...and black pepper. I think I'll get some tomorrow.
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PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 57: Who is your favorite character from Fallout, season 1?
Kaamos_Llama
Moderator
Cold savoury salads.
Kaamos_Llama
Moderator
Thought a minute after I posted I should have excluded salads. You win, it was a bad game 
Haha. I actually do something similar sometimes. Sometimes I'll get groceries at Kroger, but eat breakfast first at the Hardee's on the other side of the parking lot. So I'll park close to Kroger, walk to Hardee's, then have to walk back to Kroger, just to burn about 1% of it off. Lol.
I love salty, buttery grits. And sometimes cheese grits. I always cringe when I see people putting sugar on grits.
Haven't had my caffeine yet, and I glossed over the "sports forum" part. At first I thought you had an appointment with a neurologist, and you were having that conversation face-to-face. That would be awkward!
I can tell you that steak definitely doesn't count. Steak cooked just right with butter, salt, and pepper is amazing.
Kaamos_Llama
Moderator
Oh yea! Just about every cooked vegetable is improved by butter on top too.
Zloth
Community Contributor
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
I almost answered venison because I wouldn't like it even with butter and salt, but decided you weren't looking for subjective answers.Thought a minute after I posted I should have excluded salads. You win, it was a bad game
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Walmart needs to do something about their substitutions when you order groceries to be delivered.
I missed the text for substitutions because they were running 2 hours late. They decided these substitutions were okay.
Instead of Gatorade Zero (no sugar), they gave me Vitaminwater, which has 23 grams of added sugar. It also has something else: the taste of licking a wet dog.
Instead of 4 LED lightbulbs that last for 7 years, give off "sunlight" (white) and, combined, use 56 watts, they gave me halogen bulbs that burn 400 watts, last two years and turn the whole room yellow. Those 4 crappy lightbulbs use more energy than my gaming laptop at full tilt.
On the "bright" side, I just logged into their chat support, and they refunded those two items in about a minute flat. I don't even have to give them back.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
The funny thing is that I had almost this exact same conversation with another doctor on the same board a couple of years ago, He had posted something about steaks and steak sauce, and I posted about being able to communicate with cows and that they don't like his steak sauce,Haven't had my caffeine yet, and I glossed over the "sports forum" part. At first I thought you had an appointment with a neurologist, and you were having that conversation face-to-face. That would be awkward!
So I was actually reusing material last night.
The secret is that I can't stand doctors, so every now and then I'll make one miserable, but these two doctors are at fault for these conversations, All they had to do was laugh at my statements about communicating with cows, and the conversations wouldn't have taken off. Instead, these two supposedly bright individuals took me seriously.
Oh, the reason I don't like doctors is because they should be better at their jobs, I've almost been killed by doctors twice. If I weren't diligent about the meds I'm prescribed, I wouldn't be here today.
Brian Boru
Moderator
I'm just jumping here, but I didn't understand what a 'Coconut Monkey Cornerclub' is?
But I agree getting deliveries can be a nightmare. I always switch off substitutions because like you said, it's never like-for like. But I ordered a fridge and kettle last week. Fridge delivered perfectly, but the kettle.
Firstly the delivery driver(and I've never had this problem) thought there was some special code to enter compound, so after two attempts and me sitting around like a lemon waiting, they gave up. The secret code is my door number FFS! So they sent it back to vendor, about twenty texts, emails and phone calls later I said, keep it.
So they send it out again, more communications, KEEP IT, then today, text, 'we will collect unwanted kettle from you'. It's like entering some delivery Kafka nightmare.
You just have to find good doctors. It's like all professions.
I went to my doc over a four year period(every six months) saying I was fatigued a lot. Never carried out any tests, and eventually pushed me out the surgery, saying 'you're a hypochondriac, don't come back', (never been ill in my life until then, don't even get colds).
Turned out my heart mitral valve had completely failed and the cardiologist said, 'I'm surprised you're still walking'.
But my new doctor is great.
Oh is Coconut ....... etc a place to vent. I needed that
Zloth
Community Contributor
I presume you learned what that tasted like by having a cow send it to you telepathically?
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Almost all my knowledge comes from cows.
That is extremely difficult to do. Just for the record, it's estimated that up to 440,000 Americans die every year due to medical mistakes. Not all of those mistakes are made by physicians, but many of them are. There's a reason malpractice insurance can cost up to $50k a year.
Until you have life threatening illnesses (in my case, 3 life threatening illnesses) then you really don't know how good/bad doctors are. Think of your case. Everything was fine, so the doctors were fine. Then you had a serious problem and they almost killed you. You just can't judge a doctor when you are healthy. I'm still alive today because of me, not them.
In any event, I have 6 doctors that I see regularly. Specialists seem to be better than Internists. I haven't replaced any specialists in awhile, but I'm on my 4th internist is 6 years. My doctors: Gastroenterologist, Nephrologist, Hematologist, Internist, Urologist, Neurologist.
Haha. That's great. I had a rough time watching it, though. Since my hiatal hernia surgery a month ago, it's almost impossible for me to burp now. So I get bloated a lot. I can't even imagine swallowing that much air now.
Hi, this is my first post here, i dont know what this threads about so i never posted
Welcome to the Cornerclub @DXCHASE. It is a place to sit down and relax a little. The thread has evolved over time and has become a type of Wu Wei passageway. A place where the dialogue floats and you float with it at your own leisure. It is also a place for lifting out some thoughts you might not want to dedicate a full thread on.
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I don't know if they still use it, but the Coconut Monkey used to be PC Gamer's mascot back in the day. I used to get the magazine in the late 90s, and I remember it from back then.
Wow I think you've got a full house there^
Yes the health service here makes many mistakes and pays out £2Bn a year in compensation.
I did find that after I reported that first doctor to the GMC, my healthcentre made sure I had the best doctor.
My health problems are genetic, my father had three heart attacks in his 40's, but went on to live to more than twice that age. Also genetic stomach problems, which Gastroenterology didn't help much with, but I use this CBD paste which has really helped.
I did make sure I had wireless KB & M, for after the op. Thought if I'm going to laid up for a while, at least I can distract myself with gaming, but once I slowly got out of bed I was alright.
Good Luck with it all
Thanks I was wondering what the reference was.
Referring to businesses and 'systems'. I tried to cancel my wandering kettle on their site, but I'd fill out half the form and it would send me back in endless loops. Chat bots appeared but never answered, but have limited responses usually.
I imagine companies like that in future, if not already will be fully automated systems. Robots will excavate the raw materials, and autodrive trucks will deliver to factory robots to construct. Auto robot pickers fill your order and auto truck delivery. And if there is an error, the company webpage will be constructed with limited options, you'll be stuck in the system and no humans will help.
Brian Boru
Moderator
Should be ideal for colonizing Mars et al!
Oh, that's what it's for—I've been doing it wrong all along, sorry everyone
@Brian Boru I'll let Bruce Lee follow up on that with this quote: Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Wonderful we've gone from burping at cows to Eastern philosophy. Had to look up Wu Wei passageway.
Brian Boru
Moderator
Yes indeed, you've stumbled into a full-service thread. Personally I get more meaning and Zen from the former, but for those who need a complicated life, I hear the latter is a good choice.
Zloth
Community Contributor
Coconut Monkey is biding his time, waiting to strike Bathtub Geralt when least expected. He's also trying to work out how he's going to do that when he has no hands.
Remember The Spy's column?
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