the-water-cooler

[dire spear]

my friend dows educational unreal engine content. huge market

[primal laurel]

Me neither. Until i needed it and i suddenly became fascinated with it. Now I'm wondering how I ever got by without it

[prisma briar]

No, that's one of those "Wow, Sonoma said something really dumb again and I'm hoping he'll realize how stupid it is when I point it out, but, nope, he's gone off on some other tangent again" comments.

[dire spear]

so, how bout that local sports team

[forest edge]

as I already stated do they exsist? sure but in the realm of YT for the average consumer.. who knows where to go to find the accurate stuff? my point was most people just look up videos how to do shit that's dangerous

[forest edge]

damn you backed yourself into a corner that quick?

jesus senstive

[dire spear]

anyhow. im pretty confident my house wont fall down cause reddit said its ok

[forest edge]

ok snowflake don't get your panties in a bunch

[dire spear]

:x

that is the work of a "licensed contractor" that went to school and read books... but clearly missed out on youtube

[prisma briar]

All you do is bitch and whine, try to troll people, and act like everyone else is being overly-sensitive when they call you out for saying stupid shit. Legit question, why are you even here?

[forest edge]

does it bother you?

[prisma briar]

What, you can't cut 80% of the stud out?

[clever mortar]

Please ... keep it civil folks
https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/

[forest edge]

tinkerer is like.. i know where this is going lmao

[clever mortar]

Pfft, I haven't had to ban you anybody lately except for spamming... I'm bored 😛

[dire spear]

apparently its bad n stuff

[forest edge]

if snowflakes be about.. i'll find them lol

[prisma briar]

Meanwhile I plumbed in a convoluted route for my laundry drain because I didn't want to cut a 2" hole in a load bearing stud

[dire spear]

load what now?

[prisma briar]

Just going to ignore him calling everyone snowflake then?

[forest edge]

i am just too good

[dire spear]

it is winter, have some non denominational day off spirit

[prisma briar]

It's a Wednesday in February, who has the day off?

[dire spear]

monday was "family day" here

close enough

[prisma briar]

The Lunar New Year finished yesterday

[dire spear]

yeah but thats ferrin

[forest edge]

cracks me up that we have come so far in sealing our homes for efficiency that now they recommend installing exchangers just circulate the air because indoor air in sealed homes are so bad

[solar zealot]

woah i cleared the browser 💰 and i see the experimental hacs
its very nice

[tidal bronze]

@static schooner failed miserably lol. Started with "only" garlic and shallots butter.

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzehttps://youtu.be/WFwHCIB9smE?si=hmsuNV92Lc_elYKq

shit is funny

[static schooner]

I think the simple act of me deciding to carry everything limits what I buy, but YMMV

[tidal bronze]

I am going to try that next time.

[static schooner]

and I'm serious about how nice it is to maneuver through crowds without a cart 🙂

and now they have self-checkout, so I can be in-and-out pretty quick

I used to bring a big soft-side cooler when I would get fish, but then also use it to hold a bunch of other stuff while being able to just sling it over my shoulder

[ocean oar]

I can only imagine with some modern houses. Even with some windows open, with a half dozen people visiting the indoor CO2 level at our place can get up from its baseline 700-800ppm to about 3500 within an hour or two

[dire spear]

ventilation is part of every house design even back in the 1920s. it is nothing new

people are more aware of it now though

my house has vents in the roof from the 40s

(as in, a vent from inside to the top oif the roof, not an attic vent)

[forest edge]

if your having CO2 buildup then you need to seriously look into the cause

most of the crap that I had read that gets built up in today's homes is crap from chemicals stored in a home or maybe even voc's from people repainting rooms over and over

[dire spear]

new vents reduce heat loss which is nice

not just a hole

[forest edge]

and radon which is the biggest "new scare" as of late atleast around here

tho I think homes built now are built with radon mitigation in mind

[dire spear]

"new". 1970s they started that.

[forest edge]

if you are talking about radon the "scare" wasn't started by the studies done about miners, it's all fueld by people wanting to make money imo

[dire spear]

im talking about the use of radon detectors and mitigation in homes.

not used here, no radon. but in some areas it is high enough to potentially be hamful

[forest edge]

that's controversial and arguable

[dire spear]

aaand were done

[forest edge]

long term exposure is "harmful" but so is just being alive. the data is kind of skewed because unlike some stuff, radon has two sides of a fence when it comes to refering about people's homes

[dire spear]

took ou off block for 5 mins, and thats all i can endure 😛

[forest edge]

this is why so many problems in the last decade.. noone can handle any type of opposition rotf

[tidal bronze]

Never get to use it. No Alcohol through that

[primal laurel]

You just have no social skills

[forest edge]

if by that you mean able to not to speak the truth.. I am thankful

[primal laurel]

Your truth

[forest edge]

yes and no, when I speak from wisdom you are right, when I speak from reading and staying in touch with the world then you are wrong

hard conversations just isn't something younger generations can handle. not like when i was kid

[dire spear]

how can i run network cable in my walls whne i dont have any walls?

[primal laurel]

I'd say it's typical arrogance from ignorant Americans but luckily for you a few people in here have proved I can't generalize anymore

[dire spear]

ha

[forest edge]

isn't that what all people who can't handle debate says?

[dire spear]

pretending you know things you dont is not unique to the usa sadly

[prisma briar]

You claim to have all this wisdom but you've never really demonstrated any of it, and you basically just expect us to believe you because you're old.

[forest edge]

expect?

no

[dire spear]

old, i assumed they were 14

[forest edge]

I don't care what you believe

[dire spear]

in their moms basement

[forest edge]

if you cannot handle someone questioning what you believe than you are the problem. not them. you can dislike what I say, even not believe me but the second you find yourself having to resort to insults and blocking then that speaks more about your character than mine and just further proves what I been saying all along... maybe even the stuff that sparked your desire to engane in conversation to begin with

[dire spear]

i counted the 2x4x12's for my 2 floors.. almost 800. eeeek!

[prisma briar]

None of your questioning is valid, though

You just make these statements and back it up with "trust me, bro"

[forest edge]

vaild accroding to you?

or you gonna use your "everyone" again?

most of the people i clash with in this world is in this one discord server and thats mainly because of the age gap

[primal laurel]

You are throwing the insults though

[forest edge]

like what?

snowflake?

it's a term, i didn't even create it

[primal laurel]

For example

[forest edge]

younger generations IQ being lower? that's a proven fact.. look it up

every generations it drops

[primal laurel]

And stuff like this

[forest edge]

like what?

[prisma briar]

You're basically ageist talking to the group you're ageist against. How do you expect this to go?

[dire spear]

sooo, anyone got a good recipe for lemon pie?

here, count the 2x4s

will keep you occupied for a few hours

[forest edge]

you should just put me on block seriously.

[primal laurel]

IQ scores are normalised

[forest edge]

as i already stated.. if you find yourself defaulting to the same path every time when conversing with me just isn't for you

[prisma briar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthFUFBwbZg&t=25s

[dire spear]

ha

[primal laurel]

Yes we're all wrong, you're right. I'm sure that always works

[forest edge]

see.. what is that?

thats you being sensitive.. why would you just jump to that?

I have no problems with being proven wrong

but you gotta atleast do that first lol

[prisma briar]

Yea you do, whenever we point it out you say we're stupid because we don't have the wisdom you have

You've never once accepted being wrong here

[dire spear]

this is a trend for people that are often wrong.

[primal laurel]

Exactly what makes you think I'm sensitive?

[forest edge]

I asked you the other day to link proof and instead you just defaulted to the insult > grammar nazi > I speak for everyone path

[prisma briar]

Whenever we point out you're wrong and being obtuse about it you jump to calling us sensitive snowflakes, like that's even relevant

[dire spear]

i am usually right not because im smrt, but cause it TRY to be right by researching things.

[primal laurel]

Just FYI I'm dutch lol, we are born with thick skin

[forest edge]

and you do it everyu single time

like clockwork

if tink hadn't stepped in earlier you would have done it today too

[dire spear]

except when you get called surrender monkeys? :x

[forest edge]

but he saw it coming

[primal laurel]

That's a new one, what does it mean

[dire spear]

i have a dutch friend who gets set off by that

[static schooner]

I thought those were the French?

[dire spear]

ww2 reference

[primal laurel]

I thought that was a joke about the french

[forest edge]

point me out wrong? just because you say i am wrong dosen't point me out as being wrong lol

[dire spear]

those are cheese eating surrender monkeys. different

[static schooner]

Cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys, to be complete

[forest edge]

as i said, prove me wrong and i'm fine with it

[primal laurel]

I just did with your iq claim

[dire spear]

anyhow. dutch land is cool.

[forest edge]

you just said normialized.. and presto?

i mean come on

but then it's shit like that, is why i say the stuff i do

[prisma briar]

My WWII history is shaky but didn't the Dutch try a policy of appeasement where they largely just gave control to the nazis in the hopes it'd be the route with the least bloodshed?

[dire spear]

something of that nature

they welcomed my grandfather's tank with open arms

[primal laurel]

Eh, give control? Nobody had a choice

[dire spear]

😛

[prisma briar]

Give control vs resist and have control taken

[dire spear]

well, they did... fight back. (yes i know, im joking)

[prisma briar]

I'm not saying it's the wrong choice

I don't think there is a right choice there

[static schooner]

The New Look on AppleTV+ touches on appeasement

[dire spear]

my grandfather was actually in the opposition in germany. that didnt end well

[static schooner]

I think it's good so far

[prisma briar]

Yea, but appeasement meant a lot of people being thrown to the wolves too.

[dire spear]

i appease the pizza gods

[dire spear]

historically it was the wrong choice, but at the time you have no idea how things will turn out.

the same thing is happening right now again

history does show that it is almost always better to fight

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge you gotta slow down a tad bit holmes.

[dire spear]

(although in the long terms, thoudands of years it all means nothing)

[forest edge]

never. then you actually feel old

[static schooner]

Part of the show is also about what really happened and how it looks in the context of history, which are often very different in the fog of war

[tidal bronze]

I too have a problem of the term snowflake. I am ok with anything but we need to learn how to be sensitive. If someone doesn't like something just don't do it. Life can't get simpler than that.

[dire spear]

there is usually nothing to be gained by fighting to use an "offensive" term. even if you think its fine.

[forest edge]

wtf bullshit to that. sensitivity (imo) why the world is the way it is.. least for us americans

you can't learn anything if everything is intolerable

[tidal bronze]

Let's say you will not go far if you use that term in real-life here in LA. Learning is not about being insensitive,

[dire spear]

i see snowflakes outside all the time... its february in canada

runs

[forest edge]

too much of a broad stroke with a brush about what is "insenstive" anymore

[dire spear]

sorry, i had to

actually its realyl warn today, all the snow melted

[solar zealot]

discord has plenty

but they also have their own time counting

which is pretty weird

[forest edge]

I been alive long enough to see things get replaced by something, then that replacement being unacceptable and replaced by something yet again

at some point.. enough is enough lol

[dire spear]

yeah, the gall of people to learn from their mistakes!

[tidal bronze]

But all I have to say it's not our time.

[solar zealot]

sounds like software

[dire spear]

how dare they progress

[prisma briar]

Times were better when ox plowed the land!

[dire spear]

i use dos. it was better back then. not like this new milenial software

[forest edge]

your right.. whatever hell develops in the future from this modren behavior dosen't really effect me too much and i'll be dead.. but i'm not going to walk on eggshells for noone till i die lol

[tidal bronze]

Beautiful. Have your gravy and move on.

[dire spear]

with a few blips, every year is better for humanity then the last. there was never a good old days.

what someone calls the good old days is the previos generation's decline of civilisaiton

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge small advise, be a jackass in real-life, super nice online. Life becomes very peaceful.

[forest edge]

i'm confused as to your stake here.. care to share something?

[dire spear]

actually, what i find is the time people refer to the good days is the era just before they were actually born. its quite funny

[prisma briar]

I'd share my opinion on what 'good old days' is used for these days but that'd be getting a bit political.

[solar zealot]

well thats where th pain started

[dire spear]

2015?

hahaha

[solar zealot]

2007

[dire spear]

ew

1988

[prisma briar]

I've heard it used referring to slavery more than once.

[dire spear]

oooh

[solar zealot]

and 1997

where rap was still good

[dire spear]

yeah thats pretty horrid

[dire spear]

rap was never good. its a fever dream

😛

2017. before season 8 of game of thrones

[solar zealot]

you can look at any music video of that time and be like, yep thats a cool thing

look at them now, id be scared if id look like that into a mirror

[dire spear]

90s were quite good for musical evolution

[solar zealot]

now its just recycled trash

[prisma briar]

Music moved as fast as tech did for a while.

[solar zealot]

only thing i do enjoy being dissapeared is all the beep boop stuff, where now ehouse has settled in

[dire spear]

we gave the world nickelback. your welcome..... (cause we needed them out of the country to change the locks)

[tidal bronze]

Leave nickelback alone

[forest edge]

gross

[dire spear]

no. it is an official canadian olympic sport

[tidal bronze]

Canda got sports?

[solar zealot]

wasnt that the guy that brought us graphql

yuck

[dire spear]

yes, we invented all the sports.

[tidal bronze]

Yep. Sorry I spaced out.

[forest edge]

hockey still hasn't made it way south

[solar zealot]

difficult without ice

[dire spear]

its funny, cause most bands, you like, or dont like. but nickelback garners real hate. and i determined it is mostly jealousy. every garage guitar player in their 30s just decided "im just as good as them, why dont i have millions of dollars"

[prisma briar]

I always thought Oasis got hated on more

[dire spear]

for different reasons i think

i hate oasis cause my brother played it on loop 24/7

[prisma briar]

Coldplay was another one of those bands

[primal laurel]

Can anybody beat us in speed skating? I don't think so

[dire spear]

coldplay are textbook generic

[prisma briar]

Oasis has a couple songs I find particularly grating but some other stuff I don't mind

[dire spear]

if you asked ai to make a successful pop band, it would make coldpaly

[prisma briar]

Or Journey

Wow, they're still touring

[dire spear]

ha

STP was the 90s ai band

[static schooner]

I think the most memorable parts of Oasis are the inter- and intra-band drama

[prisma briar]

Yea, most of the times I heard about Oasis it was because one of the two brothers did something stupid and petty

[dire spear]

egos

[tidal bronze]

Some flambéed onions for my steak sauce.

[dire spear]

each one thinks they cary the band and the other does nothing

onions. ew

steak.. ew

hehe

[forest edge]

aren't you suppose to use an old cast iron skittle for that?

like one you never wash cause it gets rid of the flavor?

[static schooner]

there was a lot of drama with them and Blur back in the 90s that I didn't even know about

[dire spear]

i dont think blur knew about it

ha

i vaguely remember the story

[tidal bronze]

I ain't 23 to throw around a cast iron skillet.

[prisma briar]

Lol, I went to a new years party and brought a handle of Hennessy, everyone else brought like jager and fruit punch.

[forest edge]

they are not that heavy lol

oh wait, most of your life was sitting on your ass on a plane.. nm

start calling you mr twig lmao j/k

[tidal bronze]

Ah the good old Jager days

[prisma briar]

That new years party was weird, there was a group of people 15 years below me, a group of people 15 years older than me, then me and one friend in the middle

[forest edge]

kind of funny that those thing cost so much now new to the point where people will pay for old messed up ones on ebay all day long

[prisma briar]

They're pretty easy to resurface and reseason as long as they're not all bent up

[forest edge]

I do like some of the other cast iron stuff they came out with but geared more toward camping

[tidal bronze]

Steak, a lot of butter and cast iron. Match made in heaven.

[forest edge]

big ass cast iron griddle made to sit between two sticks over a fire

[prisma briar]

I spent like $60 on a nice thick enamel coated cast iron pan.

[dire spear]

steel brush on a drill will make any cast iron shiny new again

i got a nice one on sale for $20. its made many pizza

[prisma briar]

For my old small one I used sand paper on an orbital

[tidal bronze]

It's Lodge or nothing.

[prisma briar]

Only took like 20 seconds, lol

[dire spear]

same thing, just slower

[dire spear]

ive moved past the cheap lodge stuff.

much nicer ones out there

[forest edge]

ugh lowes is selling these this year and now I see them everywhere outside on the cams https://www.lowes.com/pl/Mini-bike--Recreational-vehicles-Outdoor-recreation/2510965754766?refinement=610074176101

[tidal bronze]

It's lodge or nothing.

[dire spear]

are you trying to compete with the other guy?

😛

[tidal bronze]

Well lodge chef collection

[tidal bronze]

Finished competing in 2002

[forest edge]

did you lose cause you were the only one who kept using kale?

[dire spear]

all my stuff is zwilling (came as a set on boxing day sale)

[tidal bronze]

Oh Henckels stuff

Still Lodge for cast iron.

[dire spear]

other way around. but yeah

henckels is the department store brand for zwilling

my cast iron is lagostina actually

(canadian tire)

[tidal bronze]

Lanostina ok but it's not a Lodge

[prisma briar]

I got mine from Ikea

[static schooner]

Isn't that a tiny lobster?

[tidal bronze]

Yes it is.

Great for sandwiches

[dire spear]

i got my mom a sautee pan form ikea. its surprisingly nice for $29cdn

[prisma briar]

I like this cast iron pan I got a lot. It's got a smooth enamel coating on the base so it won't damage my glass top, it holds heat great, it has a wood wrapped iron handle that hasn't shown any sign of aging yet

[tidal bronze]

cdn is not a freedom unit. How much is that in $

[dire spear]

999

[prisma briar]

I don't really know cooking that well, I just wanted something that would hold heat better than an aluminum pan and wasn't tiny like my other cast iron.

[tidal bronze]

or $9.99

[dire spear]

ha, possibly, cause we also have tarrifs on this shit

cause believe it or not we have a canadian cookware industry to protect

(lagostina being one)

paderno

ha, both owned by crappy tire. (or not, lagostina is not owned by them, thought they were)

i see a trend

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeshould i make videos like this? lol https://youtu.be/GvHo9EhMGIw?si=dci-EljH4bkJCoee

[tidal bronze]

Although one of my favs for reduction sauces https://www.zwilling.com/us/demeyere-atlantis-2-qt-saucier-18%2F10-stainless-steel--25920-41520/40851-226-0.html

[tidal bronze]

Sorry no relevance

[forest edge]

not for you.. obviously you only see snow at 20k feet

back when youtube was taking off I almost made farm type videos. like working on tractors etc but just didn't really wanna deal with the editing on a daily basis

done so much photoshop and web crap I just didn't want to deal with video as well at the time

[dire spear]

i have the "joy" set. not fancy, but nice

plus all the knives and utensils are from them. nice kit.

[tidal bronze]

They are good for some but not for everthing.

Then again it's a personal choice and depends on how much you are cooking and for how long.

[dire spear]

im happy with everything. I had copper ports before but they dont work on induction. induction was the biggest improvemnt in cooking though. so worth it

[tidal bronze]

Don't care to use induction. Give me a 40,000 BTU NG burner and it's magic all the time.

[prisma briar]

I got a cuisinart pan set when I moved in here. They discolored pretty quickly but otherwise are fine.

[dire spear]

gas is not an option

[tidal bronze]

Sorry

[dire spear]

radiant it horrible though

gas and induction behave about the same. (instant control). radiant is just bad.

[tidal bronze]

It's like in a proffesional kitchen, you use induction to keep the beef stock warm and gas to to cook the soup. lol

[forest edge]

afraid to ask how much gas your viking uses lol

[dire spear]

gas has better cookware options for sure

but its not a thing in this house

😛

[tidal bronze]

That's not calculated, it's a given.

[forest edge]

wasn't califronia one of the one's that sparked that whole throw your gas stove out thing a year or so back?

[prisma briar]

I'd love to get rid of the last of my gas stuff but an electric water heater just doesn't make a ton of sense from a power cost perspective

[tidal bronze]

It does not

[gleaming crater]

I'm with you tho, with the right cookware induction is faster/hotter than gas outside of a wok burner lol

[tidal bronze]

New builds are all electric. But I will never have electric only in any of my properties if I am living in there. Hard pass

[forest edge]

sounds like someone is moving to texas in the future

[tidal bronze]

Nopes.

never

[dire spear]

i had to order my cooktop from spain. canada has stupid prices on induction tops

[forest edge]

electric stoves are inconstant over time

[dire spear]

$289 euros... vs $2499 cdn.

[prisma briar]

That was a governmental consumer protection group releasing a report that indicated indoor gas may be causing more pollutants than expected that was twisted by the media into 'the government is coming for your gas appliances!'

[forest edge]

that aspect does suck

[prisma briar]

Because ratings

[dire spear]

i remember that

[forest edge]

all tied into that whole air exchanger topic i brought up earlier no doubt

[dire spear]

gas will definitly go away in new neighbourhoods soon though

[tidal bronze]

You can't purchase or ship to CA sometime in the future. But I will grab my gas stuff don't worry about that lol. I do have induction in 1 kitchen. I never use it. Poitnless.

[prisma briar]

If you're burning gas inside you definitely need air exchange

[gleaming crater]

It's not required by most codes oddly enough

They'll just build a vent hood that filters back into the room lol

[prisma briar]

Lol, mine has that

[forest edge]

just for gas right? cause didn't you guys just lift some stupid ban that prevented dealing with other states that weren't LGBQT friendly?

[dire spear]

recycling vent hoods. who the heck thought of those?

[prisma briar]

But there's also a window 3' from the oven I keep a fan next to

[forest edge]

oh wait m,aybe that was just fransico

[gleaming crater]

The lowest bidder lol

[prisma briar]

The way mine is installed it vents into a closed cupboard

[dire spear]

im not sure. they are basically not a thing now. but really big in the 70s and 80s

[tidal bronze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEr_v-yu-u0&t=1127s this was too funny to watch. Specially the tiny ass fridges.

[prisma briar]

I half considered getting a half height fridge-only unit and putting a deep freezer in my garage

Sounded annoying though

[dire spear]

i have 2 24" fridges

[tidal bronze]

24" ?

huh

[dire spear]

fits nicer and more useful than one large fridge

[solar zealot]

rack mounted fridge

[tidal bronze]

That's half a fridge

[dire spear]

exactly. so i have 2

[forest edge]

sometimes when you buy a house that is the case

[dire spear]

i use one for baking. one for regular food

[tidal bronze]

But those fridges, I mean really? Why have it at all. Better to have a coke cooler

[solar zealot]

it makes not a lot of sense to have big fridges here, like we can just buy something from a five minute walk away

[prisma briar]

Yea, that's why I'd be able to get away with a small fridge. I'm about 120m from a grocery store.

[tidal bronze]

Weird.

[dire spear]

one of my "small" fridges is actually bigger and more useful inside than my old 33" fridge at the condo.

[solar zealot]

like i gladly go there twice a week, to get stuff to be actually fresh

[forest edge]

yea that makes no sense

[prisma briar]

I don't even bother driving to the grocery store unless it's snowing hard or something

[forest edge]

when I watch videos about other countries it does seem like the majority of them are use to smaller spaces so maybe that's just a hard habit

[prisma briar]

Unless I'm buying 20 bags of stuff, which I never do, I can just carry it home

[tidal bronze]

I don't eat anything that's not freshly made AKA never eat anything from the fridge re-heated. But those tiny fridges and dishwashers. Why have it installed at all?

[solar zealot]

the only thing i miss on most european fridges is that there are no water & ice dispensers

and that everything nowadays is plastic at any price point

[tidal bronze]

That's a big boo boo

[forest edge]

wtf? never any leftovers?

[tidal bronze]

Never

[forest edge]

some stuff is better reheated

[solar zealot]

i do like my drinks ice cold

[dire spear]

i order my groceries except for fresh foods

[prisma briar]

I got a standalone ice maker because no matter what I did I couldn't get my freezer's ice maker to quit tasting weird.

[tidal bronze]

No whole house filter?

[solar zealot]

yea they require maintenance, and on most models its also not filled from the tap directly

so you have to manually add water

like ??? i just put the bottle in the fridge then

[prisma briar]

Those aren't really a thing here

[dire spear]

thats partly why i got the 2 small fridges. no stupid ice and water dispenser

[tidal bronze]

oh

[dire spear]

just crap to break

[tidal bronze]

Hmmm they don't break

[dire spear]

not here either.

[solar zealot]

we dont need those here either, its perfectly fine to drink from the tap

[dire spear]

we have "good" tap water though

[tidal bronze]

A sub-zero is yet to fail on me

[prisma briar]

Yea, Denver has good tap water. Dallas had the worst tap water I've had I think.

[forest edge]

I would hope not consider it's price tag

[dire spear]

my GE failed after 10 years. my little lg's are onyl 3 years old, so hopefully they last 10 more

[solar zealot]

how much is it

[prisma briar]

Excluding when I went to mexico and couldn't drink the tap water

[forest edge]

BUT i am sure it's still destined to not last as long as the older ones

[solar zealot]

is it full of drugs? ;D

[tidal bronze]

https://www.subzero-wolf.com/sub-zero

[forest edge]

appliances these days are made on a belkl curve longestivity. 12 years is what manufactures shoot for

[dire spear]

they are about $400 her

e

wait, no, forgot the 8 in the front

[solar zealot]

i dont see them listing prices

[forest edge]

because they are dumb expensive

[dire spear]

5-10k

[solar zealot]

i see

[tidal bronze]

13 to 18k here

[solar zealot]

well i guess i could buy food for

about 4-5 years with that

[forest edge]

you see them in movies.. only fridge made to blend into your cabniets with custom front panels

[tidal bronze]

lol

[dire spear]

vs, $2100 for my 2 lg's. sub zero not really offering anything to me.

[tidal bronze]

movies come on now

[solar zealot]

the smart fridge running~~ home~~fridgeassistant

[forest edge]

you know not all of us are bleeding cash.. or in your case shitting it out lol

[tidal bronze]

That's way too pricey for tiny ass fridge

[dire spear]

wat? literally every fridge is like that. my little lgs are like that

[forest edge]

movies is as close as I get to seeing some fancy shit

even if it's something i can afford I can't justify the cost so still won't ever see it in person lol

[tidal bronze]

So you have an LG that's built-in?

model?

[forest edge]

didn't he put me on block? lol

[dire spear]

models probably not the same in the usa

[tidal bronze]

That's like the milk door

Where is the fridge?

[dire spear]

ha

put 2 side by side and its almost the same as the sub zero (but not as deep)

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeis your fridge wifi?

[tidal bronze]

Yes never use it.

SZ is to set and forget.

[dire spear]

ha yeah. mine has wifi for service

[forest edge]

wonder if thats standard on those lol

[dire spear]

my oven has wifi too

[tidal bronze]

I do have 30 cuft samsung and freezers in the garage.

But not interested in wifi for those

[forest edge]

I use mine to tell me when the filter needs to be changed since i never spend enough time at the door to see the blinking light lol

[tidal bronze]

Whole house water filters never check on those anyway.

[forest edge]

the sub zero should still have a built in one?

[dire spear]

is LA water bad (i dont remember if i drank the water there)

[forest edge]

how could something that cost that much not have it

[dire spear]

ive lived a few smaller cities where i would not drink the water. tasted gross

[tidal bronze]

Yes but I don't change them. No need.

[forest edge]

hard water vs soft along with the various ways they treat public water change taste vastly all over

all is still suppose to be safe

[tidal bronze]

I am more worried about dish washers and washer water quality.

[forest edge]

wouldn't they clog after time?

[tidal bronze]

nopes. Any faucet in the house max tds is 05

[dire spear]

connect the dishwasher to the wine cellar

[forest edge]

even with a whole house filter some particles do make it through

[tidal bronze]

See above 🙂

[prisma briar]

parasites

[forest edge]

maybe thats your problem.. not getting enough minerals in your diet lol

[tidal bronze]

lmao

[prisma briar]

It was boil before drink

[tidal bronze]

you had to

[dire spear]

now we have tasty chlorine

mmm

[tidal bronze]

Yep, the boil and drink days.

[dire spear]

tuesday... in flint

[tidal bronze]

lmao oh boy

[dire spear]

wait, not that was lead. boiling wont helt that

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeI wouldn't be so cruel to wish it forever.. but a nice long 2 week or so stretch where you couldn't leave your home and these fancy things broke down would just be hillarious for me to watch

[tidal bronze]

Actually better than most bottled water. Just not great for ice on whiskey, tea and coffee.

[dire spear]

last water issue here was 20 years ago maybe. ecoli in one town

[prisma briar]

That's kind of a messed up sentiment.

[forest edge]

it's called mean humor

something that apparently is being lost in the world

[dire spear]

we have already established this person is not suitable for societal interaction

let if go

🙂

[tidal bronze]

I started from a huge '0' would be walk in the park Sir.

[dire spear]

walk in the part for find squirrels to eat?

😛

[tidal bronze]

lol

[forest edge]

did it start in LA? or just end up there?

[prisma briar]

Yea, but "Lol I want to watch you suffer for two weeks" is still a weird thing to say

[forest edge]

not really

try going to an old bar and listen to the locals

[tidal bronze]

I agree. But that's what makes middle earth happy.

[forest edge]

you guys so wouldn't survive in my world

[tidal bronze]

Started in NY but LA is what made it happen.

[forest edge]

broke in NY? that sounds bad

[tidal bronze]

I wish I could say that.

If it's real estate, gotta be LA.

[forest edge]

you guys should watch Married with Children

[prisma briar]

Tried, couldn't hear Katey Sagal and not hear Leela.

[tidal bronze]

lol

[ocean oar]

Yeah... doesn't matter what show she shows up in

Basically the same deal with Chris Parnell (will never not be Dr Spaceman for me) or H Jon Benjamin (Archer)

[forest edge]

age gap

[prisma briar]

I hear Chris Parnell as Cyril

[tidal bronze]

Anyone using wled with ddp?

[ocean oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXL9RN70Bo

[static schooner]

That's definitely a generational thing, because she'll always be Peggy Bundy

[prisma briar]

why is it already almost 80

[static schooner]

Leela sounds like Peggy

[tidal bronze]

@static schooner this was my 3rd item and it was all downhill from there. 🤣

[prisma briar]

I never watched much married with children, I have seen all of futurama though

[forest edge]

that whole show is mean humor

[static schooner]

same, but Married with Children was definitely part of the culture in the 80s/90s (and often cited as a sign of its decline 🙂 )

[forest edge]

hilarious

[static schooner]

they've all gone on to do bigger and better things

[forest edge]

well not completely

[steel crag]

I have arrived

[steel crag]

seen all of both

[forest edge]

anything seth mcfarlane produces is in some way inspired by that generation

[dire spear]

better is debatable. 😛

[static schooner]

Christina Applegate has, in my humble opinion, outdone Kelly by far

[prisma briar]

Ed O'Neill's IMDB definitely makees it look like he peaked with Married with Children

[forest edge]

sad to hear what happened to her. she looks so diffrent now

[static schooner]

well, he had this whole run of Modern Family 🤷

[dire spear]

doesnt she have cancer or something?

[static schooner]

yeah

I really liked Dead to Me

[forest edge]

you can't go to a single bar here without hearing not only the same kind of humor but references to married with children

[static schooner]

her career could have just gone in a completely different direction

[prisma briar]

Lol, somehow skipped right over that one while reading it.

[dire spear]

cancer AND ms.

oof

[tidal bronze]

oh no

[static schooner]

she was the quintessential ditz on MwC and she has so much more range and humanity than that

[forest edge]

burn your onions?

[static schooner]

yeah, she's not had a good time, but produces some quality stuff

[dire spear]

id rather have cancer than ms. ms is horrible.

[tidal bronze]

Yep

MS is not fun

[orchid rose]

Without going into specifics, I can confirm

[tidal bronze]

There's promising stem cell treatment in Germany. but......

[forest edge]

now this channel is getting depressing

[dire spear]

ive heard of a few things cause my friend had it

(had)

anyhoe. how bout that local sports team

[orchid rose]

Worse than MS

[tidal bronze]

lol

[dire spear]

hahaha

[static schooner]

is it sportsball season yet?

[orchid rose]

No, not quite yet. Hockey season is on though

[tidal bronze]

@dire spear sorry Canada and sports it not a thing yet

[dire spear]

maple laughs are in 3rd. i wonder how they will choke in the first round this time

[forest edge]

never could get into hockey

wearing football style gear on skates frolicking on ice just isn't my thing

[tidal bronze]

I wonder if's ok to take your daily supplments with wine instead of water

[dire spear]

only if the supplement is brie

[forest edge]

I have friends that do it with beer

[tidal bronze]

Oh ok. It's a given then. I was worried.

[tidal bronze]

Brie is for risotto 🙂

[static schooner]

See, if you started in hockey early enough you could decide not to wear all the safety equipment, so it was more like rugby on ice

[dire spear]

yeah, and if you were lucky you could be one of the 3 or 4 people that dies each year in the nhl

[static schooner]

the last one that made the news here was particularly gruesome

[dire spear]

the dental plan was good too. free extractions

[static schooner]

sliced a dude's throat with a skate blade

[dire spear]

O_O

in the nhl?

[tidal bronze]

This is getting too violent

[orchid rose]

There was an unfortunate incident like that in the UK lately iirc

[dire spear]

i know in the 90s a player got cut like that but was ok

[tidal bronze]

How's the beach?

[static schooner]

this guy: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/youth-hockey-neck-guard-mandates-adam-johnson-death/#:~:text=Death of Adam Johnson sparks renewed interest in guard mandates for youth hockey,-December 12%2C 2023&text=A day after professional hockey,old twins new neck guards.

[forest edge]

It would atleast be more intersting. like people who watch nascar just for the wrecks

[steel crag]

cold rn

it's 68F, no locals are going in

windchill is about 62F

[orchid rose]

68F? Where's the cold?

[dire spear]

ah not nhl

[steel crag]

bro, I'm used to 110F

[forest edge]

isn't the water getting closer to air temp like it is in florida?

[tidal bronze]

It's always cold here. 68 is nice.

[static schooner]

right, but "professional hockey player" for something

[steel crag]

no, we have MUCH deeper water near us than FL

[tidal bronze]

Sun is out after 2 days of rain. I am done with the rain.

[dire spear]

110f is for cooking in the oven. not outside

[steel crag]

that's in the shade BTW

[forest edge]

wouldn't it still be heating up? maybe it wouldn't be as close to florida but there has to be some changes.. right

[steel crag]

it rained here for the last couple days as well

[prisma briar]

You'd hate my sunroom

[steel crag]

that's why it's so flippin' cold rn

[orchid rose]

We should 50/50 split to accomidate for different environments. You can have the spring and autumn in Finland and I'll have it there

[dire spear]

cold

[steel crag]

bah I love Finland's weather

I lived in Sweden for a long while

[orchid rose]

Sure, but I don't need your summer 😓

[forest edge]

here we go.. he's diving back into the past...

[dire spear]

finland is not 110f. its -45c

[prisma briar]

80-140F for months on end, chilly

[steel crag]

@forest edge don't you start or I'll send the sun to bake your hobbit hole

[steel crag]

exactly

[tidal bronze]

Middle earth

[dire spear]

its a nice constant 19c in here

[forest edge]

pssh you obviously never been to the midwest.. give me your best

[steel crag]

he truly lives in middle earth

[forest edge]

we get it ALL here

[steel crag]

I suspect his best friend is a ginger

[dire spear]

you leave the gingers alone

[steel crag]

no

[tidal bronze]

Sorry man there's no such thing as Midwest. There's the coast and there's middle earth.

[forest edge]

isn't ginger derogatory now?

see.. noone can keep up with this shit lol

[steel crag]

I dunno, I've never claimed to be entirely PC

after all I am an ignorant island boy, just trying to make it

[tidal bronze]

So I want steak, wife wants Beef Mapu Tofu. Sometimes I wish that I had no idea how to cook.

[forest edge]

that's just because some of the pages in your education system books has been used as toliet paper or making fires and you are unware of what's really outside your borders

[dire spear]

give her a mcdonald burger. problem solved

[tidal bronze]

lol

It's been like 20 years since MCD

[prisma briar]

I think steak wins over tofu

[forest edge]

mcrib.. yum

[dire spear]

ive never had a mcd burger. i did have their chicken sandwich about 15 years ago

[tidal bronze]

There's nothing yum about MCD

[forest edge]

you should try it

[prisma briar]

I can't even stand being in the same room as a mcrib, they smell so awful

[forest edge]

but so good

[tidal bronze]

Yep the damn smell

[prisma briar]

Like hobo feet

[forest edge]

the sauce and pickles

[dire spear]

mcrib. ha. ive never even seen one.

[prisma briar]

Or at least what I imagine hobo feet to smell like

[dire spear]

they look... wrong

[tidal bronze]

That's middle earth for food

[prisma briar]

yea, why did the mold the shape of the bone into the meat

[dire spear]

ha

[forest edge]

just how they get pressed

[dire spear]

just vile

[gleaming crater]

skeuomorphic food?

[dire spear]

their chicen sandwish was eddible

couldnt get much else for $4 back then

[tidal bronze]

Although I think MCD mastered the art of making fries.

[forest edge]

eh..

you like the fries but nothing else?

[dire spear]

arent they just mccain frozen fries?

[gleaming crater]

Maybe when they were still tallow fried back in the day

[forest edge]

red robin fried are better

[dire spear]

oh, no, kfc is mccain

[forest edge]

arby's curly fries use to be good but not so much anymore

[prisma briar]

Impressionistic surrealism?

[tidal bronze]

I've read it's better than In N Out fries. But I don't eat potatoes. Just from my reading.

[forest edge]

it's been years since we had an in n out so I don't even remember

[prisma briar]

They opened an in-n-out near me, I don't get what the fuss is about. It's pretty bad.

[forest edge]

i keep thinking in n out was the place that use to sell the mini corndog bites but not sure anymore

[tidal bronze]

My fav now https://hackthemenu.com/in-n-out/secret-menu/flying-dutchman/

[orchid rose]

confused European noises when hearing about all these. What about kebab pizza?

[tidal bronze]

It's the best.

Wish we had it here

[static schooner]

that's like In-n-Out, Atkins Style?

[tidal bronze]

Gone Keto

[tidal bronze]

Some great kebab pizza in Istanbul and Lisbon

[dire spear]

thats the point. it goes in, and comes out

[tidal bronze]

Where are you located?

[prisma briar]

Denver

Colorado Springs now, but I was in Denver at the time. Never bothered going to it down here.

[tidal bronze]

Oh down in Central Park

You should.

[forest edge]

weird I can't find any mention that an in-n-out has ever been in my state but I am pretty sure eons ago it was an inside only mall thing here

[tidal bronze]

It was never there and will not be

[forest edge]

I wonder if it was like owned by one thing back then.. died off then the name got picked back up in california

[tidal bronze]

Nopes same family

[forest edge]

ugh well now it's bugging me what the place I keep thinking was that was really called lol

[tidal bronze]

and no franchise

[prisma briar]

Never been to the Central Park one, I lived about 5 minutes from the one in Highland's Ranch.

Technically not Denver proper but a suburb

[tidal bronze]

She wants Mapu Tofu? Mapu Tofu it is 😆

[forest edge]

kind of sad looking at articles that list like 16 mall food court favorites we wished were still around and the shit they are listing wasn't even a thing till after I got older to where I didn't hang in malls anymore lol

[tidal bronze]

What's a mall? Do we have them anymore?

[dire spear]

yes my friend owns several

[forest edge]

shops in a line even outside is still considered a mall

you have those don't you?

[dire spear]

i tthink they are mostly used to store out of fashion socks

[tidal bronze]

Went to malls when we were dating but that's decades ago.

Do they still have them?

[forest edge]

we have like 2 here

great mall of america should still be a thing though I think

[prisma briar]

There's a mall here but it's had I think three shootings in the last two months

My brother was at the Mall of America a couple months ago

[forest edge]

been years but I went there.. had an inside rollercoaster

[tidal bronze]

Mall of America, I was there in 98 I think. That's a trip.

[prisma briar]

I went in 2011

[dire spear]

this is how our malls look

[forest edge]

we use to have a bunch of them but then people started wanting to stand in the rain instead of inside air conditioned spaces

[prisma briar]

Me and my brother flew out there and hung out in the mall of america for a weekend in 2011

[tidal bronze]

lol

Mall of America is indeed a site to see.

Mind blowing size

[dire spear]

that used to be the biggest mall in the world. no idea if it still is

[forest edge]

don't recall no water park when i went there

[prisma briar]

Mall of America doesn't have a pool but it's got a theme park inside

[dire spear]

ha

[tidal bronze]

Looks like a regular backyard in LA

[forest edge]

thats a stretch

[tidal bronze]

Yes the ugly ceiling is a stretch

[forest edge]

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/fe12500322ea75f471259a84fa2117d7?width=150

[dire spear]

so mall of america seems to be a bit of a copy of the one i posted. made 10 years later. (we only have one of those btw, and yes is is really silly)

[forest edge]

now LA in the 80's...

yea i'll give you that you might see more green and blue

[dire spear]

my local mall is connected to an underground tunnel network. you can walk for like 5km without going outside

[forest edge]

you guys should bring these guys back lmao https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2022/09/GettyImages-1436550.jpg?w=1280

[dire spear]

my condo was connected to the tunnel too

[prisma briar]

The mall I grew up by has an arcade (like a legit modern one), bowling alley, theater, bars, escape room, a VR center where you can rent a VR headset and gaming PC, there was a private aquarium there before the state shut them down for animal abuse, I think they're supposed to be building a mini theme park in a small area in it soon

[dire spear]

ha

this one just has stores

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzei actually had these years ago lol so I didn't always hate your state. https://i.etsystatic.com/20766496/r/il/ce1d65/4310051874/il_570xN.4310051874_ene0.jpg

[prisma briar]

Most of the malls here diverged from just stores to food and entertainment, or they closed

[dire spear]

ous have food courts

but mostly just plain stores

[prisma briar]

We had one mall get smashed to shit in a hail storm, it was closed for like two years for repairs, and now no businesses are moving back in.

[forest edge]

they converted to what the call outside malls here

which just meant they tore it all down and built indvidual buildings

[dire spear]

yeah, this type of retail really died off after the pandemic

the one nearest me now is kinda dying i think

the one near my mom is being turned into condos

[tidal bronze]

How can you hate we are all about love and butterflies.

[dire spear]

we have a lot of big box stores now. or "drive in" malls.

[prisma briar]

Yea, there's a lot of big box stores with a handful of smaller stores around now, and a few strips with 2 or 3 big box stores and some restaurants

[dire spear]

i wind up buying most of my stuff online.

[prisma briar]

Then there's places like Walmart that build completely isolated buildings for whatever reason

[dire spear]

rarely go to a physical store except for food

[prisma briar]

Yea, I get most of my stuff online too

[dire spear]

i order heavy food from walmart (juices, water, etc)

[prisma briar]

Clothes, food, and large purchases where I can get it in store for the same price without waiting are about all I get in person anymore.

[tidal bronze]

They have food?

[prisma briar]

Walmarts around here all have full service grocery stores in them now

They converted them in the 2000s

[dire spear]

walmart is a grocery store here. and the other 2 stores didnt deliver until a few months ago

[forest edge]

you have a funny way of showing it by replacing smokin hot bikini blondes with smog and crime

[dire spear]

it was always a grocery store here i think. from the 90s.

[tidal bronze]

Never been to one. I thought they don't have food

[forest edge]

ours are both

[prisma briar]

I tried ordering groceries a couple times but basically everything that wasn't factory packaged came in really low quality. Moldy oranges, slimy lettuce, bananas so green they'll take two weeks to be ready

[forest edge]

but there are what they call walmart markets which is just food

[dire spear]

walmart selection is poor. but the prices on some things are way less

[primal laurel]

I need this

[dire spear]

i dont order fresh food cause i want to pick it out myself

[prisma briar]

Most of what I eat is fresh food

[dire spear]

i get cheese at costco. i use enough that i can get the big deli blocks

business costco

whatever they call it

ha

for restaurant service

[forest edge]

lul i am just now seeing this one https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FsGbva1N90DFRjcC40VQ_eNWqSDKAdVyLTpalsGHgSoA.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3De534a4b230cba407bdf97b92fe17059537bac0b3

[prisma briar]

I was gifted a year long sam's club (walmart does costco) membership, I went once, but I didn't get much because I don't really care to buy stuff in bulk.

[forest edge]

sam's club is awesome

[tidal bronze]

meh

[prisma briar]

My fridge is pretty barren right now

[dire spear]

ha

[forest edge]

way better than costco

[tidal bronze]

lmao

[forest edge]

costco was ok if you were interested in non food items

[dire spear]

no sams club here

costco is only good for a few select thingd

[tidal bronze]

Sam's couldn't pay me to shop there

[forest edge]

why because they don't sell your wine?

[prisma briar]

They finally relaxed some of their asinine liquor laws here

Used to be one company/owner could only have a single liquor store so every liquor store was a small shitty hole in the wall

[tidal bronze]

My fav https://shop.erewhonmarket.com/

[dire spear]

they changed some laws here. they now sell beer in grocery stores. i dont like it

[prisma briar]

They can sell full bottles in stores here now as long as it's in it's own area.

Went from no alcohol in grocery stores to beer and wine to everything in like 3 years

[dire spear]

anything besides beer is only sold in government stores

[prisma briar]

But most of the grocery stores here don't actually have a spirits area

I spent a couple weeks in Virginia and all the liquor stores there were government owned. So weird buying booze from a cop.

[dire spear]

hehe

[tidal bronze]

That's a thing in the east. Stange.

[dire spear]

la has plastic 40z bottles of JD at vons

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge you need one of these daily to loosen up https://shop.erewhonmarket.com/product/634341000/heavenly

[prisma briar]

hmm

I have five places I can buy alcohol within about 200m of me

[forest edge]

11 bucks.. and here i was about to type something about that almost 4 buck brownie i just saw on that site

[dire spear]

ha

[prisma briar]

Two liquor stores, a grocery store, a bar, and a restaurant

[dire spear]

i have to walk at least 20 minutes to get to the store

[prisma briar]

The bar is dog friendly too :D

[dire spear]

(both gov and grocery for beer)

[forest edge]

I would die if that place was my only source of food

[prisma briar]

By bar I mean microbrewery

So only beer

[tidal bronze]

Forget that you need this https://shop.erewhonmarket.com/product/7772071000/cosmic-berry-sea-moss-gel

[dire spear]

there was a brew pub next to my studio

[forest edge]

do you spread that on your ass cheeks or something?

[tidal bronze]

2 tblspn every morning.

[forest edge]

you eat that?

[prisma briar]

I haven't actually been able to take my dog to that brewery yet. There's a respiratory infection going around and my dog has already been sick a couple times since I got her and I don't want to get her sick again.

[forest edge]

why is it a gel if you eat it? lmao

[dire spear]

dogvid 19?

[forest edge]

and why is it 40 bucks

[prisma briar]

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments/riney-canine-health-center/canine-health-information/canine-respiratory-disease-outbreaks

Supposedly on the downswing

[dire spear]

poor puppy

i havent been sick since before 2020.

which is directly related to not having to go to an office full of 100 people

[prisma briar]

I got really sick in 2017 and spent a few days in the hospital, haven't been sick since.

[tidal bronze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n8RJf5aa8 unicorn tears?

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeI can't even find a sandwhich on that site I would eat..course if they removed the avocado I could eat some of them

[dire spear]

i used to get mildly sick once a year. and stomach flu every 3-4 years.

but now with my new hermit lifestyle

ha

[prisma briar]

I used to regularly be sick before I quit smoking

What a stupid habit that was

[dire spear]

ha

[forest edge]

"america's most expensive" is that what drew you in to shop there? lol

[dire spear]

yeah. i never smoked. and alergic to alcohol. no interest in weed.

[tidal bronze]

Close to my place, that's about it.

[dire spear]

so, i will die from excessive cheese

(gotta be somethign)

[prisma briar]

I drink a couple times a month

[forest edge]

you know some of the items in that store have to be overpriced shit just for the simple fact that those items aren't broadly available to even justfy the cost of producing it

and i mean what's in the container is likely something already made cheap but just repackaged

[tidal bronze]

0 sugar badass cheesecake, I am sold.

[static schooner]

It takes a strong heart to push cheese through your blood vessels

Eating cheese is like exercise for the heart

[prisma briar]

Yea, imagine how fit you'll feel once you have the blockage removed

I say this as somebody who has had cheese with... every meal in recent memory

[tidal bronze]

Some fly to LA just take a tour of this Market. lol. Specially the one next to me since all the celebrities shop there.

[forest edge]

what celebs have you seen?

[dire spear]

i am gonna make mac n cheese right now

[tidal bronze]

Not seen?

[forest edge]

seen so many, easier to list the one's you haven

haven't met?

[tidal bronze]

A few

I wouldn't call it "met" they shop here often. Mostly the sandwiches and stuff.

[shy comet]

what market?

[forest edge]

so what you are saying is, when I was younger and better looking I should have gone there to hang out and hopefully land me a hot rich actress?

[tidal bronze]

Erewhon in Calabasas.

You should know everyone in Hidden Hills and Calabasas hangs out here.

[shy comet]

lol yea never shopped there though lol

[tidal bronze]

It's a trip

[forest edge]

all those nights wasted drooling over the tv of hot actrsses and I could have just hung out in a market that stocks food I can't eat lol

[tidal bronze]

Yes indeed

[forest edge]

I don't even want to try and imagine that divorce

stuff of nightmares

[tidal bronze]

You should watch that video. You will get the picture.

[shy comet]

@tidal bronze did you do the Real ID thing yet?

[tidal bronze]

Yep long time ago. The digital id as well.

[shy comet]

yea I got the app one lol, yea maybe ill do it next time i go in the DMV whenver that is

no way do i want to go in just for it lol

[tidal bronze]

The digital ID is better than TSA pre/ global entry / clear.

[shy comet]

really? i have yet to use it but i dont use those 3 services lol

can we use it at LAX for a domestic flight?

[forest edge]

I watched part of it.. that lady was pretty much saying what I been saying when refering to the price of the shit lol

[tidal bronze]

Digital ID is stare in to camera and go.

The best I've seen in the entire world

[shy comet]

wiat they dont need to scan it off your phone? or just easier to scan alongside flight?

[tidal bronze]

Nopes. Retinal scan about 2 seconds.

[shy comet]

wow didnt know it was that easy sweet, so just need to keep the flight QR code up...thats really easy now

[forest edge]

not seen atx talk in here in awhile.. did the raw meat finally take him down?

[shy comet]

i normally just keep screenshots for the 3 of us to make life easier on me insteda of pulling up the email etc...

[tidal bronze]

You need QR to board but TSA is stare and go.

Digital ID I've only seen LGA/JFK/ATL/LAX

it's rolling out

[shy comet]

need to get my wife to do it hten lol

tehy made the process really easy with the app too i was impressed

[static schooner]

you can use it at LAX and SFO, but not SND unfortunately

[tidal bronze]

Do you get Clear for free?

[shy comet]

not sure have to check what my cc gives it hink its precheck but i never did it

i dont fly often lol

[tidal bronze]

Get Clear and add wife for half price.

You have to ask for half off for partner.

[shy comet]

whataobut kids lol

[tidal bronze]

Hmm no.

[shy comet]

may or may ont need it for this year depending on what we decide for the vacation

[tidal bronze]

But get Clear+ + TSA Pre

[shy comet]

leaning on heavily on a cruise since its easier to deal with food that way with the kid lol

[tidal bronze]

I hear you.

Forget TSA pre. Get Global entry with Clear.

You should check your CC for both

[shy comet]

ok CC is pretty good with that stuff, chase saphire

[tidal bronze]

Awesome. The best

I am a points whore. Chase is the best there is.

[shy comet]

ya got the reserve when it had a 100k points sign on bonus lol

[tidal bronze]

Ma man

[shy comet]

my firend was like your about to get married get a card with a good bonus since its free lol

[tidal bronze]

Reserve it is.

[shy comet]

i ahve no idea what im doing with points so im just accumulating and probably using them at Atlantis in Bahamas when the kid is tall enough for all the slides lol

[tidal bronze]

Small tip. Rack the points on Freedom and use it on reserve. Best conversion.

0.17 nothing comes close.

@shy comet same with amex. Rack it up on person gold. Spend on business platinum or centurion

[prisma briar]

Lol, I thought about that earlier today. He's had recent github activity at least.

[forest edge]

maybe he's finally escaped the hole that is HA's OT

[prisma briar]

It's far from the worst off-topic channel I've seen

[tidal bronze]

Cone on now.

We the best

[forest edge]

people are still playing starcraft 2.. almost 15 years old now

[prisma briar]

There's still a Doom community

[static schooner]

I assumed that any Doom community would be mostly people running it on their toasters and calculators

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge when are you coming down to have some of that sea moss?

[forest edge]

why would I need any of your expensive ass cream?

[prisma briar]

mossyass sounds like a camo pattern

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzewhen I get around to doing that alaska cruise I am sure i'll see plenty of your state then.. pretty sure the boat departs from there

[static schooner]

that's a long way to go for an Alaska cruise

[forest edge]

i think it's like a multiple week thing

been awhile since i looked at them

[static schooner]

the one I took started in Alaska and ended in Vancouver

[forest edge]

i know the one i looked at did not start in alska

[static schooner]

then they had one that went back the other way

there were some people onboard that were doing the full circuit

[forest edge]

I'd rather enter cold and then leave cold regardless lol

according to alskacruise.com they depart from LA. least the week long ones

I thought the one i had ooked at before was longer than a week tho

[tidal bronze]

Cruise? 1935?

[forest edge]

have you ever been on the water? or just seen it far below?

[tidal bronze]

Max 30 minutes, cook some seafood and back. Anything more than that in this day and age is a disaster. AKA all inclusive.

[forest edge]

that don't sound like fun.. maybe you should go on a cruise

[tidal bronze]

Oh no please

I have places to go things to eat.

[forest edge]

i've been on aircraft carriers in the past.. once the boat breaches a certian size it's really not bad at all

[shy comet]

we did alaska last year, was a lot of fun, roundtrip seattle

can still taste the king crab legs from Juneau lol

[tidal bronze]

I just can't be confined for that long for anything.

[prisma briar]

Yea, a 12 hour flight sounds like it'd suck, a week on a cruise ship sounds like torture

Unless it was like a cruise ship river tour of europe where it stopped somewhere else every day

[shy comet]

def do a weekend cruise before committing to a week long on but they are not as bad

alaska ones stop nearly every day

caribbean you may have 2 days at sea one way

[solar zealot]

This seems a bit too commercial as something relaxing and educative to me

Like why exactly would I want to move with thousands of other people and overrun small places

[tidal bronze]

I like my hole in the walls and roaming around for food. This is why I will never do DR or Cancun. Then again some dig the cruise stuff. More power to them!

[shy comet]

for one all inclusive is not like all inclusive in central america....food is really good and lots of it inlcuding room service etc... if youve done all inclusive in cancun or similar youll know what im talking about lol

alaska was great since you had good food on boat and off boat great food

[tidal bronze]

I can't do all inclusive. I will loose my mind.

[solar zealot]

Watered down sugar 'orange juice'

[static schooner]

I thought the cruise industry might be in serious trouble post-Covid

[shy comet]

watered down marinara lol

[solar zealot]

Bezos sadly missed on a great boat deal

[shy comet]

yea then 2022 and every boat is full lol

[solar zealot]

He could have bought a cruise ship for only a couple million

[tidal bronze]

CCL made me some butter. There's that lol

[shy comet]

my wife picked up som CCL when it dipped and its doing good, we got some since we like cruissng and you get on board credit that ends up paying for itself

[tidal bronze]

One of the best runs I've had

[shy comet]

in the past the stock did well and paid out dividends etc.. on top of on board credit

[tidal bronze]

I cashed it out for Lumber

[shy comet]

i look at a cruise more liek an adventure vacation and not a beach vacation though....the time slots you get at places you sometimes feel rushed or that you didnt leave the boat early enough to enjoy it all....its not for everyone but if you like you really dig the experience

[tidal bronze]

I did one years ago and that was it.

But I do love cruises around Greece. Day trips. Specially around Santorini.

[shy comet]

yea we did a 11 day Italy one was amazing

[tidal bronze]

https://www.celestiagrand.com/ my got to.

[forest edge]

it's a cruise ship not a plane.. you don't feel confined lol

[shy comet]

best part is having a buzz trying to walk around when the water is choppy lol

[tidal bronze]

Like I am now LMAO

[shy comet]

unless you have an interior cabin without any windows lol, i can only cruise with a balcony..got spoiled on my first one and just nice to have the fresh air

[forest edge]

I did notice on a video I saw not too long ago that some of the rooms were like closet size

I could not do that

[shy comet]

yea pretty small some of them but they ahve sites showig actual pics of rooms that i recommend looking up

knowing where your room is important

dont want to be the room under the pool or the bar etc...

[forest edge]

i don't really need a balcony just room to breathe

[tidal bronze]

Can you ask for a better breakfast?

[forest edge]

toast and chicken?

I could ask for some eggs.. bacon would be nice

[shy comet]

wheres the mimosa?

[forest edge]

is the butler wiping off your mouth with a silk towl out of camera?

[tidal bronze]

Dude what Mimosa. I was so off the rockers took the picture and went to sleep

[shy comet]

yup when ou can order one of each and its all included 😛

[tidal bronze]

You trying hard to get on my bad side or what? Lol

@shy comet dude we should meet up. You free for lunch tomorrow or Friday?

Sugarfish?

[forest edge]

yea he needs more cali friends.. couldn't survive in the real world

[tidal bronze]

He is my neighbor

[shy comet]

yea we are close...umm need to look at how busy work is lately i dont know what my day looks like until i wake up lol

[tidal bronze]

Come on now.

You can do better

https://sugarfishsushi.com/locations/calabasas/ let me know.

[shy comet]

ok friday looks like itll be good 🙂

[tidal bronze]

Right on.

[dire spear]

its sad when prices are so inflated that when you see something for regular price is seems like an amazing deal

[tidal bronze]

@static schooner friday lunch, north end of LA? 🙂

[static schooner]

much as I'd like to, that's a heck of a long way in traffic

[tidal bronze]

I hear you.

[static schooner]

some of us work for a living 🙂

I do appreciate the thought, though

[tidal bronze]

If you change your mind. Some good sushi is waiting for you.

[static schooner]

oof:

[tidal bronze]

1 super charge away

leave at 11AM, back by 5pm

Come on now, make it happen.

[static schooner]

no can do, man. eat a fish for me

[tidal bronze]

Chicken. Next time.

Maybe we will come down to SD

[shy comet]

SD is always amazing, actually need to take the kid to the safari park since he hasnt been yet

[shy comet]

for a sushi spot in Calabasas actually pretty reasonably priced especially for this brand

[shy comet]

that drive is only tolerable after like 9 or 10 pm lol

[static schooner]

yeah, I believe that range based on accidents, events, etc.

Sitting in that traffic sucks. I've been lulled into a false sense of open roads only to get completely stopped further down the road

[midnight adder]

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[dire spear]

oh, i was talking about bathroom fixtures in this case, haha. bath tub went from 1399 to 799. except it was 599 before the pandemic

ha

[dusky plank]

it works though 🥳 finally a 3m usb c power cable with ethernet

[gleaming crater]

I like how everyone is ready to pack in this season of F1 as soon as max hit the track

https://tenor.com/view/supermax-verstappen-f1-nederland-zandvoort-gif-21797624

[forest edge]

when two remotes you thought were goners years ago suddenly fall out of an old couch being loaded into a trash truck.

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-happy-surprised-chris-pratt-parks-and-rec-gif-5362501

[static schooner]

Do you still own the devices they control?

I was thrilled to find a small flathead screwdriver that's perfect for releasing wires from the backstab connector on switches and outlets hidden under my couch

[iron granite]

I did find my wallet in the freezer long time ago

[forest edge]

yea but we had already bought replacement remotes and we don't really use those devices these days, just in their boxes and now i have 2 spare remotes lol

[static schooner]

Often leaky batteries have killed surprise remotes

[forest edge]

not even opened the battery cover yet.. i should go look lol

appears i got lucky. no corrosion