The Isolated Blurt Thread XXIX : So Stupid

[Que]

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Really loving the start of August.

It's good to find joy in the (very) little things.

I could dig your niche collecting on a quality vs quantity basis but if you wanna fill up some shoe boxes wit TOPS, you ought clock Nipples. He's almost got that bested just in the "Derp" sub-family of alts.

Lessee if'n I could recollect a few just of'n the top of my head. .

There was Derpmael, Koaladerp, Derpbody (or was it Busyderp? ) Derpmiles, and 4stDerp.

 

[Aquagal]

I was with a client today and heard gurgle gurgle gurgle...went to investigate. The toilet is flooding out of the base of the toilet. Maintenance guy says too many rockers on the toilet. I didn’t even know what he meant.

He explained people sit on the pot and start to rock. I didn’t even know that was a thing.

What a mess.

 

[Aquagal]

Aquagal has the bestest Bear Lasagna recipe.

What’s this? Uhhh no, gross. Bear meat is gross, gamey. I’ve had it four times and it was bad. The bearsagna was the worst.

 

[Noor]

Oh you should totally try it. It's over there on the Post Office side of the Minnehaha Creek area. Highly recommend. It would be a bit of a hike but if you headed over to Harriet Lake I'll bet you could just about burn off those calories with a couple of laps.

This is written by someone who has never been here

 

[Noor]

Hmm. Afraid I don't! Is it still around? I'm been in Minneapolis for just about three years. The enclosure for the pedestrian bridge over Washington gets quite icy and treacherous, though.

I hope it's gone, it was ancient. Yes, I use LowPro cleats here when it's icy.

Video or it didn't happen.

or audio

 

[Que]

This is written by someone who has never been here

You think?

I thought this was let's all astral project our presences week.

 

[Noor]

You think?

I thought this was let's all astral project our presences week.

Sure why not?

So ice cream parlors you might walk to in the cities are Izzy's, Grand old creamery and Sebastian Joe's. Edina is outside of the city, so you'd be unlikely to walk to it from one of the Lakes.
Major lakes in the cities are Lake Harriet, Lake of the Isles, Cedar Lake, Lake Nokomis, Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Cahoun.)

 

[Noor]

I have all the makings for ice cream and the bowl is in the freezer, it takes about 30 mins total and I haven't made any recently, how strange.

I should probably go to sleep, but maybe I should make some ice cream.

 

[Noor]

Used to always make cherry ice cream when B was alive.
I have strawberries, blueberry, good vanilla, almonds and maple syrup.
Lots of possibilities!

 

[Que]

Used to always make cherry ice cream when B was alive.
I have strawberries, blueberry, good vanilla, almonds and maple syrup.
Lots of possibilities!

I don't know the name of it but I recognize the bottle there's this brand of really good Mexican vanilla that my mom always had on hand. I can find that brand in all the little mercado's around me but it's not their version of genuine vanilla. It's imitation vanilla mixed with apparently real vanilla. I don't know what the point of that would be.

I should have looked for it when I was at the huge Asian market because even though it's primarily an Asian market they have different rows for other ethnicities and have a nice Mexican section which probably would have that vanilla.

 

[Que]

Used to always make cherry ice cream when B was alive.
I have strawberries, blueberry, good vanilla, almonds and maple syrup.
Lots of possibilities!

I'm getting the small one early this week because her mom has plans so I should do that. I still have never used my cusinart ice cream freezer since I picked it up at Goodwill. It appears that the previous owner never got around to using it either. I really don't need the carbs but already tonight I've had a bit of commercial vanilla ice cream that I bought to make root beer floats for the small one, and a fudgesicle which allegedly I got for her as well. I might as well eat well if I'm going to cheat.

She loves blueberries because she's never had real wild Maine Blueberries which are so much better that they make Michigan's completely tasteless. She'll eat them by the handful but I like to supplement with strawberries because I'm cheap and they're about a quarter of the cost. She like strawberries too, so we were at one particular store I passed on some horrific Lee (heh leaving that voice-to-text) overpriced and under portioned blueberries and grabbed a quart of strawberries for something like two or three dollars I think. As we were checking out I remembered that I forgot onions and so I hit another store on the way home and found a big package or reasonably priced blueberries and strawberries at $0.75 a quart. I love a bargain so I bought four quarts. Which is silly because it's still going to be just her and I and we can't eat 5 quarts of strawberries.

It's an artifact of coming from a large family and always stocking up on sale items.

I got home then didn't feel like I had any surplus energy after I got all the groceries and other things put away.. the if I put away I mean stash randomly in places that I'll forget where I put them.

Knowing that the strawberries would go to waste I went ahead and took the stems off. The word for taking stems off of strawberry exists, but at the moment it escapes me. ..........Hulling! Hulling is the word. I have no idea why it's called that because that sounds like you're taking the outsides off of a nut. I had to look it up. But I digress.

So anyway, I rinsed them, dried them, hulled them, and put them in layers on silicon in the freezer together with the blueberries I had intended to send home with her. My seal a meal is couple hundred miles away so I ziplock bag them in small batches with the idea that I would make smoothies with her on her return. It occurs to me though I could probably use those in ice cream.

I don't know if that would work though because I froze them whole. I'm thinking if I use the smallest ones it might work. Your ingredients list put that in mind. If I get a lot of my calories from honey I can pretend it's healthy.

Hey what do you know about Stevia? I mean I'm aware it's a thing and I'm worried that it's use for sweetening but I've never really used it. The other day I bought some ginger root beer sodas that were sweetened with stevia I wasn't really paying attention mostly I wanted just a six pack of root beer for my root beer floats I didn't want to buy a 12 or 24 pack because if they're here I'm going to eventually drink them and I don't drink my calories. Unless it's one of my annual shots of whiskey. When I got it home I find that it has zero calories which seems a little light in the calorie Department. So I'm thinking it's got Stevia supplementing a standard diet soda and I looked at the ingredients expecting aspartame or sucralose or something. But it doesn't have any of those things just stevia. No I just assumed that if Stevia is sweet it's the sugar of the stevia plant and sugar sugar and sugar has calories so this doesn't make any sense to me. I kind of like the flavor of the sodas but I got that definite metallic fake sugar feel to it and my theory on fake sugar being bad is because you get a signal to your brain telling you that sugars on the way and when sugar doesn't hit the brain the brain knows that and it says hey where the hell's my sugar go get me some sugar and now you're craving sugar more. I kind of got that same general feel with this but probably because I was thinking of it.

As a made for adults beverage I thought it was reasonably interesting in flavor but it wasn't the kind of sweetness that you could give to a kid with a sweet tooth and they would happily guzzle it down without complaint. The little one was always underweight so on doctor's orders we used to put sugar in with her milk to get her calorie count up to keep her off the floor of the growth chart. As a result she thinks water is a treat and really isn't all that interested in sugar.

 

[Saint Peter]

That shit will kill you.


Have a salad and shut the fuck up about it.

 

[trysail]

This is what happens when pseudoscience supplants actual science:

Give Up Your Gas Stove To Save The Planet? Banning [Natural] Gas Is The Next Climate Push
by Lauren Sommer

"(NPR)...Kate Harrison, the Berkeley City Council member who led the initiative...Andrew McAllister of the California Energy Commission..."​

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Welcome to the Soviet Union.
Welcome to Pol Pot and the Khymer Rouge.
Welcome to Animal Farm.
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This stupidity won't stop until the nutjobs actually succeed in killing a bunch of people.

The fruitcakes responsible for this idiocy want nothing less than to send humanity back to the Stone Age. They are economic and scientific illiterates and innumerates who want to force you to live in a cold, dark cave.





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[HarryHill]

or audio

..
THIS^

 

[trysail]

Which states actually do useful things ?

Which states do little except manufacture noise and shuffle paper ?



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[von_Bismarck]

Which states actually do useful things ?

Which states do little except manufacture noise and shuffle paper ?



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Your conclusion doesn't follow from the data. Try again.

 

[HisArpy]

..
THIS^

I'll settle for screen grabs.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Used to always make cherry ice cream when B was alive.
I have strawberries, blueberry, good vanilla, almonds and maple syrup.
Lots of possibilities!

I'm pretty sure blueberries and ice cream are an enumerated abomination in Leviticus.

"Thou shalt have no fruit before strawberries..."

 

[thør]

I hope it's gone, it was ancient. Yes, I use LowePro cleats here when it's icy.

I have a pair of Yaktrax Diamond-Grip that I keep in the car for icy situations where the Vibrum Arctic Grip soles on my shoes not enough.

 

[Sean]

Your conclusion doesn't follow from the data. Try again.

Even for him that's dumb.

 

[Adre]

Which states actually do useful things ?

Which states do little except manufacture noise and shuffle paper ?



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I see three of our most illiterate and backward states in the top five. Is that good?

 

[Sean]

 

[Hal9000_]

I see three of our most illiterate and backward states in the top five. Is that good?

It means they are the least efficient. As a % of national GDP, they use the most energy.

Not that states who use less energy are less productive. Actually, completely the opposite, those states MAKE energy.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[Que]

I see three of our most illiterate and backward states in the top five. Is that good?

No surprise that you and the other economic illiterates here don't understand the significance of that metric.

Power consumption has very good correlation and well documented causative reasons to the economic growth curve of a country or region.

Which is why there was nothing at all progressive about the economic restrictions that were the Paris climate accords. Unless you look at it as a Robin Hood style tax the rich and redistribute to the poor brand of progressivism but it certainly isn't God helps those that help themselves sort of plan for the developing world.