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Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Arsenic Lupin posted:

The explanation I saw was that they're just like the Disney cruise ships, they have a panel on one wall of each bedroom that produces accurately-emulated sunlight!

Omitting that a Disney cruise ship of the equivalent capacity would have a lot more (A) access to actual views and (B) entertainment options.

And (C) a norovirus outbreak.

Which should be awesome since there's only one toilet per eight people.

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Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
When the stairwell becomes impromptu plumbing.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


https://i.imgur.com/n2jhZ27.mp4

mkvltra
Nov 1, 2020

mostlygray posted:

It must be averaged over total square meter/feet in the entire building and it can't be much.. If there's such a rule, it's used to keep the execs in full sun and everyone else under flickering fluorescents.

When I worked at Thomson-Reuters, I worked in the "dungeon" for a while. That was zero light for about 10,000 square feet. Complete darkness without the fluorescents. It was creepy as hell. There was an area down there where no-one turned on the overhead lights. They just used desk lamps. No-one knew who they were and we were afraid to ask. They never played music, and never talked. They just sat there with their small desk lamps moving only slightly. They were there when we got to work, and there when we left.

If you want to work in a huge, weird, complex, work at Thomson-Reuters/West. Very strange, confusing, and non-sensical. Some people didn't even know what they did there. No-one had told them and they didn't have bosses. My boss didn't even know I existed. When I quit, I had to introduce myself. I once got lost and found an abandoned lobby with no access from the outside. Very weird.

It did have a US Bank branch, a general library, the second largest Caribou Coffee in MN, 2 cafeterias, a sleeping room, full showers, and the largest law library you've ever seen with everything West had ever published since the 1800's. The West Publishing/Print shop section is monstrous. They printed the last Harry Potter book because they were bored.

It also had a ghost train that ran above the dungeon. We never figured out what it was.

That sounds cool as hell. You should write an SCP story based on your experiences there.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/6qbvUeu.mp4

Slugworth
Feb 18, 2001

If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Platystemon posted:









Two of these photographs depict delicious chanterelles.

Two depict jack o’ lanterns that will gently caress your poo poo up.

Choose wisely.

Clue: The jack o’lantern has sharper and deeper ridges that fork less.

Answer: Chanterelles are first and third.

There are more clues if you see them in the field, but it is at least possible to tell these apart from a photo. I just don’t trust an app to do it.

Here they are side by side. There are multiple species of each found in various locales and specific appearance may vary.
Hey, these just popped up in my yard in eastern North Carolina, how many should I eat??

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/zMhVm59.gifv

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
New F&F heist stunt looks bad

Pissed Ape Sexist
Apr 19, 2008

Slugworth posted:

Hey, these just popped up in my yard in eastern North Carolina, how many should I eat??


Eat them all and if we don't hear back we'll log it in the database. This is how we figure poo poo out man

DelphiAegis
Jun 21, 2010

Safety first, he set the parking brake before leaving the vehicle. Wouldn't want it rolling away from his new parking spot.

HolHorsejob
Mar 14, 2020

Portrait of Cheems II of Spain by Jabona Neftman, olo pint on fird

Holy gently caress Julian!!

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids


ErrorInvalidUser
Aug 23, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
put it on my tab

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?

mostlygray posted:

No-one had told them and they didn't have bosses. My boss didn't even know I existed. When I quit, I had to introduce myself.

Were you working for the SCP Foundation?

Also, what was your job that no one knew you existed and why on earth would you leave.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
Mushroom chat was a while ago but my SO bought a 10 liter bucket of mushrooms from a guy who looked like that bearded fat guy from Lost. Bunch of funnel chanterelles (not a real chantarelle).

I don't care for most mushrooms in food aside from portobellos which are cruical in bolognese sauces and regular champignons in stews and the like. Are pretty safe to pick, still there have been cases of them being mixed up with the deadly Cortinarius rubellusso I am slightly worried, she went through and cleaned them all, but is not a mushroom expert herself so... Hope the guy who picked them knew his stuff.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Comstar posted:

Were you working for the SCP Foundation?

Also, what was your job that no one knew you existed and why on earth would you leave.

Yeah I wanna know this too.

DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

His Divine Shadow posted:

Mushroom chat was a while ago but my SO bought a 10 liter bucket of mushrooms from a guy who looked like that bearded fat guy from Lost. Bunch of funnel chanterelles (not a real chantarelle).

I don't care for most mushrooms in food aside from portobellos which are cruical in bolognese sauces and regular champignons in stews and the like. Are pretty safe to pick, still there have been cases of them being mixed up with the deadly Cortinarius rubellusso I am slightly worried, she went through and cleaned them all, but is not a mushroom expert herself so... Hope the guy who picked them knew his stuff.

I think you're probably OK. i've heard a lot of stories about people getting poisoned with picked mushrooms and not a single one of them involved a guy who is described as the bearded fat guy from lost. that guy sounds like he knows what he's doing. some random nobody who knows nothing about mushrooms is not going around selling them in a 10 liter bucket. however if they are poisonous I don't think washing them is going to make much of a difference.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
To be clear, cleaning mushrooms does not mean washing them but carefully brushing off all the dirt and other tiny parts of the forest that you don't want on your plate, as well as cutting off spoiled or wormy bits. Washing a mushroom with water will just help it spoil faster.

Some mushies also have to be parboiled and in the case of the extremely poisonous Gyromitra esculenta parboiling at least twice is recommended, however doing this in a poorly ventilated space will expose you to breathing poison vapors! Oh, and the mushroom is also carcinogenic and boiling might not help with that...

quote:

Most of the gyromitrin must be removed to render false morels edible. The recommended procedure involves either first drying and then boiling the mushrooms, or boiling the fresh mushrooms directly.[77] To prepare fresh mushroom it is recommended that they are cut into small pieces and parboiled twice in copious amounts of water, at least three parts water to one part chopped mushrooms, for at least five minutes, after each boiling the mushroom should be rinsed thoroughly in clean water.[77] Each round of parboiling reduces the gyromitrin contents to a tenth.[78] The gyromitrin is leached into the water where it will remain, therefore the parboiling water must be discarded and replaced with fresh water after each round of boiling. However, it is still recommended that the mushroom be boiled after drying.[77]

MMH boils at 87.5 °C (190 °F) and thus readily vaporizes into the air when water containing fresh false morels is boiled.[38] Poorly ventilated spaces allow vapor to accumulate, resulting in gyromitrin poisoning. If boiling the mushrooms indoors, care should be taken to ensure adequate ventilation, and, if symptoms of gyromitrin poisoning appear, immediately seek fresh air.[79] Even after boiling, small amounts of gyromitrin remain in the mushrooms. Given the possibility of accumulation of toxins, repeated consumption is not recommended.[80]

Oh yeah, and don't touch them with bare hands either...

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

DeeplyConcerned posted:

I think you're probably OK. i've heard a lot of stories about people getting poisoned with picked mushrooms and not a single one of them involved a guy who is described as the bearded fat guy from lost. that guy sounds like he knows what he's doing. some random nobody who knows nothing about mushrooms is not going around selling them in a 10 liter bucket. however if they are poisonous I don't think washing them is going to make much of a difference.

Oh I am refusing to eat them, as are the kids, none of us besides my SO seem to care for them and none of us wanted any when she talked about it earlier, I am a bit surprised she went and ahead and bought them anyway.

So the worry is not for myself.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Nenonen posted:

Gyromitra esculenta

I read an article about these (in swe though) about a guy who says he got permanent neurological damage from eating them:
https://forsnashemman.blogspot.com/p/stenmurklor-aldrig-mer.html

e: one of the comments, google translated....

quote:

I had an acquaintance who thought that mushroom was safe after x number of parboilings and offered a friend dinner with morel sauce. His best friend's child became really ill just hours later and unfortunately did not survive.

I still do not understand how to move on after something like that. It's not like standing there by the small coffin at the funeral and saying that "noo but I thought it was safe" despite newspaper headlines and expert statements loud and low about how dangerous it is.

His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Nov 1, 2021

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
I found lots of this one weird mushroom, looked it up in an old book, three stars, good eating. Looked it up in a new book, two skulls, not good eating.

Jokerpilled Drudge
Jan 27, 2010

by Pragmatica
oh snap are people getting prostate cancer from trying to be wildcrafters


edit: feeling a lot less of a square for refusing to eat the random poo poo people find in the woods

Jokerpilled Drudge fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Nov 1, 2021

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

oh snap are people getting prostate cancer from trying to be wildcrafters

In the same world where there are idiots that are literally taking horse de-wormers? No, not a chance!

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Mushroom chat makes me really happy I'm not a fan of mushrooms. The texture/flavor combo crosses some wires in my brain and I'm like no get this out of my mouth.

BlackIronHeart
Aug 2, 2004

PROCEED
Why the gently caress are people risking painful death by poison for some mushrooms they found in the woods? The non deadly versions of these mushrooms make you trip balls and see God, right? I sure loving hope so. 'They taste good' is not enough reason to risk this poo poo.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

oh snap are people getting prostate cancer from trying to be wildcrafters


edit: feeling a lot less of a square for refusing to eat the random poo poo people find in the woods

Well now lets not cast too wide a net, berries are safe to pick and delicious, and 100% good for you. Bilberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, raspberries.

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

BlackIronHeart posted:

Why the gently caress are people risking painful death by poison for some mushrooms they found in the woods? The non deadly versions of these mushrooms make you trip balls and see God, right? I sure loving hope so. 'They taste good' is not enough reason to risk this poo poo.

Edible mushrooms are delicious and take on the flavor of what you're cooking them with.

Psilocybin mushrooms are awful to the palate. But yeah you get a nice conversation with your own personal god, you can levitate and everything looks like some alice in wonderaland poo poo. Colors are colors, etc.

Basically the cow poo poo mushies are the best buuuuuuut, have to eat them when you're in a good mood.

Don't do them if you're breaking up.

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

Psilocybin mushrooms are awful to the palate.

grind em up and put the into gelatin pill capsules. that way you only have to taste them when you burp.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

His Divine Shadow posted:

I read an article about these (in swe though) about a guy who says he got permanent neurological damage from eating them:
https://forsnashemman.blogspot.com/p/stenmurklor-aldrig-mer.html

e: one of the comments, google translated....

This one has been reclassified from *** = delicious! to ☠ = Toxic

Slow damage that builds up, but makes for one delicious morel gravy!

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

punishedkissinger posted:

grind em up and put the into gelatin pill capsules. that way you only have to taste them when you burp.

I mistakenly put them in orange juice concentrate.

Probably based one something I read about LSD working well with citrus.

A few things get stronger with citric acid but probably not psilocybin.

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

I mistakenly put them in orange juice concentrate.

Probably based one something I read about LSD working well with citrus.

A few things get stronger with citric acid but probably not psilocybin.

this sounds truly vile holy gently caress

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.
I’ve put them in strawberry-banana smoothies before. That’s my preferred method. It does not mask them completely, and there is a bit of “Hey my tasty smoothie has dirt in it” but the high was worth it.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

I mistakenly put them in orange juice concentrate.

Probably based one something I read about LSD working well with citrus.

A few things get stronger with citric acid but probably not psilocybin.

I used to make shroom tea with a bit of lemon juice. Not sure if it really potentates it but it does taste extra terrible.

Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

His Divine Shadow posted:

Mushroom chat was a while ago but my SO bought a 10 liter bucket of mushrooms from a guy who looked like that bearded fat guy from Lost. Bunch of funnel chanterelles (not a real chantarelle).

I don't care for most mushrooms in food aside from portobellos which are cruical in bolognese sauces and regular champignons in stews and the like. Are pretty safe to pick, still there have been cases of them being mixed up with the deadly Cortinarius rubellusso I am slightly worried, she went through and cleaned them all, but is not a mushroom expert herself so... Hope the guy who picked them knew his stuff.

In Scandinavia you can basically only mistake funnel chanterelles for the dangerous corintinarius rubellus if you have no idea how a funnel chanterelles should look like. It's worth checking your harvest for them though, as they are deadly. The other bad mixup mushrooms leotia lubrica and chrysomphalina chrysomphylla, they are not that similar to funnel chanterelles either if you actually inspect the mushrooms, they are just unpalatable by being slimy and bitter I think.
I recommend that you dry funnel chanterelles though, then you can grind them down to a powder and stuff in whatever stews you like.

Luneshot
Mar 10, 2014

It’s extra OSHA that the toxin in Gyromitra, monomethylhydrazine (MMH), is literal rocket fuel.

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Comstar posted:

Were you working for the SCP Foundation?

Also, what was your job that no one knew you existed and why on earth would you leave.

I too would like to hear more about the spooky workplace.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Weembles posted:

And (C) a norovirus outbreak.

Which should be awesome since there's only one toilet per eight people.
It turns out if you look at the blueprint closely, there are actually two. Which will be great fun in the morning when everybody needs to toilet and wash their hands before heading out for the day. And, of course, nobody will ever sleep over. Yes, people do sleep over even when the beds are ridiculously small. Ask me how I know.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


His Divine Shadow posted:

Well now lets not cast too wide a net, berries are safe to pick and delicious, and 100% good for you. Bilberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, raspberries.
Just in case this isn't irony, nightshade berries, pokeberries, cotoneaster, yew and other berries.

If it's growing wild, you should have done the research to know it's safe before you eat it, and read recent books. Some folk herbs like sassafras tea, which is extremely yummy, turn out to contain slow carcinogens. If you like sassafras tea, you can buy commercial safrole-free sassafras concentrate, but don't make your own from the wild root.

Kenlon
Jun 27, 2003

Digitus Impudicus

Comstar posted:

Were you working for the SCP Foundation?

Also, what was your job that no one knew you existed and why on earth would you leave.

Pretty sure he was working for the Laundry.

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Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Just in case this isn't irony, nightshade berries, pokeberries, cotoneaster, yew and other berries.

If it's growing wild, you should have done the research to know it's safe before you eat it, and read recent books. Some folk herbs like sassafras tea, which is extremely yummy, turn out to contain slow carcinogens. If you like sassafras tea, you can buy commercial safrole-free sassafras concentrate, but don't make your own from the wild root.

Also Rosary Pea, White Baneberry, Spindle, Chinaberry...

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