Sooo, person below me

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

If price is not a consideration, Gatorade® or Powerade®?

Bleah! Water for me, thanks.

PBM, oceans or lakes?

[mjmlabs]

Lakes, preferably in the mountains.

PBM, got any plans for the solstice? (Thursday, 4:51 PM EDT, 7:51 PM PDT, 20:51 UTC for anyone who needs to calculate their own time.)

[mjmlabs]

No, huh? Well, I had a hoot and a half, and perhaps I'll let y'all in on it once various statutes of limitation have expired. I'm aware that self-answering is poor form, but so is leaving a moot query in play, so here we are.

PBM, planning on paying attention to Thursday night's CNN presidential debate? (Don't make me self-answer twice in a row on Friday, FFS.) Thursday, 9:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM PDT, 01:00 Friday UTC for anyone who needs to calculate their own time.

[Jaglavak]

Oh hell no.

PBM, how drunk is just enough?

[What Exit?]

When you're relax enough that the pool balls go where they are suppose to according to the geometry in your head. It is a small window before my hand/eye coordination drops too much.

PBM: What is your favorite obscure animal?

[mjmlabs]

[time out for side remark]

Originally Posted by What Exit?

When you're relax[ed] enough that the pool balls go where they are suppose[d] to according to the geometry in your head. It is a small window before my hand/eye coordination drops too much.

In my experience, the sweet spot is one double Wild Turkey at the start and beer-every-45-minutes maintenance drinking, with accompanying Diet Coke consumption as needed, thereafter. Your results will likely vary.

[We now return you to our regularly-scheduled programming, which is already in progress.]

I am forever amazed by, and indebted to, the book scorpion. ("Pseudoscorpion," if we're being pedantic, which is how the smart money always bets with this crowd.) Any enemy of booklice is a friend of mine.

PBM, what's an underappreciated music album that's "all killer, no filler" in your collection that you'd like to tell possibly as many as fourteen Gweebsters about?

[Metal Years]

I believe that Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult is a criminally underappreciated record



What is your favorite ice cream?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

What is your favorite ice cream?

I'm not big on ice cream, but when I do get some, Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia is my go-to.

PBM, same question about Potato Chip flavor?

[Metal Years]

Ok, I guess I like Fritos® and Doritos® and some of their many variations the best but here lately when I've gotten chips I'm looking for these Sweet & Spicy Honey potato chips from Lay's®.



Now that President Biden has dropped out in favor of Kamala Harris are you more, less or unchangedly excited to vote?

[What Exit?]

Way more excited to vote for the Harris running against the would be Fascist Dick-tater.

PBM: Should we leave politics out of PBM?

[Jaglavak]

Religion and politics are two excellent subjects to avoid.

PBM, What's your best pick-up line?

The last time I used a pick-up line was on my husband when I first noticed him in Sansone's bar. I asked him to shoot a game of pool with me. He beat me, the A-hole!

PBM, do you like to play pool?

[Metal Years]

I very much like to play but I'm really shitty at it.

What's you're favorite band that none of the rest of us have ever heard of?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

The last time I used a pick-up line was on my husband when I first noticed him in Sansone's bar.

you are married? have you ever mentioned this before?

[Jaglavak]

WTF?? Rebo edited my post! Just to clarify, I have never been to Sansone's and I do not have a husband.

[C2H5OH]

I hope we've untangled Rebo's meddling, and this is now the current question...

Originally Posted by Metal Years

What's you're favorite band that none of the rest of us have ever heard of?

Klaatu



PBM: Have you got another good, obscure band?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

WTF?? Rebo edited my post! Just to clarify, I have never been to Sansone's and I do not have a husband.

no judgment*, man, but I was pretty surprised.





* some of my best friends have been married.

[Metal Years]

PBM: Have you got another good, obscure band?

I've got a fuck-ton of them! Anacrusis, Dorothy Martin, Ann Peebles, Neighborhood Texture Jam... but I just posted in The Megapoll something from these guys:





Have you ever consumed a Clark® Bar and if so, did you like it?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

Have you ever consumed a Clark® Bar and if so, did you like it?

Nope, can't say I have.

Tripler
PBM: What's the deal with Nescafe? Is it just upscale instant coffee or what?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Tripler

Nope, can't say I have.

Tripler
PBM: What's the deal with Nescafe? Is it just upscale instant coffee or what?

It's French for 'Not Coffee'.

PBM: How would you say that in Tolkien's 'Elvish'?

[Jaglavak]

Sorry, I don't buy anything from them because Nestle kills babies.


PBM, Whats on your Never Forget list?

[Metal Years]

I'm very unlikely to exit the crib without money, inkpens and a lighter.

Do you remember the name of your 3rd grade teacher?

[silenus]

Yep. Mr. Clark.

PBM: What's your favorite item of clothing you break out when it finally gets cold?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by silenus

PBM: What's your favorite item of clothing you break out when it finally gets cold?

Socks.

I try to go in sandals everywhere downtown (except work), but when it's too cold, I'll wear socks with my sandals.

Tripler
PBM: What? Why are you staring at me like that?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Tripler

Socks.

I try to go in sandals everywhere downtown (except work), but when it's too cold, I'll wear socks with my sandals.

Tripler
PBM: What? Why are you staring at me like that?

Because you look like a freakish bum with those socks and sandals.

PBM: What freakish look does the PBU have? Insult the person who's going to reply to you. See who is willing to own it...

[Jaglavak]

Dude obviously wears sandals to let his fuzzy hobbit toes have room to roam. Now all he needs is a wee sword and a tunic.


PBM, Is the ammo for your AK all racked and stacked for election day?

[thorny locust]

Nope. I expect my neighbor will be out bowhunting for deer, does that count?

PBM, if you're eligible to vote in the USA, have you voted yet? if you're not eligible to vote in the USA, have you voted someplace else in the most recent election?

[What Exit?]

I'm going to walk to my polling place on election day. It is an 8 minute walk.

PBM: Are you going to dress up for Halloween?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by What Exit?

PBM: Are you going to dress up for Halloween?

Oh, hell no! I haven't done that since I was in my 30s.

PBM: What's your "Oh, hell no!" that you used to do, but haven't for years, and probably will never do again?

[etaoin shrdlu]

The ex-wife.
PBM: You ever try crack?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by etaoin shrdlu

PBM: You ever try crack?

I did once step on one, and my mother's spinal column, in fact, survived unscathed.

Tripler
PBM: Seriously, why do you keep staring at me like that??

[Jaglavak]

Sorry, its the hairy toes, man. Do you use product on that pelt?

PBM, Are you on a roll?

[Random Precision]

A roll? No, I'd say it was more of a biscuit or perhaps a scone.

PBM - What type of bread product is your yeasty kryptonite?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Random Precision

PBM - What type of bread product is your yeasty kryptonite?

sourdough toast

PBM - how many tabs/windows are open on your computer?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

PBM - how many tabs/windows are open on your computer?

Only one, but my bedroom (home office) window is open, t'which I should shut on account of the flurries coming in. But then again, it's keeping this old Windows 10 desktop from overhearing, so, there's a bit of a tradeoff; snow or lack of Internet.

Tripler
PBM: Should I upgrade my computer from ENIAC?

[C2H5OH]

I hear Cray XMPs go for cheap, these days.

PBM: Where the hell could I put one of those? It won't even fit in my living room if I got rid of all the furniture. And I don't want to upgrade the electrical service to run it.

[Jaglavak]

I'd say either a museum or a recycling center. And then get you an Nvidia Grace GPU featuring 40 petaflops of FP4 processing power from 416 billion transistors, which can support billion-parameter LLM inference workloads while also reducing energy consumption, for only $40,000.

PBM, Have you about had it with the acronyms?

[၍ᙡᗩᙢᙢᙦᖇᗠᗩᙢᒞ]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

PBM, Have you about had it with the acronyms?

Did you have to ask? I'd be delighted to return to the 20th century on several grounds. I think that century had fewer acronyms along with various other virtues. The 26^3 set allows over 17,000 possibilities if my tedious counting is correct.

But I'm afraid that 17,000 is not enough acronyms for present needs. I commonly get 3 or 4 hits and have to skim to see which one is indicated. 4-Letter Acronyms? Throw malarkey like this at me and I really will join the Insurrection.

I've been charged with exaggeration before, so I did n experiment after I wrote the above: I picked 'TMO' in part because I'd never heard of such (and part because it had occurred to me a few minutes ago: "Too Much Outrage"? "Too Much Obfuscation"?). I quickly found that the NYSE symbol for TMO dominated the hits. Once I added '-Fisher' to the Search, I got these results just on the first page.
TMO
* Thermo Fisher stock symbol
* The Michaels Organization
* The Metropolitan Organization of Houston
* Training Management Office (under army.mil)
* Merriam-Webster: TMO? Meaning: telegraph money order.
* The TMO-2 load cell signal conditioner is a standalone bench top ...
* T-Mobile International AG, a German telecommunication company
* TMO Tackle Tungsten Weights are the preferred weight of choice for anglers worldwide.
* Technology Management Optimization
* Transaction (or Transformation) Management Office
* Traffic Management Office
ETA/Nitpick: I overlooked " TMO " Official Music Video - | Ayaan Zubair | Aria Mody | Madhur Dhir which I'd opened in another tab.


PBM: Any interesting plans for Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever?

[Metal Years]

Since 2024 will be the final Christmases and Thanksgivings in America, I plan to go visit some folks in my old hometown.


When do you think Vice president-elect Jimmy-Don Blowman will figuratively stab Bitch-ass Donny in the back with the 25th amendment?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

When do you think Vice president-elect Jimmy-Don Blowman will figuratively stab Bitch-ass Donny in the back with the 25th amendment?

Yes, yes I do. But I think he won't have to: I predict that Orange-is-the-New-Fascist will be dead inside of two years due to a natural heart attack.

Tripler
PBM: I give him 15 months. WBY?

[thorny locust]

I dunno. I think he's already in dementia -- he's forgotten how to use a mic -- but people in that state often hang on for a long time.

I think Vance will wait two years from the inauguration to try to Article 25 him. That would let him run for two full terms in addition to the rest of Trump's, without the pesky nuisance of blatantly burning the Constitution.

PBM: would you rather talk about something other than politics in this thread?

[Flying Saucerian]

Yes, but I understand the need to rage and blow off steam.

PBM, what do you find helps you calm down and forget for a moment or two the impending nightmare?

[C2H5OH]

Marijuana and Booze.

PBM: One, the other, or both at once?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by C2H5OH

PBM: One, the other, or both at once?

Neither--never smoked, and walked away from booze years ago.

My stress reliever is lifting heavy things and putting them down again, lather, rinse, repeat. or, putting miles under my feet. Sometimes its both on the same day. . .

Tripler
PBM: What;'s your stress reliever?

[thorny locust]

Cats.

I used to split wood; but I can't do that for very long at a stretch, these days. However, I note that hitting something can be very therapeutic. Just be careful what you hit.

PBM, same question.

[silenus]

Weed, booze and cats. All at the same time.

PBM, let's keep it rolling. Maybe people can get some new ideas.

[JackieLikesVariety]

going outside, walking is good but sitting is better than being inside. drive to somewhere else to walk or just walk from the home.


PBM same thing

[Metal Years]

Walking is good, running is better for quelling anger for sure and maybe stress as well.

PBM: What is a TV show that currently runs on regular broadcast TV that you'd recommend?

[What Exit?]

Ghosts on CBS. Pretty funny and fun show. Based on the equally good UK version.

PBM: Are you ready for Opening Day of Baseball?

[Metal Years]

I guess. MLB has made some changes I dislike, especially putting in the Designated Hitter rule so I'm not as into it as I used to be.

What is a rule change in sports that you would like to see?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

What is a rule change in sports that you would like to see?

Blood sports. Change NFL football rules so the goal is to injure or kill your opponents in the process of getting your TD. Get rid of all that protective equipment. And have gladiatorial games during the half-time show.

I'm sure MLB can come up with something to do with pitchers being allowed to bean the batter in the head, and the batter retaliates with the bat.

NHL is already there with the fights and all.

Figure Skating and Gymnastics might be a little harder to come up with 'blood sport' rules, but I'm sure they could come up with something if they tried.

Shooting sports could use condemned criminals as live targets, but we might have to make jaywalking a capital crime to get enough targets.

PBM: Any sports I'm missing? What rules would need to be modified?