RedSalmon
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 19, 2005 18:17:01 GMT -5
I see Spider and SpudBoy have made an appearance.
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Post by RedSalmon on Feb 4, 2005 20:55:36 GMT -5
I'll make sure I don't have any Ribena before I come to find you, or else knowing my sense of direction I'll end up in the Netherlands... Cider is one of those drinks people can usualy drink without noticing which direction their legs want to go. For me, HSB bitter effects cognitivity after the rest of my spinal system has shut down
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 29, 2005 20:50:10 GMT -5
I was 2. I shit you not. I ended up growing out of it before I left elementary school. ;D I've heard of brandy being used for teathing, but beer for breathing is a first. Cinzano is the usual reason people don't drink post pubescence. After it was the last bottle in the cupboard at that bad teenage party, when someones parents went away, word went around, the house got trashed and your best mate had just 'got off' with the girl you'd fancied all year. Cinzano, just don't do it kids!!!
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 29, 2005 20:46:01 GMT -5
Well October 31, Halloween, I walked up to TGI Fridays around 2:30 pm to watch the second half of the Ravens' football game. I began drinking Long Island Iced Teas, got drunk & passed out. When I woke up, it was 1:30 am & I was sitting on my couch. At least they were nice enought to get me home safe & sound! Oh, when I went back I was told that I had passed out after the eighth Long Island Iced Tea. You were lucky, if you'd been in my position, with the mates I used to hang out with, you'd have been put on a train heading north, with a one way ticket and no wallet.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 29, 2005 20:43:43 GMT -5
I agree, but a good breakfast is like that KFC pang you get, for no good reason and all the bad ones forgotten, you just can't help yourself.
Or a donner kebab after a skin full. There's just no explanation.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 28, 2005 20:30:39 GMT -5
Makes me wonder who actually cooked the food at his cafe. He did, I drove past his road side trailer, seemed to be a few lorry drivers hanging around the serving flap. I guess the fat's not so much of a problem on a flat griddle.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 28, 2005 20:28:04 GMT -5
But you've missed the point completely, that's how an English fried breakfast is supposed to be. Yes, but there's fry, shallow fry, deep fat fry, then Matt's dad's vat of boiling oil..
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 28, 2005 20:10:12 GMT -5
I had a work exchange about 15 years ago, where I went up to the Telford branch of the A/V company I worked for in Guildford (UK). I had to stay with the Telford manager's parents for a week.
Now his dad used to run a roadside cafe, and I had it on good advice that this guy cooked the best fry up north of Watford. So at 7.30 on the first morning I came down stairs for breakfast all expectant.
Now, you have to understand, I was staying with very proud welcoming people, I was a guest and it was my first day.
What I actually got should have been in a soup bowl. The fried egg was a submerged yellow dot, bacon rashers 8mm thick ("I cut that myself!!") with chunks of bone, baked beans floating, desperately swimming for the plate edges, crisp fried bread limping like melted wax and something I guessed was once half a tomatoe subjected to ten minutes of a bunsen burner. All oozing in black crusty frying pan fat, with the proud chef bug eyed waiting for appraisal.
There was no way.
Forking out the sausages into to two slices of toast and a bit of ketchup trying to salvage the situation, I appologised and made up the excuse "I needed to be in early" and that "I'm not really a breakfast person".
When I got to the warehouse, after discarding the sandwich, there seemed to be a suspicious amount of enquiry on what I had for breakfast that morning.
For the rest of the week, I decided to wake up later.
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Post by RedSalmon on Dec 8, 2004 17:40:59 GMT -5
Yeah, it's an old tune that cinzano ;D
Funnily enough, I used to live in Norfolk. You were stuck in your local village, unless you you had a bicycle in your early teens. The amount of country pubs that would serve you!!! Then the wobbly ride home afterwards ;D
Even though the school catchment area was well over 30 mile radius, the weekend social life was far more active than when I was down in Surrey.
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Post by RedSalmon on Dec 8, 2004 17:07:28 GMT -5
I've not tried Cat Pee in a Gooseberry bush, but I had to shuvle a ton sack of sand whilst laying our patio, which had all the local cats, over the 4 days, using the sack as a cat litter tray. Man the stink. First booze experience, difficult that one. Probably the house party I held when I was 14, and sinking that bottle of cinzano left in the parents sideboard, and throwing up afterwards. Not the funniest. But there was the time a group of us came back from the local cider house, via a pedestrian lit alley way. For God knows what reason, we started monkey climbing up the lamp posts, and swaying back-forth, untill the metal gave way and the 20' lamp bent at the base, giving us a slow decent to earth. The alley, at the end was like a miltary arch at a wedding. Youth of today!!!! Little buggers!!!
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Post by RedSalmon on Dec 8, 2004 16:52:44 GMT -5
I've known of this site for a while. It's excellent, loads of work has been put into this. If you like starship wargames, I'd highly recomend www.star-ranger.com , all the current scifi board games. Have a look at Star-Rangers Stuff, some profiles of some of his convention games, eg Klingons/Empire vs. Colonials/Rebels/Federation cross-over games. Good links to some mini models of your favourite starships.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 21, 2005 18:09:46 GMT -5
Maybe it is 'pseudo-science technobabble' and I agree the show should never have to explain it, or put into a 'Hiesenberg Compensator' black box. I also don't know where you are in the series, but there is an issue with all this, stated in the initial post.
The blab for the plot can always be in the background. If you think I'm making this up, well the part about a reason for the cyclon's clairvoyence maybe, but the rest isn't.
"New BSG isn't about... wierd time cycles", again, I'm not sure where you are in the series, but it is relevant.
You may not want to discuss this, fine, but don't condescend me for wanting to find some 'real' basis to it. As you know RDM has stated the show is trying to be 'real' so science does have to pass a glancing nod to certain concepts.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 21, 2005 9:58:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this cyclical time thing will work out. Sure other religions predict karma and other sci-fi has touched on this. I think the cylon references are too specific to tie in TOS BSG to the current show. Who knows, RDM maybe covering his bases, incase TNS became a flop.
I would have loved to have seen some M-theory ponderings, for example, M-theory predicts an infinate number of parallel universes, from the slightest change of action in one, ie 'parallel you' makes a cup of coffee, but puts one sugar in instead of two, and that's all that is different. To extremes, where our laws of physics don't exist in another universe.
Because there is an infinite set of possabilities, there is an infinite set of probabilities.
I would have also liked RDM to have explained the cylons clairvoyance through an ability to read ahead of time, by tapping into our current 'parallel universe' timeline, considering (through M-theory) that the fundimental building blocks of all matter is connected by a membraine, maybe the cylons (being machines) can visualize beyond our 4 dimensions into the remaining 7 predicted by this theory.
Time in this equation, is a variable!
Weird, yep. Fascinating too, in my humble opinion.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 3, 2005 21:50:09 GMT -5
Besides, we've only seen a couple of months in the NuBSG timeline, plenty of oportunity to expand on this story line, which has plenty of opportunities to be interesting, considering Roslyns life expectancy, which in itself could contribute to it.
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 3, 2005 21:47:10 GMT -5
He was very good in 'Bastille Day', I would have no objections to him playing the part.
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