The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Actually saw a dude wearing a full body ahegao pattern outfit in public for the first time today. Didn't think anybody actually bought those.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Actually saw a dude wearing a full body ahegao pattern outfit in public for the first time today. Didn't think anybody actually bought those.
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I don’t remember if I posted it, but while waiting at a crosswalk, I took a picture of a B&W poster someone had stapled to the utility pole which proclaimed “Hemtai is Art” superimposed over a grid of ahegao faces.

And I admit that I don’t disagree, but I DO question whether a busy crosswalk in front of a major grocery chain is really the appropriate place to be displaying such art.

—Patrick
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Hentai has allowed me to feel emotions I'd never felt before. It is art.

Granted, some of those emotions made me kinda ashamed of myself afterwards, but still.
 
Frank

Frank

I don't know what fucking sorcery was involved in this 24 pack of store brand ice cream sandwiches, but despite being in my -20 deepfreeze, they're so soft they feel like they're melting, despite being uncomfortably cold to eat.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Other threads on other forums talk of love for mapo tofu. I've never had it. My local Chinese restaurant has variations of 'bean curd' on their menu instead. Like "Szechuan bean curd." Is this the dish I'm looking for?
 
Terrik

Terrik

DarkAudit said:
Other threads on other forums talk of love for mapo tofu. I've never had it. My local Chinese restaurant has variations of 'bean curd' on their menu instead. Like "Szechuan bean curd." Is this the dish I'm looking for?
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If any bean curd is going to be 麻婆豆腐, it'll be the szechuan style one, so yes.
 
Dave

Dave

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Went yesterday to my biological mother's graveside service. After we all went to my brother's house to eat and just chat. Sometime during all of this someone mentioned something about our brother, Earl, whom I'd never met. He'd been killed by a drunk driver in 1987. Jeff, my brother, said something about Earl's picture so I pulled up my Ancestry account & showed him a picture of Earl that I had saved. He started to cry.

One of the men my bio mom had dated was named David Bell. He was an abusive piece of shit and one of the biggest reasons two of my siblings doesn't have anything to do with the family. He was super abusive. He broke Julie's leg twice, he beat on the kids, he sexually abused the girls. The lists of his atrocities is appalling. But one of the things he did that hurt them the most was psychological. He took every piece of paper that had to do with their family and every picture...and burned them in the front yard. Made the kids watch. This includes birth certificates, social security cards, baby books, etc.

Jeff had never seen this picture before. There was Earl, looking happy. But next to him was Herman Eichmann. Jeff's dad. Jeff has NO pictures of his dad. Well, I got home last night about 10 pm. Paid $100 to restart my Ancestry account. Now Jeff has 5 or 6 pictures of his dad, including one that shows them together. Not sure if I will be able to find any more but I'm certainly going to try.
 
Dave

Dave

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Contacted the lady who posted the pictures fist. She lives in Minneapolis and is really nice. Jeff now has her phone number and is going to call her today. She is Jeff's cousin - whom he doesn't know - and all of these pictures came from Dorothy, who is Jeff's aunt. She has a ton of pictures.
 
David

David

My office job in LA still hasn't given me any new updates after telling me they'd potentially bring me back. At this point I don't know if I'd even want to, I'm still freelancing part time and unemployment checks are making up the difference. Girlfriend and I tossed out a bunch of junk we owned, are starting the process of packing up anything else that we won't need to touch for the next couple months before the lease is up, I've confirmed my reemployment eligibility with *global online megastore* warehouse and it's waiting for me to select a shift, It's not my first choice but it's steady work with 3rd shift options until I replace my graphic design job. My girlfriend has a strong lead on a teaching job, and my sister is offering to let us stay in her trailer for the first couple months.

I've talked about it before in a "this would be nice" kind of way, but it's starting to feel like we're really going to move to Kansas City.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Interesting fact of the day. That smell people love when it rains has a name: Geosmin.

People can detect geosmin very easily. Like 5 parts per trillion easily. By comparison, sharks smell blood in the water at 1 part per million.

That smell (geosmin) comes from a very specific chemical compound (C12H22O). This chemical is produced by (among others) a bacteria known in the genus Streptomyces.

So, bottom line--we're waaaay better at smelling bacteria farts than sharks are at smelling blood. And we seem to like it. Nature's weird.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Tinwhistler said:
Interesting fact of the day. That smell people love when it rains has a name: Geosmin.

People can detect geosmin very easily. Like 5 parts per trillion easily. By comparison, sharks smell blood in the water at 1 part per million.

That smell (geosmin) comes from a very specific chemical compound (C12H22O). This chemical is produced by (among others) a bacteria known in the genus Streptomyces.

So, bottom line--we're waaaay better at smelling bacteria farts than sharks are at smelling blood. And we seem to like it. Nature's weird.
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Wait, I thought the smell was called petrichor, and it is caused by geosmin.
 
CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

I didn't want to make a new thread just for this. So I've been in school full time for over 4 months now and I'm sitting here realizing even though I spend a lot of time studying and I literally go to school for 8ish hours a day I have soooo much more free time than I did when I was working 4 days a week 12 hours a day. I think a lot of this comes by the set schedule, only going to school straight days (well sitting in front of my computer and doing online learning now) instead of a rotating shift between days weekends and nights. I don't know what I was thinking when I hated school when I was younger. So much free time to do what you want, so little responsibilities. Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of responsibilities, but I cashed out my savings and I'm living off that, I've already paid off my mortgage for the entire year so I don't have to worry about that, I was able to get on food stamps so I don't have to worry about food in the house. I still have to pay for gas, electricity, etc, but I know about what my bills are and that I can afford them for the year. So besides school, studying, and kids, I'm basically free. When I was working I had to worry about how much my paycheck was, on if I could afford to call in sick (when we didn't have any sick time) if I could afford to take vacation time (because it lowered my check by 8 hours of overtime a week). Life just seems to be so much easier as a student than as a "working adult" It's crazy. I'm 37 so I've been in the workforce for a good long time I just never realized how easy I had it as a kid in school and how I took it for granted at the time (though I'm sure we all took it for granted). That's it, that's my post. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
 
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