@Geist: I would be more worried if you didn't want a drink. :P
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T14:29:39-05:00
@GM, +1! lol! XP
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-07T14:30:26-05:00
Geist, did you get your sauce?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T14:35:49-05:00
@GM: Says the man who ask for barrels of booze. :-P
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T14:38:05-05:00
@LZ: Not yet. I didn't realize that I had you send it to my PO box. I'll be able to get it this Thursday since I have that day off.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T14:44:43-05:00
Ahoy, all ye maties that have joined since last I was here. I may be the only person who still considers "ahoy" a legitimate greeting. I mean, it's what Alexander Graham Bell wanted us to say.
@BaKhan: Speaking of sauce...I have the 18th off, so we could meet somewhere then.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T14:50:58-05:00
If you hear any screams, that would be me as I add the sauce to the guacamole I plan on buying from Whole Foods this week.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T14:53:14-05:00
@GM, ok, lets make that work. Seeing as how you don't drive... (throw that in the budge too!), you pick the place, it will have to be after work for me, so 5pm would be the earliest I can do. I can't wait to get this to you, I know it doesn't seem like it, but it is true!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T14:57:17-05:00
@Geist you buy guacamole? Why not just make it? Super easy and tastes way better!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T15:05:28-05:00
@BaKhan: I am lazy.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T15:06:41-05:00
@Geist, lol! Ok then... ;) (did I mention super easy?) ;P
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-07T15:09:58-05:00
I'm pretty sure I put my recipe for guac om the litter box
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T15:16:53-05:00
@LZ, I remember seeing it there! We had that convo about the avacodo seed...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T15:27:53-05:00
Yeah, you put one up there. Screaming, though? Is that because this sauce is so dang good? I can't get enough of the inferno. I never put enough on stuff to fully appreciate it, but that's because it's already almost a quarter gone.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T15:32:50-05:00
@Zem, I hear that, after my first testing all bottles were down 1/3... so good, but so far away! Dammit, LZ, move to Calgary!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T15:52:55-05:00
@GM: I am currently trying to build one so that I can tell my younger self to invest in this little start up company called Microsoft. I'll let you know when I am finished
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T16:31:18-05:00
You won't need to let us know. We'll see your name everywhere for all your millions and your eccentricity of only drinking strong alcohol, sometimes with a shot of coffee. Showers of whiskey in bathrooms of gold.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T16:45:21-05:00
As long as it isn't showers of gold in bathrooms of whiskey... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T16:49:01-05:00
@BaKhan: booze & pee? Isn't that found in most clubs on a Friday night? You should see the bathrooms in Adams Morgan after midnight.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T16:54:04-05:00
To all my friends, first and foremost let me say that I am safe and uninjured, having narrowly escaped a suicide attack upon my return home from grocery shopping. The attackers plan was brilliant, but poorly executed. As I opened a high cupboard to put groceries away the Stove Top Stuffing box (no one ever thinks it's going to be the Stove Top Stuffing) leapt at me, screaming epithets in a language I could not understand, or perhaps it was me screaming like a little girl, we'll never really know. Utilizing my well known and mostly imaginary ninja skills, I side stepped the incoming container, the look of surprise on it's little face as it went flying past would have been amusing if I wasn't so surprised. It hit the counter, and promptly exploded into about a million little pieces. I'm just grateful whatever explosive it was wearing had a limited range. It spilled it's innards all over the counter and floor of the kitchen. I buried it in a small private ceremony involving the vacuum cleaner and the garbage can. The authorities have been notified
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-07T17:17:58-05:00
@PoT, lol! I'm glad you're okay after that ordeal!
Powers of Tesla 2015-12-07T17:21:33-05:00
I am seriously considering a cocktail right now. The only problem being I would have to reenter the kitchen, and I have no idea if there are more members of some terror cell lurking to make another attempt.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T17:22:24-05:00
PoT, I'd bring in a counselor for the rest of the foods in the cupboard. These events can be traumatizing.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T17:23:47-05:00
LOL@PoT! I'll not ask why that bready abomination was in your house when home made stuffing is better.
Powers of Tesla 2015-12-07T17:29:05-05:00
I'm going to wait until my wife gets home and have her check in there, if she makes it out safely I'll fix dinner.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T17:29:18-05:00
Considering PoT? Grab a broom & dust pan and fight your way to the wine in your fridge. It is your duty!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T17:30:28-05:00
Wow. Sacrificing the spouse. Someone is sleeping on the couch tonight
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T17:31:14-05:00
Way to sacrifice your wife. What if she doesn't make it out safely? Then you'll be crying into your stuffing alone!
@Geist: That one only stops time....doesn't let you travel back past that, or forward any faster.
Powers of Tesla 2015-12-07T17:34:30-05:00
She almost never goes in there Geist, they have no real reason to hate her. But like my 86 year old grandfather said on the night he wed a 36 year old gold-digger, when asked what he was going to do about his conjugal responsibilities. Son, if she dies, she dies.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T17:43:36-05:00
LOL@PoT
I like your grandad's humor
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T17:46:01-05:00
How is it that I've met more guys who cook more than their lady spouses in here than I have in the real world? In the real world, it's still 1950
Powers of Tesla 2015-12-07T17:51:13-05:00
If my wife wanted to cook I'd be more than happy to let her (most of the time). But the truth is I enjoy it and she doesn't, and she does so much around here that it really is about the least I can do. Plus for the last ten years now she has had a day job and I haven't so it's only fair she gets to come home to a meal.
@Geist: Probably because the KC is full of awesome people? I enjoy cooking, when I actually get into the kitchen to do so. As is, since I still live at home(cheaper since I'm saving to buy a condo) I get home and my dad(who's retired) has already made dinner.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T18:25:17-05:00
The only thing I have to make these days is microwaving something. Otherwise I have a full staff of full-time personal slaves working in the dining hall dungeons to cook for me.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-07T19:22:51-05:00
Creeper can make me some toast, seeing as she has the precious
Powers of Tesla 2015-12-07T19:44:54-05:00
I have for years now thought about creating a bachelor survival cooking show. I should do that. I could put it up on YouTube and see if anyone watched it. All recipes you can create in 30 minutes or less with nothing but a toaster oven, microwave and hot plate.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T21:01:39-05:00
PoT, you do realize that'd be actual survival and they'd all die of starvation?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T22:04:28-05:00
Just curious, what's everyone here's favorite movie? I'll have to ask again during work hours tomorrow to catch everyone, but I just now thought it's an interesting question. Mine tends to change or I can't make up my mind, but Hot Fuzz is a good solid bet. Hilarious, makes you think, tons of referencing to itself earlier in the movie, but even with all the foreshadowing, there's just no possible way to guess the ending; it's just way too over the top.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-07T22:48:04-05:00
So even though it's dead week, I like to say it's only mostly dead week. http://www.quickmeme.com/img/1e/1e279669c087c11f255a44ddc9830f1ebd2e00d94b2d646d67974849fdcd3777.jpg While we're not supposed to learn anything new and the prof.s are even encouraged to finish before this week, they don't care. We keep going. However, I have my last class friday off and had tomorrow morning's first class off. Just found out that lab is also canceled tomorrow and we'll check out thursday instead! I have nothing whatsoever to do tomorrow! All day to wake up whenever, stay in bed, work on past labs, and relax! Woohoo!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T02:50:39-05:00
Now to stay up really late just because I can.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T05:01:05-05:00
4 am sounds good to me. See you all tomorrow afternoon! Oh, and what's your favorite movie? Gotta re-ask that now that everyone's here.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T07:04:06-05:00
*yawn* I can't wait for my day off
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T09:44:18-05:00
Good Morning Kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T09:47:07-05:00
@PoT, lol! I actually had a similar idea, but based off of iron chef. Bachelor chef! It would have two people face off in typical bachelor/dorm style "kitchens" and they would have to make a five course meal, using only ingredients that would be found in a bachelor kitchen, featuring the special ingredient, which would be something like Ichiban or boxed mac n cheese. I think it would be funny as hell. You never know what people could come up with that would actually be tasty!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T10:01:07-05:00
@Zem, favourite movie? AHHH! Which genre, it would be too hard to choose an overall favorite... Horror: The Thing (from the 80's), Drama: What Dreams May Come, Comedy: The Man Who Knew Too Little, SciFi: Starwars: A New Hope, Action: Aliens (I know this could count as horror, or SciFi, but to me its more action), Adventure: Indian Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Off-beat: The Acid House, Independent: Reservoir Dogs.
Movies, eh? I would have to go with my favorites being Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars(original trilogy), Lord of the Rings(all three, extended), and well, pretty much 90% of action movies.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T11:46:29-05:00
Career, I need a new one. Hurry up with your hot sauce empire LZ so you can hire me as CFO.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T11:59:01-05:00
Creeper can run the restaurant/bakery.
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T12:46:18-05:00
I like all of this. What I don't like is my stupid tall genes making my BMI too low to participate in a study that would give me $2500
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T12:50:17-05:00
@LZ, hey, if all you need to do is gain some weight, I have a few recipies that might help... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T12:54:04-05:00
@LZ: How tall are you? 7 feet?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T12:56:09-05:00
I wonder is LZ is as tall as GM?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T13:53:25-05:00
BaKhan, some good ones in there. GM, I'd agree with every single one of those!
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LZ, I hate BMI. It's a complete fallacy that it actually says anything about you. I know people who can hardly walk who are listed as moderately overweight and bodybuilder-looking people who are like slightly obese. I think when I was going to the national jamboree, it listed me as less than one point into obese class I, but I am and especially was really healthy and go on mountain hikes at least once a year, more if possible, in addition to tons of camping, etc., yet if we hadn't fudged the numbers by like 5 pounds, I wouldn't have gone. I'm tall too, so I know the discrimination. You're tall, so you must be fat.
Dom Andrzejczuk 2015-12-08T14:10:49-05:00
I ordered a year ago and still got nothing....where the eff is my exploding kittens?!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T14:15:58-05:00
@Dom, have you even bothered reading the lastest update? Try to enhance your calm, and then give it a read. >.>
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T14:17:41-05:00
Dom, see the latest update to see how you can resolve the issue.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T14:18:40-05:00
A full year ago? But it's nice that you guys aren't leaving it to me to write out a paragraph on my own now. Elan is nice like that to plan it all out so you only have to point them there now.
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T14:19:11-05:00
I'm 6'4" and 210 lbs. I have greater than 20% body fat, though. I have a little git. He's just a little guy, but he is there, hiding my belt when I sit.
@Zem: Except we still need to point them in that direction still. I bet in 99% of these cases, people aren't checking their Junk/Spam folder to see if an update had been posted. And of course, it would mean people reading updates as a precaution that their grievances were already addressed as to how to resolve them. But, I'm living in a fantasy world.
@LZ: We're about the same then. I'm a little heavier(235 last I checked...should check again).
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T14:25:39-05:00
I also couldn't help but notice Dom has been a ks member since 2012, backed two projects and that was his only comment. Maybe he just didn't know any better? *shrugs*
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T14:38:51-05:00
I'm a full foot shorter than you are LZ. I'm probably going to lose a few more inches when I hit the 60 year mark.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T14:40:20-05:00
@Dom: The KS campaign isn't a year old yet. How could you have ordered it so long ago?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T14:47:54-05:00
I'm 6'3" 250-ish. Been a long time since I've weighed myself actually, but it hasn't changed in a year except for losing some weight over the summer. Let's all crowd around Geist and make her feel short!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T15:00:15-05:00
The Mad Cow sauce goes perfectly with the barbecue pulled pork sandwich they have here every other tuesday! It was my favorite already, but that's even better! I don't know that I like that sauce all that much plain on its own, but in something already strongly barbecue-y, it's great so far as I can tell!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T15:02:33-05:00
I'm short compared to all you guys, I'm only 5' 11", but I'm stocky as hell. Welsh/Scottish heritage, so I guess it comes with the territory. BMI, is total garbage. It might work for the "average" person, but who the hell is average? According to my BMI anything over 180 is over weight. The smallest I've ever been was 210 and I know there was no way I could lose 30lbs without becoming severly malnourished. My goal is to get back to 210... by the endMay next year! That would make it 155 lbs down in one year, I think I can do it!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T15:14:22-05:00
@BaKhan: You're part Scot? I knew there was a reason why I liked you. Remind me to bring you some good scotch when I visit the frozen tundra that is Canada.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T15:19:01-05:00
I'm like half german and a conglomeration of the british isles.
BaKhan, you've already lost 100 in just over half a year, so you can definitely make it to there!
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T15:25:12-05:00
Yeah, Mad Cow is totally a BBQ sauce. I only use it on things that have meat in them. And fries. It's good on fries. I haven't used it on anything else though
I'm mostly Danish, English, Scottish, and German; but I also have ancestry from Ireland, Wales, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, and (I think) France. So, like I said, Western Europe.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T15:48:32-05:00
@Geist, Aye lassie! My lineage traces to the Gunn clan, highlanders and wealthy land owners, we fought with the Bruce against William Wallace... and we won! My clan is descended from the last great viking that they wrote an epic about Sweyn Asleifsson. It also explains my "troubled youth" and my love of medieval weapons... ;) Clan motto: Aut Pax Aut Bellum, Either Peace or War!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T15:56:37-05:00
Well I'm directly from the last several generations, including both my dad's birth and adoptive family, half German half Irish, British, and Scotts-Irish, so basically everything but Welsh. But my ancestors were the cupbearers to Charlemagne, so basically probably a king as well as I believe things to do with foreign affairs. I can't remember all the things we've found out, but we have a long and great history, and we're pretty sure we're viking somewhere in there for several reasons, not the least of which is our height and build and awesome reddish beards. https://www.youtube.com/watch… Also, everyone with blue eyes descends from a single ancestor from I think the north side of the Black Sea. Also, my dad's adoptive family is Mennonite, with ties to Pennsylvanian mennonites and almost certainly with really old ties to regions they lived in like Switzerland and Ukraine and/or Russia.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T16:00:53-05:00
@BaKahan: So I take it you own a kilt?
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T16:14:26-05:00
BaKhan, that means your ancestors fought with mine (with, not against), for we have traced our lineage to Robert the Bruce. Of course, our lineage also includes William Longshanks. There's all kinds of royalty in my heritage.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T16:15:17-05:00
@Geist, I don't, but I've always wanted one. Last time I checked it would cost me around $1700 CAD, too rich for my cheap ass scottish blood... ;) I do however have a sporran (the little pouch that hangs down to prevent the kilt from blowing up) and a sgian-dubh (knife for the sock). I was the best man for a friend of mine that had a full on Scottish wedding, with bag pipers!, and the thing about kilts, is that those little metal folding chairs are really cold!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T16:16:59-05:00
@LZ, I knew there was a reason we get along so historically! ;) Wow, the dreaded Longshanks, eh? That was a scary dude!
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T16:17:03-05:00
And I do own a kilt. It's made of black denim, but it is a kilt.
The clan that features most prominently in my lineage, though, is the McDonald of the Isles clan.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T16:33:08-05:00
@LZ: If it's made of denim, it must have been hand made. I thought Scottish kilts had to be made of tartan or something like that.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T16:35:20-05:00
Come on! I don't know exactly what clans I'm from, but I'm part scott as well. At the very least I was cheering you guys on, maybe helping you paint yourselves or something. Maybe I'm one of the Bruces too. G'day, Bruce! Howaya, Bruce?
Like I said, someone who was almost certainly a king. That's pretty badass too.
@Geist, lol! Tartan, is the pattern, sheeps wool is what legit Scottish kilts are made out of. There are two types (maybe more) one is light weight and they call it a summer kilt, the other is heavy, like really heavy, and thats for the rest of the year. Each clan has their own colours and patterns, and each family of the clan has a variation of the chiefs, often changing the colours by a shade one way or the other. I have a legitimate right to wear five different kilts, and yet, I own none...
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T16:43:17-05:00
It was hand made. And you're right, a traditional Scottish kilt is made of tartan. I think they were made of ordinary material before clan pride gripped the nation, but denim wasn't ever a thing until the late 20th century when the Eurokilt and Utilikilt were born. A Utilikilt is basically a cargo kilt, with big pockets on the outside. It's ugly. The Eurokilt is a modern take on the kilt. It is made of whatever material the wearer wishes, and frequently had internal, hidden pockets. Mine was made by a Dutchman named Maarten Taalman Kip.
I know of three Scottish kilts I could wear, but I only have a Eurokilt. The three I can wear are very similar to each other. My brother wore one of them to prom.
Lord Zombitten 2015-12-08T16:56:24-05:00
Wait, duh, I just remembered, I'm not descended from the MacKay clan, my great aunt married into it, so I don't get that one. Also, McDaniel is a subset of the McDonald of the Isles clan, so I only know of the one kilt that I have a right to wear.
Wow, I guess it was a Scottish kind of afternoon... ;) Never a bad thing d'ya ken?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-12-08T17:27:08-05:00
When I hung out with some of the volunteers of a comic convention last year, one guy was wearing a kilt & when he sat down opposite from me, I could tell he was au naturale
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-12-08T17:28:14-05:00
The Scottishness is too much! They've gone plaid!
Geist, that's the only way, how they're supposed to be worn.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-12-08T17:31:10-05:00
You know what a Scottsman wears under his kilt? Your girls lipstick! ;)
If you put the little umbrella really close to the camera, it might work! ;P
Oh great. Little umbrellas made me think of cocktails & now I want a drink.
@Geist: I would be more worried if you didn't want a drink. :P
@GM, +1! lol! XP
Geist, did you get your sauce?
@GM: Says the man who ask for barrels of booze. :-P
@LZ: Not yet. I didn't realize that I had you send it to my PO box. I'll be able to get it this Thursday since I have that day off.
Ahoy, all ye maties that have joined since last I was here. I may be the only person who still considers "ahoy" a legitimate greeting. I mean, it's what Alexander Graham Bell wanted us to say.
@Geist: Not barrel...vat. Vats are much larger. :P
@BaKhan: Speaking of sauce...I have the 18th off, so we could meet somewhere then.
If you hear any screams, that would be me as I add the sauce to the guacamole I plan on buying from Whole Foods this week.
@GM, ok, lets make that work. Seeing as how you don't drive... (throw that in the budge too!), you pick the place, it will have to be after work for me, so 5pm would be the earliest I can do. I can't wait to get this to you, I know it doesn't seem like it, but it is true!
@Geist you buy guacamole? Why not just make it? Super easy and tastes way better!
@BaKhan: I am lazy.
@Geist, lol! Ok then... ;) (did I mention super easy?) ;P
I'm pretty sure I put my recipe for guac om the litter box
@LZ, I remember seeing it there! We had that convo about the avacodo seed...
Yeah, you put one up there. Screaming, though? Is that because this sauce is so dang good? I can't get enough of the inferno. I never put enough on stuff to fully appreciate it, but that's because it's already almost a quarter gone.
@Zem, I hear that, after my first testing all bottles were down 1/3... so good, but so far away! Dammit, LZ, move to Calgary!
Can someone bring me a time machine? >.>
@GM: I am currently trying to build one so that I can tell my younger self to invest in this little start up company called Microsoft. I'll let you know when I am finished
You won't need to let us know. We'll see your name everywhere for all your millions and your eccentricity of only drinking strong alcohol, sometimes with a shot of coffee. Showers of whiskey in bathrooms of gold.
As long as it isn't showers of gold in bathrooms of whiskey... ;)
@BaKhan: booze & pee? Isn't that found in most clubs on a Friday night? You should see the bathrooms in Adams Morgan after midnight.
@GM: You asked for a time machine?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2064654188/time-machine-italian-design-jewels-to-stop-preciou…
To all my friends, first and foremost let me say that I am safe and uninjured, having narrowly escaped a suicide attack upon my return home from grocery shopping. The attackers plan was brilliant, but poorly executed. As I opened a high cupboard to put groceries away the Stove Top Stuffing box (no one ever thinks it's going to be the Stove Top Stuffing) leapt at me, screaming epithets in a language I could not understand, or perhaps it was me screaming like a little girl, we'll never really know. Utilizing my well known and mostly imaginary ninja skills, I side stepped the incoming container, the look of surprise on it's little face as it went flying past would have been amusing if I wasn't so surprised. It hit the counter, and promptly exploded into about a million little pieces. I'm just grateful whatever explosive it was wearing had a limited range. It spilled it's innards all over the counter and floor of the kitchen. I buried it in a small private ceremony involving the vacuum cleaner and the garbage can. The authorities have been notified
@PoT, lol! I'm glad you're okay after that ordeal!
I am seriously considering a cocktail right now. The only problem being I would have to reenter the kitchen, and I have no idea if there are more members of some terror cell lurking to make another attempt.
PoT, I'd bring in a counselor for the rest of the foods in the cupboard. These events can be traumatizing.
LOL@PoT! I'll not ask why that bready abomination was in your house when home made stuffing is better.
I'm going to wait until my wife gets home and have her check in there, if she makes it out safely I'll fix dinner.
Considering PoT? Grab a broom & dust pan and fight your way to the wine in your fridge. It is your duty!
Wow. Sacrificing the spouse. Someone is sleeping on the couch tonight
Way to sacrifice your wife. What if she doesn't make it out safely? Then you'll be crying into your stuffing alone!
@Geist: That one only stops time....doesn't let you travel back past that, or forward any faster.
She almost never goes in there Geist, they have no real reason to hate her. But like my 86 year old grandfather said on the night he wed a 36 year old gold-digger, when asked what he was going to do about his conjugal responsibilities. Son, if she dies, she dies.
LOL@PoT
I like your grandad's humor
How is it that I've met more guys who cook more than their lady spouses in here than I have in the real world? In the real world, it's still 1950
If my wife wanted to cook I'd be more than happy to let her (most of the time). But the truth is I enjoy it and she doesn't, and she does so much around here that it really is about the least I can do. Plus for the last ten years now she has had a day job and I haven't so it's only fair she gets to come home to a meal.
@Geist: Probably because the KC is full of awesome people? I enjoy cooking, when I actually get into the kitchen to do so. As is, since I still live at home(cheaper since I'm saving to buy a condo) I get home and my dad(who's retired) has already made dinner.
The only thing I have to make these days is microwaving something. Otherwise I have a full staff of full-time personal slaves working in the dining hall dungeons to cook for me.
Creeper can make me some toast, seeing as she has the precious
I have for years now thought about creating a bachelor survival cooking show. I should do that. I could put it up on YouTube and see if anyone watched it. All recipes you can create in 30 minutes or less with nothing but a toaster oven, microwave and hot plate.
PoT, you do realize that'd be actual survival and they'd all die of starvation?
Just curious, what's everyone here's favorite movie? I'll have to ask again during work hours tomorrow to catch everyone, but I just now thought it's an interesting question. Mine tends to change or I can't make up my mind, but Hot Fuzz is a good solid bet. Hilarious, makes you think, tons of referencing to itself earlier in the movie, but even with all the foreshadowing, there's just no possible way to guess the ending; it's just way too over the top.
So even though it's dead week, I like to say it's only mostly dead week. http://www.quickmeme.com/img/1e/1e279669c087c11f255a44ddc9830f1ebd2e00d94b2d646d67974849fdcd3777.jpg
While we're not supposed to learn anything new and the prof.s are even encouraged to finish before this week, they don't care. We keep going. However, I have my last class friday off and had tomorrow morning's first class off. Just found out that lab is also canceled tomorrow and we'll check out thursday instead! I have nothing whatsoever to do tomorrow! All day to wake up whenever, stay in bed, work on past labs, and relax! Woohoo!
Now to stay up really late just because I can.
4 am sounds good to me. See you all tomorrow afternoon! Oh, and what's your favorite movie? Gotta re-ask that now that everyone's here.
*yawn* I can't wait for my day off
Good Morning Kittens!
@PoT, lol! I actually had a similar idea, but based off of iron chef. Bachelor chef! It would have two people face off in typical bachelor/dorm style "kitchens" and they would have to make a five course meal, using only ingredients that would be found in a bachelor kitchen, featuring the special ingredient, which would be something like Ichiban or boxed mac n cheese. I think it would be funny as hell. You never know what people could come up with that would actually be tasty!
@Zem, favourite movie? AHHH! Which genre, it would be too hard to choose an overall favorite... Horror: The Thing (from the 80's), Drama: What Dreams May Come, Comedy: The Man Who Knew Too Little, SciFi: Starwars: A New Hope, Action: Aliens (I know this could count as horror, or SciFi, but to me its more action), Adventure: Indian Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Off-beat: The Acid House, Independent: Reservoir Dogs.
Morning kittens.
Movies, eh? I would have to go with my favorites being Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars(original trilogy), Lord of the Rings(all three, extended), and well, pretty much 90% of action movies.
Career, I need a new one. Hurry up with your hot sauce empire LZ so you can hire me as CFO.
I'll be your payroll manager!
Creeper can run the restaurant/bakery.
I like all of this. What I don't like is my stupid tall genes making my BMI too low to participate in a study that would give me $2500
@LZ, hey, if all you need to do is gain some weight, I have a few recipies that might help... ;)
@LZ: How tall are you? 7 feet?
I wonder is LZ is as tall as GM?
BaKhan, some good ones in there. GM, I'd agree with every single one of those!
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LZ, I hate BMI. It's a complete fallacy that it actually says anything about you. I know people who can hardly walk who are listed as moderately overweight and bodybuilder-looking people who are like slightly obese. I think when I was going to the national jamboree, it listed me as less than one point into obese class I, but I am and especially was really healthy and go on mountain hikes at least once a year, more if possible, in addition to tons of camping, etc., yet if we hadn't fudged the numbers by like 5 pounds, I wouldn't have gone. I'm tall too, so I know the discrimination. You're tall, so you must be fat.
I ordered a year ago and still got nothing....where the eff is my exploding kittens?!
@Dom, have you even bothered reading the lastest update? Try to enhance your calm, and then give it a read. >.>
Dom, see the latest update to see how you can resolve the issue.
A full year ago? But it's nice that you guys aren't leaving it to me to write out a paragraph on my own now. Elan is nice like that to plan it all out so you only have to point them there now.
I'm 6'4" and 210 lbs. I have greater than 20% body fat, though. I have a little git. He's just a little guy, but he is there, hiding my belt when I sit.
@Zem: Except we still need to point them in that direction still. I bet in 99% of these cases, people aren't checking their Junk/Spam folder to see if an update had been posted. And of course, it would mean people reading updates as a precaution that their grievances were already addressed as to how to resolve them. But, I'm living in a fantasy world.
@LZ: We're about the same then. I'm a little heavier(235 last I checked...should check again).
I also couldn't help but notice Dom has been a ks member since 2012, backed two projects and that was his only comment. Maybe he just didn't know any better? *shrugs*
I'm a full foot shorter than you are LZ. I'm probably going to lose a few more inches when I hit the 60 year mark.
@Dom: The KS campaign isn't a year old yet. How could you have ordered it so long ago?
I'm 6'3" 250-ish. Been a long time since I've weighed myself actually, but it hasn't changed in a year except for losing some weight over the summer. Let's all crowd around Geist and make her feel short!
The Mad Cow sauce goes perfectly with the barbecue pulled pork sandwich they have here every other tuesday! It was my favorite already, but that's even better! I don't know that I like that sauce all that much plain on its own, but in something already strongly barbecue-y, it's great so far as I can tell!
I'm short compared to all you guys, I'm only 5' 11", but I'm stocky as hell. Welsh/Scottish heritage, so I guess it comes with the territory. BMI, is total garbage. It might work for the "average" person, but who the hell is average? According to my BMI anything over 180 is over weight. The smallest I've ever been was 210 and I know there was no way I could lose 30lbs without becoming severly malnourished. My goal is to get back to 210... by the endMay next year! That would make it 155 lbs down in one year, I think I can do it!
@BaKhan: You're part Scot? I knew there was a reason why I liked you. Remind me to bring you some good scotch when I visit the frozen tundra that is Canada.
I'm like half german and a conglomeration of the british isles.
BaKhan, you've already lost 100 in just over half a year, so you can definitely make it to there!
Yeah, Mad Cow is totally a BBQ sauce. I only use it on things that have meat in them. And fries. It's good on fries. I haven't used it on anything else though
I'm...Western European...
I'm mostly Irish and Scottish.
I'm mostly Danish, English, Scottish, and German; but I also have ancestry from Ireland, Wales, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, and (I think) France. So, like I said, Western Europe.
@Geist, Aye lassie! My lineage traces to the Gunn clan, highlanders and wealthy land owners, we fought with the Bruce against William Wallace... and we won! My clan is descended from the last great viking that they wrote an epic about Sweyn Asleifsson. It also explains my "troubled youth" and my love of medieval weapons... ;) Clan motto: Aut Pax Aut Bellum, Either Peace or War!
Well I'm directly from the last several generations, including both my dad's birth and adoptive family, half German half Irish, British, and Scotts-Irish, so basically everything but Welsh. But my ancestors were the cupbearers to Charlemagne, so basically probably a king as well as I believe things to do with foreign affairs. I can't remember all the things we've found out, but we have a long and great history, and we're pretty sure we're viking somewhere in there for several reasons, not the least of which is our height and build and awesome reddish beards. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Also, everyone with blue eyes descends from a single ancestor from I think the north side of the Black Sea. Also, my dad's adoptive family is Mennonite, with ties to Pennsylvanian mennonites and almost certainly with really old ties to regions they lived in like Switzerland and Ukraine and/or Russia.
@BaKahan: So I take it you own a kilt?
BaKhan, that means your ancestors fought with mine (with, not against), for we have traced our lineage to Robert the Bruce. Of course, our lineage also includes William Longshanks. There's all kinds of royalty in my heritage.
@Geist, I don't, but I've always wanted one. Last time I checked it would cost me around $1700 CAD, too rich for my cheap ass scottish blood... ;) I do however have a sporran (the little pouch that hangs down to prevent the kilt from blowing up) and a sgian-dubh (knife for the sock). I was the best man for a friend of mine that had a full on Scottish wedding, with bag pipers!, and the thing about kilts, is that those little metal folding chairs are really cold!
@LZ, I knew there was a reason we get along so historically! ;) Wow, the dreaded Longshanks, eh? That was a scary dude!
And I do own a kilt. It's made of black denim, but it is a kilt.
The clan that features most prominently in my lineage, though, is the McDonald of the Isles clan.
@LZ: If it's made of denim, it must have been hand made. I thought Scottish kilts had to be made of tartan or something like that.
Come on! I don't know exactly what clans I'm from, but I'm part scott as well. At the very least I was cheering you guys on, maybe helping you paint yourselves or something. Maybe I'm one of the Bruces too. G'day, Bruce! Howaya, Bruce?
Like I said, someone who was almost certainly a king. That's pretty badass too.
I don't want a kilt made with our current tartan colours...very ugly. I would rather this one.
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx…
@Geist, lol! Tartan, is the pattern, sheeps wool is what legit Scottish kilts are made out of. There are two types (maybe more) one is light weight and they call it a summer kilt, the other is heavy, like really heavy, and thats for the rest of the year. Each clan has their own colours and patterns, and each family of the clan has a variation of the chiefs, often changing the colours by a shade one way or the other. I have a legitimate right to wear five different kilts, and yet, I own none...
It was hand made. And you're right, a traditional Scottish kilt is made of tartan. I think they were made of ordinary material before clan pride gripped the nation, but denim wasn't ever a thing until the late 20th century when the Eurokilt and Utilikilt were born. A Utilikilt is basically a cargo kilt, with big pockets on the outside. It's ugly. The Eurokilt is a modern take on the kilt. It is made of whatever material the wearer wishes, and frequently had internal, hidden pockets. Mine was made by a Dutchman named Maarten Taalman Kip.
@GM, this is the one I would get, t'were I to do so: https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx…
I know of three Scottish kilts I could wear, but I only have a Eurokilt. The three I can wear are very similar to each other. My brother wore one of them to prom.
Wait, duh, I just remembered, I'm not descended from the MacKay clan, my great aunt married into it, so I don't get that one. Also, McDaniel is a subset of the McDonald of the Isles clan, so I only know of the one kilt that I have a right to wear.
@LZ, if your family fought for the Bruce, you can also wear the black watch tartan: https://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Black-Watch-Ancient-Colours-/50667
Wow, I guess it was a Scottish kind of afternoon... ;) Never a bad thing d'ya ken?
When I hung out with some of the volunteers of a comic convention last year, one guy was wearing a kilt & when he sat down opposite from me, I could tell he was au naturale
The Scottishness is too much! They've gone plaid!
Geist, that's the only way, how they're supposed to be worn.
You know what a Scottsman wears under his kilt? Your girls lipstick! ;)