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What is a flask for, besides sneaking alcohol into places where you're not meant to be drinking it? Is there actually any socially acceptable use, or is it all alcoholics trying to be debonair and people who don't want to buy drinks at the bar?
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Why not just bring the bottle the booze came in, though?
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Apr 5, 2016 04:17
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That makes sense.
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Apr 5, 2016 06:57
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dwarf74 posted:So I'm playing Batman Arkham City. Why is Batman putting up a stink about killing Ra's al-Ghul when I've literally been snapping Riddler mooks' necks all over the place? They're just sleeping!
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Apr 6, 2016 00:53
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Organza Quiz posted:What's the easiest way to turn a youtube video into a decent-quality mp3 of the audio from that video on my computer? I just use http://www.youtube-mp3.org/.
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Apr 6, 2016 07:01
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Danger Mahoney posted:A completely non-sweet version of ketchup, but with the same consistency. What sauce am I looking for? Tomato paste maybe?
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Apr 13, 2016 13:09
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Werner-Boogle posted:I just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWE79K2Ii-s You don't stop hitting them until the referee says you win for the same reason you don't stop playing a point in tennis until the ball is called out. Getting the other guy down, getting on top of him and punching him in the face until he gives up or the ref ends the fight is a fairly common strategy, known as "ground and pound". There's no "excessive beatings", it's the ref's job to end the fight in a timely manner. Note that you've literally watched a video full of knockouts. Quite often a blow might stagger or knock down someone but not knock them out, and they can and do recover from it. So you need to seize the advantage immediately and pound the snot out of them. It's not always clear that you've knocked them out, and again that's the ref's job afaik. As for blood: yes, that happens when two beefy people beat the tar out of each other. I'm not sure what you expected. It happens in boxing as well. As far as I know, the rules are no gouging, biting, small joint manipulation, blows to groin area. Some MMA leagues have no stomping on heads, not that that's particularly useful as a tactic. The fight stops when a fighter taps on the mat or his opponent, signalling he's given up (eg if someone wins by a painful joint lock), or if the ref calls it of course. As for deaths in UFC: I don't know, but you're just as capable of googling the answer as I am. I can't imagine there's many, if any. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Apr 15, 2016 11:30
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Team_q posted:Boxing/MMA is point based as well, just it can get interrupted, so is Judo, but you can't not say that it's violent. I guess most Martial arts are on a sliding scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcZwPb7C3k&t=85s
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Apr 16, 2016 04:23
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AlphaKretin posted:When and why did websites start having popups that explain that they use cookies as if that's not standard or okay? There was some law passed by people who don't understand the internet, want to protect people's privacy, and heard that cookies have something to do with tracking people and privacy and stuff. So now websites that want to operate in that jurisdiction (the EU, I think) have to let you know that they use cookies.
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Apr 24, 2016 15:40
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Huntersoninski posted:Yeah, it would be sexist. That example specifically wouldn't really be a thing because generally showing emotions is considered to be a "feminine" thing. Even if the phrase itself isn't suggesting that there's something wrong with behaving like a certain gender, even if it's a compliment, it's still sexist to suggest that a certain normal human behavior is only acceptable in one gender. http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/cultural-misunderstanding
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May 19, 2016 12:49
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pupdive posted:First off, that is just major truckism. Wait, do you meen Feb'ree?
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May 19, 2016 23:28
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People put flowers in water to make them last longer. How come we don't put vegetables in water, in the fridge, to make them last longer?
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May 31, 2016 00:26
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Turtlicious posted:How come beer doesn't come in more sweet / fruity flavors? I've been drinking not your fathers because it's smooth and super sweet, and I'm wondering why more aren't like this. Try pale ales. They tend to taste fruitier, though that's only really if you have a beer palate already I guess.
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May 31, 2016 04:17
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JesustheDarkLord posted:That is the worst possible answer Ok. "If you're already drinking beer and want something fruitier, try pale ales. Otherwise, try cider or wine. Some beers do indeed taste fruitier, for beer. It doesn't usually come in different flavours because good beer is just water and grain flavoured with hops. If you want a sweeter drink and aren't into beer then that's fine too." fishmech posted:The reason water works for flowers is that it's the simplest way to keep them from wilting, supplying them with water, since they're still a bit alive.
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May 31, 2016 05:06
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photomikey posted:You can put some vegetables in water to make them last longer. Celery, carrots, scallions, herbs, etc. Why some and not others, I have no idea. Cool! It was actually scallions I was thinking of, since the outer layers tend to dry up and need chucking out before I manage to get through the whole bunch.
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May 31, 2016 07:29
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Captain Bravo posted:Dude, he said it is the worst possible answer because Pale Ales are more bitter and less fruity than other types of beer. For christ's sake, an alternate name for Pale Ale is Bitter!. It's so distinctly more bitter than normal beer that they loving named it bitter. I'm probably falling for the troll hard here, but I seriously want to know on what planet a pale ale is a sweeter, more fruity beer option. v  v I'm being serious. I find Little Creatures, 4 Pines, James Squire and Sierra Nevada pale ales taste fruitier than other types of beer. To me, Sierra Nevada tasted of passionfruit. But there's every possibility that I'm accidentally beer snobbing hard here.quote:no different beer flavours
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Jun 1, 2016 01:15
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Earwicker posted:I agree, I'm not a big pale ale fan but some of them definitely have a fruity taste. I'm not really sure what that poster is getting at by emphasizing bitter because there are all kinds of drinks and foods that are both very bitter and very sweet at the same time, it's so common we should really have a word for it.. Oh, I see! I guess I am in fact not beer snobbing hard enough... Come to think of it, I have tried kriek cherry beer. I assumed that was due to a special type of hops, rather than actually putting cherries in it.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:35
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kapalama posted:This. This is what Stupid/Small Questions thread exists. Oh holy poo poo, I missed this. I gave the dried, wrinkled scallion skins to my cats, who ate them. gently caress. That was a few evenings ago, and they seem fine, so I guess they dodged a bullet? e: phoned the vet. They're probably OK; I'm to keep an eye on them and only panic if they get worse. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 01:54
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Captain Bravo posted:You just used the synonym he was given to explain it. You seem very upset. Did you need a proc warning?
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Jun 2, 2016 04:58
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How come bars and restaurants list their wines on the menu but almost never list their beers? Annoying if you want to know how much a pint of whatever is going to cost before you order it, or if you want to know what beers a pub has before you go there, the menu is on their website but their beers aren't..
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Jul 14, 2016 07:20
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Turtlicious posted:Someone argued with me that they could kill their target with a syringe of isopropyl alcohol, the fight went on for 30 minutes, and he wouldn't accept the guy wouldn't just drop over dead, which made me curious to look it up. I google'd it saw nothing and came over here. I hoped saying "This is for a tabletop RPG" would make it less weird. You're going about it the wrong way. Make the judgement based on whether or not it suits the gameplay you want, not based on whether it is or isn't factually correct. e: think of it in terms of game balance. If you allow your players to use a syringe full of stuff to instakill someone in a fight, you should take care that the stuff is harder to get ahold of/more expensive than their usual weapons, otherwise it is overpowered and they'll use nothing else.
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Jul 31, 2016 13:12
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Turtlicious posted:The answer to the alcohol question, you need almost an entire bottle of the stuff, so I was definitely in the right. I already know pigs don't eat bodies in a day, and with that much chrome, it wouldn't matter. The player is throwing a fit though Sounds like a case for https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3460258&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=220 . It's more telling stories about tabletop sessions, usually about lovely players, but you might be able to get some advice there on how to deal with your
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Aug 2, 2016 09:32
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Given that spirits are made from boiling off ethanol from a liquid and then condensing it, how come different spirits have different characteristics as drinks? Why is it that rum, brandy, vodka, tequila etc taste different? Surely it can't be what is fermented to make them, because the distillation produces pure ethanol, right? Is it just a matter of difference in how the distilled liquid is aged?
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Aug 17, 2016 14:28
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uwaeve posted:In addition to the aging aspect, I don't think the distillation processes produce 100% pure ethanol, and you are getting some of the lower boiling point material as well. Great! Thanks. Mr. Squishy posted:You're not drinking pure ethanol, you idiot. Obviously, you idiot, because the barrels the stuff is aged in imparts ingredients as well, which I said in my post. And they dilute it with water. It was pretty clear from my question that I wanted to know why it isn't ethanol with barrel flavours, not that I thought it was pure ethanol. In conclusion: go gently caress yourself. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Aug 18, 2016 00:30
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YggiDee posted:Okay, I know Iron Man has as much in common with real science as, uh, two wildly dissimilar things, but from a medical standpoint how many horrible problems would be caused by having a big ol' hunk of metal in the middle of the sternum? Like I'm no doctor but wouldn't a giant hole in your chest bones screw up the lungs and ribs? While we're at it: has he lost his mind? Can he see, or is he blind?
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Aug 20, 2016 07:55
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Through The Decade posted:I'm sure this question will have a really obvious answer but I haven't had to buy a cellphone for myself in over 10 years and even then it was just a pay-as-you-go. There wasn't even such a thing as an iPhone back when I was last shopping around, I've always had one provided by my work. I'm getting a different job now and so I will have to go out into the wild and get one for myself. Read the full fine print of any contact you are considering signing - phone plan or otherwise - and if there's any part you don't understand or aren't sure of then don't sign it. That said, in general, when you get a phone as part of an X month plan where you pay $Y each month for a phone and phone service, once the X months are up you own the phone. It's like hire purchase. Also like hire purchase it generally works out better to buy the thing outright. It's usually more money in one hit, but works or less than the X x $Y. But you need to run the specific numbers for the specific plans you're considering to see what works out cheapest, and while I've never heard of a phone company expecting their handset back at the end of the contract I would read the hell out of the contract in question to find out, rather than take the word of an internet stranger.
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Aug 23, 2016 02:20
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Follow up on re: mom/Alzheimer's situation: Mate, you should really start an E/N thread. Yeah the place has gone a bit downhill since the mods have got more laissez faire about shitposting, but I guarantee you you will get some good, well meaning replies. You are not a gently caress-up, like so many E/N OPs are; nobody of any worth is going to give you poo poo for your mum having Alzheimer's.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:25
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I'd like to look at mine but the camera guy was a friend of my wife's family (stop me if you've heard this one) and we didn't get a single picture from the wedding. Film got messed up or light wasn't right or god knows what, I don't remember. All I know is I have no pictures of my wedding and 18 years later I'm still pissed about it. Uh... https://youtu.be/x0GqVpW2A1w
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Sep 7, 2016 06:38
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What do DJs do? I thought it was analogous to playing an instrument - mashing together multiple songs and scratching and stuff to play a new song using the other songs as pieces. But I've seen DJs just fiddle with their equipment for a bit and then just walk off, get a beer, and let the music play by itself.
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Sep 9, 2016 11:26
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syscall girl posted:Now the NSA has your buttprint doofus. Good. https://youtu.be/lzAuXuxD0Oo
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Sep 21, 2016 06:30
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Manslaughter posted:Where is GBS? Where it belongs... in the garbage! 
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Sep 22, 2016 00:52
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When I was a small child at school, we sang a song where: One group sings the first part of the song. Let's call them group A. Group A sings the second part while a different group of kids sing the first part. Let's call the new group of kids group B. Group B sings the second part, group A sings the the third part, and a new group C starts singing the first part of the song. Group A sings the fourth part of the song, while group B sings the third part of the song, group C sings the second part of the song, and a new group of kids starts singing the first part of the song. And so on. Each group sings the whole song all the way through, they just start when the previous group has finished singing their allotted part. So! The question: I was told, as a small child, that this type of song is called a "round". But try as I might I cannot find any other references to this type of singing/arrangement as being "a round". Does this type of arrangement have a term?
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Sep 28, 2016 11:51
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Right, gotcha - the term actually is actually a round. So whatever it was I was searching with I wasn't getting the right results. Tried again just now, and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZdkGEVqLXs Incredible dexterity that she's able to point to the caterpillar with her right leg while it's crawling up the same leg.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:20
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I'm sick of hearing about it and want it to be over with. And really, really hope you guys don't gently caress this up and elect Trump.
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Nov 3, 2016 05:26
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socketwrencher posted:How much is math ability correlated with coding ability? If someone is struggling mightily with vector calculus, is it any indication that comp sci may not be for them? I'm a programmer who took comp sci and is terrible at maths. They made us do hardcore calculus in first year and I struggled tremendously. I've never used it since, and I'm a pretty good programmer. I think the idea is that some people find it easy to understand computer science concepts via their mathematical definitions, and that if someone has a talent for maths they can use it to understand programming. Personally I take to computer science concepts by themselves. I can describe a tree structure or a binary search or whatever just fine, but if you asked me to define either in mathematical terms I'd be screwed. I'd say go for it. Struggle through the maths bullshit and see if the pure programming and comp sci stuff is for them. Although, on the back of that university fees argument, maybe this is bad advice unless you live somewhere tertiary education is either free or is a government loan that's paid back via your tax (and so if you're not earning enough money to pay tax you aren't having to make repayments). OK. I'd try out learning some programming first and see if I liked it. There's more to pure comp sci than programming though, so maybe take a look at data structures and algorithms and such and see if they're at all interesting
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Nov 24, 2016 07:05
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socketwrencher posted:This is really interesting and helpful, thanks for sharing your experience. This is regarding my cousin who's more like a younger brother. My sense is that he also "takes to computer science concepts by themselves" rather than via math. He likes programming, has created a couple apps and is currently working with a couple friends on a more complicated app. He's also interested in AI so he thought comp sci was the way to go to get a broader background. Maybe he's just run into a temporary crisis of confidence and can find a way to power through vector and be done with it. If he already likes programming, I'd say absolutely go for it and just struggle through the maths. I'd say he's spot on about comp sci giving a broader background. It gives you a deeper one, too, covering foundational knowledge. I don't use what I learned about logic gates, assembly programming and language theory in my day to day work, but I do think the grounding in those subjects made me a better programmer. Calculus not so much, but I didn't have a choice there...
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Nov 25, 2016 02:45
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bongwizzard posted:Just smell it. Smells good, eat. Smells bad, give to dad. Can't tell how serious you're being, but this is really, really bad advice. Food can be contaminated with bacteria long before it's started to rot and smell bad. Also, nuking the hell out of food that's been left out too long doesn't make it safe to eat either - you do kill the bacteria, but it leaves behind all their pathogens. Baron Porkface posted:Does South Africa have 4 distinct seasons and extensive snowfall? Yes to the first part, no to the second. What makes you think having four seasons also means it snows in winter?
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Dec 8, 2016 06:36
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Why did the guillotine go out of fashion, anyway? You can botch shooting, hanging, gassing, electrocuting and injecting, but it seems really, really hard to screw up "drop sharp heavy blade onto neck"
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Dec 16, 2016 04:10
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Guys why do people use one word when they could use this synonym instead? Why do we even have synonyms? Or so many words anyway? I think word are dumb. I'm just going to use the word "blah" from now on whenever I blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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WarpedNaba posted:Okay, I'm kinda fed up. Silly question, but have you tried taking to him about it (without yelling at him)? Other than that, I'd look at moving out. If you're both on the lease, it's as much his place as it is yours and so it would probably be very difficult to kick him out. But get him to stop? If he won't listen to reason I don't think there's anything you can do but leave. And consider subletting next time, if you can, so that you can kick out an annoying flatmate
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