Forum: The Lounge

If you're applying to a college a relative is an alumnus of (not your parents), would you mention it in passing during your college essay?

And don't say what I know you're thinking, you pervs. I absolutely adore hiking, which I've mentioned here before. I like to get in about a thirty minute hike every day, over the ski trails in the woods near my house. There are lots of hills and...

So, I had a particularly craptastic day at work yesterday. When I left I was light headed and had a throbbing headache. I stopped and checked my BP at one of those drugstore things - 148/90. Last time I donated blood at the office it was 144/88....

I save $11 per month by not using my insurance card at Kroger's supermarket pharmacy. Certain generics are sold at a set $4 cost, but if you present your prescription card you pay the $15 co-pay instead of the retail price. Direct deposit to...

I'm talking a big bunch of money. Not like you can spend it wildly, but you can keep up a decent lifestyle. What's your next move?

...and if you didn't, Wikipedia would be the first to tell you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal

I remember the horrors of child hating threads over in that other place, so I don't really want to revisit all of that. This is just a simple question I was curious about: what's the ratio between parents and non-parents around here? I know we've...

I don't know how easily this thread could be found but I thought it would be a nice idea to have a place for new members and returning members to post so we could welcome them properly. So hi there, new people! Nice to see you and don't listen...

We're in dire need of a logo, so I propose a competition to design one. You may also propose a catchphrase, at the same time to go with your logo (an analogue of "Fighting ignorance since ..."). However, other people may also propose catchphrases...

Fellophantians, I thought it would be fun to try and post an interesting and strange history story every day. Loki said he would be willing to help out with this. If you have a story you want to add, please catch us in chat or PM us. Of course,...

See! They know zombies are real!

You see, when I grew up in Europe in the 1970s, we didn't watch dreck like Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch reruns, intelligence-insulting sitcoms, handegg games, or game shows on television. We found ourselves mentally stimulated by intelligent...

Would you go with Barack Obama? Hillary Clinton? Bill Clinton? (Well, technically his is the $6 bill, but....)

I would like some funny stories to tide me over, since I have to slog through a dreary workday, despite the fact that I should clearly not have to do anything but lounge around in jammies.

Finally a warm weekend, but the wind! It won't stop! I'm starting to feel like I live in the plains. "O-o-o-o-o-hio where the wind comes knocking down the trees, and rising floods and rains and muds and blooming weeds can make me sneeze!" ...

They're all around you What Exit? You can't escape. Hide in that van all you want. Their dextrous paws have pulled out all the wiring the battery cables. Now at last, you are totally surrounded. Just look at them out there, grooming themselves,...

Where I work, a local minister always recites an invocation before every City Council meeting. The Mayor requests that everybody stand for the invocation. At the meetings I've attended, the invocations aren't short prayers; they approach the 90...

I am a non-pedophile, sometimes technically termed a teleiophile. This means that I am exclusively attracted to adults. I wasn't necessarily always this way -- during my adolescent years, I was often attracted to other people my age, people who were...

Why am I never around when stuff like this happens? wp_RHnQ-jgU Got any more? Or anything similar?

I hope I never meet this woman: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/mother-in-law-emails_n_887888.html

Either widely accepted stories that are passed on as factual, while being nothing of the sort, or better still, stories where the facts as generally reported are true, but still are used in a misleading manner or to support false conclusions. ...

Let's give this a try. It's a little like your porn-star name. Take the street you live on for your first name. Add your real-name first initial. Then the nearest intersecting street.

Cry. Go ahead and cry. Nana ain't coming back. Neither is fluffy. Go to Arbys and eat some hillbilly boy's pet cow. The universe is cruel. https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys And I mean that, spitzer -- none of that youtube spam shit! ...

Time for another round of everybody's favorite, Describe it in three words! I'll get us started... Bologna It's like meat. Next: Rugby

Inspired by OneCentStamp's Friday Night thread, post your favorite drunk pics. You can be drunk in them, or drunk when you took them, I'm not picky. Since no one I know is silly enough to hand me their camera when I'm drunk, I'll stick with the...

The fashion choice for the last 20 years or so for the APEC meeting of world leaders has been to wear the local dress. This has been the case since Bill Clinton dressed everyone in Leather Jackets and so the tradition continued through ponchos and...

Just a random question—what color are your eyes? My own eyes are green. They're definitely not fluorescent green, like some people's, but they have more green in them than they do brown, so I wouldn't call them hazel, and there's not a definite...

Yeah, well, the subject title pretty much says it all. In no particular order: tailgaters fast-burning cigarettes faulty lighters tailgaters: no excuse is possible people who lead or participate in "group" anything: STFU

What legal arguments can you imagine or remember that just struck you as: Why do you think that makes things look better? As an example: "No! I didn't kill Mr. Smith. I just came into his house to burn it down, but he was already dead...

I've just returned from voting in the European election (and a number of local and regional ones). That reminded me of something I noticed when I watched coverage of the US presidential election. American and German television networks present...

People who always pass along e-mail spam, and people who never pass along e-mail spam

Obviously, the best answer is to just avoid them; however, that is not always possible. Case in point - I'm a bit of a shopper. I replace my wardrobe about twice a year. The old stuff I take to a particular consignment store to recycle. It used...

I've been getting around for about 9 years now in a 1999 Toyota Tercel. It has been an excellent little car, getting terrific mileage and running as well now as it did when I first bought it. However, it's now logged over 211,500 km (roughly 131,400...

This is inspired by a comment I read on another board. A woman's MIL died, and she doesn't have anything to wear to the funeral. My first reaction was huh...a grown person with NOTHING funeral-appropriate in her closet? Course, maybe she's gained...

I had a roommate once, whose speech was liberally sprinkled -- OK, doused -- with the F-word. He'd use it even around his five-year-old daughter. Filmmaking friends often used the word in their scripts. 'It's real. It's how people talk.' ...

When in doubt, ream it out!

As per CRSP, A poll on the animated smilies .

'Fried" is crunchy goodness. "Hand fried" is scary. I imagine blistered hands holding food in a deep fryer. Homemade is when I cook. "Homemade" at a restaurant irks me. I want "restaurant made" if I'm paying. "Scuse" is not "excuse me". This...

Yeah, it's a funny t-shirt, isn't it. "I'm somebody's fetish." I may be not conventionally beautiful but by golly there's somebody out there who's masturbating over some small physical quirk of mine! Bwah hah ha ha ha! It's funny! Till one day...

Bertha

The cordless drill? The impact wrench? Grandpa's tap-and-die set?

In other words, can you visualise a place you are not currently in, or a person you are not with? I was on a course last week, and one of the techniques for improving presentation skills that was discussed was 'visualising' yourself making the...

Man, this is creepy looking. http://www.esquire.com/the-side/DESIGN/hotel-of-doom-012808 A needlessly gigantic hotel that the North Koreans never managed to finish. 3000 rooms? An estimated expense of 2% of the nations GDP?

*Note: This seems kind of a weird forum for this, but I am not looking for a debate, and I'm sure not interested in trying to nail down a definition of "worst". I just want to talk geeky with my fellow history buffs.* Carlos II of Spain,...

I've become a pariah, on both the internet and in life, in driving people away from me when I need them most. And I'm not sure what to do about it. At work, I'm trying to be happy and positive, even though my hours were cut and my pay dropped by a...

Simple question, give everyone three ways in which you're a minority. For one, I'm a minority on DoMeBo because I'm Australian. I'm a minority in most places because I'm Bisexual. And thirdly, I'm a one in a million minority because painted on...

Does your city, town or hamlet have a flag or logo? Let's see it!