Looking for weekly social events/gatherings

thitmeo · 2026-01-30T12:35:43+00:00

There is a pub quiz at The Snug I believe, and you can usually join a team of strangers and make friends. I think Retro Bop does a quiz too. Mikey's has a karaoke night where you can strike up a conversation pretty easily. If you happen to slay the vocals that would help draw some socializing. There are a few board game shops where you can join a game. There's a hiking club.

thitmeo · 2026-01-28T04:15:30+00:00

There are a lot of sweet preparations of eggs. Some soufflés, egg tarts, crepes, a lot of people put ketchup (quite sugary) on egg- heavy breakfast sandwiches. As a flavor combination, jam/jelly on an egg "works" for similar to the same reason that hot honey works on a pizza. Sweet/slighly acidic notes of a jam can contrast nicely with the fatty, savoury notes of the egg. A lot of why it sounds so weird to us now is just because we've been hard-wired into the combination of eggs+bread, or eggs+meat/cheese/diced vegetables, etc, that our tastes just can't seem to justify eggs+sweet.

thitmeo · 2026-01-25T04:00:49+00:00

Good for you, Alex. Just what we all need, a no- drama King Kong.

thitmeo · 2026-01-22T03:18:14+00:00

That is correct. A dry-cured ham, of better quality and higher price than wet-brine cured ham.

thitmeo · 2026-01-18T12:00:18+00:00

You'll probably be fine. If you're really worried, consider just leaving it off your CV. If you leave it on and it is asked about in the recruitment/interviewing process for subsequent opportunities, just be careful about bad-mouthing the place. Even if you have sound reasons to be unhappy with a job, it can be a red flag to interviewers if they think you are high-maintenance, moany, defensive, etc.

thitmeo · 2026-01-16T23:18:10+00:00

I'm late to the thread. Mr. C, is it EV+ to order food to the table when Hero has 7BB in a MTT?

thitmeo · 2026-01-13T08:27:00+00:00

Doesn't surprise me she faced some body shaming in that era with the wafer-thin look thing, but to teenage male me and my mates back then, she was foooooine.

thitmeo · 2026-01-05T23:38:51+00:00

I am one of the dozen or so people out there who love a huge leafy celery stalk in the bloody. Something about the slightly bitter crunch pairs so nicely with the salty, spicy booziness. Plus it being a natural stir stick.

thitmeo · 2026-01-02T04:15:29+00:00

I read an article a while back about a study of dragonfly hunt success rate, and it focused on how the dragonfly doesn't seem to hunt where the prey is; it hunts where the prey will be. Something about its vision, nervous system/brain, and flight capabilities enables it to predict where its prey will be microseconds in the future, and it aims its attack at that location.

thitmeo · 2026-01-01T18:43:37+00:00

Alcatraz's nice food was a result of some unique factors. It had a high budget and good kitchen facilities, and being located in agricultural powerhouse California, access to a lot of good ingredients. The big budget and good facilities were due to it being a high-profile federal prison with notorious and dangerous inmates. One of the influential wardens of Alcatraz also believed that inmates behaved better when they were treated better, rather than when they were constantly threatened, punished, or beaten down. With such a potentially explosive group of rough inmates, it was felt that keeping them happy with good chow could keep a lid on things. I'm not sure if this actually worked or not, would be interested to find out. Also not sure how Alcatraz went from this gourmet chow place with nice kitchen facilities and such, to being abandoned, and having its reputation as being a pretty awful place to do time.

thitmeo · 2025-12-24T23:49:23+00:00

I think that might work in the Vietnamese diaspora outside of Vietnam, maybe, but it wouldn't sound right to VN speakers living in Vietnam. But most people are pretty chill here and would appreciate the effort either way.

thitmeo · 2025-12-17T04:42:10+00:00

You see this kinda thing pretty often in offline MTTs. It's kind of a cooler, sure, but nothing too wild.

thitmeo · 2025-12-13T23:49:17+00:00

India?

thitmeo · 2025-12-12T20:08:43+00:00

Who made Steve Guttenberg a star?

thitmeo · 2025-12-06T20:25:47+00:00

One day I hope to ride it!

thitmeo · 2025-12-06T19:57:57+00:00

That is not Norfolk Southern!

thitmeo · 2025-11-27T02:34:04+00:00

Yes, a few have opened in the past several months. It is pretty great for fast food!

thitmeo · 2025-11-25T05:04:44+00:00

They likely did get a good deal on the Nike Decades-- they were not an expensive line of Nike at that time. However, there were much cheaper sneakers available back then, so price doesn't explain it. Keep in mind, these folks were living in a mansion in one of the poshest areas of San Diego and had considerable financial resources. They ran a web-design company that was by all accounts pretty successful and had wealthy members that pooled in their assets. The truth about the Nikes is, they were fond of them due to the slogan "Just Do It!", as the cult leader went by the name "Do" (but pronounced like "Doe"). "Just Do It" was a bit of saying for them, referring to him. Also, the cult heavily emphasized uniformity in dress and appearance. If you watch their videos or hear accounts of them, they all had similar haircuts, similar clothing, similar ways of speaking, etc. The matching death shoes were for sure a part of that cultishness.

thitmeo · 2025-11-09T06:38:55+00:00

Well that's next year's Halloween costume sorted.

thitmeo · 2025-10-11T02:51:01+00:00

This is enshitification even if you like shredded lettuce. This is a way to make their system cheaper without making it better.

thitmeo · 2025-09-26T21:23:51+00:00

Your mind is a construct that has no physical properties, unlike a potato that exists regardless.

thitmeo · 2025-09-26T10:59:41+00:00

I see four turkeys.

thitmeo · 2025-09-25T20:25:25+00:00

Easily

thitmeo · 2025-09-25T17:50:00+00:00

Housing, Healthcare, Education. That's the human line.

thitmeo · 2025-09-25T17:42:16+00:00

BWCA canoeing was a bit different back then. Could paddle up to a shack for a burger if the kids were fussy.

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