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Paladin codes don't apply to the bedroom, just saying.
Awwww :(
Sho Chiku Bai is in a three liter glass jug that sells for about $15 here in Pittsburgh. It's moderately sweet and tastes of rice.
My best friend was a manager at Sho Chiku Bai's Emeryville plant. His stories were hilarious. Nothing horrible about what happened to the sake itself, but the hijinks of the workers...
I remember playing Punch Buggy with my siblings in the '70s during trips between Charleston, West Virginia and Pittsburgh to visit my maternal grandparents.I never heard of it until the kids started doing it last summer.
I remember a simpsons episode about it.
Moonshine?I am both a social drinker, and not overly social.
Small groups, that's where I shine.
That would be the General's family.
Some of them even moved to Arkansas specifically to build a moonshine still.
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Paladin codes don't apply to the bedroom, just saying.Awwww :(
That's a good thing! No hangups, and you don't have to worry about smiting (unless that's your thing).
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Well, that was surreal.
I took my kids to Burger King for a late lunch, and there was a young homeless man sitting at a table. As I am picking up my food, he walks up and says, "I just wanted you to know that I'm a big fan of your dad's work. Please give him my best."
Since the only work my dad was ever known for were a couple of textbooks that have been out of print since I was in kindergarten, and he's been dead for nine years, I'm fairly certain it was a car of mistaken identity.
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This weekend a major weather change is expected.
Hello incoming headache :(
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Sometimes I'm reminded about how incredibly cheap Wisconsinites can be.
It only costs fifteen dollars to get rid of an old TV, yet every week a new TV is ditched in the road of our neighborhood, are they cheap or lazy, I don't know, but it's super annoying.
Gods, I wish it were that easy for me.
I have about 20 cubic feet of e-waste (an old printer, boom box, coffee machine, sump pump, etc.). You cannot have them come take it from your house. You can either:
(1) Drive to East Oakland and drop it off from 9:30 - 11:30 am on weekdays, because people who work don't generate e-waste. (Closed for all holidays, and on a whim, so call before you come.)
(2) Wait for a poorly-announced event
(3) Wait for Hi to be doing one of his regular runs and dump stuff in HIS station wagon, since he doesn't workGrumble, grumble, grumble...
Huh? Here public trash removal company has an "electro-brigade", a service, where they come and take your e-trash free of charge and you can negotiate their arrival time within their working hours to a degree, or you can drop them at the recycling center for free every weekday (10 AM - 6 PM) and Saturdays (7:30 AM - 3:30 PM).
You could expect California to have better organized trash removal than us...
Here curbside pickup of appliances or electronics costs 15-25 dollars.
Furniture and mattress curbside pickup is free.
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@Vodka drinkers in the U.S.: Is it true that all vodka tastes the same? Apparently by law, all 'pure' vodka must taste the same. (1) “Vodka” is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.
Also, the Code of Alcohol, Tobacco Products, and Firearms?! One of those things is not like the others.
American vodka is almost flavorless. Imports tend to be more flavorful, or even have added flavors.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are all related in two ways: They're poorly regulated with extremely hard-to-enforce regulations, and they're all items that had crime rings created around smuggling them.
Ok so U.S. vodka all tastes the same, for some value of 'the same.' I don't know why I've taken such an interest in this, I don't even drink. But it's just why? Like I could see defining proofs for the purpose of regulating particular alcohols, and I could see requiring distillers to filter out potentially dangerous stuff -- other than the alcohol itself, of course. But regulating flavor just seems so petty.
I haven't been able to find any explanation, which makes me think that this is one of those random historical quirks. Like maybe it was in someone's business interests -- and thus in some crooked politicians' political interests -- to make all vodkas taste the same. Or maybe it was something spawned during the Red Scare -- can't have our young and inebriated youth getting seduced into communism by those Russians and their flavored vodkas!
The law was passed in 1969. It was likely the Red Scare. There really are a lot of very weird things, like the entire culture of the 1950s, that can be explained simply by realizing the Red Scare had America acting as polar opposite to the Soviet Union as it could.
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Well, that was surreal.
I took my kids to Burger King for a late lunch, and there was a young homeless man sitting at a table. As I am picking up my food, he walks up and says, "I just wanted you to know that I'm a big fan of your dad's work. Please give him my best."
Since the only work my dad was ever known for were a couple of textbooks that have been out of print since I was in kindergarten, and he's been dead for nine years, I'm fairly certain it was a car of mistaken identity.
He only told you about the textbooks? He didn't tell you about-
Uh, I mean, yes! Clearly mistaken identity!
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I just had 6 glasses of red wine. 4 Bordeaux, year 2013, 2 cinnea, year 2016, by brown Brothers =)
Triple yikes.
Sorry, I was pretty much passed out when that happened. Also nah, no hangovers. Despite my family giving me weird looks on the amount I drank(I even took like the bottle of cienna with 1/3rd of its contents back).
I more or less know how much I should be drinking, even if I drink(in my family's opinion) too much.
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When I'm not drinking Beer, I drink: Sake ( typically Sho Chiku Bai ), Rum ( Cap Morgan's Spiced ), Whiskey ( Crown Royal ), and Vodka ( Absolut )My rule of thumb for beer is: the darker and stronger the better
but other then that... Sake (Should really look into that), Rum (Havana Club if I'm mixing or on a budget, Ron Matusalem if I'm just having a glass by myself and El Dorado if I'm having guests or wanna blow away my cash), Whiskey (Old Pulteney but it's harder to get my hands on, so often an Oban, or if I have to go cheap The Singleton), and Vodka (Again haven't dug into these much...but for cheap and "mostly headache free experience" I would go for a Stolichnaya)
*waves vaguely at FAWTL peeps*
I just had 6 glasses of red wine. 4 Bordeaux, year 2013, 2 cinnea, year 2016, by brown Brothers =)*Pets Mort and fluffs her fur*
Good kitty! Can't go completely wrong with a nice Bordeaux.
Edit: Oh and of cause, people who mix their spirits with anything other then a splash of water are clearly Philistines! ^^
Actually I preferred the cienna because it was sweet lol. Pass me anything sweet, I'll drink it. I'm a humongous sweet tooth.
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Wait why are we bunkering down? Did we miss something?
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I think it was this one
*scampers off and joins John in the bunker too*
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I didn't think it would be considered that political when I posted it. Just history.
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You'd think so, but in today's political climate, even facts can be political....
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Weird Al Yankovic just made my day.
Hamilton polka medley!
I'll take some reds, man.
And greens if you got em.
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Weird Al Yankovic just made my day.
Hamilton polka medley!
Link?!
When I'm not drinking Beer, I drink: Sake ( typically Sho Chiku Bai ), Rum ( Cap Morgan's Spiced ), Whiskey ( Crown Royal ), and Vodka ( Absolut )My rule of thumb for beer is: the darker and stronger the better
but other then that... Sake (Should really look into that), Rum (Havana Club if I'm mixing or on a budget, Ron Matusalem if I'm just having a glass by myself and El Dorado if I'm having guests or wanna blow away my cash), Whiskey (Old Pulteney but it's harder to get my hands on, so often an Oban, or if I have to go cheap The Singleton), and Vodka (Again haven't dug into these much...but for cheap and "mostly headache free experience" I would go for a Stolichnaya)
*waves vaguely at FAWTL peeps*
I just had 6 glasses of red wine. 4 Bordeaux, year 2013, 2 cinnea, year 2016, by brown Brothers =)*Pets Mort and fluffs her fur*
Good kitty! Can't go completely wrong with a nice Bordeaux.
Edit: Oh and of cause, people who mix their spirits with anything other then a splash of water are clearly Philistines! ^^
now here's a wise man!
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I will put it down to generation gap. I honestly see nothing wrong with mixing vodka with soft drinks.
This discussion talks about mixing vodka with orange juice and other sodas.
So it falls again to personal preference.
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I personally think history is fine if its something really far back that doesn't have much to do with how the political climate now. Like if you want to start talking about why crossbows were outlawed by the Pope, or why the emperor Qin Shi Huang burnt books, or what caused the fall of the Roman empire, I don't think anyone bothers.
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So, on Wednesday I watched the kids' group essentially get pwned by a group of low-level mooks because of a lack of crowd-control spells.
Last night a single Wall of Stone basically ended a combat.
Crowd control, folks! It's a winner!
EDIT: OK, to be fair, good tactics had already essentially wrapped up everything except the, "How much damage will we take for this win?" accounting. The Wall of Stone made it, "Very little, Mr. Mushnik."
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@Tac, PM coming your way. Hopefully we get back the flaming envelopes...or something, soon!
I will put it down to generation gap. I honestly see nothing wrong with mixing vodka with soft drinks.
This discussion talks about mixing vodka with orange juice and other sodas.
So it falls again to personal preference.
Yea I should probably added a "quality" in my people who mix their spirits with anything other then a splash of water are clearly Philistines! spiel.
You put literally anything in your Cpt. Morgan and I wouldn't bat an eye...
You do the same to a El Dorado Demerara 21, and I might choke on my drink.
Eh... *shrugs*
If kitty like things sweet, then who am I to deny her sweet-tooth ^^
I personally think history is fine if its something really far back that doesn't have much to do with how the political climate now. Like if you want to start talking about why crossbows were outlawed by the Pope, or why the emperor Qin Shi Huang burnt books, or what caused the fall of the Roman empire, I don't think anyone bothers.
I agree with the general sentiment.
The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.
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They say that generally novice drinkers are sweet tooths. Since I didn't start drinking until like recently maybe about 4-5 years ago, I'd say I'm pretty new to this drinking things.
Help me Vidmaster! You're my only hope!
Now I don't have doomhammers or jade claws(mine are made, as I said, out of keratin).
Here's what I tried to aggro shaman with:
1 dust devil
2 earth shock
2 lightning bolt
1 Sir Finley Mrrgglton
2 Tunnel Trogs
2 Cackles
2 Eternal Sentinels
2 Flametongue totems
2 Lava shock
2 Rockbiter Weapon
2 Whirling Zap-o-matics
2 Feral Spirits
1 Lava Burst
2 Unbound Elemental
1 Fireguard Destroyyer
2 Flamwreathed Faceless
2 Jade Lightning
1 Aya Blackpaw.
It's not working! What exactly should I take in or out?
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So, on Wednesday I watched the kids' group essentially get pwned by a group of low-level mooks because of a lack of crowd-control spells.
Last night a single Wall of Stone basically ended a combat.
Crowd control, folks! It's a winner!
EDIT: OK, to be fair, good tactics had already essentially wrapped up everything except the, "How much damage will we take for this win?" accounting. The Wall of Stone made it, "Very little, Mr. Mushnik."
Nobody wins my heart with that quote.
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The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.
There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
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So, on Wednesday I watched the kids' group essentially get pwned by a group of low-level mooks because of a lack of crowd-control spells.
Last night a single Wall of Stone basically ended a combat.
Crowd control, folks! It's a winner!
EDIT: OK, to be fair, good tactics had already essentially wrapped up everything except the, "How much damage will we take for this win?" accounting. The Wall of Stone made it, "Very little, Mr. Mushnik."
I'm off the crowd control school myself, but I admit I never learnt to use walls properly. My idea of crowd control is more like, dazing fireball! Hey!
I do glitterdust,colour spray but don't like create pit because party members whine when they can't hit the bad guy in the pit. Black tentacles is a sometimes food, since if you are targetting melee beatsticks(applies to most monsters), the CMB isn't enough to get them grappled.
I think fear is a fine spell, except that the GM can screw you over by getting the feared guys to bring reinforcements, possibly pulling the entire dungeon on you.
My Strange Aeons party generally just murderhoboed stuff before it murderhoboed them, though web did come into occasional use.
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The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
That, I didn't know.
*pops out of bunker*
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I had two characters crushed by Wall Of Stone.
I'm more of a fan of the Bigby spells myself.
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The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
That, I didn't know.
*pops out of bunker*
No worries Kitty.
*Fluffs Mort*
Its more a question of what you can't (or won't) make a political topic.
In other words if someone can make a topic political, someone will do so eventually.
@Terrinam: About the Roman-thing - A good argument can be made that then process already started with the Assyrian Exile. I seem to remember some scholars talking about the Pre-Roman diaspora.
Not sure about the other one though...
If I should hazard a guess...The question about whether the ancient Egyptians were native North-Africans or were a group of Levantine settlers?
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The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
That, I didn't know.
*pops out of bunker*
Mostly because it ties into the politico-religious debates over whether or not there was a time before humanity existed longer than a few days.
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*purrs at Kjeldorn*
I had two characters crushed by Wall Of Stone.
I'm more of a fan of the Bigby spells myself.
You know I can't do that because wall of stone doesn't say you can crush things.
Please try wall of iron next time
I think grasping hand CMB is rather low for its level anyway. But I haven't number crunched.
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That was in the cray cray days of 1st and 2nd edition, when people learned that spell specifically so they can try to crush stuff with it.
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The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
That, I didn't know.
*pops out of bunker*
No worries Kitty.
*Fluffs Mort*
Its more a question of what you can't (or won't) make a political topic.
In other words if someone can make a topic political, someone will do so eventually.@Terrinam: About the Roman-thing - A good argument can be made that then process already started with the Assyrian Exile. I seem to remember some scholars talking about the Pre-Roman diaspora.
Not sure about the other one though...
If I should hazard a guess...The question about whether the ancient Egyptians were native North-Africans or were a group of Levantine settlers?
And, kinda yes, kinda no. That question is part of it. It's the debate on what skin color the Ancient Egyptians were. Because apparently "multiracial empire" is a difficult concept to grasp.
I admit I am massively oversimplifying Ancient Egypt in that. I've found an accurate description of them tends to tread unlightly on toes. So, I'm avoiding that ;)
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** spoiler omitted **The problem is just that, there very rarely any kind of consensus on when something is "Really far back/Far enough back" or any other variation on that particular notion, to be safe enough to bring up (again).
Especially when the concept of since time immemorial is still a very real thing in politics and law.There are also some modern conflicts and politics that have roots going back hundreds or thousands of years. There's a very volatile modern situation that was seeded in actions taken by the Roman Empire. And you can't even discuss Ancient Egypt without getting into an ongoing modern political debate.
We might be safe if we go back to before humanity even existed. But, then, a lot of that is also political now...
That, I didn't know.
*pops out of bunker*
No worries Kitty.
*Fluffs Mort*
Its more a question of what you can't (or won't) make a political topic.
In other words if someone can make a topic political, someone will do so eventually.@Terrinam: About the Roman-thing - A good argument can be made that then process already started with the Assyrian Exile. I seem to remember some scholars talking about the Pre-Roman diaspora.
Not sure about the other one though...
If I should hazard a guess...The question about whether the ancient Egyptians were native North-Africans or were a group of Levantine settlers?
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Oh, how Fritzy was fond!
Of firing his bikes across the pond.
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Finally finished FMA Brotherhood this week, after a years-long hiatus during which Netflix inexplicably had only the first couple of seasons. And hoooboy, did Daddy have a lot of hit points there at the end! /OVER 9,000!!!
Also watched the first season of The Frankenstein Chronicles, starring Sean Bean. Yes he dies, but not as I expected he would.* The show is not at all what I was expecting -- it's nothing life-changing, but it has been a pleasant surprise. Kudos again, Netflix.
*I would have spoilered that, but it's revealed he has syphilis in episode 1. Also,