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Joementum posted:It's a good time of year for mojitos. There's a time of year not good for mojitos? 
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Monty Python posted:Well now, the result of last week's competition when we asked you to find a derogatory term for the Belgians. Well, the response was enormous and we took quite a long time sorting out the winners. There were some very clever entries. Mrs Hatred of Leicester Said 'let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them' ... (applause starts vigorously, but he holds his hands up for silence) ... and a Mr St John of Huntingdon said he couldn't think of anything more derogatory than Belgians. (cheers and applause; a girl in showgirl costume comes on and holds up placards through next bit) But in the end we settled on three choices: number three ... the Sprouts (placard 'The Sprouts'), sent in by Mrs Vicious of Hastings... very nice ; number two..... the Phlegms (placard) ... from Mrs Childmolester of Worthing; but the winner was undoubtedly from Mrs No-Supper-For-You from Norwood in Lancashire... Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards. / /  Ratoslov posted:Okay, so I've got myself a taste for some olde-fashioned cocktail mixing. I like me some whiskey sours with home-made sour mix, but I wanna try something else. Important note: I am pretty drat broke and don't really want to make anything that involves more than one bottle of liquor at a time. What should I make? Daiquiris. It's like a whiskey sour except rum instead of whiskey and lime instead of lemon. Same proportions. Make it with Cachaça and it becomes a caipirinha! With gin it's a gimlet - leave out the sugar and top with soda and it's a Gin Rickey. Cocktails (and highballs) are fun. edit: Avshalom posted:Have any of you ever pictured a vagina coming loose and crawling along on the floor like a jellyfish, dragging itself by its dextrous labia? Avshalom, I lf'ed with Kyoon. I knew Kyoon. Kyoon was a friend of mine. Poster, you're no Kyoon. 
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Jul 2, 2014 01:24
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For people that drink/make mixed drinks, why should I bother with simple syrup instead of just adding sugar to the drink when mixing it.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:27
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euphronius posted:And Georgia Making it a separate state would be too confusing. Just make it part of Georgia.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:28
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Raskolnikov38 posted:For people that drink/make mixed drinks, why should I bother with simple syrup instead of just adding sugar to the drink when mixing it. Simple - Granulated sugar doesn't want to dissolve in cold alcohol but it loves dissolving in nearly boiling water. No matter how hard you shake the sugar will lie in a pile in the bottom of the glass, which is neither visually appealing nor tasty. vvv 
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Why was Pikachu the Japanese national team's mascot again
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Jul 2, 2014 01:31
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Why was Pikachu the Japanese national team's mascot again Joementum posted:Could have had Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan-stan on that list, but America wasn't ready for President Cain.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:32
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Why was Pikachu the Japanese national team's mascot again But then .Hey, now that Kurdistan's going to be independent there's a whole new "-stan" for Herman Cain to not care about. Too bad he's not going to be running again.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:43
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Woah. I didn't know that the guy in the peyote employment case that started the whole RFRA business was named Al Smith. That's some deeply ironic poo poo right there.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:59
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Avshalom posted:Come and make yourself at home. GBS? no thanks.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:47
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Chantilly Say posted:Good idea, let's just send the Timbers to the World Cup next time. The Timbers are the g*yest team in the world
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Jul 2, 2014 03:53
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Pretty sure gayest isn't a swear tbp.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:55
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tbp posted:The Timbers are the g*yest team in the world Are the jews even good at football? Sending in a bunch of goys is probably for the best.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:56
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Defenestration posted:GBS? no thanks.
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moller posted:edit:
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tbp posted:The Timbers are the g*yest team in the world Goyest? That's not very nice.
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Jul 2, 2014 04:11
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"Goy" isn't a slur, it's a neutral term and everything depends on the delivery and context.
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Jul 2, 2014 04:15
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Avshalom posted:Have any of you ever pictured a vagina coming loose and crawling along on the floor like a jellyfish, dragging itself by its dextrous labia?   ??
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Jul 2, 2014 05:46
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I remember seeing that loving thing on TV when I was a child and it's a memory that brings back a surprising amount of residual trauma. What the hell is it? What is it from? What does it want?
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Jul 2, 2014 05:51
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Is that from that Mark Twain claymation? That was some raw poo poo.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:11
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Wow, and I thought gumby was creepy when I saw old reruns as a kid. Some aussie kids had some great night terrors due to that show I bet.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:13
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SedanChair posted:Is that from that Mark Twain claymation? That was some raw poo poo. Didn't they meet a clay satan who made a race of clay people who he murdered horribly? I had nightmares about this. it was the real deal
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Negative Entropy posted:Wow, and I thought gumby was creepy. Some aussie kids had some great night terrors due to that show I bet.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:13
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SedanChair posted:Is that from that Mark Twain claymation? That was some raw poo poo. It was from a kid's show called Plasmo. That Mark Twain thing was pretty dark for a kid's movie though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3z2Pm7Iwg
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Jul 2, 2014 06:14
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Today a minor water main broke in one of our parks and when they dug it up it turned out to be made of asbestos so everyone freaked out and buried it because we dont have the equipment to handle that. Maybe next year we will be able to budget for 50 year old mobster installed infrastructure removal. Small goverment 
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Jul 2, 2014 06:22
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RuanGacho posted:Today a minor water main broke in one of our parks and when they dug it up it turned out to be made of asbestos so everyone freaked out and buried it because we dont have the equipment to handle that. Hopefully the asbestos water isn't being piped to anywhere where people are drinking it. Haha who am I kidding, it probably goes directly to an orphanage or something like that.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:29
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Vladimir Poutine posted:It was from a kid's show called Plasmo. Saw that when I was four or five, I think. Was never the same afterwards.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:32
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viscous wolves posted:Hopefully the asbestos water isn't being piped to anywhere where people are drinking it. Thankfully as far as I understand it wasnt in use at all but a quagmire right in the middle of a patch of grass in the middle of a park is a potential hazard.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:35
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I was to understand that the only real danger of asbestos (chrysotile) is that the fibers are small enough to breathe in, but too large to easily breathe out, and they build up in your lungs and cause all kinds of awfulness. I don't know that drinking water with asbestos in it is really as drastic a concern. I mean, obviously fix that poo poo ASAP, but I would think you guys did the right thing by not trying to remove it without proper equipment.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:40
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My junior high school auditorium was closed because of asbestos, then they reopened it for a few weeks for the Christmas concert, then whoops it was closed again for asbestos.
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Jul 2, 2014 06:43
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in honor of america being defeated by our cultural and athletic superiors belgium, i am drinking a belgian beer 
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XyloJW posted:I was to understand that the only real danger of asbestos (chrysotile) is that the fibers are small enough to breathe in, but too large to easily breathe out, and they build up in your lungs and cause all kinds of awfulness. I don't know that drinking water with asbestos in it is really as drastic a concern. I mean, obviously fix that poo poo ASAP, but I would think you guys did the right thing by not trying to remove it without proper equipment. Apparently it's also bad for you if you ingest it, it can cause various types of cancer all throughout the digestive tract.
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viscous wolves posted:Apparently it's also bad for you if you ingest it, it can cause various types of cancer all throughout the digestive tract. I double checked after I posted, and the World Health Organization says there's no real evidence of that, at least as of 2002. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/asbestos.pdf quote:EFFECTS ON HUMANS
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XyloJW posted:I was to understand that the only real danger of asbestos (chrysotile) is that the fibers are small enough to breathe in, but too large to easily breathe out, and they build up in your lungs and cause all kinds of awfulness. I don't know that drinking water with asbestos in it is really as drastic a concern. I mean, obviously fix that poo poo ASAP, but I would think you guys did the right thing by not trying to remove it without proper equipment. It's not so much the size, but the physical properties of the fibres. They are very thin, sharp and transparent. They get stuck easily causing plaques, inflammation and disruption of neuronal/messaging pathways.
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I learned something  My aunt was telling me that her city got several million dollars from the state of California to build a state-of-the-art high school, and they got the whole thing built with plans to add on the gymnasium afterwards. Classes start, and a few weeks later they start preparing the space behind the school to build the gym, when they find there's a seam of serpentinite that runs underneath the whole thing. The whole school is closed down and has to be torn down and rebuilt somewhere else.
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Asbestos is similar in structure to something like graphite. You get a bunch of fibres stacked together. This makes it a great insulating material, but also very prone to flaking into dust. Also that report says that its unlikely for tumours to form in the GI tract, but the data is inconclusive/contradictory and is somewhat controversial. In other words the data is too noisy; It wouldn't surprise me that its very difficult to isolate the causative effect of the fibres, from the rest of the biological processes. The advice is that it's not a serious cause for concern. But it also mentions that tumours were more common in a specific population of mice in a study, but was not statistically significant. I think the main idea is that the material is bad, but has a very small health risk when consumed. You're better spending money on removing asbestos that has the potential to become air borne. Tokamak fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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XyloJW posted:I learned something From the FOOF-thread you have these asbestos facts: Memento posted:The problem isn't just their inability to be broken down. Asbestos fibres are literally thin enough to interact with chromosomes in the cell and introduce mutations. They can be as thin as 250nm across. As if it hasn't a bad enough reputation... edit: Actually that thread has quite a lot of good asbestos-chat. Eg. how there's great variations between different sources of asbestos.
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BernieLomax posted:edit: Actually that thread has quite a lot of good asbestos-chat. Eg. how there's great variations between different sources of asbestos. Oh yeah, there's even a whole rating system when people are carrying out asbestos inspections. Apparently the vermiculite on my ceiling could potentially have traces of asbestos in it, but because no one is working on it they don't classify it as being a concern. A budgie of mine had a habit of clinging onto the vermiculite and chewing pieces of it off. It got ill one day and had a long and protracted death (probably parrot fever). Good thing the ceiling is a dust magnet, and is old and crumbly. If I die from an unusual causes, test my body for asbestos please. Tokamak fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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XyloJW posted:I learned something That kind of reminds me of the high school I went to. Its opening was delayed for several years because it was built a few miles from a toxic waste dump, and it earned the moniker "toxic high." The school district assured the community that there were no carcinogens in the soil, and they were probably right, and the district opened up the thoroughly failed attempt to open up a "global high school." (All of the signs were in the 9 most widely spoken world languages) If I ever develop cancer I won't blame it on high school, however, I'll blame it on ROTC. My school conducted most activities at a nuclear waste dump Superfund site in the Midwest.
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zoux posted:Yeah I know I said colonial brutality. sorry just had to see if i could edit this slightly - my first gif-anim even 
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