Useless Conversation

[Ingmar]

I saw a lot of outfits like that when we played Clemson in the Citrus Bowl many years ago.

[ghost]

And pummeled the fuck out of them.  I don't particularly care for Clemson (or really any other team with shitty hunting vest orange).

[Sky]

What? Go SU!

[Tale]

Congrats Schild.

[Yegolev]

Where (and why) did you pick up such a choice item?

http://www.brightcoloredtuxedos.com/

Not really coincidentally, I wore it to a charity ball.  For kids, not snow owls.

Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Vgag2PtNA

[Yegolev]

[Xanthippe]

Congrats to ghost on boy #3, and to Schild on his impending nuptials.

I didn't even see honeycrisps at my preferred grocery store. Maybe they don't grow them here, or maybe the apples they do grow here are better? I don't know, I have never tasted a honeycrisp. I bought some McIntoshes and some huge yellowish green apples I can't remember the name of for making a pie.

That is one swank tux, Yego.

craan, listen to Merusk. He's spot on.

I'm sorry, Rhyssa. That sucks.

[Paelos]

I had my first honeycrisp this week.

They weren't ready yet.

[Ironwood]

Someone dig out that picture of the Knight and the 'You Chose Poorly Caption.'

For Paelos.  Sure.  Why not.  For Paelos.

[Paelos]

[Cyrrex]

I had my first honeycrisp this week.

They weren't ready yet.

Sounds like YOU weren't ready for the honeycrisps.

Can't them them here in DK.   

[Signe]

How the fucking fuck did I spill coffee on my shoulder???  I know I'm clumsy, but this is messed up.  I'm posting this because I don't feel like moving and this gives me an excuse not to.  Move, that is.  I guess I can't just keep typing forever though.  Okay.  Moving.  :(

Soon.

ish.

[Abagadro]

I don't konw how you people live in humid climates.  I'm ready to get back to the desert.

[cmlancas]

How the fucking fuck did I spill coffee on my shoulder???  I know I'm clumsy, but this is messed up.  I'm posting this because I don't feel like moving and this gives me an excuse not to.  Move, that is.  I guess I can't just keep typing forever though.  Okay.  Moving.  :(

Soon.

ish.

So I was about a week into my new corporate gig after slaughtering cattle and I sit down with my cup of coffee for a training session.  About forty minutes go by when the other new person across from me asks if I'm okay.  I look at her a little funny and she points to my shirt.

Somehow I'd managed to spill an entire cup of coffee on myself without noticing.  The entirety of the front of the shirt was soaked.  I still have no idea how it happened.

[Xanthippe]

I don't konw how you people live in humid climates.  I'm ready to get back to the desert.

"You get used to it."

(That's what people told me in the year I spent in Florida. I didn't. Give me 100F dry over 80F humid any day.)

[Paelos]

There are so many great places in the US, why would you live in high heat or high humidity?

[cmlancas]

Beaches.  We have (Tampa in particular) some of the best beaches in the world.

Also, fuck snow in it's earhole (do I have to pay royalties to Haem when I say that?).

[Reg]

Give me San Francisco anytime. It's room temperature during the day and just cool enough to need a spring jacket at night.  If it's cloudy you can usually walk a few blocks to where its sunny.  And real southern California weather is just a pleasant ferry ride away.  They have the perfect climate and there are days in February that I don't understand why I ever left. 

[Nebu]

Beaches.  We have (Tampa in particular) some of the best beaches in the world.

In the world... in Tampa?  Seriously?  Tampa pales in comparison to places like Phuket, lanikai, or Bora Bora. 

[Signe]

I've lived in PA, with it's terrible humidity.  I've lived in the desert with it's hot, dry heat.  I've lived in Taos, with it's tons of snow.  I've lived in England, with it's fog and rain. Among other places.  If given a choice, I choose New Zealand.  Mild, beaches, All Blacks.  I could do that.

[cmlancas]

Beaches.  We have (Tampa in particular) some of the best beaches in the world.

In the world... in Tampa?  Seriously?  Tampa pales in comparison to places like Phuket, lanikai, or Bora Bora. 

We're consistently voted in the top 10.  YMMV, but this isn't just a homer thing:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-Beaches-cDestinations-g1

[Signe]

I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.

The final, brilliant word on passive voice.

“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active

[cmlancas]

I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.
The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active

This is the best post ever.  Shamelessly stolen and will be incorporated into my business writing workshop on 11/6.

[Merusk]

Too many people in "plesant all the time" climates and I like weather, goddamnit.

I'd miss snow if I moved any farther South.  Hell I miss it now and I'm still considered "north."  What Cincinnati gets isn't snow, it's a goddamn travesty of slush and ice.

[Sky]

I think we all know where I stand on the issue of climate. Bring back the ice age, bitches.

Just cleaned the chimney, ready for the season to start!

[Nebu]

I think we all know where I stand on the issue of climate. Bring back the ice age, bitches.

Just cleaned the chimney, ready for the season to start!

Burning all that wood is just speeding the warming process, you know!   

[Yegolev]

Can't them them here in DK.

[Yegolev]

I don't konw how you people live in humid climates.  I'm ready to get back to the desert.

The desert is pretty nice, especially the ones without scorpions.  Or high altitude, that's also nice.

[Xanthippe]

I don't mind cold humidity. Hot humidity puts me in a murderous mood.

[ghost]

San Antonio isn't very humid.  However, every trip out of doors is like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  Everything bites or stings or has stickers or spines.   

And it's a million degrees.

[Ingmar]

Except when you're there at New Years for the Alamo Bowl, then it is -40000 degrees and windy as fuck.

[proudft]

Coldest I have ever been in my life.  "Oh, it's Texas, this windbreaker will do for the week."   

[ghost]

Coldest I have ever been in my life.  "Oh, it's Texas, this windbreaker will do for the week."   

I had that exact same experience in Monterrey.  But I should have known better.

[Paelos]

I played soccer in January to March every year for school. Because we couldn't use the fields during football season in Dallas.

Coldest I've ever been in my life. So cold that people would rub icy hot on their legs.

[Lantyssa]

40 degrees and 80% humidity suuuuucks to play soccer in.  We had a few of those, too.