TaiLiu's Tea-Filled Tome of Random Banter #193

[TaiLiu]

My comrades crowd into
My little house.
They are all served a tiny cup
Of tea.
Ah! What a wonderful smell!

Comrades, welcome to yet another Random Banter Thread! No, I do not have anything witty to say, unfortunately.

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[LaZodiac]

Indeed. I didn't really understand what was going on.

... Wot was that?

I'm. ... What? ...

I think I need to go have a lie down now.

It's the My Little Pony movie that's coming out.

Don't forget to post (in big text) the link to the new thread in the old one.

[Dimonite]

*gavottes*

mmmmmm........ thread.

So. Dairy Queen is now serving Blizzards IN WAFFLE CONES. The only problem I ever had with Blizzards was that I had to get them in a cup, which (to me at least) doesn't taste as good, and you waste ice cream that way. But now? BLIZZARD IN A WAFFLE CONE. This is kinda a big deal for me.

[LaZodiac]

*gavottes*

mmmmmm........ thread.

So. Dairy Queen is now serving Blizzards IN WAFFLE CONES. The only problem I ever had with Blizzards was that I had to get them in a cup, which (to me at least) doesn't taste as good, and you waste ice cream that way. But now? BLIZZARD IN A WAFFLE CONE. This is kinda a big deal for me.

We don't have a Dairy Queen. We did by the guy intentionally run it poorly to get like, tax breaks or something like that. Point is we don't have one and that makes me sad.

[TaiLiu]

Don't forget to post (in big text) the link to the new thread in the old one.

Ah, I forgot about that. Thanks!

[Dimonite]

We don't have a Dairy Queen. We did by the guy intentionally run it poorly to get like, tax breaks or something like that. Point is we don't have one and that makes me sad.

THAT'S HORRIBLE!
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

[TaiLiu]

THAT'S HORRIBLE!
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

What an odd name.

[LaZodiac]

THAT'S HORRIBLE!
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

Nope.

Also I think he was the mayor who did that. Or like the former mayor or something. I don't know.

[Coidzor]

THAT'S HORRIBLE!
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

[LaZodiac]

I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

Ice, not ice cream, but yes.

[Deathkeeper]

Today the Forum Dice Roller actually gave me a natural 20 on an actual useful roll. Just today, all is right in the world of LDK.

[Dimonite]

What an odd name.

It's meant to be. Their slogan is "Flapdoodle's: where the only thing that makes sense is the ice cream." Their walls and tables are decorated with nonsensical proverbs and jokes, and their signature thing is serving upside-down cones in bowls, in sizes named after various types of sailing ships.

Nope.

Also I think he was the mayor who did that. Or like the former mayor or something. I don't know.

Well, I'm reasonably certain that's insurance fraud, whether it was the mayor or not. But either way, that's sad.

I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe.
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

[LaZodiac]

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe.
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

Going by pure math, the town where I live gets less then 24 hours of sunlight in our coldest winter month. So yes, we get pretty damn cold

The only fast food restaurants we have are McDonalds and KFC. Subway and Quiznos too, if you count sub places.

[Coidzor]

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe.
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are renowned for being dairy-obsessed though, even to dairy-obsessed people. Like, Vegans spontaneously lose their veganity or are expelled from the state by a sort of reverse-osmotic pressure. That's how dairy-obsessed they are.

The main similarity seems to be the accent from what I've gathered, and I've never been able to tell if that's actually an accent or a cultural in-joke of putting everyone else on...

[Teddy]

@TaiLs:
Your link in the previous post directs you to the Friendly Banter subforum, not this tread.

And yet you wouldn't hurt a fly

True, although for the sake of the show, that tank got to play the role as a flogiston thrower for a day.

Man, that sounds awesome though. Glad you had fun! How're things going, by the way? If I may ask.

Stressful. For the upcoming days, my schedule will look like this:
Wake up
Go to Uni
Do tons of programming
Go home
Eat dinner
Study stochastics
Go to bed

I should hopefully start getting my evenings clear again by Wednesday, but that depends on how well the programming goes. In the worst case, we'll probably have to devote an evening as well just to get our prototype running on time...

I've been there when I was a wee thing, methinks! Not too sure though. Steampunk event sounds cool though (I lurked the photo thread), were a lot of interested in it?

For the record, it's in Gävle, consists of a large carbarn filled with different locomotives and carriages, and has a large open field with bushes and small rolling hills through which a mini-train takes passengers for a short ride.

And some were. We failed a bit at linking together my outfit with the event (our table was a bit offside, I think many may've missed it), so I'm afraid most of those who I managed to boggle won't have a term to link it together with. And we were too late to be spotted by the press, who only visited the area in the earlies hour. But, I think it was good anyway.

Hope your shoulders recovers quickly and you don't have to strain them again for a while.

Nah, now I'll only have to lug my everyday backpack with my computer back and forth to school for a whole week. I can already hear my back sing of joy...

[/QUOTE]The reaction of the children to you reminds me that I had some children ask if I was a pirate because of the way I was wearing the bandana I was wearing the other day...[/QUOTE]

Heh, on no less than two separate occations, some parents suggested to their children that I must've been from Harry Potter. I kinda understand it with the long robe and those glasses, but with the pesticide tank and old fire extinguisher, not so much...

[Mercenary Pen]

How does that work?

Very creative use of the forum die roller- I've rolled more d37's on there than actually exist.

Your link does not work, mate.

Apologies- Sheep's link does work and I'll fix mine in just a moment.

I've considered that before but, to give an example of how far behind I am on the metagame of Yu-Gi-Oh, I don't fully understand how synchro-summons work

I was much the same way when I first got back into this... I'd say the best way to understand these things is to practice them (preferably around people who won't take offence when you get it wrong- from experience, that helps)

[Sylthia]

The DQ the I had growing up would inexplicably close down, then re-open a few months later. They eventually built one on one of the main roads in my town, though, so it's nice if I ever feel like going there.

Unfortunately, I'm more or less broke until my residency starts this summer. It's nice to be able to game twice a week or so, though. I guess you can have time or money, but not both.

[Elemental]

Yes, and it tasted terrible.

Oh, my. The wedding reception was still enjoyable, I hope.

Those people whom you know that do: did they ever confirm the kind of tea?

Ah. Good luck in your endeavours, and I hope your mother likes them.

How do the foul-flavoured ones taste like?

Odd. My mother says the opposite, but she's not an expert on American dining...

Do they? I've never had that experience before.

As I said, that is really too bad. A good carrot cake is delicious.

It was. After all, I don't drink tea or coffee.

No. The people I know who like tea just like tea.

She will.

It's hard to say... They have a kind of after-taste that's difficult to describe.

That's okay. Mum's aren't always right.

Well... The sandwiches are usually cut before they reach your table.

ION: Wtf pneumonia is a real thing. And it IN MAH LUNGSSSS.

Oh dear... Hopefully you'll get better soon Mr. Sheep.

We're America. Of course we do things differently.

Granted, I can't remember who had the bright idea to make it so that proper eating was cutting the food, setting the knife down, switching the fork, taking a bite, switching the fork back, picking up the knife, and then cutting the food again. Needless to say, I don't abide by that set of mores.

Not that kind of cut up. The kind where you eat it with a knife and fork, defeating the entire point of a sandwich unless it's an open-faced sandwich. Though why open-faced sandwiches are called sandwiches I'll never know.

It's acceptable if you can't do it the proper way.

Well... If a sandwich is that large or overfilled, then it's not really a practical sandwich. And that would be because the open-faced sandwich was invented by a person who intended to make an ordinary sandwich but then realised he only had one slice of bread left. For some reason, the idea caught on.

Hey all you pony people

Pony Movie: http://t.co/yljY9vJjeV

They should make the skin colour more...human. Also I think Twilight's love interest is her brother?

Either way, "wat".

No. That's not her brother. Her brother would have differently coloured hair.


In related news: My Brother is an idiot. How can he possibly have expected me to know he was asleep at six in the evening if he doesn't tell me? All he did was yell at me whenever I made the slightest noise, which is no different from an ordinary evening.
I really wish he would realise that swearing at me just makes me ignore him.

[Archonic Energy]

tea, English Breakfast, Hot.

mmmmmm.

thinking about it. why didn't the enterprise computer just fire out tea steam vapour at JLP... it's hot.

[Elemental]

It's obviously reasonably user friendly when it comes to beverages. Also, it's not programmed to not hurt people.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Let's see if I can keep up with you guys this time

tea, English Breakfast, Hot.

mmmmmm.

thinking about it. why didn't the enterprise computer just fire out tea steam vapour at JLP... it's hot.

Tell me about it. I've been trying to get my replicator to do that for nine years. Things a piece of crap. I ask for a McRib Sandwich and it tells me it can't replicate copyrighted food. Considering CraigsListing it.

[FinnLassie]

I always get so confused by how the page limit is 50... I'm so used to the 500 on another forum (then again, there's a whole bunch more of registered & active users).

Anyways, to quoting people from the previous thread...

An excellent pun!

I made a pun?

Hrmph. I'm not dim, just illumination-challenged.

Eh, I had a bunch of different avatars, then the same one for close to six months or so, then changed it a whole bunch, then had the same one for a month or two, and now I'm changing it again. It'll settle out eventually.

Oh, wee thing. All nicknames given are out of pure affection. Sometimes.

Noooo.... Stay with one forever, nooow...

That's good. I mostly can't eat storebought frosting and can only stomach small quantities of homemade frosting at any one time. Never could figure out why my tolerance was so low compared to just about everyone else.

Well, yes, they are not good for you, but it's also cake. It's unlikely to be good for you at the best of times and circumstances, even when homemade.

The names alone of those dishes sound intimidating. Granted, I've always been kind of leery of liver, especially when I learned what gout was.

How so? It's sweet, baked porridge, isn't it?

Amidams, eh? Heh. That'd give us the distaff counterpart of Amigams. Mmm, gams...

Ooh, snap, you just can't handle the deliciousness that is called frosting, then!

At least when you start baking the cake from scratch you are aware of the ingredients that you use. That way you have the power and hopefully skills (at least the skill to google!) to change whatever you need to for example make the cake healthier.

I only like liver when it's minced and made into a casserole with some yum yum raisins. It's rather sweet. Liver in all other occasions - kill me now.

Since when has mämmi been sweet...

... I have this feeling that I'm missing something as I have no clue what Amigams is or anything.

[Devmaar]

I was much the same way when I first got back into this... I'd say the best way to understand these things is to practice them (preferably around people who won't take offence when you get it wrong- from experience, that helps)

Would the thread present such an environment?

[Amidus Drexel]

*eyes the dancers jealously, then returns to sipping lemonade*

Woot, new thread! And I am now off to class, because I still have a few weeks left of this crap.

[Elemental]

I always get so confused by how the page limit is 50... I'm so used to the 500 on another forum (then again, there's a whole bunch more of registered & active users).

Well... It's not actually a limit, more a guideline to improve forum operation or something. I don't really know.
Rawhide could explain better.

Noooo.... Stay with one forever, nooow...

But the occasional changing of avatars is traditional! Like when I finally finished the one I started weeks ago.
You could always get a half-Finnish half-Scottish lion if you wanted. Okay... I'm not sure how that would work, but someone could manage it.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Let's see if I can keep up with you guys this time

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

[Elemental]

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

It can be hard for new people. It's not impossible, but it can be done. Of course, I can't remember how...

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

Do you not like or know the guy?
When my older brothers got engaged I was happy for them because they both had long engagements and I got to know my sisters-in-law before the event.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Do you not like or know the guy?
When my older brothers got engaged I was happy for them because they both had long engagements and I got to know my sisters-in-law before the event.

I know him. I like him. I think he's great.

It's just that they hang out together all the time anyway, so it won't really change much for me. They'll still be hanging out all the time, but officially.

[Elemental]

I know him. I like him. I think he's great.

It's just that they hang out together all the time anyway, so it won't really change much for me. They'll still be hanging out all the time, but officially.

Hmm... Give it a while to sink in. That could be the difficulty.

[Archonic Energy]

I've been trying to get my replicator to do that for nine years. Things a piece of crap. I ask for a McRib Sandwich and it tells me it can't replicate it.

snipped...

Also, it's not programmed to not hurt people.

your answer.

I suppose you can't just go the replicator and ask for "hydrogen, plasma, 20 square millimeters" though that would make for entertaining pranks.

"APRIL..."
*the enterprise is consumed in a large explosion*

... cut to end credits