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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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cash crab posted:

Not sure if this counts, but this happens to my thumb whenever I grip anything:




There's another gross trick I can do with it, but I'd have to film it and I don't have the energy for that. Plus, it's not as impressive if you can't hear the soft crunching sounds.

My joints are all hosed. Half of my fingers naturally bend backwards almost 45 degrees.

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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We rescued him on Friday :3:

(for further details, keep up with the Cute Thread)

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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This made me remember those terrible Disaronno commercials where the drink is like "Disaronno & _____" and has literally two ingredients but think it needs instructions. It's like the alcoholic equivalent of Rachel Ray's midnight bacon recipe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPa3xD2fvNg

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Iron Crowned posted:

Midnight Bacon? What properties set it aside from hangover breakfast bacon?

I think food network took it down but various outlets captured the original: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/11/secret-ingredient-in-rachael-rays-minimalist-bacon-recipe-is-hilarity

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Arcsquad12 posted:

Jenna is good though and she puts the effort in for her jokes. And her dog is cute.

She and Julien are into some dumb vegan poo poo that annoys me, but they're not obnoxiously promoting it. I really like that they make a point of specifying they're gluten-free because of actually having celiac disease, and that people who do so for no reason actually make poo poo harder for those who do have a genuine medical problem.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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https://i.imgur.com/RIOeAlx.mp4

EDIT: Intended for another thread, but who cares. Enjoy perplexed birb.

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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computer angel posted:

That's the only one of these I've laughed at. Lol birds.

Well poo, I'm dumb and this was meant for the cute thread. This one just also uses the bright pink CUTE icon.

Oh well, enjoy.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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But with the upside of not having to deal with reddit.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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hamsystem posted:

Thirding. I spent like $40 on a razor, a hundred blades, and a tube of Cremo about 3 years ago for shaving around my neck and I'm nowhere close to running out of anything.

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I love the girl in the background whose world is forever changed.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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The Bloop posted:

I mean, no, but the 1000000 questions on OKC were good enough to at least give you massive red flags on weirdos most of the time in my experience

Mind you this was over a decade ago and things may have changed since I used it

:same:

A friend who still uses it tells me it hasn't really changed. I had a few questions I always checked before reading anything else, stuff like "How often do you read books?" or "Is separation of church and state important?". Nowadays I'm sure that list would grow to include "Should vaccines be mandatory?" or "Who did you vote for in the 2016 election?".

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Picnic Princess posted:

My husband smokes, I do edibles because my lungs are garbage

Mine too :smith: :respek: :smith:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yup. A diamond company wanted to sell more diamonds and make more money so they reached as far up their own asses as they could and yanked out "you demonstrate your love by spending at least a month's salary on an engagement ring. Oh by the way it has to be a diamond and we just happen to have a lot of really nice ones!"

You stopped too soon. You didn't get to the part where they realized they could label and mark up poo poo diamonds that used to be sold cheaply for industrial purposes as "chocolate diamonds", because every woman is obligated to lose her mind at the mere mention of chocolate.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Lakedaimon posted:

My friend was engaged to a woman who set a minimum price on her engagement ring, it had to be at least like $500 more than the one her sister got.

My dad's bitch of a new wife had never had a real job in her life, lived with her rich parents who were paying for her to just take 1 class a semester endlessly to pretend she was getting a degree and working toward some kind of career. 100% gold digger. I was 11 or 12 when I distinctly remember a demand being made over a board game night. Her ring had to be a minimum of 2 carats.

I think the final ring had a custom band, a 2.5 carat stone and another half carat of tiny ones worked into the band design or something. Fast forward to a wedding involving a chartered helicopter landing at the reception to take them to JFK where it landed right at the gate to their flight to Tahiti to stay at Hotel Bora Bora for 3 weeks (this was pre-9/11 and my dad's an air traffic controller.....he loves telling the story of boarding the flight and the rest of the passengers being in awe, it's his favorite story about how important he thinks he is).

Even young me knew this was all a giant red flag. I can't even begin to estimate how much he spent on all of this.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Nuevo posted:

Not that this is remotely thread appropriate, but Gustav Holst's The Planets is loving rad.

Here's Mars, the Bringer of War:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I&hd=1

Jupiter of gtfo :colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo

Tubgoat posted:

That, pianos and violins, yeah. Even the most uptempo classical sounds like boring and lovely to me, no matter how complex it is. Also, I used to tolerate melodic/symphonic metal, but I just can't do it now.

Unrelated: Nice AUG avatar you got there. :stonkhat:

I've run into this before, and they almost always have a very narrow exposure to classical. I usually suggest some lesser known works; everyone knows one or two Beethoven symphonies, but I argue his quartets were better (though the 2nd and 3rd movements are hit or miss for each, 1st and 4th are usually great):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejL43BmxL20&t=1146s

Or solos that will make you go, "Huh, they're younger than I am....wtf have I done with my life :smith:" The go-to there is Paganini: Destroyer of Egos. Holy gently caress the double stops in this make my fingers hurt just listening to them.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpnIrE7_1YA

Actual thread content: The entire goddamn state of Florida belongs in this thread. Florida man is at it again, this time watching virtual porn in a library and forgetting to plug in his headphones.

https://twitter.com/madisonaldrman/status/1063164486008389634

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Intoluene posted:

Pretty sure that one showed up on the last iteration of this thread to multiple pages of dismay.

Yup, in the AUG hall of fame right next to neck fungus, legs, that guy with maggots living in his gums.....

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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You can be allergic to anything. Like semen. Or water.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Fatty using 2 fingers on his right hand and has massive string burn on his left forearm. Yup, you're a total badass :rolleyes:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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gey muckle mowser posted:

I’ve been to that duck, it’s just a tiny gift shop inside selling big duck related touristy crap

:same:

Makes me mildly nostalgic for home on Long Island. I find this has been growing ever since my father and his new wife I don't speak to moved away.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Alright, I've finally discovered where the line is for me. Excuse me while I unfollow for a bit until the thread moves on from the tooth thing.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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That's enough internet for me today.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I'm a chef, and the whole thing is that I cook for everyone. Potlucks are almost universally bad.

Not a chef, but :same:

We've done a number of these in the past for my girlfriend's lab at school, and it is just easier for me to cook most of it and then "everyone bring a dessert or something". People are unreliable enough, you don't need the core of the meal hinging on their planning and time management skills (most of them just show up with a box of cookies they obviously bought at Publix on the way over). A bigger turkey costs almost nothing extra, and I'm buying everything already....this way I gain slightly less weight by having fewer leftovers.

I don't mind. It's my favorite holiday because it was the only one my father just always gave to my mom without a fight and there was no drama (he was greedy and wanted the overtime hours, and then he can just duck in to his new wife's parents' house just long enough to eat and not have to help prepare or clean). I've helped cook for Thanksgiving with my mom since I was 9, so I'm the only one in the group with experience cooking such a large meal.....not technically complicated, but it's a lot to juggle for most home cooks if they haven't done it before.

The only awkwardness is most people's kitchens aren't even close to well-equipped, so I end up having to bring a ton of poo poo with me. At least 5 gallon brewing buckets are great for transporting a turkey in a brine bag.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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chitoryu12 posted:

I think the actual canon explanation is that it was to accommodate Muggleborn students who were used to having toilets and not just dropping trou on the spot like an animal.

As awful as some of the info from Rowling is, she does do a good job of portraying wizarding society as socially and mentally crippled by not having to develop non-magical methods of doing everything in life.

Yeah that was canon. Same explanation for why the bathrooms aren't actually anywhere near the dormitory areas (oddly a pretty significant plot point) where they would make sense, they were added after the fact since plumbing came around a few centuries after the school. Before that, everyone was pretty much on the same page with just making GBS threads in your bedroom (chamber pots).

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Tubgoat posted:

The world may not have been objectively better in the 90s, but Nickelodeon sure as gently caress was.

Amen.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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None of my patients' owners when I was a vet tech ever brought me apology cakes and I had way worse poo poo happen than some butt juice spray :smith:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:

The horror of this photo just keeps unrolling as you pan from left to right...

Not only is the white dress so tacky, it also is ill fit & unflattering on her torso, then you see the wedding dress, then the doughy failsons...

E: AHHHHH I JUST REALIZED THEIR BOUTONNIÈRES ARE T FOR TRUMP AHHHHHHHH

She must use the same tailor as her dad. Also wtf is with the entire Trump family's weird loving hands in photos. They always look like aliens who are uncomfortable in human costumes.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Tashilicious posted:

Kingsley and Lee Jordan. I think that's literally it. Also Lee Jordan isn't described as black in the book he just is in the movies.

Dean Thomas and Angelina Johnson. And I think one of the douchebag stereotypes in Slytherin from one of the later books. One of Ginny's boyfriends is referred to as "the dark one" but was white in the movies.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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The Bloop posted:

Purity testing everyone by their worst views or decisions, even when they are on balance very good people in the context and totality of their life such that there essentially ARE no "good" people in the world thereby essentially invalidating the entire premise.

The current trend of doomer cynicism is very ugly.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for years, which has only accelerated since Trump took office....and I argue is why he's in office in the first place. There is this endless infighting and attacking of those who are very clearly on the right side and working for good, which undermines the cause. One thing regressives are exceptionally good at, for all their other faults, is putting aside comparatively minor differences to present a unified front.

I've drifted apart from some friends in recent years because their constant, performative, more-woke-than-thou posturing was frankly exhausting.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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I think the probation that just appeared for him and his rap sheet in general answer this question.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Ror posted:

I will always love the video of Feynman getting irritated at the guy who just wants a simple answer on how magnets work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

This demonstrates my biggest problem with a lot of modern science disseminators: Feynman's answer here is so much more interesting and gives you so much more to think about than some pandering over-simplification.

Outreach is wonderful and necessary, but it should provoke more questions, not provide simple answers. This is also the fundamental difference between mediocre teachers and outstanding ones. To do otherwise is counter-productive and leads to this problematic assumption that scientists should always be able to give simple answers and that most things are known and understood.

Something I've always admired Feynman for throughout his career was his willingness to admit (and, indeed, put a strong emphasis on) how much we don't understand about the universe. You don't inspire people to become scientists by showing them the cool poo poo we can already do. Show them something weird and unsolved and walk away, and maybe they'll want to scratch that itch in their brain.

Sorry, you put a Feynman video in front of a physicist and this is what you get.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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On the one hand, at least it won't be visible for long before it crusts over.

On the other, :suicide:

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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And then I noticed the GoPro mounted to the frame looking up.

I've had enough internet for one day, I think.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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HazCat posted:

The real AUG was the friends we made along the way.

And their playmats


Saddest part is this is official WotC poo poo, not some die-hard making a custom alter or something. They did a whole weaboo bait series of alternate art (only available on the Japanese printings, naturally) during War of the Spark.



Foil copy of that will run you over $200 even though it rotated a few months ago and doesn't see sanctioned play anymore; that price is 100% driven by collectors who just want to look at it.


HazCat posted:

wait what thread are we in

I had to ask myself this, but I guess it's inevitable given the AUG in the community for this game. My favorite will always be:



The man in black is not the AUG, he was the hero we needed. Sadly WotC did not agree and suspended him for 2 years for "bullying" rather than take this as a wakeup call that this game has a major image problem that his photos highlighted.

There's a whole gallery of rear end.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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The Bloop posted:

Alternate art is good actually

WotC is releasing a set of Bob Ross lands called Happy Little Gathering

And that's GREAT

Those are amazing, though the Secret Lair "OMG KITTIES!" will always be my favorite.



I can just do without the anime tits being officially endorsed as part of the game, keep that in Force of Will (the game, not the card).

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Question Mark Mound posted:

I may be the idiot here, but does having Japanese artists make card art for some of the Japanese prints really count as “weeaboo bait” as opposed to “appealing to the local market”?

That's fair. I honestly don't know how popular these are in Japan, I can only speak to who they seem to appeal to here who are shelling out hundreds for these things.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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bandaid.friend posted:

What kind of pornography is worth two thousand dollars a box? I assume a box is under fifteen kilos

Maybe really old Playboys :shrug:, a quick google shows the Marilyn Monroe issue goes for over 2 grand in ok condition, way more if it's pristine. But the "and videos" makes that seem unlikely...we're talking quantity, not quality.

Not gonna lie, though, this hits too close to home. My rear end in a top hat father sold off my old video games and some old toys at a yard sale after I went to college without telling me. I only found out when I finally got a place off campus and figured I'd rescue that stuff from the garage over xmas break. He definitely sold some stuff that would be worth thousands today (even ignoring any sentimental value) for a couple bucks.

EDIT: My wife pointed out they mention "sex toys" in the boxes and those aren't cheap, and some of the quotes from the parents hint that it was probably gay porn they overreacted to. Articles about this are reminiscent of the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit stuff trying to make it sound frivolous and stupid, "lol someone sued over their mom throwing out their porn", but the plaintiff is in the right.

You can find the court docs: https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/61/d3/eb8906804d9d8611929a299c3e51/werking09915960267.pdf

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Meanwhile bell bottoms made a weird comeback at the same time. Nothing touched a millennial's ankle from like 1998 to about 2005.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Florida Man™️ out for a stroll here in my town today.

Linked because of a blurry wiener

Ironically, he's also the only person in this state wearing a mask.

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BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

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Definitely a sword. People were freaking the gently caress out on nextdoor (swore Id never join that but it's been an amusing source of weird poo poo like this). Cops got involved so I'll be on the lookout for the report this week.

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