Zorral Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Gauntlets. Flame throwers. You can do this. 1 minute ago, A True Kaniggit said: Venom is a force multiplier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, A True Kaniggit said: Lazy Europeans. You have to earn holidays off. If you are too stupid to work at a place that does not give paid holidays, then you do not deserve a paid holiday. Hear hear! Noooo everybody deserves paid holidays whatever work they do. Only because some don’t have the opportunity/character/luck to work in a place that gives paid holidays, doesn’t mean they aren’t hard workers fully deserving that paid holiday. Also, why can a workplace even do that? My European brain cannot conceive the labor law that allows this. hmm, isn’t it bad luck to kill spiders? I keep my spiders because they eat my other insect intruders. I only “cut back” the web when it gets too visible. Edited September 11, 2022 by RhaenysBee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 26 minutes ago, RhaenysBee said: hmm, isn’t it bad luck to kill spiders? I keep my spiders because they eat my other insect intruders. I only “cut back” the web when it gets too visible. I usually let spiders live as well, but this one has decided to make it’s web across my back door for two weeks now, making it unusable. With any luck the events of last night will have convinced it to move on. We shall see this evening. RhaenysBee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Well hello autumn and below 20C evenings and hot tea spiked with rum Prince of the North 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbigski Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 I'm not sure how this otherwise perfectly respectable thread turned into weird stomp arachnoid fetish, but I'm here to put an end to that. I put in a relatively full body of work tonight. Couple of beers after golf, then a birthday party, then home and some Basil Hayden. I personally have no problems with spiders that are smaller than the last knuckle on my pinkie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, mcbigski said: I personally have no problems with spiders that are smaller than the last knuckle on my pinkie. Can only speak for myself, but I definitely was not referring to relatively small spiders - which are generally welcome by me to kill off less desirable pests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, mcbigski said: I'm not sure how this otherwise perfectly respectable thread turned into weird stomp arachnoid fetish, but I'm here to put an end to that. I put in a relatively full body of work tonight. Couple of beers after golf, then a birthday party, then home and some Basil Hayden. I personally have no problems with spiders that are smaller than the last knuckle on my pinkie. The spider in question was quite formidable. Luckily for humanity I stopped it before it could become an existential threat to the species. Edited September 17, 2022 by A True Kaniggit mcbigski 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Bad, bad, BAD News for Drunkening! Beer -- less of it, and more expensive. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124491808/beer-carbon-dioxide-shortage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, Zorral said: Bad, bad, BAD News for Drunkening! Beer -- less of it, and more expensive. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124491808/beer-carbon-dioxide-shortage If only if there was a surplus of carbon dioxide just waiting to be used somewhere easily accessible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 5 hours ago, Zorral said: Bad, bad, BAD News for Drunkening! Beer -- less of it, and more expensive. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124491808/beer-carbon-dioxide-shortage Yeah, I remember reading about this in July because I follow Night Shift (one of the breweries quoted in the article). Hope it doesn't hit my local brewery. If so, I suppose I'm gonna have to bust out the homebrew kit more regularly. Thanks to the magic of bottle conditioning, I am not reliant on external CO2 supplies. Prince of the North 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 @A True Kaniggit well, has the spider moved on, or does the battle still rage? Zorral 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbigski Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 Well, I have a golf tournament tomorrow morning and I tend to play best with a moderate hangover. I think it keeps me from giving too much of a shit and from over swinging. So after getting back from a friend's pre-wedding celebration, I'm having 3 fingers or so of Basil Hayden. Alas, autumn has arrived in New England. Tomorrow won't be awful, but I probably will wear pants on the course for the first time since early April. I also put up my worst round in about 2 months this afternoon, so I should be blazing tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 I don’t drink a lot or very often, but when I do, it’s a shot of rum in my tea at 11:30am on a Monday. And that’s how you ignore life problems rather than jump in headfirst and tackle them. Cheers. Prince of the North 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw33t Summ3r Ch1ld Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I do not drink whatsoever. I used to sometimes sip on some but I quit that on Dec 25, of I think 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade1865 Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I prefer to get wasted daily, though it's mostly nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 A question regarding Scotland's whiskey which I guess is what the alcoholic beverage we all fondly knows as Scotch evolved from. For reasons I was going through the Samuel Johnson's and James Boswell's books from their journey together in Scotland. This takes place about 40 years after Culloden. Johnson tastes for the first -- and last time -- the national drink about which Boswell and others have spoken so much. He calls it whiskey. There's a conversation around this experience that tells us 'whiskey' is something the English didn't drink and was unknown in London. So when did Scotch become Scotch, and when the English turn to whiskey as what gentlemen were always drinking it seems in the 19th C and thereafter? Is this an effect of Victorian and Albert loving the Scottish estate Balmoral, and after Albert's death Queen Victoria immuring herself there, for long periods, so those who wished to discuss anything with her had to go to Scotland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 On 9/23/2022 at 8:34 PM, LongRider said: @A True Kaniggit well, has the spider moved on, or does the battle still rage? Oh. After my failed assassination attempt the spider never came back. I suppose it was smart enough to know I would not possibly miss twice. (Sorry, I’ve been out of town. Had to go North into the mountains to worship a buckwheat.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 4 hours ago, A True Kaniggit said: Oh. After my failed assassination attempt the spider never came back. I suppose it was smart enough to know I would not possibly miss twice. (Sorry, I’ve been out of town. Had to go North into the mountains to worship a buckwheat.) Hopefully the spider told all its friends and neighbors to stay away from the Penguin! A True Kaniggit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Lesson learned the hard way: don’t hold on to your fancy champagne for a special occasion. It’ll only go bad. Any random small joy should be reason enough to open and drink it. Wade1865 and dog-days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 9:20 PM, LongRider said: Hopefully the spider told all its friends and neighbors to stay away from the Penguin! There was a new spider this morning. Also. Down with Shampaggin! LongRider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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