Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

That's an interesting qualifier.  So he will mix with non-scientist conservatives?  Or non-scientist tea-baggers?  Ooook.

They won't mix with him. Librul elitists are BADWRONG.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO.

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

It wasn't you; I am not the kind of person who passive-aggressively complains about other people in the third person where I know they'll see it, I'm the kind of person who aggressive-aggressively says what I think to their face.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO.

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

It wasn't you; I am not the kind of person who passive-aggressively complains about other people in the third person where I know they'll see it, I'm the kind of person who aggressive-aggressively says what I think to their face.

Indeed. 
I had a moment of doubt ("Maybe she doesn't have time to Nigel everything thats fucked up, I know I don't") but on reflection, you'd have made time. With a machete. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist 

[LMNO]

Sheesh.  Remind me not to use hyperbole on FaceBook.

[Suu]

Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage.

This explains quite a lot.

Yes. My intolerance to Yellow 5 and subsequent UTIs was a start. But let's face it, it's sometimes too goddamn hot for a cup of proper coffee in the morning. When the iced coffee phenomenon reached Florida 5 years after it swept across New England like the 1938 Hurricane, it was the greatest thing in the world.

-Suu
Didn't even know iced coffee was a thing until 2002.

[Suu]

In the last 24 hours, I have spoken to graduate advisors at both the University of South Florida and Norwich University, and both of them, after seeing my GPA, basically went, "Wait, URI wanted you to PAY FOR A CLASS to write them a dang paper? They wouldn't just let you audit?"

So it's not just me that feels like something is badwrong, here. I'm feeling fucked by Rhode Island. Again.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage.

This explains quite a lot.

Yes. My intolerance to Yellow 5 and subsequent UTIs was a start. But let's face it, it's sometimes too goddamn hot for a cup of proper coffee in the morning. When the iced coffee phenomenon reached Florida 5 years after it swept across New England like the 1938 Hurricane, it was the greatest thing in the world.

-Suu
Didn't even know iced coffee was a thing until 2002.

What?
I remember my mom ordering iced coffee when she used to take me out for ice cream when I was really little. It's always been a thing.

[Ben Shapiro]

Coffee??? Coffee??? Coffee?? Silly Anglo Americans. Just chew habanero peppers and speak TRUTH.

[Suu]

Coffee??? Coffee??? Coffee?? Silly Anglo Americans. Just chew habanero peppers and speak TRUTH.

I was married to a Hispanic. This is what made me drink coffee. His parents were like, "Angela, coffee?" And put it in front of me before I could say no. Cafe Bustelo. If I asked nice, they would give me milk for it. When we would go to taekwondo tournaments in Florida, our team would often sit near one of the schools from Miami we were friends with. They brewed Cuban coffee they served out of a thermos into little paper cups. I'm pretty sure that is the only way our parents got through 12 hour days in the stands.

[East Coast Hustle]

Cafe Bustelo is fucking righteous fuel.

[Suu]

Cafe Bustelo is fucking righteous fuel.

It makes SLAMMING Turkish coffee because of that fine grind. And then you will see forever.

[East Coast Hustle]

I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

[Suu]

I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

If that happens, I will be up there to see you. Being that we'll be practically living in the same state. Technically. Maybe. We're still looking in New Hampshire for tax (or lack there of) purposes. It just seems more lucrative to live in a state where you don't pay income taxes if you're only going to be there for a year. Not that there's much of a difference between Kittery, Portsmouth, or Newburyport anyway, aside from the amount the state wants to gouge you for. Though I can't see Maine being nearly as bad as Rhode Island.