You people are making my lean cuisine sound less and less appealing. May have to take a trip outside.

Wanna have a Tiki party but don't know what drinks to serve? Here's a shitload: Orchids of Hawaii Bartenders' Guide / Catalog (1981)

Many of the drinks look quite nummy....

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Hi look!

Someone hates me!

Awesome.

It's too bad, because his icon is one of my favorite things.

I don't remember if this was posted before...

A useful scientific study: On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

Heh.

I guess I'll be throwing out all my aluminium hats.

Someone hates me!

It's odd. When I read a bad review, I want to pick up the book and judge for myself, rather than taking one person's word for it.

Just for books, though. I bad review of a movie will make me avoid it like the plague.

I guess I'll be throwing out all my aluminium hats.

Thank goodness they're recyclable, Gud.

It's odd. When I read a bad review, I want to pick up the book and judge for myself, rather than taking one person's word for it.

For me (books and movies both), it totally depends on what I know of the reviewer. Some of 'em, I know that I'll love whatever they love and hate what they hate (and sometimes vice versa). A review by someone who's a total stranger to me doesn't have much effect one way or the other.

Except that this guy's review might possibly have made me a bit more interested -- he seems to be reacting mostly to paperdol's authorial voice and the way she presents herself, and the way people react to that element in an essay is so particular and individual that it wouldn't necessarily put me off. A voice strong enough to elicit a really negative reaction in one person is at least a strong voice, and it might get an equally positive reaction from someone else.

Except I'm also filled with surly envy of shrift.

Aww. I'd totally send you Thai, but I suspect it would go off long before it arrived, what with the Chicago postal system being somewhat worse than Ankh-Morpork's.