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R-209
05-10-2020, 09:55 AM
If you're wondering why Candy Corn is called "Candy Corn":
Reminds me a little of the Sarlacc pit.
Safeway report: No Necco wafers. Store is crowded but few people wear masks. Pharmacy has sign explaining removal of digital signature pad, but the credit card pad, which requires much more touching, remains.
maximvsv
05-11-2020, 05:39 AM
FYI Candy Corn is a decorative garnish. They're not meant to be consumed. :)
I generally eat the garnish, if it is edible to begin with.
Bahuba
05-11-2020, 09:53 AM
^^Me too - I get the strangest looks from chefs and waiters ... I'm like, bitch I need my greens!
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-11-2020, 10:53 AM
Full disclosure: I used to eat what we called "nownladers" back in the day, only as an adult did I actually see the name of the candy was "now and laters" but people would open the pack and trade the little squares around. Some of them had been in 10 backpacks and pockets by the time they got eaten ... yuck. I owe like half my immune system to eating those.
We pronounced them as nownladers too! My older sisters favorite flavor was the chocolate kind. Gross, she ain't never been right in the head. Everyone knows the best nownladers are watermelon and sour apple. Those go well with Sprite. Sometimes the banana flavor was good if you were drinking a cream soda.
^^^
Never heard of them and had to look them up. They look like Starburst. I like Starburst.
I just want to say I'm really enjoying all the candy talk.
These are not Starburst. A piece of Starburst candy can be consumed in under five minutes. A nownlader...takes ten years!!!! You can only start to chew it once you've reached the third year. That's why they were called Now & Later.
slowpoke
05-11-2020, 11:27 AM
On May 11, 1976, an ammonia truck disaster killed 7 Houstonians and injured nearly 200
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/slideshow/1976-ammonia-truck-disaster-historical-photos-202219.php?cmpid=trend
slowpoke
05-11-2020, 11:35 AM
Documents: Federal agents engaged in sex acts with victims
" HSI documents show some supervisors knew – was that federal undercover agents repeatedly paid for and engaged in sex acts with suspected victims."
"That fact, coupled with HSI’s refusal to let its agents testify, caused the collapse of a case that was more than three years in the making. All felony charges against the alleged ringleaders were dropped. And sex-trafficking experts said the women were likely re-traumatized."
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Documents-Federal-agents-had-sex-with-15261800.php
slowpoke
05-11-2020, 02:07 PM
https://dinosaurdracula.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/starburst1.jpg
This?
Bahuba
05-11-2020, 07:06 PM
We pronounced them as nownladers too! My older sisters favorite flavor was the chocolate kind. Gross, she ain't never been right in the head. Everyone knows the best nownladers are watermelon and sour apple. Those go well with Sprite. Sometimes the banana flavor was good if you were drinking a cream soda.
My favorite was banana ...
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0004/8132/9204/products/now-later-banana3_1024x1024.jpg
but the watermelons were like gold - we used to steal them, I'm ashamed to say, from the 7-11.
These are not Starburst. A piece of Starburst candy can be consumed in under five minutes. A nownlader...takes ten years!!!! You can only start to chew it once you've reached the third year. That's why they were called Now & Later.
Yes nownladers were immortal - they functioned as a kind of alternate currency, which could also be eaten
Vyanka
05-12-2020, 11:04 AM
Now N Laters are the best. So is Big Bol.
Elektra Luxx
05-12-2020, 11:45 AM
I had to look up Big Bol. That's a new one for me. Looks a like a "Blow Pop" without the stick?
R-209
05-12-2020, 01:28 PM
These are not Starburst. A piece of Starburst candy can be consumed in under five minutes. A nownlader...takes ten years!!!! You can only start to chew it once you've reached the third year. That's why they were called Now & Later.
Worst part about Starburst- the wrappers. That, and getting a bag that's mostly orange.
slowpoke
05-12-2020, 01:42 PM
Worst part about Starburst- the wrappers. That, and getting a bag that's mostly orange.
Apparently you are not U T fan.
AChildOfBoredom
05-13-2020, 11:38 PM
https://dinosaurdracula.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/starburst1.jpg
This?
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should…
slowpoke
05-14-2020, 01:28 PM
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should…
That is pretty much all of life.
R-209
05-14-2020, 04:45 PM
Might have to try this (https://www.sprinklebakes.com/2018/05/homemade-candy-wafers.html), although I don't know what to cut them out with. Some kind of bottle cap, maybe.
I checked a couple places while doing my essential errands to no avail. I still can't believe how many people aren't wearing masks.
I also stopped by a hardware store that had a cat in the window.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-17-2020, 08:44 AM
My new get up and go anthem. I mean all I do is get up and go to the backyard but at least it's working. This song puts me in the best mood.
https://youtu.be/G8iOmVd1W_g
whodathoe
05-17-2020, 01:47 PM
Still cant make up my mind whether I want to work clipsites or go indie (I'm new so the answer is obvious) but the clipsites are getting scarier and scarier
All I have in my house in beans and rice and it's a walk to the store. I'd call my grandma but if you've read enough of my threads you know why I dont want to.....
AChildOfBoredom
05-17-2020, 03:43 PM
That is pretty much all of life.
Life? In wouldn’t be so sure about that.
slowpoke
05-17-2020, 06:31 PM
Life? In wouldn’t be so sure about that.
Give it time. Eventually you think "I could do that, but I am not dumb enough"
AChildOfBoredom
05-17-2020, 10:08 PM
Not really the context I had in mind, but I know what you mean.
Elektra Luxx
05-18-2020, 11:07 AM
Bf wanted to get out of the house and visit his family yesterday. He wanted me to go too, but I didn't feeling like going. I told him if we stay in I would do all things he really enjoys wearing only heels. It didn't work. He still wanted to get out of the house.
AChildOfBoredom
05-18-2020, 05:33 PM
It’s okay to love someone dearly and still want to smother them with a pillow sometimes, right? Talking about my ‘refugee’.
slowpoke
05-19-2020, 05:47 AM
It’s okay to love someone dearly and still want to smother them with a pillow sometimes, right? Talking about my ‘refugee’.
Sure.
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 01:15 PM
I'm going to fuck with J a little bit today. It just needs to be done. I mean really minimal fuckery here ( things like just taking a few hours to text back ).
His little revelation that he did go on a couple other dates in the last month ( he describes them as unsuccessful ) made me sick which is what I told him. Even though he greatly regretted things ....... I still had to hear about this shit last Saturday ...... so .......... he needs to be taught a lesson.
AChildOfBoredom
05-19-2020, 01:27 PM
Dig a pit in the basement, place him in it, made him rub lotion on his skin, and spray him with cold water if he fails to comply?
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 01:28 PM
^ It's always on option but no basement. I'm a desert wilderness expert though. There are plenty of places no one would find him. Various holes / mines ect. !
I mean ..... if someone were to look and mark where they were. Haha.
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 01:30 PM
Bleh, I wonder if I should just break it off for a few days or week .
I mean ..... he vocalized ( when I asked what exactly he was looking for that we didn't have ) something about a " chemical spark " . Then hours later he seemed like he was nearly crying saying he wanted me and in his life and daughters life for a long time. He was referencing the " family " we had made ect.
I just said it would depend on the boundaries of my next partner and I couldn't promise anything ( giving him time when I was persuing a new partner since he seemed to not want to be my partner ) .
I'm just angry that I had to " sell " him you know ?
I had to explain that online dating needs to be approached with caution . I used this analogy:
He has his beautiful car in the garage . What would happen if he THEN still looked at the website every day for that car ? He would regret the color / the rims / maybe even the overall choice for getting the car.
I told him to look up the " jam " study ( where it's scientifically proven that given too many choices people freeze ) .
Instead of reeling him back in by talking I wonder if I should just have take off immediately and I keep thinking about it today.
slowpoke
05-19-2020, 02:13 PM
^ It's always on option but no basement. I'm a desert wilderness expert though. There are plenty of places no one would find him. Haha.
Maybe no feral hogs in the desert, but coyotes should get the job done.
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 02:57 PM
Dragging him out there seems like a lot of work. Maybe he can just take me to a nice meal or get flowers or something hahaha. I am still mad about him almost letting us just go Saturday . I seemed to increase in how mad I have gotten over the last 2-3 days.
Like .... just throwing a " girlfriend " label at me doesn't really make up for it.
AChildOfBoredom
05-19-2020, 06:47 PM
^ It's always on option but no basement. I'm a desert wilderness expert though. There are plenty of places no one would find him. Haha.
I just wanna tell someone, “PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!”
slowpoke
05-19-2020, 07:00 PM
I just wanna tell someone, “PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!”
Maybe you can do that when the SC reopens.
AChildOfBoredom
05-19-2020, 07:04 PM
I don’t think so. I think I’m hanging up my heels for good.
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 07:05 PM
^ Totally. Got to be a fetish for that with everything out there.
I kept the meeting for dinner and his daughters visit with my dog tonight.
She shouldn't be penalized with not seeing my dog because he was a turd on Sat.
BUT ..... I let him know that I was feeling more progressively " unsettled " due the event of the weekend.
We will see what he comes up with. I think there is a dinner reservation set for tomorrow but it might take more. I'm awfully unsettled. :)
carmen_b
05-19-2020, 07:09 PM
I saw he added me on FB this morning and he mentioned it now at 8p.m. or so.
I will let that sit there for awhile also.
The message needs to be loud and clear.
Wishy - Washy bullshit will NOT be tolerated here.
R-209
05-20-2020, 11:54 AM
Could it be true (https://www.economycandy.com/product/pre-order-necco-wafers/?gclid=CjwKCAjwqpP2BRBTEiwAfpiD-4vs5I-2Q1ByspLHEzBrWN3sTh7Z8KJGkClrcGi_3UqPsKHrAYKVKBoCY F8QAvD_BwE)?
My only alternative is to start hitting little convenience stores in hopes of finding old stock.
WendiStarr
05-21-2020, 03:30 PM
Do people actually eat Necco wafers, besides my granny? Then again, she's Japanese, old as dirt, and came to the U.S. in the 1940s so her candy options must have been limited back then.
AChildOfBoredom
05-24-2020, 12:17 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Guys are so fucking fickle sometimes!
We had a new tech start in the shop, but he needed help moving his toolbox because he has this huge Matco 6S but drives a Ford Fusion. So I agreed to help him, borrowed a trailer, and we got it loaded up. But he was being a little overly flirty the whole time, so for the drive to drop him off at his place, I pulled up Cannibal Corpse on Spotify and played a song called “Vomit the Soul”, and I asked him if he knew it (he didn’t) and encouraged him to sing along as I sang along with it (which, the “singing” was just growling… my growls aren’t as deep as guttural as those of Chris Barnes, but I think I make a good showing for myself, all the same). And I actually do know that song, because when I was looking to get back into a band, I uploaded a number of vocal covers, and since I wanted to show my full vocal range, that was one of the songs I did.
I swear, he couldn’t get out of the truck fast enough once we got back to his place.
https://youtu.be/D8UTJJqMuFQ
Now I can’t stop laughing about the whole thing.
R-209
05-24-2020, 08:20 PM
My vet looks almost exactly like Jacinda Ardern.
ETA: Both are awesome.
Bahuba
05-26-2020, 03:19 PM
I just watched the movie "Yesterday" with Himesh Patel. Very enjoyable. You need to know who the Beatles are, if not, the whole premise won't make sense.
Elektra Luxx
05-27-2020, 07:47 AM
I just took up cigarettes and I'm up to 3 or 4 packs a day.
Elektra Luxx
05-27-2020, 07:48 AM
^^^
Candy cigarettes. They are so good.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Confections-Candy-Cigarettes-Pack/dp/B000BXSRT2
slowpoke
05-27-2020, 09:21 AM
We used to get those when we were kids. It is a wonder the nanny state has not outlawed them.
Remember cinnamon toothpicks?
carmen_b
05-27-2020, 02:26 PM
I think my dad is wary of J with his divorce happening just 7-8 months ago.
BUT .... what he doesn't realize is how bad many men treat women these days. I don't think he knows how bad !
I'm being treated well . That is the MAIN thing. Also ..... J seems to enjoy consistent companionship . That is something I was looking for v.s. this " I'll see once a week " bullshit some offer.
R-209
05-28-2020, 09:32 AM
It's true.
They're back (https://www.today.com/food/necco-wafers-candies-make-sweet-comeback-after-2-year-absence-t182478).
Drugstores and pharmacies nationwide are expected to start getting fresh Necco Wafers by the end of this month early June. The company expects shipments to other stores will arrive in July.
ETA: This was on the news this morning. The anchors actually bantered about it.
SnuffleUffleGrass
05-28-2020, 10:16 AM
Gonna blast my prog rock playlist and clean today. Ohhh yeah.
R-209
05-29-2020, 08:24 PM
Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-monkey/monkeys-steal-coronavirus-blood-samples-in-india-idUSKBN2351KV)
Elektra Luxx
05-31-2020, 06:48 PM
Hey R-209, saw this about Necco wafers on CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/business/necco-wafers-trnd/index.html
R-209
06-01-2020, 09:07 PM
Hey R-209, saw this about Necco wafers on CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/business/necco-wafers-trnd/index.html
Thank you. I will begin searching soon...
R-209
06-02-2020, 12:36 PM
My hair is getting so wild; I usually keep it very short. I wonder if I could pull off Justin Trudeau's look. It would be good for hiding a receding hairline.
My giant orange tabby, who is basically the Mr. Rogers of cats, was sitting peacefully on the windowsill looking at birds. Then my little girl cat, who is half his size, just swatted him and took over the window. Poor guy.
WendiStarr
06-08-2020, 05:05 PM
^ The Mr. Rogers of cats! Oh my gosh, that cracked me up!
Randomness, so I saw this earlier on a different forum and some of the answers were hilarious.. if someone broke in to your house and stole what's on top of your fridge, what would they get? It would be a toaster oven, a crockpot, Gin-Gins, protein powder, and Natural Calm powder from me.