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They say that it takes a big man to admit when he's made a mistake. And it takes an even bigger man to give a giraffe a haircut.

Well, that's not what I meant when I said "big".


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I signed up for my company's 401K. I don't know why. I'm pretty sure I can't run that far.


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Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.


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gran rey de los mono wrote:
I have a stone that I throw at people who sing Christmas songs before December. I call it my Jingle Bell Rock.

I suggest just rolling with it.


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So I am playing a (very heavily modded) game of Stellaris right now. One of the mods that I installed (and then promptly forgot about) was "The Nyblax and the Collector" mod (a.k.a. Thanos and the Infinity stones). So as I was playing my game, I had started another round of colonization in my area of the galaxy when this mod went off. As in the bad guy got all six of the power runes and killed off all of the races of the galaxy. All but the ones that were in the middle of colonizing planets. And I mean that ONLY the planets being colonized were spared. It has made for an interesting game with just my empire and two others plus the three raider factions. It has been a rough stretch to try and recolonize all of my planets that were depopulated. Loosing 82 years of population is going to hurt. On the plus side I only lost three or four of the species that were in my empire.

Edit - On the plus side I had three fallen empires right next door to my empire. One of them has three ringworlds just for the taking just 3 systems away from my borders.


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gran rey de los mono wrote:

Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.

So what you are saying is that your job is under water?


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Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:

Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.

So what you are saying is that your job is under water?

Personally, I think I got boned.

Scarab Sages

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Tacticslion wrote:
Hugs to everyone! We need hugs, I think, and you can have some e-hugs!

Digital hugs are also good!

Scarab Sages

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Scintillae wrote:
Woran wrote:

Do any of you ever suffer from imposter syndrome?

If you do, how do you deal with it?

Denial, distraction, and seeking validation from my coworkers to tell me if "this project looks okay to you" when I know it should look okay because I know what I'm doing, but I have an overwhelming need to fish for a compliment to feel halfway competent when professional anxiety strikes.

It also stops me from working on any of my personal projects between feeling unable to meet a bare minimum of a standard and devoting so much time to reinventing the wheel at work.

Pfff, yeah, I dont want a compliment because I want the compliment. I want the compliment because I feel like its all utter sh*t.

Scarab Sages

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Vanykrye wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Speaking of major IT department fails...

If this morning's announcement is true, I think it may be one of the laziest IT decisions I've ever seen.

As I think I've mentioned, our file sharing systems here are pathetic; by default you get 50 MB (yes. Megabytes. NOT Gigabytes). By request you can up it to a whopping 500 MB. You need special permission to go higher.

So, we just got the announcement from IT that we're moving to a new file management system. Hooray!

Except... they're not going to migrate anything for us. Every single one of the 100,000+ affected employees has to manually migrate his or her own file systems.

In my opinion, "We're an IT department, we're fundamentally changing your infrastructure, and we're going to make YOU deal with it all with no instructions or tools," is a serious IT fail.

you mean that's not how its supposed to work? That's what they told us to do years ago when we migrated.

(1) Meet Woran or Vanykrye in person (or LordSynos? Aren't you in IT?)

(2) Say, "We will let the users be responsible for their own critical data migrations."
(3) Repeat until they are quivering masses of "no" on the floor.

You will then understand just how monumentally bad of an idea this is.

He's done Step 1, twice, and survived the experience. Of course, next time may be different.

Step 2...yeah, he hasn't said that to me in person. Perhaps this is why he survived.

It *shouldn't* be a bad idea, but it really, really, really is. I mean...at the core it's just "Copy your files from here, paste them over here." And for some reason, they can copy/paste stuff that they're asked to do as part of their routine, but the instant you tell them to copy/paste stuff like this, outside of their daily routine...cats and dogs living together and the apocalypse is upon us all. They just lose their minds. They have no idea what to do.

What are those files in the first place and how...

Vankyre has it so true I might just cry.

Scarab Sages

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Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Speaking of major IT department fails...

If this morning's announcement is true, I think it may be one of the laziest IT decisions I've ever seen.

As I think I've mentioned, our file sharing systems here are pathetic; by default you get 50 MB (yes. Megabytes. NOT Gigabytes). By request you can up it to a whopping 500 MB. You need special permission to go higher.

So, we just got the announcement from IT that we're moving to a new file management system. Hooray!

Except... they're not going to migrate anything for us. Every single one of the 100,000+ affected employees has to manually migrate his or her own file systems.

In my opinion, "We're an IT department, we're fundamentally changing your infrastructure, and we're going to make YOU deal with it all with no instructions or tools," is a serious IT fail.

you mean that's not how its supposed to work? That's what they told us to do years ago when we migrated.

(1) Meet Woran or Vanykrye in person (or LordSynos? Aren't you in IT?)

(2) Say, "We will let the users be responsible for their own critical data migrations."
(3) Repeat until they are quivering masses of "no" on the floor.

You will then understand just how monumentally bad of an idea this is.

I find the idea of leaving Woran a quivering mass on the floor incredibly inviting, but I dont want her to be a quivering mass of no, of all things...

I would need to begin training especially vigorously to leave Vany a quivering mass of anything.

Carefull what you wish for. I'm like an ooze. I might quiver, but I'll desolve your equipment. And/or floor.

Scarab Sages

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Vanykrye wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
It worries me that the women I think are so effortlessly awesome doubt themselves so much.

In many cases (not all), it comes from a lifetime of being told that a woman can't be good enough or simply can't do something at all because they aren't a man.

F~#+ that noise.

Well. Yes. Not all of it. But defenitely a big part of it.

Also, f*ck those people.


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~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.


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gran rey de los mono wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:

Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.

So what you are saying is that your job is under water?
Personally, I think I got boned.

That bites!


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Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:

Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.

So what you are saying is that your job is under water?
Personally, I think I got boned.
That bites!

I don't think it helped when I tried to calm them down by saying "Don't have a cow, man".


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gran rey de los mono wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:

Did you know that a school of hungry piranha can strip a cow to the bone in under a minute?

In other news, I got fired from the aquarium today.

So what you are saying is that your job is under water?
Personally, I think I got boned.
That bites!
I don't think it helped when I tried to calm them down by saying "Don't have a cow, man".

At least you didn't say "Eat my shorts!".


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Settle a debate:

Rick Sanchez actually giving effort but no notice vs Batman with Time To Prepare

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Morning every-FaWtL. I hope everyone is staying healthy and well this weather, and that life is treating ye right. For anyone who's not, I hope you all feel better soon, and things start going your ways. *hugs*


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Vanykrye wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Trend Micro wins today's fail award!

I've got nothin'.

wha?


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Woran wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Speaking of major IT department fails...

If this morning's announcement is true, I think it may be one of the laziest IT decisions I've ever seen.

As I think I've mentioned, our file sharing systems here are pathetic; by default you get 50 MB (yes. Megabytes. NOT Gigabytes). By request you can up it to a whopping 500 MB. You need special permission to go higher.

So, we just got the announcement from IT that we're moving to a new file management system. Hooray!

Except... they're not going to migrate anything for us. Every single one of the 100,000+ affected employees has to manually migrate his or her own file systems.

In my opinion, "We're an IT department, we're fundamentally changing your infrastructure, and we're going to make YOU deal with it all with no instructions or tools," is a serious IT fail.

you mean that's not how its supposed to work? That's what they told us to do years ago when we migrated.

(1) Meet Woran or Vanykrye in person (or LordSynos? Aren't you in IT?)

(2) Say, "We will let the users be responsible for their own critical data migrations."
(3) Repeat until they are quivering masses of "no" on the floor.

You will then understand just how monumentally bad of an idea this is.

I find the idea of leaving Woran a quivering mass on the floor incredibly inviting, but I dont want her to be a quivering mass of no, of all things...

I would need to begin training especially vigorously to leave Vany a quivering mass of anything.

Carefull what you wish for. I'm like an ooze. I might quiver, but I'll desolve your equipment. And/or floor.

Monster/Silme girls are really, really in right now....

Dark Archive

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Woran wrote:

Do any of you ever suffer from imposter syndrome?

If you do, how do you deal with it?

A lot, particularly recently. Usually I try and distract myself with things that don't have a "skill" level involved, that I can't feel I'm faking, or with things that I know I'm actually good at, so that I feel better for succeeding at something. Neither of those things improve my work situation though, so while I feel better temporarily, it can actually make things worse long term.

Dark Archive

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NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Speaking of major IT department fails...

If this morning's announcement is true, I think it may be one of the laziest IT decisions I've ever seen.

As I think I've mentioned, our file sharing systems here are pathetic; by default you get 50 MB (yes. Megabytes. NOT Gigabytes). By request you can up it to a whopping 500 MB. You need special permission to go higher.

So, we just got the announcement from IT that we're moving to a new file management system. Hooray!

Except... they're not going to migrate anything for us. Every single one of the 100,000+ affected employees has to manually migrate his or her own file systems.

In my opinion, "We're an IT department, we're fundamentally changing your infrastructure, and we're going to make YOU deal with it all with no instructions or tools," is a serious IT fail.

you mean that's not how its supposed to work? That's what they told us to do years ago when we migrated.

(1) Meet Woran or Vanykrye in person (or LordSynos? Aren't you in IT?)

(2) Say, "We will let the users be responsible for their own critical data migrations."
(3) Repeat until they are quivering masses of "no" on the floor.

You will then understand just how monumentally bad of an idea this is.

Finance, not IT, but I am the go-to person on the Finance team for IT related things. Because I play computer games.


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LordSynos wrote:
Morning every-FaWtL. I hope everyone is staying healthy and well this weather, and that life is treating ye right. For anyone who's not, I hope you all feel better soon, and things start going your ways. *hugs*

woran may be a monster girl.

Things are looking up.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Settle a debate:

Rick Sanchez actually giving effort but no notice vs Batman with Time To Prepare

they are both wish fulfillment characters. It's not a fight so much as a fantest. Whomever the person suggesting likes more will win.

Scarab Sages

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Freehold DM wrote:
LordSynos wrote:
Morning every-FaWtL. I hope everyone is staying healthy and well this weather, and that life is treating ye right. For anyone who's not, I hope you all feel better soon, and things start going your ways. *hugs*

woran may be a monster girl.

Things are looking up.

Absolutely. I'm an animal in bed.

I want pats and naps.


Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.

But Herseys is delicious!


Holy Hersey’s Kisses, Batman! I’ve been in this line of traffic for twenty minutes and can still see my subdivision!


Is every daggum road in Ocala under construction at the same time?! ARG

Dark Archive

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Freehold DM wrote:
LordSynos wrote:
Morning every-FaWtL. I hope everyone is staying healthy and well this weather, and that life is treating ye right. For anyone who's not, I hope you all feel better soon, and things start going your ways. *hugs*

woran may be a monster girl.

Things are looking up.

Speaking of, there's a new zip file in that dropbox we're both in.

Dark Archive

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Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.
But Herseys is delicious!

You've never had European chocolate, I take it? :P


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Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.
But Herseys is delicious!

NO~~~

Because they are MINE!!!


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LordSynos wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.
But Herseys is delicious!
You've never had European chocolate, I take it? :P

You take that back, sir! I have had many a European chocolate! Mmmm. Kinder.

(The Kinder we have in the US is garbage.)


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Freehold DM wrote:
The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Settle a debate:

Rick Sanchez actually giving effort but no notice vs Batman with Time To Prepare

they are both wish fulfillment characters. It's not a fight so much as a fantest. Whomever the person suggesting likes more will win.

I prefer to ask who would win between Superman and Mighty Mouse.

The answer, of course, is Superman. After all, he's real while Mighty Mouse is a cartoon.


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Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.
But Herseys is delicious!

I've decided that your phone typoed "heresy" in this case.


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Vanykrye wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
~sends some e-hugs to Tact and co.~ Just don't expect any kisses.
But Herseys is delicious!
I've decided that your phone typoed "heresy" in this case.

You may persist in your delusion, my good sir!

Shadow Lodge

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LordSynos wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
LordSynos wrote:
Morning every-FaWtL. I hope everyone is staying healthy and well this weather, and that life is treating ye right. For anyone who's not, I hope you all feel better soon, and things start going your ways. *hugs*

woran may be a monster girl.

Things are looking up.

Speaking of, there's a new zip file in that dropbox we're both in.

Y’all holding out on me?


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As a member of the, "Oh, you guys don't even get a generation" generation (up until I was in my 40s they defined "Baby Boomers" as "born between 1946 and 1964" and "Generation X" as "born between 1970 and 1984"), I'm baffled/amused/appalled at the whole, "Millenials ruined xxx" or "Millenials want yyy" trends.

Our entire company is obsessed with creating a user interface that is pleasing to millenials... except, it's not millenials who use our product!!! And the whole, "No menus, no page should have anything more than 3 buttons, everyone prefers to just type what they want to do in a Search box" is so beyond alien/stupid to me that I just don't want to get started.

And now there's an article on how millenials killed dinner parties. And my immediate reaction is, "No, having both spouses working and an obsession with enrolling the kids in as many extracurricular activities as possible means nobody has time to do dinner parties any more; it's not the millenials' fault."

I just see this bizarre obsession with millenials and wonder, "Why?"

But, being old, I can think about the 1990s and everyone making similar complaints about Gen X, so maybe it's just the cyclical nature of life moving onwards...


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gran rey de los mono wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Settle a debate:

Rick Sanchez actually giving effort but no notice vs Batman with Time To Prepare

they are both wish fulfillment characters. It's not a fight so much as a fantest. Whomever the person suggesting likes more will win.

I prefer to ask who would win between Superman and Mighty Mouse.

The answer, of course, is Superman. After all, he's real while Mighty Mouse is a cartoon.

for a long time as a newborn and infant, my nickname was mighty mouse.


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And for the record, GothBard opened the Dutch cookies last night and declared them delightful and delicious.

And also for the record, in my opinion there is no national brand of chocolate manufactured in the U.S. that even approaches the level of "decent for the price". I have to add that caveat because Godiva has a plant in the U.S., so while I prefer Lindt to Godiva, I'm not going to be petty and call Godiva bad. But Hersheys, Ghiradelli, and the U.S. Cadbury are all inedible, in my opinion.

See's used to be the creme de la creme for price vs. quality, but their prices have remained the same and their quality has slipped a bit.

The usual U.S. story: Quality is always the first thing you sacrifice, and consumers accept it.

EDIT: I pretty much live on Chocolove bars, and they're out of Boulder, Colorado, and available in California, but I don't consider them "national" because I don't see them in chain stores -- they're just a staple in my corner store.


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Freehold DM wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Settle a debate:

Rick Sanchez actually giving effort but no notice vs Batman with Time To Prepare

they are both wish fulfillment characters. It's not a fight so much as a fantest. Whomever the person suggesting likes more will win.

I prefer to ask who would win between Superman and Mighty Mouse.

The answer, of course, is Superman. After all, he's real while Mighty Mouse is a cartoon.

for a long time as a newborn and infant, my nickname was mighty mouse.

And also as a 40-yr-old man, now that you've mentioned it.

Scarab Sages

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Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.


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Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

have you had our natural stuff? Like the stirrable stuff.


Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

I actually felt similarly about European foods, but exposure over a period of years changed that. My guess is that it’s partially about what people get used to, and partially about inherent preferences. There are definitely things that I find Europe better, but some just... not. It varies.


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Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

You have to buy the "all natural, just peanuts and salt" stuff. THAT stuff is amazing.

The rest of it? It's all one part peanuts, two parts sugar, and one part emulsifier for that genuine, "Only Americans could like something this sweet and non-peanuty" flavor.


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Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

Even?

Especially.

Ok, I might not be fond of peanuts in the first place, except when salted and dry-roasted, and even then not that much.


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Speaking of even favorite brands plummeting in quality, last night Impus Minor tucked into the Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby, then absent-mindedly left it on the counter.

And it didn't melt....

Ice cream that remains solid at room temperature is just wrong.

Et tu, Ben and Jerry's?


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NobodysHome wrote:
Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

You have to buy the "all natural, just peanuts and salt" stuff. THAT stuff is amazing.

The rest of it? It's all one part peanuts, two parts sugar, and one part emulsifier for that genuine, "Only Americans could like something this sweet and non-peanuty" flavor.

yeah this stuff.

The jelly is supposed to be a sweetener.


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Tacticslion wrote:
Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

I actually felt similarly about European foods, but exposure over a period of years changed that. My guess is that it’s partially about what people get used to, and partially about inherent preferences. There are definitely things that I find Europe better, but some just... not. It varies.

My experience in chocolate is that 'Merikuns and Brits prefer the creaminess and sweetness, so they want milk chocolate with lots of sugar and cream, and the loss of chocolate flavor doesn't bother them because it's just an enhancer, not the entire experience.

In other European countries (and in my preferences), it's the chocolate flavor that's the experience; you only want enough sugar and milk to offset the bitterness and you're good.

Of course, I drink strong black coffee as well, so I'm just not a fan of sugar and cream in pretty much anything.


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NobodysHome wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Woran wrote:

Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.

I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.

I actually felt similarly about European foods, but exposure over a period of years changed that. My guess is that it’s partially about what people get used to, and partially about inherent preferences. There are definitely things that I find Europe better, but some just... not. It varies.

My experience in chocolate is that 'Merikuns and Brits prefer the creaminess and sweetness, so they want milk chocolate with lots of sugar and cream, and the loss of chocolate flavor doesn't bother them because it's just an enhancer, not the entire experience.

In other European countries (and in my preferences), it's the chocolate flavor that's the experience; you only want enough sugar and milk to offset the bitterness and you're good.

Of course, I drink strong black coffee as well, so I'm just not a fan of sugar and cream in pretty much anything.

Dark chocolate forever!

Milk chocolate, meh...

White homeopathic chocolate? What is that crap anyway?!

Spoiler:
I started calling white chocolate "homeopathic" chocolate once I learned the amount of white chocolate needed to present a threat to a well-being of a cat or dog...

So, the numbers I have found:
Baking chocolate can be toxic at 1/2 ounce per 10 pounds of dog.
Dark chocolate, 1.5 ounce per 10 pounds of dog.
Milk chocolate, 3.5 ounce per 10 pounds of dog...

White chocolate?

Toxic for pets in quantity of approximately 47 pounds per 10 pounds of dog... Yeah... No. Not even a trace of actual chocolate in it...


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For lynora and Freehold

(and anyone else who liked The Devil is a Part Timer)

Summary of a five minute video:
As he says at the beginning of the video, no one knows if a Season 2 will come up. But the rest of the video is interesting, too.

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