Forum: The Lounge

With Caerie's blessing, I'm starting this new thread. We've got a channel on Freenode. In order to find us, you'll need a client like mIRC, or go to www.mibbit.com, which is a web-based client that is easy to use. The server is...

And when did you pick it up? I got started playing the piano when I was five years old. Began the flute at about eight. My mom was a music teacher, and thought that learning an instrument was a Very Important Part of education. I wanted to quit...

There's a slight resemeblance, you have to admit.

Having not had time to come up with a satisfactory lie, I must expose my pathetic plans to you all. Tonight, I am going to eat popcorn and laugh at stupid people on the internet. Tomorrow, I am going to ride my buggy into town and spend too much...

Or so they claim. I don't know whether to be pleased or disappointed that all of their selections look appalling to me. I feel unAmerican.

Most conspiracy theories are ridiculous, however some seem more plausible than others. The supposed suicide of Dr. David Kelly in 2003, a British WMD expert who caused a political scandal in the lead up to the Iraq war by dismissing the 45 minute...

Not me, that's for sure! Some time ago, a friend gave me a hoya. I hung it in the windowseat jungle in my second-floor office, between two others: And there it hung, quietly lapping up sunshine and water, quietly growing and thriving. ...

Don't worry, I'm not going to kill myself. But I really don't have a reason to live. I've been trying to come up with something, some reason and I was able to come up with one. I have pets, my parents take care of my dog during the day so she...

D-Rays are in town! And as if that's not enough, here's the best part... EMC luxury box! Free food! Free Beer! A couple months ago, I went ot a Celtics game with Symantec and got to hang out with K. C. Jones (and got two autographed basketballs)....

...tramps and thieves We heard it from the people of the town They called us Gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down.

Its a video.. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/05/04/am.cho.myspace.cnn. Quick summing up: Lady works at a very nice restaurant. In a private group on myspace (havn't heard of the practice, but I don't use myspace for private group...

EDIT: New poll, due to Thunderdome being a popular late suggestion. I've taken the top four suggestions One more day, and then that's it.

I wanted to follow the subject line with, "for fun and profit", but... If this has been covered I apologize. What compels men, myself included, to spit into a urinal before actual peeing? It's amazing how many men do this.

Right now, dipping Tomato-Basil Triscuits into Chunky Jiff. Really good, actually. Mom wouldn't approve. ... Anyone else cheating on making dinner?

I'm pretty excited about the possibility of the Yellowstone supervolcano exploding and covering much of North America in volcanic ash and leading to to nuclear-winter type climate which destroys civilization as we know it. Here is a fun website...

Post pictures where kids look like they are on something. Bonus "Kids in Hats" picture

When I was growing up, everybody used to know the story of "Purple Acki", a guy who went around chasing kids and touching the muscles of young boys. Nobody had ever met him, or even known somebody who had, really, and most people thought he didn't...

I had grey squirrel at the weekend, served with roast potatoes and veg at a country pub. I thought it had a bit of a duck/rabbit taste, it wasn't fantastic, but it did make me feel good that I was saving the red. For those that don't know, some...

I pity those of you that live elsewhere.

Ok, im going to Europe wiht my parents for 3 or o4 weeks, the thing is that i'm going to have around 2 weeks on my own. While i am very excited for all of this (especially since they are paying for a lot of it :lol: ) I just have a lot of...

It's the new Chat feature! Courtesy of our friendly neighborhood CRSP. I posted this because you cant really see CRSPs thread about it without looking for it.

Inspired by my own brilliance in this thread. I'm starting with a secret poster. See if you can guess:

This is the first thread in a sequential poll that will eventually determine the most cute thing in the universe. (Seeing as that I am a cat, you can guess how I voted.)

Yup, I love fried chicken and watermelon is my favorite fruit! Nope. I don't talk at the movies and I tip very well.

Last year, I was talking with our local polling place and discovered they needed a last-minute replacement for one of their Republican poll workers. I suggested my sister, who was still a registered Republican at that time, and sis got shanghaied...

Fat Satan is the reason why Kentucky Fried Chicken tastes so good even when you know it will wreak holy havoc on your intestines the next day. Fat Satan is the voice in your head that whispers, “Take the elevator! Why disdain 150 years of hard work...

Joe

Is this the party to whom I am speaking? There are eels in my socks and they won't stop playing chess. I've asked the badger prince to serve them lime and pewter but he doesn't think they'll get the hint. *sigh* "So it goes."

I've seen this posted around but I don't get it.

http://izismile.com/2009/05/04/fatal_consequences_of_masturbation_2_pics.html I don't think I've seen this before. Each photo is too big for me to post.

Thanks to Caerie for giving me the okay to post this up! Some of y'all may remember me starting one of these last year on SDMB, when I walked the American Cancer Society Relay for Life after my renal cell carcinoma. I'd already been planning on...

over or under? ETA: over of course! Only a person with a complete lack of social graces / etiquette would choose under.

I did my laundry and a lot of cleaning last weekend, so I'm determined to change things up and just have some fun. I might just pay the child (cheap labor) to clean for me so that I'm free to do whatever. No to grocery shopping. :smash: No to...

I'm stressed. Very stressed. Most of it is probably self-inflicted, as I'm the type of person to sweat the small stuff, take things personally, and get easily overwhelmed. I'm in a pretty stressful career - med tech in a blood bank - that's made...

I'd be here, in this room, just waking up from a nap, ready to take my tea and then walk down to the beach.* You? *What do you mean, it's after 9:00 PM there? It's my fantasy, there are no time zone differences.

A very widespread practice here in Houston is parents putting decals on the back windows of their vehicles that boast of their kids' activities. The decals always have the kid's name, the activity, some kind of logo representing the activity, and...

I'm going to be in DC this week, anyone up for a mini-get together?

My despised older brother just sent me some glurge to that affect; he also sees President Obama and the current economic crisis as being two other horsemen. The possible flu epidemic is what he's calling Pestilence; the recession is Famine; and...

Who likes libraries? Raise your hands! *looks at sea of hands* OK, maybe it would be easier to ask "Who DOESN'T like libraries?" *crickets* Good.

Ronnie Coleman Born May 13, 1964 in Bastrop, Louisiana, Coleman is a retired American professional bodybuilder who shares the record of eight straight wins as Mr. Olympia. He also holds the record for most wins as an IFBB professional with 26 wins....

And then feel a sick tingle of shame and excitement at spying on your fellow posters? Like a forbidden guilty pleasure? And then do it again and giggle to yourself? Because I don't. ETA: By looking at it, I don't mean looking at it. I mean...

I just took a couple with the phone, the weather was too iffy to take the good camera. Sheep 1 Sheep 2 Perhaps somebody can give me a lesson in actually posting the pics. Thanks

He makes good OPs and stuff.

We've got nice weather here, seriously nice, like in the 80's. It's been a frozen cold shithole here since October so I'm hanging out outside. Fishing, walking, drinking beers, I don't care, I'm just not sitting in the damned house.

Non-Americans, or Americans if you know, I would love to know what the negative stereotypes the Brits have of us. The more I read international media, the more I get a sense that most Americans haven't a clue how we are perceived by others. ...

I view this along the lines of all the nuts that freaked out about peanut butter... Even the containers which clearly stated they were from far far far different areas than any production facility related to the outbreak.. And onwards.. spinach. ...

I've arrived! Welcome me with open arms.

Yeah, bummer. Today's my birthday and JJ's at work off island until Monday. But it's a gorgeous day out there and I want something fun to do until dinnertime with friends. Sooo, I thought I'd just go get ready to go out and check back in here...