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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ....yeah I get that from time to time. Running a fiarly up to date version of FF and after a while it just starts lagging for some reason

    I have that after watching Hulu for a few hours.  I sometimes have to reboot to fix it!!!

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    These days, you have to watch out for folks who have both Road Rage and a gun!

    Dana

    ...very true and it did cross my mind afterwards. Sadly many these people tend to also be the worst and most careless drivers as well because if someone challenges them on their stupidity all they have to do is pull their gun to get their way.  The bully syndrome seems to be getting worse and worse. Bad enough they already have a deadly 2,000# (or more) missile at their control (or lack thereof).

    Interesting note: if you crowd monkys thy get more violent.  People are primates, just as musch animals as the next ape in the jungle.

    So much for the triumph of the mind over primal reactions. Feh.

    ...yes

    Why I prefer the company of felines and flutterbys.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ....yeah I get that from time to time. Running a fiarly up to date version of FF and after a while it just starts lagging for some reason

    I have that after watching Hulu for a few hours.  I sometimes have to reboot to fix it!!!

     

    ..the silly and annoying part, I did reboot (to attend to different matter) and it still won't go away.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Ugh, quit caffiene again yesterday.  Woke up with nail pounded into the back of my neck, so I took aspirin and proceeded to sleep 10 more hours!  Finally feeling better, Headache gone, blood pressure down a bit.

    Made a huge batch of salad: kalamata olives, artichoke heart quarters, and anchovies in balsamic vinegarette!  Super tasty, inspired by a salad one of the delivery Italian places makes.. only not costing $21 a serving!!! My cst:

    Anchovies: $2.99 a tin; Kalamata olives (sliced): $2.75 medium siz jar; quartered articoke hearts: $2.60 th large can; baslamic vinegarette: $1.99 a bottle.

    Made 4 cups of salad, which is about 6 restaurant servings.  I saved some serious cash!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited January 2018

    ...yeah cost me about 9$ - 10$ to make 4 nights worth of my special pasta sauce (including the organic Italian sausage)  Another 4$ for enough pasta  to cover all 4 servings (I tend to use Shells, Rigatoni, "Flutterbys" or Ziti instead of Spaghetti as I make a very hearty thick sauce that needs something to cling to) and maybe 3$ - 4$ worth of hard cheese (Asiago my fave). Add a couple big fresh bakery hoagie rolls (vut in half to make garlic bread with and that's good eatin'.

    My curries cost about the same per batch as I have this large tub of yellow Thai curry paste (which cost me about 4.75$ and will last through the winter) and several cans of coconut milk (about 1.50$ ea.) that I get at the local Cash & Carry (kind of a bulk shopping place for restaurants but the public is welcome).  Got a 5 # bag of rice there as well for something like 3.50$, which like the curry paste, will last the balance of the winter and maybe then some.  With curries, you mix the veggies right in rather than stir fry them on the side. I usually use a combination of those tiny carrots, celery, green onions, and daikon.  The single most expensive part is the 1.25# of organic chicken thighs or when I feel flush, organic chicken breast (usually between 4 - 7$).  That makes three dinners.

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah cost me about 9$ - 10$ to make 4 nights worth of my special pasta sauce (including the organic Italian sausage)  Another 4$ for enough pasta  to cover all 4 servings (I tend to use Shells, Rigatoni, "Flutterbys" or Ziti instead of Spaghetti as I make a very hearty thick sauce that needs something to cling to) and maybe 3$ - 4$ worth of hard cheese (Asiago my fave). Add a couple big fresh bakery hoagie rolls (vut in half to make garlic bread with and that's good eatin'.

    My curries cost about the same per batch as I have this large tub of yellow Thai curry paste (which cost me about 4.75$ and will last through the winter) and several cans of coconut milk (about 1.50$ ea.) that I get at the local Cash & Carry (kind of a bulk shopping place for restaurants but the public is welcome).  Got a 5 # bag of rice there as well for something like 3.50$, which like the curry paste, will last the balance of the winter and maybe then some.  With curries, you mix the veggies right in rather than stir fry them on the side. I usually use a combination of those tiny carrots, celery, green onions, and daikon.  The single most expensive part is the 1.25# of organic chicken thighs or when I feel flush, organic chicken breast (usually between 4 - 7$).  That makes three dinners.

    Once I got my air fryer and really started cooking at home with it, I was amazedby how easy it was to make good, healthy food without taking all day!  Watching Gordon Ramsey cook gourmet meals in 15 minutes week after week was also super-helpful.

    For the cost of one delivered meal (about $35-$40) I can cook 8-10 healthier meals.  It's sad so many people think they don't have time to cook, it's just lack of knowledge on the necessary techniques! If Gordon Ramsey can teach a British occer mom to cook roast lamb in 20 minutes, surely I should be able to do the same! :-)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...when I was still working it was hard as I had to be up at 05:30 to leave and wouldn't get home until around 19:00.  As I had to be in bed by no later than 22:30 there was not a lot of time to prepare a full dinner and relax afterwards before turning in (my schedule also put a big dent in my CG work as well).  I would primarily use the weekends to cook which is why I got into preparing large batches that I would portion out into containers for several days and put them in the fridge or freezer. All I would have to do when I got home then is simple stuff like put some rice or pasta on and/or heat up the Wok to stir fry a veggie mix I prepared to have with my Asian dinners.  Having an old Radar Range (yep had the original) helped a lot for warming up sauces or the main entree while the rice, pasta, or stir fry was cooking. This gave me time to sit back afterwards and digest before heading to bed. Friday was the only weekday night I actually cooked a full dinner as I didn't have to be up early on Saturday. 

    Being retired, I have a lot more time on my hands to really get into cooking (and baking), but I still do the "big batch thing" as it is so efficient both time and cost wise as well as makes clean up afterwards a simple task as I only have maybe a skillet and one pan to wash besides a plate or bowl and utensils.  Still have yet to use the dishwasher even after one of my batch cooking sessions as again I have items like cast irons & such which don't ever go in the machine, and the soap for dishwashers is so much more expensive than what I use for washing by hand.

    Sill so nice to have my own kitchen again.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

     

    I want to finish watching Maze Runner so I can start watching Scorch trials tomorrow night so I can watch Death cure sometime soon with a friend.

     

    I found the Maze Runner book intensely annoying, with all its made up language (plus I'm not a big fan of 1st person narrative). The film did better in my head. I've pretty much forgotton what happened in book 3 - wondering if I should re-read it, or whether that'll just set me up for disappointment.

    At least they haven't split it into two movies, thankfully!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    6:21am and bedtime.  Alarm at 11AM.  Waking up is gonna hurt... have to fight to get back on daylight hours... :-|

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited January 2018
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Stupid Statement of the Episode Award: two CLA grads measuring the length in miles of Mallegans travels on a clearly marked giant map.  When trying to figure out how he got past South America, Mr. Genius states 'He tok the Panama Canal' and totally mis-measured.  One of the onlookers finally yelled that there was no Panama Canal in Megellans time, and the grads finnay did it right.

    So much for my respect for UCLA... honestly, Panama Canal?  Did Columbus dig it or something?!?!?!?

    My take on college students: (this is a generalization , of course)

    Those who are there on their own dime, are there to learn.

    Those who are there on daddy's dime (again, generally speaking), are there to party.  It's the partying type who tend to get on things like amazing race, methinks.

    Dana

    This matches my observations.  All my high school classmates tha had their way paid pretty much ended up in mediochre jobs except my friend Gary, who had a scholarship and an intership and ended up a senior analyst at the Mitre think tank!  Pretty scary observation, how many millions down the toilet, I wonder?

    Ooh, ooh, Mitre.  Cool!  I worked there for 10 years. surprise  Great experience.  If I needed a physicist I walked down the hall.  If I need a chemist I walked down the hall.  If I needed an optical engineer I walked down the hall.  If I needed a mathematician I walked down the hall.  If they needed software they came to me. cool While there I worked with several people with Doctorates, patents and books under their belts.  Me,... I was the low man on the totem pole with a BSEE degree. indecision But it was mind opening experience.  I worked in the Washington DC area (Tyson's Corner & Reston, VA) campuses.  But I did visit the original Boston area (Bedford, MA) campus a few times, and met some of the old timers.  POW, mind blown!!! yes  I still keep my 5 year (silver Cross pen deskset) and 10 year (14k gold Cross pen & pencil deskset) loyalty gifts on my desk.  I contributed to several Mitre papers but none of my own were ever properly finished and published. sad  Although, the draft versions were well circulated internally and used appreciatively. yes

    It was so wonderful to be able to sit at lunch or in an office, or walking down the hall and let fly with conversations about things that mattered with people who were sophisticated, knowlegable, thoughtful and reasonable. 

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited January 2018
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    These days, you have to watch out for folks who have both Road Rage and a gun!

    Dana

    ...very true and it did cross my mind afterwards. Sadly many these people tend to also be the worst and most careless drivers as well because if someone challenges them on their stupidity all they have to do is pull their gun to get their way.  The bully syndrome seems to be getting worse and worse. Bad enough they already have a deadly 2,000# (or more) missile at their control (or lack thereof).

    Interesting note: if you crowd monkys thy get more violent.  People are primates, just as musch animals as the next ape in the jungle.

    So much for the triumph of the mind over primal reactions. Feh.

    If you don't have a zoo nearby, just watch the behavior of gangs of teenagers on the street.

    I loved the reality TV show "Bait Cars" where the police would park an unlocked car in a mean neighborhood and watch it.  Lots of simian behavior there especially when a group of upright apes discovered it.

    "Human Nature".  Bah!  Makes me want to hand in my membership card. 

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    have had a bit of tempratures last couple of days.  just enough to feel aches in every joint in my body. 

    up to seaso 2 of battlestar galactica, but keep dozing off, 

    i like what they did with baltar. funny.  feeling sympathies for the Sharon model cylon.

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    If Gordon Ramsey can teach a British occer mom to cook roast lamb in 20 minutes, surely I should be able to do the same! :-)

    You want to teach a soccer mom how to cook? masochist!

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    If using a baseball bat, go for the headlights. Much more satisfying. smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    footy ball?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    no lunch today.  dead bread on a tray ... not indecision

    waffls later blooberry

    tee hee job actually asked me for an animation.  woot woot.   they want something like showing beware of electric arcs.  a hazard here if yoo forget safety first. 

    thinking, like, the daz seal, clapping his flippers crying "arc arc"

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Tjohn said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    If using a baseball bat, go for the headlights. Much more satisfying. smiley

    ...not here. We already have a too many motorists who tend to drive in "stealth mode" with no headlamps on after dark.  Nearly got in a head-on with a big dark coloured SUV in my old neighbourhood (where street lighting  is poor) last summer that suddenly turned on the the narrow street I was riding down and came at me.  I had to grab the light off my handlebars and frantically wave to get him to stop as there were parked cars on both sides and I had no room to get out of his way.  When I came up to him I politely asked him the please turn his headlamps on.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Mistara said:

    have had a bit of tempratures last couple of days.  just enough to feel aches in every joint in my body. 

    up to seaso 2 of battlestar galactica, but keep dozing off, 

    i like what they did with baltar. funny.  feeling sympathies for the Sharon model cylon.

    ..ugh all aches and pains today.  This spate of damp chilly weather is not helping matters either.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    On the topic of pain I have a toothache, I think.  I'm looking for a dentist right now.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,388

    Toothaches are the worst.  Ugh.  Stay away from cold stuff and hot suff.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Thundery rumblings and distant flashes of lightning gave way to ominously hot  tropical overcast day with a slight sea breeze to stir treetops and the flags out in for e for national birthday party :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084

    Complaint:  My cold has reached the stage where it's essentially gone but my sinuses & nasal passages haven't agreed to a cease fire yet.  Thick goopy stuff still building up in there slowly until it reaches the point where you can't blow it out forward so you have to strongly snort it inward and catch it in your throat to spit it out before it goes down your lung or you swallow it.  Ewwww,  TMI? indecision

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Stupid Statement of the Episode Award: two CLA grads measuring the length in miles of Mallegans travels on a clearly marked giant map.  When trying to figure out how he got past South America, Mr. Genius states 'He tok the Panama Canal' and totally mis-measured.  One of the onlookers finally yelled that there was no Panama Canal in Megellans time, and the grads finnay did it right.

    So much for my respect for UCLA... honestly, Panama Canal?  Did Columbus dig it or something?!?!?!?

    My take on college students: (this is a generalization , of course)

    Those who are there on their own dime, are there to learn.

    Those who are there on daddy's dime (again, generally speaking), are there to party.  It's the partying type who tend to get on things like amazing race, methinks.

    Dana

    This matches my observations.  All my high school classmates tha had their way paid pretty much ended up in mediochre jobs except my friend Gary, who had a scholarship and an intership and ended up a senior analyst at the Mitre think tank!  Pretty scary observation, how many millions down the toilet, I wonder?

    Ooh, ooh, Mitre.  Cool!  I worked there for 10 years. surprise  Great experience.  If I needed a physicist I walked down the hall.  If I need a chemist I walked down the hall.  If I needed an optical engineer I walked down the hall.  If I needed a mathematician I walked down the hall.  If they needed software they came to me. cool While there I worked with several people with Doctorates, patents and books under their belts.  Me,... I was the low man on the totem pole with a BSEE degree. indecision But it was mind opening experience.  I worked in the Washington DC area (Tyson's Corner & Reston, VA) campuses.  But I did visit the original Boston area (Bedford, MA) campus a few times, and met some of the old timers.  POW, mind blown!!! yes  I still keep my 5 year (silver Cross pen deskset) and 10 year (14k gold Cross pen & pencil deskset) loyalty gifts on my desk.  I contributed to several Mitre papers but none of my own were ever properly finished and published. sad  Although, the draft versions were well circulated internally and used appreciatively. yes

    It was so wonderful to be able to sit at lunch or in an office, or walking down the hall and let fly with conversations about things that mattered with people who were sophisticated, knowlegable, thoughtful and reasonable. 

    Gary worked at Tysons Corner.. he has a Masters in EE.  Very smart guy in many ways.

    I ended up going in a different direction, straight out of high school in coding in FORTRAN for a guy who had some advnced degree in structural engineering.  Brilliant guy, couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag though.  Also worked with a PhD in theoretical math, zero common snse but bar-none brilliant.

    I've spent a decent amount of my career not being the idea man, but being 'the implementor'.  I enjoy making things work, I'm not big on stuff that has no immediate practical application.  Which is weird as when it comes to music and writing I'm almost pure creative!! WTF?!?!??!

    My big brag is that I've shipped more commercial products than most folks I know, Gary was always ticked off that I had no degree and more people in the industry knew of me than him!  


    I told him to quit Mitre and write comuter games and he called me a rude name... hee hee.. always been a certain competitive tension between us!

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    These days, you have to watch out for folks who have both Road Rage and a gun!

    Dana

    ...very true and it did cross my mind afterwards. Sadly many these people tend to also be the worst and most careless drivers as well because if someone challenges them on their stupidity all they have to do is pull their gun to get their way.  The bully syndrome seems to be getting worse and worse. Bad enough they already have a deadly 2,000# (or more) missile at their control (or lack thereof).

    Interesting note: if you crowd monkys thy get more violent.  People are primates, just as musch animals as the next ape in the jungle.

    So much for the triumph of the mind over primal reactions. Feh.

    If you don't have a zoo nearby, just watch the behavior of gangs of teenagers on the street.

    I loved the reality TV show "Bait Cars" where the police would park an unlocked car in a mean neighborhood and watch it.  Lots of simian behavior there especially when a group of upright apes discovered it.

    "Human Nature".  Bah!  Makes me want to hand in my membership card. 

    I refuse the title 'human being'/  I'm a serpent in a monkeys body!!!!  Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssss...

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    If using a baseball bat, go for the headlights. Much more satisfying. smiley

    ...not here. We already have a too many motorists who tend to drive in "stealth mode" with no headlamps on after dark.  Nearly got in a head-on with a big dark coloured SUV in my old neighbourhood (where street lighting  is poor) last summer that suddenly turned on the the narrow street I was riding down and came at me.  I had to grab the light off my handlebars and frantically wave to get him to stop as there were parked cars on both sides and I had no room to get out of his way.  When I came up to him I politely asked him the please turn his headlamps on.

    Another place where justifid homicide laws would be hndy.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  My cold has reached the stage where it's essentially gone but my sinuses & nasal passages haven't agreed to a cease fire yet.  Thick goopy stuff still building up in there slowly until it reaches the point where you can't blow it out forward so you have to strongly snort it inward and catch it in your throat to spit it out before it goes down your lung or you swallow it.  Ewwww,  TMI? indecision

    Get in the bathroom, turn on hot water and run it out the shower head, instant steam bath.  Should help break up the thick nasty goop.  Works a treat for me, maybe it will help you! :-)

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Diomede said:

    Toothaches are the worst.  Ugh.  Stay away from cold stuff and hot suff.

    I trid eating ice cream with a broken tooth once.  BIG miastake.  I recommend against it.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Thundery rumblings and distant flashes of lightning gave way to ominously hot  tropical overcast day with a slight sea breeze to stir treetops and the flags out in for e for national birthday party :)

    Well, the sea breeze part sounds nice. :-)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..speaking of idiots.  While heading home from my Tuesday RPG session, a friend and I were just past midway crossing a street with the light when this moutbreather behind the wheel who appeared to be waiting to let us cross, decided suddenly to make a left turn right then and there nearly hitting the both of us. I had to jump back while me fried dashed forward  to avoid being struck by his front bumper. I then in a rather annoyed tone scolded him about the fact that pedestrians with the green light have the right of way.   He stopped and mumbled something unintelligible to which I simply said "what a dumbass" loud enough to be heard after we made it to the other side and kept walking.

    There are times I just refuse to put up with careless and impatient driving and this was one of them.

    Looks like I need to write those cereal companies again and tell them to stop giving away free drivers' licences in every specially marked boxes.

    I've had a similar think happen in Tulsa.  Crossing with the walk light, this idiot cme into the crosswalk and honked/yelled at me, telling me he had right of way.  I whipped out my cell phone and told him 'Pull over, asshole, and we'll ask a cop'.  Burned rubber and never saw him again.

    It should be legal to shoot these people to improve public safety!!! Thankfully that's the only incident like that I've had.

    ..I wouldn't mind just being allowed to have a free uncontested whack at the fender with a baseball bat.

    These days, you have to watch out for folks who have both Road Rage and a gun!

    Dana

    ...very true and it did cross my mind afterwards. Sadly many these people tend to also be the worst and most careless drivers as well because if someone challenges them on their stupidity all they have to do is pull their gun to get their way.  The bully syndrome seems to be getting worse and worse. Bad enough they already have a deadly 2,000# (or more) missile at their control (or lack thereof).

    Interesting note: if you crowd monkys thy get more violent.  People are primates, just as musch animals as the next ape in the jungle.

    So much for the triumph of the mind over primal reactions. Feh.

    If you don't have a zoo nearby, just watch the behavior of gangs of teenagers on the street.

    I loved the reality TV show "Bait Cars" where the police would park an unlocked car in a mean neighborhood and watch it.  Lots of simian behavior there especially when a group of upright apes discovered it.

    "Human Nature".  Bah!  Makes me want to hand in my membership card. 

    I refuse the title 'human being'/  I'm a serpent in a monkeys body!!!!  Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssss...

    ...being born in the year of the snake, me too.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Thundery rumblings and distant flashes of lightning gave way to ominously hot  tropical overcast day with a slight sea breeze to stir treetops and the flags out in for e for national birthday party :)

    I wish we had some tropical heat where I live right now.  

    Dana

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