Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[albrecht]

That moonshine did look painful. When I was a kid, they used to sell an awful alcohol called "Everclear" that was the same thing.

Nah, the highest proof of this moonshine brand is 100. So about that of a decent whiskey or whisky, if aged or bonded. Everclear, and the various others of that type "grain alcohol" are, roughly, 190 proof (the highest proof you can get by distillation (95% alcohol by volume) due to a weird effect on boiling points between water and alcohol.

"Everclear", or more properly any grain neutral spirit is actually the most "clean" tasting, when watered down to a more palatable level. Everclear etc is "nasty" because it tastes so astringent- because it is almost pure alcohol. (It is meant/sold as a mixer- like a hs or frat party with trashcan punch etc. And packs a "punch" and is relatively taste-less when mixed.)

ps: The "story" goes that Dmitri Mendeleev, yes, that guy, said that vodka (grain neutral spirits in our USA legal lingo) ideal proof should be 80 (40%abv).

[Aussie Dave]

I've tried authentic Moonshine in the 90s when I was travelling through Louisiana. I nearly passed out that night. It wasn't pretty.

[PB the Deplorable]

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

[UnscreenedCaller]

Getting ready for Art's debut on Monday, here's a handy primer for when a certain unnamed Aussie calls in...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=145&v=yDb_WsAt_Z0

[chefist]

Love this!


https://youtu.be/2OSrvzNW9FE

[jazmunda]

Getting ready for Art's debut on Monday, here's a handy primer for when a certain unnamed Aussie calls in...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=145&v=yDb_WsAt_Z0

You need to watch the whole video to understand me.


https://youtu.be/yDb_WsAt_Z0

[chefist]

You need to watch the whole video to understand me.


https://youtu.be/yDb_WsAt_Z0

Arty Bello

[maureen]

You need to watch the whole video to understand me.


https://youtu.be/yDb_WsAt_Z0

gunna argy-bargy with the Gong mob?

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

[jazmunda]

Arty Bello

That's the exception to the rule. Short words, like Art Bell, get the extension treatment by adding either a Y or an O.

Arty Bello is the perfect example of this.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

That's the exception to the rule. Short words, like Art Bell, get the extension treatment by adding either a Y or an O.

Arty Bello is the perfect example of this.

Jazy Mundo

[jazmunda]

Jazy Mundo

Perfectly acceptable.

You are now an honourary Aussie. It's that easy.

You don't want to know what you have to do to become an honourary New Zealander but it involves sheep. Lots of sheep.

[Camazotz Automat]

I've got the post Pluto-fly-by blues.

Nine and a half years was a lot of foreplay.

(pause)

Alright then.

Time to riven this Kuiper Belt.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

I've got the post Pluto-fly-by blues.

It was more satisfying for me, I guess.  I'm still smoking a cigarette and fingering my dong.

[wr250]

Perfectly acceptable.

You are now an honourary Aussie. It's that easy.

You don't want to know what you have to do to become an honourary New Zealander but it involves sheep. Lots of sheep.

i thought it involved sheep and a cowboy from san francisco ...

[Camazotz Automat]

It was more satisfying for me, I guess.  I'm still smoking a cigarette and fingering my dong.

To be clear, I am not dismissing the next sixteen months of data cuddling.

I'm not a complete animal.

[chefist]

That's the exception to the rule. Short words, like Art Bell, get the extension treatment by adding either a Y or an O.

Arty Bello is the perfect example of this.

Am I an honorary Aussie now?

[onan]

Am I an honorary Aussie now?

Sure thing Chey Fisto.

[chefist]

Sure thing Chey Fisto.

You're just dirty....and possibly loose...

[onan]

You're just dirty....and possibly loose...

Yes. But always in a good way.

[chefist]

Yes. But always in a good way.

Cheap date...cool...

[b_dubb]

I want to start a True Defective thread which would be about The General Mucousings Of Failkie thread.  Too meta?

[Heather Wade]

I want to start a True Defective thread which would be about The General Mucousings Of Failkie thread.  Too meta?

Way.

[Eddie Coyle]

   Dana Bash on CNN makes me feel like I have Roddy Piper's sunglasses on.

[aldousburbank]

Half the time I don't get people. The other half they don't get me. Love and friendship occurs against the odds.

[testing101]

As the title says "Angela Merkel should be ashamed of her response to this sobbing girl".  As a student I cant believe any world leader would respond to a young person this way.  In a world where so much of what we have lacks substance, tangibility,  and can be diluted by those who control the game... the only things we really have that they cant take is our knowledge and education.
Some of us are self taught. Some of us are taught by Academia. The road we must take on the quest for knowledge isn't always one we can choose. But should a young person be subjected to having their dreams shot down by a world leader?! Dreams are blueprints in our minds eye of the future the free will we plan to execute. They separate those who will never have something from those who will at the very least try.
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/16/8981765/merkel-refugee-failure-ashamed

I hope she dream of this guy when she goes to bed... Merica... making Germans say Nein says WWI.

[wr250]

http://gizmodo.com/these-pluto-truthers-insist-nasa-images-are-fake-1717828679\

:

[b_dubb]

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-x-files-clip/?mbid=social_fb

X Files clip NEW!!!

[Camazotz Automat]

So........ erhm.........

Any word yet on George's new Hawaiian studio?

(crickets)

Awkward. 

Related:

Here's a scene from the lost Hawaii Five-O episode, "Time Traveler." Steve is looking down at a device that the agent claims is some kind of miniature telephone personal computer from the future. McGarrett isn't interested.

Because that's how Steve rolls and such narcissitic items at the time were beyond ludicrous to contemplate.

The only thing Steve wants to know about is "the ray-gun" that was used to kill the owner of a bait and tackle shop on Diamond Head Road.

[Camazotz Automat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWv53OJ-ydI