Durp Snark 166: Starting Fresh

[Someone]

well...alcohol was always free (when one was gambling) when I was living in Nevada, so how long ago was that?

only 6 years.

feels like about 20, however.

[Someone]

I’ve always seen alcohol as a tool a casino uses to help them get deeper into your pocket, not to be your friend.

[Someone]

Thats why I took fiendish delight in only having a couple drinks and walking away with my wallet in my pocket. I stimulated the local economy anyway, just not at the tables. But I haven't been in a casino since my last trip to Vegas.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I’ve always seen alcohol as a tool a casino uses to help them get deeper into your pocket, not to be your friend.

The more you drink, the more you bet. The more you bet, the better management feels. So drink your free drink, with every ... [OK, I cannot quite
get this to rhyme, but I came close] ... spin of the wheel.

[Someone]

Why is the word 'degenerate' almost exclusively used to describe gamblers? You never hear about degenerate embezzlers or degenerate arsonists.

[Someone]

Because embezzlers and arsonists know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em, when to walk away and when to run. They never count their money while sitting at the table ‘cause there’s time enough for countin’ when they’re done.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I’ve always seen alcohol as a tool a casino uses to help them get deeper into your pocket, not to be your friend.

it's an excellent tool! I had a jewelry store in Zihuatanejo use it decades ago and to this day I have a pair of silver earrings so big my lobes get tired.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

it's an excellent tool! I had a jewelry store in Zihuatanejo use it decades ago and to this day I have a pair of silver earrings so big my lobes get tired.

I like ogling big shiny jewelry in women's ear lobes. Pix please?

[Someone]

I am staring in slack-jawed amazement at this thread on the Durp. The basic argument of most of the posters is "I don't wanna and you can't make me." There are posters who have somewhat more nuanced reasons for not caring for the term under discussion (CSAM vs. Kiddie Porn), but the undertone of "I don't wanna because it isn't what I'm used to." comes through in those posts as well.

How often are these people discussing pedophilia-related media in their daily lives that a change in terms is such a problem for them?

[Someone]

For some, it might have more to do with using up some of their precious few remaining memory banks for yet another acronym.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Why is the word 'degenerate' almost exclusively used to describe gamblers? You never hear about degenerate embezzlers or degenerate arsonists.

I usually hear that word in reference to child molesters, rather than gamblers.

Just sayin'...

[Someone]

Because problem gamblers are addicts, while embezzlers are just greedy dirtbags and arsonists are psychos.

[Someone]

So how do you explain the kiddy-diddlers? Your theory needs a bit of work.

[Someone]

Pervs act like addicts too, except for something far worse than dust. Which is why they can never be trusted again.

And lets go ahead and call this a thread drift gutter ball.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

How often are these people discussing pedophilia-related media in their daily lives that a change in terms is such a problem for them?

Do you really want to know?

[Someone]

Oh Lord, all kinds of people have accounts over here…

[Someone]

Quit trying to hide behind me while I'm trying to hide behind you!

[Someone]

(I’m not talking about crow)

Jag, I’m a little short for that.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I am staring in slack-jawed amazement at this thread on the Durp. The basic argument of most of the posters is "I don't wanna and you can't make me." There are posters who have somewhat more nuanced reasons for not caring for the term under discussion (CSAM vs. Kiddie Porn), but the undertone of "I don't wanna because it isn't what I'm used to." comes through in those posts as well.

How often are these people discussing pedophilia-related media in their daily lives that a change in terms is such a problem for them?

I hadn't heard CSAM before (because, thankfully, that kind of thing comes up in the conversations I have next to never) but once I saw it spelled out it made perfect sense to me. There's no reason not to use the terms preferred by those who investigate and support victims of such crimes other than stubbornness.

Of course that is the same board that resisted avatars and image posting for decades after they'd become the norm everywhere else on the intertubes...

I'm not surprised at all to see Darren Garrison leading the dinosaur brigade.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

(I’m not talking about crow)

Jag, I’m a little short for that.

He tried hiding behind me first

[Someone]

Not snark, just a random thing. I promise you it's worth it.
Utterly insane traffic accident
Everything happens in the first 30 seconds.

[Someone]

You're right, it ain't snark. Reported!

[Someone]

Everything happens in the first 30 seconds. Like Trump with a porn star.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Everything happens in the first 30 seconds. Like Trump with a porn star.

And a big thing is riding on a small thing.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Everything happens in the first 30 seconds. Like Trump with a porn star.

I'd kabong you for making me think about Trump's danglies, but I decided to go look at some nice mushroom pictures instead.



Dangit.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'd kabong you for making me think about Trump's danglies, but I decided to go look at some nice mushroom pictures instead.



Dangit.

Hey, you two. Get a shroom.

[Someone]

Get a grip.

Woah, hang on, now!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Hey, you two. Get a shroom.

God, that looks like a fungus.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Get a grip.

Woah, hang on, now!

He can't, even with his tiny hands.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I promise you it's worth it.

It was definitely worth it.

[Someone]

I found a tiny morsel of snark. Yay me.

A thread that has been dormant for three years on the Catholic Church's failure as an institution to deal with sexual abuse in its ranks has been revived.

I open it, thinking that there might be some thoughtful discussion of the fact that some disgraced Cardinal (Mahoney somebody-or-other?) is invited to Pope Francis's funeral, and what this says about whether the Church is reformed or not.

It turns out that it was HoneyBadger who revived the thread. Before you click, see if you can guess how relevant and insightful his comment is to current Vatican-related events.

[Someone]

You’d think someone who is sufficiently into chemistry and physics as to want their very own periodic table of elements for display would realize many of the elements at the higher end will be either highly reactive, radioactive, unstable, or some combination of the above, and as such anything purporting to have actual samples of the elements would be an obvious scam. And that’s to say nothing of the gases.

But then this is also the guy who managed to run out of gas in his home town and was so proud of his problem solving abilities after that he bragged about it.

Duped? Durped is more like it!

[Someone]

Aw, plutonium isn't that bad. If you don't touch it or get near it or breathe any dust off it or allow it to corrode and burst into flames from contact with air, glass, or any organic material and always keep it behind lead shielding and provide cooling so it doesn't melt and burst into flames from its own red hot radioactivity.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Aw, plutonium isn't that bad. If you don't touch it or get near it or breathe any dust off it or allow it to corrode and burst into flames from contact with air, glass, or any organic material and always keep it behind lead shielding and provide cooling so it doesn't melt and burst into flames from its own red hot radioactivity.

Reminds me of how the Discworld equivalent of fugu is a fish so lethal that it has to be prepared by a chef specially trained to ensure that the resulting dish doesn't contain a trace of the fish.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You’d think someone who is sufficiently into chemistry and physics as to want their very own periodic table of elements for display would realize many of the elements at the higher end will be either highly reactive, radioactive, unstable, or some combination of the above, and as such anything purporting to have actual samples of the elements would be an obvious scam. And that’s to say nothing of the gases.

But you're thinking of the periodic table with 118 elements - he wanted the one that has 83!

Seriously, I had the same thought when I saw that thread. Who on earth would think that the advertised product had any hope of being real?

[Someone]

Earth? What, have you been snorting Narjackian termite dust or something? This is Galactic Outpost Nine!

[Someone]

I’ve seen those things advertised on Facebook. I assumed they would contain a mixture of real and artificial substances, depending on the element. Not a drawing or picture or whatever.

[Someone]

Actually, I guess the "83" was one of the less misleading parts of the advert - it did say "83 stable elements" which takes care of the radioactivity/short half-life question. But some gasses are part of the stable elements, so it's only a partial improvement.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

But you're thinking of the periodic table with 118 elements - he wanted the one that has 83!

Seriously, I had the same thought when I saw that thread. Who on earth would think that the advertised product had any hope of being real?

That's positively believable compared to the insane shit I get in my scambaiting email.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Earth? What, have you been snorting Narjackian termite dust or something? This is Galactic Outpost Nine!

Well, it's not Narjackian, but I do have plenty of termite dust. I's actually referred to as termite "frass." Big piles of it accumulate in certain spots where the termites are well established.

The structures on our property will be tented later this year. Termites are inevitable in Hawai'i; if you are lucky you can last about 10 years between tentings. After the tenting is done, the lack of critters is kind of eerie. It takes a while for the geckos, ants, and other occasional unidentified flying insects to establish themselves again.

Anyway, I'll snort while I can.

[Someone]

Aren't gases usually invisible?

Who's to say he didn't get those ones. Not moi.

He got a "dupe" just like I got a "dupe" Birkin bag.

French "term", my ass.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Aren't gases usually invisible?

Who's to say he didn't get those ones. Not moi.

He got a "dupe" just like I got a "dupe" Birkin bag.

French "term", my ass.

I'm puzzled at your ire over the word "dupe." You expressed surprise at its use, saying that's not what kids mean when they say it (and sure, it's easy to see how it could be a slang term for "fake," so I don't doubt that you're correct, and also Google agrees with you), but then said you were familiar with it in its more traditional meaning of scammed/lied to. The discussion of the newer meaning, and Cervaise's contribution about the etymology, seemed like pretty typical conversation for Dopers. You know so many of us are word freaks. We like to think about stuff like that.

Cervaise wasn't being jerkish, he was just behaving like a typical Doper by getting a bit pedantic in providing information about a word that was under discussion. Why the "my ass"?

Or am I missing something? It wouldn't be the first time.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Actually, I guess the "83" was one of the less misleading parts of the advert - it did say "83 stable elements" which takes care of the radioactivity/short half-life question. But some gasses are part of the stable elements, so it's only a partial improvement.

About that.

Technetium (element 43) and Promethium (element 61) aren't found in nature except in minute quantities resuilting from decay in heavier elements. So there are only 81 stable elements.

Also Fluorine (element 9) is so reactive that it might be able to rip acryics apart. Also, it's a gas. I doubt that they could get a sample.

[Someone]

“Dupe” means both “a copy” and “scammed.” Words often have multiple meanings. I have no idea why this bothers Beck so much.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

“Dupe” means both “a copy” and “scammed.” Words often have multiple meanings. I have no idea why this bothers Beck so much.

I have no idea why people are responding to Beck on this point. It’s clear enough what she’s trying to do. So far, she’s succeeding, and now even I have been made complicit.

[Someone]

I’m really having a hard time seeing the big deal in that post. It wasn’t rude or offensive. It didn’t make the neighborhood dogs bark. I looked outside and donkeys aren’t flying, as far as I can tell. Anywhere where was I. I forget. Oh yeah, gotta find a good spinach and mushroom ravioli recipe for dinner tonight. Happy Sunday everyone.

[Someone]

Where will the spinach and mushrooms be - in the ravioli filling, or the sauce?

[Someone]

I’m a C+ cook at best, but I’m thinking I can pull this off.
https://juliasalbum.com/mushroom-ravioli/

[Someone]

I have all the ingredients for that! I think I'll make it for my girl's night group tomorrow. Perfect.

[Someone]

I wasn't mad about "dupe" I think it's a funny word.
The pedantic just can't get in their head, language changes. Words start meaning different things.
It has happened so much in the English language. Getting into ancient French etymology is just insane. IMHO.

And @ASL you can kindly not respond to me all you want. I won't miss you. I don't know why people respond to your constant jerkitude and put up with you.
And please tell me what I'm "clearly" doing. I don't think I have a master plan. I don't set out to do much on these boards but read and enjoy. Post my silliness and be happy. You know why? I ain't cuckoo.