The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cadence]

I wonder how New Jersey, a state sandwiched between Pennsylvania and New York, didn't make the list. Possibly because we hide the evidence of our failures better?

If you average the PA and NY rates and multiply it by the population, I think you're only estimated to have had 13 or 14 of them, so just misses the list of biggest totals!

 

[Ryujin]

Adjusted for population, the seven states with the most Thanksiving cooking disasters (I think) over a seven year period ending about a half decade ago were...

State Total / Per Million Population
Texas 38 / 0.96
Illinois 27 / 2.13
Pennsylvania 23 / 1.80
Ohio 23 / 1.97
New York 22 / 1.13
South Carolina 16 / 3.11
Georgia 16 / 1.51

Holy cow my home state and adopted state are both bad at this!

Top 5 states with most deep-fried turkey accidents

Every year deep-fryer fires are responsible for five deaths, 60 injuries, the destruction of 900 homes, and more than $15-million in property damage, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

www.foxnews.com

I never would have figured that a further north state would rate so high on the turkey 'splosion list

THAW YOUR TURKEYS, PEOPLE!

 

[J.Quondam]

I live several blocks from the remains of little house (in Texas) that burned down in a deep fryer mishap. It happened Thanksgiving over 10 years ago. The lot is still vacant; I assume that's because it's still haunted by the turkey's irate ghost.

 

[prabe]

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys would fry!

I'll see myself out ...

 

[Cadence]

Is this one so bad that it couldn't even be an AI punking us?

 

[RealAlHazred]

I live several blocks from the remains of little house (in Texas) that burned down in a deep fryer mishap. It happened Thanksgiving over 10 years ago. The lot is still vacant; I assume that's because it's still haunted by the turkey's irate ghost.

Thank you for providing me the plot for next year's Thanksgiving Day game!

 

[Cadence]

That thing where either your Dr's office is incapable of saying fill early or the pharmacy tech is incapable of writing it down, the expletive laws around controlled prescriptions have gone overkill to stop the expletives who lie to get them, and you're trying to get out early in the morning to beat a huge snow storm half way across the country.

And you really shouldn't take your frustration out on the group you're getting ready to DM for.

 

[prabe]

That thing where either your Dr's office is incapable of saying fill early or the pharmacy tech is incapable of writing it down, the expletive laws around controlled prescriptions have gone overkill to stop the expletives who lie to get them, and you're trying to get out early in the morning to beat a huge snow storm half way across the country.

And you really shouldn't take your frustration out on the group you're getting ready to DM for.

Stupid tweakers.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I personally would find it nigh-impossible to argue against an author being the best authority as to their intent. I would be inclined to say they aren't, in discussions of the text--sometimes people mean to say one thing and say another.

Yes, I have no problem providing a different interpretation of the work than the one the author intended. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the latter's brain is more important than the author's to explain something. The intent is one think (and says something about the author), but the result is often detached from it. Apparently, Charles Perrault's intent with Sleeping Beauty was to warn women against marrying too young. This isn't quite what one can get out of the text, IMHO.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Is it baffling to anyone else that when an expert in a field tells people they're wrong, they still feel the need to argue? Because it's baffling to me. Not in cases where there are multiple experts who disagree, rather an expert and laypeople. The chance of the expert being right is far, far higher than the chance of the layperson being right. Let it go, you're just wrong.

I love it when the first thing the expert says is: "I am literally a professional with decades of experience specializing in this exact thing" and then people who've watched three Youtube videos by wackjob conspiracy nuts try to argue with them.
I came across a situation where there was an argument going on about some new study, and the actual authors of the study got involved... Even after they provided the literal data from their study, in its entirety, including video, idiots were continuing to argue with them.

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Even rejecting the assumption that the correct answer is to simply have one of them murder the third person, it only took me about six seconds to solve this one...

When you find out that you're the only currently working moderator of a forum with tens of thousands of users, and the admins have disappeared. Hell, I'm on vacation for the next 3 weeks and have no intentions of minding the shop that makes other people money, alone, as a volunteer.

I used to be a member of a webcam community a long time ago... At one point, the owners of the site simply abandoned it and cut off all contact with their paid mods and support staff. Nobody knew what the hell was going on for several months, but the mods did their best to keep the place running for as long as they could until the lights got turned off...