DataNinja's Scintillating Digital Random Banter #231

[Peelee]

an omelette made with fried rice and thin, fried scrambled eggs

Yummy!

usually topped with ketchup.

Hello, Darkness my old friend...

My thoughts exactly!

Also, tornado warnings aplenty round these here parts. We're hunkered down for the night.

[Fyraltari]

Also, tornado warnings aplenty round these here parts. We're hunkered down for the night.

Oof, best of luck to you and yours.

[Peelee]

Oof, best of luck to you and yours.

Thanks! Tuscaloosa county is getting absolutely hammered, but we've been pretty good so far. We also are lucky enough to have a full-fledged no-windows basement, which is pretty uncommon for Alabama.

[Rater202]

My thoughts exactly!

Also, tornado warnings plenty round these here parts. We're hunkered down for the night.

Good luck to you.

...As someone who also lives in an area that gets bad storms all through parts of the year, I often find that the anxiety that you might lose power, suffer property damage, or have someone you know get hurt is often worse than the storm.

Once I was borderline panicking while my family was bunkering down but was perfectly calm when the actual tornado hit. Even though it tore the roof of(My family's apartment was not affected due to being on the ground floor.)

Just sat there and watched the patio furniture disappear into the forest preserve.

[Peelee]

Good luck to you.

...As someone who also lives in an area that gets bad storms all through parts of the year, I often find that the anxiety that you might lose power, suffer property damage, or have someone you know get hurt is often worse than the storm.

Once I was borderline panicking while my family was bunkering down but was perfectly calm when the actual tornado hit. Even though it tore the roof of(My family's apartment was not affected due to being on the ground floor.)

Just sat there and watched the patio furniture disappear into the forest preserve.

Anticipation is often worse than the actual event. I had issues with that all throughout me teens and early 20s.

[Fyraltari]

Thanks! Tuscaloosa county is getting absolutely hammered, but we've been pretty good so far. We also are lucky enough to have a full-fledged no-windows basement, which is pretty uncommon for Alabama.

Basement aren't common in tornado country? Have movies lied to me yet again?

[Form]

Thanks! Tuscaloosa county is getting absolutely hammered, but we've been pretty good so far. We also are lucky enough to have a full-fledged no-windows basement, which is pretty uncommon for Alabama.

Sounds like you're in a good position to come out alright then and that's good to see. Here's to hoping there will only be a little in the way of property damage as well.

[Peelee]

Basement aren't common in tornado country? Have movies lied to me yet again?

Short version, most of the US is tornado country. The whole "ocean mountain plains mountain ocean" geography means we get something like 90% of all tornadoes worldwide*. Alabama specifically has a lot of limestone**, which means fully underground basements are something of a rarity. Even ours isn't fully underground, but it's not a daylight basement so it's still markedly better than most around here. Kansas, as a quick example, probably doesn't have that problem.

Sounds like you're in a good position to come out alright then and that's good to see. Here's to hoping there will only be a little in the way of property damage as well.

So far we've managed to never have property damage, so here's hoping that trend continues! We also have a generator we got half a year ago in case the power goes out, so bonus. If I get rich I'll be able to have solar along the roof.

* and like half of those are in Alabama tonight, apparently.

** fun fact! Birmingham is the only known place in the world where all three components for steel - iron ire, coal, and limestone - are naturally occurring in close proximity. That's the reason Birmingham exists, quite frankly, and why we were a massive hub for steel back in the day. We even got the nickname the Magic City, since we practically appeared overnight.

[Rater202]

I'm watching more of those "TTS program reads stories from Reddit" videos, this time of short Horror stories that people wrote and I think I've found my absolute favorite ghost story ever.

"Try not to be scared of the man watching you from the corner. He's just moved in and he's terrified he can see you."

[Fyraltari]

Short version, most of the US is tornado country. The whole "ocean mountain plains mountain ocean" geography means we get something like 90% of all tornadoes worldwide*. Alabama specifically has a lot of limestone**, which means fully underground basements are something of a rarity. Even ours isn't fully underground, but it's not a daylight basement so it's still markedly better than most around here. Kansas, as a quick example, probably doesn't have that problem.

Ah, that makes sense.

[Anonymouswizard]

I still get confused when I see pictures of wildcats. They just lookso cute, and I want to pet them as they eat my hand and claw my leg (or vise versa).

[Fyraltari]

I still get confused when I see pictures of wildcats. They just lookso cute, and I want to pet them as they eat my hand and claw my leg (or vise versa).

you wanna eat their hands and claw their leg while they pet you?

[Rater202]

I still get confused when I see pictures of wildcats. They just lookso cute, and I want to pet them as they eat my hand and claw my leg (or vise versa).

...I'd say that such self-destructive desires are a bad sign, but I'm the guy who wants to inject myself with nine different mutagens each laced with a dangerous narcotic that's technically made of people, three technically experimental herbal extracts, three different kinds of nanomachines two of which potentially have horrible side effects, an engineered alien parasite, and potentially lethal amounts of radiation on the chance that if it works I'd be able to walk up to people and say "this is the ideal human body, you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like" while gesturing at myself and that statement being the literal truth.

I have no room to talk.

[Anonymouswizard]

I sometimes forget how to speak, although it more often takes the form of mouthing words than vocalisations.

[Rawhide]

Yummy!

Hello, Darkness my old friend...

That's because it's popular with children.

[Peelee]

That's because it's popular with children.

Toss a hollandaise on that instead and it'll be popular with adults.

You hear that, Japan?

[Rawhide]

Toss a hollandaise on that instead and it'll be popular with adults.

You hear that, Japan?

Can you still write messages with hollandaise?

[Peelee]

Can you still write messages with hollandaise?

If you make the omelette flat enough, yes.

[gooddragon1]

Round Table=Pizza Hut>>>Little Caesars>>>>>>>>Dominos

[Rawhide]

Round Table=Pizza Hut>>>Little Caesars>>>>>>>>Dominos

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>German room service pizza

[Peelee]

Round Table=Pizza Hut>>>Little Caesars>>>>>>>>Dominos

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>German room service pizza

And above them all is a New York slice!

[enderlord99]

Round Table=Pizza Hut>>>Little Caesars>>>>>>>>Dominos

They're all good.

[Peelee]

Also what's a Round Table? Is that like a regional thing?

[Rater202]

Round Table=Pizza Hut>>>Little Caesars>>>>>>>>Dominos

I've never had round table but my opinion is that Hut, Caesars, and Dominos(along with Papa Johns) are equally good but it depends on exactly what you're craving when you're craving pizza.

[enderlord99]

Also what's a Round Table? Is that like a regional thing?

I know there's one near me. It's really good.

They're one of only two places that can include a certain topping and have it turn out well. The other is Papa Murphey's.

[Mystic Muse]

I know there's one near me. It's really good.

They're one of only two places that can include a certain topping and have it turn out well. The other is Papa Murphey's.

Would that be anchovies? Or pineapple?

[enderlord99]

Would that be anchovies? Or pineapple?

The latter.

Papa Murphey's can probably do the former well, too, but I haven't ever tried a pizza with (any sort of) fish (from anyone) so I wouldn't know.

[sktarq]

I sometimes forget how to speak, although it more often takes the form of mouthing words than vocalisations.

I very much relate. It happens more often if I withdraw for a day or three. My voice will get croaky...and I just forget words are a think for few seconds. Then I have to get all the parts working together. Mouth movements, throat tension, actually pushing air out of the lungs all at the same damn time. Can take a time or three.

That I regularly just meow at people doesn't help.

[Rater202]

That I regularly just meow at people doesn't help.

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...It was either that or Liquid Snake saying "Brother!" but I can't find a clip that's just Liquid Snake saying that one word. It's always either a full scene or a compilation of every time Liquid or Ocelot says "brother" in any context.

I've never forgotten how to speak, but sometimes my mouth, teeth, and tongue decide they don't want to play right now and I end up stuttering for a bit.

I can quickly get back to normal diction by taking a deep breath, or if that doesn't work by repeating a certain vulgar verb three to six times.

[Lacco]

I've never forgotten how to speak, but sometimes my mouth, teeth, and tongue decide they don't want to play right now and I end up stuttering for a bit.

Well, that only means all people are brothers, because I do not know a person that does not know this feeling once in a while. Even the smoothest talkers sometimes stumble as their vocal instruments decide to just panickingly run around mouth.

Welcome back to humanity .