How about 100km diet? I hate Nanaimo micro brews anyway.

>> ^blankfist:
Whiskey. Love it. A good corn (mash) whiskey has a subtle sweetness to it and the glass smells of caramel.
Belgium beer is great. New Belgium's Lips of Faith (Dandelion, Wild Ale) is the best around.
And a good Zinfindel is bliss.
I just started smoking again.


I don't think I'll ever grow to like whiskey, but beligum beer sounds tempting. Just watched "In Bruges" again these days. I don't know how easy it'll be to get it, since german beer is pretty dominant here in Germany, apart from the commercial foreign brews such as Heineken, but I'll definitely try.

You are quite welcome to interject yourself in the situation with rachel, since besides me and her, you are the most involved in that. I don't think you should do it with the other situation, since you both have no business doing it, and because you cannot have all the facts - even if I and all the rest of the people who were there retell it to the best of our knowledge, you won't have all the facts of that.

I blame it mostly on that incident and bea's lies (which they are) since it clearly culminated whatever had been brewing. What was brewing in the mean time between me and rae, which I was completely oblivious of, is both my own and rae's fault. I was just doing what I had always done for the last fucking year with her, which she seemed to have fun with until after texas (or some time before that, when she got all silent). We are both to blame for that part, me with my incessant messages (don't friends message each other much!?) and her with condoning it until she changed her mind and hated it.

"With all the things you admitted to doing"
1 thing - groping ivy. That's all I've admitted to about what happened in Texas and that is the extent of inappropriateness there were. I've apologized to ivy for it and, for me anyway, that part is over. I expect it to be a done deal for her as well. Nothing else happened while I was there. As I've explained, quite a few times now, the situation we were in did make it less of a big deal - it wasn't completely out of the blue, it wasn't malicious. It was just stupid. To say that "Truth is, you were lucky to escape Texas without any facial reconstruction being needed afterwards." is just bullshit. It's not like I fucking raped her. And again, you were not there, so you're not getting the full picture.

I don't want to drag you into this either, and I'm sorry that you've been dragged into it. But Rasch is not a good friend, he's a complete ass who can't keep his mouth shut and his nose out of other people's business. I feel sorry for you guys if you do consider him a friend.

I'm not just trying to "save face", I'm trying to get rasch to admit that he was in the wrong - maybe knock just a little bit of sense into the fucker. He was ENTIRELY in the wrong in that thread and I'm calling on his bullshit. If it had been rae herself that had posted that, or you perhaps, then I would have been even more baffled, but understanding - if she had posted that in a PM to me, then the entire thing would have gone quite a lot better for all involved.

From Rachel, I had expected at least some form of explanation for why she didn't want to talk. It came out of the blue for me, and since I did consider her a friend, it shocked me when she wrote the "want to get out of the bullshit" PM. I considered her a friend and I thought she did the same with me, so I think she at least owed me that - but as I've said to you privately, what I think I deserve and what others think I deserve are not necessarily the same, so if she didn't feel she owed me an explanation that was that. This was the sole purpose of my messages after she wrote that, because I'm not antagonistic and hate having people not like me, so I tried my damnedest to get her to talk to me, so I could at least walk away knowing what had happened.

I think rachel and I had a good talk on messenger after that whole thing blew up, but I still feel bad the way it turned out. Both for you, for rachel, for cari and for myself. I do not feel sorry for peggedbea and I certainly do not feel sorry for rasch.

In fact, rasch should go the way of the do-do and die out. He deserves all the scorn he gets. He is not "a man of his convictions" he's a witch-hunter, he didn't back you all up, he put himself in the fucking driver's seat and tried to run me over. He should be ashamed of himself far more than I should be ashamed of what I've ever done. When he leaves this site, and hopefully this earth, I will dance a merry jig.

Take care, Jake.

In reply to this comment by evil_disco_man:
Would it be my place to put myself between "other people" when I DO know what was going on? I think so. Doesn't a "shorthanded dismissal" count as "telling you properly"? What more did you need? A five-page essay on why she wanted to stop talking to you? It's hilarious that you blame it all on one incident (accusing peggedbea of being a liar), when it was a culimination of things over time.

You know, with all the things you admitted to doing, which includes groping a married woman, I'd think you would be more humble about it. Truth is, you were lucky to escape Texas without any facial reconstruction being needed afterwards.

Watch what you say. I don't like being brought into this bullshit, but I hate to see a good friend like rasch being placed on the stakes - and when you drag up AC's name, I will inevitably follow. I've told you privately why I had problems with how you handled your "relationship" with Rachel, and I'd rather you not carry it on for the sole purpose of saving face.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
If you are referring to the way me and alien_concept talked to each other, that is none of your business. You don't understand the "relationship" we had - I only ever reciprocated all that talk, if she didn't want it anymore, she could have told me properly, instead of the shorthanded dismissal thing she sent me. It is not your place to put yourself between other people when you don't know what's going on; it's the same that happened with obsidianfire. Maybe you should burn out too, because your presence isn't welcome or appreciated anymore.

The actress does a very good job, and makes the skit amusing to watch. Playing three different roles (narrator, customer and employee), the way you would expect all three to behave.

I'm a bit of English in me, so tea is my brew. No need to ask for seventeen things: "Put hot water in cup, and give me tea bag, sugar, and spoon". It also costs me 1/4th what my cooworkers pay for. And, when they loose their caffine 'high', I'm still buzzing away.

How to kill your election chances (regardless of office at local, state, or federal): Say you will increase the tax on coffee by 0.0000000000000001%. Automatic lost.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^potchi79:
So you start a pulse jet with a leaf blower?

Mostly yes, the idea behind most jets is to compress incoming air with fuel. No spark is needed as the compression causes heat. The problem is you need the air already moving to start. The same is true of turbofan engines of most jet airplanes. In my day they used electric motors to start the fan blade spinning. Once they are up to speed, they feed enough air fast enough into the combustion chambers to keep it going. A leave blower is a lot easier to add to a project then an electric motor. If you look up DIY jet engines in youtube, you will see it as the staple for home brew jet starters.
Jets are much more "simple" then combustion engines as they are mainly self sustaining when up to speed. They are very complex in other ways though, like how to not melt down under extreme heat and such. A flame out at low speed typically spells doom for a jet...engine restarts when careening downward is not as experience you want in life.
One thing I have never understood about a pulse jet is how to ramp your speed up. With a turbofan, you just up the fan speed or fan blade pitch...with a pulse just I have no idea. Add more fuel maybe? If that were the case, then the max speed would be dictated by the explosion maximum. If your explosion is to great, you risk vibration annihilation or destruction of your combustion chamber...or you spit the hot air out the back end before the pulse can bring it back for re-ignition? Or perhaps it has to do with pulse modulation and changing how long you wait till your open the valve. The longer you wait, the more thrust you get before the next cycle? Dunno, pulse jets were always more of a curiosity than an area of study.
Edit: Jets are very similar to diesel engine as there is no spark needed...all the heat is gained through compression. Hope that isn't TMI at this point


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Though your knowledge of jets is impressive. Let's really try to stomp this sign of the internet generation out, shall we?! Who's with me!?

>> ^potchi79:
So you start a pulse jet with a leaf blower?


Mostly yes, the idea behind most jets is to compress incoming air with fuel. No spark is needed as the compression causes heat. The problem is you need the air already moving to start. The same is true of turbofan engines of most jet airplanes. In my day they used electric motors to start the fan blade spinning. Once they are up to speed, they feed enough air fast enough into the combustion chambers to keep it going. A leave blower is a lot easier to add to a project then an electric motor. If you look up DIY jet engines in youtube, you will see it as the staple for home brew jet starters.

Jets are much more "simple" than combustion engines as they are mainly self sustaining when up to speed. They are very complex in other ways though, like how to not melt down under extreme heat and such. A flame out at low speed typically spells doom for a jet...engine restarts when careening downward is not as experience you want in life.

One thing I have never understood about a pulse jet is how to ramp your speed up. With a turbofan, you just up the fan speed or fan blade pitch...with a pulse jet I have no idea. Add more fuel maybe? If that were the case, then the max speed would be dictated by the explosion maximum. If your explosion is to great, you risk vibration annihilation or destruction of your combustion chamber...or you spit the hot air out the back end before the pulse can bring it back for re-ignition? Or perhaps it has to do with pulse modulation and changing how long you wait till your open the valve. The longer you wait, the more thrust you get before the next cycle? Dunno, pulse jets were always more of a curiosity than an area of study.

Edit: Jets are very similar to diesel engine as there is no spark needed...all the heat is gained through compression. Hope that isn't TMI at this point

>> ^kronosposeidon:
I wish we had more people like these. we could create a whole new paradigm for human interaction. I would radically change our senseless consumerism into pursuit of higher standing. Maybe we could start giving back all the shit that we don't need to whoever wants it, free of charge
We have powerful enemies, and they have powerful enemies. If we could create a battle for the powerbrokers to go at it neck and neck, it won't make any difference who wins. We will fill in the gaps with our resources and skills, once the battle is over. We'll fix things the way they've always needing fixing, with no one to stand in our way.
I know it sounds crazy, but the Founding Fathers of this land all drank prodigiously while debating and writing out the Constitution, so it's happened before.
There's some crazy shit brewing in the country right now. Almost nothing would surprise me with the various outcomes being played out in the streets, the courts, the corporate boardrooms, reclusive militias, and a government dead set on keeping it all together. Interesting time to be an American


I only go to work unshaven and high on mushrooms. On lunch I skateboard with several other like-minded corporate sillies and generally act like I own the place.

"Do you work here or are we gonna have to deport you to Santa Ana?"
"Sir, I have a badge and it says STFU."

It's a grand time to be a technocratic hooligan. I'm in love and out of control and everyone who thought I was some hopeless crazy summbitch are wide-eyed silly poops-on-sticks. Oh man, oh man, oh man, OH LORD IT WORKS!!! You know? You don't gotta fit the status quo to fit in and go down and around -- fear when I settle down and raise a family, because FUCK YOU's our slogan, but it's a slogan of love. Since when has "FUCK YOU" been a slogan of love? I know, it's really weird. Honk if you love Cthulhu.

Dee dee dah dee dah

I wish we had more people like these. we could create a whole new paradigm for human interaction. I would radically change our senseless consumerism into pursuit of higher standing. Maybe we could start giving back all the shit that we don't need to whoever wants it, free of charge

We have powerful enemies, and they have powerful enemies. If we could create a battle for the powerbrokers to go at it neck and neck, it won't make any difference who wins. We will fill in the gaps with our resources and skills, once the battle is over. We'll fix things the way they've always needing fixing, with no one to stand in our way.

I know it sounds crazy, but the Founding Fathers of this land all drank prodigiously while debating and writing out the Constitution, so it's happened before.

There's some crazy shit brewing in the country right now. Almost nothing would surprise me with the various outcomes being played out in the streets, the courts, the corporate boardrooms, reclusive militias, and a government dead set on keeping it all together. Interesting time to be an American

Those are very simple jet engines. No moving parts in those ones, and other pulse jets only need one valve. They made something very similar in the jet powered go cart episode of junk yard wars.

http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/

For all your home brew pulse jet needs

>> ^dag:
^OK, but it has to be the home brew kind, and it has to be between two members.


You're just jealous that dystopianfuturetoday is off the market.

>> ^dag:
^OK, but it has to be the home brew kind, and it has to be between two members.


Ewww.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

^OK, but it has to be the home brew kind, and it has to be between two members.

>> ^EDD:
>> ^sillma:
These people should be tortured to death.

No. The system ought to be fixed and they should be investigated and prosecuted by an independent body and charged and punished appropriately to the letter of the law, preferably the Constitution. You're America. You don't fucking torture.


Aye, my anger got better of me, the hate that kind of imagery brews in me can get overwhelming now and then. The part where they murdered the guy who had the car accident was especially disgusting to me. Not the only one by any means, just the most angering.(I'm halfway through or so)

Great post, I'd quality but it never works for me.
I cant really drink the mass produced beers like Heineken, Budweiser etc. cos they just make me so sick the next day. So I have to try the more obscure items to find what my gut enjoys.
My current favourites are probably not very exotic to yourselves in the USA but a local store (off license) just started stocking Sierra Nevada pale ale and a number of other varieties by the same brewery which I'm enjoying a lot as I used to brew ales myself.

I've also been getting into some organic Honey beers from microbreweries in the UK. I visited a Lowenbrau keller in Sydney which only sold imported German beers and they had some killer honey beers (meads?).

I also think highly of the Spanish lager "Mahou" which is huge in Spain but I cant find it in Ireland yet.

Tripel Van De Garre...brewed by a tiny brewery in an hidden off-street in Brugge, Belgium.

Worth a plane ticket for the beer and waffles alone.

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