The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

[PatrThom]

Just because Asia already set off fireworks NYE doesn't mean Texas cancels ours.

For TX, it was NYE.
But for Asia, it was 2sday.

—Patrick

 

[Bubble181]

Happy Easter everybody.

 

[GasBandit]

 

[HCGLNS]

Ruminant is a funny word.

 

[GasBandit]

Oh man, there go beef prices.

The worst farm fire in decades kills 18,000 cows in West Texas

The deadliest blaze for cows since at least 2013 could cost the dairy farm tens of millions, by one estimate.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[blotsfan]

Wouldn’t that be milk prices?

 

[figmentPez]

Wouldn’t that be milk prices?

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If the beef industry can make people believe they were forced to raise prices because of this, they will. It won't matter if it actually had any impact on them.

 

[Tress]

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If the beef industry can make people believe they were forced to raise prices because of this, they will. It won't matter if it actually had any impact on them.

Spoiler

 

[PatrThom]

Statistics say that the total number of dairy cattle in the USA is a little over 9 million, so this would be a loss of 0.2%, or about one in every 500.

—Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

As Pez points out, they don't need a reason, they need an excuse.

 

[PatrThom]

A flimsy one, at that.
Each sector wants their 9-11 moment so they can rake in the max possible while the getting is good.

—Patrick

 

[blotsfan]

Fun times here.

 

[HCGLNS]

@bhamv3 what is your professional opinion of

 

[bhamv3]

@bhamv3 what is your professional opinion of

 

[GasBandit]

It's Fridaaaaaaaaaaaay!

 

[HCGLNS]

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I was actually thinking that as a translator, how does the nature of the skit transfer to other languages?

 

[bhamv3]

I was actually thinking that as a translator, how does the nature of the skit transfer to other languages?

Quite well, actually, at least in Chinese. There's actually a Mandarin version of Who's on First.

 

[blotsfan]

For anyone who might be interested, Sams Club is doing $10 memberships this weekend.

 

[HCGLNS]

Let's put that back in the scabbard, so we can crowd source a synergistic strategy for our party paradigms on a go forward basis while integrating our adventuring into a vertical pathway.

 

[bhamv3]

I'm reading some of my old MSN chat logs from like 2007, and apparently I was talking to a girl back then, and she described, over the course of several chats, some of the things that her mother's boyfriend was saying and doing to her (the girl), and I told her that he was acting skeevy. She hadn't realized his behavior had crossed a line. Eventually she told her mom and they broke up, thereby saving this girl from the skeevy guy.

I completely forgot I'd done something like this. Good going, me from 2007!

 

[GasBandit]

There are SO many retired boomers in the Chevy Bolt forums. I was not expecting that.

 

[HCGLNS]

There are SO many retired boomers in the Chevy Bolt forums. I was not expecting that.

Well the people who currently get the most out of BEVs are those that own that own their own house.

 

[GasBandit]

Well the people who currently get the most out of BEVs are those that own that own their own house.

Well, you're not wrong. Just kind of an interesting juxtaposition.

 

[figmentPez]

Netflix is ending it's DVD rental service, the last discs will ship out Sept 29th. I think this applies to Blu-ray discs as well.

 

[Dave]

Sam and Edgar have orders to Japan. They will leave soonish and be gone for at least 3 years, average is 4.

 

[GasBandit]

Sam and Edgar have orders to Japan. They will leave soonish and be gone for at least 3 years, average is 4.

Longer, if they get Isekai'd.

 

[Dave]

I don't know what that means.

edit: Thank you, Google.

 

[GasBandit]

I don't know what that means.

edit: Thank you, Google.

Look, I know you don't watch anime, but I envy the integrity of the pop culture-proof bunker you must have built to not have been inundated by a bajillion isekai memes over the last 5-10 years.

 

[Dave]

Look, I know you don't watch anime, but I envy the integrity of the pop culture-proof bunker you must have built to not have been inundated by a bajillion isekai memes over the last 5-10 years.

Or I don't pay attention to anything that looks even remotely Japanese because I just don't care.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Or I don't pay attention to anything that looks even remotely Japanese because I just don't care.

Do you frequent Gas's Chevy Bolt forums?

 

[GasBandit]

Do you frequent Gas's Chevy Bolt forums?

He's not retired

 

[GasBandit]

Or I don't pay attention to anything that looks even remotely Japanese because I just don't care.

 

[blotsfan]

Look, I know you don't watch anime, but I envy the integrity of the pop culture-proof bunker you must have built to not have been inundated by a bajillion isekai memes over the last 5-10 years.

I think you're overestimating how popular isekai memes are since I'm unhealthily online and don't know what that is, besides an anime obviously.

 

[Sparhawk]

Look, I know you don't watch anime, but I envy the integrity of the pop culture-proof bunker you must have built to not have been inundated by a bajillion isekai memes over the last 5-10 years.

I think it’s more about where YOU spend all your time, rather than Dave not seeing them.

 

[GasBandit]

I think it’s more about where YOU spend all your time, rather than Dave not seeing them.

Man I spend all my time HERE.