Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I just got asked what the USA did to hurt me.

Achievement unlocked?

Twid,
Actually felt American and Angry As Shit when that happened. And honestly still angry as shit about it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I want to out-American this fucker.

I also want to Irish everywhere.

That is to say, just beat the shit out of him and then produce spurious paperwork to legitimize it.

It is weird though. Bastard made me feel patriotic towards the US.

[Reginald Ret]

linky/context?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

linky/context?

Is on the FB of a teacher from my old high school. Not sure if he has it set to private.

The short of it is this teacher is largely typically left (except for his weird position on executing drug dealers, which admittedly all came down to "you're retarded" and "wait til you're a dad"), and very union. He posted a Louis D. Brandeis quote to the effect that democracy and concentration of wealth are incompatible.

I mentioned that the US was a plutonomic republic and some dude with an avatar of Reagan (seriously who has avatars of politicians?) started asking about confiscation.

Considering how retarded the postiion of "confiscation" is and my tendency to get a bit crazy eyed about that, the results are probably predictable from that point on.

But at one point I was asked about what the USA did to hurt me. My response was essentially "Um. Nothing. ANd that's fucked up you apparently anti-American fuck")

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

It can cause kidney stones. :/ Especially if you drink rich black teas. If you're more into green tea and lighter herbals, not so much, but they can still be very dehydrating. Which sucks of course, because tea is worlds better than coffee, imo.

Drinking black tea reduces the risk of kidney stones in women. http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=711282

The myth that tea contributes to kidney stone formation is based solely on its oxalic acid content, not on research into the effects of consumption. Even if the oxalic acid content was a concern, adding milk helps the body process it.

Luckily I'm not prone to kidney stones anyway, though.

I always has milk with my black tea.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

Two spags.

Three and a half spags (I need to go running more).

Haha, add me and it counts as 5.

[Cain]

Oh shit. Do you remember how "Lena" reacted when I outted that she was associated with that CRAZY South African blog?

I do, that was fun.  For those who don't, start here.

[Cain]

I do, that was fun.  For those who don't, start here.

I've started a new thread for this discussion here.

[Telarus]

Ah, I don't think I would have found that. Thanks Cain!

[LMNO]

Suu, your FB friends suck at pedantry.

[East Coast Hustle]

Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.

I can't wait to trot this one out the next time we go visit ECHGF's family. Some of them are borderline fanatical supporters of the king. It'll be juicy payback for them making me watch his interminable parade and speech on a bad stream feed of Thai TV last month.

[East Coast Hustle]

Speaking of tea, in the last month or so I have developed a fanatical addiction to green tea, which I had formerly decided to hate. I just can't process all this change in my life.

"Green Tea" is a fucking myth. They only call it that because "pencil shavings" didn't play well in the marketing tests.

[Cain]

If you really want the fireworks to fly, mention how much of an awesome king you'd think the Crown Prince will make.  Bonus points if you suggest he promote his dog from Air Chief Marshal to Supreme Commander of the Thai Air Force.

[East Coast Hustle]

Oh, I've already heard ALL about the crown prince. Apparently, the loyalist position boils down to "we just have to hope the king never dies". Watching him try to gargle out his barely coherent ramblings in his national speech, I don't think their position is very tenable.

[Cain]

Yeah, as long-term plans go, putting your bets on a man who has ruled for 67 years is never a good one.

I believe some of the Privy Council are looking at the Princess, though my understanding of the 1924 Palace Law is that while it's not forbidden for them to do so, it's not exactly explictly stated either, and that the Crown Prince, simply by virtue of his title, has good grounds to contest.

Not to mention he's in deep debt to Thaksin, who no doubt sees the benefit of having a King owing him one.