GasBandit

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I think the waitresses at my usual restaurant have figured out the pattern of how I tip. Four of them have dyed their hair varying degrees of red.
 
Every time I hear someone speaking in Norweigan or other north-Euro languages, it sounds like someone actively avoiding biting their tongue. I'm sure English sounds weird to non-speakers, but it just sounds so odd to me.
 

GasBandit

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Were you by chance watching a movie about big-breasted girls going to the beach and taking their tops off?

--Patrick
Psf, I WISH. No, I was at lunch. The salad had a particularly resilient carrot stick.

I can still feel it there, biding its time in my throat, waiting for me to lower my guard so it can try again.
 
I keep having these ideas for NSFW threads or just odd topics I want to talk about, but when I type them out, I go, "Nah, that's stupid" and delete it.
 
Next time read the sign!

--Patrick
For my Environmental Science class, I needed a water sample from a water source native to the area. Aside from sewage discharges, the only one reasonable close to where I lived was a small lake about a half mile from my house. So I go over there and, like usual, it's full of ducks and geese. Now the ducks? They won't mess with you as long as stay away from the ducklings. But the geese? They are mean sons of bitches who attack EVERYTHING except fellow flying birds... but they are a protected species in Ohio so I can't even fight back if I'm attacked or I'll get arrested. So I quietly sneak around to the side of the lake that was mostly clear of birds and got my sample.

That is when I heard this soft "quack" come from the reeds near me. It was some some ducklings... and momma was nearby. SHE took notice and started quacking loudly too. This alerted EVERY GOD DAMN BIRD ON THE LAKE and they all started to converge on me. So I start slowly moving toward my car... then the geese flip out and I have to run for my life to my car. They didn't get me (though I have a rip in my shirt from where they almost did) but seriously... who wants to have "killed by angry water fowl" in their obituary?
 
Reminds me of Dave Barry's take on lethal waterfowl:



Not that I felt much safer on the golf course.

For one thing, there were the killer ducks. The Doral Park course has a large colony of ducks that, after years of eating food dropped by golfers, have become large and aggressive. If you stop your golf cart, they surround you, dozens of them, pretty much demanding that you give them something to eat.

"We can peck you to death," is their unmistakable message, "and the authorities will do nothing to us, because we are ducks."
 
I keep trying to figure out what the hell the show is supposed to be, so I haven't tried it yet, but I've yet to hear a bad thing about it.
It almost defies description. 5 spies are assembled as a crack team to kill Adolf Hitler, and stop various Nazi plots, like Lizardmen. The first season takes place in the 60s, and season 2 is the 80s, so you can tell there is little regard for actual history. It's madness and amazing.[DOUBLEPOST=1437714113,1437714018][/DOUBLEPOST]Here's a trailer
[DOUBLEPOST=1437714260][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, it's by the folks who did Italian Spiderman, if you knew about/remember that.
 

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Man, if I was a paranoid person, I'd start thinking bad news was following me. Everywhere I've lived keeps popping up in the news for something big and bad. I mean, it's probably just Baader-Meinhoff illusion, but still.
 
Every time someone in a tv show/movie answers their smartphone and I can see the answer/ignore buttons still on the screen I immediately get pulled out of the story.
 
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