Old Man Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Pariah said: My favorite Basil Poledouris composition is Hymn to Red October. Wrong! Your favorite Pouledouris is Battle of the Mounds. Followed by Battle in the Mutara Nebula. Hymn to Red October does not suck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Old Man said: Wrong! Your favorite Pouledouris is Battle of the Mounds. Followed by Battle in the Mutara Nebula. Hymn to Red October does not suck though. I would actually list those three in precisely the opposite order you did. But you are correct, they're all great music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 As it happens, we don't have any poisonous or stinging plants that I can think of. I'll probably blunder into some on the mainland out of ignorance one of these days. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Yeah, I was thinking that was likely to be the case; I didn't remember any such listed. I have no experience with poison oak or ivy, but I can report that stinging nettle is rather low on the irritation index compared to literally everything on your list. It takes a few points back on persistence, but even this was not enough to keep us (as 3rd-graders) from learning how to avoid the stingy parts by scraping dirt away from the nettle's base, then carefully grasping the sub-ground portion of the plant and uproot it, and after due perfection of the technique, voila! You could have stinging nettle swordfights! From what I understand about poison oak, the ouchie and itchy is much more severe, and you would never want to try the nettle-fencing thing. For devil's club, the venom is low-grade, lower than the nettles. But the stinger hairs are all over, and break off and stay in the skin, extruding their stingy sap while thus embedded. (The plant is much larger and more robust than nettles, and it has coarser thorns as well.) I heartily endorse the use of white kryptonite on devil's club. Lawnmower Boy and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Cancer and Hermit changed their avatars. It is a sign of the Apocalypse ! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, death tribble said: Cancer and Hermit changed their avatars. It is a sign of the Apocalypse ! Better get started then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Right now my wrath is focussed on my institution's glorious gaggle of faeco-cerebro surrogacy experiments, the DFUA colony known as IT. If there's an antimatter explosion in Seattle, you know the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Cancer said: Yeah, I was thinking that was likely to be the case; I didn't remember any such listed. I have no experience with poison oak or ivy, but I can report that stinging nettle is rather low on the irritation index compared to literally everything on your list. It takes a few points back on persistence, but even this was not enough to keep us (as 3rd-graders) from learning how to avoid the stingy parts by scraping dirt away from the nettle's base, then carefully grasping the sub-ground portion of the plant and uproot it, and after due perfection of the technique, voila! You could have stinging nettle swordfights! From what I understand about poison oak, the ouchie and itchy is much more severe, and you would never want to try the nettle-fencing thing. For devil's club, the venom is low-grade, lower than the nettles. But the stinger hairs are all over, and break off and stay in the skin, extruding their stingy sap while thus embedded. (The plant is much larger and more robust than nettles, and it has coarser thorns as well.) I heartily endorse the use of white kryptonite on devil's club. I've posted before about how Australia has us all beat. (As usual.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Logan.1179 said I got headhunted by a Disney recruiter. They found me on LinkedIn, a site I forgot I had an account on. It's very flattering, even if nothing comes of it. I got headhunted once. By Cannibals. Thus I avoid Borneo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 No personal animosity intended, DT. Lawnmower Boy and Bazza 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 It's a board thing. We have to derail threads and sometimes need to called on it. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 Mmm, board ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 Broard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 Whatever happened to Tribble letting us know these things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 I am not a magic 8 ball you know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 That is not what the package said. I want a refund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Do you have the receipt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Yes. I always get a receipt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 Better just to get stoned, then? Or better to stone the offenders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 I wish long nighttime walks weren't so impractical. Or painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 10 hours ago, Pariah said: I wish long nighttime walks weren't so impractical. Or painful. Why are they painful for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 Two severely arthritic ankles. Remnants of my career as a high school cross country runner, one orthopedist told me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Meanwhile, another profile picture change to annoy the Tribble. Might as well join with the infection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 I haven't changed my avatar recently, just my rank title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 58 minutes ago, Cancer said: Meanwhile, another profile picture change to annoy the Tribble. Might as well join with the infection. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for a reaction, I can tell you I don't have the time. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you change your avatar back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will mock you. Old Man and Starlord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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