Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 367

yvanleterrible · 06-02-2009, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

Just finished watching the bats fly out from a neighbours roof. Amazing little creatures. And they eat those nasty little biting insects to boot!

Some can eat half their weight in insects a day.

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Geeze, what morons. The bats eat the mosquitoes that DO actually suck your blood while you sleep.

I am so tired of living in a world with people as utterly stupid as that. More than once I have found myself wishing it took more brains to breed. Sort of like, wouldn't it be nice if both organs came with "child proof" lids??

I think you're on to something there. Breeding permits delivered only after having passed a written exam.

RickyMaveety · 06-02-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

(Note to self and anyone else who hears this: don't think about messin' with Ricky.)

May I offer you a donut?

Oh, VR, I've actually met you in person, sat next to you and genuinely like you. I doubt I would ever rip you a new one even if you said something really nasty on one of my worst days.

And, yes, thank you. I would love a donut!!

badgoodDeb · 06-02-2009, 07:43 PM

I take it they again sent out a service-body who couldn't fix the dishwasher??

krisk · 06-02-2009, 08:30 PM

I can't think of a good place for this, so here it lands...

what happened to the conservatory? too many bar brawls?

badgoodDeb · 06-02-2009, 08:42 PM

People kept looking for "what topic can I start that would be REAL interesting to discuss" (meaning inflammatory) and the more-tense atmosphere started permeating through the whole of MR.

desertgrandma · 06-02-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

People kept looking for "what topic can I start that would be REAL interesting to discuss" (meaning inflammatory) and the more-tense atmosphere started permeating through the whole of MR.

Excellent explanation.

desertgrandma · 06-02-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I am so tired of living in a world with people as utterly stupid as that. More than once I have found myself wishing it took more brains to breed. Sort of like, wouldn't it be nice if both organs came with "child proof" lids??

You need to get together with Daffy. Between you and her, we could have a world populated with brainy machines!

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Just finished giving the Maytag company a serious complaint about their factory service reps in this area. I suggested quite strongly, that they had better send someone who f*cking knew how to FIX this dishwasher and who had the f*cking parts he or she needed on the truck when they got here.

I also told the folks at Maytag that, if they did not send someone out to my home who was competent to fix this thing, I was going to rip it out of the wall, rent a helicopter and f*cking well drop it on them from a very great height.

I then wrote a nice long letter to A&E Factory Service telling them to hire someone at both the telephone and repair end of things who had more brains than your average bottom dwelling slug, and that I would never allow anyone (ever again) who had the A&E repair logo into my home.

The folks at Maytag apologized profusely and promised that they would send someone out next Monday who would repair it, or they would replace the entire unit.

And .... they better. Or they should look forward to the sound of helicopter blades whirring overhead.

You really need to stop. I know you don't mean to , but you make me laugh so hard, I think my spleen just flew out of an orifice. Which one I won't tell..............

mklynds · 06-02-2009, 09:53 PM

I just finished brewing my first batch of homemade Cream Soda with a mostly self invented recipe. I brewed to different kinds. A pretty standard vanilla flavoured cream soda. And my own special concoction: Raspberry Cream Soda! Should take about 3 days total to finish. Taste testers needed in Alberta on Friday or Saturday any takers?

montsnmags · 06-02-2009, 10:11 PM

The bats we get don't eat mozzies, but rather prefer fruit (being "fruit bats" and all). Earlier this year all the golden cane palms around the pool were fruiting, and the bats came up from the river to land in the palms with all the grace of a clothes drying rack thrown into an electrical substation. Alas, for them, a cute, widdle possum that owns the local neighbourhood would come across the wires from over the road, jump onto the neighbour's roof, scoot along the fence, and leap-attack into the middle of his invaded food trough. The possum was silent, but the bats made a racket that'd silence a cat fight, before they'd take-off with all the complementary grace of sheet of corrugated iron in a hurricane. 'Twas a mite disturbing when trying to watch the telly, seeing as the balcony was at palm-canopy height, and said palms waved their fronds into it.

mklynds, how do you make Cream Soda? A local food market here gets in Boylan sodas from the States, and their Creme Soda is magic, but the shop being a "boutique" food market, it's pricey.

Cheers,
Marc

mklynds · 06-02-2009, 10:24 PM

Hey Marc,

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A local food market here gets in Boylan sodas from the States, and their Creme Soda is magic, but the shop being a "boutique" food market, it's pricey.

That is exactly why I am learning to make my own. A health store here sells "Virgil's Cream Soda" which is the best I've had. It is also expensive. So I thought "How hard can it be..."

It's actually really easy. So far. For a 2 liter pop bottle mix:
~2 cups cane sugar (any sugar will do but this is the best flavor to sweetness balanced sugar I have found)
~2 tsp vanilla extract (pure or better)
~1.8l water
-once it is mixed to a solution pour into bottle.
~add 1/4 tsp yeast
-cap bottle and leave to sit at room temp for 12-48 hours, until the bottle firms up. Until you can't squeeze the bottle any more.
-Place bottle in the back of your fridge for 24 hours. this will kill the yeast and allow it to settle to the bottom of the bottle.
-siphon or carefully pour the soda into another bottle being careful to not allow the settled yeast to mix back in. you can use cheese cloth to remove the yeast if you want.
-Pour a glass and enjoy with favorite book (substitute any activity you choose)

I have also experimented with concentrated fruit oils for flavor. That is still a work in progress. I am also going to start learning how to make root beer soon as well.

montsnmags · 06-02-2009, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by mklynds

Hey Marc,
That is exactly why I am learning to make my own. A health store here sells "Virgil's Cream Soda" which is the best I've had. It is also expensive. So I thought "How hard can it be..."

It's actually really easy.
...

That does look rather simple. I'll definitely be giving that a try. I've really got to get back into making my own alcoholic ginger beer, which will require buying a new supply of bottles, so I might give this a go at the same time. Thanks for that.

Cheers,
Marc

mklynds · 06-02-2009, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I've really got to get back into making my own alcoholic ginger beer

As far as I understand if you could somehow keep your bottle from exploding, you could keep the cream soda fermenting and making it alcoholic. If you made ginger beer you probably know more about this then I. I may have to pick your brain for help on how to set up a better brewing system. Good luck with your attempt and let me know if you come across a good recipe.

Mike

phenomshel · 06-03-2009, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Geeze, what morons. The bats eat the mosquitoes that DO actually suck your blood while you sleep.

I am so tired of living in a world with people as utterly stupid as that. More than once I have found myself wishing it took more brains to breed. Sort of like, wouldn't it be nice if both organs came with "child proof" lids??

I've just informed my husband that we can never go meet you in person. Both the dishwasher repairman threats and this sound WAY too much like him on a tear....and I don't know if I could handle BOTH of you!

Peverel · 06-03-2009, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I am so tired of living in a world with people as utterly stupid as that.

And they always seem to have the largest families - all with the same dumb gene

desertgrandma · 06-03-2009, 01:46 PM

I actually slept in until 9 AM........unheard of for me.

What a slug.

Now I feel "icky".....and I want my netbook!!!!

06-02-2009, 07:43 PM	#5493
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,574 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I take it they again sent out a service-body who couldn't fix the dishwasher??

06-02-2009, 08:30 PM	#5494
krisk Wizard Posts: 2,148 Karma: 8229 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the road again Device: kindle	I can't think of a good place for this, so here it lands... what happened to the conservatory? too many bar brawls?

06-02-2009, 08:42 PM	#5495
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,574 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	People kept looking for "what topic can I start that would be REAL interesting to discuss" (meaning inflammatory) and the more-tense atmosphere started permeating through the whole of MR.

06-02-2009, 09:53 PM	#5498
mklynds That guy, no not that guy Posts: 337 Karma: 2846 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Alberta, Canada Device: PRS600 Red	I just finished brewing my first batch of homemade Cream Soda with a mostly self invented recipe. I brewed to different kinds. A pretty standard vanilla flavoured cream soda. And my own special concoction: Raspberry Cream Soda! Should take about 3 days total to finish. Taste testers needed in Alberta on Friday or Saturday any takers?

06-02-2009, 10:11 PM	#5499
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	The bats we get don't eat mozzies, but rather prefer fruit (being "fruit bats" and all). Earlier this year all the golden cane palms around the pool were fruiting, and the bats came up from the river to land in the palms with all the grace of a clothes drying rack thrown into an electrical substation. Alas, for them, a cute, widdle possum that owns the local neighbourhood would come across the wires from over the road, jump onto the neighbour's roof, scoot along the fence, and leap-attack into the middle of his invaded food trough. The possum was silent, but the bats made a racket that'd silence a cat fight, before they'd take-off with all the complementary grace of sheet of corrugated iron in a hurricane. 'Twas a mite disturbing when trying to watch the telly, seeing as the balcony was at palm-canopy height, and said palms waved their fronds into it. mklynds, how do you make Cream Soda? A local food market here gets in Boylan sodas from the States, and their Creme Soda is magic, but the shop being a "boutique" food market, it's pricey. Cheers, Marc

06-03-2009, 01:46 PM	#5505
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	I actually slept in until 9 AM........unheard of for me. What a slug. Now I feel "icky".....and I want my netbook!!!!