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People actually put that ice in drinks? I always assumed it was utterly filthy, you just fill up a bucket and then put cans of coke or whatever in it. I even used to rinse off the cans when I took them out of the ice.
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greazeball posted:The puddles of condensation dripping everywhere is a real treat with icy glasses too Lifehack: before putting a condensation-dripping glass onto a paper napkin, sprinkle some salt onto the napkin. Then the napkin won't come along for the ride when you pick up the glass again. (I admit I'm not sure why that trick works, but it does.)
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Mr. Nice! posted:There isn't a designated person. It's something you're taught as a performer. If something falls or goes awry, try to adjust but stay in character. During an episode of Dark Shadows, a character has a cane with a sword blade it. It malfunctions and the blade falls to the floor. The character just scoops it up and keeps on going. In another scene, a shotgun is supposed to be knocked out of the hand of a character, but it falls to pieces. They just ignore it and keep going. This sort of thing happened a LOT in that show.
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zachol posted:People actually put that ice in drinks? I always assumed it was utterly filthy, you just fill up a bucket and then put cans of coke or whatever in it. I even used to rinse off the cans when I took them out of the ice.
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I mean, I use the ice too but as a former Starbucks manager who was dutiful about cleaning the ice machine every month, they can and do get nasty. Black mold and pink slime are the two most common contaminants. If you're into discovering ugly truths, take a clean paper towel and reach into and above the ice holding area and wipe whatever you can reach. Unless it's a super clean hotel, the towel will have grey/black or pink on it. E: Google 'pink slime ice machine' if you're so inclined regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 02:35
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I regret to inform you that ice machines are kinda gross, unless they are regularly turned off and disinfected. The temperature in the compartment where ice cubes are stored isn’t low enough to stop bacteria, just slows em down. I’ve seen machines with a thick layer of mildew on the inside.
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Jul 20, 2021 02:39
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Back in the 80s and 90s it always felt like that ice was for refilling your cooler since the rooms didn't have mini fridges.
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regulargonzalez posted:I mean, I use the ice too but as a former Starbucks manager who was dutiful about cleaning the ice machine every month, they can and do get nasty. Black mold and pink slime are the two most common contaminants. If you're into discovering ugly truths, take a clean paper towel and reach into and above the ice holding area and wipe whatever you can reach. Unless it's a super clean hotel, the towel will have grey/black or pink on it. Yes, many ice machines can be nasty. I assume you have never been in a commercial kitchen and if you have never eat out.
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Motronic posted:Yes, many ice machines can be nasty. I assume you have never been in a commercial kitchen and if you have never eat out. Like I said, I still use the hotel ice
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Flipperwaldt posted:What do people do with the ice, I've never understood.
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I'm looking for an online reference for different kind of styles, from the average blue collar, to high society of various time periods, spanning from the 19th to the 21st century I want to do some fashion designs in my comic, but don't know where to start to see what people were wearing. If people do know, what did meth labs look like in the 1940s? Or people making cocaine? I want to have gangsters but the kind where I grew up, burnouts with no teeth and blowing up a new abandon house every few years. What did those people look like back then?
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What was the aircraft accident people always talk about on here where a plane crashed into a residential area and people fell out of the plane, possibly even their bodies flying through the air down the street.Boba Pearl posted:I'm looking for an online reference for different kind of styles, from the average blue collar, to high society of various time periods, spanning from the 19th to the 21st century I want to do some fashion designs in my comic, but don't know where to start to see what people were wearing. If people do know, what did meth labs look like in the 1940s? Or people making cocaine? I want to have gangsters but the kind where I grew up, burnouts with no teeth and blowing up a new abandon house every few years. What did those people look like back then? Getty Images is pretty good if you select specifically editorial and news images. Also Library of Congress. National and State libraries. Robin Williams fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 06:26
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Robin Williams posted:What was the aircraft accident people always talk about on here where a plane crashed into a residential area and people fell out of the plane, possibly even their bodies flying through the air down the street. Lockerbie bombing?
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Why is grooved pavement apparently dangerous to motorcycles? Whenever they strip the asphalt off the highway for repaving they have these 'GROOVED PAVEMENT' signs with a motorcyclist on them.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Why is grooved pavement apparently dangerous to motorcycles? Whenever they strip the asphalt off the highway for repaving they have these 'GROOVED PAVEMENT' signs with a motorcyclist on them. I'm not a motorcyclist, but from some quick research: if the grooves are aligned with the direction of travel (i.e. longwise, not crosswise), then the bike will tend to want to steer aligned with the grooves, which can screw with your handling. Think like riding a bicycle across a metal drain grating. Apparently the grooves created by stripping asphalt can also be irregular both in width and depth, which makes the effect they have on handling harder to predict.
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Sometimes you can even feel it in a car, the steering can get a little squishy as the tires try to fall in line with their own grooves
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Boba Pearl posted:I'm looking for an online reference for different kind of styles, from the average blue collar, to high society of various time periods, spanning from the 19th to the 21st century I want to do some fashion designs in my comic, but don't know where to start to see what people were wearing. If people do know, what did meth labs look like in the 1940s? Mostly people back then extracted meth from Benzedrine inhalers and tablets. Antihistamines weren’t readily available until the late 1940s, and with actual amphetamines being sold over the counter, there was no need to make meth out of antihistamines. As for cocaine, the general consensus is that what was used in the US between 1940 and 1970 was either diverted from medical supplies (shady dentists figure in a lot of discussions about cocaine, from journalism to moral panic propaganda to reportage and fiction about drug use) or brought by individual entrepreneurs and users from Peru (see this Woodrow Wilson Center report, for example). Sometimes people in the US got cocaine from Mexico, but that almost always originated in Peru. Edit to add: if you can find a copy of the book Hepcats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams by Jill Jonnes, it’s extremely well researched and a good read despite its ridiculous title. AlbieQuirky fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jul 21, 2021 00:47
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Is there a website or app or something that will tell me which streaming service has XYZ show?
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The one built into Roku seems like it does a pretty good job. https://www.roku.com/whats-on/search?q=loki
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Is there a website or app or something that will tell me which streaming service has XYZ show? Justwatch. The app is good as well.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Why is grooved pavement apparently dangerous to motorcycles? Whenever they strip the asphalt off the highway for repaving they have these 'GROOVED PAVEMENT' signs with a motorcyclist on them. It definitely feels weird as hell on a motorcycle, the grooves tend to wiggle back and forth and they carry you with them. Generally you can just proceed carefully through them but it doesn't feel nice.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Antihistamines weren’t readily available until the late 1940s, and with actual amphetamines being sold over the counter, there was no need to make meth out of antihistamines. Meth from antihistamines what?
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Meth from antihistamines what? Probably means pseudoephedrine, which is a decongestant, but which is sometimes confused for an antihistimine because it was often combined with one in "Tylenol Cold & Flu" style products.
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Yeah meth gets cooked out of sudafed/pseudoephedrine which is a decongestant and stimulant and close chemical relative of amphetamines. It is often combined with an antihistamine (Claritin-D, Allegra-D, etc)in a single pill to make your allergies feel better, but it is not an antihistamine. The actual antihistamine (the allegra or claritin) keeps your body from relaesing the histamines that make you congested and sneezy; the sudafed shrinks your blood vessels and stuff to make you become uncongested and has the added benefit of making you feel pretty peppy (and potentially raising your blood pressure a whole lot). tuyop posted:Justwatch. The app is good as well. Xenoborg posted:The one built into Roku seems like it does a pretty good job. Thanks!
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Khizan posted:Probably means pseudoephedrine, which is a decongestant, but which is sometimes confused for an antihistimine because it was often combined with one in "Tylenol Cold & Flu" style products. Yes, that was just a plain old piece of dumb on my part. Thanks to you and Hipster_Doofus and Kaiser Schnitzel for correcting me!
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Platystemon posted:Lockerbie bombing? No, I believe it occurred in the US.
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Robin Williams posted:No, I believe it occurred in the US. To be honest, I remember reading about this exact scenario (airplane accident literally raining human body parts onto a residential neighborhood, I believe somewhere in California) and when I went to double-check Wikipedia, I found at least 3 incidents that could plausibly be it. Do you know the location and timeframe? Evidently air travel used to be a much more dangerous game
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Hypothetically, if you have a gambling problem like on a gacha game, can you call your bank, paypal, and credit card company to not allow any funds be sent to that company? e: It's not hypothetical, I need to cut all ties with this game. Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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I’m not sure, but there are enough ways to transfer money that it would probably only work as a stopgap measure. Most of the big gacha games have dedicated customer service departments that reach out to big spenders with freebies if they show signs of wanting to quit, so watch out for that. I would suggest getting professional treatment for a gambling addiction and deleting your accounts. Tally up what you have spent and and predict what another year will do - you very likely can afford proper treatment. Good luck, you can do it if you put some effort in!
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DildenAnders posted:To be honest, I remember reading about this exact scenario (airplane accident literally raining human body parts onto a residential neighborhood, I believe somewhere in California) and when I went to double-check Wikipedia, I found at least 3 incidents that could plausibly be it. Do you know the location and timeframe? Evidently air travel used to be a much more dangerous game I don't, sorry. I was kind of hoping because it was mentioned on here so much someone would just know. Not even sure if it was recent as the 80's or a story a parent told and 60/70's. Definitely the US tho. Robin Williams fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Boba Pearl posted:Hypothetically, if you have a gambling problem like on a gacha game, can you call your bank, paypal, and credit card company to not allow any funds be sent to that company? Yes. You probably need to call your bank tho to set it up I know my bank in Australia will: Block gambling and cash transactions on your credit cards Block online gambling and online cash transactions on your debit cards I found that by visiting their website. "You can call our specialist Community Wellbeing team on..." See if yours does.
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Yeah I spent all morning telling my bank and credit card to flag anything from mihoyo.
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Boba Pearl posted:Yeah I spent all morning telling my bank and credit card to flag anything from mihoyo. Did they?
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The bank and credit card company said they would, you can apparently set auto flags for all sorts of things. e: I think specifically it was cash transfers and gambling sites, I didn't think to ask if gacha games count, but they would right? I'm still on hold with some of them. e2: I did eventually get it but I had to put a stop payment to paypal entirely though, because I was making my purchases through paypal. Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Boba Pearl posted:The bank and credit card company said they would, you can apparently set auto flags for all sorts of things. Seems like a good result. You bizarre freak
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What would force Disney to breakup it's IP monopoly through antitrust laws? Rather, what are the FCC's ambitions under Jess Rosenworcel?
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AlbieQuirky posted:gently caress, that sounds awful. I can see why you wouldn’t want to risk it again. Do normal people really go through life where its just no big deal to get fluid in your ears in the shower or whatever rather than crippling sharp pain lasting for days with the dread of impending inner ear infection? The cool thing about massive ear drum holes is that the skin isn't taut so it just wildly flaps out of control giving you this horrible wind tunnel sound effect whenever there is a percussive sound. Including when you chew or open your jaw. Also your heart beat sometimes makes it flap too if your blood pressure in your head is high because you were exercising or maybe just laying down. I can't go swimming or anything. Methanar fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Methanar posted:Do normal people really go through life where its just no big deal to get fluid in your ears in the shower or whatever.
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Robin Williams posted:Seems like a good result. It was, thanks for the advice!
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