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Devyl posted:I just bought a preserved octopus in a jar. To eat?
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Bajaha posted:To eat? Baby octopus is super delicious
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May 27, 2018 04:35
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InitialDave posted:Friendly Neighbourhood Fapman: if it's only you who overlooks him, I'd ignore it. If other people can see, maybe could save him greater embarrassment by taking anonymous action. slothrop posted:Do any countries have universal dental care? It’s an interesting concept. Growing up in socialist paradise New Zealand we certainly had dental offices at almost all of the schools I went to, or nearby. There was no coverage for things like braces etc. I probably should have got them but we couldn’t afford it so Universal prescription coverage seems to have a bit of momentum though, my guess that would be next if anything. my money would be on nothing
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May 27, 2018 04:47
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slothrop posted:Baby octopus is super delicious It is. But this one is a specimen to add to my collection of weird things I keep on my fireplace mantle.
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May 27, 2018 04:48
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slothrop posted:I can’t get my brain in gear to explain why I think your post is dumb, so instead I’ll focus on this bit. I actually looked up the NHS dental care and it isn't bad at all. 3 Bands at £21.60, £59.10 and £256.50. based on increasing workload and severity. I don't see no $15,000 Invisalign or $5000 quintuple root canal with bonus sexual assault.
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May 27, 2018 05:11
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slothrop posted:Do any countries have universal dental care? I think Sweden does. Denmark only has it up until age 18. Ugh. Somehow the wife procured about two kilos of really foul coffee beans. Roasted to within an inch of their lives they smell like bitterness and tire fire. And it was a gift with tons of logistical effort involved so I have to at least pretend to like them.
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May 27, 2018 05:14
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I paid for my braces out of my own goddamned pocket.
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May 27, 2018 05:19
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bolind posted:I think Sweden does. Denmark only has it up until age 18. My parents get French Roast and I'm a light roast guy, so whenever I have their coffee, I use sweetened condensed milk to make Vietnamese coffee. Instantly good!
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May 27, 2018 05:33
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Rhyno posted:I paid for my braces out of my own goddamned pocket. In a civilised country, you dont need to.
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May 27, 2018 05:35
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Aldi has a dozen kinds of ground coffee and I've become fond of their "doughnut shop blend."
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May 27, 2018 05:36
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Rhyno posted:Aldi has a dozen kinds of ground coffee and I've become fond of their "doughnut shop blend." If you're stuck somewhere at a grocery store with a horrible coffee selection (Yuban, Folgers, nothing else), get the Dunkin' Donuts Original blend, its probably the best bargain basement coffee.
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May 27, 2018 05:44
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DJ Commie posted:If you're stuck somewhere at a grocery store with a horrible coffee selection (Yuban, Folgers, nothing else), get the Dunkin' Donuts Original blend, its probably the best bargain basement coffee. I think this is their version of that. Even the packaging is designed to mimic it.
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May 27, 2018 05:49
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Someone gave me a starbucks giftcard, so I went and bought a bag of their "light roast" Guatemalan blend beans, and hand-ground them at home. Last time I was at a SB was before HS graduation, in 2005. Still burnt as gently caress. Starbucks. Starbucks never changes.
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May 27, 2018 06:00
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Life is too short for lovely coffee. Thankfully, my city is blessed with several high quality roasters from whom I buy beans from every other week. I have a baratza grinder in my office and use a clever. Cheaper than some lovely milkshake pretending to be coffee from starbucks too. We've had a bunch of decent quality natural process ethiopians (my favorite) run through recently, it's been good times.
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May 27, 2018 06:31
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I have a subscription with these guys and its awesome. Three bags per month sent to my door. Filter only, I sold my espresso machine before our move and honestly haven’t looked back.
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May 27, 2018 06:39
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Suck my diiiiiiiick I'm a shaaaaaaark
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May 27, 2018 06:46
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InitialDave posted:Solo: The trailers really haven't done anything at all for me, and I hadn't even realised it was out, both of which are a bit concerning given I should be totally stoked about a Han Solo movie. Is it worth a watch? Saw it today, enjoyed it immensely but my audience wasn't into it, there was a lot of genuinely funny poo poo in it and it got zero laughs. The Chewbacca/Han origin story was my favorite part. I've been on spoiler blackout so I was super surprised to see it was directed by Ron Howard and written by Lawrence Kasdan.
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May 27, 2018 07:05
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I have an aunt that sends me a Starbucks gift card twice a year. Once for my birthday, once for Christmas. I'm not much of a coffee drinker (I do like how good coffee tastes, but I cut caffeine out of my diet due to high blood pressure). Even drinking a soda bumps my heart rate up a bit. I probably have $50 worth on my Starbucks account right now. GF is a big coffee drinker, and I like tea occasionally (or some of the snack stuff from Starbucks), so I'm slowly using them up.
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May 27, 2018 07:06
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Starbucks coffee tastes like burnt piss anyways, so you aren't missing much.
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May 27, 2018 07:14
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Oh trust me I know, it's not the greatest. I need to keep some good decaf around, but even that has enough caffeine for me to feel a little jittery. 
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May 27, 2018 07:17
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I finally cleaned out the lovely little 3-cup drip machine my mom gave me a while back, and now coffee actually tastes pretty good out of it. I got a cheap pourover thing a while back but at least with pre-ground grocery store coffee I can't detect any difference in flavor worth the extra hassle. Went to 5bux the other day and really understood the "burnt taste" complaint for the first time, it's amazing. Wawa still holds up, though.
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May 27, 2018 07:26
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DJ Commie posted:I actually looked up the NHS dental care and it isn't bad at all. 3 Bands at £21.60, £59.10 and £256.50. based on increasing workload and severity. I don't see no $15,000 Invisalign or $5000 quintuple root canal with bonus sexual assault. Note that the £256.50 band is the top end and can cover several sessions of treatment. I needed a minor filling in one, root canal in another and obviously a crown and it was all covered under the one price. NHS ftw.
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May 27, 2018 07:31
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I am a stupid man. I want to buy a Toyota Sera again. My now ex has mine and 4 more so guess I'm buying off the internet and not locally!
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Enourmo posted:Coffee stuff I only drink my coffee black, so for me taste is kind-of a big deal. While I'll drink any non-flavored coffee when I'm getting ready for work, I prefer two kinds... A smooth yet slightly bold taste (Deathwish, Cafe Bustelo), and a strong in-your-face taste (Maxwell House Intense Bold, Boost Max 1.75 by Maxwell). I'm no coffee snob by any means as I only have a Ninja coffee brewing machine. I just hate burnt and flavored coffee. *E* I say "only" because even though they're stupidly priced, Ninja coffee makers are the same as your $10 cheapo coffeemaker from Walmart. They just have a few more options like half-pot and travel mug brews, look fancier, and have LED lights. They're not really worth the extra $100 or so. They basically do the same thing. Devyl fucked around with this message at 09:22 on May 27, 2018 |
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May 27, 2018 09:09
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Y’all need to get an aeropress, a grinder and some lightly roasted good coffee with some fruity/acidic/flowery/marcipany notes. Coffee will never be the same.
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May 27, 2018 09:26
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DJ Commie posted:I actually looked up the NHS dental care and it isn't bad at all. 3 Bands at £21.60, £59.10 and £256.50. based on increasing workload and severity. I don't see no $15,000 Invisalign or $5000 quintuple root canal with bonus sexual assault. The "Brits have bad teeth" thing is pretty outdated as a general rule, it stems from decades ago. There's a couple of reasons it continues - not least of which being that a huge number of Americans never leave their country and know little about anything outside it. As much as anything, it's a difference in standards. Here, your dentist is checking your teeth in terms of health/function, appearance is very much secondary, so misalignment isn't seen as that big a deal up to a point, and colour is, well, that's the colour teeth are naturally in many cases. They're not meant to be perfectly white. Depends who you meet and where you are too. There's also no delicate way to put it, but if someone is poor/lower class, yeah, they're more likely to have genuinely bad teeth. But that kind of blends across a lot of health stuff. The whole thing is as much "Americans want teeth that look artificial and white as porcelain" as it is "Brits have bad teeth". The Japanese have a similar thing with stereotypically bad dentistry (and, as here, yeah, some have a mouth that's a 14" style horror), but again, it's a stereotype. It's based on reality, but a caricature of it, coloured by outside perception and standards.
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slidebite posted:It is just us, and Mrs and I decided on the same. Out of interest, has Mrs Slidebie suggested that 'it might be fun to dress up' and bought you an outfit similar to the local college football team? InitialDave posted:The whole thing is as much "Americans want teeth that look artificial and white as porcelain" as it is "Brits have bad teeth". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85GSILNh6U4
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iwentdoodie posted:Complete lack of any healthcare including dental isnt. Yeah, we had this discussion before and the above was the conclusion. Our favourite national drink stains your teeth. In the US all your favourite drinks seem to rot them instead. Normal teeth are slight yellow, not white. We do get basically free dental care, but in most places that doesn't seem to include scaling/polishing. I'm 38 and I'd never had mine done until I moved to a new & bigger dentist 18 months ago.
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slothrop posted:I can’t get my brain in gear to explain why I think your post is dumb, so instead I’ll focus on this bit. Australia has school dental care too, I think it runs out at 17 y/o or whatever age you are when in yr12 high school. As an adult if you're on a health care card (ie unemployed, disability or pensioner) they have cheap dental care here. I had a tooth pulled in an australian government dental clinic for about $40 or something a few years ago. May have been 70% or capped pricing when I went because now the website says 50% off normal average costs and it would have cost more than $40 when I went if that was the case maybe (could be wrong). Other option is cheap/subsided/free treatment at the uni dental schools but I have never gone that route because the gov dental clinics have some old pros, not newbie learners.
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Coffee chat: I used to be, up until a year ago, a pretty hard core coffee guy as in, I roasted my own beans and everything. Now, it's just  I don't even use my Andreja Premium anymore, I have a Miele superauto that does everything, including frothing and steaming the milk at the push of a button and it's pretty awesome. For beans, we do have a few local roasters that do a decent job, but still have yet to find one that I really, really like.Anyone want an Andreja Premium that needs some repairs and Mazzer Mini? And yeah, gently caress startbucks and their beans that look and taste like they were roasted in satans colon. spog posted:Out of interest, has Mrs Slidebie suggested that 'it might be fun to dress up' and bought you an outfit similar to the local college football team? 
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My wife is in Kenya for a week and we just did our first video chat via our phones and I am blown away by the video quality and lack of lag. Living in the future is cool as poo poo sometimes.
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My inlaws have a Miele PureLine Coffee SystemTM and while it does make a good coffee, it's one of the most needy appliances I've ever seen. Constantly there's something to do on it, endless rinse and steam cycles, empty this or that container, place a container to catch the rinse water. It could be they just don't do maintenance on it, but I swear everytime they make coffee with it it's a few minutes before you can start as it does it's maintenance things then right after you have to babysit it before you can enjoy your coffee. Give me a nice espresso machine any day.
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The only thing you have to do with a moka pot is wonder if that little bit of oversprayed paint burning off the bottom is okay to breathe or not.
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Those Mieles Pure-Lines were built by Saeco or someone else, just rebranded for Miele. The current CM series are Miele made in Switzerland. That said, they do auto rinse a fair amount because you're putting milk through them and not the kind of thing you want to leave in the lines. It probably takes 20 seconds from power on to making a drink with mine, but does need the drip tray/puck catcher emptied about every 7-8 shots.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The only thing you have to do with a moka pot is wonder if that little bit of oversprayed paint burning off the bottom is okay to breathe or not. And not get grounds in the threads and make sure the seals are good and then wait for the damned thing to cool down and clean the three separate parts after the fact. Whereas with a french press it's just a short rinse and then back for the next day. I wanted to love moka pots so much, but after maybe four of them over the same number of years I'm just giving up on them.
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Rhyno posted:My wife is in Kenya for a week and we just did our first video chat via our phones and I am blown away by the video quality and lack of lag. Living in the future is cool as poo poo sometimes.  technology is cool, we have corvettes and Camaros with 650HP engines and civics with 300 HP. What’s not to love about the future?
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Have you watched Westworld?
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bolind posted:Y’all need to get an aeropress, a grinder and some lightly roasted good coffee with some fruity/acidic/flowery/marcipany notes. Coffee will never be the same. Not an emptyquote, just a minor muscle spasm as I've already had 2 cups of Aeropress'd coffee today 
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Aeropress is the only way to go - we've been strictly aeropress for 4+ years. I've been popcorn popper roasting my beans for the past few months (with a bag of good beans from local hippy mart interspersed due to time constraints), and it's been interesting. However, I keep about a half lb~1 lb in my grinder for ease of making a bunch at once. So now I'm looking at larger capacity dedicated bean roasters. The shelf stability of green coffee beans is kinda neat too. then you keep it "fresh" for when you're ready to drink it instead of letting it waste away in the pantry or whatever. My parents use star bucks beans and freeze them to keep them fresh.  End coffee sperg.
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