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rockb4

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Broke out a couple more of my Black Friday flavors.

Venom - Holy throat hit! I really like the flavor, reminds me of biting into the sweet center part of a fireball. But it is hard to enjoy as the throat hit is ridiculous. I cannot even take a regular draw before coughing. I think the guy that came up with this was doing a Tony Soprano imitation as he mixed it - "you want throat hit, I'll give you your throat hit right here". I've ended up mixing it with Absinth, Cotton Candy, Whipped Cream and Tea berry(all separately mixed with just venom, less than 1/4 venom). I like the Tea berry mixture the best.

Black Licorice - I don't think I ever cared for Black Licorice but this juice is the bomb. No wonder it is the third highest rated juice on the site. Great Black licorice taste without the jaw workout. Awesome aftertaste.
 

ch1naski

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That's my buddy Glen! (Not to be confused with G, the high school friend who lives at my house occasionally - different guy entirely, though Glen is welcome on my couch any time too, and G would heartily agree.)

And to think, I knew Glen when he was doing *this* movie:



He's first seen at 0:35. Sharp-eyed viewers will also spot Colm Meany, of Star Trek and innumerable other ventures. Those of you who love music and/or dark comedy, you owe it to yourselves to see The Commitments... it's one of the only movies I know where the movie is actually slightly *better* than the book, mostly because the book relies on so much music to tell the story... but those who did the movie were smart enough to cast *actual* up and coming Dublin musicians to both play the roles *and* perform the soundtrack, so it's all really good stuff.

The basic premise is a band in working class Dublin in 1989-90 who decide that since soul music is the music of the working man, they'll get rich and famous by playing "Dublin soul."... which is as sublimely ridiculous as it sounds.

19 year old manager who knows everything, showing the band a James Brown performance: "We need to be like *this*!"
Lead singer: I'm not doing that, I'll kneecap meself!
Saxophonist: "Eh... are we not... a little *white* for that sort of thing?"
Manager: Listen, lads. The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And the Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. Right? So say it loud - I'm black, and I'm proud.
(Cue the other ten pasty white guys looking at each other uncertainly.)

Colm Meany plays the dad of the young punk manager, and he's obsessed with Elvis.
Jimmy Rabbitte Sr: Do yis need a singer? Wise men say, only fools rush in...
Jimmy Jr: Elvis is not soul.
Jimmy Sr: Elvis is GOD, you snotty little :censored:.

Anyway, brilliant film. Don't watch it if you object to the f-word being used as every possible part of speech and a few you didn't think were possible, though. That's the Irish for you. :)

Glen's a proper musician though - with both The Commitments and Once, he just kind of fell into the role. He actually did Once as a favor to a friend that used to be in his band and wanted to try his hand at directing... no one thought much would come of it outside of Ireland, where the Frames are phenomenally popular. Then it won an Oscar, and, well, now people are surprised to learn he's a musician first, film star by accident. :D

A brilliant guy though - always stops to chat after the show, and he'll hang around for as long as people want to shoot the breeze.



I'm game, and I'll work for juice. :) Cash would be nice, but I don't know how much of a headache that'd be for him to mess around with.


That was a great movie, The Commitments.....

Curt.
 

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Tonight's technical challenge:

Given the following materials and tools, replace a cotton ego-c wick that is making everything taste like soap. And stop trying to figure out how you managed to end up with the soap taste in the first place. :)

Nail clippers (not nail scissors, sadly). Metal fingernail file. Rental car keys. Q-tip. Glass of water. Hotel microwave. Eroll.

Just call me MacGuyver.
 

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If it is who I think it is, I have observed him rubbing several people the wrong way. Of course, maybe I have unintentionally done that too. hmmm

Actually the first go around with this individual I had gotten contacted by a few other people about him and his antics, then his thread got closed and thought it would be a good idea to PM me and blame me for the thread being closed, he didn't seem to grasp the reality that it was his own actions that led to it. Again people never cease to amaze me! :closedeyes:
 

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:D aw, tanx, you :)

The gun stuff was something I didn't realize I was into till tragedy. I am an assault survivor, learning to shoot was part of how I got my power back. I have tremendous respect for something with so much power and I recognize my responsibility in carrying. And I never want to be in a situation where I have to use it, but the world is a nasty place sometimes.

Also, I kind believe in the zombie apocalypse and I think it'll be the fast-moving rage virus zombies but I'll be damned if I'm an easy meal for 'em :)

if the zombie apocalypse means having to live like the people on The Walking Dead, i'd rather not survive. i mean, i love the show...but i don't want to live it! Faint.gif
 

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sorry you're being pested like that big D.. I think I'd just delete his messages without replying.. course I'd have to read them because I'm just nosy like that. Not worth the effort to come up with intelligent replies to inane garbage.. jmho



anyone got a bottle of *energy of a 6 year old* juice? I could use some little kid energy for the winter.

I never replied to the last one, but hanging on to them just in case I need to take this to court! lmao Would be like watching a taped confession and hanging yourself! lol His post got removed!
 

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Actually the first go around with this individual I had gotten contacted by a few other people about him and his antics, then his thread got closed and thought it would be a good idea to PM me and blame me for the thread being closed, he didn't seem to grasp the reality that it was his own actions that led to it. Again people never cease to amaze me! :closedeyes:


His post has been deleted, don't worry his kind doesn't have the smarts to know when to stop. The Mods will get enough & he will be gone. I've been on for a long time, lurking mostly til this thread came along, I've seen it many times.
 

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if the zombie apocalypse means having to live like the people on The Walking Dead, i'd rather not survive. i mean, i love the show...but i don't want to live it! View attachment 284782

I stopped watching about an episode or 2 after the season 3 mid-season finale. Not sure why. Took me awhile to watch it in the first place as I'm a bit of a fraidy cat when it comes to fictional horror. I don't believe it'll come to that if it really happens, though. Zombies are our latest obsession as a people (and why wouldn't it be...the idea of life after death, even icky rotting life). Anyway we're all so "prepared" for it by the onslaught of zombie-fixated pop culture. I'm not sure we'd fall to pieces if it really happens. Things would change, sure, but civilization as we know it may not come to a halting end. It'd be more like that town with the sociopath governor I think and a few wanderers. Hopefully minus the sociopath.
 

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Same with mine, rescue who happens to be pureblood and totally rare to find in a rescue.

My first service dog was a purebred golden rescue. The service dog agency I go through uses *all* rescues for their hearing dogs, and tries to use as many rescues as they can for their service dogs (having purebreds is a little more important for service dogs because they're so much bigger, so what might be a small snappishness or skittishness problem in a hearing dog can be dog *bites* for a less mobile person who doesn't have good reflexes and the dog dragging the wheelchair behind them in a service dog... not that purebreds can't be snappish or skittish, of course). Anyway, I was terrified of dogs at the time because all of the dogs I'd known had been the wildly enthusiastic type that knocked me to the ground. They brought out Buddy (yeah, another Buddy... but it was apt), and he *slowly* crossed the room to me, *slowly* stretched out his neck, *slowly* licked my hand, and then very slowly rested his head in my lap. Sold. He was the most gentle, wisest dog I've ever known. We had 11 years together as a "team," and he was there every step of the way, always calm, always obeying commands on the first try, from the time I was a squeaky voiced four year old. I had no idea just how amazing he was at the time, although I told him so every day.

.... then I got Leo, who was 120 lbs of hyperactive bouncy two year old whose favorite method of showing his affection was to leap onto my lap with giant front paws, try his hardest to get his back paws up on my lap too, and plant a gooey kiss on me from my neck to my hairline.... every time he looked over and saw me. Just in case I forgot how awesome I was, cause I was awesome and he was awesome and the whole world was awesome and holy crap, is that my tail? I didn't know I had a tail, look at that, isn't that cool? Oh, retrieve something, yeah sure, here you go - *thwip*, covered in gooey drool - Look at that over there, do we know him? Can we go say hi anyway, please please please please... oh, we're in *class*? Nobody told me it was *class*.... I'll be good. Hang on, lemme kiss you again, you wiped it all off - *slurp* Oh, sit, yeah, sure, sitting's good - oh my god I think that girl has ICE! ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE - no, you said sit.... oh god, sit, ice, life is so *hard*!"

He was *exhausting*.... and my goofy (huge) toddler, because his temperament *never* changed till the day he died - he tackled everything with boundless enthusiasm and no second guessing whatsoever. Unfortunately, he also developed severe epilepsy when he was about 5, so I had to "retire" him early because it was dangerous (for him) to be in public places when he might have a 10 minute grand mal at any minute (seizure meds helped, but not enough to make his seizures in any way reliably predicted). We made do with the house, the yard, and the dog park, and got 9 more years after that. Something broke in me when he died... not sure why this time and not last time, but I haven't yet been able to make myself put in for another dog... my heart's with my first two boys. One of these days, I'll get back on the wait list and do it all again... except, of course, it'll be a totally different experience yet again.

Funny you mention the barking/running/growling in his sleep thing... Leo did all that, plus eating, drinking, licking, and my favorite, the two-headed monster snore. To this day, I wish I'd thought to get that on video, because no one who didn't witness it believes me... but he snored exactly like the Two-Headed Monster from Sesame Street. My sister, an avid watcher of the same, found this *hilarious* each and every time he did it. So did I, to be honest... it was uncanny!

Give Nugget a hug for me. :)

Oh, and stealth vaping - someone's probably already answered by the time I post this, but here we go: One of the most common, although by far not the only, way to stealth vape is to take 3/4 of a hit or so and then take your lips off the mouthpiece but continue to inhale (just air). When you exhale, little to no vapor will emerge. There are lots of other ways to minimize vapor so you can vape stealthily, but that's one example.

Of course, the bigger/longer your setup, the harder it is to stealth vape, too... an 808 or a smallish Ego, you can completely or mostly conceal in your hand.... the MVP2, not so much, unless you have truly massive hands.
 
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