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With reference to pants chat, I wanted to point out that here in Southeast Asia the goons pride ourselves on remaining pantless as a routine part of life. We probably also get statistically less done. If you think about it, greater statistical probability of pants-wearing probably correlates with higher productivity (maybe also a higher propensity for colonialism), but also with lower happiness levels and longer working hours. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:Depends on the seasoning and toppings ya use. Also, I'm pretty sure Lincoln's slippers are the then-equivalent of super-cheesy reservation gift store moccasins.
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Jul 1, 2014 07:57
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And flavor. It's like talking to Patty Hearst with you turkey substitute people.
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Jul 1, 2014 08:01
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Wait until you hear about Yucca Mountain!
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Fluo posted:I discovered that ww2 gasmask I used for halloween had asbestos as part of the filter.
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Prosopagnosiac posted:his ways and wants to "change the system man".
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R. Mute posted:A huge part of the tradition is people dressing up as him and Sinterklaas and we honestly don't have enough black people to fill those roles, especially in rural areas like West-Flanders. It would be super weird to import them from other areas to fill those roles. And, y'know, kids like to dress up as him, so you can't just get black actors.
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I assume someone in Bumblefuck Mississippi is already shooting his Pitbull cassette tapes with a shotgun and filming it for Youtube.
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I have never heard a Pitbull song that I'm aware of and my only recollection of him is that time the internet forced him to play a concert at a Walmart in nowhere Alaska, but I have this impression of his target market overlapping heavily with Kid Rock.
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Jul 4, 2014 04:23
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Thread has come full circle.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-purposely-making-cars-spew-black-smoke-2014-7 I'm sure if I were still living back home I would've been way ahead of the curve in picking this up, but I'm OOTL these days. This is exactly the kind of poo poo the people I grew up with were already doing for what they think is legitimate reasons (farm trucks in mud/flood country with stacks), so if you give them a political rationale to take it to 11 it's only going to get funnier. These people should be dragged from their stupid loving vehicles and shot, but I feel that way about people who ride Harleys too, so I may not be the most fair arbiter. Hey I'm enjoying this lovely say, it sure is nice outs- oh God what is this wall of smog and noise? Oh, it's conservative America in sound and gas format. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 07:07
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Arugula does suck, though, and granola pretty much does too, heh. The rednecks are not wrong about everything!skaboomizzy posted:Most states have annual vehicle inspection and registration requirements (including emissions), so it'll be super fun to see what happens when these vehicles are declared to be not road legal. http://www.dps.texas.gov/rsd/vi/CostOfInsp.htm quote:Counties requiring emission tests: ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 08:50
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moller posted:I thought only british people called it rocket. Also, I'm pretty sure no one had an opinion on arugula until Obama mentioned it. Tony Jowns posted:It's one of those everywhere-but-America things, Australia calls it rocket too. It's loving tasty and is great on burgers or sandwiches.
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I have to say, I think bagels have become sort of universal in developed Red America, like Starbucks. Go back 15 years and Starbucks was some effete liberal thing that only existed on the coasts and probably required reciting the Little Red Book to order from. Cut to today and every conservative soccer mom and half the urban dads are there regularly without thinking. Bagels seem to have seeped into the mainstream via various chains that have incorporated them and slowly integrated them into Real America's menus. Probably not everywhere, of course. Arugula, on the other hand, is for limp-wristed, pot-smoking, Bill Ayers-loving, Black Christian Islamicists with deep Kenyan anti-colonial roots.
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Jul 7, 2014 10:19
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NIXON: Jesus Christ.
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Hahaha, the guy has a sense of humor. You know he's like HEY PETE, COME GET A SHOT OF THIS - HANNITY NEEDS SOME MATERIAL TONIGHT.
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ReidRansom posted:I've never heard it in Texas. It's more like, "don't like the weather? Tough poo poo. Maybe come back in nine months when summer's over, or something." :thunder: :eight-hour thunderstorm: :beautiful, sunny afternoon: :hail:
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You also spent several regrettable years in College Station where the weather, like the gene pool, doesn't change. #JFF # WreckingCrew #12thMan
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zoux posted:I grew up in B/CS. #Nell
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Jul 9, 2014 19:01
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I'm guessing looking like me is a good start!
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rscott posted:Until I moved to Kansas I never realized how much I loving hate the wind
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Yeah, like why am I in a plane and in a car, but on a train? Signs and wonders.
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Avshalom posted:No. Otherwise you can write copy or proof things. All design/advertising jobs pretty much pay poo poo or mediocre unless you get drafted into the NBA of design poo poo, in which case you get low upper-income pay. There are probably hundreds of JWT and Ogilvy "partners" scattered across the planet who make about $60K or something similar. I know several. HTH
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Joementum posted:California pizza is an abomination that must be brought to an end.
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XyloJW posted:How's the pizza in Thailand?  DemeaninDemon posted:What's californizing food? Do they just futilely try to shove avocado and other poo poo that doesn't belong into food that's perfectly fine without it? ReidRansom posted:To anyone who thinks California pizza is bad, you've obviously never had Japanese pizza. Whole lotta things that have no business being together to begin with, much less on a pizza. EDIT: That photo is for their new Cambodian branches, but it's a Thai company and that specific """"pizza"""" is a seasonal thing they started offering here. Looks like the loving thing that lifts out of the ocean at the end of The Abyss
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nutranurse posted:Oh god, why would someone do this. Thankfully, this place opened in the last couple of years and is basically the first 100% legit good pizza in Bangkok: http://www.palapizzabangkok.com/ EDIT: Also, Thai domestic pizza all comes with ketchup packets and Thai people, generally speaking, douse the poo poo out of the ridiculous pizza they order with ketchup. It's all tragicomic to watch. EDIT EDIT: And their ketchup produced for domestic consumption has - wait for it - tons of sugar added. EDIT EDIT EDIT: Thai pizza is basically a crime against humanity and should result in some sort of Truth & Reconciliation Commission at minimum. That is all. Back to work. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jul 13, 2014 |
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You know what's good if you haven't had it? Japanese tonkatsu curry rice. I never saw it until I lived in Asia and now it's one of my favorites (the Cocoichibanya super-spicy variety is crack rock - and I never feel this way about chain food).
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Terrified white people?
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skaboomizzy posted:There's a Thai/Mexican place I've been wanting to try for a while, all their Mexican stuff can be seasoned "Thai hot" which sounds pretty awesome. Here's the key test for your Thai restaurant. Ask them if they use real "ga pow" in their Chicken With Basil. Ga pow is the specific kind of basil used here. If not, or if they can't arrange it for you, GTFO. While standard Thai basil is acceptable as a substitute, holy basil is preferable. The other kind, hualaphaa, is too fragrant and doesn't work. Anything else (mint, other basils, capsicum, etc) is not acceptable. poo poo's hard to get in America, but it's worth paying for. If your restaurant doesn't use it then sucks to their asthmar! I can't remember how many times I've rolled in back home, ordered ga pow and been served loving bell peppers and mint leaves. It's the equivalent of ordering a hamburger and being served a pork patty with shallots instead of onions or something. Further crimes against humanity.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:A pork patty with shallots sounds amazing, actually.
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Megadittoes. Kitfo, not so much.
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skaboomizzy posted:Since you're the guy to ask about this, here's their dinner menu. Everything looks good to my untrained eye, but what do you think? Panang Mole seems like it would just be incredible if it's done right. Things like penang and masamun are easy to recreate in the US as they're essentially Thai adaptations of Indian/Burmese/Muslim curries and rely heavily on readily available stuff like peanuts and anise and so on. For that reason they're also more familiar for our palates and can be adapted more easily. The Phad Thai Curry (otherwise never order phad thai as a rule) could be good, though why use phad thai noodles? They're meh. We have an amazing chef here who runs a streetside shophouse restaurant in his full 5 star chef outfit and makes the only amazing Thai fusion I've had to date. One of his signature dishes is fettuccine penang and it rocks. I agree, the Penang Mole has the most potential to be interesting. Ask her if she can do Spaghetii variations of curries, those are popular here and not so bad. Basically, you just stir fry the spaghetti with a curry or with ga pow or whatever for a second at the last step and serve it. Works out surprisingly well - spaghetti phad kee mao gai (drunken chicken) can be great as can spaghetti gaeng keaw wan (green curry).
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Let us open our hymnals to Gingrich 38000:1200 wherein the leader (possibly) of the civilizing forces extols the virtues of having our children work as laborers at school. The fifth day would leave time for that.
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Just keep stacking avocado slices on the coast until it topples over under the weight of its milquetoast food.
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tentative8e8op posted:Oh my gosh, the CIA's Subway (CIA has their own Subway!) isnt held up to Subway's rigorous quality standards. It's basically Milton from Office Space. That's who is running the CIA.
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illrepute posted:we tend to think of spies as being like james bond but really, when you think about, what sort of person is going to actually be good at the intelligence analysis work? that personality type has much more in common with a neckbeard than with a shaved gorilla in a suit
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razorrozar posted:one of those tag cloud things in the shape of goatse? Pope Guilty posted:I remember reading at one point that accounting was a really good degree if you wanted to work for the fbi.
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zoux posted:Everytime I hear some politician or public official use the term "disconnect" as a noun as in "there's a disconnect between thing a and thing b" I literally gnash my teeth. Orwell's essay on politics and the English language should be etched into the inside of the eyelids of everyone who talks or writes about politics. In short, write like a normal human, don't use fancy new words for existing concepts and avoid passive voice. Unfortunately, about 80% of all political bloggers and writers would be fired if these rules were instituted, so the bad habits proliferate.
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Pope Guilty posted:It's almost like jargon is a part of every field ever everywhere.  Every time John Dickerson opens his mouth I want to die inside is what I'm saying. XyloJW posted:Aussies are the worst about dumb slang. My favorite is AC/DC, the only Australian band, is referred to as Acka Dacka, or just Dacka. ARVO PRESO DEFO MATE EDIT: ME AND SHAZZA ARE LISTENIN TO BARNESY AND ACADAC THEN I'M TAKIN' ER BACK TO MY UTE FER A ROOT. EDIT EDIT: Actually it's not fair to pin bogan slang on the whole country, but that poo poo about hacking off everything after the first syllable and replacing it with an O is a national shame. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I refuse to believe that this is anything but the absolute truth about Australia: Joementum posted:All the Francophone word endings in English got added during the Victorian era, which is why Americans don't write "centre", "colour", "labour", etc. Joementum posted:How do you feel about "lede", "graf", and "hed"?
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