Post: #21176

I got massive results just by cutting sugar out of my coffee.

As a bonus, now when I order it from chick baristas sans sweetener they clearly think I'm totally hard.

If I cut out the milk they'll probably end up fucking me on the spot.

For that I suppose I have to thank the fags getting their with syrup, soy, cinnamon and a double shot of vanilla. Guys like me must be assumed to have a fucking horse tied up out the front of the store.

Post: #21177

Hmm,where I am I have the luck to get actual Vanilla sticks at a very low price.
I love cutting it with scissors into my hot drinks (specially Royboosh tea!)

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The other day I was talking with a woman who is a local person by many several generations and when she described the people of the region from where my family comes from I was shocked to discover the description applied nearly flawlessly to people of my clan (myself included),even though many of us are already one or two generations removed and have obviously taken the cultural aspects and dialects of where we grew up.

Makes you wonder about how far can the apple really fall from the tree sometimes...

Post: #21178

(02-19-2017 08:35 AM)El_Gostro Wrote:  Hmm,where I am I have the luck to get actual Vanilla sticks at a very low price.
I love cutting it with scissors into my hot drinks (specially Royboosh tea!)

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The other day I was talking with a woman who is a local person by many several generations and when she described the people of the region from where my family comes from I was shocked to discover the description applied nearly flawlessly to people of my clan (myself included),even though many of us are already one or two generations removed and have obviously taken the cultural aspects and dialects of where we grew up.

Makes you wonder about how far can the apple really fall from the tree sometimes...

Those kind of moments are almost a bit spooky eh? I've talked with people that know well the area where some of my ancestors came from, apparently it was an important place during the World Wars. The woman I was speaking with was of a different kind of the same general kind of ethnic make up.

I even talked with a couple people that had the same kind of Russian/Eastern European apple tree in their own garden as mine.

Post: #21179

(02-19-2017 04:28 AM)iop890 Wrote:  I've been having pretty good luck with the Scotch and Brisket Diet™. I invented it myself.

The trick is to only consume Scotch(Rum is OK too as long as its from Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, or Trinidad) and Texas-style barbecue(stop putting sugary sauce on everything, other states, you bunch of fags). A steak is also acceptable if you're lazy or if you don't have 12 hours to spare. Just make sure to drink lots of water too so you don't die.

Turns out none of that stuff has any carbs so I'm shedding weight like crazy over here. I just hope I don't get scurvy.

That was pretty much my diet when I broke my leg.

Came out of it with less bellyfat than when I came into it. But, I still had to deal with atrophy.

You're making me want to fire up the crockpot and stew some meat in it for a couple days now and start playing around with vinegar based sauces.

Post: #21180

Nothing beats Carolina Gold sauce, y'all. Mustard based. Best BBQ sauce by far.

Post: #21181

Great song





Explosive diarrhea on it and its played all of the time at the gym. IM TRIGGERED! I never understood the need to remake songs.

Post: #21182

Has anyone ever found a great website by accidentally mis-typing another site?

Post: #21183

(02-19-2017 04:52 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  So I went for a drive this evening, and when I was nearing a casino, I decided to go in and take a look around.
I've never actually done anything at a casino, just been in once before to see if their food was cheap (it wasn't).
When I was walking around the floor, I was going past the craps table and the manager asked if I wanted to learn how to play (they were doing a class, teaching a group of people), so I figured, "Yeah why not, kill some time, see what all this is about."
After the class, I put up $60 bucks to just try it out for a bit, I made about $660 before I took a break, then played $60 again and made $275, took home $875 ($815 profit).
I had a pretty fun time, and they had other activities going on too, dance floor with a live band, some virtual reality shooting thing (I'll try that when I have time).

Do you have to sign up for a rewards card when you went in the casino? Did you sign up on your own?

If so, it was fixed. Take the money and don't go back for at least a year.

This is how they hook you. You are gonna wind up in the gutter if you aren't careful here.

Aloha!

Post: #21184

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g8hj3

For anyone who can get to the BBC iPlayer, here's a really cool piece on Tom Waits that I happened to catch earlier.

Post: #21185

(02-19-2017 04:01 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 04:52 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  So I went for a drive this evening, and when I was nearing a casino, I decided to go in and take a look around.
I've never actually done anything at a casino, just been in once before to see if their food was cheap (it wasn't).
When I was walking around the floor, I was going past the craps table and the manager asked if I wanted to learn how to play (they were doing a class, teaching a group of people), so I figured, "Yeah why not, kill some time, see what all this is about."
After the class, I put up $60 bucks to just try it out for a bit, I made about $660 before I took a break, then played $60 again and made $275, took home $875 ($815 profit).
I had a pretty fun time, and they had other activities going on too, dance floor with a live band, some virtual reality shooting thing (I'll try that when I have time).

Do you have to sign up for a rewards card when you went in the casino? Did you sign up on your own?

If so, it was fixed. Take the money and don't go back for at least a year.

This is how they hook you. You are gonna wind up in the gutter if you aren't careful here.

Aloha!

No card sign up was required, and I didn't sign up for one either. I did see other people come up and put "tickets" as bets on the table, and I asked a dude and he said it was from reward points.
I would've probably said it was fixed if it was blackjack or something they controlled, but I was the one rolling that made the big bucks, I just had to pick when where and how to bet. The first time playing I and everyone else got very lucky, I can't remember what the bet is called, but you put bets in the middle part, and it ticks off numbers that were played, if all certain low numbers get rolled, 35-1 payoff, then highs 35-1, and if all highs and lows get rolled, 175-1. I rolled all of them, so everyone who did the 3 middle parts (myself included) got $245 from $1 on each part ($3).
On my second play, I got down to 4 bucks, but then I just let some "dumb" bets ride a little longer, got up to $125, then put that on a simple bet that only had a even pay out, then once that won I pulled it and cashed out. It was a good thing I pulled out when I did, because the roll after that was a 7, which cleared out the table, made everyone lose.
It just depended on how I bet.
I probably won't go again for the purpose of gambling anytime soon, I don't really have that kind of time to burn, though I do want to try that VR shooting game, oh and suit up and hit the dance floor. There was a gaggle of fine bitches there, but I didn't feel like dancing in my carharts.

Post: #21186

Interesting to watch. Shows the degradation of mainstream music from early 1900's to 2000's. Women show much more midriff, and falsetto becomes much more popular among men. Feminism comes through in a lot of the music videos. Also, men no longer dress in suits, its much more casual. Interesting.

Honestly, if you want a stark comparison; look at Dean Martin, then Adam Levine. That's all you need to know.

Dean; Masculine with proper posture, dressed nicely, and with absolute class.


Adam; Feminine pose and posture. Tried to 'man' himself up with two full sleeves, and fails miserably.

Post: #21187

Get your style right!

Post: #21188

I don't know if this is the right place for this story, or whether the Player's Lounge is better. Anyway, here goes.

So I've been seeing this girl for about three years now. In the beginning, I was all gung-ho yeah I'm a player so I was seeing multiple women. I even had a thing going for a while with 2 girls, however I decided to break things off, informal as they were, with one of them and start seeing the other one exclusively. As luck would have it, the other girl found out about it, asked me and I told her the truth. I held frame, I told her it wasn't my intention to cheat, I didn't know it was exclusive. I think I even asked for advice here at RVF. However, this was the start of one of many long arguments/fights.

Long story short, we are still together but the relationship (to me) is in tatters. I'm constantly unhappy. In order to assuage my guilt at being a player and to not be that guy who ends up old and forever alone, I even gave her a ring a year ago. It didn't improve things a bit. Arguments are constant and I hate having to cook for her or do other stuff I would happily do for a girl who acted better to me.

On the other side (since it's not all doom and gloom), I do think she genuinely loves me and is afraid that I'll cheat on her. However, this constant harassment is making me look at other girls, not as a hot piece of ass I'd like to fuck and go home to my sweet cutie-pie, but rather as the cutie-pie compared to the monster that's waiting to start an argument with me at home.

Talk to her? It's impossible, the accusations are first out of the gate, with tears a close second. I'm a monster, I have no feelings, et cetera ad nauseum.

On the list of things I like about her: her parents are still together, she's from a good family and richer than my family (hard not to be, considering my family background although I do OK for myself), and she's of course good looking. She's also tenacious, since we've had multiple big fights and I thought she would've broken up with me by now but somehow we're still together.

Worth noting: she was actually talking to her ex behind my back for a longer period of time than I was seeing other girl(s), but maintains that she never had sex and was only friends with him because he needed moral support. He doesn't look like a leather-wearing jock so I'd believe her but still the deception leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

What do guys? Can this be salvaged? We've been apart for a couple of months since she's doing a temporary job but I'm dreading having her back. I want kids and I want to marry a good girl, but am I secretly a player who just wants to flirt with other girls and am I doomed to doing that forever? The worst part is that my fam is clueless and they think they're gonna get little mini-me's running around in a year or so. Meanwhile I'm even dreading going on vacation with her because the fights don't even stop when we are on holiday.

Post: #21189

(02-20-2017 03:32 PM)augen sehen Wrote:  What do guys? Can this be salvaged?

Yes. Walk away before you waste any more time in a relationship that's not making you happy.

"I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak." - Arnold

Post: #21190

Doesn't take long for the crazy to emerge these days.

Post: #21191

(02-19-2017 04:52 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  I didn't feel like dancing in my carharts.

That's a good name for a sad country song....

Maybe you are the rain man of craps?

The first time I went to a casino as myself I won big. I had been before using my older brothers id. He had never been, and I also won big that first time.

The casinos i first went to were in Missouri and Illinois. They required you to sign up for the card because they had some odd law about how much people could lose. My theory was that they did some quick background check to see your credit and if you'd been to other casinos. They'd lose a mlittle at first just to hook you.

Maybe that's why rain man himself was so successful.

Aloha!

Post: #21192

(02-19-2017 02:44 PM)YoungBlade Wrote:  Nothing beats Carolina Gold sauce, y'all. Mustard based. Best BBQ sauce by far.

I don't know if I agree with the gold version, but carolina mustard/vinegar sauce or even just the peppered vinegar sauce, fuck yeah. Again, another reason to love TN, Memphis bbq in the west (skip hipster nashville in the middle) and carolina style bbq in the east.

Post: #21193

I was reading my old school's magazine this morning, and came across the obituaries. I was struck by a couple of things:

1. How lucky I was to go to a place where so many of the men who attend go on to make significant contributions to the sum of human knowledge, be it in science, technology, archeology, business, military, or the arts. Twenty or so men from the school died in the last quarter. What was remarkable, and gratifying, was that all of them had led varied and interesting lives doing things they were very good at.

2. How much pleasure I get in reading a really good obituary. I find it a profoundly uplifting thing to read over my breakfast about a life that was full, varied, and thoroughly lived. Obituaries serve as a very good reminder that almost everyone has something interesting about them if you can get to it. If I get a twinge of sadness when reading an obituary, as I very occasionally do, it is always at the thought that here was someone I'd have loved to have met, had supper with, and had a chance to talk to about the things they loved. Reading a good obituary can be a real thrill.

Post: #21194

(02-20-2017 03:32 PM)augen sehen Wrote:  I don't know if this is the right place for this story, or whether the Player's Lounge is better. Anyway, here goes.
...
Long story short, we are still together but the relationship (to me) is in tatters. I'm constantly unhappy. In order to assuage my guilt at being a player and to not be that guy who ends up old and forever alone, I even gave her a ring a year ago. It didn't improve things a bit. Arguments are constant and I hate having to cook for her or do other stuff I would happily do for a girl who acted better to me.
...

It's over. You're torturing yourself out of some misguided belief that it's in your best interest, or hers, or both of yours.

It's not.

Tell her you took a shot at putting the past down but it's clear she'll never be happy with you. Auf Wiedersehen, fräulein.

You're lucky that this circumstance arose. Every member of a relationship, both male and female, fuck up eventually in some form or another. She's shown you that she is not the type to ever forgive or forget as long as she lives.

God forbid you found this out the hard way after you had kids or some shit like that.

Post: #21195

(02-20-2017 08:22 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(02-19-2017 04:52 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  I didn't feel like dancing in my carharts.

That's a good name for a sad country song....

Maybe you are the rain man of craps?

The first time I went to a casino as myself I won big. I had been before using my older brothers id. He had never been, and I also won big that first time.

The casinos i first went to were in Missouri and Illinois. They required you to sign up for the card because they had some odd law about how much people could lose. My theory was that they did some quick background check to see your credit and if you'd been to other casinos. They'd lose a mlittle at first just to hook you.

Maybe that's why rain man himself was so successful.

Aloha!

Yeah probably, I don't know, I only saw that when I lost or won, it was due to my own choices in betting as to what would be rolled. Nothing shined as an apparent advantage, I put my money down on the future, and I just happened to win or lose. I lost a whole bunch overall on placing bets, but in the end I came out on top ($800+ return on a $60 "investment"), but isn't that life? You put your acquired resources towards something or another, it just depends whether you reward was worth the risk. I tossed up sixty bucks, came out with 1,300% increase, heck, would be nice if I got that kind of return on my dating life. Makes marriage look like the state lotto in comparison, 1 in 27million chance of hitting it big.

Post: #21196

So I had some CPR training among a few other courses at one of my jobs today.

One of the other participants was a fucking morbidly obese woman who wasn't even 30 years old. We endured the ridiculous and laughable situation of watching her do chest compressions on a training dummy until a few seconds later when it became apparent that if the instructor allowed her to continue then the rest of us would be doing chest compressions on her.

This tubby monster fanned her sweaty face with a piece of paper all day long. Keep in mind we were in a climate controlled building kept at an optimal temperature. We also had to wait two minutes for her to traverse a single flight of stairs during one of the other courses, after which we had to wait an additional minute for her to catch her breath.

Do we have a "laugh at fatty" lounge? It seems like a worthwhile standalone thread for this kind of thing.

Post: #21197

(02-21-2017 08:16 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Do we have a "laugh at fatty" lounge? It seems like a worthwhile standalone thread for this kind of thing.

I think one fat people thread is enough for any forum...
/thread-48284.html

Another option is to write an article submission to fat girl jihad, that's a site begging for a resurrection...
http://www.fatgirljihad.com/

Post: #21198

Thanks. I'll dump it there as well.

Post: #21199

(02-21-2017 08:16 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Do we have a "laugh at fatty" lounge? It seems like a worthwhile standalone thread for this kind of thing.

We do have the fat people thread, but what you're describing isn't funny, it's just fucking disgusting.

I still remember going to dance classes and events, full of fat blimps sweating profusely and desperately panting for breath after a mere minute or two of activity. And you have to put your hands on that foul quibbling sweat-jelly mess and look at its face.

I washed that shit away with a shower known as an "airplane".

Post: #21200

(02-20-2017 10:47 AM)Ivanis Wrote:  Interesting to watch. Shows the degradation of mainstream music from early 1900's to 2000's. Women show much more midriff, and falsetto becomes much more popular among men. Feminism comes through in a lot of the music videos. Also, men no longer dress in suits, its much more casual. Interesting.

Honestly, if you want a stark comparison; look at Dean Martin, then Adam Levine. That's all you need to know.

Dean; Masculine with proper posture, dressed nicely, and with absolute class.


Adam; Feminine pose and posture. Tried to 'man' himself up with two full sleeves, and fails miserably.

Dean Martin looks like he was crafted in a smoke and Whlskey filled jazz ballroom;

Adam Leviene looks like he was crafted by a bunch of fags in a corporate boardroom.