>>4345
John... Titor? We should probably listen, if they're giving us a warning from the future!

>>4303
>Germany
>Bist du zufällig durch einen Tip auf einem anderen Bilderbrett auf eben dieses hier aufmerksam geworden?
Germany

>>4365
You live in Seoul but you're not a Seouldier?

(I am so sorry)

>>4375
Nah, I've been here for years. Came here via the Overchan. Not sure if that site even still exists.

>>4337
Probably a fair reaction. Esp. when I bet Die Antwoord are among the few South Africans some people recognise... (I don't think mumbling 'that guy from District 9' counts XD)

>>4343

I like Die Antwoord, mainly because I like the phonology of Germanic languages.

>>4380
I like Die Antwoord too, but they're sugar music. Sometimes you need dem complex carbohydrates of a more serious artist.

A cautionary tale.

I was trying to light a fire in the wood stove, just to keep the pipes from freezing. The wood was wet and I started to lose my patience so I figured there must be something flammable around here. Found some gasoline in the garage. Tossed it into the stove and nothing happened, then three seconds later it went boom. Fireball. I'm not hurt or anything but my hair smells like burnt popcorn right now.

tl;dr, don't play with fire when you've been drinking.

>>4376
First off, congratulations. Welcome to the singed eyebrow club.

Secondly, for the love of all that is holy, keep some dry kindling in the house, in a box, near the stove. That way, you always have sure dry wood to start the next fire with. After you have a bed of coals going, you can put in wet wood, and it will go.

>>4377
I know, I've told my roommates that. But the heat from the fire doesn't reach my room so I pay for electric heat. The wood stove isn't my responsibility usually but there is no one home tonight and I don't want to wake up tomorrow and discover that my toilet is frozen so I'm keeping a sharp eye.

> I'd really doubt your argument on how much nutrition this has. Banana. A few strawberries, milk. It's fruit, it has a lot of sugar, and a few vitamins.

The strawberries have C, the bananas have potassium, the milk has A, D and calcium. Add a bowl of granola or other decently healthy cereal and you've got decent fiber at the very least. Now compare that to someone who has just a bowl of Froot Loops, gets an Egg McMuffin and coffee at Mickey Dee's, or even skips breakfast altogether (my God, how could you!?), and eats similarly well for other meals in the day, and I stand by my statement.

>>4372
"you've had more nutrition in a single meal than some people have in several days". THIS is what i'm calling bullshit on.

Not "more nutrition than most peoples breakfasts" but "more nutrition than they get, period, in several days".

Ok, sure, there are some people who do nothing but eat out of McDonalds, i'll grant you, but that's pretty fucking rare.

>>4373
I assumed he was using hyperbole, but it DOES disturb me how poorly a lot of people eat. I'm not talking about poor people who can't afford to eat well either; as for the aforementioned Froot Loops, shitty breakfast cereal such as that is one of the few things keeping a lot of North Americans going because it may be a lot of starch and sugar but at least it's fortified a little. That is to say, empty calories plus a few vitamins is better than mere empty calories with nothing added, which is what idiots would be subsisting off of otherwise. You can live pretty well on a careful food budget, it's cheaper than living off of junk (exceptions to this are people who live in really remote places where not much grows, and fresh ingredients are scarce... quality food is very expensive in some parts of Canada for instance). It just takes time and a little planning. How many of the same people who buy Pizza Pockets, etc because they "don't have time to cook" manage to find time to spend two hours a day glued to youtube or playing with their facebook?

While we're on the topic of food in general, do any of you keep gardens? I live on a registered farm but it's small and all the planting and stuff was done before I moved in last summer so I didn't have much hand in any of that and it's not a topic I'm an expert on or anything. I kept a garden at my dad's place years ago but it didn't fare too well. But as for this place, there's kale, beets, lettuce, carrots, garlic, that sort of thing. Potatoes failed hard this year for some reason or other. Oh and there are 5 or 6 hens for eggs plus a noisy rooster, I was posting about them in another thread a few days ago. And honeybees too. Some of the vegetables get sold at a farmers market during the season but the only really profitable thing that was grown here this year wasn't food, it was... pretty flowers. Well actually you can eat some of those too, and some of them are tasty :3

Here's a pic from uh, maybe August or September? The field

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>>4278
I've lived in a few different places but never anywhere that AC was considered a requirement. Keeping the place warm is usually the priority, not cooling it. But Minnesota was a bit harsh in the summer with the temp pushing 100 F in the afternoons, I'll say that much. Oh and I hitch hiked across Montana in August one summer... ouch. No shade, no humidity; every time I visited a gas station I'd have drank half my water before I even made it back to the ramp. I'd rather be a little cold than deal with that again.

>>4280
part of it depends on where your place is situated. I used to live on a third floor with windows on two sides so I'd get much better breezes, now I'm in a second floor with windows only on one side.
Closer to the ocean there's much better breeze.

weather in Oklahoma has been disturbingly pleasant lately; most days this month I haven't need a coat at all.

It's definitely a welcome change from the norm of the ice storms we usually get- the temperature isn't terrible (20-30f), but we've probably got the most bitter wind ever here. I hear when the Olympic torch came through here they had to modify it because despite all the weatherproofing they did, our wind still defeated it.

I suspect we'll be paying for this in the summer though; 100f+ and humid is normal, and last year 115f wasn't anything special.

>>4264
weird, weird, weird... I had a dream last week that I was on the outskirts of WDW in a part of the property that was in the initial stages of development. That pic is eerily similar in a way except that in my dream we were on dry land. Why I would dream of that, I have no idea. I was only there once, like 25 years ago or something.

Watched Hannah and Her Sisters yesterday. I didn't think it was as well written as it could be, and a lot of storylines just seemed to drop off as needed. Some funny moments, but not amazing.

My date showed me this a couple of nights ago. Its not the kind of movie I would feel drawn to watch normally and it's quite a bit different from what usually gets discussed here (John Cusack? Kevin Spacey? not that they're bad actors per se, just that they don't usually play in the kinds of movies I like) but it was pretty fucking cool. It's about a yankee journalist who gets called to Savannah Ga. to write a magazine piece about some rich guy's xmas party and gets sucked into a murder mystery instead. Its got some very clever dark humour and while I wouldn't say it was the most profound dissection of racism, homophobia and transphobia I've ever seen, it definitely raises a few interesting points along the way. Though I always wonder about movies like this which are not only set IN the south but are largely ABOUT the south, since I haven't spent any time there, how accurate are they really at depicting life and culture there vs. just relying on cliché and stereotypes?

But uppity black southern drag queen FTW!

Technically this belongs in the TV thread but since we were discussing Ghostbusters, tonight I youtubed "The Real Ghostbusters," the old Saturday morning cartoon. Nostalgia alone isn't quite strong enough to carry it fully but it's still sort of charming in a way. It might be a fun way to kill some time on a stormy winter night.

Vanilla Ice was a varmint in the parking lot at my wife's job once. That might be my The Club he's using.

>>4000
Get some cheap paint, paint the outside a base coat of whatever color then paint it to match your decor.

older pics