing, regardless of changes to diet and exercise. Getting certain types of sick that I hope I avoid helps shed weight, fast, but it comes back thereafter. Periodic fasting on M/W/F helped lower me by about 10 lbs., and just... stay right there. That's it.)
(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.I'm clearly missing something here, why would everyone hate you?Not everyone knows how to cook? And some people's idea of acceptable cooking is ><
Meh my stuff would just be different because I'm Asian.
Depends on where you come from in the U.S.
... and whether or not you're just bad, like me.
(Microwaves are good. Microwaves are life.)
HAH! Caught up!
... for now.
Akk akk! Akk akk akk!!So, uh, Empire Of Bones.
The question isn't "How do I turn it into Mars Attacks" but more "How do I NOT turn it into Mars Attacks"
Eat. The stinkin'. Crackers.
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Welcome back, Moorluck.
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Hey there Tact. How are you and the family doing? Any plans for this weekend?
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Into the Badlands (on Netflix) has been an entertaining show so far. It has an anime-esqe feel to it, despite being live action.
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My weekend plans? Pay bills. Mow the jungle, I mean yard. Laundry. vacuum the house. Cat pans (again!). Maybe see a movie.
Sadly, It will probably be a case of pick 2 & 1/2 of those and that is all that will get done.
Hey there Tact. How are you and the family doing? Any plans for this weekend?
Exhausted, getting over being sick - fortunately, the minor, not major, kind.
Also, hopefully, we're having local friends over this weekend for an actual game, if we can be "not sick"-enough!
What about you?
My weekend plans? Pay bills. Mow the jungle, I mean yard. Laundry. vacuum the house. Cat pans (again!). Maybe see a movie.
Sadly, It will probably be a case of pick 2 & 1/2 of those and that is all that will get done.
Ugh, tell me about it.
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So very, very tired. I almost had enough sleep today, despite the 5 interruptions. The night shift is a good shift for work, but not a good shift for sleep. Other than that? ~shrugs~ I am alive.
As for my weekend to do list, I am sure that I am missing four or five things that should be on there.
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hey now don't put all the blame here on me and gran you guys created 3 more pages since this morning.
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Please, please, please, upgrade the KFC to wingstop... It's so much better....Louisiana rub ftw!
But at least most people will take KFC.
I've never heard of Wingstop.
Oh, if you get a chance, try some.
It's cheap, fast-food-style chicken wings in a HUGE variety of flavors. NobodysWife favors lemon pepper.
They do boneless, but they're not worth eating. Definitely to the bone-in ones.
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Into the Badlands (on Netflix) has been an entertaining show so far. It has an anime-esqe feel to it, despite being live action.
Loved us some Into the Badlands... but never really got past Season 2...
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Yeah, I think the two events that soured me on potlucks forever were:
(1) My work having our annual office party be a potluck, judged by the VP, with no heating nor refrigeration facilities. Then watching all the people who bought restaurant foods or whose spouses were caterers win all kinds of prizes and flattery, while the rest of us were told we needed to shape up and be like our outstandingly better-cooking co-workers.
(2) The seared ahi incident.
And this was TOTALLY NOT LISAMARLENE'S FAULT, but then came the, "LM's landlord is a butt and can't stay out of the kitchen criticizing you while you cook, so you manage to ruin all the food you're trying to make and he tastes it, shakes his head, and says, 'I told you so,' incident."
Anyway, yeah. I prefer to cook at home and serve guests in my home, as that's still sacrosanct, even in California. Nobody comes into your house, tastes your food, and says, "Man, this is terrible," even if it is.
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Nobody comes into your house, tastes your food, and says, "Man, this is terrible," even if it is.
Why would you do this??
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Reaper has good product. The only downside is that they're unpainted.The second downside is that many of their products also require to be epoxied together.
Reaper bones are great, as long as you don't mind painting. (also do still put on the base black coat)
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You haven't experienced hell until you've been to a good old fashioned Midwestern potluck/barn dance.
Someone will bring Lutefisk, and then insist that everyone HAS to try it (do not try it).
And then the dance, my gosh, I have a notoriously terrible sense of smell, but even I can smell the stench of a large group of people that had just eaten lutefisk and are jostling around in a poorly ventilated barn.
*shudder*
PEOPLE STILL EAT LUTEFISK?
what in the world??Has everything I've ever know been a lie??
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So sleepy...
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Must we entertain you then?
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Dance puppets dance!
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Pay no mind to him^^ he can't help it his head regenerated into a split of his personality that way.
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Alright then,
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MASTER.
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That'll do pup that'll do.
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I refuse to dance! ~someone turns on the radio~ nope! ~foot starts to twitch~ Not going to dance!
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I feel like dances with dragons should be a movie. (also I love that video Christopher Walkin is to cool.)
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If it's a nekkid party, then there is a good chance that something will get blown. Possibly not knees, though.OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOLTwo pages?!?
That was one night!!I remember when the FAWtL collective would kill two pages in under half an hour, back when we would try and break the boards just for kicks.
Ahhh, the good old days.
Top of page? Nekkid party dance!
There's no school like old school!
(As long as we don't blow our knees out trying show off)
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I am now convinced there is no context this new alias doesn't work.
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Yeah its uh pretty cute and creepy.
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Yeah its uh pretty cute and creepy.