What's mildly amusing you today? - Page 47

Pete Zicato · 07-18-2011, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

sold my old wedding ring for enough for dinner and a movie

Jewelry. Feh. Attaching precious metals and whatnot to your body in different ways. I'm against it.

I guess I don't understand the gold market. I read it's up to $1600/oz. Figure a ring weighs about an ounce and is more than half gold if it's 14k. Wouldn't the ring be worth a lot more?

footfootfoot · 07-18-2011, 06:13 PM

I misplaced my ring, or it is not where I left it.

monster · 07-18-2011, 06:21 PM

I keep hearing a commercial for Chicken Rings. Somehow that does not sound appetizing. I wonder if Chocolate Starfish are on the dessert menu?

Maybe mr. toad meant he was making a movie?

Undertoad · 07-18-2011, 06:30 PM

I'm sorry, dinner and a movie FOR TWO

monster · 07-18-2011, 06:42 PM

My wedding ring cost 11 quid. yes, it's gold.

monster · 07-20-2011, 06:34 AM

9 year old is on his fifth week of summer swim season (and it's not his first season). Every day except Sunday, he's in the pool at 8am, so he puts his Speedo on when he gets dressed. Not once has he remembered to take it upstairs with him as he goes to get dressed, despite walking right past the drying rack. Not once.

monster · 07-21-2011, 06:57 AM

Some Doofus left the drain on the 50 meter city pool open overnight. Today is the hottest day of the year. Someone might be in big trouble. It's not really funny, except it is... and we have another pool to cool off in. But there was no high school swim practice today. And if those lane lines are permanently stretched, that's going to be a pricey incident, never mind the water and chemical bill....

monster · 07-21-2011, 07:40 AM

a quick snap.....

glatt · 07-21-2011, 08:04 AM

oops.

I guess you can't just cut off the extra lane line huh? They are sort of like rulers and the colors mean stuff?

monster · 07-21-2011, 08:14 AM

right. you can shorten them but they need an element of flex and I'm guessing that might be all gone. Sort of like boobies bounce but eventually there comes a point when they're staying knee-bound. These look like granny boob lane lines to me. Of course maybe I just need more/less caffeine, Im used to dashing around in the mornings, but both pools are now closed today so I'm all discombobulated because i still got up early enough to do that

monster · 07-21-2011, 09:27 AM

My pic was used in the local news story!

infinite monkey · 07-21-2011, 09:47 AM

That's awesome! Can I have your 'graph?

monster · 07-21-2011, 11:22 AM

Will John's do?

or how about a cookie chart?

/yelliknowhellforsure

glatt · 07-22-2011, 08:21 AM

Mildly amusing me today is that some friends of ours were wondering yesterday why their house was so warm. They though their air conditioner wasn't working right or something. The wife mentioned it to the husband who reminded her that it was her fault. She had signed up at a farmer's market in the spring to be a family that lets the power company control their air conditioning on these hottest days of the year in order to avoid brown outs. She's very "green" and also you save a few bucks each month on your power bill if you let the power company have that control. It wasn't until this week that she really understood exactly what control she was giving up.

She had been talking it up in the spring and had my wife all convinced we should do it, too, but I was like "wtf? Why should we let the power company turn our AC off on the days that we need it most?"

So anyway, I heard all this, and now this friend is posting on facebook that we should all set our AC a few degrees warmer to take a little load off the grid. It's a good point, but I think she's just trying to get others to join her in misery.

infinite monkey · 07-22-2011, 08:30 AM

I'm already there.

The now defunct A/C in my kitchen (still plugged in so the temp readout is there) read 99 degrees yesterday. Not sure if it reads into 3 digits.

The one in the living room and bedroom are working their little hearts out but just cannot keep up with the extreme extended heat.

I may need to shell out the money for a new one for the kitchen but I keep thinking after the heat wave passes it'll be OK.

How did we grow up without A/C? Schools didn't have A/C. Our house didn't. I don't remember thinking much about it.

07-18-2011, 06:13 PM	#692
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	I misplaced my ring, or it is not where I left it. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

07-18-2011, 06:21 PM	#693
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I keep hearing a commercial for Chicken Rings. Somehow that does not sound appetizing. I wonder if Chocolate Starfish are on the dessert menu? Maybe mr. toad meant he was making a movie? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-18-2011, 06:42 PM	#695
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	My wedding ring cost 11 quid. yes, it's gold. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-20-2011, 06:34 AM	#696
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	9 year old is on his fifth week of summer swim season (and it's not his first season). Every day except Sunday, he's in the pool at 8am, so he puts his Speedo on when he gets dressed. Not once has he remembered to take it upstairs with him as he goes to get dressed, despite walking right past the drying rack. Not once. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-21-2011, 06:57 AM	#697
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Some Doofus left the drain on the 50 meter city pool open overnight. Today is the hottest day of the year. Someone might be in big trouble. It's not really funny, except it is... and we have another pool to cool off in. But there was no high school swim practice today. And if those lane lines are permanently stretched, that's going to be a pricey incident, never mind the water and chemical bill.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-18-2011, 06:30 PM	#694
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm sorry, dinner and a movie FOR TWO

07-21-2011, 07:40 AM	#698
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	a quick snap..... Attached Images __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-21-2011, 08:04 AM	#699
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	oops. I guess you can't just cut off the extra lane line huh? They are sort of like rulers and the colors mean stuff?

07-21-2011, 08:14 AM	#700
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	right. you can shorten them but they need an element of flex and I'm guessing that might be all gone. Sort of like boobies bounce but eventually there comes a point when they're staying knee-bound. These look like granny boob lane lines to me. Of course maybe I just need more/less caffeine, Im used to dashing around in the mornings, but both pools are now closed today so I'm all discombobulated because i still got up early enough to do that __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-21-2011, 09:27 AM	#701
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	My pic was used in the local news story! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-21-2011, 09:47 AM	#702
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	That's awesome! Can I have your 'graph?

07-21-2011, 11:22 AM	#703
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Will John's do? or how about a cookie chart? /yelliknowhellforsure __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-22-2011, 08:21 AM	#704
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Mildly amusing me today is that some friends of ours were wondering yesterday why their house was so warm. They though their air conditioner wasn't working right or something. The wife mentioned it to the husband who reminded her that it was her fault. She had signed up at a farmer's market in the spring to be a family that lets the power company control their air conditioning on these hottest days of the year in order to avoid brown outs. She's very "green" and also you save a few bucks each month on your power bill if you let the power company have that control. It wasn't until this week that she really understood exactly what control she was giving up. She had been talking it up in the spring and had my wife all convinced we should do it, too, but I was like "wtf? Why should we let the power company turn our AC off on the days that we need it most?" So anyway, I heard all this, and now this friend is posting on facebook that we should all set our AC a few degrees warmer to take a little load off the grid. It's a good point, but I think she's just trying to get others to join her in misery.

07-22-2011, 08:30 AM	#705
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I'm already there. The now defunct A/C in my kitchen (still plugged in so the temp readout is there) read 99 degrees yesterday. Not sure if it reads into 3 digits. The one in the living room and bedroom are working their little hearts out but just cannot keep up with the extreme extended heat. I may need to shell out the money for a new one for the kitchen but I keep thinking after the heat wave passes it'll be OK. How did we grow up without A/C? Schools didn't have A/C. Our house didn't. I don't remember thinking much about it.

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