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  On 11/25/2019 at 8:38 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

What's the deal with quiche?  

Quiche is just unhealthy frittata

A coworker of mine got into a fender bender last week, and of all the vehicles on the road, he managed to rear-end one of these armored trucks:

So anyway he gets out to assess the damage and exchange info, but their security dudes had to stay locked in the vehicle, since they're trained to treat incidents like this as possible robbery.  It all got sorted out by the cops but he found it pretty funny to be considered a robbery suspect in the interim. 

Baby, it's cold outside...

Her name was Bev or Deb or Barb or Francine Maryanne Steinhouse McNaulty. But also June. I felt her glare yet dismissed my automatic fear response. She spoke in tongues and profanities and gang signs. I changed direction and offered her pineapple chunks straight out the plastic tray.

“These chunks”

”Yeah, what about it?”

”They’re made for eat”

And just like that, she blinked a dozen times in a second or two. She ran a mime comb through a ghost head of hair. She spit once to her left and finger gun shot at an invisible foe off in the distance. 

“Wheat affects me in the pancreas. But not my pancreas. Beyond any of this, I’d rather not say”

A decade later, she hasn’t said another word about it.  Nor about the storm. Nobody will discuss the storm.

It was going to snow heavily again in a few hours. I figured I could just bungee cord the body to the back of my snowmobile and drag it back to the shed where I could gut it. Any remaining blood and the tracks would be covered up by at least a foot before anyone could see. There's no one else around for miles. 

Even though I am certain it doesn't matter, the engine starts more loudly than I am comfortable with, and the winding path through the trails seems multiple times longer than the trip it took to get here. Strange, since the anticipation of what had to be done was a constant presence in my mind during the ride. 

Did I mention Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time?

My bank account history shows a purchase of three tickets on a flight from Colombo to China Bay, three months ago.  They were each bought at a price equivalent to $3.649, and were refunded the next week.

Despite never having boarded, nor even having any familiarity with Ceylon, seeing the transactions somehow provoked a vague image of the narrow arcing strand of Tincomalee, the fragile vector, demarcating the borders of emerald and cyan, ideally infinitesimal but here shown by nature to be a concrete essence of liminality—a garment as real and deliberate as the husk of a tropical fruit—asserting a gross white bulwark against the hazing blue hues of distant islet verdure muttered through the viscous surf.

Where did I come to find such an offensive acceptance of chaos, hidden behind the snaking, indirect lines of Sinhalese letters and a daunting third-world polity, in languid detachment from the sharp Euclidean geometries of Roman numerals and homeland polemics.  Was it a gift divine, a symbol of the unaffected creation ?  in which our self-assurance is battered by waves of disillusion and shown to be but an edifice of metamorphic rock to be surrendered into dust.

On my Macbook I have the possibility to press the trackpad hard when I hover over words like edifice, verdure, garment or bulwark and it automatically translates the word to my mother tongue. That way I could read your (drillkicker's) post without accessing a dictionary web page pretty easily. A handy tool indeed

Also, if I press command plus delete it deletes the whole line, not just one symbol. Also a pretty handy

I tried to pull the dream that had upset me so to the front of my mind, but it would not come. There had been betrayal in it, I knew, and loss, and time. The dream had left me scared to go back to sleep: 
the fireplace was almost dark now, with only the deep red glow of embers in the hearth to mark that it had once been burning, once had given light. 

I climbed down from the four-poster bed, and felt beneath it until I found the heavy china chamber pot. I hitched up my nightgown and I used it. Then I walked to the window and looked out. The moor 
was still full, but now it was low in the sky, and a dark orange: what my mother called a harvest moon. But things were harvested in autumn, I knew, not in spring. 

In the orange moonlight I could see an old woman — I was almost certain it was Old Mrs. Hempstock, although it was hard to see her face properly — walking up and down. She had a big long 
stick she was leaning on as she walked, like a staff. She reminded me of the soldiers I had seen on a trip to London, outside Buckingham Palace, as they marched backwards and forwards on parade. 

y’all in the wrong thread with all that

  On 11/26/2019 at 9:02 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I tried to pull the dream that had upset me so to the front of my mind, but it would not come. There had been betrayal in it, I knew, and loss, and time. The dream had left me scared to go back to sleep: 
the fireplace was almost dark now, with only the deep red glow of embers in the hearth to mark that it had once been burning, once had given light. 

I climbed down from the four-poster bed, and felt beneath it until I found the heavy china chamber pot. I hitched up my nightgown and I used it. Then I walked to the window and looked out. The moor 
was still full, but now it was low in the sky, and a dark orange: what my mother called a harvest moon. But things were harvested in autumn, I knew, not in spring. 

In the orange moonlight I could see an old woman — I was almost certain it was Old Mrs. Hempstock, although it was hard to see her face properly — walking up and down. She had a big long 
stick she was leaning on as she walked, like a staff. She reminded me of the soldiers I had seen on a trip to London, outside Buckingham Palace, as they marched backwards and forwards on parade. 

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Actually broccoli, turnips, radishes, green onions, lettuce, kale, cauliflower, beets, carrots, and Brussels sprouts are among the many crops that are harvested in spring.

who put omen in women

I served Matthew Lillard and his family breakfast today. No, I didn’t say anything. If he had been alone, I maybe would have offhandedly asked him how he contains Shaggy’s raw unadulterated power. But the man has three kids. It wasn’t the right time.

Also, that dude is fucking tall. I’m 6’1” and my eyes were basically at nipple height.

Anyway he was very nice and a left a good tip.

There was a massive explosion at a plant about 40 miles away from where I live, and it caused my whole house to shake with a deep bass-y sound. It happened while I was studying at like 1 in the morning and I thought for a second lightning had struck the house or we were being carpet bombed. Never felt the earth shake before. Felt like I got a glimpse into how crazy and chaotic nature can be.

Then about 12 hours later it happened again when another part of the plant blew up, but not as crazy as the first one.

  On 11/25/2019 at 10:17 AM, Stickfigger said:

It's the bomb 

This was saved in my reply box, and it seems like a fitting follow up to the previous message.

Seriously though - yikes.  Where do you live?  Sounds dangerous.

What kind of facility was it ?  I hope it didn't kill anyone.

  On 11/28/2019 at 4:05 PM, drillkicker said:

What kind of facility was it ?  I hope it didn't kill anyone.

if you're asking me about the plant thing, only 3 out of the 30 some odd workers at the plant had injuries. That is surprising when you actually see the explosion. There's a video of every window in a store breaking, the roof caving in, and the door being blown off it's hinges. I don't know what kind of plant it was, people keep calling it a 'chemical plant'. They don't know what caused the explosion yet as well.

Mandatory evacuations were called for something like 25 miles surrounding the area as it is now leaking carcinogens. This was over 2 days ago now and they're still fighting the fire. Apparently there has barely been any progress and they've mostly just been containing it. Stuff like this is what makes people wary of embracing nuclear power.



In my case I was lucky in that I was far enough away for it not to cause any damage to my house, but it still is crazy how loud it was even though it was 35-40ish miles away.

VOLUME WARNING First explosion:

Here is the second explosion which happened 12 hours later during the day, which was caught on camera better than the first one:

Wow, that’s insane.  I’ve never seen a smokestack fly that high before.

Most idm 2019

Butadiene is what's burning, apparently it's a petrochem plant, butadiene is used to make rubber and plastics or something

  On 11/28/2019 at 9:40 PM, drillkicker said:

Wow, that’s insane.  I’ve never seen a smokestack fly that high before.

 

Most idm 2019

Yeah and the first explosion was supposedly much bigger but of course no one was recording the plant initially and only security cams picked it up. I could feel both explosions from where I was and the first one was scary making me worry about bombs whereas the second was just a small rumble. 

It kinda makes me grateful I live on a relatively stable planet when there are things a trillion times worse than the explosion happening all over the universe.

 

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Butadiene is what's burning, apparently it's a petrochem plant, butadiene is used to make rubber and plastics or something

yeah that's the one. I wonder where the fault lies. Is it due to the de-regulating the govt. has done in the past few years or negligence by a few workers. Maybe both.

I know someone who works at a plant in Houston and he said there are scares like this with the potential to blow up on average once every 2 or 3 years, which is insane

  On 11/27/2017 at 11:32 PM, Plum said:

Yesterday I accidentally watched Columbo and it got me thinking... Mark Ruffalo would make a great Columbo if they were to make a reboot.

 

You know it’s true.

Even though It’s total dick toss, I want a deepfake version of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton taken out and Mark Ruffalo put in. My OCD compels it.

... actually while they’re at it, the Dumbledores need tweaking too. Michael Gambon > Richard Harris 

  On 11/25/2019 at 10:17 AM, Stickfigger said:

It's the bomb 

I just played "quiche" in Scrabble for 42 points, and I'm beginning to warm to it.  First time I ever played that one.  Might try it again some time.