Anyone refraining from alcohol tonight, please advise and I can consume for you for a tax-deductible acquisition fee of $3/beer or $5/champagne, and I do accept Paypal. It's a sacrifice I make, but the balance must be maintained!
Anyone refraining from alcohol tonight, please advise and I can consume for you for a tax-deductible acquisition fee of $3/beer or $5/champagne, and I do accept Paypal. It's a sacrifice I make, but the balance must be maintained!
Thanks for the generous offer. Having you consume alcohol in my place is extraordinarily selfless of you. But in good conscience I can't do to you what I'd never do to myself. Hope you understand...
We just moved home. Everything is still in packing crates and boxes. It all took longer than expected so all Christmas and New Year projects were halted.
As I survey the chaos here I realize there is only one thing to do. Pop open the bubbly and watch the fireworks from the balcony!
My New Year resolution:
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
...
Please do not give it all up Heater. We have had some good ones. Good in the sense of me thinking it over for a few days, often with a change or some new realization. It's not all bad.
Happy new year all of you here. I continue to learn a ton, even when I don't appear to show it.
We just moved home. Everything is still in packing crates and boxes. It all took longer than expected so all Christmas and New Year projects were halted.
As I survey the chaos here I realize there is only one thing to do. Pop open the bubbly and watch the fireworks from the balcony!
My New Year resolution:
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
...
We'll see...
Just remember, everything in moderation. Everyone being agreeable all the time gets pretty boring.
The local accommodation here is to allow anything short of an atomic bomb tonight. But tomorrow you get hauled to jail if a plastic soda bottle should burst in your presence. It all has to do with appeasing different groups of whiners.
@Heater: I've never seen you lose your cool no matter what the provocation. And, for whatever reason, your ridiculous points-of-view on Microsoft never upset me.
We have an ordinance here too. Was caused by a couple of local journalists checking it out.
Let's just say they didn't realize the overall impact of what was going to happen, and they did it in a park, and they put it online, which made the news. Clowns!
Still, I like to do a nice one every year. Usually, I happen across an older, thick bottle with the more substantial cap, and I'll save it. There is just nothing like that nice, clean boom. It's OK in a neighboring, remote camping type place.
Anyone refraining from alcohol tonight, please advise and I can consume for you for a tax-deductible acquisition fee of $3/beer or $5/champagne, and I do accept Paypal. It's a sacrifice I make, but the balance must be maintained!
Since I'm not driving anywhere, I don't need a designated imbiber. But thanks just the same!
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Anyone refraining from alcohol tonight, please advise and I can consume for you for a tax-deductible acquisition fee of $3/beer or $5/champagne, and I do accept Paypal. It's a sacrifice I make, but the balance must be maintained!
Cluso, for you down under, Happy 6102¡
Thanks for the generous offer. Having you consume alcohol in my place is extraordinarily selfless of you. But in good conscience I can't do to you what I'd never do to myself. Hope you understand...
Remember, friends don't let friends solder drunk!
We just moved home. Everything is still in packing crates and boxes. It all took longer than expected so all Christmas and New Year projects were halted.
As I survey the chaos here I realize there is only one thing to do. Pop open the bubbly and watch the fireworks from the balcony!
My New Year resolution:
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
I will try not to be so argumentative on the internet forums.
...
We'll see...
Happy new year all of you here. I continue to learn a ton, even when I don't appear to show it.
Thanks. You all matter to me.
Just remember, everything in moderation. Everyone being agreeable all the time gets pretty boring.
Awesome. An evening of odd rockets and fireworks all around. And a 20 minute climax at midnight.
If I understand correctly this is one pleasure in life that is now outlawed in many western countries. Too dangerous you know.
(the really good ones are not legal where I live, but that does not appear to slow most people down much)
I would characterize it as "discouraged" more than illegal, considering the actual outcome of the law.
@Heater: I've never seen you lose your cool no matter what the provocation. And, for whatever reason, your ridiculous points-of-view on Microsoft never upset me.
More seriously. It's that compulsive urge to correct every wrong statement one reads. Nicely summed up by XKCD:
Should we even bother? Well, I believe we should. The internet as a body of knowledge had better be correct.
But then you get dragged into arguments that are not so provably black and white, your "opponent" gets all agitated and upset and things turn ugly.
Not good.
You see the thing about Microsoft is....
Hmmm...Let's leave that for another day
Happy New Year all.
Take time out and sharpen your wits. Battle will resume shortly.
Let's just say they didn't realize the overall impact of what was going to happen, and they did it in a park, and they put it online, which made the news. Clowns!
Still, I like to do a nice one every year. Usually, I happen across an older, thick bottle with the more substantial cap, and I'll save it. There is just nothing like that nice, clean boom. It's OK in a neighboring, remote camping type place.
Hear that NSA/GCHQ I have a pipe bomb! (Happy New Year to you and yours by the way)
Wish I had a picture of it. We managed to launch half a dozen twinky little rockets over the lake
HNY, everyone!
-Phil
I'm spending the first day of 2016 building something out of plywood and propellers.
C.W.
sometimes I miss Germany after 10 years.
Enjoy!
Mike