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| Topic | I put a pork chop between two waffles |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 12:08:40 PM #3 | Yeah it would be good without the pb for sure I'd say --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I put a pork chop between two waffles |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 12:06:14 PM #1 | With peanut butter and syrup. Would you eat that? It wasn't bad but idk if I liked it --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 11:58:39 AM #145 | COVxy posted... I've seen the same documentaries you have bro. I've never watched the documentaries bro. COVxy posted... Literally you need to make an argument here about reasonable expectation of risk, and if that expectation was violated, for it to be a rational argument here and that's literally not done here. That's why I mentioned other places keep theirs cooler. Seems reasonable enough to me to expect fast food places to be about the same, why not? COVxy posted... Is literally the argument you have to make, that it's not reasonable to expect customers to know that spilling a hot liquid in their lap and not being able to remove it instantly could be bad. But there's a big difference between 190 and 150 even though both are hot. So that's why I'm asking you to talk about that directly. So that graph is for constant temperature from a faucet. How much bigger is the difference in that case? You're better at math than I am but I remember stuff cools based on like surface area and volume right? So if you spill coffee it gets colder pretty fast. Do you know how fast and how that would change the relationship in the graph? --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 11:42:30 AM #141 | COVxy posted... We're literally talking about two different things. Like, what if she wore tear away hydrophobic pants!? Then there's no risk at all. McDonalds obv. wins. I asked you specifically how you knew what you were saying was accurate, and you were the one turned to examples. I was just responding in kind. Fwiw I think it's crazy to assume minutes is closer than seconds regardless in normal circumstances. I'm actually not sure why it's relevant she's 80, again to me there is a big difference between basically instantaneously vs a few seconds for any age. Keep in mind this graph is for a constant temperature from a faucet, irl coffee cools off when you spill it! COVxy posted... What literally happened in this case is a 79-year-old woman got out of the car to rectify the situation. That's a very long exposure time. So you're arguing that it doesn't even matter if it was hot enough to fuse to her skin, because old women take a long time to get out of a parked car? Are you seriously listening to yourself here? COVxy posted... I mean, if 180-190 is denoted unsafe, then we obviously know what safe is, right? Absolutely not, I'm not the one claiming to be smarter than anyone else or know what the real deal is rather than liking a narrative. I'm just looking at how you're arguing your point and it's so incredibly obvious you haven't looked into it because you don't think it matters because you know coffee is hot so everyone should, case closed --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 10:41:09 AM #132 | Great argument, fantastic. Really using that logic --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 10:39:57 AM #130 | You can lift your hips up and pull down pajama pants --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 10:36:03 AM #128 | COVxy posted... Sure, possibly, but on average? Probably not. How do you know that? COVxy posted... But, like, do you really think people don't know that spilling a cup of coffee on their lap and leaving it there for an extended period of time is a risk of serious injury? Like is it unreasonable to expect an average person to know this? I dunno, I don't think she just decided to leave it there? My assumption is she couldn't take the pants off because she was in too much pain or because it literally fused to her skin. But I don't know, how do you? COVxy posted... Sure, McDonald's shitty ass coffee can sit in the vat maintained at some lower temperature. But it sure would suck if that was the only way you could buy coffee! I really feel like you just wanna be right here and haven't actually looked into it much at all except in response to criticisms of your argument. It's a weird look imo --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 10:26:37 AM #123 | It's so bizarre to me that you can say that without imagining maybe they don't need to do that at 150 or 160 instead of 180 or 190. I'm not even saying that's the case, you just haven't even acknowledged the possibility. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 10:08:23 AM #119 |  It definitely seems like 20 or 30 degrees could make a big difference depending where exactly it is --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Annual reminded that the Mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit was legit |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 9:53:13 AM #116 | I've read that one of the facts used against McDonald's in the case was that it's coffee was held at hotter temperatures than other fast food franchises. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Why the FUCK havent you played Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana? |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 9:34:05 AM #13 | I actually bought it but never got around to it. It's hard to find time for rpgs these days --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Beer with cream cheese chunks floating in it |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 8:14:07 AM #38 | It does sound disgusting to me --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Someone asked me where the joy in Papers Please is. So I did a mini write up. |
| Balrog0 02/10/21 7:49:09 AM #10 | I dunno, it's hard for me to think a game that isn't fun is enjoyable --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | You nostalgia you lose (2000s kid edition) |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 11:17:42 PM #2 | I still love that shit, if this is losing I don't wanna win --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Will you still post on CE when you're 60? |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 10:35:57 PM #9 | Yeah I mean Ive been posting here as long as you've been alive. Though to be totally honest with you, I've really been feeling less and less like being here. I've been spending a lot more time on reddit. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 9:38:48 PM #49 | Very impressive stuff man. I read your workout log from time to time to get ideas --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 8:31:43 PM #46 | It was another rest day for me and I didn't even do my bike. Was pretty dang busy at work today, though, didn't eat much again today. Going into my last heavy week before a deload so I'm trying to gear myself up to get a yoog dinner tonight and even bigger breakfast tomorrow before I hit the ohp --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 8:22:12 PM #44 | SK8T3R215 posted... Set off the lunk alarm on yourself for lifting too much I don't drop my bar or anything when I set it down, I don't think I'd get in trouble. I've only ever been to a commercial gym once and it wasn't a planet fitness tho. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 4:27:30 PM #41 | That's early af bro --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 4:20:40 PM #39 | Damn man, that's rough. Hopefully you're making bank at least! Crappy diet these last few days for me, gotta eat more --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Is Tom Brady officially better than Michael Jordan at their respective sports? |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 4:09:55 PM #71 | IXI_Fission_IXI posted... Yes? I'm not the one in here arguing that MJ or Brady is some mystical being above the mere mortals of the NFL or NBA. sorry the way you expressed your point was confusing --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I think I convinced two Democrats to oppose a bill they originally cosponsored |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 4:02:10 PM #7 | Not only did it sail through the house committee, they amended it to add nearly every senator as a cosponsor. Yikes --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Jim Sterling asks you to please use they/them pronouns |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 3:39:57 PM #59 | Fizaga posted... It's because they is a subject marker, which follow certain rules and conventions. The issue of confusion arises when the singularity or plurality of a statement matters, which is going to be contextual. That was a lot of words to not give a single example where it might matter. I can't think of a large research report where it would be appropriate to use either he/she or them, but using them would cause confusion but he or she wouldn't. It's also probably true that this particular issue with gender identity wouldn't come up much if ever in that format anyway. In what large group conversation is he or she going to be less confusing than they? I don't identify as progressive, this has nothing to do with ideology, I'm being totally transparent about my reasoning. Which is that it's hard for me to see when it would matter. And which your post didn't dissuade me from thinking --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I think I convinced two Democrats to oppose a bill they originally cosponsored |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 3:15:59 PM #6 | It's definitely a big boon to business, and it's not accidental. But the vast majority of the tax benefits will accrue to the wealthy, because of how income taxes are structured. But in either case it's just bad tax policy to let a business write off expenses it pays for out of something that didn't count as income. You can be in the red on paper until you make enough profit to negate the forgiven loans --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I think I convinced two Democrats to oppose a bill they originally cosponsored |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 3:09:55 PM #4 | I lied I didn't convince either of them smh --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Do you wear two masks on top each other? |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 11:49:08 AM #21 | No, but only because I haven't been near anyone I don't live with since this guidelines were released. I would --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Jim Sterling asks you to please use they/them pronouns |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 11:46:59 AM #55 | Like I'm struggling to think of a scenario where it creates confusion. It's not impossible but in most of the contexts I can think of any pronoun would be confusing. "Jim, Dan, and Joe came by earlier, man they suck" is unhelpful but no less or more than just saying he. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Jim Sterling asks you to please use they/them pronouns |
| Balrog0 02/09/21 11:44:47 AM #52 | I don't feel like using they in the singular is confusing. I don't know if it's technically incorrect. But it's easy to follow in every day conversation and happens all the time --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney's child payments plan is...actually good? |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 9:15:48 PM #20 | Antifar posted... The conservative response is that this is going to give mothers too much time to spend with their children Well, yes. That's why it's notable that a conservative offered it up in the first place. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 6:41:17 PM #34 | Did my bike but only got 7.67 miles, lowest in a while --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Is Tom Brady officially better than Michael Jordan at their respective sports? |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 3:37:07 PM #39 | IXI_Fission_IXI posted... Sounds like Jordan relied on his team as a crutch and without multiple HoF players around him couldn't do shit. Isn't the true for pretty much everyone? These are team sports lol. How dare a shooting guard rely on a center for rebounding --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Remember when Guitar Hero was a thing? |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 2:23:51 PM #53 | I started college when it was at it's peak popularity -- GH3 came out during my freshman year, near the end iirc. I played it a ton and it was fun enough but honestly if I could wave a wand and redo it I kinda wish Id played more other things --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 1:39:53 PM #33 | Heck yeah brother. It's a rest day for balrogo. I might hit might bike for a bit though --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 1:30:59 PM #31 | Coloradough posted... Just banged out a 10miler along the river during the football game. Incredible to feel the small but steady increase in ease and performance, I'm way faster than all of the "normal" recreational runners who I assume aren't on a plan and run 10mi or less a week, and I breathe through my nose the entire time Nice. Not on the same level but I walked 6 miles the other day and didn't even feel it which is a big step up from where I was last year --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney's child payments plan is...actually good? |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 12:25:48 PM #16 | Eliminating the salt deduction* is good in it's own terms, it's especially good as a pay for for this --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I think I convinced two Democrats to oppose a bill they originally cosponsored |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 12:01:06 PM #3 | it's kind of technical, basically it lets businesses that have ppp loans forgiven to deduct expenses paid with ppp loans from their taxable income. But since ppp loans that were forgiven don't count as income, that gives businesses a tax subsidy on top of the federal government paying their expenses directly --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | I think I convinced two Democrats to oppose a bill they originally cosponsored |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 11:56:17 AM #1 | Haha take that, legislation that will still certainly pass very easily without Democratic support! Working and living in Arkansas is depressing --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney's child payments plan is...actually good? |
| Balrog0 02/08/21 11:43:19 AM #13 | Yes --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Is Tom Brady officially better than Michael Jordan at their respective sports? |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 9:26:28 PM #9 | how could you compare --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Been a hot minute; heres some $2 shrimp tacos i made as a homeless person |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 5:20:40 PM #3 | I find it believable, though that's a pretty nice setup --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | TIL Amy Schumer is related to Chuck Schumer |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 5:06:30 PM #7 | I knew it but idk if it was common knowledge. It wasn't secret --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 4:29:12 PM #29 | Got 260x7 on my deadlifts, should have pushed it more --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 1:13:31 PM #26 | SauI_Goodman posted... Are you really surprised a gamefaqs gym topic died rofl. At the gym now working on these tri's I mean there's been one of these topics going more or less continuously since last March. They have died a couple times though --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 1:12:58 PM #25 | TheRealDill2024 posted... After spending too much time reading r/weightroom, I bought a Stronger By Science routine and just finished week 1 of the hypertrophy program. It was weird getting annihilated by such low weights. Lol I've considered buying routines recently too. Renaissance periodization seems legit, I watch dr mike isratael a lot Can you give maybe a sample set or day off the one you bought? Kinda curious --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Oh man the fitness topic died so here's another one |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 12:57:30 PM #22 | Deadlifts today. Had a couple pork chops + eggs, spinach and onion for breakfast --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | Is this a job? |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 12:35:37 PM #33 | vigorm0rtis posted... Go back another post, champ. I said the bullshit wasn't worth it, he thought I meant the work, I corrected him saying no, the bullshit is insane tenants. I would consider dealing with tenants a big part of the work --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | "Working class" |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 12:10:02 PM #26 | I don't get really get it. Maybe politicians do favor the middle class (debatable) but even if they do that wouldn't prove appealing to the middle class is the most effective use of political capital. For example, if the term working class is meant to sneak middle class people into conversations about poverty, that's evidence it's more effective to make broad appeals --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
| Topic | "Working class" |
| Balrog0 02/07/21 12:05:07 PM #24 | COVxy posted... and political capital is much more easily won by appealing to one particular segment Is that the case? --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 |
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