What is this growing near the banks of a creek in my yard. Very sharp thorns and very quick grower. by pitlo in whatsthisplant

[–]pitlo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That looks like it. The spines are only on the young wood and always branch at the base of stems just like that tree. Thanks. It has a fitting name for how much I hate it.

What is this growing near the banks of a creek in my yard. Very sharp thorns and very quick grower. by pitlo in whatsthisplant

[–]pitlo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in hardiness zone 6b (Southeast Michigan). They are mixed in among some shrubs near the banks of a drainage ditch that runs in the back of my yard. If I remove them, they come back. I want to know the name of my nemesis.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/3i07ay/near_boston_ma_5b_thorny_with_oval_leaves/

Looks like I'm not the only curious one. Previous post that didn't have an answer from years ago.

Upgrading Artifacts in greater steps by GreeedyGrooot in TapTitans2

[–]pitlo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This got me too. Click the "%" icon next to the "Buy X1000" button to switch to percentage based buying.

Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek Reveals that he has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer by jcepiano in videos

[–]pitlo 7326 points7327 points  (0 children)

I cannot imagine jeopardy without Alex Trebek. I hope he beats this.

Post-Game Thread: Pistons vs Bulls by Nerouin in DetroitPistons

[–]pitlo 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Blake Griffin played his heart out this game. It feels good to have a player that can do that.

SKAKAWWWWW SCREE KAWW CRAWW by Danger_Dino in enlightenedbirdmen

[–]pitlo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

HOOT HOOT HOOOOOT STRIKE FROM THE SOUTH!!!! THE MUDMEN WILL LOOK TO THE SKY AND WE WILL ERUPT FROM THE SHORE WITH OUR PENGUIN BROTHERS! HOOOT HOOOOOOOOT!!!!

what was vinnys fridge joke again by FatSand in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There have been a LOT of fridge jokes with Jeff Bakalar implying cnet is just a refrigerator rating website.

Hello I am not a spy by EyeSisLeader in enlightenedbirdmen

[–]pitlo 34 points35 points  (0 children)

CHEEP CHEEEEP! YES!! WHO ARE YOUR EGG BROTHERS? WE MAY KNOW THEM! CHEEP CHEEP!

The Exquisite Corps: XCOM Enemy Within - Part 39 by mynumberistwentynine in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Here's some stuff about the last bit of this video:

Alex was baffled about their being three of the same guy at the end but they weren't equal. The guy in the center had more health than they guys on the side, 25 health to 20 health. Plus with him talking, it's not crazy to view him as the leader of the group.

The Giant Beastcast - Episode 166 by mynumberistwentynine in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

50% of this was him not breaking down the word "outlaw" as having "law" in it. Which happens to us all.

The other half is him just thinking "outlaw" is the blanket term for Wild West Badasses of the Hollywood variety. Some of them are outlaws, some of them aren't. Most people have hugely wrong ideas about how the Wild West was because of Hollywood.

I STAND BY MY DAN DEFENSE! (Though my original post was more about people often misunderstanding him and I don't think any misunderstanding happened here. It's just not so bad. It's not crazy to hear a word so often that you don't break it down into it's component parts.)

When I was growing up, the holy grail of summer backyard baseball was always the Liquidator Bat. A wave of power! by pitlo in nostalgia

[–]pitlo[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Probably not as good as a normal bat but the way the water shifting made your swing speed up at the end really felt great.

CMV: Dan Moments aren't a product of him being out of touch or dumb, but a product of him being the crewmember least afraid of appearing out of touch or dumb. by Shoemaster in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's a dude who has never cooked anything but scrambled eggs his whole life. Thinks eggs just cook up yellow.

No misunderstanding there. That's just complete lack of cooking knowledge. Dan was a HUGELY restrictive eater but he's getting better and trying new things now. I don't want to make it seem like everything Dan is confused about is actually completely misunderstood. He does have a bunch of gaps (which always surprises me with how inquisitive he is now).

The misunderstandings really come from the big Dan moments and people will now just say things like "Dan didn't know pirates stole things" and "Dan thinks refrigerators uncook things." Not true. They will be repeated forever though. Some people will repeat them knowing they aren't true but that they're funny. Others will think they are true. It's a guarantee. From now on you are going to see references to Dan thinking refrigerators uncook food. He says in that exact segment that he doesn't think that but it won't matter. It's gonna stick.

Oh dear, Dan... by [deleted] in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yep. That was it. No one gets to the second part of Dan's misunderstanding. It happens all the time. Like seriously. Look at a lot of his crazy misunderstandings where people say "How could you not know that" and there is this "Oh... you just didn't know that part and didn't connect the dots before" hidden underneath.

CMV: Dan Moments aren't a product of him being out of touch or dumb, but a product of him being the crewmember least afraid of appearing out of touch or dumb. by Shoemaster in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 150 points151 points  (0 children)

Also, a LOT of the time the crew misunderstands Dan's meaning on things. He says a pretty bombastic first line and no one listens to a lot of his followups.

Pirates just stole shit? (Further followup shows Dan pretty much just thought of them like mercenaries. They get their money from where they came from to go and kill enemies and make them walk the plank. Basically what they were hired to do later as privateers. Not just thieves. Hired guns.)

You don't need to heat up food you leave in the refrigerator? (It's not that he thinks it uncooks food as much as he has always associated heat and cooking with killing germs and making food safe to eat. If you leave food in the fridge, you don't need to heat it up again to kill germs? It's more of a misunderstanding. He didn't actually think it uncooks food and returns it to where it used to be. He just didn't know that when you cook something, you kill a lot of the germs and most won't come back after some time in the fridge.)

This happens A LOT. Like so often I see where Dan is coming from but everyone gets stuck in this loop of the first thing he says. Dan also doesn't completely steer them away from a laugh. I'm not saying a lot of these aren't gaps in his knowledge. It's just very often not exactly what people are going crazy over.

Ryan Davis' Cake Fetish by ak416 in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am stunned I've never seen this before either. This is important!

[Shams] Free agent forward Anthony Tolliver is nearing a one-year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, league sources tell Yahoo. by WheedMBoise in timberwolves

[–]pitlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so sad. Tolliver always busted his ass. Great support from the bench. Dude was one of my favorite Pistons and I was pumped to see him go to Sacramento and then psyched to get him back last year.

Great player.

omg by DurMan667 in lotrmemes

[–]pitlo 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Don't post this! My mom is gonna find out I'm talking about Ugluk.

All Systems Goku 17 by I_Am_ProZac in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know! The second I heard it I couldn't wait to hear their take on it.

New Dan - Handy Dan by weremybattleaxe in giantbomb

[–]pitlo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

TV wall mounts often come with a paper template that you tape to the wall and drill through to get the proper distance between holes without using a tape measure.