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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby harvey k-tel » 14 Feb 2018, 20:46

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sloopjohnc wrote:I've been fighting a bad cold the last couple days and really didn't want to go to work today. But sometimes, you have to fake it to make it and just step out the door. I took some daytime cold medicine before I left my apartment and now I just feel kinda sick at work vs. really sick at work because I'm doing stuff and can't really focus on being sick.

I'll probably feel crappy again as it gets to later afternoon and get home, but at least I'm not just sitting like a turd in my apartment watching shitty daytime TV.



I just went through a bout of the flu that lasted well over 2 weeks. There's an epidemic here with older people clogging up the hospitals, some even dying from it. Really bad. Hope it's "only" a cold and not the flu.


It's really bad. The guy who organizes our annual Easter-weekend hockey tournament just lost his 10-year old nephew to the flu, and that's the not the only one I've heard of.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 14 Feb 2018, 21:19

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souphound wrote:I just went through a bout of the flu that lasted well over 2 weeks. There's an epidemic here with older people clogging up the hospitals, some even dying from it. Really bad. Hope it's "only" a cold and not the flu.


It's really bad. The guy who organizes our annual Easter-weekend hockey tournament just lost his 10-year old nephew to the flu, and that's the not the only one I've heard of.


There were 4,064 deaths from pneumonia or influenza, according to the CDC data, during the third week of January.
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Postby PresMuffley » 15 Feb 2018, 11:30

Today I have to drive 3 hrs to be a witness in traffic court for my best friend. He got a B.S. $180 ticket for a U-Turn back in Sept. taking his kids to school while I was visiting. The cop was a total dick. Very rude. A bunch of parents got ticketed that morning. It was apparently some sort of sting operation on upper-middle-class people. Good to see the authorities are attempting to spread the harassment around evenly, I suppose.
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Postby harvey k-tel » 15 Feb 2018, 14:05

I was two feet away from being the next Snarfyguy this morning as a big pile of snow and ice fell off a building right in front of me. Scary stuff!
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Postby Dr Markus » 15 Feb 2018, 16:23

Only Irish weather can have snow, sleet, rain, hailstones and wind together at any one time.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby souphound » 15 Feb 2018, 16:27

The Great Defector wrote:Only Irish weather can have snow, sleet, rain, hailstones and wind together at any one time.


Never been to Canada have you?
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 15 Feb 2018, 16:28

souphound wrote:
The Great Defector wrote:Only Irish weather can have snow, sleet, rain, hailstones and wind together at any one time.


Never been to Canada have you?


Nope, might be before the end of the year though.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby souphound » 15 Feb 2018, 16:59

The Great Defector wrote:
souphound wrote:
The Great Defector wrote:Only Irish weather can have snow, sleet, rain, hailstones and wind together at any one time.


Never been to Canada have you?


Nope, might be before the end of the year though.



Whereabouts? Toronto I bet.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 15 Feb 2018, 17:07

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The Great Defector wrote:
souphound wrote:
Never been to Canada have you?


Nope, might be before the end of the year though.



Whereabouts? Toronto I bet.


Ottawa, my aunt is over there and is trying to get my ma over. However she doesn't want to go by herself. My brother might be going over for work related stuff, if not, then it will probably be me.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby souphound » 15 Feb 2018, 17:47

The Great Defector wrote:Ottawa, my aunt is over there and is trying to get my ma over. However she doesn't want to go by herself. My brother might be going over for work related stuff, if not, then it will probably be me.


Ottawa's quaint. A bit quiet for my taste, but OK nonetheless. My sister and her family live there.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 15 Feb 2018, 17:59

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sloopjohnc wrote:Isn't red wine for meat eaters?


No.

In theory most kinds of fish pair better with white than red, but there's some exceptions to that - salmon, for example. And for a vegetarian diet - particularly if there's mushrooms or any kind of fake meat involved - red pairs better with almost everything.

Likewise I will drink a good white once in a blue moon, but generally speaking I am not a fan.


My point was that it sounds like you're trying to rationalize your taste for red wine for white wine. Just say you like red wine better instead of trying to invent a reason for it.

I happen to like white wine better and don't need someone else's stupid rules to tell me what I should eat with or not.
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Postby Dr Markus » 15 Feb 2018, 18:32

souphound wrote:
The Great Defector wrote:Ottawa, my aunt is over there and is trying to get my ma over. However she doesn't want to go by herself. My brother might be going over for work related stuff, if not, then it will probably be me.


Ottawa's quaint. A bit quiet for my taste, but OK nonetheless. My sister and her family live there.


I'm just hoping to get to a raptors game some how, I think Toronto's like 4 hours away. I'll probably have to sit through a hockey game though at some stage. :(
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby toomanyhatz » 15 Feb 2018, 18:34

sloopjohnc wrote:
My point was that it sounds like you're trying to rationalize your taste for red wine for white wine. Just say you like red wine better instead of trying to invent a reason for it.

I happen to like white wine better and don't need someone else's stupid rules to tell me what I should eat with or not.


Yes, I'm well aware of the non-conformity of your culinary habits. :D

Also, it was you that brought up wine pairings, not me. I don't pay that much attention to them, to be honest. I'm more of a beer drinker anyway, in general.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby clive gash » 15 Feb 2018, 18:43

What wine best pairs with a Breakfast Burrito? A cheeky Chateauneuf du Pape?
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby harvey k-tel » 15 Feb 2018, 18:47

nev harp wrote:What wine best pairs with a Breakfast Burrito? A cheeky Chateauneuf du Pape?


For Sloop I'd suggest an '08 Dominus. Go bold or go home.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 15 Feb 2018, 19:07

toomanyhatz wrote:
sloopjohnc wrote:
My point was that it sounds like you're trying to rationalize your taste for red wine for white wine. Just say you like red wine better instead of trying to invent a reason for it.

I happen to like white wine better and don't need someone else's stupid rules to tell me what I should eat with or not.


Yes, I'm well aware of the non-conformity of your culinary habits. :D .


:lol:

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 15 Feb 2018, 19:08

Harvey K-Tel wrote:
nev harp wrote:What wine best pairs with a Breakfast Burrito? A cheeky Chateauneuf du Pape?


For Sloop I'd suggest an '08 Dominus. Go bold or go home.


I got your '08 Dominus right here, buddy.

But that's kinda my response to everything.
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Postby toomanyhatz » 15 Feb 2018, 19:53

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby PresMuffley » 16 Feb 2018, 12:20

PresMuffley wrote:Today I have to drive 3 hrs to be a witness in traffic court for my best friend. He got a B.S. $180 ticket for a U-Turn back in Sept. taking his kids to school while I was visiting. The cop was a total dick. Very rude. A bunch of parents got ticketed that morning. It was apparently some sort of sting operation on upper-middle-class people. Good to see the authorities are attempting to spread the harassment around evenly, I suppose.


The officer retired recently. Case dismissed!

I would never be so lucky. It was a B.S.ticket, though.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 16 Feb 2018, 12:36

I got three offers for car insurance. One at over 900 euros, one at just over 600 euro and one at just under 500 euro. With the same access to stats in my case, how the fuck do three difference insurance companies come up with 3 such different quotes? Fuck me.
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