Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[ROFL BOX 6,643]

14 hours ago, Doze said:

WPP (White People Problems.)

Is this entire thread meant for anything else?

[Superhero 8,692]

That my wife and kids are addicted to boba type tea drinks.

I track expenses, and I get the $4 here, $6 there drink receipts. 

It's getting more expensive than my coffee habit.

[Sam Lin 3,539]

Don't let them discover these. Somehow the boba stays chewy. They're like crack.

[ztejas 43,007]

#AsiansAfterDark

[Dnaguy 11,619]

On 10/3/2021 at 1:42 PM, conVINCEd said:

Ice maker on the fridge has been kaput for a while.  Not gonna pay to get it fixed because past experience tells me that it will just break again (side note, don’t buy a Samsung refrigerator).  So I pick up a couple of bags of ice a few times a week.  I am not that familiar with the players in the ice game, but Reddy Ice seems to dominate the DFW market.  I picked up a couple this week, and they felt a little light.  Took a look at the bag, and they have changed the bag size from 10 pounds to 7 pounds.  Same price.

 

Sam's sells ice.

20# for $2.50

[Sam Lin 3,539]

5 hours ago, ztejas said:

#AsiansAfterDark

Don't kink shame.

[Wally Pryor 5,231]

"If not for the illegal motion charge against the Cowboys the Chargers would be undefeated today."

No, you don't know that.  Had they beaten the Cowboys would that have changed their mindset / game plan the following week, or the next?  Would they have played w/ the same intensity in game 3 after winning game 2 against the Cowboys? 

Stupid as ass to project and make statements like this.  

[ROFL BOX 6,643]

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[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

Cross post to Wives thread...

[luke duke 6,363]

Ice maker on the fridge has been kaput for a while.  Not gonna pay to get it fixed because past experience tells me that it will just break again (side note, don’t buy a Samsung refrigerator).  So I pick up a couple of bags of ice a few times a week.  I am not that familiar with the players in the ice game, but Reddy Ice seems to dominate the DFW market.  I picked up a couple this week, and they felt a little light.  Took a look at the bag, and they have changed the bag size from 10 pounds to 7 pounds.  Same price.

Cheap motherfuckers who don’t keep their shit in working order.

[conVINCEd 21,468]

15 minutes ago, luke duke said:

Cheap motherfuckers who don’t keep their shit in working order.

I have paid to have it fixed twice.  The next expenditure in the refrigerator budget will be for a new one.

[ROFL BOX 6,643]

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Cross post to Wives thread...

Absolutely.  I mean, really... how fucking lazy ARE you?

[Bender Bending Rodriguez 1,667]

On 10/3/2021 at 1:42 PM, conVINCEd said:

Ice maker on the fridge has been kaput for a while.  Not gonna pay to get it fixed because past experience tells me that it will just break again (side note, don’t buy a Samsung refrigerator).  So I pick up a couple of bags of ice a few times a week.  I am not that familiar with the players in the ice game, but Reddy Ice seems to dominate the DFW market.  I picked up a couple this week, and they felt a little light.  Took a look at the bag, and they have changed the bag size from 10 pounds to 7 pounds.  Same price.

Bought a Samsung fridge when we moved into our house in 2015. It’s the biggest piece of shit in our home. Ice maker went out within two years and now it can barely stay cool, or you know, refrigerate. Neighbor moved in a few months after us, bought the same fridge and has had the same issues. 

[DigglerontheHoof 20,936]

9 minutes ago, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

Bought a Samsung fridge when we moved into our house in 2015. It’s the biggest piece of shit in our home. Ice maker went out within two years and now it can barely stay cool, or you know, refrigerate. Neighbor moved in a few months after us, bought the same fridge and has had the same issues. 

Yeah, I second this.  The ex and I bought one for our new house back in 2006.  Had the same issues.  Piece. Of. Shit. 

[closetohumping 17,336]

Putting your luggage on an empty seat at an airport bar

[closetohumping 17,336]

On 9/30/2021 at 11:43 AM, Sandman said:

Speaking of drawers, what's with this new trend of putting a 4 inch wide waistband on underwear? I don't need an extra belt, fuckers. 

It’s a girdle pretty much

[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

23 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Putting your luggage on an empty seat at an airport bar

But my bag is my drinking buddy.

[Guest Lobo]

13 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

But my bag is my drinking buddy.

Briggs Brother?  Reilly Relative?  

Edited October 5, 2021 by Lobo

[Superhero 8,692]

17 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

But my bag is my drinking buddy.

Emotional support Samsonite.

[Superhero 8,692]

As part of my kitchen renovation, I bought a new hood to go above the cooktop for $429.

 

The sheet metal shroud that goes above it was too short so I set out to buy an extension. It was selling for $120 but no-one had it.

Now it's back in stock, and it's freaking $189. No motor, no lights, no electronic control. Just a a freakin' piece of sheet metal. Holy shit.

[nnm 35,841]

27 minutes ago, Superhero said:

As part of my kitchen renovation, I bought a new hood to go above the cooktop for $429.

 

The sheet metal shroud that goes above it was too short so I set out to buy an extension. It was selling for $120 but no-one had it.

Now it's back in stock, and it's freaking $189. No motor, no lights, no electronic control. Just a a freakin' piece of sheet metal. Holy shit.

Our electrician hooked up our brand new Kitchen-Aid hood yesterday. Lights work, fan doesn’t. KA has a “help with installation” hotline. They will only help if it’s a KA installer, not a general contractor. So we are going to have to return it and get another. Supply chain means it’s probably 6 months out. 
Rage. 

[ztejas 43,007]

29 minutes ago, Superhero said:

As part of my kitchen renovation, I bought a new hood to go above the cooktop for $429.

 

The sheet metal shroud that goes above it was too short so I set out to buy an extension. It was selling for $120 but no-one had it.

Now it's back in stock, and it's freaking $189. No motor, no lights, no electronic control. Just a a freakin' piece of sheet metal. Holy shit.

I'm sure some dude at home depot could figure out a cheaper solution.

[Shoxthemonkey 1,972]

46 minutes ago, Superhero said:

As part of my kitchen renovation, I bought a new hood to go above the cooktop for $429.

 

The sheet metal shroud that goes above it was too short so I set out to buy an extension. It was selling for $120 but no-one had it.

Now it's back in stock, and it's freaking $189. No motor, no lights, no electronic control. Just a a freakin' piece of sheet metal. Holy shit.

@deadshank and @ROFL BOX know their way around sheet metal. Keep your $200 in Surly circulation.

[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

39 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I'm sure some dude at home depot could figure out a cheaper solution.

Good luck finding a dude.

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

That spellcheck informed me the word “edibly” is not a word.

Spellcheck is often wrong about the spelling of words it doesn’t recognize, but this time it was right.

Still, to me the phrase “that mushroom is edibly choice” conveys the info pithily. Compare, “That mushroom is edible and delicious.” One too many words. 
 

Maybe I’m surly because Texas’ “Drive Friendly”  campaign began about the time I realized society wasn’t getting any smarter. ‘Friendly’ isn’t the adverbial form of ‘friend,’ gotdammit!

Edited October 5, 2021 by Willfully Horn

[BonzoMontreaux 1,033]

Thanks Whirlpool!

Ditto.


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2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

That spellcheck informed me the word “edibly” is not a word.

Spellcheck is often wrong about the spelling of words it doesn’t recognize, but this time it was right.

Still, to me the phrase “that mushroom is edibly choice” conveys the info pithily. Compare, “That mushroom is edible and delicious.” One too many words. 

You think the edibility of mushrooms a lot.  And post on it a lot.  Some toadstool cock in your life you wanna talk about?  

[Sam Lin 3,539]

2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Still, to me the phrase “that mushroom is edibly choice” conveys the info pithily. Compare, “That mushroom is edible and delicious.” One too many words. 

"Shrooms: high as fuck" is even more succinct.

[ztejas 43,007]

4 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Good luck finding a dude.

Some lesbian?

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

14 minutes ago, Lobo said:

You think the edibility of mushrooms a lot.  And post on it a lot.  Some toadstool cock in your life you wanna talk about?  

Glad you asked. Always been fascinated with mushrooms. Just today I heard from a friend that a conversation we had bore fruit, as it were, and she had taken the steps to include spore inoculation into the City of Austin’s land restoration projects.

To your point, amigo, mushrooms are much more interesting in their vaginal forms, and not merely for their al dente superpowers. Stag horns ARE funny, so I see why they come to your mind.
 

Edited October 6, 2021 by Willfully Horn
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[Guest Lobo]

Show me on the cap where the bad trip touched you.   

Your posts got me thinking about how much of that we consumed over the years.  Haven't eaten one in ~15 years even though I've seen some Dead shows since then (2009 & 2017).  I still think of this one time in college in Florida.  Somebody turned us onto this grove.  We went out there once, could barely find enough sustainence for one person.  We ended up the show which would be the last time I'd ever see Jerry Garcia perform live---Tampa, April 1995. 

Anyway, we went back there during summer school that year and jammed out to "Fields of Gold" by Sting on the way there.  Roommate and I got out with a standard 13 gallon trash bags 'cause that's all we could find.  Figured it'd be complete overkill.  We filled it up to the brim.  Never seen anything like it before or since.  We gave it away to anyone we could find on campus (this was a school of 3,000 students so during summertime it was maybe 300 and guess what?---everybody was eating shrooms that July, even the Baptist chicks).  We would boil it up as tea, make kool-aid, throw it to squirrels.  We didn't know how to preserve it so after about two weeks, and one really awkward evening with our neighbors...we figured out, "Yeah, these things have a shelf life and my brain just got pushed off that shelf."  What a fucking couple of weeks though.  We even watched a space shuttle lunch from New Smyrna Beach after eating.  I have seen a thing or two in my life, but that was from another world.  /csb

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

Since I’m now thinking of mushrooms and genitalia, I want to confess that, despite most of a lifetime desiring it, I have never found a clityocybe nuda mushroom. The book describes it as a fleshy, pink and purple cap shroom, which is EASILY PROPAGATED in a compost pile, and, if the book didn’t use the words “edibly choice,” it nevertheless conveyed the information.

It is on my list of Texas foodstuffs that haven’t realized their potential economic benefit.

 

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

30 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

"Shrooms: high as fuck" is even more succinct.

““Mushrooms have a benevolent, beneficent spirit behind them, which doesn’t mind humanity and what we are up to, and it doesn’t have it in for us.”
-Bob Weir

 

They're also good eats. (Though sometimes, only once). And, as I’ve said, they’re saving the bees.

Edited October 6, 2021 by Willfully Horn
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[Guest Lobo]

I have no idea about some of this flora you're describing, you're way more versed in this shit.  Literally.  But it reminds me one other that story and then I'll shut up because after all, we're just talking about pizza toppings.  No harm in that.   

So we're eating some at our off-campus rental house with Kenny.  Kenny was awesome and was literally the only Asian student on our campus that summer (again, small private, Baptist school in Florida).  So it's all kicking in and Kenny gets on this emotional tangent like "you guys are my best friends, let's do this every week..."  Kenny announces, like one person in the group always does, he's gonna bike back to his house and get some fun movies for us to watch (ends up being "true Romance" which was awesome...this is a year after it came out on shitty VHS).  Kenny runs out the door and 5 seconds later you hear screaming.  We all freak the fuck out.  It's broad daylight on a Thursday or Friday.  Kenny didn't make it past our back porch and fell into a thornbush.  Clothes caught most of 'em but one of his hands is just filled with the fuckers.  Wes and I get our collective shit together, sterilize some tweezers, and set about pulling them out one-by-one.  I was proud of our focusness.  Kenny cries and asks, "Am I rotting?" over and over again.  Starts freaking out everybody.  Scott and I talk him down and put on some Dead music.  Finally we finish and give Kenny some band-aids.  It's all good and we watch whatever we have around the house. 

Anyway, few minutes later Wes goes on this tangent about, "Glad you didn't end up on a bad trip Kenny.  Imagine how many early ancestors ate this shit and were having  a great trip for the first time in human history, but then some other caveman ate some of the bad kind and died in front of them.  Talk about a shitty trip, your buddy is dead and now you're wondering if that'll happen to you.  So much of human history must be like that, before people found out what tasted good, what felt good or safe to consume, what got you high or low...so many other people had to get sick or die right in front of you while you were trying to have a good time."  Scott and I freaking the fuck out, Kenny bolts out the door again and we did not see him for two whole days (a backwards ass redneck Florida town, with a lone Asian man in long-sleeves and pants in July...wandering the streets with a bandaged hand and crazy 'shroom eyes).  We got together and watched "True Romance" later that summer over beers and never talked about that whole fucking weird afternoon ever again.  But damn if this thread didn't take me back...

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

One more post before I turn my phone off. It turns out seeding fungus into the stumps of ligustrums will impair the ligustrum’s ability to sprout anew. That invasive plant provides cover for questionable human choices. The city removes a lot if that plant, which begs the question of what they were doing to stop those plants in the first place.

 

9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I have no idea about some of this flora you're describing, you're way more versed in this shit.  Literally.  But it reminds me one other that story and then I'll shut up because after all, we're just talking about pizza toppings.  No harm in that.   

So we're eating some at our off-campus rental house with Kenny.  Kenny was awesome and was literally the only Asian student on our campus that summer (again, small private, Baptist school in Florida).  So it's all kicking in and Kenny gets on this emotional tangent like "you guys are my best friends, let's do this every week..."  Kenny announces, like one person in the group always does, he's gonna bike back to his house and get some fun movies for us to watch (ends up being "true Romance" which was awesome...this is a year after it came out on shitty VHS).  Kenny runs out the door and 5 seconds later you hear screaming.  We all freak the fuck out.  It's broad daylight on a Thursday or Friday.  Kenny didn't make it past our back porch and fell into a thornbush.  Clothes caught most of 'em but one of his hands is just filled with the fuckers.  Wes and I get our collective shit together, sterilize some tweezers, and set about pulling them out one-by-one.  I was proud of our focusness.  Kenny cries and asks, "Am I rotting?" over and over again.  Starts freaking out everybody.  Scott and I talk him down and put on some Dead music.  Finally we finish and give Kenny some band-aids.  It's all good and we watch whatever we have around the house. 

Anyway, few minutes later Wes goes on this tangent about, "Glad you didn't end up on a bad trip Kenny.  Imagine how many early ancestors ate this shit and were having  a great trip for the first time in human history, but then some other caveman ate some of the bad kind and died in front of them.  Talk about a shitty trip, your buddy is dead and now you're wondering if that'll happen to you.  So much of human history must be like that, before people found out what tasted good, what felt good or safe to consume, what got you high or low...so many other people had to get sick or die right in front of you while you were trying to have a good time."  Scott and I freaking the fuck out, Kenny bolts out the door again and we did not see him for two whole days (a backwards ass redneck Florida town, with a lone Asian man in long-sleeves and pants in July...wandering the streets with a bandaged hand and crazy 'shroom eyes).  We got together and watched "True Romance" later that summer over beers and never talked about that whole fucking weird afternoon ever again.  But damn if this thread didn't take me back...

Yep. I wonder about the person who, observing the frothing and twitching body of the person who are twice-boiled poke, said, what if we boil poke THREE times?”

[Hook1997 5,256]

Celebrity kids and getting on tv and opportunities for their shitty talents or lack of any.  I’ve got Today on in the background while I work and they just had Brooklyn Beckham on cooking as he is now a want to be chef.  His feature course he made for them, Steak quesadilla, you would think some fancy spin or something right?  Nope cheap steak and store bought shredded cheese, that’s it.  Any ten year old could have made this.  

[closetohumping 17,336]

People that get unnecessary haircuts.   You’re basically bald.   Just making my wait longer 

[nnm 35,841]

1 hour ago, Hook1997 said:

Celebrity kids and getting on tv and opportunities for their shitty talents or lack of any.  I’ve got Today on in the background while I work and they just had Brooklyn Beckham on cooking as he is now a want to be chef.  His feature course he made for them, Steak quesadilla, you would think some fancy spin or something right?  Nope cheap steak and store bought shredded cheese, that’s it.  Any ten year old could have made this.  

That’s my go-to weekend lunch. Some leftover steak or chicken, cut into strips, put on a tortilla with cheese, in the toaster oven for about 5 minutes. I was not aware I was practicing haute cuisine. 

[Guest Lobo]

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

People that get unnecessary haircuts.   You’re basically bald.   Just making my wait longer 

Yeah, during Covid a friend of mine was trying to sell me on this gal he found that would come to his house and cut his hair for $75.  That way he didn't have to bother with an indoor barber shop that could may have Covid all around.  And he's really giving me the hard sell because I told him my wife was cutting mine during the serious lockdown months.  And the whole time, I'm trying not to cry laughing.  He's got maybe 20% of his hair left if I'm being nice.  He should have just let it grow out during Covid, but this asshole is spending $75 every three weeks.  I guess he was helping out a person who was likely almost out of a job.  But now we've both gone back to getting in-store cuts and making guys like you wait longer.    (my hair starting to thin a bit at the outset of Covid, but thankfully it's back and thicker than ever...I gotta get a cut every three weeks using razor, scissors, and thinning shears.  Sure it's going grey at light speed but it really is nice to have such a lush mop on my head, chicks dig it). 

[deadshank 24,646]

21 hours ago, Lobo said:

Yeah, during Covid a friend of mine was trying to sell me on this gal he found that would come to his house and cut his hair for $75.  That way he didn't have to bother with an indoor barber shop that could may have Covid all around.  And he's really giving me the hard sell because I told him my wife was cutting mine during the serious lockdown months.  And the whole time, I'm trying not to cry laughing.  He's got maybe 20% of his hair left if I'm being nice.  He should have just let it grow out during Covid, but this asshole is spending $75 every three weeks.  I guess he was helping out a person who was likely almost out of a job.  But now we've both gone back to getting in-store cuts and making guys like you wait longer.    (my hair starting to thin a bit at the outset of Covid, but thankfully it's back and thicker than ever...I gotta get a cut every three weeks using razor, scissors, and thinning shears.  Sure it's going grey at light speed but it really is nice to have such a lush mop on my head, chicks dig it). 

That's a $75 hair cut?

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

4 minutes ago, deadshank said:

That's a $75 hair cut?

And there ain’t no dance trophy at the end

[Guest Lobo]

5 minutes ago, deadshank said:

That's a $75 hair cut?

That's with scissors and a comb?

"Last I checked."  

[irishtexan 11,434]

On 10/5/2021 at 5:22 PM, Willfully Horn said:

That spellcheck informed me the word “edibly” is not a word.

Spellcheck is often wrong about the spelling of words it doesn’t recognize, but this time it was right.

Still, to me the phrase “that mushroom is edibly choice” conveys the info pithily. Compare, “That mushroom is edible and delicious.” One too many words. 
 

Maybe I’m surly because Texas’ “Drive Friendly”  campaign began about the time I realized society wasn’t getting any smarter. ‘Friendly’ isn’t the adverbial form of ‘friend,’ gotdammit!

I love that "one too many words" is what makes you surly, yet you follow up with this:

On 10/5/2021 at 8:31 PM, Willfully Horn said:

Glad you asked. Always been fascinated with mushrooms. Just today I heard from a friend that a conversation we had bore fruit, as it were, and she had taken the steps to include spore inoculation into the City of Austin’s land restoration projects.

To your point, amigo, mushrooms are much more interesting in their vaginal forms, and not merely for their al dente superpowers. Stag horns ARE funny, so I see why they come to your mind.
 

 

On 10/5/2021 at 8:42 PM, Willfully Horn said:

Since I’m now thinking of mushrooms and genitalia, I want to confess that, despite most of a lifetime desiring it, I have never found a clityocybe nuda mushroom. The book describes it as a fleshy, pink and purple cap shroom, which is EASILY PROPAGATED in a compost pile, and, if the book didn’t use the words “edibly choice,” it nevertheless conveyed the information.

It is on my list of Texas foodstuffs that haven’t realized their potential economic benefit.

 

 

On 10/5/2021 at 9:13 PM, Willfully Horn said:

One more post before I turn my phone off. It turns out seeding fungus into the stumps of ligustrums will impair the ligustrum’s ability to sprout anew. That invasive plant provides cover for questionable human choices. The city removes a lot if that plant, which begs the question of what they were doing to stop those plants in the first place.

 

Yep. I wonder about the person who, observing the frothing and twitching body of the person who are twice-boiled poke, said, what if we boil poke THREE times?”

You are one verbose motherfucker....

[Willfully Horn 7,911]

2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

I love that "one too many words" is what makes you surly, yet you follow up with this:

 

 

You are one verbose motherfucker....

Yes, you are right. That’s why I take pleasure in sometimes, ok, rarely, crafting a pithy sentence.

Edited October 7, 2021 by Willfully Horn
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[ROFL BOX 6,643]

WTF is wrong with you people?

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[Cheeseweasel 26,437]

 It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! 

[Trey3216 15,319]

On 10/7/2021 at 10:21 AM, deadshank said:

That's a $75 hair cut?

Doesn't come with a handy or nuthin'?  

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On 10/5/2021 at 12:21 AM, Sam Lin said:

Don't let them discover these. Somehow the boba stays chewy. They're like crack.

What store?

[Crapinon 2,244]

On 10/7/2021 at 6:26 PM, ROFL BOX said:

WTF is wrong with you people?

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A lot of people from Mexico and Central America will wipe their ass and throw the paper om the floor if there isn't a trash can because that's what they do at home. They're septic systems are pretty basic and can't handle a lot of paper so they just throw it on the ground.

[Prepuce of Doom 20,953]

^^^^Username checks out. 

I can't tell if that's what's going on in those pictures, or if it's just a shitty (haha) toilet paper dispenser that has too much rolling resistance or is otherwise defective in such a way that you get a thousand uselessly small pieces for every usable length you withdraw. 

If that's what's happening, then the toilet owner deserves whatever mess they get. 

Edited October 10, 2021 by Prepuce of Doom