There is Snow in my Dinosaur's Complaint Thread

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    craving kitkat and cadbury

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,680
    edited December 1969

    Which is better tasting, US or UK Cadbury's
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31924912

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    when did pizza delivery start adding up to 25 bucks? holey moley

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,680
    edited March 2015

    I've solved the pizza problem. I pick up a $7.99 three topping pizza (M thru Th) at Dominoes and wrap each piece in plastic wrap and freeze it. One piece every three or four days and I satisfy my pizza fix for the week. Thawing it out properly is the key. Don't try to microwave it quickly. Instead of 1 minute on high, I do it at 20% (level 2 of 10) for 6 minutes then burst heat for 15 seconds on high. Your mileage may vary. I move it in the oven a few inches at least once to avoid cold spots.

    Whereas, Pizza Hut has always been expensive. I solved that problem 20 years ago and haven't graced their doors except when someone else is paying.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    lamenting the content coulda bought, but can't eat content hungreeee


    no understands how the moon is rising 8:18am isn't the moon a night time thing?

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    edited December 1969

    lamenting the content coulda bought, but can't eat content hungreeee


    no understands how the moon is rising 8:18am isn't the moon a night time thing?

    Nope, just harder to see during the day.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,680
    edited March 2015

    If the moon didn't rise during the day there would be no eclipses!

    Oops, sitting here during a power outage. TV off, house lights off, refrigerator off, clocks stopped. Computers, routers & modems open for business. Yea! The $$$ I put into battery backups finally paid off. Whole house is out. Must be a car slammed into a power pole somewhere out there.

    Just got a phone call from a friend asking if my power was out. He's about 4 miles away so the accident scenario seems to be plausible.

    Signing off for now before my batteries die.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    that like sounds totally profound!! :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    do you find, the hungrier you are, the faster your tummy feels full?

    *burp**


    the hot dog cart is like 268megs

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Which is better tasting, US or UK Cadbury's
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31924912

    I would obviously say UK Cadbury's, even though I also believe that the quality of UK Cadbury's chocolate has depreciated since it was taken over by a US firm. however I have never tasted US cadbury's so I could be biased on rep alone. I know Cadbury's is the only cheaper chocolate that I will buy. I prefer to buy Belgian or Swiss chocolate.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Meet my new friend Star! :cheese: She's a sweet little anime grrl, I love the "sexy librarian" look. She's going to be in a lot of anime-themed pinups! :coolsmile:


    ...cute/ Looking forward to more.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    I've never had to deal with buses much. I did however, live in Washington DC and its suburbs for several years and got very used to using the Metro (subway) around town. Clean, fast, efficient, on-time, safe*. It's a shame more public transit can't be of a similar nature. The only bitch I had about the Metro was parking at the out-lying stations when you wanted to go into the city. Giant game of musical chairs.

    *However, accidents do happen, but are rare enough that they make national news. i.e. trains off the track, people fall from platforms onto tracks, extreme snow boggles the above ground sections, electrocution from worn buried power lines hitting storm drain grate.

    Trams here are like trains but in the middle of the road. :lol:


    ...same here in Portland. Just a glorified streetcar with illusions of being a rapid transit system. And they keep building more lines at price tags in the billions while cutting essential bus service in areas not even served by LRT.


    if thee was a tram with cupcakes, would never wanna get off :lol:
    ...for me it would be a tram that has beer like the one in Helsinki.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...same here in Portland. Just a glorified streetcar with illusions of being a rapid transit system. And they keep building more lines at price tags in the billions while cutting essential bus service in areas not even served by LRT.

    The new streetcar in Washington, D.C. was supposed to open last year, but it has not opened yet. The current mayor is hoping it will open this year. A street car project in Arlington was scrapped after years of study. Officials never did give a good reason (or at least a regular civilian like me would understand). At least the buses and subway trains are still running.
    ...there is talk I have been hearing that DC may actually abandon their trouble ridden system.

    My old hometown of Milwaukee WI is now considering a streetcar project that a lot of people there think is a total waste of money.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    I've never had to deal with buses much. I did however, live in Washington DC and its suburbs for several years and got very used to using the Metro (subway) around town. Clean, fast, efficient, on-time, safe*. It's a shame more public transit can't be of a similar nature. The only bitch I had about the Metro was parking at the out-lying stations when you wanted to go into the city. Giant game of musical chairs.

    *However, accidents do happen, but are rare enough that they make national news. i.e. trains off the track, people fall from platforms onto tracks, extreme snow boggles the above ground sections, electrocution from worn buried power lines hitting storm drain grate.

    Trams here are like trains but in the middle of the road. :lol:


    ...same here in Portland. Just a glorified streetcar with illusions of being a rapid transit system. And they keep building more lines at price tags in the billions while cutting essential bus service in areas not even served by LRT.


    if thee was a tram with cupcakes, would never wanna get off :lol:
    ...for me it would be a tram that has beer like the one in Helsinki.

    BEER!! AT A PUB!! wantz be there

    they prolly haz tater skins with bacon bits

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...same here in Portland. Just a glorified streetcar with illusions of being a rapid transit system. And they keep building more lines at price tags in the billions while cutting essential bus service in areas not even served by LRT.

    The new streetcar in Washington, D.C. was supposed to open last year, but it has not opened yet. The current mayor is hoping it will open this year. A street car project in Arlington was scrapped after years of study. Officials never did give a good reason (or at least a regular civilian like me would understand). At least the buses and subway trains are still running.

    There used to be a lot of trolleys in the US. Even here out in the wilds of western NY State the little city of Jamestown used to have a trolley system that went from Jamestown at the southern end of Lake Chautauqua, along the eastern edge of the lake for 11 miles up to an amusement park. My grandparents and even my stepmother remembered it but it was long gone by time I came around.

    Here's a link to information about the original system. Apparently it went all the way from Warren, PA to Midway Amusement park, about 40 miles.
    http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles Published/07 HS History & Soc/05 2 Past Trolleys/hs_05_2_Trollys.html

    There is still some interest in it.
    http://jamestowntrolley.org/trolrest/
    ...Milwaukee WI had an extensive system including one rapid transit line called Speedrail as well as the North Shore Line interurban line to Chicago. The Streetcars ceased service in 1958, Speedrail in 1951, and the North Shore in 1963. The city's transit system also boasted one of the largest trackless trolley networks in the nation with the last ones on the #18 National/Fair Park line being retired in 1965.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    Heavy Traffic.

    ...definitely should not cross the double yellow line.
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,563
    edited December 1969

    I have this strangest feeling that it is still Sunday but I worked anyway. Is it still Sunday?

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    I've solved the pizza problem. I pick up a $7.99 three topping pizza (M thru Th) at Dominoes and wrap each piece in plastic wrap and freeze it. One piece every three or four days and I satisfy my pizza fix for the week. Thawing it out properly is the key. Don't try to microwave it quickly. Instead of 1 minute on high, I do it at 20% (level 2 of 10) for 6 minutes then burst heat for 15 seconds on high. Your mileage may vary. I move it in the oven a few inches at least once to avoid cold spots.

    Whereas, Pizza Hut has always been expensive. I solved that problem 20 years ago and haven't graced their doors except when someone else is paying.

    We used to get Domino's delivered almost ever Friday night where we lived before. But when we moved out of that city to the house we bought in 2001, there was no Domino's close enough to deliver. There still isn't. But my new neighbor told me about Freschetta pizza. I told him that we don't like eating cardboard. He said I should just try it once. I'm glad he did. We don't miss Domino's anymore. The pizza is like fresh dough. It isn't pre-cooked, the dough rises in the oven. There's a nice little kick to the sauce, too. It's very tasty stuff. We get it whenever it's on a good sale, like we did just yesterday. We have a good sized freezer, so we usually get four when we buy it.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    lamenting the content coulda bought, but can't eat content hungreeee


    no understands how the moon is rising 8:18am isn't the moon a night time thing?

    The moon "rises" approximately 50 minutes later each day. So there are times when it's up during the daylight hours.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    AtticAnne said:
    I would be more interested in watch March Madness on tv if the games were played on a field, eleven players on each team, and the ball was pointy instead of round.

    My Saturday night life: Is it time to go to bed yet? Screw it, I'm sleepy so I'm going to bed regardless.

    Yeah, we need year-round football... :shut:

    Last night.. go out to bar, it's crowded, stayed for 2 beers, came home and chatted online. I used to not mind crowds, but as I've gotten older I'e developed a serious crowd aversion... :blank:

    Oh well...

    ...same here. One pub I frequent is rather mellow though they get decent business but it's not like a mosh pit tying to get around inside the place. Sadly the German pub is both popular and somewhat small so it get's busy quick there on a weekend.

    Any pub or club where I feel I need the cattle prod with the triple size D batteries to get people to move out of my way is a place to avoid.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...same here in Portland. Just a glorified streetcar with illusions of being a rapid transit system. And they keep building more lines at price tags in the billions while cutting essential bus service in areas not even served by LRT.

    The new streetcar in Washington, D.C. was supposed to open last year, but it has not opened yet. The current mayor is hoping it will open this year. A street car project in Arlington was scrapped after years of study. Officials never did give a good reason (or at least a regular civilian like me would understand). At least the buses and subway trains are still running.


    ...there is talk I have been hearing that DC may actually abandon their trouble ridden system.

    My old hometown of Milwaukee WI is now considering a streetcar project that a lot of people there think is a total waste of money.

    Oh, then Milwaukee will definitely go with the project! :smirk:

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited March 2015

    Rezca said:
    what do they call pancakes by you?

    hotcakes? flapjacks?

    "Food to be eaten" :)


    real maple syrup :-P
    ...yes. None of the pseudo artificially flavoured High Fructose rubbish.

    That's why I don't go to places like IHop or Dennys for hotcakes or waffles because they don't have the "real thing".

    The interesting thing is Real maple syrup has a longer shelf life as well. .

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,563
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Rezca said:
    what do they call pancakes by you?

    hotcakes? flapjacks?

    "Food to be eaten" :)


    real maple syrup :-P
    ...yes. None of the pseudo artificially flavoured High Fructose rubbish.

    The interesting thing is Real maple syrup has a longer shelf life as well.

    I hate the high fructose corn syrup that is gotten here for pancakes.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited March 2015

    imagine paying 12 cents for a comic :lol: http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ll44.jpg

    keyboard doesn't even haz a cents symbol


    ...yeah,now they cost almost as much as a paperback novel did a few years ago.

    ...and they still have Adverts!


    Also part of my rationale for never wanting cable television these days. If I have to pay nearly 100$ a month for it I shouldn't have to deal with commercials. Back in it's early days the advantage of what was then called "Pay TV" was being able to get commercial free programming.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,563
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    imagine paying 12 cents for a comic :lol: http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ll44.jpg

    keyboard doesn't even haz a cents symbol


    ...yeah,now they cost almost as much as a paperback novel did a few years ago.

    ...and they still have Adverts!


    part of y rationale for never wanting cable television. If I have to pay nearly 100$ a month for it I shouldn't have to deal with commercials. Back in it's early days the advantage of what was then called "Pay TV" was being able to get commercial free programming.

    I do not see the point of television any more other than to watch ads for different companies with some kind of stupid program mixed in it most of the time.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited December 1969

    Comics used to be a dime. And Hershey bars were a nickel in the 50s. And you could get a 6oz CocaCola for a nickel too.

    The gas stations had pictures of green dinosaurs on their signs, and leaded gas was a good thing!

    Everybody smoked. Filters were for wimps. Lobster tails were huge and omnipresent in every little restaurant. Plastic was a rarity. TV & radios came in solid wood cabinets of walnut, cherry or oak. Everybody burned their own refuse because there wasn't any plastic in it. Delivery vans came to your house to refresh your weekly stash of potato chips with another 5 gallon metal can of them. Kids played outside all day and came home tired and muddy. Every kid had eaten his share of dirt to get the essential exposure to germs to develop a healthy immune system. People died at 60 like they were supposed to and your neighborhood doctor knew how to fix the everyday problems until then, and for a reasonable price too without insurance, and he may have had a slightly better house than you but didn't live in a mansion, and did housecalls too. Grandmothers wore ugly granny dresses, and their houses smelled like pasta and cookies and lilacs and that old people smell.

    .
    ...yeah, there was penny candy, a loaf of bread cost 15¢ (18¢ for rye). Bus fare was 25¢ (10¢ for kids) with a 1 hour transfer and a weekly unlimited pass was 4$. 50¢ got us kids a bleacher ticket, hot dog and a Coke at Braves games (including the bus ride to/from the ballpark). A burger, fries, and Coke at MickyD's was a real "value meal" at 35¢ (and there was no clown involved). A one gallon glass jug of the old A & W root beer was 99¢ + deposit of 20¢ for the first one (which you could just wash out, bring back, and refill). Pop was still sold in glass bottles, There was milk and juice delivery. We got most of our groceries and meats at the corner market down the street.

    ....yeah could go on but then would start sounding like granddad...

    ,,,waitaminute, I'm now as old as he was back then...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    besties

    this why no vs

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    I have this strangest feeling that it is still Sunday but I worked anyway. Is it still Sunday?

    yep. all day :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,259
    edited March 2015

    I've solved the pizza problem. I pick up a $7.99 three topping pizza (M thru Th) at Dominoes and wrap each piece in plastic wrap and freeze it. One piece every three or four days and I satisfy my pizza fix for the week. Thawing it out properly is the key. Don't try to microwave it quickly. Instead of 1 minute on high, I do it at 20% (level 2 of 10) for 6 minutes then burst heat for 15 seconds on high. Your mileage may vary. I move it in the oven a few inches at least once to avoid cold spots.

    Whereas, Pizza Hut has always been expensive. I solved that problem 20 years ago and haven't graced their doors except when someone else is paying.


    ..we have a local chain here which sells fresh made to order "you bake" pizzas. Not badly priced especially if you order online (you get a 25% discount). Of course you still have to go down to the shop and pick it up but much better than those "frozen cardboard biscuits with tomato flavouring and plastic cheese" (as Consumer Reports once referred to frozen pizzas in an article many years ago).
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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    maple syrup good subst for recipes wanting molasses

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