The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Dan From Smithville]

Eventually we'll all make the switch to Celsius. Then I will be vindicated. It's not that hot.

It's all about how you manipulate the numbers and units. And who you know according to Dale Doback.

 

[Wu Wei]

winning by sitting on my butt with my legs up

 

[sun rise]

winning by sitting on my butt with my legs up

How's life?

 

[Viker]

I'm going to go take a nap. It's what we do. Sleep. Night night.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

hey.....whats up

How did it go, bear?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Costco sells holy snacks.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I remembered sitting in econ class in high school, and a Wall Street Journal article we had to read was about kids being raised on technology and how it's messing with their brain. We collectively agreed we're glad that's not us. And good thing, because some of those kids grown up seem to struggle socially more than I do.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

hey.....whats up

Hard dicks, airplanes, and me.

 

[sun rise]

 

[Stevicus]

Chicago man jumps into Lake Michigan for 365th straight day (apnews.com)

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the coronavirus pandemic jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day on Saturday.

Dan O’Conor said he started jumping into the lake at Montrose Harbor on the city’s North Side last year to relieve stress.

“It was during the pandemic, it was during the protest, it was during an election year. ... So it was somewhere where I could come down here and block all that noise out and kind of be totally present with me in the lake, and find some moments of Zen,” said the father of three.

He continued jumping into the lake through the fall before the hard part: Hacking a hole in the ice on the frozen lake that was big enough for him to jump through during the winter. He said when he got home after one such jump, he found about 20 scrapes and cuts on his body.

He was encouraged by the response he got for his undertaking.

I guess someone told this guy to "go jump in the lake," and he took them seriously.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Chicago man jumps into Lake Michigan for 365th straight day (apnews.com)



I guess someone told this guy to "go jump in the lake," and he took them seriously.

I was expecting an article from The Onion or from Babylon Bee not from Associated Press.

 

[Wu Wei]

How's life?

painful...... Spent Friday in surgery spent Saturday night in th ER

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

painful...... Spent Friday in surgery spent Saturday night in th ER

Here's hoping your recovering better now...

 

[Wu Wei]

How did it go, bear?

Surgery went as well as can be expected, but the next day I was in the ER. Had a fever, kept passing out, leg turned weird colors.... found no clots, no secondary infection but as I suspected the Oxycodone was dropping my blood pressure, that is why I was passing out....got a pressure of 90/30

 

[Stevicus]

I was expecting an article from The Onion or from Babylon Bee not from Associated Press.

Sometimes, AP has articles in their "Oddities" section, such as: Bear found stuck on power pole in southern Arizona city (apnews.com)

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) — A bear in Arizona emerged unscathed from quite the power trip when it became stuck on a utility pole.

Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative, a utility company based in the southern Arizona city of Willcox, was notified Monday morning that a bear was tangled in power pole wires on the outskirts of town.

Werner Neubauer, a company lineman, said they immediately disabled the power so the animal would not get electrocuted. Neubauer then went up in a bucket lift and used an 8-foot (2-meter) fiberglass stick to try to nudge the bear to go down. He even tried talking to it.

“I think I told him I was gonna help him get down the pole,” Neubauer said. “I know he couldn’t understand me. But it did get his attention.”

After grabbing and biting the stick at times, the bear eventually climbed down and ran off into the desert.

According to Neubauer, there were no injuries, and the power outage, which affected residential customers, only lasted about 15 minutes.

When told the reason for the outage, he said several customers were understanding.

This is the second time in a month that a bear has been spotted in a southern Arizona city.

 

[Wu Wei]

Sometimes, AP has articles in their "Oddities" section, such as: Bear found stuck on power pole in southern Arizona city (apnews.com)

It is interesting, world wide, where animals and sea life returned, as the pandemic kept. humans out

 

[sun rise]

Surgery went as well as can be expected, but the next day I was in the ER. Had a fever, kept passing out, leg turned weird colors.... found no clots, no secondary infection but as I suspected the Oxycodone was dropping my blood pressure, that is why I was passing out....got a pressure of 90/30

I knew someone who was deathly allergic to opioids. It sounds like you are in that spectrum as well.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Nearly 20 years later, I think things got worse in this area.

 

[Wu Wei]

I knew someone who was deathly allergic to opioids. It sounds like you are in that spectrum as well.

could be, but Tramadol is working well, but it is not as strong s oxycodone either

 

[Brickjectivity]

Today I had my first successful venture with cooking beets. I put them into an instant pot with a lot of butter and some salt, cooked them for 2 minutes and allowed the pressure to slowly go away.

All bitterness was gone. They were very slightly crunchy, like a steamed carrot. They also lost some sweetness, but they were good. Left behind was an interesting deep beet colored butter which I will experiment with later.