"Not Worth its own thread" Thread

[Hollowway]

My wife has been working on this fucker for DAYS

And I found the dog chewing on this in the other room...

I like to do puzzles with my daughter, and last year we were doing one of those bigass ones that takes weeks (like the one you have here). We worked on it on the coffee table, and consequently had loads of pieces on the carpet where we're sitting. We got to the end and there was a piece missing. My wife went running a few days later, and found it it on the side walk a mile from our house. We think that I was probably sitting on the floor, and the piece stuck to my semi-sweaty thigh, and fell off while I was running that same route. Then my wife ran days later and saw it. Strangest thing that's every happened with a puzzle.

 

[jaxadam]

I like to do puzzles with my daughter, and last year we were doing one of those bigass ones that takes weeks (like the one you have here). We worked on it on the coffee table, and consequently had loads of pieces on the carpet where we're sitting. We got to the end and there was a piece missing. My wife went running a few days later, and found it it on the side walk a mile from our house. We think that I was probably sitting on the floor, and the piece stuck to my semi-sweaty thigh, and fell off while I was running that same route. Then my wife ran days later and saw it. Strangest thing that's every happened with a puzzle.

That is one hell of a story. I have something semi-similar but it’s really long and involves a felon and two state troopers so if there’s enough interest I’ll type it out.

 

[Hollowway]

That is one hell of a story. I have something semi-similar but it’s really long and involves a felon and two state troopers so if there’s enough interest I’ll type it out.

There is enough interest! Lay it on me, brother....

 

[BornToLooze]

I just saw that EB has a string set called Zippy Slinky that is .007" on the high string.

I saw one the other day that was called Magnum Slinky. All I could think was haha

 

[jaxadam]

There is enough interest! Lay it on me, brother....

Alright so here we go.

It was back in probably 1998, and I was coming home really really really late at night. It was kind of country backroads type of deal. So I see this car on the side of the road pulled over and this guy has his trunk open so I pull over. His car looked like it might have been in a little bit of an accident but he keeps telling me he's fine, and he tells me he will give me a playstation or some shit like that if I just head on out of there.

Well, I immediately could tell something wasn't quite right so I told the dude I'll run him up the road so he can call his friends. He was very hesitant but I finally got him in the car and we go right up the road to one of these country ass gas stations with a payphone that was over in a gravel parking lot.

So he calls his buddies at the apartment he was at and started talking to them and they asked to talk to me or something like that. So I get on the phone and they tell me the cops were there, they were looking for him, he's wanted for felony hit and run, and to keep him there.

He immediately tried to bounce so I grab him and held him down in a headlock for like 7 minutes and we are really rolling around and shit until these two state troopers zoom up on us.

So I have this wooden bracelet that has these sections on it, I think my mom got in in far east asia or something. I wore it everyday on my left arm where you'd normally wear a watch. It was like a bunch of small squares somehow put together with something and it was like an oval "C" and it just slapped right on.

Well the state troopers pull up and they take over and they ask me my name then that guy starts screaming my name over and over telling me when he gets out he's gonna find me and kill me and all this shit.

So I get in my car and head on out of there and I get home and I realize my bracelet is gone. I'm totally fucking bummed gutted, so the next morning I drive back down the the spot. It was dead nuts the middle of fall leaf peeping season in Virginia, and I'm like there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna find this thing. I pull my car up right by the phone and I get out and right there within about a second I find the bracelet sitting there in a pile of sticks, leaves, and gravel. My lucky day.

 

[BornToLooze]

So my wife has been looking for a job, but she's having trouble because she's being particular about it, while I have a job that a good 75% of the time makes me want to say fuck all this, I'm gonna go live in a van down by the river, but then I have days like today where I made my car payment while I was just watching WWF reruns.

 

[Hollowway]

Alright so here we go.

It was back in probably 1998, and I was coming home really really really late at night. It was kind of country backroads type of deal. So I see this car on the side of the road pulled over and this guy has his trunk open so I pull over. His car looked like it might have been in a little bit of an accident but he keeps telling me he's fine, and he tells me he will give me a playstation or some shit like that if I just head on out of there.

Well, I immediately could tell something wasn't quite right so I told the dude I'll run him up the road so he can call his friends. He was very hesitant but I finally got him in the car and we go right up the road to one of these country ass gas stations with a payphone that was over in a gravel parking lot.

So he calls his buddies at the apartment he was at and started talking to them and they asked to talk to me or something like that. So I get on the phone and they tell me the cops were there, they were looking for him, he's wanted for felony hit and run, and to keep him there.

He immediately tried to bounce so I grab him and held him down in a headlock for like 7 minutes and we are really rolling around and shit until these two state troopers zoom up on us.

So I have this wooden bracelet that has these sections on it, I think my mom got in in far east asia or something. I wore it everyday on my left arm where you'd normally wear a watch. It was like a bunch of small squares somehow put together with something and it was like an oval "C" and it just slapped right on.

Well the state troopers pull up and they take over and they ask me my name then that guy starts screaming my name over and over telling me when he gets out he's gonna find me and kill me and all this shit.

So I get in my car and head on out of there and I get home and I realize my bracelet is gone. I'm totally fucking bummed gutted, so the next morning I drive back down the the spot. It was dead nuts the middle of fall leaf peeping season in Virginia, and I'm like there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna find this thing. I pull my car up right by the phone and I get out and right there within about a second I find the bracelet sitting there in a pile of sticks, leaves, and gravel. My lucky day.

That’s awesome. Especially since your mom gave it to you. Glad to see the guy didn’t come after you later too!

 

[jaxadam]

Glad to see the guy didn’t come after you later too!

Well you never know... 25 years later he could be reading this!

 

[thebeesknees22]

I have bought Smokey Bacon Lays chips. They're either gonna be really disgusting, or really tasty 🤔 I'll find out after lunch

 

[thebeesknees22]

The Smokey Bacon chips weren't much to write home about. They weren't much different than just plain ones. There just wasn't much to them.

I mark Fail on the taste test.

 

[Crungy]

Lame! They sounded like they could be tasty.

I had the BLT ones recently and they're decent, I liked the mix of bacon and tomato flavor.

 

[thebeesknees22]

oh interesting! I haven't seen those yet.

 

[spudmunkey]

The Smokey Bacon chips weren't much to write home about. They weren't much different than just plain ones. There just wasn't much to them.

I mark Fail on the taste test.

Lame! They sounded like they could be tasty.

I had the BLT ones recently and they're decent, I liked the mix of bacon and tomato flavor.

oh interesting! I haven't seen those yet.

I'm finding more and more that "bacon" flavored items are pretty bland and end up tasting like "faintly BBQ". Just vaguely smokey from smoked paprika, and then brown sugar because people associate bacon/pork with sweet. The plus side is, there's less risk of a minefield like some of the garbage bacon-flavored stuff that tasted like how burned clutch smells in years past.

The BLT ones came out alongside a wavy Cuban Sandwich flavor. Veeeery light mustard and pickle flavor. Quite nice, actually, but if you didn't tell me what flavor they were supposed to be and told me to guess, I don't think I'd have come up with "Cuban sandwich".

The third from the limited release is "buffalo chicken sandwich", but I haven't tried them because a) I haven't seen them, and b) they are baked so they are also not particularly tasty enough anyway to attract my snack-buying dollar.

 

[Crungy]

I'd give the Buffalo ones a try, I'll have to look for them! I haven't tried the Cuban ones but heard the same that they're not very Cuban-y.

 

[thebeesknees22]

I'm finding more and more that "bacon" flavored items are pretty bland and end up tasting like "faintly BBQ". Just vaguely smokey from smoked paprika, and then brown sugar because people associate bacon/pork with sweet. The plus side is, there's less risk of a minefield like some of the garbage bacon-flavored stuff that tasted like how burned clutch smells in years past.

The BLT ones came out alongside a wavy Cuban Sandwich flavor. Veeeery light mustard and pickle flavor. Quite nice, actually, but if you didn't tell me what flavor they were supposed to be and told me to guess, I don't think I'd have come up with "Cuban sandwich".

The third from the limited release is "buffalo chicken sandwich", but I haven't tried them because a) I haven't seen them, and b) they are baked so they are also not particularly tasty enough anyway to attract my snack-buying dollar.

yeah that's a good way to describe what these were like. Faintly bbq. it had hints of it, but it was just really weak.

 

[nightflameauto]

The only flavored item I remember with bacon that actually tasted even slightly bacony was the Tater Skins from TGIF you can buy at gas stations and shit.

I'm still petitioning hard for full dressed chips in the states. Had some from a Canadian buddy when I was a yung-un and still fret over not being able to get more. Come on, aren't we the poster children down here for gluttony? How do we NOT have full dressed chips? WTF?

 

[Crungy]

I survived on Tater skins and zebra cakes at the rehearsal studio my bands rented in while in my 20's. Washed down with a Mountain Dew of course.

As far as the all dressed chips: the Yank ones we get are pretty tame in comparison, correct?

 

[nightflameauto]

I survived on Tater skins and zebra cakes at the rehearsal studio my bands rented in while in my 20's. Washed down with a Mountain Dew of course.

As far as the all dressed chips: the Yank ones we get are pretty tame in comparison, correct?

From my memory, yes.

 

[ThunderUnderground]

Cruising through eBay and i spotted this slice of greatness.

Its a 15w Line 6 Spider IV shoehorned in to an old stool. "Condition: Used, Needs some Febreze". 😄

 

[Crungy]

That is next level brilliant lmao