@Anti-Matter Oh yeah of course. Mail is still very relevant. It's just newspapers that are dead here. Class it interesting when we get to the textbook chapter where the example involves a newspaper or a home phone/landline phone. Most kids have never seen or used either at this point.
"Yes in the past we got the news on paper sent to our homes every morning. And if you wanted to call your friend, you used your home phone and had to ask whoever answered to give you your friend on the phone." We usually end up spending a 3rd of the class period just explaining those ideas to kids too young to know about them anymore.
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@HobbitGamer Squirrel meat? Man, you people are REALLY trying to test the powers of my stomach...
@NEStalgia Ah, if it isn't mr. "I don't believe in numbers from reputable sites"...
As for American foods: kid all you want, but sadly, that's probably true. Pots and pans slathered in Crisco and what not, and not too mention too much salts and sugars, add some weird, meat-like flavoring, and hey, presto! Gravy is born...
Oh, and Roundup is only used in gardens over here. Or rather: WAS used. It's on the no-go list nowadays...
@Tyranexx Well, as I already told NintendoByNature, I definitely WILL try biscuits & gravy some day, but I will NEVER try it in the morning. No amount of coaxing and/or debating will change my mind on that.
I just REALLY don't like hearty foods in the morning.
As for that British slang word: do you mean gtfo? Otherwise, I'm pretty much in the dark as to what else it could be. And me knowing nothing about "popular" source control platforms isn't really helping either. That part of your comment was probably bordering a bit too much on the tech nerd side...
On a side note: did somebody say PINEAPPLE PIZZA?
@Zuljaras Thanks for the update, always interesting to see it developing. By the way: are you using two types of clay, and if so, why?
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Sorry to cut out mid conversation yesterday gang. It ended up being the second nice day of 2020 (today is the third!), and we hit the outdoors and didn’t come back in until we were worn out. We had a huge walk, and got a bunch of yard work done. I also spent an hour alone in the car round trip, and it oddly was one of the most peaceful hours of the last three weeks. It was a great day.
@ThanosReXXX - Cool, you had quite a nice variety of gaming magazines then. I had a variety of subscriptions, but NP was my only gaming mag. Yeah, it sure was sweet to sit down with a fresh copy of a newly arrived magazine and spend an hour being mesmerized by the words and pictures inside. Do you have any experience with MAD Magazine? It was up there with NP as my favorite monthly arrival.
@NintendoByNature - I’ll post the recipe for you. I try B&G every time I’m at a new place for breakfast, it’s basically how I judge a new breakfast joint. This homemade recipe is as good as the best B&G I’ve had at a restaurant. Bob Evans isn’t amazing, but they do have great (gross) B&G. If you’re ever traveling and have a chance, do it. They have two gravy’s. You want to be sure you order the brown sausage gravy for the B&G as opposed to the white homestyle.
@NotTelevision - You should talk to Hobbit about acquiring a mask if you have rando hobos sneaking through your gates, swiping all your newspapers and empty message bottles.
@ThanosReXXX Yes I use one brand but two types. The beige clay is softer and the grey clay is firm. I use it for pieces that need more details as it is harder to mess up
I am so glad that we have import of that clay here in Europe as it is from USA. Probably one of the best clays out there.
@bimmy-lee Yes I did. Not on subscription, but I did use to buy it every now and then. I even owned a MAD card game at one point. I have no idea where that has gone, though. Probably got lost in my first house moving adventure, when I went to live on my own, some 25/26 years ago.
@Zuljaras Ah, okay. Makes sense, I suppose.
Then again: I'm not a sculptor or clay artist, so what do I know?
Funny that you call the other clay "beige" while it looks more like flesh tone to me. In fact, if you'd leave the Cyclops' body in that color tone, it would actually look quite natural. All it would need is some highlighting and shading. And some arm hair, probably...
@ThanosReXXX I call it beige because it says on the box But it is too light for the skin and I would love to make it darker with light dry brushing. Anyway now I have to make some tools and stuff
@Zuljaras After I posted that reply, I already considered that it could also be how it comes across on a photo, which might not be how it looks in real life after all, so if you say it's too light, then you're probably right.
On a side note: I do still think calling it beige is a bit of a stretch though, so either the manufacturers of that clay are color blind, or the actual color tone of it is just not conveyed correctly on a photograph...
(well, at least not unless you use professional lighting and filtering)
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@bimmy-lee good to know thanks. I'll have to keep an eye out for a bob Evans then. @hobbitgamer@bimmy-Lee@Heavyarms55@NotTelevision@Eel on a side note to you guys, yesterday I solely used the drop box at nooks cranny and racked up 16k. I got a call this morning when i left my house saying the funds are being added into my account from yesterday; but that 16k never showed up. Anyone else have this issue?
@ThanosReXXX - Wow, I had that deck of cards and haven’t thought about them for decades. I believe it was a version of what we call Old Maid with Alfred dressed up as all the characters if I remember correctly. I was a fan of Cracked as well, even if it was a bit of a MAD clone.
@NintendoByNature - Weird. I can’t say I’ve had that happen, but I probably wouldn’t know because I’ve assumed it’s being deposited correctly and don’t double check. It goes straight to your savings, so I assume you checked at the ATM and it didn’t arrive. It doesn’t go into your pockets.
@bimmy-lee Over here, I believe it was likened to an old Dutch card game called "pesten", which basically means bullying. It is called that, because almost all cards mean that someone else gets some form of punishment. The closest international card game that is similar to the Dutch card game, is Uno.
@ThanosReXXX I didn't say I didn't trust the sites numbers. I said you're not applying them correctly, that's not how that particular set of data is used because it doesn't represent part of what you're trying to measure. Big difference.
American food...ohhhhh boy, FDA allows tons of toxins that are banned in Europe. Part of it is how they analyze things. EU has a sort of "better safe than sorry" policy. If there's credible evidence suggesting a link between a health issue and a food additive, EU bans it out of safety. FDA works the other way and requires something be absolutely proven to cause a health issue before they ban it. I'd say the EU way is overall better, but not always. There are many instances where things that are banned in the EU are done so hastily based on circumstantial evidence that in the end it turns out was never a problem. Aluminum cookware is one such example. (Despite the false remaining stigma, aluminum does not cause altzheimers - altzheimers leads to the body accumulating aluminum, and you get more aluminum from the food itself than the cookware, naturally.) So the FDA method does have some merit....the EU method has merit. But the lobbies are what kill it for us. So we have tons of bromides, thyroid disruptors, and pure toxins (like Roundoup.) in our food. They're actually stricter on new additives, but grandfathered ones are bad.
Worst case example is this one though. Our wheat supply. "Bread basket of the world" - more wheat than we know what to do with. Though you'd never guess it looking at supermarket shelves where everyone hoarded it like it's going extinct. But part of why we have so much is how we've pushed the envelope to strip it of flavor and nutrients in order to produce hearty maximum yield crops. We have a practice here, to further boost yield and bulk uniformity. If you spray roundup (or some other dessicant) on the crop a few days before harvest, it dries it out and makes it uniform for harvest faster. There has been back and forth with the Snopes refuting how widespread the practice is (never, ever, ever trust Snopes, which is little more than a mouthpiece of "re-education" by your betters more times than not.) But simple tests for glyphosate have turned up quite a bit of the stuff in most brands of commercial flour here. "not widespread" indeed. Basically: They spray roundup on our food to improve timing, profits, and yield right before they harvest it and sell it to the mill. It's in the bag, and has been tested as such.
That's illegal in EU. Though many other countries do do the same outside EU.
We do all kinds of nasty things to our food for the purpose of uniformity and production yield. Meanwhile we're hiding in our homes for fear of a plague, while hoarding tons of food that contains known poison hoping to be safe.....
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