The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Chptrk 86]

5671.

I've got my first trip to Toronto and Montreal planned for March. That's pretty neat.

[Vahr 341]

5672

Oooo, have fun! Toronto's great. I've never been to Montreal, though.

[Larks2242 251]

5673. 

That is hardly a trip from where you live

[Skimbo 304]

5674

 

 

I still exist on this site

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5675

 

I've been to Toronto a couple times, but Montreal is on my list.  We'll be moving not to Japan but to Upper Michigan (YAY dreams do come true!) next month, so it's still feasible.  Of course, I still have to put up with all the election bovine doodoo, but whatever.

[raynev1 1,886]

(5676)

@Skimbo Yay , you're back . @NMUSpidey I take it that you landed that new job , congrats and best of luck .

[Duke87 1,070]

(5677)

I've been to Toronto once and... well, there's a reason movie studios often use it as a stand-in for New York. Being there feels a bit like being in an off-brand knockoff of New York.

Montreal has a much more distinct feel to it. Can't easily compare it to any other city.

 

[Ceafus 88 1,794]

5678

I am consuming BBQ wings!

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5679

Funny I always thought the Devil would make Grilled Buffalo Wings, you know extra spicy 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5680

 

Montreal is on my list!

[Duke87 1,070]

(5681)

I never wanted to try Buffalo wings when I was little because the idea of eating buffalo meat seemed gross.

[raynev1 1,886]

(5682)

I figure buffalo would be good , an indigenous , free range kind of cow . It is bovine , correct ? 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5683

 

Yup.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5684)

Apparently buffalo meat actually is still a thing you can get today, albeit raised on farms rather than hunted from wild herds. And the species is not technically considered endangered.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

5685

That's good news. The panda has been removed from wwf's list of endangered species too!

[Skimbo 304]

On 9/11/2016 at 4:27 PM, raynev1 said:

(5705)

@Skimbo Yay , you're back

maybe, maybe not.

 

 

 

5686

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5687

 

People wear a lot of synthetic fibers for working out.  That seems like a lot of money to waste when you could just wear old shorts and t-shirts from when you were younger and thinner...

[raynev1 1,886]

(5688) 

    Yeah , no doubt . People do the darndest things . Like suits and ties when it is 90+ degrees outside , those guys have to be sweating their buns off .

[Duke87 1,070]

(5689)

There are times when the dress code requires a suit and tie, and the weather does not absolve one of such obligations.

 

[Larks2242 251]

5690.

 

I wear suits in hot weather, Although I prefer linen to Italian wool of course.

[raynev1 1,886]

(5691)

    Sorry guys , I hope that I didn't offend anybody . And if I did , I apologize . I do know how dress codes work . I use to have to wear a uniform for a couple of my previous jobs . I didn't like it , but it was part of the job . Well at least the weather is changing  

 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5692

 

Ties were supposed to be part of our regular wear when I was teaching in Japan, but I never wore one (even to ceremony-type stuff when we were really supposed to!) and no one ever said anything to me about it.  Lucky part of being a foreigner I guess.  I keep telling my wife that if she and the kids get me one for Father's Day I'm going to hang myself with it.  Ties are the absolute worst thing I've ever had to wear, although I have not tried on high heels, a thong, or a suit of plate armor.  My wife hated wearing her kimono when she was a kid for special events.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5693)

Ties aren't so bad when sitting at a desk although they become unwieldy whenever leaning over or climbing around anywhere.

They also serve no functional purpose, which is more why I won't wear one unless absolutely necessary. I gain nothing of substance by expending the effort.

[Larks2242 251]

5694.

Nah ties I exclude unless being super formal, A sportscoat is usually suffice for most events, I can't stand people who wear bowties though, Should only be reserved for magicians and AARP members.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5695

 

Larks!  Haven't seen you in a while.  Or you've been around and I haven't noticed?  I don't know.  I'm busy these days.  Thank the gods that my next job allows me to wear whatever I want, so jeans and superhero t-shirt it will be.

[raynev1 1,886]

(5696)

    It is cool to wear whatever you want at work , then you can be who you want to be and not what someone else wants you to be . @NMUSpidey That superhero T-Shirt wouldn't happen to be Spider-Man  , would it ? 

[Duke87 1,070]

(5697)

I had a professor in college who wore a bowtie. It was fitting of his personality, though.

[_Michael 2,681]

5698

Well one of my chemistry teachers once wore a tie with the Periodic table on it.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

5699

One of the self-acclaimed triumphs of the Islamic Revolution of Iran is the religious prohibition of those accursed symbols of the Great Satan's imperialist cultural oppression, the decadent Western necktie and the evil bowtie.  So when we proudly wear our ties with garishly paisley patterns in Windsor knots, we are not just embracing Western liberal cultural values, we are sticking our heretical middle fingers into the angry eyes of Ayatollah Khomeini.

 

[raynev1 1,886]

(5700)

So anybody traveling to Iran might want to leave their ties at home . Or face the consequences