The Random Thoughts Thread

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:05 pm

visors irritate me

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:20 pm

There's something we agree on.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:31 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:46 am

Especially when you can't even wear it right. Recall lots of Stoops doing this while at the UA.

But on women athletes I have a completely different opinion

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:16 pm

Personally I like visors but look terrible in them.

It’s like being allergic to chocolate. Why did God forsake me!?!?

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:44 am

Freeform (formerly ABC Family?) has the strangest mix of programming - Jerry Falwell's nightly, very evangelical news show, featuring live prayers for healing, is sandwiched between very un-evangelical programming such as Harry Potter marathons, shows about teens (and their parents!) discovering alternative sexualities, and your typical late-90s/early-2000s raunchy comedies. And in the very early mornings biblical sermons are broadcasted.

Very surprised Fallwell hasn't up and relocated somewhere else like Newsmax TV (if that's still a thing) or OANN. And equally surprised Freeform hasn't moved on from its evangelical programming.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:02 pm

I'm paying someone else to fix my roof and ac and pool, paint the house, install flooring and more. Why did I build patio furniture by myself today?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:32 pm

For the life of me, where can I buy a box of chocotaco’s?

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:01 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:For the life of me, where can I buy a box of chocotaco’s?

Put your zip code in here: https://www.klondikebar.com/products/ch ... -ice-cream" target="_blank

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:04 am

Check it out. Hey Columbia, you got nuthin' on the Snake.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:54 am

Bakersfield and Fresno look really wet. They are of course not.

And it keeps sinking.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:10 pm

Have drugs evolved to as bad as they're going to get?

Asking because in both Portland and San Diego I share neighborhoods with many drug addicts and we just had another OD last weekend, presumably Fetanyl, which most of the addicts I know steer clear of, even through their worst comedowns.

80s had crack & heroin, 90s brought meth, 2000s increased prescription painkiller abuse - and aside from all that so many more people are recreationally using coke, ecstasy, percocets, adderall, and xanax that I don't even know where we go from here.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:20 pm

CatsbyAZ wrote:Have drugs evolved to as bad as they're going to get?

Asking because in both Portland and San Diego I share neighborhoods with many drug addicts and we just had another OD last weekend, presumably Fetanyl, which most of the addicts I know steer clear of, even through their worst comedowns.

80s had crack & heroin, 90s brought meth, 2000s increased prescription painkiller abuse - and aside from all that so many more people are recreationally using coke, ecstasy, percocets, adderall, and xanax that I don't even know where we go from here.

If there was a drug that got you high as a kite for 30 minutes but the side effect was that your face would fall off, you'd find at least a few people who would be like "YOLO"...

I mean, PCP literally makes you run naked through the streets stabbing people with a shard of broken glass and I know a guy still who sprinkles it on his weed.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:27 pm

I don't know anyone who does anything besides weed, but I am 62. However, my son's girlfriend has lost 3 friends/acquaintances to heroin or opiods.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:29 pm

I don't do cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:29 pm

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:29 pm

Merkin wrote:

https://old.reddit.com/r/badwomensanatomy/top/" target="_blank

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:34 pm

Going to be calling it the “Devil’s Doorbell” from now on.

This replaces “Magic Bean”.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:43 pm

My wife went to go see The Shape of Water with one her older girlfriends. When the woman in the movie did the bathtub seen her friend got up and made her leave.

I told my wife: "Aw come on, everyone knows that women masturbate in the bath tub". Apparently her friend is the only one that does not.

Think of Pleasantville, and the bathtub scene where the movie finally had color.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:58 pm

Ladies, every time you masturbate god kills a kitten.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:28 pm

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:12 pm

Wtf happened to me. Ever since I bought this house I've been consumed with thoughts of scheduling maintenance, changing filters, updating fixtures, pulling weeds etc. I'm 34 and is this the less than eternal precipice of middle age?

I feel like I need a spreadsheet to tell me what needs checking or maintenance every week/month/quarter/biannually/year/2 years/5 years.

Yet in this hellish time of corona/trump/climate change it gives me some serene calmness.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:54 am

scumdevils86 wrote:Wtf happened to me. Ever since I bought this house I've been consumed with thoughts of scheduling maintenance, changing filters, updating fixtures, pulling weeds etc. I'm 34 and is this the less than eternal precipice of middle age?

I feel like I need a spreadsheet to tell me what needs checking or maintenance every week/month/quarter/biannually/year/2 years/5 years.

Yet in this hellish time of corona/trump/climate change it gives me some serene calmness.

There's gotta be an app for that, right?

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:34 am

Long overdue question - can someone provide interpretation on TV ratings? When 60 Minutes gets a 1.3 "rating" that's a percentage? A percentage based on what? A projection of TVs turned on? And how does the rating translate to "millions of viewers?" Is it a simple conversion or based a formula containing inputs that change based on projections? Big thanks in advance.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:55 am

It’s a percentage of an estimated number of households with their TVs on at that time.

So Nielsen will say that in Primetime on Thursday there are an estimated 80 million televisions turned on and from their set top data about 4% of them were tuned to Thursday Night Football.

It’s a vague extrapolation based on a vague estimation, and yet somehow it is still the metric whereby it is determined how hundreds of billions of dollars are spent. Even though it can’t tell you who was watching or even if someone was in the room and paying attention. Nor can it account for people who watch things pretty much any way except through traditional cable or over-the-air antennas. It’s basically like trying to guess the intensity of a hurricane by sticking your finger in the air after licking it.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:46 pm

Shouldn’t the person who wins People’s Sexiest Man Alive retain that title until they die?

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:17 pm

#showerthoughts

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:40 pm

Chicat wrote:Shouldn’t the person who wins People’s Sexiest Man Alive retain that title until they die?

After 364 days they took it away from me. I was gonna sue but I'm all about giving back.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:48 am

dovecanyoncat wrote:
Chicat wrote:Shouldn’t the person who wins People’s Sexiest Man Alive retain that title until they die?
After 364 days they took it away from me. I was gonna sue but I'm all about giving back.

Was it as good for them as it was for you??

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:54 am

pc in NM wrote:
dovecanyoncat wrote:
Chicat wrote:Shouldn’t the person who wins People’s Sexiest Man Alive retain that title until they die?
After 364 days they took it away from me. I was gonna sue but I'm all about giving back.
Was it as good for them as it was for you??

It's not easy to be me.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:07 pm

Just took a really good hard look in the mirror and holy shit I’m starting to go grey in my late 30’s.

Haven’t lost a follicle; so thats not a concern but damn at this rate I’m going to be sporting a Lute by 50.

Anyone else have this happen before 40?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:15 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:Just took a really good hard look in the mirror and holy shit I’m starting to go grey in my late 30’s.

Haven’t lost a follicle; so that s it a concern but damn at this rate I’m going to be sporting a Lute by 50.

Anyone else have this happen before 40?

From here on out every day will be the best day of the rest of your life until you die.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:30 pm

Lol...thanks greg!

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:45 pm

My facial hair has been going gray pretty aggressively since I was 30 but I have light enough hair you can't tell too much on my head get. I'm only 34 too.

OriginalAZ · Post by **OriginalAZ** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:27 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:Just took a really good hard look in the mirror and holy shit I’m starting to go grey in my late 30’s.

Haven’t lost a follicle; so thats not a concern but damn at this rate I’m going to be sporting a Lute by 50.

Anyone else have this happen before 40?

Yup. I'm 43 and my beard is getting very gray. Hair on my has some gray but not too bad. Luckily no hair loss.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 9:13 pm

OriginalAZ wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:Just took a really good hard look in the mirror and holy shit I’m starting to go grey in my late 30’s.

Haven’t lost a follicle; so thats not a concern but damn at this rate I’m going to be sporting a Lute by 50.

Anyone else have this happen before 40?
Yup. I'm 43 and my beard is getting very gray. Hair on my has some gray but not too bad. Luckily no hair loss.

This is me too. Word for word.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:26 pm

Heh heh heh, when youse guys start in on your pubes it'll warrant its own thread.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:15 am

Chicat wrote:
OriginalAZ wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:Just took a really good hard look in the mirror and holy shit I’m starting to go grey in my late 30’s.

Haven’t lost a follicle; so thats not a concern but damn at this rate I’m going to be sporting a Lute by 50.

Anyone else have this happen before 40?
Yup. I'm 43 and my beard is getting very gray. Hair on my has some gray but not too bad. Luckily no hair loss.
This is me too. Word for word.

Jeesh, I'm 73, and my beard is white!! My head is salt-and-pepper, but still all there.

Fortunately, my nose and ear hair are still brown!!

OriginalAZ · Post by **OriginalAZ** » Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:51 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote:Heh heh heh, when youse guys start in on your pubes it'll warrant its own thread.

haha

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:00 pm

We're at Whiskey Row in Prescott listening to old guys sing keroke.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:35 pm

My wife had me set up a fishing line string from the poch to the mailbox to give candy to the kids.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:23 pm

Wait. Wut? People actually pay for porn?

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:58 am

International news media WASTES way too much attention on U.S. news. And as someone who actively follows UK news, their publications are the worst offenders. BBC International's broadcasts are really just half-hour roundups of the lead U.S. stories. The Guardian's default homepage is for its U.S. edition; you have to click the upper-right drop down menu and select "UK Edition" to follow the current British news. And the Daily Mail's homepage prominently features a "U.S. Showbiz" tab. Are we Americans really that interesting to the rest of the world? In a train wreck sort of way?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:13 am

Yes. More specifically in a “we gave a certifiable idiot and madman the unlimited ability to nuke anyone and anything at any time for no reason whatsoever so how are we going to top THAT for unbridled lunacy” sort of way.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:25 pm

CatsbyAZ wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:58 am International news media WASTES way too much attention on U.S. news.

Things may be fucked up in (any random country), but at least we are not the US!

Now that is fucked up country.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:56 pm

One of life's small joys is climbing into a freshly made bed.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:20 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:56 pm One of life's small joys is climbing into a freshly made bed.

But is it greater than the joy of looking at your unmade bed and saying, “heh, fuck that shit...”?

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:25 pm

Now that I live in a nicer house with a real washer and dryer indoors and a brand new king sized hybrid memory foam bed with down pillows and a comforter...

There's nothing quite like getting into a freshly made bed. Especially in the winter.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:22 pm

Nothing like staying in a freshly unmade bed for round two.

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