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Happy end of Muslim Lent, everyone! Enjoy your celebration of the end of fasting for no particular rational reason! Note to Buddhists: Keep lenting, you're not done yet.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:26
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k Anyway, on the plus side for those of us not of any faith this means that tasty pan-Arabic food is now available during daylight hours again. I recognize that many may live in cities without little to no Muslim presence. Plz carry on as per normal if Ramadan is something that happens only on the news for you.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:27
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I went backpacking this weekend and briefly considered dropping dead from no water for an hour or two. Ramadan must be hard.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:29
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I went backpacking this weekend and briefly considered dropping dead from no water for an hour or two. Ramadan must be hard.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:30
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ReindeerF posted:Anyway, on the plus side for those of us not of any faith this means that tasty pan-Arabic food is now available during daylight hours again. I recognize that many may live in cities without little to no Muslim presence. Plz carry on as per normal if Ramadan is something that happens only on the news for you. It feels like you're belittling people who haven't had the chance to experience cultures other than their own, ReindeerF. I haven't (which is why I refrain from commenting on foreign politics), but is it really necessary to passive-aggressively insult me for lacking the funds to go abroad?
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Jul 28, 2014 23:33
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ReindeerF posted:k i like u
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Jul 28, 2014 23:34
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razorrozar posted:It feels like you're belittling people who haven't had the chance to experience cultures other than their own, ReindeerF. I haven't (which is why I refrain from commenting on foreign politics), but is it really necessary to passive-aggressively insult me for lacking the funds to go abroad? Sim sim sala bim. http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am/am2Station/Station_Page&code=DER
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Jul 28, 2014 23:38
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I still don't understand why America has only one national feast holiday. We kind of make a sport out of cookouts on Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day, but it's not the same as a plain ol' feast.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:39
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ReindeerF posted:I'm sure you can go abroad to Dearborn: haha oh man  !
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Jul 28, 2014 23:40
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Joementum posted:I still don't understand why America has only one national feast holiday. EDIT: It occurs to me that you may need to slip the surly bonds of Vermont to find people celebrating Juneteenth.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:43
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ReindeerF posted:Juneteenth is an unofficial barbecuing holiday, though not so much for white folks traditionally. Still, you'll be welcome at the local park with your grill, ushanka and tin of maple syrup, Joe.  how do you do this
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Jul 28, 2014 23:44
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ReindeerF posted:Juneteenth is an unofficial barbecuing holiday, though not so much for white folks traditionally. Still, you'll be welcome at the local park with your grill, ushanka and tin of maple syrup, Joe. Maple syrup is a perfectly acceptable (delicious even!) barbeque glaze. 
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Jul 28, 2014 23:46
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To are troops reading from the sandbox: Welcome back to the start of mortar season. Forecast today: Sunny with a 50% chance of poorly aimed explosive projectiles.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:46
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ReindeerF posted:I'm sure you can go abroad to Dearborn: According to the Amtrak site, there are no trains from SC to Michigan at any time on any date, so I suspect it's not working right. Having said that, I'm unemployed and can't find a job, for reasons I discussed in this thread yesterday or the day before, so no. I can't.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:49
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I think you can apply to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for funds for things like this. For sure they will send you a free Koran. If they refuse to pay your way to Dearborn, let me know and I will find a way to get you there within the next 3 months. That said, your state flag is green and has a palm tree and a crescent on it and your governor is quite obviously Muslin. Can you not find a decent shwarma or hummus and naan or whatever somewhere in your Hashemite paradise? EDIT: What I am saying is that your state flag is one scimitar away from being a card in the Turkish version of Risk. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 23:51
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razorrozar posted:According to the Amtrak site, there are no trains from SC to Michigan at any time on any date, so I suspect it's not working right. Having said that, I'm unemployed and can't find a job, for reasons I discussed in this thread yesterday or the day before, so no. I can't.  
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Jul 28, 2014 23:53
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Good ole' American passenger rail. Beating airfare by a total of $20 while taking like 10 hours longer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0JgqoF2W4
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Jul 28, 2014 23:55
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By the way, I love Steve Goodman like I love all God's children, but is that not the most kiddy fiddler looking dude you've ever seen?
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Jul 28, 2014 23:56
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The SC state flag is blue, our governor is a Methodist, I can - and have - read the Qu'ran online, and I suspect Saudi Arabia has more important things to do than ship a 23-year-old white kid to Michigan. I'm beginning to think you're trolling.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:57
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ReindeerF posted:Good ole' American passenger rail. Beating airfare by a total of $20 while taking like 10 hours longer. Funny thing is that it's still substantially cheaper than rail travel has ever been in this country., especially compared to the heyday of the private passenger lines. (If you're really flexible with times to travel though, you can get saver rates on that trip as low as $200. Other trip combinations can end up being like $400 flight versus $95 amtrak)
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Jul 28, 2014 23:58
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That 13hr overnight trip from Washington to Toledo in Amtrak coach is not going to be fun, just FYI. The reason that it takes so long to go that distance is that the train will stop at dozens of small towns overnight and there's nothing the Amish love more than taking a half hour to board the train at 2:30 in the morning.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:59
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Joementum posted:I still don't understand why America has only one national feast holiday.
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Thanatosian posted:I would put Easter and Christmas squarely in the "feast" category. New Years and Halloween are less feast-y and more just straight hedonism, I guess. Same with our appropriated versions of Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick's Day. None of these are national holidays! edit: Except New Years, but that's a lame one.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:02
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Joementum posted:That 13hr overnight trip from Washington to Toledo in Amtrak coach is not going to be fun, just FYI. I actually did that recently (January), and found it perfectly fine. Went with a lower level seat, which has a door separating you from anyone trying to board or move through the train.
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Supreme Court Issues 7-1 Decision To Find Scalia's Killer
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razorrozar posted:The SC state flag is blue razorrozar posted:our governor is a Methodist razorrozar posted:I can - and have - read the Qu'ran online, and I suspect Saudi Arabia has more important things to do than ship a 23-year-old white kid to Michigan. http://bit.ly/1lP5dDg razorrozar posted:I'm beginning to think you're trolling.  Joementum posted:That 13hr overnight trip from Washington to Toledo in Amtrak coach is not going to be fun, just FYI.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:06
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Joementum posted:None of these are national holidays! I dunno, things get pretty wild on President's Day at the Thanatosian household.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:07
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ReindeerF posted:There is truly nothing funnier in America than the mild-mannered, passive aggressive hatreds of Northeasterners. Feckin' flatlandahs comin' up 'ere an' drivin' all ten miles an owah lookin' at ahr leaves.
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ReindeerF posted:k What is the Arabic food in Bangkok like? Pretty recognizable for someone used to shwarma trucks or closer to the "Thai pizza" end of the cultural-exchange scale? zoux posted:Or for anyone. There are actually some serious technical tasks to grapple with in making a good nuclear bomb that efficiently uses the material you have to maximize the energy released, and the various nations that have figured it out do an admirable job of keeping it hard to do--not to mention the very specific materials science at hand. Making a gun-barrel uranium bomb, yeah, that's pretty easy, but it really limits your options for delivery. Building a warhead small but durable enough to fit on the end of a rocket is a real challenge.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:28
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I grew up in Connecticut. There are no such things as accents.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:28
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ReindeerF posted:Note to Buddhists: Keep lenting, you're not done yet. and i didn't even fast, i just ate vegan for a day
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Jul 29, 2014 00:29
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Religion? Feh.
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Aurubin posted:I grew up in Connecticut. There are no such things as accents. that's what you think until you move somewhere else, though I have lived enough places now to have an accent that is 'not the south'  (i was born in new britain)
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Chantilly Say posted:What is the Arabic food in Bangkok like? Pretty recognizable for someone used to shwarma trucks or closer to the "Thai pizza" end of the cultural-exchange scale? Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ezzjRmewc No one here calls it Soi Arab, I have no idea what these idiot tourists on other videos are posting. Also  at the comment on this video.Mecca-Benghazi posted:actually, yes i am Are you one of these West Coast California fusion Buddhists like my cousin, Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama? I'm off to the wet market to stock up on foodstuffs. I shall return with a photo journal because why not?
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Joementum posted:Feckin' flatlandahs comin' up 'ere an' drivin' all ten miles an owah lookin' at ahr leaves. Rural Maine has three types of drivers: 1. Drivers who think they've seen a moose. May come to a stop at the side of/in the middle of the road, tend to slow unpredictably. 2. Local residents. Rarely found, may be a myth. 3. Logging truck drivers, who will kill you and everyone you care about.
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ReindeerF posted:You are a good poster, I mean this in the nicest possible way:  my parents are vietnamese refugees and i was born in Westminster, CA like half the vietnamese people in the us. it was my mom that taught me about eating vegan on the first and middle (ide? ides?) of each month and on holidays but tbh I'm not really that buddhist, more agnostic and culturally buddhist. so to answer your question, i guess probably? there's lots of buddhist sects and it's all tied up with nationalism and poo poo, i just like the food, which makes me the worst buddhist, i think also i am not the biggest fan of the dalai lama as a filthy queer and believer in the idea that the holocaust shouldn't be blamed on its victims but he is a tibetan buddhist anyway, so i don't have to listen to him. Well i don't have to listen to any monk regardless of tradition but you know what i mean this reminds me: one of my history teachers and decathlon coaches in high school was hella socialist and sponsor of our GSA and my parents are staunch republicans but then they learned he was vegan and he became my parents' favorite teacher. actually that story was not as entertaining as it sounded in my head, but it was amusing, to me, at the time this nonchalant posting style is really hard
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Jul 29, 2014 01:30
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I met the Buddha once. I killed him.
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ReindeerF posted:k One of my favorite things about leaving Israel is how I can get decent food during Passover. gently caress unleavened everything.
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The Dalai Lama blessed a tree outside my office a couple of years ago, so I guess I've got that going for me.
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