How much disrespect is alllowed on Computer Audiophile?

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What about avatars?

 

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Let it be a lesson for us all.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-spirit-airlines-flush-hamster-20180208-story.html

 

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37 minutes ago, tmkirst said:

Wait - is this THE Emotional Support Peacock?

 

Yes.

 

37 minutes ago, tmkirst said:

 

Were you there? 

 

No.  In fact, I felt deeply conflicted, since I also hate United Airlines.

 

37 minutes ago, tmkirst said:

This thread is taking me far from my comfort zone - I may need to borrow...

 

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40 minutes ago, sandyk said:

If anybody did that Downunder, the R.S.P.C.A. would take them to court, and they would face a hefty fine or worse.

 

(Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

 

I would have hoped that this would be true here too.

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My wife is British, so I do a lot of my own cooking.

 

When we lived in Cambridge, it appeared to be a local custom to boil all of the chlorophyll out of the vegetables (albeit the small subset that had chlorophyll in the first place).

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5 minutes ago, Allan F said:

Many of the posts in this thread about food are quite distasteful

 

But, nonetheless, far more delectable than the self-righteous indignation of those with an emotional support dwarf hamster clogging their plumbing.

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It was mixed in with the cottage cheese and cucumber marmite sandwiches.

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Just now, mansr said:

I have to say a properly prepared Sunday roast at the neighborhood pub is most excellent. If it isn't, you should move someplace with a decent pub.

 

The local restaurant critic, Jakob Creutzfeldt, thought differently at the time.

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Just now, mansr said:

A good pub has options other than beef.

 

There is a yeast prion too (although there is no evidence it causes brain disease).

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20 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

sounds like this thread is ready for this:

 

 

That could have been someone's emotional support marsupial, and now it's a creamed marsoupual.

 

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19 minutes ago, mansr said:

I've seen possum recipes, first step being fattening him up.

 

With the second step being flattening him down.

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18 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 Bill

Quite a few people have possums as friends .

 At our previous address we had an old possum that was blind in one eye, so we regularly gave him bits of banana and apple etc. when he appeared at our back door in the evening.

I am not a vegetarian, but I hate the thought of fattening up animals just to eat them at a later time.

Do you know if there are any further developments in the area of artificial meat ? 

 

Alex

 

I don't know.  I think I would like to eat artificial meat even less than real meat.  I don't even like those imitation meat dishes very much.

 

There was this report in Ars Technica a couple of days ago.

 

I must confess I had no idea they had possums in Australia.  I thought they were an Americas marsupial.  

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5 minutes ago, Don Hills said:

 

I had a vegemite and cucumber sandwich for lunch a few minutes ago. You say I should add cottage cheese?

 

Yes, along with mushy peas.

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Just now, Ralf11 said:

 

and yet... it can still provide emotional support

 

Due to its middle-of-the-road political orientation.

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You gone English on us?

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I think I would rather live in harmony with nature and eat meat than live as I do now, boycotting the evil of factory farming.  I don't have a big problem with the idea of the food chain, but I don't think it is ever justifiable to torture a sentient animal.

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13 hours ago, beancounter said:

 

I just went through this on a faith based hobby forum;

 

Hydrogen audio?

 

FWIW, I had exactly that experience there.

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1 hour ago, christopher3393 said:

excerpt from Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James

 

So here is a conundrum:

 

Yesterday on a flight back home, as the plane was loading, I sat down in my aisle seat, and then got up when the occupant of the center seat shows up.  He looks at me and says "Can I have your seat?"  He is about 7 ft tall.  I'm about 5'9" with disproportionately short legs.  I wasn't too thrilled and pointed out that I paid an $36 to get that seat, hoping he would take the hint, but instead we got into a bit of an argument, with me suggesting the way to do this would be for him to have purchased an aisle seat, or one in the emergency exit row (which has loads of legroom) in advance, from American Airlines (who now shakes you down for additional charges for decent seats).  So we are both standing there and everyone else is getting pissed off, so I just sat in the middle seat, and he and his friends in the row ahead of us (who didn't feel compelled to sacrifice their seats) were suggesting I was being an asshole for objecting to his sense of entitlement, and I was pointing out that if we both had paid the same amount, rather than me forking over an extra $36 for the seat I no longer had, it wouldn't have been as much of an issue.

 

So, who was the asshole in this situation?

 

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OK, so let's say we both had paid the same for our seats, and AA didn't yet have the assholeish policy of selling aisle seats for a surcharge.  Then if someone 7' tall asks for my seat, presumably I would have been the asshole if I had not given it to him.  It is hard for someone that tall to physically get into the seat, and my legs are so short I had to get a custom bike frame built, so under those circumstances I think it would be douchie of me to insist that I keep my seat, just because I got to it first.  Since the surcharge is being paid for by the organization that paid for my travel, it isn't too far from that.  

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So the net result was (1) he got my seat, (2) I was out $36, (3) I came off as an asshole to those in vicinity because I balked at giving the seat to someone twice as tall as me, and (4) I'm slightly pissed off with myself for caving in.  

 

I can't win for losing.

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At the very least, the airline should have supplied a peacock, or at least a dwarf hamster.

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1 hour ago, AudioDoctor said:

This is why I want my own plane...

 

Get a nice one:

 

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Once, when my oldest kid was really young, we were flying on American Airlines, and my wife, who did not yet have American citizenship and was thus still a barbarian, did exactly that, as it has the added benefit of getting the kid to STFU.  (Swallowing relieves the air-pressure build-up in the ear canals, which is often the reason why babies cry and scream on airplanes).  The flight attendant trotted up, and offered her a blanket.  She said she wasn't cold.  The flight attendant, realizing she was dealing with an ignorant non-American lacking a healthy shame for all bodily functions, became more insistent, informing us that there were a lot of creeps and perverts on the airplane.  I looked around to see what the creeps and perverts were doing. One creep/pervert had his nose in his laptop.  Two others were talking to each other, and a forth one was buried in the Wall Street Journal.  

 

Twenty years hence, I am beginning to see that she might have had our best interests at heart.