Um Sin, are your other elder-god relatives coming over to your place to visit right now?
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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If I ever did this to anyone in my family I ould get an immediate call back telling me I was rude.
Don't forget how someone hanging up automatically produces a dial tone for the other person.
Have phones ever worked that way?
As a telecom worker, no they have not.
Yes, but only if someone was there in your house to make/break the drop when they did it.
And by then you have other problems.
--Patrick
I see teens praising Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," and though it's a good cover, I'm left wondering if these kids know it's a cover.
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The ones I've seen have been pretty funny to extremely funny. You should check it out!
I know I'm going Thursday. I can't think of any reason to tell you not to go.
Was it about the 55 year old street cop, or said street cop riding on hoods of cars, or that every thug knew said 55 year old street cop by name?
The show or the Shatner?
Random crap: have candy bars gotten worse or has my palette changed? I just had a Baby Ruth and I only ate half. Yuck.
I suppose you ... could really have meant that, but I'm assuming you meant palate.
In answer to your question, eating a cold Baby Ruth bar is a much different experience from eating one which is room temperature.
It also could have been that the peanuts in the bar had gone stale/rancid. This happens fairly often, since Baby Ruth/PayDay candy bars are hardly the most popular.
Source: 6+ years in convenience stores.
--Patrick
No, no, I meant palette. I was being metaphorical about my lost childhood as displayed by my distaste of the one thing that gave me comfort when I was young. I was painting a picture, yo.
But really:
I spell not good, and my grammar ain't not bad.
In your memory, a Baby Ruth bar is simple. A pure white plastic wrapper, broken only with its bright red script logo and occasional promotional tie-in offer hides a chocolate-covered peanut cluster so tasty and delicious that a kid could use it to satisfy the unholy hunger of an inhuman beast. But today's Baby Ruth? Shrunken, tasteless, and tarted up in gaudy silver-and-blue mylar, it has none of the mystique, promises none of the energy it delivered in your youth. You purchase one, hoping the nostalgia can be reclaimed, but as you chew, your tastebuds are buried in pasty, disappointed melancholy, and you realize the best parts of your life are forever behind you.
And then you bite your tongue.
--Patrick
After events of this weekend and last weekend, recent one having bled over into today, I've decided I'm taking a long break from eating crap. No pizza, no Chinese food, no junk. I'm not letting my wife talk me into this garbage anymore; it doesn't make me feel good and it's not enjoyable. I don't have sudden cravings for Doritos like she does. Enough.
I remember when Milky Way sold a candy bar that trumpeted "33% less fat" or something like that. But when you compared its weight against another, "normal" Milky Way, you realized that it was also approximately 27% less candy bar.
"Chocolate" has changed over the years, but when I say that, I mean more "the definition of what can be legally classified as 'chocolate'" instead of "chocolate-flavored." So yes, today's "chocolate" candies are indeed different than those of years gone by. Anyone else remember the "Big Block" Hershey bars?
Miss those soooo much. They were like eating a Chunky that was just a solid long bar of Chunky.
--Patrick
Agreed, I had a Nestle Crunch bar the other day and it felt weak. I think Toblerones are still good, haven't had one in like a year though so I could be wrong.
For me, Ghirardelli and Lindt are both very good. Nestle tastes like chalk and Hershey doesn't even taste like chocolate. Amazingly I can't say I have ever tried See's despite living in CA for 6 years and the NEX here carrying it, too.
Yeah, there was a huge uproar (only in Belgium...) about the EU changing the legal definition of what's allowed to be called "chocolate". It's one of very few things Belgium's actually gotten an exception to, against general European rules. In America it's even worse.
American chocolate can basically be made with just cocoa powder and margarine at this point (it has to contain plant fat, but it doesn't all have to be cocoa butter anymore - hardly any of it). The taste is much more watered down, which gets compensated by ridiculous amounts of sugar. Real chocolate - no matter the color - should have at least a slight tinge of bitter and not be entirely sweet. It should definitely not be grainy, or sticky, at room temperature.
*shrug* Just means things like mars bars and such aren't merched as "chocolate bars" but "candy bars", and plenty of american stuff gets a sticker saying "chocolate inspired" or "cocoa fantasy" or "chocolate flavoured" which are all legal no matter what's in there. Oh well.
American chocolate can basically be made with just cocoa powder and margarine at this point (it has to contain plant fat, but it doesn't all have to be cocoa butter anymore - hardly any of it). The taste is much more watered down, which gets compensated by ridiculous amounts of sugar. Real chocolate - no matter the color - should have at least a slight tinge of bitter and not be entirely sweet. It should definitely not be grainy, or sticky, at room temperature.
*shrug* Just means things like mars bars and such aren't merched as "chocolate bars" but "candy bars", and plenty of american stuff gets a sticker saying "chocolate inspired" or "cocoa fantasy" or "chocolate flavoured" which are all legal no matter what's in there. Oh well.
Omg people will think it was me who jumped the fence?
Oh and hey, I just noticed I crossed the 20,000 ratings given out threshold. If we didn't have ratings, and I'd written a "me too!" or "haha" post for half my ratings, I'd still be in the top 3 posters. Damn you Dave and your Bubble-suppressing ways![DOUBLEPOST=1407850667,1407850263][/DOUBLEPOST]And to stay properly random: http://iknowwhereyourcatlives.com/
Creepy or cool? (both. Very much both.)
Creepy or cool? (both. Very much both.)
Or,you know, buy German/Belgian/Swiss chocolate.
