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chitoryu12 posted:Also you never know how good a hot meal is until you’ve lost power for 3 days and have only cold canned meat and soup for meals. A local Chinese place used a generator to reopen as soon as Irma passed and began selling hot food. There’s a palpable sense of relief and joy to going from a powerless stove and microwave to having a huge steaming plate of sliced pork and fried rice. During Sandy we were without power for 2 weeks. It's easy to get sick of soup, peanut butter and crackers, etc. A pizza place was basically the only open restaurant in town. They made a killing. Having a hot meal every night was a great comfort, especially after cleaning trees and having nothing to shower in or take a bath in besides the pool.
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RCarr posted:The only appropriate time for eating at a Waffle House is black out drunk at 3am. Even then you will regret it. That and the morning after when you can't quite meet each other's gaze and you're trying to remember what you did, while the other half of your brain is trying its best to forget it.
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Dick Trauma posted:Back when I did 911 we were grateful for the Waffle House in our jurisdiction because it was a reliable generator of late night fistfights and stabbings. Why, were you on commission?
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Krankenstyle posted:Why, were you on commission? Lifting wallets from Waffle House patrons who were bleeding out?
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Krankenstyle posted:Why, were you on commission? I'd guess bored. Back when I was a taxi dispatcher I had to call the cops early one Sunday morning because a passenger wasn't willing to pay his driver. The police dispatcher said "Oh really! How many cars do you want? We've got a lot of bored cops sitting around." I think she ended up sending four or five squad cars. Scared the poo poo out of that passenger according to the driver, who was all smiles when he got back to the office.
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Only with a rubber.
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Dick Trauma posted:Back when I did 911 we were grateful for the Waffle House in our jurisdiction because it was a reliable generator of late night fistfights and stabbings. People get weirdly protective of their hash browns & waffle batter, but it's WH & you can't really blame them because they're awesome
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ElGroucho posted:gently caress the police
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Bored As gently caress posted:During Sandy we were without power for 2 weeks. It's easy to get sick of soup, peanut butter and crackers, etc. A pizza place was basically the only open restaurant in town. They made a killing. Having a hot meal every night was a great comfort, especially after cleaning trees and having nothing to shower in or take a bath in besides the pool.   Yeah, I had no power for 8 days, but still had propane for cooking and heating water, and had a fireplace for heating.
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That's a hell of a strain on the wrist
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He’s drawing it in ink not blood
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:
We had a big ice storm here about 10 years ago and we were without power for 9 or 10 days. Everyone in my family's house was knocked out except my mom's house. After two days staying there with the rest of my family, with heating and hot food and everything, we were extremely happy to go back to our house and sit in the cold and dark. I remember it wasn't so bad, kind of an interesting adventure, when our whole street was without power, but when all the houses around us got turned back on days before we did and we could see them sitting in their warm houses watching TV, that's when we started to get a little bitter.
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RCarr posted:He’s drawing it in ink not blood It's water dude but point stands
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Elephant vs rhino https://i.imgur.com/AfOLczL.mp4
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Elephant vs rhino rear end in a top hat Elephant looking for a fight.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Elephant vs rhino Usually it takes an animal bored of being among the living to mess with a rhino, but this also gives an idea why every predator, lions included, absolutely yield when elephants show up to have a nice pick-nick at the watering hole.
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Der Kyhe posted:Usually it takes an animal bored of being among the living to mess with a rhino, but this also gives an idea why every predator, lions included, absolutely yield when elephants show up to have a nice pick-nick at the watering hole. Accept for when lions attack and kill them, yes. Though I understand that's pretty drat rare.
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Rhinos are the 2nd largest land animal behind the elephant. And that size different is still so huge!
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It's interesting to see how elephants move quickly, it's more of a quick amble than a run- you just can't scale a normal gallop up to that mass without breaking something.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Accept for when lions attack and kill them, yes. Though I understand that's pretty drat rare. Separated, sick and elderly or very young elephants usually. They have to be really desperate to try anything against full-grown healthy one with full set of tusks and going against the entire herd is a suicide mission.
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a looping version of that would make a loving amazing phone wallpaper
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:It's interesting to see how elephants move quickly, it's more of a quick amble than a run- you just can't scale a normal gallop up to that mass without breaking something. Elephants are actually incapable of running, they have some of their feet on the ground at all times.
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wow very real #woah
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The synchronisation between the thunder and visible lightning is another clue.
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Also the fact that the clouds are apparently moving tens of miles in a couple of seconds. Hurricanes don’t blow thousands of miles per hour on Earth.
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Not yet
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Can you count to seven? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njy7pMVKJ8Q
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Solice Kirsk posted:Accept for when lions attack and kill them, yes. Though I understand that's pretty drat rare. ESA is the only 'exceptable' excuse for this. Edit: ESL. Hoist by my own petard. Beachcomber has a new favorite as of 06:33 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Beachcomber posted:ESA is the only 'exceptable' excuse for this. If I had an emotional support animal that could type, I wouldn't complain. Getting a GSA for my ESA would be pretty cool, though.
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Cable Guy posted:I suspect shenanigans... loops too perfectly. Yeah, and I was very confused by the way the drone moved after the guy put it out the window. One second it’s in the car and he’s looking into it, then the video is a blur for a split second, then the drone is hovering perfectly alongside the car right by the window.
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