Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I actually liked like whole personal assistant thingy windows used to have.

I would always pick the dog.

I can't wait for the GOTY edition of What's In Ned's Head, with over 20 extra objects and the What's In Ned's Lab Rat DLC.

Tfw you order the Eggs Benedict and receive fried eggs on toast drowned in ranch dressing.

😐

I mean, I'll eat them, but this is not what I had in mind...

That sounds horrible

You just need to remove a few layers of ranch... Then you can pretend it's meant to taste like garlic.

But yeah this is going to my list of "places that sell fake Eggs Benedict".

So this may be Google's leaked controller; they're still going to launch a console, right?

Ah, these were just friendly jabs, a bit of good-natured fun, and the actual names or wanted names were restored shortly thereafter.

As for the pizza toppings: agreed on ansjovies and olives, although in my case it would be ALL olives. Just don't like them. Strangely enough, I do like these spreads (or tapenades as they're called here) that contain olive, but in combination with herbs and tomato and what not. You put a tiny layer of it on French or Italian baked bread. It's kind of an appetizer or a side dish.

Oh, and I actually don't like any kind of fish on a pizza. That's just wrong.
But other than that, I like almost all of them, but my favorite ones are with pepperoni and/or salami. It just tastes good in combination with cheese, in my humble opinion.

I also used to like calzones, but it depends on where you get them, because some places just put way too much sauce in them, making the whole a soggy mess once you slice it open, so in general, I just stick to normal pizzas.

@ReaderRagfihs What the... ???

@AxeltheBuizel Somehow, I can't help thinking that there's probably also already an X-rated version of this game. Poor Ned and his various body parts...

@Octane That looks like Google hired some designer who got fired from the Ouya team.
I'm already experiencing the phantom pains of having to hold that abomination for prolonged periods of time...

@ThanosReXXX It looks pretty comfortable, if I were a dolphin.

I don't like olives either.

I always have to fish up the olive they put in tamales because sometimes I just end up bitting on it by accident, and ugh the flavor just overpowers everything.

It gets worse when it's a whole olive with the pit still inside. Then it's a dangerous surprise.

I'm fine with olive oil though.

@Morpheel I still have nightmares about black olives. Somewhere around the age of 10, I was on holiday with my family in Spain, and while the parents were drinking and playing cards near the beach bar, me and the other kids were swimming in the ocean.

Having had enough of the salted water, especially after having accidentally ingested some, we got out and went back to our parents, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a small saucer of blue grapes on my parent's table. Those sweet grapes would easily be able to make me forget all about that sea water, and so before anyone could stop me, I put two of them in my mouth, only to find out that they weren't grapes at all, but something that tasted like nothing I've ever eaten up to that point. And it was disgusting...

Luckily, all us kids got soda pops (such as bright orange Fanta, which we many years later found out was toxic as hell, but who cares, it tasted great) and some of these fancy sugared breads filled with pudding, and donuts. In that respect, any American with a sweet tooth should feel right at home over there...

Oh God expecting a grape and having an olive, that sounds horrible 😬

@ThanosReXXX Kids are foolish. I did a similar thing once. My family went to Arizona to visit my grandma and uncle/aunt for Christmas. I was about 5 or so I think. Anyway, I went outside to play and the sun was starting to set. I see this bright orange fruit-like thing, so I pick it up and turn towards the kitchen windows to show everyone. Then I see them all yelling, and I look down.

The “fruit” had been covered in those translucent cacti needles that you don’t feel going in. Had been covered... It took a good hour of my RN grandma to get all but three out of my hand. Still have the divots where three had to stay in.

Kids are dumb.

Was it a cactus fruit. Because those are usually edible.

Just... Hard to handle.

@Morpheel Trust me: it WAS horrible...

@AlohaPizzaJack Well, I wouldn't say that this was a case of kids being foolish. You can't be foolish if you don't even know, and I've never seen or eaten an olive in my life, up to that point, so to me, it looked like grapes. And coming from the ocean, on a hot day, squinting in the sun with a salt-crusted face probably didn't help my perception skills either...

Of course, thinking back now, with an adult mind, you'd think you'd easily be able to see the difference between a rather solid black looking olive, and a semi-translucent blue grape, but that's just not how it works in real life.

I think the same applies to your example. You simply had no way of knowing, because you didn't have a logical frame of reference to anticipate what it was and what could happen.

So, I'd like to replace foolish with 'adventurous', 'impulsive' or 'unrestrained'.
Qualities that do tend to bring kids in far more trouble than necessary, but also qualities that, in my humble opinion, WAY too many constipated adults have lost, and that's not a good thing.

@ThanosReXXX No, you misunderstand me. Children are great at being adventurous. But as an adult, I find it easier to put them in a category with adults for some actions. Should I have been picking up things at dusk in the desert? No, I should not have. I was stupid. Kids are stupid. They’ve gotten away with not being called out on it for too long!! 😜

Regarding the names, I'm sure @ReaderRagfihs would have something to say about that... Edit: Ninja'd.

I like black olives for some reason but never have cared for green olives. I used to think it was the pimento that's usually stuffed into green olives, but I've learned that removing it from the equation does very little to help the taste. As for green peppers...people just tell me to pick them off, but by then the juice has already corrupted the pizza. I can still taste it.

The dumbest non-animal thing I recall picking up as a kid was a large toadstool when I was around 5-6. I knew you could eat mushrooms and fry them up (commonly morels around here) but didn't understand that some were poisonous. I found it in the yard and brought it in to my mom, and she freaked and told me to wash my hands. Luckily, I hadn't put them in my mouth.

As for living things...there's a whole laundry list of them. I like animals and now know to give wild ones their space, but that concept took a bit to sink in as a kid. Let's just say I'm pretty fortunate that I never sustained any really bad spider bites.

Ragfihs loves his username.

....sighs
That cursed troll that I banned here....a year ago...he's STILL stalking my youtube channel and started leaving hate comments and dislikes on my videos again. wtf? -.-

Maybe block him...?

Report him every time he comments?