Random Thoughts X: Impromptu Interpretations

[amadeus]

I don’t care much for Michael Caine.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

A messy office room is needed sometime, believe it or not, it keep your mind busy and results in more productivity. Perhaps that's a sign that you are doing your job good.

Ha! For me it is the opposite. Every time I have to do some really important work I clean up my desk completely, as to have absolutely no distraction. I really like the feeling of having put something in order. One of my favorite jobs in housemaking is vacuum cleaning the floor, because you can see such nice results after little time

Most fried chicken that isn't KFC is just disappointing, but maybe an East Asian approach will be different.

n... nani? KFC is genuinely like bottom 5 worst fried chicken I've ever had in my entire life, and I've eaten plenty of bad fried food. don't you guys at least have Popeyes for a marginally better fast food chicken experience?

It's Jollibee.

Here is the Canadian menu: http://jollibeecanada.com/menu/

It's unimpressive to me, as far as fast food goes. But my friend really likes it, so maybe it's one of those "simple yet refined" kinda deals.

Jollibee is pretty much just Filipino MacDonalds, so not great. Filipino food is actually freaking amazing though. I would recommend you at least try the Chicken and the Halo Halo

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If you ever get a nice Filipino Restaurant in your neighborhood, or get to enjoy Filipino homecooking, you must try both the Tocino and the Adobo. There are also great rice dishes in filipino cuisine. Just stay away from anything that looks like a western dish, like their spaghetti and hot dog concoctions

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chicken adobo

pork tocino

 

[H4run]

Ha! For me it is the opposite. Every time I have to do some really important work I clean up my desk completely, as to have absolutely no distraction. I really like the feeling of having put something in order. One of my favorite jobs in housemaking is vacuum cleaning the floor, because you can see such nice results after little time

Distraction? Actually it's a reasonable point, but being messy, or resting your head, eating, smoking and an ashtray that is full of cigs butt and coffee, gave me the sense of chaoticness and boost my adrenaline.

 

[Synobun]

n... nani? KFC is genuinely like bottom 5 worst fried chicken I've ever had in my entire life, and I've eaten plenty of bad fried food. don't you guys at least have Popeyes for a marginally better fast food chicken experience?

I haven't had Popeye's. I've had KFC, Church's, and a slew of mom and pop or "high end" restaurants here in Vancouver. Fried chicken is something this city does not do well. KFC has been the best. Everything else was disappointing or left a poor aftertaste. Give me a fried chicken meal that is $40 for some reason from a restaurant that considers itself bougie and I'll give you a fatty who is sad it's not KFC.

There's a diner here that has a good fried chicken meal, but their fried chicken is more pan-fried than deep-fried. Which is fine, but it's a considerably different thing.

Don't get me wrong, disappointing doesn't mean BAD, but it's like... I'd rather be having KFC instead of this.

(IME, KFC quality is highly dependent on who owns and works at the franchise location. I live between two KFCs that are equal distance from me, and the quality between them is night and day. I agree with you that KFC is often bottom tier. Most locations output complete garbage. But every now and then I'll find a franchise that does it right.)

Also, I've had Filipino cuisine. I used to live with several of them, and there was a restaurant here for a few months that had it. For the most part, it's all too spicy/saucy for me. The restaurant did have this meat and onion stew though that was really good. Lady wouldn't tell me what it was called. Tocino is good.

 

[H4run]

Syns, have your favorite KFC, when the usual plan is the good plan no need to make another plan.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I haven't had Popeye's. I've had KFC, Church's, and a slew of mom and pop or "high end" restaurants here in Vancouver. Fried chicken is something this city does not do well. KFC has been the best. Everything else was disappointing or left a poor aftertaste. Give me a fried chicken meal that is $40 for some reason from a restaurant that considers itself bougie and I'll give you a fatty who is sad it's not KFC.

There's a diner here that has a good fried chicken meal, but their fried chicken is more pan-fried than deep-fried. Which is fine, but it's a considerably different thing.

Don't get me wrong, disappointing doesn't mean BAD, but it's like... I'd rather be having KFC instead of this.

(IME, KFC quality is highly dependent on who owns and works at the franchise location. I live between two KFCs that are equal distance from me, and the quality between them is night and day. I agree with you that KFC is often bottom tier. Most locations output complete garbage. But every now and then I'll find a franchise that does it right.)

Also, I've had Filipino cuisine. I used to live with several of them, and there was a restaurant here for a few months that had it. For the most part, it's all too spicy/saucy for me. The restaurant did have this meat and onion stew though that was really good. Lady wouldn't tell me what it was called. Tocino is good.

Popeye's is awesome, especially their gravy.

 

[Lexicus]

It just occurred to me that it's kind of weird that the US has a popular show whose title is a literal translation of one of the most notorious institutions in Nazi Germany.

 

[Kyriakos]

Giannis>Lebron

He just needs to leave the Bucks. There's no future there.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I am bored. Someone please entertain me.

*does a little jig*

You mock me You know what I want.

*Summons @Snerk to do a little jig*

Does anyone know a good website (not smartphone app) about meditation or mindfulness?
Thought I might give it a try, given that I can't do much in my free time at the moment.

Maybe @Narz ?

If music does it for you and you like panflutes, I can recommend some good YT videos. Actually, there's one that has panflutes and running water, as well as some beautiful scenery (forests, rocks, rivers, mountains).

geography, anthropology, sociology, chemistry,

Some of my favorite subjects, both in high school and college. Actually, I majored in anthropology, minored in geography, and had side helpings of history and sociology.

Of course it was different in the SCA, when I attended University of Ithra classes: heraldry, calligraphy, dancing, chivalry & courtesy, various classes in sewing...

I suggest starting by not putting orange text on a dark turquoise background.

That's eye-hurting.

It was like this at my high school too. 5 minutes between classes on a large, sprawling campus. Like WTH?

Apparently you're supposed to arrange all your classes within the same general area.

That worked out for me some terms, when I had math, typing, and record keeping in the same semester. They were all within the same wing, on two different floors (though my locker was on the ground floor).

But trying to make it from English or chemistry to typing in 10 minutes was an extremely fast walk, as they were on opposite ends and up 2 flights of stairs. At that high school, as well as at the college, it paid to find the short cuts and the routes that weren't so clogged with foot traffic (my high school had about 1200 kids; try to imagine navigating between classrooms when all of us were changing classes at the same time).

 

[choxorn]

I think I remember actually posting in one of the rants threads here waaaay back in the day about how my class schedule in my first semester of my freshman year of high school had one day a week where all of my classes were on alternating ends of the school so nearly all of my breaks had me spending 5 minutes to go from one end of my high school to the other end.

(There were other semesters where my class schedule was kinda bad, but not nearly to the extend it was that time)

 

[amadeus]

Scrap that last thought, here's a new one: why don't townspeople offer useful advice like in old RPGs?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Scrap that last thought, here's a new one: why don't townspeople offer useful advice like in old RPGs?

Like "beware of the Rust Monster in the old ruins on the outskirts of the village"?

I guess that would be a case for using plastic swords...

It's not fun getting killed by a Rust Monster.

 

[cardgame]

Scrap that last thought, here's a new one: why don't townspeople offer useful advice like in old RPGs?

maybe there's nothing useful left to say

 

[Takhisis]

Scrap that last thought, here's a new one: why don't townspeople offer useful advice like in old RPGs?

Is it not enough that they give you free access to all their material possessions?

 

[Colon]

Read the whole article wiki about Dreyfus affair: good god, what was that a putrid mess. Interesting parallels with todays going-ons too, with a frothing-at-the mouth xenophobic, reactionary right impervious to basic facts, fuelled by hysterical media outlets. Some happy outcomes though, as the violence and zealotry of the anti-Dreyfus mob ended up uniting the (centrist) republican forces and strengthening the parliamentary democracy (the marxists of the time appear to have short-circuited at the sight of a society-wide conflict that could not be reduced to class struggle). Less happily it also democratised anti-semitism in French society.

 

[amadeus]

Say what you want about George W. Bush but HOLY COW could that guy dodge a shoe.

 

[Synobun]

Say what you want about George W. Bush but HOLY COW could that guy dodge a shoe.

If you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a dodgeball.

 

[Kyriakos]

Say what you want about George W. Bush but HOLY COW could that guy dodge a shoe.

He managed to forget the new word he created was "misunderestimate", instead saying his new word was "misunderstand"

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was reading a fanfic. The author warned at the beginning of one character that there was implied erotic content.

I read the chapter. It was definitely not "implied."

 

[Birdjaguar]

I was reading a fanfic. The author warned at the beginning of one character that there was implied erotic content.

I read the chapter. It was definitely not "implied."

You were warned. I hope it was well written and worth reading.