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... I can't get enough of the colourblind glasses/cochlear implant videos.  They make me blub.

Quote from: Wheezer on November 29, 2018, 11:50:08 PM
Hair-twirling undergraduates. It's like the new onychophagy.

I saw this thing on ITV the other week
Said that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair well regularly
So I reckon I could well be in

Quote from: PenFoe on November 27, 2018, 04:02:12 PM

Quote from: Wheezer on November 26, 2018, 01:34:41 PM

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Quote from: CBStew on November 05, 2018, 09:37:47 AM
I had that dream again last night.  You know.  The one where I am back in school and on my way to take a final exam in a course where I never attended a class and never opened the text book, but it didn't matter because I couldn't find the room where the test was being given.  This was a variation.  It was a Wednesday and I was booked to perform a guitar concert on the following Monday.  However, I don't know how to play the guitar and didn't own one.  To make it worse, I had picked out my wardrobe for the event.  Leather bell bottom jeans, a shiny, pointy lapeled, print, polyester shirt, a phony leather vest, and a leather cap that a pimp wore in the 1970s.  What a nightmare!

Relevant xkcd. As far as I can recall, I think I've only had one university dream since I graduated. Maybe I'm less likely to have school dreams, since I'm still in schools every day. I have had a few stress dreams about not being prepared to teach.

One of us (tinu) is an outlier. I have university dreams, work dreams, recurrent dreams where I already know the paths through the weird buildings, and wandering-around-lavatory dreams, which have a pretty obvious meaning but are nonetheless baroque. The less REM sleep the better, in my case. And then there's the issue of trying not to try to forget trying to forget this mental garbage-collection.

Screw the peribracial area and the horse it rode in on.

When I was a kid, my recurring stress dream was that I'd try to cross the street, trip, fall, and be paralyzed as oncoming traffic moved toward me.

Oh, yah, the paralysis dreams. I would also pass out twitching in these. Have I already told the story about what happened after I tried lucid dreaming per Omni magazine?

We'll stick with tonk's lucid dreams, thanks.

How the fuck do you remember this stuff?  Even I'd completely forgotten about that post.

And there was me hoping this was a Bon Jovi thread.

Quote from: Saul Goodman on November 13, 2018, 03:19:31 AM
I humbly seek the current wisdom/learned degeneracy of the Desipio crowd.

I never tried alcohol until I was in my 30s. (I know, I know, that explains a lot.)

People keep asking me what I like and the answer is, I don't know yet. So I have a chance to do this right! No crushing 64-packs of Natty Light in a dingy frat house. No sir, I'm gonna be a classy drinker.

So what's the best stuff for a brand-new, 8-month, occasional social drinker to try and what's worth avoiding altogether? What should I order at a bar to not look like a complete jackass? This is probably your only chance to advise a new drinker without attracting police attention! I'll revisit the rest of this thread in time, but it might assume a little more working knowledge than I have. So far I've tried some red and white wines, basic cocktails (martini, old fashioned, whiskey sour, daiquiri, nothing else memorable), and some beers. Mostly pale ales and an IPA or two. And a Hefeweizen. I have not tried Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Coors, or Busch and am not really planning to change that.

And Malort is already #1 on the Try list, so don't even bother. (It's not.)

I can't believe we've got so far into this discussion without somebody posting this:

Quote from: PenFoe on November 14, 2018, 04:46:44 PM

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Quote from: Tonker on November 13, 2018, 12:46:56 PM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 13, 2018, 08:20:36 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on November 13, 2018, 03:19:31 AM
I humbly seek the current wisdom/learned degeneracy of the Desipio crowd.

I never tried alcohol until I was in my 30s. (I know, I know, that explains a lot.)

People keep asking me what I like and the answer is, I don't know yet. So I have a chance to do this right! No crushing 64-packs of Natty Light in a dingy frat house. No sir, I'm gonna be a classy drinker.

So what's the best stuff for a brand-new, 8-month, occasional social drinker to try and what's worth avoiding altogether? What should I order at a bar to not look like a complete jackass? This is probably your only chance to advise a new drinker without attracting police attention! I'll revisit the rest of this thread in time, but it might assume a little more working knowledge than I have. So far I've tried some red and white wines, basic cocktails (martini, old fashioned, whiskey sour, daiquiri, nothing else memorable), and some beers. Mostly pale ales and an IPA or two. And a Hefeweizen. I have not tried Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Coors, or Busch and am not really planning to change that.

And Malort is already #1 on the Try list, so don't even bother. (It's not.)

If you're in a bar and want to try a gateway Scotch, most watering holes stock either Glenlivet or Macallan. Get them neat (no ice), you can always add an ice cube if you want. For bourbon, the good starters are Makers Mark and Knob Creek. If your local bar has Woodford Reserve, try that. Again, no ice, you can always add it in if you want.

Try it for yourself, but in my opinion, far better than adding ice is to add a few drops of room-temperature water to your single malt.

I'll let others jump in on the liquor, but in terms of beer, you should try some stouts and darker beers to see if you like them.
Since this is all new, try a Brown Ale and an Amber Ale too.  You may "graduate" from those eventually, but they're very good for new beer drinkers.
After that, try a couple sours. 

IIRC, you're in SoCal, so you have no shortage of options. 
Look for Modern Times (Black House) or Firestone Walker (Mocha Merlin, not on Nitro) to start with stouts.

Even better, you should really just go into a good local brewery with a decent selection*, sit at the bar and explain to the bartender that you've just escaped from The Church or whatever depraved rationale for never having had a drink before and ask him/her to give you a good flight or two. 

There's no better way to find what you like.

*Note: I'm contractually obligated to mention that any SoCal brewery except Ballast Point is a good choice, as they are merely Big Beer in craft clothing.

I'm contractually obliged to mention that there's nothing wrong with Big Beer per se, and that Saul might find that he enjoys a Sam Adams Boston lager or a nice cold, fizzy PBR, say.  I do.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 13, 2018, 03:24:11 PM
Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc in this telling of how he built McDonalds into a worldwide enterprise.

Also, I was leery, thinking it was going to be a sugarcoated telling of Kroc with lots of warm & fuzzy McDonalds stuff in there.

Nope, he's a colossal prick.

I can't believe they've remade this just two years after they filmed the original - and with the same cast, too, by the sounds of things.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 13, 2018, 08:20:36 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on November 13, 2018, 03:19:31 AM
I humbly seek the current wisdom/learned degeneracy of the Desipio crowd.

I never tried alcohol until I was in my 30s. (I know, I know, that explains a lot.)

People keep asking me what I like and the answer is, I don't know yet. So I have a chance to do this right! No crushing 64-packs of Natty Light in a dingy frat house. No sir, I'm gonna be a classy drinker.

So what's the best stuff for a brand-new, 8-month, occasional social drinker to try and what's worth avoiding altogether? What should I order at a bar to not look like a complete jackass? This is probably your only chance to advise a new drinker without attracting police attention! I'll revisit the rest of this thread in time, but it might assume a little more working knowledge than I have. So far I've tried some red and white wines, basic cocktails (martini, old fashioned, whiskey sour, daiquiri, nothing else memorable), and some beers. Mostly pale ales and an IPA or two. And a Hefeweizen. I have not tried Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Coors, or Busch and am not really planning to change that.

And Malort is already #1 on the Try list, so don't even bother. (It's not.)

If you're in a bar and want to try a gateway Scotch, most watering holes stock either Glenlivet or Macallan. Get them neat (no ice), you can always add an ice cube if you want. For bourbon, the good starters are Makers Mark and Knob Creek. If your local bar has Woodford Reserve, try that. Again, no ice, you can always add it in if you want.

Try it for yourself, but in my opinion, far better than adding ice is to add a few drops of room-temperature water to your single malt.

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Quote from: Bort on November 12, 2018, 01:26:48 PM
'Nuff Said was RIGHT THERE, BonkFork.

Gentle reminder that the thread title can always be improved upon and that's the whole point of the thread itself.  If the thread title was PERFECT then there'd be no need for a thread.  The Bonk pejorative and correlated berating should only be used for a SHITTY thread title, not a less-than-ideal thread title.  Subsequent replies can be better or worse; they just shouldn't  be shitty.   Fork's thread title wasn't shitty, it just might not have been the best.  But it's fine.  Let's work together here, people.

Also, Drax the Destroyed.

Yeah, no, it was shitty.

Quote from: Wheezer on November 10, 2018, 01:12:23 AM
OK so these two assholes focused on Paul McCartney this week (and on the radio in the cat gulag), and they ranked one item as the second-worst song of the oeuvre, or something. I thus present the culprit, Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey (cover, on general principles) and, for the hell of it, a late live performance of Venus and Mars from Brazil. The album was very hard to come by in the '70s in Arkansas. I think I found it at Service Merchandise. It was always a treat when they played it on KBHS, along with the long version of "Blinded by Light" (wait for it). The DJ, Rick Rowland, turned out to be a pedophile who could identiify weaker personalities. He's now some sort of preacher.

Let the Tonk complaints begin.

Seriously, though, I will never forgive Mark Chapman for shooting the wrong Beatle.

Quote from: Wheezer on November 08, 2018, 11:26:01 PM
According to my imaginary ex, the only tune I can actually carry is Chantilly Lace.

Must be your pretty face, and your pony tail just a-hangin' down.

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Quote from: flannj on October 25, 2018, 02:26:58 PM
Cool.
I'll look for a link on my own.

Geez, Dad.

Cool.
I'll never, ever read this.

Still holding out for that 5-volume set that focuses entirely on Colin Hay's guest appearance on Scrubs?

Hey!  I genuinely enjoyed Colin Hay's guest appearance on "Scrubs".  That acoustic version of "Overkill" is better than the original, and I really like the original.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 06, 2018, 04:00:28 PM

Quote from: flannj on October 25, 2018, 02:26:58 PM
Cool.
I'll look for a link on my own.

Geez, Dad.

Cool.
I'll never, ever read this.

Quote from: Wheezer on October 31, 2018, 11:10:05 PM
... Really nasal female Mandarin gets right the fuck on my nerves.

Is that a big issue?

The cast, the script, the photography - they're all really good, but this film is all about the space.  I'm not sure there's ever been another film that makes it quite so clear and... visceral just what a fucking amazing thing it was that they did.  Go and see this in IMAX if you still can.

Also, I thought they absolutely nailed the ending.  Anything else would have been either unnecessary or insufficient.  Well done.