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Not working at home anymore but you can still AMA if you want

Dec 3, 2015#1

BErt

hey do this.

Dec 3, 2015#2

PatrThom

What have you been drinking?

--Patrick

Dec 3, 2015#3

BErt

PatrThom said:
What have you been drinking?

--Patrick

Jameson. I developed a fondness for it after reading some Kinky Friedman books a decade or so ago.

Dec 7, 2015#4

Bubble181

1. Why the capitalized E?
2. How could I convince you to take out the H in your tagline?

Dec 7, 2015#5

BErt

Bubble181 said:
1. Why the capitalized E?
2. How could I convince you to take out the H in your tagline?

1 - When I started going by Bert (it's short for Robert), people would keep spelling it with a U...so i started spelling it with a capital E and just kept doing it.

2 - I'm your Huckleberry

Dec 7, 2015#6

drawn_inward

Fav. fast food eatery?

Pizza toppings?

Most comforting food?

Dec 7, 2015#7

drifter

If Detroit wins the Super Bowl will you get a giant Lions tattoo on your butt?

Dec 7, 2015#8

BErt

drawn_inward said:
Fav. fast food eatery?

Pizza toppings?

Most comforting food?

- Probably Jimmy Johns...does that count? I try not to get fast food too often. Five Guys is really good.

- Lately it has been pineapple and jalapeño. There is a really good Indian pizza place around here that got me hooked on pineapple + peppers.

- My mom's chicken paprikash, which is good timing for this because she just made me a bunch yesterday

drifter said:
If Detroit wins the Super Bowl will you get a giant Lions tattoo on your butt?

Yes, but only if it happens this year.

Dec 7, 2015#9

DarkAudit

drifter said:
If Detroit wins the Super Bowl will you get a giant Lions tattoo on your butt?

Will they be willing to tattoo exhumed skeletons in the 23rd century?

Dec 7, 2015#10

BErt

Quiet, you

...were you in the end zone where Brown tried to be Spider-Man after his return TD, or the other side?

Dec 7, 2015#11

DarkAudit

BErt said:
Quiet, you

...were you in the end zone where Brown tried to be Spider-Man after his return TD, or the other side?

I was on the opposite end, so I only saw the flag after he scored.

Dec 7, 2015#12

Gruebeard

What other trends have you been late to?

Dec 7, 2015#13

strawman

What do you do for a living?
What were you educated/trained to do?

Dec 7, 2015#14

BErt

Gruebeard said:
What other trends have you been late to?

All of them, probably? I was just trying to shoe-horn AMA into my title. Dammit, you caught me.

stienman said:
What do you do for a living?
What were you educated/trained to do?

Network Administration. I actually don't have any formal education/training, I was very lucky in a "right place, right time" sense to get a job and learn on the fly.

Dec 8, 2015#15

Squidleybits

Any tattoos?

Pro-piercings?

What camera do you use?

Dec 8, 2015#16

BErt

Squidleybits said:
Any tattoos?

Pro-piercings?

What camera do you use?

No tattoos yet, but I dig tattoos and piercings, yes. I do have my tongue pierced but I haven't worn a barbell in like 12 years. The hole just never closed.

I just use my iPhone camera, and usually post from my phone to make it easier. My ex was a photographer though, so if I ever post a really nice picture of Yoshi or anything, it is probably old and taken by her.

Dec 18, 2015#17

BErt

Bumped for bored. Ask me things while I turn the rest of the threads into the "I'm drunk" thread.

Dec 18, 2015#18

PatrThom

Do you chew gum?

--Patrick

Dec 18, 2015#19

BErt

PatrThom said:
Do you chew gum?

--Patrick

Pretty often, yes. This is my favorite:

But if you have a dog, you have to be careful with Trident, because xylitol is the worst damn thing for them. Some peanut butters have apparently started using it, according to my local vet.

Dec 18, 2015#20

PatrThom

Yeah, xylitol (and other sugar alcohols, like sorbitol) get used in so many things because sugar is evil, saccharine is evil, aspartame is evil, etc.

--Patrick

Dec 18, 2015#21

GasBandit

You ever go to eat a pork sausage, and find it's got hairs growin' all over it?

Dec 19, 2015#22

BErt

PatrThom said:
Yeah, xylitol (and other sugar alcohols, like sorbitol) get used in so many things because sugar is evil, saccharine is evil, aspartame is evil, etc.

--Patrick

well everything I've ever seen says xylitol specifically is EXTREMELY toxic to dogs, was my point.

GasBandit said:
You ever go to eat a pork sausage, and find it's got hairs growin' all over it?

Finally. I finally feel like one of the cool kids.

Dec 19, 2015#23

Squidleybits

coke or pepsi?

Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?

Do you know what's with the sausage question?

Have you got a favourite holiday movie?

Have you got a holiday movie that stressed you out to watch?

Dec 19, 2015#24

BErt

Squidleybits said:
coke or pepsi?

Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?

Do you know what's with the sausage question?

Have you got a favourite holiday movie?

Have you got a holiday movie that stressed you out to watch?

- Pepsi for sure. It's the choice of a new generation.

- I fee like I want to say Jennifer Aniston, but I don't know why I feel that way. Because it's totes Angelina Jolie.

- I honestly have no idea, I was just happy to have been asked

- what holiday? My favorite holiday is Halloween and my favorite Halloween Movie is The Worst Witch. I watch it every damn year, but it's so stupid. My favorite "holiday" movie is either Christmas Vacation or Ernest Saves Christmas. Again, I like to keep my holiday movies super dumb. It helps me feel like a kid sometimes.

- I don't know that I understand this question, can you elaborate? What holiday movies would stress someone out?

Dec 19, 2015#25

Squidleybits

Jingle All The Way. I tried to watch it again the other day.

Dec 19, 2015#26

BErt

Is there a specific reason it stresses you out? Do you just not like it or do you not like the idea of trying to chase down the "hot toy" of the holidays? I can understand the second feeling, I worked at Toys R Us for like 8 years and parents could get pretty crazy...

Mar 4, 2016#27

BErt

hey, new title...bump. come get me

Mar 4, 2016#28

GasBandit

Well, I'm trying, but I think you fell asleep.

Mar 4, 2016#29

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Well, I'm trying, but I think you fell asleep.

That might be the drinking again.

--Patrick

Mar 5, 2016#30

BErt

Yeah, you're both right...

In my defense, it was the first time in probably a year and a half that I fell asleep before 10pm. But that also probably explains why I'm awake at 3am. Oh well.

Dec 8, 2016#31

BErt

hey, ask me stuff

Dec 8, 2016#32

strawman

Why the question mark avatar?

Is life going slow or fast for you right now?

Is there a level of snow where you have to shovel before you can walk your dog?

How's your new job working out?

What's your favorite "You know you're from Michigan..." joke?

Dec 8, 2016#33

BErt

stienman said:
Why the question mark avatar?

I'm between avatars right now.

I will update it soon.

stienman said:
Is life going slow or fast for you right now?

Life has been at hyperspeed for quite awhile now and I'm trying to slow it down. SO MUCH has happened in the past two years - mostly bad - but there are signs of it turning soon, so...fingers crossed.

stienman said:
Is there a level of snow where you have to shovel before you can walk your dog?

Yoshi loves the snow but hates the rain, so it's much easier to get him outside if there is snow then if there is just wet concrete. Of course he is only like 8 inches off the ground, so depending on the depth it is less "walking my dog" and more "hopping my dog"

stienman said:
How's your new job working out?

Pretty well actually. It's a much bigger company than my previous one, so I still have to pause some times to remember which systems are where, but there are a lot of decent folk there. I was very fortunate to find them when I did.

stienman said:
What's your favorite "You know you're from Michigan..." joke?

Ok so this isn't really a joke per se, but at my previous job I got into a debate with my boss (who is originally from Florida) about the different Michigan-isms...and he had a huge problem with the term "doorwall". So I did a Google search on it to show him I wasn't making it up. Apparently the example sentence for Doorwall on Urban Dictionary is "I call it a doorwall because I'm from Detroit and don't know any better."

Dec 8, 2016#34

strawman

I didn't know about the doorwall thing! I was surprised to hear it called that when we were replacing ours, but that is indeed what all the window companies around here call it. The Urban dictionary quote is hilarious.

What are your initial thoughts on the nintendo switch?

Dec 8, 2016#35

BErt

I'm optimistic about it right now. If I had gotten around to buying a Wii U I could see being upset at the loss of backwards compatibility. But hopefully they will keep the servers up for stuff like Splatoon, Smash, and Kart for awhile.

...and Breath of the Wild looks gorgeous!!

Dec 10, 2016#36

Gruebeard

So, uh, what's a doorwall?

Dec 10, 2016#37

BErt

Gruebeard said:
So, uh, what's a doorwall?

It's a sliding glass door that leads outside, often to a deck

Dec 11, 2016#38

Gruebeard

BErt said:
It's a sliding glass door that leads outside, often to a deck

Also known as a patio door or, even more plainly, a sliding door.

Dec 11, 2016#39

BErt

Gruebeard said:
Also known as a patio door or, even more plainly, a sliding door.

Exactly. A doorwall.

Dec 11, 2016#40

strawman

Gruebeard said:
Also known as a patio door or, even more plainly, a sliding door.

Patio doors can be sliding or swinging. Sliding doors could mean interior doors not meant to seal against weather.

A doorwall is kind of a weird thing, but it's very specifically a sliding door that seals against the elements.

Dec 12, 2016#41

Gruebeard

stienman said:
Patio doors can be sliding or swinging. Sliding doors could mean interior doors not meant to seal against weather.

A doorwall is kind of a weird thing, but it's very specifically a sliding door that seals against the elements.

Y'all overthink this stuff.

Dec 12, 2016#42

BErt

Gruebeard said:
Y'all overthink this stuff.

I just find the contempt for the term doorwall hilarious. Everyone unfamiliar with it says it's dumb, or over complicated, when it's actually very much the opposite. It's fewer syllables than any other term people use and yet it's just immediately rejected as invalid.

Dec 12, 2016#43

Gruebeard

I'm not doing that, though. Or didn't intend to. I was asking what it was, confirming I understand the explanation, and then commenting on stienman's

(albeit drastically more concise

than usual)

Dec 12, 2016#44

Bubble181

Yeah, I was genuinely curious what it was, personally. The explication is useful and to the point.
Of course, we have a separate word for a doorwall in Dutch too, so I don't think it's weird to have a word for it

Dec 12, 2016#45

strawman

Gruebeard said:
Y'all overthink this stuff.

What else would we do during the long dark winters?

Well, aside from the obvious...

Dec 12, 2016#46

BErt

stienman said:
What else would we do during the long dark winters?

Well, aside from the obvious...

...12 babies later...

i wasn't intending to accuse, but that is always the response I've gotten. "why don't you just call it a 'sliding glass door?'" well...because that's basically a goddamn sentence when a two syllable word can suffice?

Dec 13, 2016#47

Gruebeard

Just to carry on this sillyness

stienman said:
Sliding doors could mean interior doors not meant to seal against weather.

That's what we call a pocket door. If it slides away into a wall, anyway. The ones that slide along the wall, still visible when open, we call a barn door.

And the patio door remains exclusively that sliding glass exterior door - whether it leads out to a patio or not.

Dec 13, 2016#48

drifter

Dec 13, 2016#49

PatrThom

Today I guess everyone learns the term "retronym"

EDIT: @Gruebeard, here is a web link to the dictionary definition of "retronym."

--Patrick

Dec 15, 2016#50

BananaHands

If your username was going to be grilled cheese related, what would it be?

Dec 15, 2016#51

Gruebeard

BananaHands said:
If your username was going to be grilled cheese related, what would it be?

Ooh . . . Oh oh oh! I want to answer this one!

Gruebread.

Dec 15, 2016#52

PatrThom

Gruebeard said:
Ooh . . . Oh oh oh! I want to answer this one!

Gruebread.

Huh. More like Gruyèrebeard, amright?

--Patrick

Dec 16, 2016#53

Gruebeard

PatrThom said:
Huh. More like Gruyèrebeard, amright?

--Patrick

Aye, if I wasnt so lazy I would've thought of something clever like that.[DOUBLEPOST=1481868506,1481868115][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, and a question for @BErt, since this is a thread for that. How do I change my username to Gruebread?

Dec 16, 2016#54

BErt

Gruebeard said:
Oh, and a question for @BErt, since this is a thread for that. How do I change my username to Gruebread?

Convince a large number of new dyslexic users and let it take care of itself

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