[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

One of my patrol guards made a couple of rookie mistakes. He told me he wasn't quite himself today. I jokingly replied "well, I hope it's from the hangover after last night's party and not because your granddad dropped dead yesterday!" Reply: "No, it was this morning.".
Foot, meet mouth. :facepalm:
 
So? You have a kid at 15, and she has a kid at 15, you got yourself a 15 year old grandkid. Add in Belgium's regressive child labor laws and that grandkid is . . . well, actually, a 5 year veteran by this point.
 
Belgium's regressive child labor laws
Wait, when did we move back to 1910? :p Average Belgian starts work at 24 and retires at 56 at the moment, and has kids at 28. :p

Though, yes, it is perfectly possible to be a granddad at 45, having a 20+ year old guard as a grandkid is....difficult
 
. . . you just moved the retirement age back eleven years, making my hypothetical grandkid 20+. I claim victory in this Pointless Internet Argument.


My first ever! I get to finally use this::pwn:
 
...nooo.....The guard is the grandkid. The grandded would be close to retiring. The guard would be about 24-ish, the granddad 56. Barely possible if you've got two generations in a row reproducing at 16 - which is exceedingly rare over here with, as stated, average reproduction age around 28.
 
They go great with waffles though!
....err, fries?
....Chocolate?
....well, beer'll wash away their taste....



(honestly, I really love Brussels sprouts, though)
 
Actually, what you do is boil the Brussels sprouts in lightly salted water until they're thoroughly cooked (should take about 20 minutes). Get a blender or a food processor and blend the cooked sprouts into a fine puree. Pour the pureed sprouts into a large bowl, and add around a tablespoon of honey, a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, some freshly ground peppers, and (this part is important) a pinch of dried tea leaves. A strong black tea is recommended, I like to use Tie Guan Yin tea from rural Fujian. Mix thoroughly, and then place in the fridge for about an hour, until it's thoroughly chilled. Then pour the whole mixture into the compost pile, because Brussels sprouts are gross.
 
I jacked up my bad ankle walking around in completely impractical sandals today. I am pretty irritated because I finally managed to get my 25 minutes straight running checkpoint yesterday, and now I probably need to take it easy for a couple of days so I don't make it worse. :/
 
I'm tired of hearing how beautiful dead women were.
Stop hanging with necrophiliacs.[DOUBLEPOST=1437754842,1437754755][/DOUBLEPOST]Minor rant: my wife works on a Macbook. She uses iMessage to send me texts from her work computer. I always remember this just as I'm about to respond a wholly inappropriate joke or animated gif.

I lose out on a lot of good opportunities this way.
 
That sounds like an awesome way to make sprouts. I usually just toss mine in some black bean and garlic sauce and saute until just tender. I'm also still trying to figure out how to cook them with bechamel sauce without them being mushy.
Steam them (or maybe roast them in a wet oven?) first, then cover with mushroom béchamel?

--Patrick
 

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So I hit a pothole a while ago, and bent my wheel. I usually fix things myself, but this I could not. I took it to a wheel repair place, and they could not fix it. I could not find this wheel anywhere. In some salvage yards half a country away, maybe. But of all places, this same repair place had it in stock, but in silver. They'd do the powdercoat included for $300, which is the only price I'd found online for this stupid wheel. Anyway, I wish they would've told me all that on the phone, because it's a 15 mile drive to near downtown to get to this place. Okay, so it's ready today. I go get it, and it's beautiful, except they didn't remount the tire. Okay, so wait here, we'll mount it. The guy comes out in a few minutes asking to see the car, which I don't have. I borrowed my wife's. He can't get the TPMS sensor mounted. So it turns out BMW makes a TPMS version of this wheel and an no-TPMS version of the wheel, and they ordered the no-TPMS version. I don't have a spare because they are run-flats. So now I have to inconvenience my wife and kids yet another day, and do that stupid trafficky drive again.

And yes, that's a lot for a wheel. But it's less than a whole new set, and they're bitchin' wheels.[DOUBLEPOST=1438026859,1438026794][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, and the back of the bent wheel says "Silver" stamped right in the metal, so I guess the previous owner had them powdercoated black.
 
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