Useless Conversation

[WayAbvPar]

Go



or go home.

I'm sad the kosher restaurant near us closed, but it is hard to keep a restaurant open on Castro when you're closed during dinner hours on both Friday and Saturday. Place was great though.

If someone tried to serve that to me I believe I would rap them right in the mouth.

In related news, we really need a vomiting smiley.

[Yegolev]

Do we?

[Lantyssa]

Trying to uninstall McAfee is a nightmare.

Belize had the same problem.

[rattran]

Cel-Ray isn't that bad. Weird, but not bad.

[Merusk]

Trying to uninstall McAfee is a nightmare.

Belize had the same problem.

I so wanted to make a joke along these lines last night but couldn't come up with one. Numtini has shown me I was trying too hard.

[Ingmar]

Cel-Ray isn't that bad. Weird, but not bad.

Yeah. I put it in the same "this isn't terrible but I'm not really sure why anyone drinks this as a first choice" category with IRN-BRU.

[rattran]

Irn-Bru I think is one of those cultural things, where the people who drink it are used to the odd taste. Like the places where RC was the default cola. Cel-Ray is just weird, and I can't see how anyone could have grown up with it as a regular drink.

I think Ribena falls into the same category.

[RhyssaFireheart]

You know, when I send out an email saying "OH HAI GAIZ!  This is the stuff I'm planning to accrue for 2012!  Look it over and let me know by EOD on the 12th!" that sort of implies you FUCKING LOOK IT OVER!

Sent off the accrual list last night.  So of course this morning one of the PMs said her invoices were missing from the list.  Did you send them to me?  I thought I did.  NUPE!  GUESS NOT!  So now I have to amend the list and resend it, which isn't a horrible problem, but goddammit.  Try reading your freaking email from the in-department finance person.  I freaking hate this time of year.

[Furiously]

Just start bcc'ing their manager while you explain this is the x time they have done it and ask what you can do to help the process? Then ignore what they send back.

[Ingmar]

I always find it amusing when Steam tells me that someone on my friends list is buying Train Simulator 2013 DLC.

[sickrubik]

I always find it amusing when Steam tells me that someone on my friends list is buying Train Simulator 2013 DLC.

I am terrified about showing tina that that exists. I would likely have to build her a new computer.

[Signe]

Irn-Bru I think is one of those cultural things, where the people who drink it are used to the odd taste. Like the places where RC was the default cola. Cel-Ray is just weird, and I can't see how anyone could have grown up with it as a regular drink.

I think Ribena falls into the same category.

When my mouth fills up with the taste of chemicals, I expect a better high than I get with Irn-Bru.  It's very disappointing.  Ribena is just nasty in that "I forgot to put water in my concentrated shit drink and now everything tastes like concentrated shit" way.

[Cyrrex]

So we hit 652 pages in this thread and we suddenly have nothing to say to each other?  The world is going to die in a fiery ball of /insert catastrophe here/ just two days hence and you people have run out of thoughts?  Well, if the world is going to end, I just want to let you know that I love you all, but really only just Signe.

[Ironwood]

After that amount of pages, I'm not surprised we've run out.  Didn't we already do the end of the world chat.

[Chimpy]

It is still several months until apple season.

[Cyrrex]

After that amount of pages, I'm not surprised we've run out.  Didn't we already do the end of the world chat.

We probably did.  But it is so close now, it could be there are some new ideas about how it might happen.  And a last minute confession of sins could be fun to watch.

[Signe]

I have something to say!

[Sky]

 And a last minute confession of sins could be fun to watch.

We don't have enough time if I'm to be involved.

[Ironwood]

There's no such thing as sin.

[Paelos]

There's no such thing as sin.

That's very Buddhist of you.

[Ironwood]

Possibly.

It's nice of you to give the benefit of the doubt and not assume I'm just a psychopath.

[Paelos]

Possibly.

It's nice of you to give the benefit of the doubt and not assume I'm just a psychopath.

Blustery Scottish, sure. Psychopath? Nah. Even Christian sects struggle with the idea of sin, and predestination.

Plus I know you love your daughter and raise her well. That's the important thing.

[Yegolev]

If I thought the world was really going to end, I'd have a lot to say.  Instead, I'll question the reliability of an extinct civilization when it comes to matters of anything.

[Merusk]

Were the world to end, it would be in the blink of an eye and nothing said would matter to anyone but the winds of time.  Sands through the hourglass, etc, etc.

The only thing out of all the scenarios I've seen we *really* have to worry about is that Yellowstone finally blows.  In that event we're all fucked and even the Doomsday preppers will die off in a few months as the new ice age settles in.

However, according to the Discovery channel special I saw last night the Mayans said the God of Rebirth/ Destruction/ Natural Disaster would be "returning to his throne."  So maybe it'll be aliens.  That'd be cool.

Pew pew lasers.

[Yegolev]

Maybe it's just the fiscal cliff.

[Minvaren]

There's no such thing as sin.

Wait, then what was FFX about again? 

[Xanthippe]

For some reason I thought somebody posted a weird recipe with crackers and jello and other things somewhere in F13. I didn't pay enough attention to it. Now I think I dreamed it.

A friend was looking for some jello/salsa creation in a mold, and I thought that might be it. Maybe I'll dream it again tonight.

I have vague memories of potlucks with orange jello containing carrots or green jello containing peas, with itty bitty marshmallows in it from my childhood. I never liked anything in my jello (which I only got when sick). Mixing vegetables and marshmallows with jello is just plain weird.

What's worse is that jello is what I'm thinking about 2 days before the world ends.

[Ingmar]

There's no such thing as sin.

Wait, then what was FFX about again? 

Well it was all a dream right?

[Merusk]

For some reason I thought somebody posted a weird recipe with crackers and jello and other things somewhere in F13. I didn't pay enough attention to it. Now I think I dreamed it.

Rhyssa did in the Christmas thread when we were talking about office parties.

[Viin]

For some reason I thought somebody posted a weird recipe with crackers and jello and other things somewhere in F13.

It's here .. somewhere.

[RhyssaFireheart]

For some reason I thought somebody posted a weird recipe with crackers and jello and other things somewhere in F13. I didn't pay enough attention to it. Now I think I dreamed it.

Rhyssa did in the Christmas thread when we were talking about office parties.

Pretzel jello somewhere upthread of here.

Pretzel jello? 

It's not as bad as it sounds.

Bottom layer is 4c crushed pretzels, 1c sugar, 3/4c melted butter mixed and baked for 15 mins.   13x9 baking pan.

Middle layer is 8pz cream cheese, 8oz whipped topping (whatever the "normal" size tub is) and another 1c sugar, mixed and spread on cooled bottom layer.

You can put strawberries or other fruit (I guess) on top of the the middle layer if you like at this point.

Top layer is 2 8oz packages of strawberry (whatever flavor) jello, poured on top of middle layer.  Husband says to make using just the hot water part of the jello recipe, I made using hot and cold water.  Let set up a bit to cool down, then pour onto layers.

Refrigerate until set.  Cut and serve.  It's really rather tasty and not at all healthy.  But tasty.

[MisterNoisy]

LEGO is fuck-awesome:

[Ironwood]

I've always wondered if there's a point where it just stops being lego.

[Cyrrex]

I didn't even know they did a B Wing.  Awesome.

My oldest has bunch of the SW kits.  Shit, they're expensive....but really well done for the most part.

[Merusk]

B-wing is the new "advanced" limited edition kit this year.  I have the Tie interceptor from a few years back and really want this.  how is it, mrnoisy?  The number of people who don't understand that and have given the model a low score for not coming with a mini fig "like all their other sets" is pretty surprising.  There re also some complaints about the wing falling off and the base being unstable.

I've always wondered if there's a point where it just stops being lego.

About the time it becomes a model and you place it on a shelf, never to be altered from that configuration.   That's a $200 kit, not meant for the kids but man-children with a strong sense of nostalgia.  I still want it.