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In all seriousness, a really foamy pilsner just tastes better. Pilsners are, by and large, awful. A foamy pilsner is pretty great. I had zero inclination to visit Czech Republic before watching a mini-doc on the many different pours they use, but I absolutely want to now.
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Wow, 3 days to escape from American politics, feeling utterly powerless in regards to Russia invading Ukraine, uncontrolled inflation in the face of declining wages, and other signs of late-stage capitalism? Sign me up please! Can I stay for longer, like 6 months? A year? Five??? Please?!?!
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Randy Quaid is (all allegedly) a deadbeat who tried to pay an inn $10,000 owed with a phony check, squatted in the guest house of a property he once owned and trashed the place in the process, escaped to Canada but didn't do the required check-in as a non-resident so they booted both him and his wife out of the country, and oh yeah, he's an anti-science conspiracy-spreader and political extremist, which places him in the "Uh, I don't want to pay anything to this asshat" category. I don't even want to buy/rent Christmas Vacation, simply to prevent some residuals from getting into the hands of that guy.
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In my time studying at 3 different colleges (it's complicated), I probably never completely read any of the syllabuses. Life is just too short, especially when I was a non-traditional student working a fulltime job while going back to finish school. I'd look at the attendence & work-submission policies, and breeze through the rest. I was on honor roll for the last college attempt, so I obviously got most of the gist. But I wouldn't expect anyone to completely read a syllabus, or if so, the professor has GOT to bulletpoint the contents. Oh, and I just recently was diagnosed with ADHD, so there was no chance.
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I'm living on the US east coast, and I have many family members living back west, in South Dakota, that are pro-gun. Occasionally, the "Swiss-Stat" comes up, ie: the high rate of gun ownership. But they never talk about the training. To get a hunting permit in SDak, it requires a very short course - mine was 1-2 hours when I was only 14 years old. To become weapons trained in the USAF, I went through a weeks of training and qualification, mainly in the handling of the firearm so I didn't accidentally injure myself or others. But it's usually (not always) the family members with zero military service, and next-to-zero training, that are the most pro-gun. I have no reason to own one, so I don't have any.
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There's a book that I'm rereading, Mentally Incontinent by Joe Peacock, that was visibly...distorted, due to water damage following a ruptured hot water heater. But I decided to keep it, and have re-read it a couple times since. I have no hesitation to folding corners, writing in it, etc, and at some point I will simply throw it away. I say people should treat books like they own the book, meaning however the hell they want to, just like their cars. Well-worn books are a sign of love. Comic books, however, should just never be read, immediately sealed in an airtight container, and forgotten about until its time to sell your collection, which is too difficult to do properly, so left in a dark box, forever.
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It was thinking along these lines (maybe in less depth, maybe more, I don't know) that led me to a completely different belief system than I had in the 1990s. Is there only one soulmate out there, or are there thousands that drift in and out of a Venn diagram saying, "Compatible with You"? What religion is the right one -- are there several or possibly none? If I'm in the mall, and I spontaneously stop walking for 10 seconds, how many lives will this affect through a personal butterfly effect? On that last one, when I'm feeling particularly down, I tend to go somewhere populated and do this, knowing I have had a weird reality-altering effect on the Earth, and maybe the universe, in some minute way. I have both created and destroyed the next Hitler or Hawking, Stalin or Sagan, and so on. I have both totally enriched and utterly wrecked days of my own life, through random happenstance. In what ways, it's impossible for me to ever know, unless this is all a simulation that I can review later.
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