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T-Square
May 14, 2009

I love some good food porn, I love when people post well made food content on IG or whatever that doesn’t have any stupid gimmicks like throwing food at the cutting board as hard as they can in slam cuts, just a really well made dish that looks great. Most of my really good looking food goes un-photographed because my three year old SE camera can make anything look like washed out poop from a butt :(


Maybe I’ll go steal my dad’s DSLR he bought ages ago and collects dust in his closet

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T-Square
May 14, 2009

Also not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow since not only is it our bi-weekly payroll that we run Tuesdays which almost always runs us out to 6:00PM because of how much poo poo there is to do, but we were off today so we’ll have to tack on the four groups that normally go on Mondays, so it’s probably going to be an 8:00PM night at minimum.


But I spent most of the day drinking a leftover bottle of NYE wine and doing GT7 licenses and races, and finally forced myself to hog out the old small deadbolt hole on the front door so I could install the new deadbolt and knob set I bought like three months ago, and threw a matching one on the garage entry door too. It sucked!

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May 14, 2009

wandler20 posted:

Reading the awful poo poo happening in the Bills Bengals GDT led me to finding this out. gently caress.

https://twitter.com/RoadandTrack/status/1610099276931104769?t=6Eq8Ebol7zoXmxwdGPSqgQ&s=19

I’ve been racing superbikes for over a decade and have ridden dirt bikes since I was like 6 and have been in plenty of hairy situations and close calls on both, but I only ever hear about people on sleds dying. gently caress those things I’ll never ride one.

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May 14, 2009

wandler20 posted:

Trees don't move. No idea if that was the cause but usually those trails can be tight, at least in my experience.

Yeah, and in my neck of the woods, the rednecks go bar hopping and then are cutting through farm fields in the middle of the night wasted and going 75, I think like three dudes from my high school have died that way

T-Square
May 14, 2009

After this one, there’s one hunk of Wellington left I gotta eat, and I didn’t know it was possible but drat I’m sick of eating Wellington. But the GF paid a lotta money for this roast so it’s getting eaten :negative:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Skwirl posted:

This is up there with that list of what animals a percentage of men think they could beat in a fight.
https://twitter.com/YouGovAmerica/status/1610021865753280512?t=E-sjnBsPKOMZkmDDX4vSjg&s=19

I assume most of these dudes probably ignore the dozens and dozens of switches and toggles and gauges and think you can just grab the throttle slider thingies and “steering wheel” and control a whole rear end airliner? (but maybe you can idk, I definitely don’t think I could land one that’s for sure)


shirts and skins posted:

Heya TFF! Hope you're having a great new year. I haven't been posting as much lately because I've been distracted by a few things, but I'm still around.

Anyway, wanted to let you know that I'm taking the "new year new you" thing seriously, and by that I mean that I came to terms with being trans. So, yeah! Same shirts, maybe some new cuts of fabric. She/her, and it's a pleasure to re-introduce myself.

Good for you, congrats!

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Working from home on a slow work day is great because when you get that random mid-day burst of motivation to get your poo poo together you can get up and clean instead of convincing yourself you’re gonna do it when you get home all day at the office, and then you get home and feel like a tired slug and don’t do any of it

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I was determined to get my first online Daily Race win this evening in GT7 because I’ve just been getting second place finishes over and over, but this dude that is way faster than me has been marathoning tonight and has been in every single session I joined so I gave up


Go do something else Clam_Hammer95 :argh:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Intruder posted:

Is it unconscionably lazy to buy a gadget specifically to separate egg yolks

cause I'm thinking of it

If you’re not good at the transferring the yolk back and forth between the two egg shell halves until all of the white separates, then I’m backing up AA’s water/soda bottle trick, it actually works really well.


LeeMajors posted:

:hf:

The 24 packs of Topo Chico at Costco have scratched the evening drinking itch for me.

Idk if it’s just me but I feel like seltzers like Chico, La Croix, Liquid Death, etc, give me this weird placebo buzz. Feels kinda nice and keeps you hydrated!

T-Square
May 14, 2009

God damnit I just swept and mopped the entire place yesterday and just now the cats decided to have an extremely aggressive and extended wrasslin’ match and now there’s dozens of tufts of cat hair tumbleweeds floating around :mad:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I have one, he’s just sitting there sadly because I managed to not keep his dock with him while moving and haven’t unearthed it from the still-packed boxes, it’s highly irritating lol

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Jesus CHRIST my 48 year old coworker announced to the whole team in a meeting that he’s going on leave to have open heart surgery and getting FIVE bypasses

T-Square
May 14, 2009

LeeMajors posted:

You’re in Wisconsin right?

Revenge of the curds.

Yeah, this dudes not super huge or anything but he’s got a lot of that hard upper abdominal fat and I’m pretty sure he’s a heavy smoker to boot. Dude looks rough. And I think his surgery was scheduled for four months ago and kept getting pushed so idk that guy probably needs to find a new doctor/surgeon.

My girlfriend was sitting on the couch watching TV and she heard him say what was happening and went “What the gently caress” lmao

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Coco13 posted:

That many bypasses, you should call him the Milwaukee Zoo. (Regional!)

:laugh:


Girlfriend working in a bakery fringe benefits: had a delicious and free chocolate croissant for breakfast this morning, just had probably my best grilled cheese to date for lunch with delicious and free sourdough (and aged white sharp cheddar/cheddar Gruyère)

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I did the lunchtime beer while working thing a few times, and turns out lunchtime beers make me REAL fuckin sleepy when I’m home alone working so yeah we don’t do that now


As a Wisconsinite I will continue drinking beers for those strong enough to choose not to, but I’m gonna try to go back to keeping it to weekends again. Haven’t had a drink all week, been drinking plenty of water (I am TERRIBLE at being hydrated) and eating health conscious meals this week, but that still didn’t stop me from feeling hungover when I woke up this morning :argh:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Got to break out Scout for the first time last night and it’s very fun!

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I’m still trying to get along with the basic older induction cooktop that came with my condo, I miss the gas. I don’t dare go over medium unless I’m boiling water, and even slightly less than medium will have the seasoning on my cast iron billowing smoke throughout the condo in like 4 minutes, but lower than that and you cant quite get enough heat into the cast iron


Also my Cuisinart stainless high wall pan is not completely flat on the bottom and I never noticed until moving to this induction flat top and now it wobbles all over :(

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I’m excited for The Last of Us on HBO this Sunday I think. It’s been getting great reviews which I usually take with a grain of salt, but Pedro Pascal and the dude responsible for Chernobyl on HBO, so :shrug:


Also we have Brookfield Square, Southridge Mall, and Mayfair Mall all within ~12 miles of each other and all three are always super busy so idk what that’s about. Our Sears turned into a movie theater and some weird bumper car-polo arena thing?

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Pretend I posted a picture of my dream bright orange ‘72 Datsun 240Z that I most certainly drove more than once and definitely did not sell to pointlessly go move two hours away to live with a manipulative girlfriend and to save a meaningless relationship that failed in six months anyway. I want that car back!!!


Anyway, I got my fantasy football revenge last night. We played poker and I sat next to the guy that kicked me out of the championship game and he won the first straight five hands and was up a ton on everyone. His famous last words were leaning over to me and whispering “Thanks for all the chips T-Square” as we were upping the ante back and forth with a couple of other players, and then I immediately won the hand and continued to take his money until he was out :getin:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Roundabout chat:

We came up to a roundabout that’s been there for at least a decade, and they’ve been in use/common in our area for longer, and some guy was reversing down the road towards me against the flow of traffic, stopped, hung out for a second, then gassed it and turned left onto the roundabout and made it 1/4 of the way around before going “hmm…no that doesn’t seem right…” and stopping. By that time I was through and gone, but unless they got their driver’s license ten minutes beforehand, how do you not know how to use one THAT badly


Waffle House chat: In honor of the last round of Waffle House chat I made my own version of pecan waffles for breakfast the other week and it was great

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Timby posted:

Judging from how I've seen some co-workers come in on Monday mornings, seems accurate. Makes me glad I got sober fourteen years ago.

I’ve been spending a lot more of my time and weekends with the girlfriend (yay!) and we don’t really drink a lot together (also yay!) but the last couple of weekends I’ve made time to hang out with friends which involved drinking and whew, some of these mornings have been rough after taking some drinking time off

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T-Square
May 14, 2009

TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

Anyone else off today? I woke up to a holiday with a sore throat ☹️

Yes and same :mad: well not sore, but definitely off. Time to play video games all day!

T-Square
May 14, 2009

BlindSite posted:

Last of us is pretty good but

Feels like Joel has his balls clipped. Every second scene he's getting corrected, brow beaten or told what to do by seemingly everyone. Seems a weird choice.

Worth following anyway.

Just finished the first ep and did not get this vibe at all, totally disagree!

Show is real good, Pedro is real good, I’m a good ways into TLoU2 right now and it’s making me want to play through the first one again, can’t wait til next week.

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Well TFF Chat Thread, I come bearing sad news of another streak broken


After three long years I finally got the ‘vid :mad:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

3 DONG HORSE posted:

I tell people I've never had it but I fully believe I have had it once, back in Feb 2020

The way I get my rear end kicked from boosters makes me believe this to be true

I hope you feel better soon my dude

I thought I had it Dec 2021 but a clinic PCR and home rapid both tested negative so :shrug:


I think I’m past the worst of it already so I guess I have boosters to thank, currently eating some fresh made matzo ball soup the girlfriend made and just dropped off at the bottom of the stairs for me

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Intruder posted:

well I burned my knuckle when the dough decided to stick to the peel at the worst time transferring it to the stone and I panicked trying to get it but pizza night was a success satisfaction-wise for the kiddos

Every year on one of our guys trips someone’s assigned a meal for each day, and it’s all but written in stone that I’m responsible for pumping out like ten pizzas on Sunday night and this past year I walked away with like five oven rack burns on my hands :v:

Also since I’m currently stuck inside and I’m running out of food I went to order one (1) stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut tonight and the total came out to $38. No thanks. Your whole point is cheap lovely pizza to hit the spot, when it’s nowhere near cheap anymore, it doesn’t. My next homemade pizzas are gonna taste so much better now.

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Covid sucks I’m so booorreeedd

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Amy Pole Her posted:

I caught covid in December in nyc and i was cleared to travel less than 4 days later (which i didn’t but lol).

How many more days ya got

Yeah I thought those guidelines were bullshit back when they changed them, but lmao now that I have it

I’m assuming I was positive by Tuesday based on symptoms, I first tested positive on Thursday and my test instantly went to a full and clear positive test, and I did another one today and the same thing happened. So five days so far, I’m assuming it’ll be at least seven days by the time I test negative lol

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I’ve been craving some type of strategy stuff and dusted off Into the Breach which is fun for 15 minutes while you’re on a roll but then RNG fucks you with four spawned enemies to gang up on your defense objective and the one existing fucker webs two of your three mechs and then your game is done and you have to start over, and then you remember why you haven’t played it in forever

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Lady Radia posted:

That’s not rng

I thought rng was randomly generated poo poo but okay then whatever the term for “randomly generated poo poo that fucks you” is

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Lol I’m being lectured for being bad at video games by an anime av Games poster I’ve never heard of in the TFF chat thread


Go Bengos

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Lady Radia posted:

cry harder lmao

I hate being owned this hard

T-Square
May 14, 2009

I dug out A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet unpacking some more boxes the other day and remembered really enjoying it and forgot it has two more books so I’ll probably get those soon

T-Square
May 14, 2009

wandler20 posted:

After watching The Menu last night I've been craving a good burger. Never made smash burgers and they were an absolute hit. Both kids even polished one off.

Smash burgs have the best easy:incredible ratio. I’ve had multiple people say “This is the best burger I’ve ever had” and it takes all of five minutes.


Currently looking for an excuse for some dinners with a chuck roast and short ribs so I can grind up some scraps to go with the ground brisket in the freezer for some A+ smash burgs

T-Square
May 14, 2009

wandler20 posted:

Hell yeah. I need to get some better beef next time but we had some in the freezer. Having a 24" flat top in my range was like a cheat code too.

Yeah, I usually just end up smoking the place out on my cast iron by the third burger :v:


Those are good ideas, might do a short rib birria and try that Guinness pie, but with something other than Guinness because I’ll need to drink the rest of it and Guinness tastes like a half can of stout and a half can of water lol

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Android Apocalypse posted:

I'm waiting on the 2nd appliance repair tech to come by tomorrow to look at my 16 year-old LG TROMM unit, with the idea that it may be time to put this out to pasture. I asked in the PYF Products Recommendation thread but what washing machine is the new hotness?

Just get a Speed Queen. I’ve seen dozens and dozens of Goon recommendations across multiple sub forums and my friend owns a washer and dryer repair business and that’s always his recommendation. They’re not fancy but they’ll wash your clothes and last forever.

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T-Square
May 14, 2009

Payroll is pretty fuckin boring most days, but sometimes a fun thing slides across your desk, like a request to cut a check for your loud and annoying, always used to voluntell you for frustrating projects, ex-Director who for some reason lingers around in a different capacity after being removed as Director, loudly talking in meetings all day long’s last two weeks of salary :smug:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Yeah you want to get your cast iron ripping hot so your smash burg is cooked and good crust is formed in like ~60 seconds per side and you really don’t wanna be eating food off a non-stick pan that’s been that hot



Also sorry to interject this into smashburg chat but holy gently caress I just blew like a pint of all the poo poo that’s been in my sinuses all week out and finished with slowly pulling one of those long snail trails out of my brain and I feel like a new man

T-Square
May 14, 2009


drat didn’t you just get a new gig and/or accept an ongoing position with your old gig too :(


Also trukk chat, there’s a used car dealer a few blocks from me and I don’t think it’s for sale because it’s all vinyled up in their dealer logo and signage and stuff, but they have a lil Suzuki Kei trukk parked on the corner for advertising and it has the cutest most adorable tiny lil chunky off-road tires and I want it so bad :kimchi::kimchi:

T-Square
May 14, 2009

Lmao, put Heat on and I forgot Henry Rollins somehow got a part in Heat with prime Pacino, DeNiro, and Kilmer.


Android Apocalypse posted:

Probably the only thing worse than waiting for appliance techs for an appointment is the fact they have a tendency to show up at the tail edge of their availability window.

Oh wait, it's not as bad as talking to my sister about figuring out wills. It's not like I'm planning of dying soon, but I'm getting towards the age where I need to actively get one ready.


Yup, my friend bought a really nice new LG stainless French door fridge and in less than a year the freezer stopped freezing well at all, and it took him like three months just to GET a warranty tech appointment, couple more for them to get there, and then we had evening plans the day they sent people out that he almost had to bail on because they installed an incorrect part and then stood around in his kitchen scratching their heads until like 8:00PM on a Friday

T-Square
May 14, 2009


Lol it was me and I had to stop to Snap that scene to my girlfriend because she does and my head is all the way up it

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May 14, 2009

Rick and Morty is great because I fuckin hate that poo poo and all my friends love it, which happens with a lot of stuff because I’m a grump and I get harassed over it, but with Rick and Morty I can just say “Yeah man, so he like turns into a pickle, funniest fuckin poo poo on TV” and no one ever has anything to say to that

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