Random Thought Thread

Oh, he was an ass clown about a lot of things. Him finding the photos of the 15 minutes of my life when I was a little pudgy was the least of it.

But seriously, as regards eating in basic... First you had to learn how to make drinking two 8 oz classes of water before your meal* fit into knowing how much food to take, and you could have as much food as you wanted, no limit, but you had to eat every single scrap on your tray. All of it. All - of - it.

*There are lots of myths about those glasses of water. Basic was in Texas, so I figured it was just about hydration, but the water had a weird quality to it, like when someone's water softening system isn't right. The myth was that they put something in it to keep you from getting morning wood/keep you from wanting to fap/some permutation of the aforementioned. Was this story a part of your basic as well, @Iain Aschendale, about the water?

 

Wait, if that thing evolved into a whale, you're saying that this movie is, in part, scientifically accurate?

 

Andrewsarchus itself did not evolve into whales, but a relative called ambulocetus did.

 

Andrewsarhus sounds like a nickname for a three-year old on a rampage around the house.

 

I understand the child labour bit. It's a long running joke in my family, where my mom always brings one or few of us with her and let's people know we're her heavy lifters & workers. She complains she didn't have more kids for free labour.

But we weren't paid wages or allowances like our friends—we would wander the hills, set up electric fences, move the goats into it, feed the chickens, and whole slew of physical labour and it was simply expected because we lived in their home, and this was in addition to things like loading & unloading the dishwasher, managing our own laundry, etc.

We got money basically for our birthdays & Christmas & Easter—otoshidama red envelope deal things. Anywhere from $50-$100. But that was it. My brother blew his immediately.

I was known as the frugal one. I'd ask my mom for things, but when she said use my savings I would decide it wasn't worth it.

Generally I saved up my money for when we'd go back to Japan to visit family—then I'd blow huge bucks on clothes & specialty things you just couldn't get in the states (and apparently our family care package exchanges with the cousins were expensive to ship).

Basically I got the old school Protestant work ethic drilled into me at a young age.

But I do like splurging every now & again on really nice things.

I have a principle: Work like a dog, lounge like an emperor.

What little I earn might be rung from the sweat of my brow, drop by drop, but I'd be damned if I wasn't going to enjoy what little relaxation & leisure time I had to the fullest.

 

Tabehoudai and nomihoudai are quite common in Osaka (perhaps Japan at large, but I don't get out much). "Tabehoudai" is all you can eat, and "nomihoudai" is all you can drink. Alcohol, that is. Beer, wine, chu-hai (kind of fruity cooler drinks), sometimes whiskey, various cocktails. Yakiniku (meat you grill at your table) is one of the most common, and prices for tabe/nomihoudai usually start at about thirty-five dollars per person, based on ninety minutes ordering time, two hours at the table.

On Friday, Mrs. A and I went out for the good yakiniku, three hours table time, last order thirty minutes prior. Sixty five bucks each, but they have some of the best beef and pork I've ever had, so....

Yeah, that's love for us, eating and drinking til we're comatose.

 

I love me some yakiniku, but I think AYCE KBBQ (all you can eat Korean barbecue) is the greatest ever. I love galbi & bulgogi and soon dubu (tofu soup) and all the banchan/side dishes. Also, KBBQ tends to have Japanese meats available (not fully authentic flavours, but good cuts).

 

That's so weird... I was totally sure you were a student, but when you wrote this I realized I had no idea why I thought that! What do you do for a living?

 

I'm 26, and I live & work on my family's ranch and help run a business off it.

I don't make much, but I get free room & board. And if anyone knows the prices of living in Southern California, you know that's worth a whole lot. Especially since our ranch is actually in the middle of a city, five minutes down the street from one of the major malls of the area.

Like 9 of my guy friends all share a house, with people living in dining rooms & offices and illegally in the garage (they got writ up for that one).

But I'm very young and very inexperienced, so I don't mind being confused for a student at all. Heck, I tried getting away with my free amazon prime student membership for an extra year or two and still use old student IDs at the theatres to get discounted tickets.

It will totally make up for the $400 a month I pay in student loans. . . eventually. Maybe. In like fifteen years.

 

'He works like an emperor, and he lounges like a dog.'

'Attaboy!'

'Three cheers for our prince dog.'

...

Either ways might be effective.

 

Andrewsarchsu is actually closely related to whales. And hippos.

 

Your augment has been made invalid.

 

It rained tremendously all day today. We caught the tail end of the system now moving into the gulf. The river is full and the lawn is a swamp. It will be a night of ant alates. They always come out after heavy rains.

 

TMW you are writing your story and decide to let the middle box that shows suggested words fill in the blank:

This is what I got.

his stance on and the war zone is not a fair idea to be a part because of it the only reason the only thing I think about it was the way I was to write about the other people's opinions on Facebook and I don't know how I did this to me and my husband was the same thing he was clearly not being treated as a writer I thought I had lost a husband he said I had lost all the plot of our story of my Facebook page for Facebook and I thought I had Facebook and friends and I had to do Facebook and friends with my friends and friends with my family Facebook Facebook page and I thought it would mean so the app app does exactly like Facebook Facebook page Facebook and friends with my friends and family friends with friends Facebook and Facebook page and I just want Facebook

 

I know why I seem like a student: I never matured passed an 18-21 year old level (arguments can be made for 12-14) and I post silly things constantly that support that belief.

I also have a problem recognising I'm an adult, to be fair. I still call my friends/peers "boys & girls" and almost never "men & women" even though we're all in our mid to late 20s.

Some are married.

Kids are starting.

Oh gosh, we're all supposed to be mature adults, aren't we!?

 

There is something intriguing in seeing the human body preserved and
posed in artistic fashion. Granted they strip the skin away, and preserve
the muscles and such. It is beautiful in a macabre fashion, but none the
less a really interesting thing to see.

Spoiler: Human Body Art

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It only gets stranger as you get older. Time fluctuates and sometimes youth feels like it was just yesterday, and sometimes it feels so long ago that it's like the memory of a TV show you once watched.

 

Alas, my "augment" has been invalid for years, though I'm told a urologist can correct this.

 

I am not opening that link -- I like not having nightmares.

 

I don't get it. Our @big soft moose lives in the UK, so those cars are driving on the wrong side of the road.

 

That is why I put it in a spoiler. To protect those who choose not to see it,
do not have too. Though it is a man holding a woman in a pose of a type
of dance. Ballet I think.

 

I can't see it at all, clicked and got an error

 

Me too.

I figured it was probably a good thing.