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The discussion revolves around the splitting of larger threads to alleviate server load, specifically continuing the Random Thoughts thread. Participants express their thoughts on various topics, including the emotional impact of the game Bioshock: Infinite, which one user describes as "haunting." They discuss the game's cover art, noting the absence of the female co-lead, Elizabeth, from the front cover, and reference an interview with Ken Levine that suggests this was a marketing compromise. The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes, including family dynamics and humorous observations about everyday life, such as experiences at McDonald's and the challenges of parenting toddlers. The thread features a blend of light-hearted banter, reflections on gaming, and casual storytelling, highlighting the community's camaraderie.
  • #931
dlgoff said:
Prioritized?

For me, as much as I love x-rays, coffee would be first. Mayonnaise is a definite last.
I cannot live without mayonnaise. I dip almost everything in it.

Tonight I made my world famous "salt chicken with mayonnaise". It's something I invented for the girls when they were little that they love so much, Evo Child asked me to make it for her boyfriend a few years ago. It's thinly sliced chicken breast tenders (about 1/2 to 1 inch thick and 2-3 inches long, basically one bite) saute quickly in butter until the pink is gone and they are juicy and succulent, remove to a plate, salt lightly and serve with a side of mayonnaise for dipping. Who knew something that simple could taste so divine? And I don't even like chicken breast. I remember when they were little and I'd ask "what about salt chicken tonight?", and they would squeal with delight.

I really miss those days.
 
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  • #932
Enigman humbly replies that he aldready has had 4 mugs since the poem and agrees another mug couldn't hurt his chances in avoiding another poetic episode. Enigman also sends his thanks for the mug. :o
 
  • #933
I made it back home, complete with mayonnaise (yum), x-rays and coffee.

I even got a cast and some crutches in the process (boy, I sure could'a used those a few days ago). :smile: 'Turns out it's more than just a sprain though; it's a fracture too. :frown:

Evo said:
Hope you feel better soon!
Thank you Evo. :!)

lisab said:
Oh and can you pick up some half-and-half while you're at the store?
Doh! I knew I forgot something. :cry:

dlgoff said:
For me, as much as I love x-rays, coffee would be first. Mayonnaise is a definite last.
Speaking of which, here are the x-rays (Left foot). I forgot to ask the doctor which bone is fractured. I do have a pretty good guess though, since the doc gave me digital copies of the x-rays. Hint: (keep in mind I have no medical training) To me anyway, it doesn't look like a complete break, but there does seem to be something cracked pretty bad.


I don't think it's the circle in the middle, but it does make me wonder, WTF is that? I have no idea what that circle thing is. I'm guessing it's not related though. Maybe it's just a trick of the angle. There's something else that seems to be cracked/broken to look for.


Another angle.

Here is my guess where the fracture is:
I think it's the Lateral Maleolus, which is the bottom part of the Fibula -- the Fibula being the thinner of the two lower-leg bones. In the top picture, if you look to the right part of the right-most leg bone ("right" as when you are looking at the picture. Not my "right." Also, not the heel bone, the bone above that), you can see a dark, diagonal line, about half way (okay, a third of the way) through the bone, indicating the fracture. You can also see it in the lateral view (the second picture), although you're looking through the Tibia to see the broken Fibula (specifically the Lateral Maleolus part of the Fibula). That's my guess anyway. (Again, I have no medical training. I don't know what I'm talking about.)
 
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  • #934
zoobyshoe said:
Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot?

Will have Nemesis over Papa Whiskers any day :cool:
 
  • #935
collinsmark said:
I made it back home, complete with mayonnaise (yum), x-rays and coffee.


Here is my guess where the fracture is:
I think it's the Lateral Maleolus, which is the bottom part of the Fibula -- the Fibula being the thinner of the two lower-leg bones. In the top picture, if you look to the right part of the right-most leg bone ("right" as when you are looking at the picture. Not my "right." Also, not the heel bone, the bone above that), you can see a dark, diagonal line, about half way (okay, a third of the way) through the bone, indicating the fracture. You can also see it in the lateral view (the second picture), although you're looking through the Tibia to see the broken Fibula (specifically the Lateral Maleolus part of the Fibula). That's my guess anyway. (Again, I have no medical training. I don't know what I'm talking about.)

Yes its the lateral malleolus which is the lower end of the fibula , the other long bone in your leg other than the tibia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula

Fracture line is indicated in by break in the cortex of the bone which is the white line you see on both sides of the bone on X ray.
 
  • #936
collinsmark said:
...

I don't think it's the circle in the middle, but it does make me wonder, WTF is that? I have no idea what that circle thing is. ...

It's obvious to me. That circle is the remnant eye.

Check it out:

octopus+%25283+of+3%2529.jpg


tentacles to the left. eye in the middle. big thing to the right.

Our feet/ankle appendage is obviously the chimeric work of, Aliens.
 
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  • #937
The black dot is obviously an alien implant.
 
  • #938
i move to motion for chat on saturdays also.
 
  • #939
krash661 said:
i move to motion for chat on saturdays also.

Your prayers have been answered.
 
  • #940
I really need cuckoo's calling...
 
  • #941
It's always something.
 
  • #942
At the swap meet today I got a couple of pounds of beautiful, sweet grapes for a dollar. Also a bag of sweet/tart tangerines, at the perfect stage of ripeness for a dollar. Also three very good cantaloupes for a dollar. Three Dollar Fruit Feast.

I did not find any black ink for my printer, however, nor a prime lens for my camera. Ideally, I would want a 24 or 28mm fast lens for $20.00. That would be quite a bargain. I'd like the larger capacity black ink for $5.00.
 
  • #943
Wow. Those margins have disappeared.
 
  • #944
Wow. Those margins are back.
 
  • #945
Wow. They're gone again.

Greg is obviously tinkering as I write.
 
  • #946
lisab said:
It's always something.

And now, it's something completely different.
 
  • #947
I think i have messiah complex...
 
  • #948
Evo said:
The black dot is obviously an alien implant.

Clearly. No wonder he is so intelligent.:biggrin:
 
  • #949
Cloudy dreary days are perfect for Physics Lecture Videos.
 
  • #950
Sighing... I want to be a freelancer but it seems too hard for me to find a customer. There were and are times I can't figure out what to do and where to start. Everything is started from $$#, isn't it ?
 
  • #951
HeLiXe said:
Clearly. No wonder he is so intelligent.:biggrin:

Sure, I agree.

Please be sure that I am very stupid and don't have a good anger management skill.
Anyway, cheers!
 
  • #952
I used to think one had to be in love to write a love song and anyone who did write one was an idiot...that was before I wrote one this evening...:confused:

And I dare anyone to call me an idiot :mad:
*Rubbing my hands in psychopathic glee*
 
  • #953
Enigman said:
I used to think one had to be in love to write a love song and anyone who did write one was an idiot...that was before I wrote one this evening...:confused:

And I dare anyone to call me an idiot :mad:
*Rubbing my hands in psychopathic glee*

So, are you falling in love?
 
  • #954
lisab said:
So, are you falling in love?

Love and all that entails is just evolutionary baggage that I would rather not carry...
So no not in love, not with a human any way. Though there was this one grand lady called the Universe.
 
  • #955
I'd like to read yours Enigman, if you don't mind.
 
  • #956
Enigman said:
I used to think one had to be in love to write a love song and anyone who did write one was an idiot...that was before I wrote one this evening...:confused:
An issue that puts me in mind of Anthony Burgess' character, Enderby:

A.Burgess said:
Enderby's attitude to love-poetry was dispassionate, impersonal, professional. The worst love-poems, he had always contended, were the most sincere: the lover's palpitating emotions-all too personal, with an all too particular object-all too often got in the way of the ideal, the universal. A love-poem should address itself to an idea of a loved one. Platonism could take in ideal breasts, an ideal underarm odour, an ideal unsatisfactory coitus, as well as the smooth-browed intellectual wraith of the old sonneteers...

More: http://www.litmir.net/br/?b=39582&p=8
 
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  • #957
zoobyshoe said:
Eh? You're going to leave because your juice passed its expiration date?

Sorry, no :frown:

Whenever I get into those weird moods and write something like that, I try to make it sound as dramatic as possible. For some reason, that "good-bye to you" part seemed to fit well, so I kept it. In the back of my mind, I was afraid that some people would, rightly so, think that I was leaving the forum.

I'm here to stay.
 
  • #958
Evo said:
WHAT? You are NOT leaving. COME BACK HERE!

:cry: He's kidding, right? ANTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

Sawwy :frown:

I knew I shouldn't have included that part in there.
 
  • #959
OMG! I was about to kill our poor little kitten :cry:

I almost stepped on her, and it's not the first time. This reminds me of the poor hamster that I stepped on :frown:
 
  • #960
AnTiFreeze3 said:
Sorry, no :frown:

Whenever I get into those weird moods and write something like that, I try to make it sound as dramatic as possible. For some reason, that "good-bye to you" part seemed to fit well, so I kept it. In the back of my mind, I was afraid that some people would, rightly so, think that I was leaving the forum.

I'm here to stay.
Yes, I wasn't sure if it was a goodbye from AnTiFreezewithjuiceavatar, or from AnTiFreeze in general. Glad it was not the latter.
 

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