Ask Yerac

I thought the ice was to cool the booze they bought to prepare for their seedy hotel tryst.

Ice for cocktails

as I'm scottish and i often stay in hotels that are too shitty to have a fridge in the room i enjoy chilling some beverages in an ice filled bathroom sink

oh sorry to be clear the scottishness both accounts for the shittiness of the hotel room (cheapness) and the need to have alcohol at all times while on a trip (cultural alcoholism)

My luck with ice filled bathroom sinks is not good. They always drain down.

I realize i have only had one seedy h(m)otel tryste in my life. I like hotels in general so I am pro those things. xpost

I just got my winekey taken away rom the madrid airport and then promptly broke a super shitty plastic winekey in the apt I am staying so I get the need to BYOB(opener) to accommodations.

Ugggggh I have broken several shitty plastic corkscrews purchased in wine stores while traveling. It's an eternal dilemma. In Lisbon this spring our Air bnb didn't HAVE a corkscrew so I had to take a bottle of wine downstairs to a restaurant where we had eaten before and ask them. They were lovely, natch. But still.

wow, normally a big plus of AirBnBs is that they have corkscrews, hotel rooms never seem to

Yerac why is the stock market going up again

Donald J Trump's stewardship of the nation ofc

*waves* @ Yerac

Is the US still the only country that goes in for filling a 16oz glass to the brim with ice and then pouring about 6oz of drink in it? And talking about liquids in terms of ounces, I guess.

hey it's bnw

did u touch the stanley cup

if the trash can in the hotel room has a liner and it looks like they've both changed it regularly and no one has thrown trash in the non-lined bin, you can take the liner out of one, fill it with ice, and embed your drinks in it. the ice-in-sink method does tend to drain

I have done that when there is no fridge, or the fridge is one of those "fridge is the minibar" situations where there's no room in the fridge

but otherwise: ice for a bunch of mixed drinks when friends are hanging out in the room, ice for my injuries I've undoubtedly incurred while traveling, occasionally ice for coffee

I have no clue why the general market is going up again. It loves Trump. Although a lot of individual stocks still seem stalled/trading badly. It's crazy how well Beyond Burger did though.

hi bnw. I still think about that time we met up to go dancing and I was very drunk and we ended up standing in line at JayZ's club because I had no clue where I was going.

If I don't have a winekey, I use my keys to push down the cork. Supposedly if there is a synthetic cork you can just put a lighter to the neck and it pops out.

I have like 10 pulltap corkscrews (the basic double hinged ones) . They are cheap and the best thing for the price. So if one disappears or gets taken away, it's fine.

You okay? Saw some news footage that looked pretty intense.

Yeah! I did learn the word 'cacerola' this week though.

Or rather, 'cacerolazo'.

yerac have you ever considered writing a memoir? would read

no but I have a children's book idea about a panda that drinks wine in the shower. there is a lot of alliteration involved.

(ps. this is the fake plot from the other book)

that may have just made my day

Would sponsor at patreon elite tier.

i'd settle for a carefully libel-free list of the jobs you've had

The main song is called "drinking chenin in the shower". The not fake book is much better.

I have had a lot of jobs. But I have never been fired or laid off. I am a serial job quitter.

Start listing, lady!

this is generally it.

restaurant, sandwich shop, restaurant, bus, record store, pool installation co., coal co., bar, bar, engineering firm, government background checks, boutique, digital architecture firm, bar, record store, bank, bank, ratings agency, vineyard, events co., ratings agency

i think.

What is a ratings agency and why did you have multiple jobs with one?

oh that should read rating (-s) agency. from wiki
"A credit rating agency (CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by making timely principal and interest payments and the likelihood of default. An agency may rate the creditworthiness of issuers of debt obligations, of debt instruments,[1] and in some cases, of the servicers of the underlying debt,[2] but not of individual consumers...
Credit rating is a highly concentrated industry, with the "Big Three" credit rating agencies controlling approximately 95% of the ratings business.[3] Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's (S&P) together control 80% of the global market, and Fitch Ratings controls a further 15%."

I worked at one of those three during two separate timeframes. I don't know why I worked there. Some friends/previous co-workers from one of the two banks I worked at were there and I wasn't doing anything else.

I tried to make that list chronological and I held some jobs simultaneously.

(hockey player)

correction- world famous goalie.

Should I short Tesla?

Best meal of 2020 so far?

Do you want to short tesla? I would never tell anyone to short anything. I can't absorb that much guilt. I also don't follow tesla at all and have no interest in automotive.

We haven't eaten out that much! Still obsessed with murakame udon (only cold noodles though) and taiwanese/japanese bakeries. Also the meal at M0rio's Sushi was pretty great (byob, sushi chef is really engaged, prices reasonable).

old wtju alumni pix 4 u:

Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)

Why you hate chocolate, Yerac?

xpost thx! all the pics from then are sooo 'of a time'. all those tall, lanky indie rock boys.

I've never liked chocolate. Even as a kid, I remember telling my parents it tasted like dirt. I eat it when people give it to me but I would never buy it, order it or put it in things on my own. Dark chocolate on pretzels is ok.

people say chocolate or coffee tastes like dirt and i'm like yeah, I'd eat dirt too

i love coffee. I always do dark roast, black, iced.

Yerac have you ever been a boss? If so what was that like

Yeah. It's terrible. People are entirely too much drama at work and most people are just not great at their jobs. I don't like being responsible for other people. My last job, I managed a team of seven (who had all been there 10-25 years and were in that exhausting 'everything used to be better when we didn't have to rely on computers and there weren't so many policies' spiral) before I eventually asked to be transferred to another position where I just worked by myself and with the original person who hired me (was great). Then my old entire team was laid off after I transferred and their roles moved to Mumbai and Baltimore and they totally blamed me.

You're not weird, I love black coffee and hate chocolate also. Never liked chocolate, it always gave me a migraine.

Speaking of your PS4, how are you getting on, and have you played any Yakuza games yet?

love it! It's only slightly ruining our lives!

Have Yakuza 0 but haven't played it for more than maybe 3 hours total. We kind of have been concentrating on finishing Spiderman and Zero Horizon before picking anything else back up. Next games to get are Death Stranding and OuterWorlds after we finish most of what I got. I kind of don't understand Fortnite, but I also was drinking while I was trying to figure it out.

Lol 3 hours on that game is like...12 on another. It’s long but soooo good & I am always happy to bore people on the subject!

I don’t understand Fortnite either tbh

Merely stumbling across the word 'Fortnite' is enough to force me to accept, once again, that I am one of the olds now.

I mean, I wasn’t going to say it.