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Posts posted by Al_4_ISU
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Bloody Mary: Campbell's tomato juice, Tito's, worchestershire, Tabasco, Sriracha, garlic salt, black pepper, Cavender's, celery salt, dash of A1, pickle juice, dollop of horseradish. Garnish with a pickle, jalapeno stuffed olive, hunk of cheddar or pepper jack, and a meat stick (any kind of cooked garnish is bullshit). Chase with a half pint of either a crisp lager/golden ale (Grain Belt/Spotted Cow/Dorothy's up here; Lone Star and any of the great Texas pils will work for you guys) or a good pale ale/IPA (I like Psuedo Sue or Boulevard Single Wide).
The majority of my alcohol consumed is beer, though. It just doesn't hit me as hard as liquor, both while consuming, and the day after.
My stylistic preferences are:
1) Pales/IPAs that are mostly hop forward - don't care for the milkshake stuff, and I go back on forth on hazy vs. clear. The really heavy, high ABV ones get a little sweet and malty for me.
2) Pilsners - I love that kind of malt profile, and always find the subtle hops in these pretty pleasant. Can't beat 'em on a hot summer day. Really any well made lager under 7% that holds off the sweetness can scratch this itch.
3) Sours - preferably the non fruited, but I can get down with those. A good Berliner Weisse is a real treat.
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36 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:
Just had my first milkshake IPA.
This shit is gross.I’ve has a couple that worked, but yeah, it’s a trend that can die anytime.
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5 hours ago, Zepol87 said:
I wear mismatched socks probably 4 days a week
I bet my socks match less than once every 10 days. I'm fucking terrible at keeping sock pairs together. Every year I get a bunch for Christmas, and then they just end up in a mismatched hell.
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On 1/29/2019 at 1:21 PM, El Diablo said:
Jar of Flies is my favorite AIC.
I guess I'm not the only one.
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Gus's in Memphis is great.
They dicked up the Iowa one big time So many small town dives that do their own broasted chicken with some closely guarded recipe and they pick some hipster bullshit in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids corridor.
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4 minutes ago, lateshow said:
How do astronauts mix a batch?
There'sa sucha thing as too much horn talk, and a fella oughta be fuckin' aware of it.
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My buddy had his sister-in-law (who works at a graphic design place) print up a Spare Parts shirt.
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28 minutes ago, Jhawk said:
I don’t know what to think anymore. If any team in the big 12 had any balls they would win this fucking league this year. If KU wins it’s because the other coaches have battered wife syndrome and feel the need to give it to Ku.
I’ll say this, KU has tech and KSU up next. They lose both of these games and it’s over. They win one and we need a lot of help to win the league. We win both and we’re in the driver’s seat.
You'll win both. You have Tech at Phog, and KSU will roll over dead.
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Just now, crash_davis said:
when we are bitching about 102 degrees for 20 days in august, the same assholes freezing now will be basking in 74 degrees. it evens out.
74 in August?
I wish.
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11 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
for you guys in the -20 degree weather, how and where do you walk the dogs? or do you lay down pads inside the house?
I dig a path from my front door to where the dog likes to shit (set of bushes adjacent to my front door). He runs out there on a leash (while stand inside the screen door, like a pussy), does his business, and gets back in about 30-45 seconds flat, because he doesn't have much fur either.
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1 hour ago, El Diablo said:
Does you crystal ball still have KU winning the league?
Mine does.
I think we're the best team in the league in terms of ceiling, and I think we'll beat KU in the rubber match in Kansas City, but they aren't going to lose a home game. We've already done that, and we have to play that team on the road yet. We're also more capable of losing to bad teams.
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2 hours ago, Ten Bears said:
God damn I love this song. He said one time that the fortune teller was across the street from Gruene Hall but who knows.
Everything in moderation, including moderation I suppose.
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As I was saying
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8 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:
Blows my mind how cold the upper Midwest gets. I mean, that's just coooold, man.
We had a few overnight lows back in December in the negative single digits, nudging close to -10, and we'll go weeks in which the mercury stays below 25, but it's never been that cold in the 15 years I've lived here.
It's as my pop was fond of saying: ain't nothing between the High Plains and the North Pole but a few barbed-wire fences.
Yeah, there's truth in that. As James McMurtry once said about the Upper Midwest (South Dakota, specifically) "barbed wire won't stop the wind". Truer words.....
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This is actually the coldest it's been in almost 25 years. I guess today was the lowest daily high temp we've ever seen.
The part that gets me the most is how it's going to be 42 on Saturday, and then back to subzero by Wednesday. These roller coaster weather patterns have become more common lately.
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I definitely retain a sense of smugness for voluntarily dealing with this shit. It's the same weird martyrdom complex that's attached to my Cyclones/Vikings fanhood. I relish putting up with shit that others would bail on.
In all seriousness, it's probably genetic. I'm the 5th generation to voluntarily live in North Iowa. If you weren't wired that way a little bit, you would live somewhere where it was nice all the time.
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14 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:
I've got a friend in Des Moines for a three-day farm show, and he is not too impressed with the weather right now...
Is anybody in your country calving yet? I try to start in March just because of shit like this. Plus those upswings/downswings that you noted are hell on baby calves, too.
I sure hope the homeless folks in the larger cities are ok, too.
I like to go down to that show, but I'm not spending 2.5 hours on the road in this shit.
I don't know of anyone calving yet.
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11 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:
Well, there ya go, rest o' the Big 12. Don't say Texas never did anything for you.
Thanks! Now excuse me while we play "hot potato" with this thoughtful gift and fumble it in the next few days. We have a great opportunity for the kind of pathetic, soul crushing, opportunity fumbling loss we know and love tonight.
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Bring on the weekend. Single track snow riding perfection!
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20 minutes ago, Parliament said:
To be fair though, we don’t go three whole months like that.
ETA
I’m in Minot today where it’s -28. I hit my remote start for my pickup and I THINK it’s running? Go Chevy!
Yeah, I noted that. Perhaps I underrated the length of time, but the general idea that we get windows into what is a long term reality for them remains the same.
Quotethe big difference is that it's day or a couple days instead of a month and a half.
Because we get enough heat to wrap our heads around the idea of what months of it would be like, I refrain from giving them hell about it. They don't get within 30-40 degrees of our lows (well, not in the more populated parts of Texas - I'm aware that the Panhandle can get northern winter type conditions).
Here's my forecast:
For those doing the math, that's a 74 degree upswing between Wednesday and Sunday, with a corresponding 55 degree downswing into next Wednesday. The screen shot cut off Thursday and Friday, but there's a 28 degree upswing back to 15(!) for Friday the 11th.
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5 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
do your pipes come into the house from the basement? is that another reason why basements are so prevalent up north?
My sewer line comes through the basement, but my water service line is much shallower. We have to flow a trickle of water at all times to keep from freezing up in this shit. When people have pipes freeze up here, they were routed in the walls of the house, and the house lost heat.
I always thought basements were for storm shelters. There's a lot of zero entry new construction around here, with fortified first floor rooms for tornadoes. I don't think they really safe guard anything from winter.
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7 hours ago, Continental Op said:
Those of you who live up north and don't yuk it up when it's 110 here in Texas during the summer: Hopefully it warms up soon.
Those of you who live up north and do yuk it up when it's 110 here in Texas during the summer: I hope your hamster penises get frostbite and fall off.
We don't yuk it up because usually we aren't that far behind you. 95-100 isn't uncommon. Heat north of 95 is like cold below -10. Past those points it feels the same. Our highs get fairly close to yours, the big difference is that it's day or a couple days instead of a month and a half.
The worst people up here are the ones who complain in the winter about wishing it were warm, and then complain in the summer that it's too hot and want the snow back. Bitch, if you want 70-80 every single day, move to San Diego.
On the plus side, all my vehicles started this morning!
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2 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:
No way this Texas basketball team should beat Cyclones in Ames...
"Nope".... like Beyonce says
You shouldn’t win, but we play to our competition, and have a history of choking away opportunities to climb the ladder.
I think we’re a better team, but have fairly low confidence in a convincing win.
What's your poison, surly?
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