The Random Thoughts Thread

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:58 pm

That’s always how I figured I’d go...

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:01 pm

She looks a little too much like Jared Kushner.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:28 pm

Super fucking creepy.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:24 pm

If you think the Tucson real estate market is crazy

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/urine-sa ... ium=Social

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:36 pm

Yeah that's a winner. This one is a head-scratcher for me: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/55-L ... 1874_zpid/

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:53 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:36 pm Yeah that's a winner. This one is a head-scratcher for me: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/55-L ... 1874_zpid/

$712/sq ft is some bs

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:51 pm

Scarlet Johansson has an enormous head.

Way bigger than Sylvester Stallone’s.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sat Jun 19, 2021 3:27 pm

To the Dude/Dudette who keeps shoving Paige Spiranac onto my Edge feed:

She has great tits: message received.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:01 am

From Wikipedia: "Spiranac's self-promotion has brought criticism and raised the question of what she brings to golf.[29] Spiranac's appearance on the May 2016 cover of Golf Digest, having never finished in the top 300 of the NCAA ranking, and having missed the cut at her then-only professional event, sparked controversy.[30] In its nearly seven decades of publication, the magazine featured a woman on its cover only 23 times, with eleven of them being professional female golfers.[29] This raised the question of what she had actually accomplished on the golf course to warrant such attention."

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:02 am

The Anna Kournikova of golf.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:31 am

In America there is the very odd phenomenon of being famous just for being famous.

It often helps if you’ve got big tits.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 8:03 am

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:02 am The Anna Kournikova of golf.

Anna Kournikova won a grand slam event in doubles.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:07 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:30 am

Averted death once again.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:40 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:30 am Averted death once again.

The day ain’t over yet. So please be careful out there.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:53 pm

The Portland Embassy Suite is pretty nice.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:52 pm

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jun 27, 2021 8:47 pm

Stoned Niel

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:54 am

Since when are there male models on The Price Is Right?

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:19 pm

If my name is John and I start really overusing the phrase "all night long!", will people start to call me "All Night Long John"?

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:18 pm

What if when somebody rightfully lays blame squarely on you, you say, "Yeah, well, life is short and all that. Let's get out of here and hit the ground running."

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:10 am

Was the inspiration for Cheers actually Alice? With Sam as Mel, Dianne as Alice, and Vera as Flo? And with the main innovation being the development of regular customers as main characters?

cpt · Post by **cpt** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:16 am

Is anyone going to point out that Bezos’ rocket totally looks like a dick?

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:27 am

cpt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:16 am Is anyone going to point out that Bezos’ rocket totally looks like a dick?

Kept thinking about that scene from Austin Powers.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:01 am

What is it with Fine wine? The most expensive sip I've had was from a $650 bottle. Didn't taste $640 better than what you get a Trader Joe's. Four figure wine sells because it's a status symbol, correct? Age it longer, use gold paint on the label, bottle it Provence. It's an agreed upon way to impress your yacht club "friends" who really aren't your friends but social contrasts by which you comparatively assess your own status. Who's the joke on?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:46 am

CatsbyAZ wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:01 am What is it with Fine wine? The most expensive sip I've had was from a $650 bottle. Didn't taste $640 better than what you get a Trader Joe's. Four figure wine sells because it's a status symbol, correct? Age it longer, use gold paint on the label, bottle it Provence. It's an agreed upon way to impress your yacht club "friends" who really aren't your friends but social contrasts by which you comparatively assess your own status. Who's the joke on?

I can taste the difference between a $15 bottle and a $60 bottle of wine, and I am by no means a wine connoisseur. And I will say that in 99% of cases, the more expensive wine is 4-5 times better than the cheap stuff.

What I can’t taste is the difference between a $60 bottle and a $600 bottle. But keep in mind that if you’re talking restaurant prices, the mark up is ridiculous. I’ve seen bottles I can get anywhere for $40-$50 go for $300+ at fine dining establishments. It’s pretty fucking dumb.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:58 am

I don't drink any more at restaurants, but liked to bring my own in, and just pay the corking charge. Like Chi says, the markup is just crazy.

Similar to when you take your car into the shop. What they charge for auto parts is twice what you would pay at Autozone. And no, you can't bring your own parts in.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:49 am

Dunno. Many times very expensive wine tastes well worth it. The problem is it's not dependable. My most cherished experience with wine in my mouth was a French Pinot Noir the name of which I don't remember .... and couldn't pronounce if I did .... and cannot financially justify trying to recapture because Pinot is like a bi-polar psycho bitch high-maintenance girlfriend who is either a forgettable movie or the fuck of the century. As to the social dimension, if you're drinking wine for anyone other than yourself you're a tool.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:10 am

You need a non-snobbish, trustable expert wine person who curates the best wines they can get their hands on at all price points. In Tucson, that's Rum Runner and Time Market, for example. Once you learn the labels for the best cheap wines there, you can pick up the same bottle when you spot it at Trader Joe's. But you can't just buy blind at Trader Joe's because the good cheap bottles are like a needle in a haystack of undrinkable cheap bottles.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:08 am

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:11 am

I'm not a wine drinker at all but the biggest difference always seems to be between the $8 bottle and the $40 bottle and not between the $40 and the $400.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:05 am

ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:11 am I'm not a wine drinker at all but the biggest difference always seems to be between the $8 bottle and the $40 bottle and not between the $40 and the $400.

So the taste to cost relationship works like an y=ln(x) graph where the y-axis is taste quality and the x-axis is cost.

cpt · Post by **cpt** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:51 pm

I am a wine drinker. While I love all varietals, Pinot Noir is my love. And I can tell you there isn't a Pinot less than $15 I would drink - they are all terrible. And while the $15-$20 has some good ones, the vast majority aren't. You really have to get above $30 (and probably a lot more) to get a transcendent Pinot. The reason has to do with yields (the less, the better), locations (there aren't many great locations and there is a lot of Pinot being grown where it shouldn't) and, frankly, time and effort and talent. It takes a lot of work and care and talent to make a great Pinot. So, yeah. Cost matters a lot with certain varietals. I've often read - and repeated - that if you are forced to drink a cheap wine, get a Sauvignon Blanc (white) or Cabernet (red), there is a lot more room for error there and you have to really try to not make at least a drinkable one.

cpt · Post by **cpt** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:55 pm

ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:11 am I'm not a wine drinker at all but the biggest difference always seems to be between the $8 bottle and the $40 bottle and not between the $40 and the $400.

I would go higher on the low end of your scale. There's less of a difference between $75 and $400 (except Pinot or First-Growth Bordeaux) and much bigger differences between $40 and $75.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:46 pm

Oh, explains a lot I guess.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:52 pm

Shouldn't that go in the Incel thread Merk?

Actually I guess that's voluntary.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:41 pm

Just had my first pedicure ever with the 38+ week pregnant wife. Not too shabby. Cleaned up my work from home shoeless hooves pretty well.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:04 pm

I love manicures and pedicures

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:49 am

My wife explained to me that the lyrics to the Eagles' Take It Easy go, "So open up, I'm climbing in." I grew up thinking it was, "So open up my private end, and take it Eeeeeeeeeeasy!"

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:17 pm

Meaning aside, an excellent if somewhat stodgy name for a boy would be Covid.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:31 pm

I grabbed a half full jar of Tostitos cheese dip out of the back of my fridge that’s been hiding behind a bunch of shit for the last 12 weeks at least.

I opened it up, expecting to be truly horrified by the moldy science experiment I was about to find inside. Instead, it was so so much worse…

IT WAS PERFECTLY FINE

What kind of toxic sludge did I buy and eat that won’t go bad after a quarter of a year?? And what the fuck did it do to my insides??

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:53 pm

It's still inside you probably

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:11 pm

Do you think at some point it will punch through my stomach like in Alien?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:35 pm

It is probably near sentience in your colon somewhere

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:37 pm

I hope it doesn’t start talking shit.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:48 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:44 pm

If Kuato is running the Mars resistance from my lower intestine . . . more power to him.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:11 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:31 pm I grabbed a half full jar of Tostitos cheese dip out of the back of my fridge that’s been hiding behind a bunch of shit for the last 12 weeks at least.

I opened it up, expecting to be truly horrified by the moldy science experiment I was about to find inside. Instead, it was so so much worse…

IT WAS PERFECTLY FINE

What kind of toxic sludge did I buy and eat that won’t go bad after a quarter of a year?? And what the fuck did it do to my insides??

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but isn't that experience exactly what you'd expect from Tostitos Cheese Dip?

It's like when you see negative Yelp reviews about McDonalds. You know why you went there, and it wasn't to get a tasty burger. Maybe just be happy you didn't get e coli and calm down about the taste and sevice you received.

Again, I don't mean this disrespectfully, but I feel like my standing expectation of Tostitos Cheese Dip is that it will exit your body in the same basic state as it entered.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:26 am

Nope, definitely not what I was expecting.

I was expecting at the very least that whatever water was in there would have separated from the oil and milk fats and all the fake plastic fillers leaving a toxic liquid at the top and a hunk of unidentifiable solids at the bottom.

At the worst, I figured it would look like an ASU frat boy’s Petri dish bacterial results from an STD test.

Jerk

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