Re: Random Thoughts: The Randoming

[Wondering]

I think I'm really not communicating my point clearly.

But I don't know how to more clearly say that I think it's dehumanizing to literally and explicitly on air call Canadian athletes "Canadian content" instead of just "Canadian."

The evening anchor just said 10 minutes ago about the women's 100 hurdles: "How about there is a Canadian content member in this story. That happens to be Phylicia George." Why couldn't he just say "How about there is a Canadian in this story. That happens to be Phylicia George."

[Enail]

Just to be clear, I got your point and wasn't disagreeing, it was just a side note!

[bomaye]

HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrawwwwwwwwww I just broke the maul chopping wood. Manly as fu, AMA

[Wondering]

I don't understand people who salt the food they're served before they even taste it.

[WJMorris3]

I don't understand people who salt the food they're served before they even taste it.

Sometimes I do that at home. Usually because my sister doesn't salt French fries when she makes them.

[BasedBuzzed]

I salt the food to make others salty by proxy. /joke

I too often view people who compliment me as pleasers or the easily impressed. This is not externalized self-hatred, just access to more information than them.

[Wondering]

I don't understand people who salt the food they're served before they even taste it.

Sometimes I do that at home. Usually because my sister doesn't salt French fries when she makes them.

Well, you have tasted it then, in the past.

[eselle28]

So, I bought this. I've had it before and liked it, and for whatever reason, I guess I just assumed there was a bottle inside the box. Nope. Boxed wine! I've somehow managed to spend 36 years on this planet, 16 or 17 of them drinking wine, without ever having wine from a box.


After 10 minutes of fiddling with it, I'm amazed anyone even attempted this delivery system for wine. It seems like an astonishingly poor way to store liquid and then deliver it into a glass, regardless of the quality of the liquid itself.

[Guest]

Thank the gods for Sriracha.

[WJMorris3]

If we've learned anything in 2016, it's that you can get away with almost anything if you can flap your arms well in the water. (See: Ryan Lochte and Brock Turner)

[Amygdala]

Two blisters on each foot is MAYBE an indicator that paying for proper hiking boots and socks is a worthwhile investment.

[Hirundo Bos]

There's a Norwegian expression for someone who asks a lot of questions that translates into "curious Peter in the attic".

[Guest]

I think if anyone asks me what it takes to finish a digital painting I'll just give them a link to this.

[Guest]

Don't know much about WoW but, I'd be down for watching a Warcraft movie with much less of a focus on humans.

[eselle28]

Don't know much about WoW but, I'd be down for watching a Warcraft movie with much less of a focus on humans.

I wish they would ditch the live action concept and instead make more animated things in the Warcraft universe. Humans aren't very interesting. Orcs aren't all that easy to do well with prosthetics, and I suspect that integrating animated ones in with human actors is incredibly expensive. So why not just animate everything and go for a different aesthetic? It's not as if the game goes for photo realism, and there are lots of cool stories to tell about the non-human races.

[Prajnaparamita]

So the strangest thing just happened...

I guess one of my previous partners left a stick of Old Spice classic in my bathroom, and because I was in a rush and couldn't find anything else I used it. And I guess I never realized before how deeply I associate the smell of Old Spice with the men I have sex with (because apparently it's the only deodorant that twenty-something men in this area use)--for me it vividly brings to mind sleepy morning sex and late night cuddles and long slow kisses...

So now I'm walking around feeling sexually aroused by my own scent.

I'm so confused...

[Guest]

If I recall correctly, my first ever pornographic encounter happened while attempting to watch a pirated copy of Monsters Inc.

Good times (Not really ).

[Guest]

Should've kept this scene:

[eselle28]

There's really nothing like taking a cat for a walk in public for a good reminder of how powerful confirmation bias is.

Nice puppy! Nice puppy! Who's a good dog?

[reboot]

There's really nothing like taking a cat for a walk in public for a good reminder of how powerful confirmation bias is.

Nice puppy! Nice puppy! Who's a good dog?

And now I think my Mr Kitty needs to go on a walk. Cat, if you want to blame anyone, blame Eselle28

[Wondering]

Sometimes generosity isn't generous. It's an imposition. When you email to say you'd like to come down and see the baby* and we say sure! And then you say that you'll take us out to dinner, so we should pick someplace moderately priced, that takes reservations, and is good for the baby, and for us to make the reservations, now you've given us a chore, and a nearly impossible one at that.

Because places that I consider moderately priced, like Applebees, don't take reservations. And many places that do take reservations during the week don't on weekends. And there's also the unspoken "don't pick any place that's remotely loud or Mom won't like it and will grumble the whole time, and don't pick any place remotely Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indian, etc etc etc) or Latin American or Dad won't like it and will grumble the whole time."

So now within those narrow parameters, we have to spend time looking up menus to see prices and then calling around to the ones that don't have Open Table to see if they take reservations. All the while guessing what you meant by "moderately priced" because that's so subjective and you're not available now for us to clarify what you mean.

I think you were trying to be accommodating to the baby's needs. But guess what? She's not the picky one.

So thanks? I could have made dinner at home like originally planned before we heard from you. Sigh.


*Do people say "the toddler"? Because she's not a baby anymore, but I've been calling her The Baby for several years now and I'm not sure what else seems right.

[eselle28]

Oh, yikes, what a nightmare! My father has all the pickiness of your parents combined and also won't eat Italian food, and it makes it so hard for everyone to plan meals around him. I do think that it's often easiest to let the person with the most restrictions pick the restaurant, but in this case, it sounds like you/husband/baby are not remotely the toughest people to find a restaurant for!

What's with their preference for reservations, anyway? It seems like those are more, rather than less, inconvenient given the nature of toddlers. Seems like it would be a million times easier just to go to Applebees a little earlier in the evening before it gets loud or crowded...

*My niece is "the kiddo," but she's in a stage where she strongly identifies as not being a baby and will correct anyone who calls her one.

[Wondering]

I actually kind of prefer reservations because, as a diabetic who needs to have a general idea of when meals are going to be, showing up some place to an indefinite wait is not ideal. And that's compounded with a toddler who does like waiting.

Their preference has to do with us going to the Old Spaghetti Factory months ago on a night when they didn't take reservations and being told it was a 40 minute wait. And my dad getting really irritable and wanting to go somewhere else, except all the other places around weren't acceptable because they were too pricey or Asian or loud. So...yeah.

But, you're right. We normally go to dinner at 5:00 for me and the baby when we're out, and there's not often too many people around then unless it's at the mall and it's Christmas time. So, totally no need for reservations. We never make reservations when it's just the three of us unless it's an event like Mother's Day.

Also really annoyed at the "moderately priced" thing because I Don't Know What That Means! Vagueness in what you want to pay when you're asking other people to decide where you'll pay is not at all useful.

[waxingjaney]

I made it this far in life without realizing that Zumba is basically aerobic dancing. Live and learn.

[nearly_takuan]

I don't know exactly when I became a meathead but that seems to be a thing that has happened. I think maybe it started with going to the gym? And, like, I've known for a while that there were more than a few cheeky books on the subject (worked at a library, after all), but I kind of had to experience it firsthand to see that picking up heavy things and putting them back down again is a really...nerdy hobby.

Or at least, it can be. Right now I consider it fun and a good source of stress relief. When I didn't, it's not like I hadn't tried. I think my reasons for hating it previously are still pretty valid. If anything, I have more data to justify my previous position. Only the external factors have changed. External factors can be very important.

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