Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

( and in memory of my former brother-in-law, who ate 9 dozen oysters in a sitting. The former part because he died of colon cancer. One might draw a link to lifestyle )

 

[StereoPlayer]

( and in memory of my former brother-in-law, who ate 9 dozen oysters in a sitting. The former part because he died of colon cancer. One might draw a link to lifestyle )

One dozen is plenty for me…

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Cold water oysters > warm water oysters

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^ The Grand Central Oyster Bar, NYC

There are at least 5 oyster houses within walking distance of the house I'm building in Gujan-Mestras. Prices are about 1 € ($1.25) each.

Le routioutiou | Virtual tour generated by Panotour

Another one.

 

[gtmalone]

BWAAAHHAAA!

 

[gtmalone]

There once was a PC computer game called Theme Park

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and if I ever needed to know how retail is really done, then I found the right place to study right there
for example, if ̶c̶h̶i̶p̶s̶ French fries are very cheap and heavily salted, price gouging drinks is easy. Especially when selling drinks that are mostly ice ... sell the junk food outside the intentionally long queue to big ride and children may sick up when they get off the ride. If there's not enough nearby maintenance crew to clean up the vomit immediately, other children will see it and sick up until it becomes a vomit storm in my theme park

anyway that's what I heard about the game.

 

[gtmalone]

Can we all space out a little more, please?



A little further out thanks.

Yes, we can.

 

[notJaco]

( and in memory of my former brother-in-law, who ate 9 dozen oysters in a sitting. The former part because he died of colon cancer. One might draw a link to lifestyle )

I know it sounds like a lot, and I'm just guessing but, 9 dozen oysters amounts to about a good sized hamburger in solid matter, doesn't it?

 

[notJaco]

I know it sounds like a lot, and I'm just guessing but, 9 dozen oysters amounts to about a good sized hamburger in solid matter, doesn't it?

I take that back. Never mind.

 

[Jeff Scott]

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^ The Grand Central Oyster Bar, NYC

I love the basketweave pattern tiles.

Another one.

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Anyone else see the "face" in the building to the left?

 

[LBS-bass]

I alway wondered, who gets all the pearls.

Naturally occurring pearls are rarely valuable because they are usually oddly shaped. Pearls form when an irritant enters the oyster shell and the pearly material creates a shield around it. Usually the irritant is not perfectly round so the pearl isn't either. Pearls for jewelry are cultivated by seeding the oysters with a tiny, round something or other. Then you get a round pearl that can be used in a necklace or some other thing.

I'm guessing y'all knew this already. My mom said she found a pearl in an oyster once but I don't think she kept it because I never saw it. She said it was black.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Naturally occurring pearls are rarely valuable because they are usually oddly shaped. Pearls form when an irritant enters the oyster shell and the pearly material creates a shield around it. Usually the irritant is not perfectly round so the pearl isn't either. Pearls for jewelry are cultivated by seeding the oysters with a tiny, round something or other. Then you get a round pearl that can be used in a necklace or some other thing.

I'm guessing y'all knew this already. My mom said she found a pearl in an oyster once but I don't think she kept it because I never saw it. She said it was black.

I suppose that pearls are akin to a kidney stone in us, only way nicer. I do like mother of pearl inlays on instruments. As far as I know, there are no restrictions on the material.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A string of pearls never goes out of style.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I suppose that pearls are akin to a kidney stone in us, only way nicer. I do like mother of pearl inlays on instruments. As far as I know, there are no restrictions on the material.

Kidney stones are said to be highly unpleasant.

 

[12BitSlab]

Kidney stones are said to be highly unpleasant.

I've had 7 bouts with kidney stones. Three of them required surgery. Simply put, kidney stones are the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've had 7 bouts with kidney stones. Three of them required surgery. Simply put, kidney stones are the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

Can't like pain like

 

[beans-on-toast]

I've had 7 bouts with kidney stones. Three of them required surgery. Simply put, kidney stones are the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

I've been told they are worse than childbirth. They aren't smooth like a pearl, that's for sure. I know someone that died during a gallstone operation.

 

[LBS-bass]

I've been told they are worse than childbirth. They aren't smooth like a pearl, that's for sure. I know someone that died during a gallstone operation.

I have never had a kidney stone, nor a child, so can't relate to those pains directly. I have had two bouts with pain that were stellar; one when my eardrum got infected and the other with pancreatitis.

The eardrum pain was unbelievably horrid and felt like someone had pierced the inside of my ear with a white-hot fire iron. Multiple rounds of Advil while waiting for my doctor's office to open didn't touch it until I had so much advil in me I probably am lucky to have a liver left.

Pancreatitis pain is supposedly up there in the top ten list of pains, with kidney stones and childbirth and everything else. The pain comes when your pancreas starts releasing digestive enzymes into your abdominal cavity due to inflammation and you begin to attempt to digest all the organs immediately adjacent to it, along with the pancreas itself. As you can imagine, this is pretty excruciating. Morphine is your best friend in these moments.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've had morphine twice and yes it was absolutely needed.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've been told they are worse than childbirth. They aren't smooth like a pearl, that's for sure. I know someone that died during a gallstone operation.

oh I don't wish kidney stones on anyone like

 

[LBS-bass]

I've had morphine twice and yes it was absolutely needed.

Yep, I'll even welcome the unpleasant side effects at that point, if it sends the pain away. That can be caused by the pancreatitis, as well, so it's hard to separate out which emesis is caused by what, and you don't really care at that point, anyhow.