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dlgoff said:Red skies in the evening with a few rain drops, ...
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My guess is Betelgeuse. Maybe we should call him Mr. President.nuuskur said:I was about to suggest stars are much closer to wherever it is you're from :D
Dang. What were the chances of that?fresh_42 said:My guess is Betelgeuse. Maybe we should call him Mr. President.
Just read today that Boris Becker (51, and unfortunately co-moderator at the Open) failed to by a beer. Strange country this is.WWGD said:Seeing the anti-terrorist task force policeman drinking fruity-green Starbucks drinks doesn't make me feel particularly safer.
It's the way their noses keep growing that's a dead giveaway.fresh_42 said:Result: I can identify politicians even if I can't hear them and don't know them, because they are from another country within a tenth of a second.
fresh_42 said:in a talk show
Habitat, perhaps?Ibix said:dead giveaway.
2 out of 3 are electric:nuuskur said:I imagine acoustic guitars are worn quite high, still (when playing while standing, that is). Don't quote me on that, though.
In the southern hemisphere they're called "cyclones" (they rotate the opposite way to the hurricanes of the northern hemisphere).nuuskur said:[...] Yasi in Australia [...]
Oops, too late; I quoted you .nuuskur said:I imagine acoustic guitars are worn quite high, still (when playing while standing, that is). Don't quote me on that, though.
fresh_42 said:2 out of 3 are electric:
fresh_42 said:Just tuned in the evening news. Little Climate Gretel is arriving in NYC and they cover it like the moon landing. Ridiculous.
I massively underestimated the power of such a storm (Yasi was my maiden voyage, so to speak). Hell, the effects of it were felt even across the continent in WA (the kind of effects I was used to, so nothing special). I thought to myself, ok there's going to be some wind and rain. There was.. a lot more than I thought.strangerep said:In the southern hemisphere they're called "cyclones" (they rotate the opposite way to the hurricanes of the northern hemisphere).
Yeah,"Yasi" was seriously bad. "Debbie" (a few years later) was also pretty bad, and further south -- the Whitsunday Island area was badly smashed. Some resorts are only now (3 yrs later) accepting guests again.
No, we don't have volcanoes, and very few earthquakes.nuuskur said:I have no idea how the aussies persevere through all that: storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, red kangaroos, flies.
They didn't have it because it's hard to come by.WWGD said:Someone asked for the definition of 'scarcity'.
World feels like a better place to me after a bacon cheeseburger, or any reasonably-good meat. I just don't feel full-enough after most vegan-vegetarian meals.Klystron said:My late wife was an angry person; tiny in stature but towering in rage. Perhaps her diet affected her mood. She only ate vegan, only on Wednesdays. She only ate orange foods on Wednesdays: oranges, carrots, persimmons, pork rinds. As a Theravada Buddhist she expected reincarnation in spirit form. I keep a spirit house for her on the front porch in case she visits. Actually a bird house but very nice. The spirit (bird) house also has a tiny front porch. Do you think the tiny spirit house on my front porch has a tiny spirit house on its front porch?
Her albino Siamese cat "Blackie" was also very angry, when she was awake. Blackie also ate vegan, or possibly vegetarian. Blackie only ate animals who only ate seeds and such. Actually, Blackie would eat anything that fit in her mouth. Like most albino Siamese cats Blackie was deaf. Albino rats could sneak up behind her and scare the vegetarian remains right out of her.
They now have a brisket sub, I will try it one of these days.nuuskur said:I had a 12 inch subway with italian bmt, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and mayo. God it was delicious!
Seriously, my late wife was Cordon Bleu -- a blue ribbon chef having owned several successful restaurants. True to the Master Chef stereotype her bad temper eventually destroyed employee relationships. Roast meats were her Kryptonite. She rarely ate the meat. Like her countrymen she loved the coagulated juices and fats beneath the roast.WWGD said:World feels like a better place to me after a bacon cheeseburger, or any reasonably-good meat. I just don't feel full-enough after most vegan-vegetarian meals.
Sir: What time is it? YES, I AM VEGAN! Er..., it's 2:15.WWGD said:I do seem to get a lot of vegans tell me about it, even when not related to the topic of conversation.