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salty dog cafe

anyway i am wearing a tucked-in t-shirt right now

I, to my great shame, have been to a senor frogs

it really does encapsulate everything a middle school kid thinks "partying" should be

did y'all have Big Johnson shirts. those were banned as were Bart Simpson shirts

yes, and yes

Spent many happy high school classes watching M the punk argue that being told to change his IF IT AIN'T STIFF, IT AIN'T WORTH A FUCK t-shirt was some kind of tradeucement of his civil rights.

About food again, is it a British thing and/or working class thing for food to be treated like a naughty luxury? (Dylan Moran has a bit on this)

I've puzzled over this a lot. Makes me think of old British kids comics in which food is frequently the goal of the story and they get it in a cheeky way then wink at the audience at the end.

Twice this week someone passed me while I was eating and they chuckled and said something about enjoying the food, as if I was up to some mischief.
Some people have gave me kinda dirty smiles about it or licked their lips and winked at me when I'm getting food.

Maybe it's mostly people who've been poor? If so that makes it less funny.

that's like the protestant ethic of allowing you the fruits of your success but not taking pleasure in them. can't look like you're enjoying the windfalls of your labor

or they're body-shaming you with the "eh, looks like you've already had enough to eat" implication, also rude

Believe me there is not much pleasure to be had from a Scottish diet.

lol

sounds like they're hitting on you, try to eat less sexily

now I'm picturing people having this reaction as I'm eating a munchie box on a park bench

'Naughty' is any sweet that's more elaborate than a digestive biscuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBU-pzAmqcM

I'm not fat so I don't think they're body shaming me. I got this even when I was pretty skinny.

It seems almost like vicarious pleasure. I remember after I finished something an older guy I know really eagerly grinned and asked "Are you enjoying that! Are you enjoying that!"

https://youtu.be/IwlVa6i6Yg8?t=2078

"nipping for a cheeky nandos" is maybe related

Every time I visit any family or friends in Scotland they're ceaselessly offering biscuits, sandwiches or tea. Even after I refuse.

Is the culture just generally decadent or?

"you do not need to go to Switzerland ... Scottish chip shops provide an effective euthanasia service"

It'd be "You'll have had your tea?" in Edinburgh. (xp)

lol sounds about right Tom

st patrick's day is a garbage holiday

weather should be abolished

st patrick's day is a garbage holiday

uncontroversial

Space. Or, specifically, certain Americans' glurgey reverence for NASA, astronauts, the space program, the fucking Shuttle.

People who are otherwise level-headed, liberal-minded, skeptical, cynical, irreligious, and snarky can nevertheless have this weird Nerd Glaze come over their eyes when the topic comes up. They laud Humankind's Glorious Quest To Explore The Skies... And Beyond! If you express doubts about the cost-to-benefit ratio of manned space flight you get lectures about spinoffs like trampolines and Tang and, crap, I forgot the third one.

Everybody comes to DC and the first thing they want to see is the goddamn Air and Space Museum, which to me just seems tired and dated, reeking of my 1970s childhood and that brown/orange palette and wide ties and the Cold War. The whole of space culture gets this noble, uplifting Trekkie overlay. But the real impetus was always Beating the Russkies, with all the jingoism that entailed USA! USA! We are #1! It was never about universal brotherhood.

News flash: They call it "space" because there's pretty much nothing there.

Seems to me like the cost/benefit of space exploration/colonization makes a lot of sense since the potential benefit might mean the continued survival of our species.

Can we do it without the gloopy sentimentality? Or, at least, can I still roll my eyes when normal people get all fluttery over That Time They Met Alan Bean (or whoever)?

oh yeah if anything we should only approach it w/ hardnosed cynicism

the cost/benefit of space exploration/colonization makes a lot of sense since the potential benefit might mean the continued survival of our species mineral rights.

the cost/benefit of space exploration/colonization makes a lot of sense since the potential benefit might mean watching c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate

imo having large, society scale projects to rally around, even if they have no specific tangible benefit, is known to be a boon as far as morale goes and outside of the obvious monetary expenditure (which is not small) space exploration has historically fit that bill

the number of technological advances from the development of equipment for getting to and staying in space, along with insights into human physiology, is pretty huge as well

some examples: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html

space itself and astronomy as science and as a hobby is totally unassailable. manned spaceflight is not, but i still like it.

*pushes YMP out the airlock*

tempted to point to each of those tech benefits like elaine in seinfeld and say "roswell" "roswell" "roswell" "roswell" …

mmm tang

lol

Jeff... come to my neighborhood and we'll go to the bar with tangermeister shots

Jaegermeister is delicious and a top-tier shot

first part yes, i guess the second part is objectively false

Jaegermeister is delicious and a top-tier shot

― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Thursday, March 16, 2017 2:27 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this opinion wins the thread for me

you (yes you) are a terrible driver

you (yes you) become insufferable when drunk

first part yes, i guess the second part is objectively false

counter-argument: no it's not

DJP otm and it's also very good with Tang
:)

I would try all these Tangermeister shots

people shooting expensive liquor is horrible (not controversial)

most mixed shot drinks are a waste of time and energy when there are single liquor shots that are delicious

xp just figured "top-tier" implied price point somehow

i don't even do Jaeger in shots, i like to sip it over ice

flashback to an early 20s birthday when friends were buying me tequila shots and didn't buy Patron (or a more expensive tequila) until they were feeling drunk and generous was rude

expensive first while I can enjoy it, please

i don't even do hard liquor anymore.

Fireball shots are hipster lameness = my contribution