You can also ask for extra ice, which results in a smaller amount of beverage becoming far more delicious.

You're well on the road to beverage nirvana, Si. Forty ice cubes in a large fountain drink is about right for me.

I must say that I do take ice in my scotch, but I recognize that I am a Philistine for so doing.

How exactly is that good news?

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Soda and bad beer should be served as cold as possible so you get the sugar/alcohol with minimal taste.

Bourbon on the other hand almost requires a couple of cube, right?! No expert but was partial to a Bulliet on the rocks back when we could frequent casinos. If I'm mistaken I am at peace with adding philistine to freak and very weird dude.

Does that extend to ice in beer? Really common in Thailand. Early 20s me would have looked at you funny, assumed it was a communication breakdown, and gone back to the beer. However, it's actually quite refreshing on a really muggy night.

because we may get tbab back into the bargain? Two old wardogs reforming for that one final retirement tour of oot.

I much prefer ice in bourbon.

Scotch I've never really gotten into either way.

Sure, if it’s a crappy lager, why not? And those are the best beers for hot day drinking. Westerners are generally conditioned not to have ice in beer so most people’s initial reaction is probably “that’s gross.” Just like Americans are conditioned to drink all beer as cold as possible, so a good beer served over 40 F seems “gross” to us even if it actually allows you to taste it more.

the idiotic back and forth between those two was wholly and completely unreadable and without any redeeming humor or other artistic virtue. Nima definitely had his witty moments, but not a one was in a back and forth with greear.

I'll buy you a scotch if we're ever in the same place at the same time, Si, ice or no ice. Are you in London?

I rarely put ice in beer but have done it a couple of times. it's fine if you drink it fast.

Nope

(If you had said it in the singular you probably could have gotten away with it since that one ****ing line then got called back to for years as the historic moment when he actually did have a witty moment.)

Not sure about the exact temps, but I find darker beers to be better slightly warmer than lagers.

This was also a surprise to me in Malaysia, they poured the Heineken over ice into a glass. On the plus side, the melting ice watered down the crappy Heineken taste.

lol at thinking Dr Pepper lasts long enough in front of me to get watered down

The fountain isn't chilled (at least none of the ones were anywhere I ever worked). If you mean a can or bottle, then yeah, but I wouldn't pour cold soda over ice. I actually prefer to get the non refrigerated bottle and then poor it over ice, that tastes better to me than a refrigerated one.

I'm still not 100% convinced they aren't the same person.

I think part of the excitement is when you have someone that ****ing stupid around you never know what kind of step on rake comedy brilliance you will end up with. I mean tgreear poured cat litter down the toilet for gods sake, imagine a world were we didn't get to point and laugh at that? I don't want to live in that world!


Also, word of warning, don't fall for Howard's classy and sophisticated lies. You'll just end up excitedly sitting next to the phone all weekend and then one of your friends will have to talk your sobbing ass down from the ledge after he inevitably blows you off.



yeah, ice cold stout is not as good as mildly cold stout (or even room temp depending on the stout).

I had ice in beer one time and thought it was disgusting. But I was also in college and im sure it was warm bud light we had found and were desperate to get drunk, so I should probably approach it with more of an open mind.

question,

We just moved into a new rental house. One room smelled musty, emailed property management worried it might be bed bugs (gf stayed in a bed bug hotel once, said it smelled exactly like that). Lady basically told me I was a moron and there was no smell during their inspection. Do a ton of cleaning, gets better, but can't quite get rid of it. I decide to pull back the carpet to see if there is mold, and find the pad underneath is soaked, which leads me to find there is a water leak. Takes maintenance over 36 hours to come fix it, which to me is pretty alarming because I'd think if you told them there was a water leak thats got to be at the top of the threat level for maintenance calls. Unless I guess you called to tell them the house was on fire, heh.

Basically they are either incredibly incompetent (theres no way you couldn't have spotted this in an inspection), or are shady and either knew about it or just cut lots of corners. I imagine its probably all of the above. Anyway, I over detail that long back story because so far they been treating me like a *****, and my question is, do I keeps it real and raise all kinds of hell and not rest until they at the very least have the room dried out and carpet steam cleaned or whatever to get rid of the smell, or ideally a new pad put down, and maybe even that carpet replaced. Or just be a ***** and dry it out myself and light a bunch of candles and go on with my life.

The problem is we literally just moved in and that room is my office, so all my **** is just sitting in the garage and if I take care of it myself I can return to life as normal by tomorrow instead of spending probably a couple weeks writing angry emails and bitching at people over the phone and all the while having to jerk off to porn on my phone because my computer and monitors have no home currently.

You remind them what a mold mitigation will cost if they don't fix it quickly and that since they've been officially notified, they will be liable for potential health claims. If that doesn't get them moving, it should get you moving, as you don't want to live with the inevitable flood of crap that a company that incompetent will likely cause.

How long is your lease? If you let them treat you like **** now, they'll do it forever.

It's only a year and then we are moving to probably Reno for my gfs grad school. So that's also part of why I want to be like "**** it" cuz we wont be dealing with them ever again after the year is up......I just don't want to be a b*tch!

No quarter for rental company scumbags(and they are all scumbags).

Document, copy them on everything, fine-tooth-comb your state rental laws(or ask gregorio), and likely begin witholding rent.

I personally would try to get out of the lease by leveraging them with the fact you aren't going to be their *****. Also stop being their *****.

One thing I do not play around with is mold, that **** can literally kill you. Raise as much hell as is required.

The problem with that is we are only here because its literally the only place we could find with over a month of searching. The rental market is ****ing craaaaazy right now.

I'm not worried about mold if it gets dried out well, which I'm pretty sure I could do on my own should I decide. (I've got good fans, and its still over 110 here and we have no humidity). Am I missing something or incorrect in this assumption?

I fix it and move on. If there are any costs I withhold them from my next rent payment.

I mean, at 110 and dry, if you close the vents, close the door and open the window, you can likely get it pretty damned dry. But it's their responsibility, and they sound like they need to be kicked in the anus.

I mean, if you want to deal with **** like this yourself, you should buy. Them taking care of this is why your even close to neutral EV renting.