MAD 2: MADDEN'S MADDENING.

Erzsebet

Spf 110 is the only thing that works for my former roommate. Anything less and the poor boy burns.

Rashar

That's just.. not how it works. :P

Toz

This is why I don't wear sunscreen. I just man up and reflect the sunlight with my pasty skin. My life outside is one persistent lens flare!

Jensen

you run a lot of trials and experiments @rashar?

Erzsebet

I don't know. I just know I've seen him use 30-45ish and burn after an hour, and I've seen him use 110 at an outdoors SCA event and be fine all day and barely turn pink after.

Rashar

So basically, SPF is a measure of time, not necessarily protection. At SPF 15-20 you're in the 90s, percent-wise. You're gaining single digits with higher numbers. Minute differences. Just apply liberally, and often.

Edit:

I read something recently where they've actually started regulating the way people label them, because it was so misleading. People were spending 20 more dollars for a bottle of extra special cream that isn't all that extra special.

Toz

We nerfed SPF to be diminishing returns? @Oleis, what have you done!

Jensen

I was a bigger fan of this swedish paper that showed avoiding sunlight exposure causes more deaths
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.12251/abstract

Aryanne

DD'd for a party... Now I need to figure out how to get the smell of vomit out of my car.
My car that I -just- cleaned..... This morning.

Bright side: it'll make a great story some day!

The three-hour drive home tomorrow, however, will not quite be that day.

Jensen

Had a vivid nightmare at 3am where a massive blob made entirely out of arms and hands was crawling around my hotel room similar to the zombie things in the silent hill movie. Right when it came after me I snapped up awake outta bed and made it to the door, turned the lights on, and kinda regained thought (woulda been bad if I left the room no key card in my birthday suit) turned the lights on and checked out the room. Only part I'm mad at is having 5 hours of broken sleep on a work night

Ishin

@Jensen - That's super creepy bro. I'd have been gone out the fucking door birthday suit or not lol.

@Aryanne - Any time you go DD, take 5-6 trash bags with you. Gives the drunks something to vomit in. Had a cabbie introduce me to the idea back in 2005 when we were laid up in Cali for a month or so. We were coming back from some restaurant on the pier, a place at which I got so smashed I was to the point of dipping my garlic bread in my Long Islands and eating it. I got sick somewhere along the way, and he was like, 'Here Devil Dog, here's a trash bag.' My response? 'You're the smartest fucking cab driver I've -ever- met.'

Teani

@Ishin: That's a pretty common thing for cabbies to do. I had a roll of plastic bags in the glove compartment just for that reason. It's also good for when you need to pick up trash after some clients decide to dump all their receipts and empty their pockets of trash inside the cab before leaving it. Some people just don't know how to behave well.

Alee

Bought Avacado for meal intended to be eaten in same day... avacado not ripe... IT FELT RIPE WHEN I PICKED IT. FML.... I hate shopping sometimes.

Jensen

I do hate that though

Aishia

If you put your avocado in a paper bag with a banana and leave it somewhere not cold it will go into ripening overdrive. This is true of a lot of fruits. (bananas work best but you can use like, apples, and tomatoes too.)

Gwenith

Well, at least you guys can eat avocado. I love it so much but it makes me rather ill.
Mad @ loving foods that don't love you back.

Jensen

Gwenith said:

Well, at least you guys can eat avocado. I love it so much but it makes me rather ill.
Mad @ loving foods that don't love you back.

Tell me about it, those dwarven warriors -really- do not like going into that casserole, Jensen often finds himself with axewound like rashes on his face, chest, and arms

Eleanor

You know, I wasn't going to complain about this, but you guys are actually talking about avocados so hey!
I bought a bag of avocados like three months ago, and they have been in the bottom of my fridge that whole time. I thought last night, hey, I want to make cheesy abomination quesadilla things with avocado, and I still have those couple down there, surely they're not still in the "avocadon't" stage. You'd think that even in the fridge, in that time, they'd be overripe, right? Or even just ripe.

You'd think.

Erzsebet

Can I not go outside to acquire food without also acquiring a damn stalker that won't go the hell away? I went back to the hostel I'm staying at, and now the dude is sitting outside in front of the hostel. Waiting, I guess? I need to go get food before everything closes, but polite indifference didn't work, polite rejection didn't work, out-right rejection didn't work, -rude- rejection didn't work. What do.

I still need to go get food before things close.

Jensen

I find mace, a quick kick to the balls, or spitting vodka in their face will generally imply my distaste for someone.

Erzsebet

My mace is in houston, my vodka, in oklahoma, and this guy's bigger than me enough that I'm pretty sure he could kick my ass if I escalated it to violence.

Ishin

La policia, senorita.

Aishia

@Eleanor‌ they pretty much don't ripen at all in the fridge! ESpecially not if they haven't already started.

Eleanor

Apparently not! I have discovered the secret to eternal avocadon't.

Moirean

Apartment complex sprung a surprise repaving on us. I need to move my car by tomorrow morning or it'll be towed. Problem is...it's dead. Replaced the battery. Cleaned the connections. Looooooked (?) at the fuse thingies. I have no idea what I'm doing. Still won't turn over. Boyfriend is out of town so I can't even push it across the street. I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Erzsebet

Urrf. Two days on a bus. >.>

At least I have somewhere safe to go.

There -might- be wifi on the bus. If not, see all you lovely people when I get back!

Moirean

Yay mobile mechanic came and fixed stuff. Only cost $75 and the guy was so nice and explained every step of diagnostics and everything. Really great service and no car being towed!

Jensen

You get your undercarriage lubed and serviced?

Damonicus

To quote George Takei, Ohhhhhhhhhhh Myyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Rivas

Surprise anxiety.

What's the reason, you say? Pish posh, my brain doesn't NEED a reason to make me feel all tense and nervous and anxious. Let's not bring something like "logic" or "reason" into my emotional instabilities.


You can pry my insecurities from my cold, dead hands.