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EthanSilver posted...

To be fair, some don't mine the "watering" down either. Sometimes it's on purpose. Too sugary or some such.

I've heard, as a Canadian myself, that it's a pretty American thing to ask for lots of ice.

Lots of ice of course helps all the ice stay colder longer, thus negating watering down. But then you get less drink volume.

GeminiDeus posted...

I don't get people who want ice in their drinks when the drinks are already cold and you end up getting less drink as well.

While I agree, & order no ice, the ice will keep a drink colder longer... + I think fountain sodas are meant to taste best on ice.
At home, I always use ice because of course the can/bottle is infinite.

At movie theatres, I put in enough ice, because I don't want a washroom interruption & save my drink for 90mins+ into the viewing. I know that's insane, but paying $14 for a viewing only to have to piss can f off. I don't want warm vanilla coke either when the time's right either.

How many ppl did the stupid Bueller name gag?

I once worked with a former ass't mgr from SB, said his own manager was borderline certifiable... would call him at 3am to cancel/switch his shift so the ass't would have to scurry to make the 4am opening or whatever time it was.

Term limits for congress. Hell, term limits for the Supreme Court also.

Both sides are equally daft btw.

I live an an ad-dress.

I am a-dressing this thread.

Elon will blame the deep state for making him charge so much.

Oh well, the Twitter experiment ran its course once he took over. It used to be a fun hang like a casual bar your friends would mingle... now Twitter is the broken down bar that angry conspiracists go to hog the pool tables.

Good riddance.

MLS' goal is to be on par with the SPL. At least the league has unofficially etched itself as the 5th in a Big 5 NA sports league. Local support is quite legit. Still, a long ways to go for national/casual support... a long ways. Old Messi isn't a thing for ppl watching other Big 4 superstars in their primes... & many for a lot less money.

ellis123 posted...

Street Fighter -> Street Fighter II.

Easily.

Super Metroid > Metroid.

I'm not certain a full Russian Federation collapse would be very good for anyone.
It's Putin & his close knit cronies who are the cancer, not the nation at large who's at fault.

Anyways, we'd be where, headed for an expanded EU to the Urals within a century perhaps, & Chinese portal to the Arctic Circle. Then again, I won't likely live to see 2060, so you kids do what you wish.

45 still no glasses... I kinda wouldn't mind them as an accessory for my face. I'm getting bored & my peers who've started wearing glasses look more interesting mid-age.

Putin is why keeping the nuclear reactors on target standby, rather than launch something, he'd just make Ukraine inhabitable from within.
Not sure what the response to that one would be, though thankfully that seems to have simmered these past few months.

Yes. I'm aware it's a vice alongside the likes of casual drinking.

IdiotMachine posted...

Say Russia nuked Ukraine just once.

Tactical nuke? Word has been that NATO would use conventional weaponry to erase all of Russia's Black Sea fleet. Pretty easy sell that, there's no civilian populations asea.

Question I asked last year - if even a tactical nuke were used, does the modern world pause? I.E. does everyone go home from work/school, until things are normalized? I don't think we're clear on the ramifications of tactical nuclear warfare on society at large.

Japan is loading up also. The mini-era of China believing we'd all cower is sadly for them a myth.

Golf

SNES ftw

#Receipt

Jimmy can't hide this with his fake premature laugh or high school haircut.

I'm sure an 81yr old grandma trying to wait for city cut transit service will knit a scarf for one of the bars.

Pineapple works with Ham, Hawaiian.

Living wage, yet not as much as ppl expect - living wage shouldn't include an iota of entertaining/disposable enjoyment currency.
CEO's who are eroding humanity are the root cause. Don't let their million dollar charity cheques fool you - they made a million dollars while I typed this.

College moots this entirety. The professor is wrong, this isn't elementary school, jr. high, or even high school.
Post-secondary education = adults, even if they are young 18-22yr olds.

Still... yeah, technically it's inappropriate if the girl thinks gawks aren't incoming... to wit, now millions have seen her.

What's interesting is if the student in question weren't a hottie - maybe a large body type with a bikini rocking to class, then the female prof. might've even gone harder at her as if the no-one-really-wants-to-see-it factor upped.

re. the minefields, I'd read the Russians laid them out scattered en masse without much strategy.

The latest endgame I'd read as well - Ukraine takes the southeast 'land bridge' to Crimea & all but cuts Russia off. If the war persisted, maybe Zelenskyy cannot look bad 'punishing' all the Russian civilians residing there - thereby perhaps Crimea ends up an officially neutralized locale, overseen by U.N. peacekeepers.
I do suppose nothing truly makes for fact - hard to predict the future when the present keeps altering.

BRICS is so 2009... call me when it matters.

A freight train of a dictator, with no concern for anything but his rule, his legacy, & the survival of his reign over Russian populace.

Narrowminded to the nth - nothing could convince him of Barbarossa until it was already too late.

To each their own, barely anyone I know would agree she needed, let alone deserved, more screen time. The films were Harry-Hermione-Ron centric, & believe it or not, romance angles need not be focal. Never in the books did I feel like Ginny was on Harry's mind much, why should the films be any different.
I'll admit that her juvenile characterization in the early films probably stunted believability for me about their romance to come. It's a bit weird frankly that cinematic Harry gravitated to her. He had more chemistry with Luna, & even that just showed he was a born bachelor, more concerned about survival & keeping ppl close to him from harm's way.

If you're over 25 & worried wtf anyone else thinks of your game, you're losing.

Twitter was the fun night spot everyone seemed to enjoy mingling...

X has become the deadbeat broken alley bar where ppl don't even want to consider their spare time anymore.

Musk is categorically not a genius.

Fiji

No because Cancer isn't a singular type... there are more than 100 known cancers that affect humans.

It's play food, & really only satisfying as a snack &/or in a pinch like a road stop to save time, money, & have something familiar.
I won't say it's bad, because frankly, McD's has a varied enough menu to find decent options.

No. I did buy annual NFL/NHL/MLB yearbook magazines on the regular - since 1991... until The Sporting News quit about 6yrs ago now. I tried others, as bathroom readers, yet even they've all but given up.

Apples & oranges - our memories eventually become memories of our memories... thereby, inevitably, skewing our perceptions of past circumstance.

I think ppl overlook its evolved departure... wasn't overnight.

Nu Metal became popular rock at the end of the 90's, & then there wasn't a follow-up.

Rock music seems to have kept renewing itself with sound & appeal that wasn't there prior... until I guess there wasn't much left to uncover.

CRON posted...

I distinctly remember preferring the SNES as a kid because of how horrible almost every non-Sonic game's soundtrack was.

Yep. Genesis audio has forever been a barrier for me... NHL, Turtles, SF2, MK... they all sound hilariously finer on SNES.

Yes I believe in aliens.
No I do not believe aliens are here.

There's a viral map of UFO sightings since 1940 on twitter right now... overwhelmingly they're from the country who decided Donald Trump should be their commander in chief.

My PC library of physical copy games have all been extinct due to updates or worse.

Sweep? No. It'll probably do a solid 5-6 wins though.

46c 'real feel', probably only for a 90 minute blitz one day in Toronto years ago.

The biggest item of this ordeal is that it was never even about the Bud Light product itself - the beer inside the cans & bottles.

It was about BL's branding.

Which is hilarious because all Bud Light's success over the decades has been because of its branding - we all know it's just Budweiser Water inside.

Hot take: public urinals. I often use a stall.

If I'm at someone's house... a friend's house or even a family member's house no less, I'm not pi**ing with the door open... why am I elbow to elbow with strangers doing the exact same thing?

I was listening to a movie review pod recently, Gen Z hosts. During Indiana Jones chatter, they went off on why WWII is so oversaturated in film/pop culture.
I was taken aback, & yet they were born after 9/11, & WWII ended in 1945. The runway from that can't possibly go on forever, & if it's starting to peter out, I guess that's that.

It's not if they exist, it's when.

The odds of intelligent life in the universe at one time or another beyond Earth must be 99.9% certainty... yet, the odds of them co-existing in time & space with us can be far less probable, even possibly so low that it excites no one.

Humanity is minutely, hilariously, short time span in the history of the known universe. We are practically nil in that timeline. The chances of us co-existing at the same evolution rate as E.T.'s elsewhere along the billions & billions & billions of years is the question... not if they are real, but when they were/are.

A Christmas Carol 1951