The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread
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Well nobody told the cat that.
I wonder how many innocent tourists have bought cider for their (possibly not-so-innocent) offspring?
Isn't it amazing how the tree was basically untouched?
In here cider is also alcoholic
Here, cider can be alcoholic or not. Alcoholic ciders are having a bit of a moment these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider
seems to agree alcoholic is the default
Ah yes, but the wikipedia page also says
With all this talk, I wanted to lay off cider now; I don't have time to brew some of Granny's Home Made Cider for my rheumatiz medicine.
That's why I'm so fond of cider from my childhood. I could tell when it was getting tangy.
We had an abandoned old apple orchard on some property my father owned, way out in the woods. In the fall, we'd all get in the old '56 Pontiac, drive up the steep, narrow, deteriorating, dirt road up the side of the hill to the top, and pick several bushels of apples or "winter pears" from the other orchard on that property. Then we'd drive the apples to the 1850's era cider mill in a nearby town. The cider mill would grind up our apples (worms, rot, & all) and lay the mash out on big squares of burlap cloth then fold the corners of the burlap over and build another sacked stack of mash on top until it was several feet high. Then the old steam powered engine with big iron pulleys and long, wide, drooping belts would turn the screw and squeeze down on the mashpile, forcing apple juice and worm juice through the burlap so that it pooled in the big tray in the bottom. Cider was then drained into jars or buckets or whatever you brought with you. My mother would take the cider home, filter it some more and freeze it in cardboard milk containers. Sometimes in mid-winter we'd pull out a frozen carton of cider that had continued to "evolve" and had forced concentrated apple flavor and alcohol to form semi-frozen beads on the top. Mmmm....tangy.
Outside the back door of the old cider mill was a 8 foot pile of squeeze-dried apple mash, smelling sweetly of apple silage and with a halo of out-of-work bees buzzing about it, getting drunk.
How exciting!!! Congrats!
Hope you have an amazing time! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 
So this auto dealership told me the manufacturer recommends a coolant flush and fill at 32,000 miles. After reading the manual, I see it says do the first coolant flush at 120,000 miles, and then every 24,000 miles. Regardless of what people think about waiting over 100,000 miles to change coolant, I feel like they lied to me just to get money. I'm never going back there.
I beleive that's next week!
Non-complaint: Wonderful concert.
Brilliant sounding theater. The music is not "down there", it's close, it's here, it's all around, enveloping you.
Like you are standing right behind the conductor or leaning on the piano. I'd forgotten how much the Kleinhan's Music Hall acoustics direct the fullness of the sound of the instruments right at you. And as I said, in a previous post, the distance from the front of the balcony to the stage is not very far at all, it's just the wide-angle photos that make it look that way. And from one's seats in center front balcony the field of view closely matches the normal view of human eyes and the orchestra fills a great portion of your view. And when they play, the sound fills the space around you with bass on the right, strings on the left, woodwinds & piano in the middle. Not all jumbled together. And the sound today..., two hours of massive Rachmaninoff sound.
I cried at the climax of the 2nd Symphony's adagio(3rd mvmt.).
Symphony buddy was most appreciative of being invited and even bought dinner for me afterwards. Wheee...
I love a show that can make me cry because it's so good.
Happy Birthday to Frank0314!
is this how you eat one of those Geoduck clam things?
...eat my previous college's mascot?
LOL nice
No worries here mate. They're safe from me.
@Frank0314 Happy Birthday!
Lots of stuff has happened since I last visited...
richardandtracy got a housekeeping rat (pretty cool, I presume it's like Disney's Ratatouille only there's no hat gimmick and the rat is wearing an adorable French maid outfit)...
sazzyazzca created some new swear words (you need to share, I'm compiling a repository of creative profanities) and made a good point about rodent contraception... apparently I've been doing it all wrong by playing Barry White music and proving them with free alcohol...
Perttia said: "Been trapping for weeks now, getting one almost every night, hopefully getting rid of them before Christmas"... which made me wonder why you are collecting them (mice, right?)... if it's the for the same reason I collect rodents, I suggest using larger ones as it's easier to sew the costumes/uniforms and when you train them to reenact famous battles, the battlefield strategies are more apparent... otherwise it just looks like a bunch of mice murdering each other, which most spectators don't understand as well, like when it's larger rodents like Guinea pigs for example... then it makes more sense and people can recognize the different countries and even regiments... the details are a lot easier to see at that scale.
JasmineSkunk broke her back... which I'm sorry to hear... I hope you feel better... I went to order you a bunch of good vibes from Amazon, but they didn't sell them, so I ordered a case "GoodVibes" from Temu where they are really, really cheap... but apparently I either didn't read it completely or the translation was bad and let's just say, when the package arrives, just refuse it or throw it out... well, technically they could be used as back massagers... Geez... you really, really have to look fully at these sort of things before ordering stuff on some websites... I was wondering why they'd need "Six D batteries - (not included)"... apparently this isn't the first time I've done it either, which explains a lot of awkward looks from older individuals whom I've sent these to before... well, mostly awkward... there have been some unexplained smiles too... very embarrassing... sorry... but feel better...
AgitatedRiot had a gas problem... but luckily the authorities responded and it was taken care of... I just get asked to leave the room when that happens and generally nobody has ever called the authorities... well, about that.
frank0314 had (edit: or is having) a birthday... I hope it was a fun one... I'm glad I didn't send you any discount GoodVibes... that would have been awkward... but, I hope the Birthday Otter brought you everything you wished for... Unless they don't have Birthday Otters where you are... I think maybe it's a Spotted Salamander or a Bullfrog?... or are those just the state amphibians?... Either way, I hope you had a fun birthday, regardless of the present delivery animal.
LeatherGryphon got some bacteria ladened apple juice... which can be quite good... literally the first time I got buzzed was as a kid at camp when we accidentally drank fermented apple juice... genuinely didn't know why we were acting stupider than normal, but the homemade apple juice turned out to be fermented... I hope you had fun at the Chupacabra Amphitheater (edit/correction:it was a different auditorium)... it's been said Chupacabras are the most musically gifted cryptozoological creatures after the Harp Seals, so it was probably a blast.
I'm probably leaving lots of stuff out from the general discussion, but I should probably go before I start writing too much as usual... be well everyone.
Cake and cookies for Frank0314.
Were you thinking of the Kleinbottle auditorium? Where the inside is on the outside and vice-versa.
What is the difference between scamming and haggling for a better price?
Scamming is usually considered amoral, whereas haggling is not.
Scammers are trying to extract valuables or information surreptitiously, often effectively stealing, making the customer unsatisfied. Whereas, hagglers are not hiding what they are doing, which is simply trying to increase their profit margin. The customer usually walks away satisfied one way or the other.
Haggling is a normal business practice in some cultures.
Haggling is a mutual exchange. Person A gets the product or service they want, person B gets money for that product or service. Scamming involves deceit, and Person A either doesn't get the product or service they wanted or receives nothing at all, while person B still gets money.
Not only normal; in some cultures it's considered insulting NOT to haggle.
My sweetie was trying to convince me to learn information about cars and that type of thing. So I told him that if I need that, can he help me with the difference between Bump Maps, Displacement Maps, and Normal Maps. He didn't know what I was talking about.
Wow! 5 hours and nothing?
Need to sleep sometime