The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I thought China was named for Emperor Chin (Qin)
GasBandit
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So, anybody here like eating at Golden Corral?
Lot of flooding going on. Some of the pics I'm seeing on r/toronto are NUTS. As for my apartment; we have no power and one of the major streets just below us is flooded. This is crazy.
Fast Food does gross things? No way!
I went to a Mexican Restaurant today. I tried to engage the waitress in some conversation. I asked her what the best thing on the menu was... She shrugged her shoulders and said that different people order different things and walked off... Fucking Really? there is not something that the cook does better than everyone else?
I ended up ordering Tamales. I fucking love Tamales... but these were out of a can and nearly twice the price of the home made ones I can get across town.
I ended up ordering Tamales. I fucking love Tamales... but these were out of a can and nearly twice the price of the home made ones I can get across town.
We shrug our shoulders at 3 inches of rain... It floods, but we see it every couple of months.
when you are used to it, its easy to be prepared for it. when three times the area's RECORD DAILY rainfall comes in two hours, you simply aren't prepared for that.
I hate it when a waiter does something like that. I'm asking you what is good here, tell me something good! If it all sucks, tell me to leave. It's not a difficult task to know your menu and at least have one "go-to" item to recommend to somebody that asks. Gotta say, home made tamales are some of the best, place here in town that sells them by the dozen and they do an awesome pork tamale.
GasBandit
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You must forgive him his blase attitude, Houston sinks below the waves about once a year, to re-emerge a few weeks later with a fresh new infestation of skittering horrors.
still without powr. phone is close to dying so no more halforums until we have power again.
It's clean at that time also! That's the most important part, the flooding cleans parts of the city.
This feels almost heretical to reveal, but...
http://jalopnik.com/is-that-a-cop-behind-you-try-this-handy-cop-headlight-716351284
http://jalopnik.com/is-that-a-cop-behind-you-try-this-handy-cop-headlight-716351284
Are you now going to have to seek asylum in a foreign country?
I miss my old Mercury. People let me pass in that car. Until my door was even with theirs. Then some drivers would floor it, and block me in the passing lane.
In the daytime hours, I just wore a collared shirt and a cowboy hat... Wave at every cop car and keep going 80. (this was back in the old 55mph days too.)
Got power again. At least for now. The city is instituting rolling blackouts to carry the load since one of the transformer stations is still flooded. They are expecting more heavy rainfall tonight but the sky looks okay so we'll see. If it doesn't rain too bad I think all this should be pretty much restored to normal tomorrow. Except maybe the GO Train tracks.
Also, this was right below my apartment; I could actually see this flooded area from my balcony (It's drained away now though):
/spoiler]
Also, this was right below my apartment; I could actually see this flooded area from my balcony (It's drained away now though):
Did Justin Bieber do something? Why is my twitter talking about him? Do I care? Is it too much to ask for an intravenous caffeine drip?
Who else feels sleepy on rainy days? I think its cause I had a rain machine to lull me to sleep and now the sound just makes me sleep instinctively.
You just say this like, hey, this is normal, everyone did.
You're like... Kramer, or something.
Compliments aside, I thought they were pretty common. Little machines where you hit a button and it makes rain sounds.
I'd honestly never heard of them, although I am disappointed it isn't a machine that controls the weather.
GasBandit
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From what I hear, I think he peed in public or something. I wasn't paying attention either.
Well I just call it a rain machine cos its the only setting I use, the official name is white noise machine. I never really got that name since the color white can not make noise, nor can any other color to my knowledge.