Out of the Blue

Today is National Coffee Day here in the U.S., where every day commemorates something. This is actually pretty close to an International Coffee Day according to Wikipedia. They recall one "official" worldwide celebration in 2015, but it's not clear if there's been one since. But they also list the various dates where national coffee day is celebrated, and for most of them it's today as well (though most of them also include notes saying "citation needed"). So happy national coffee day to Mexico, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iceland, India ("Chikmagalur, bangalore, The land of Coffee"), Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines ("Conceived to showcase Lipa City as the longstanding 'Coffee Granary of the Philippines'"), Scotland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. And hopefully there are no legal issues if you choose to celebrate in some other location. This article lists places to score free coffee for your celebration.

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Model Goes Blind After Tattooing Eyeball, Warns Others of Dangers.
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Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 15:18:
Frankly, nothing in my life is so freaking important I need to advertise it to any Joe Smoe I happen to meet. Maybe that's my failing? Maybe I need to be pushing myself to be better? Somehow I really doubt that's the problem.

Well, clearly you're not part of the "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!!!!" generation.

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Sep 30, 2017, 02:24
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Forgot to have a coffee....but I had plenty of beer.
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Sep 29, 2017, 19:48
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jdreyer wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 13:57:
Canoeing drunk in Canada. Yup, sounds safe to me.

Alcohol and night swimming. It's a winning combination!
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Sep 29, 2017, 18:35
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I think the NASA telescope team must have rewatched with me the Hubble doco revisiting the inital cluster fuck & aftermath of sending it up without proper testing in 1990.
Amazing save two years on but what it must have cost I just can't even imagine.
Um .. Behind you...
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Re: Is coffee healthy?
Sep 29, 2017, 18:05
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Sep 29, 2017, 18:05
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Dicks out for Hef
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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Re: Is coffee healthy?
Sep 29, 2017, 17:39
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Sep 29, 2017, 17:39
 
I think John Oliver (and his writing team) sum it up best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
The most exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions.
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Sep 29, 2017, 17:33
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I never gave much thought about the laws around drinking and canoeing to be honest. Usually I bring a case of hard cider and hit the lake. You don't want to over do it though or all the paddling can definitely make you throw up everywhere but at the end of the day you sleep like a rock.
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Sep 29, 2017, 15:18
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Yeah. Despite having spent 7 years in the US military, I've never understood even "normal" tattoos. If I managed to become a Navy Seal or some other special forces team, I might be able to understand it.
If you have the kind of "team" mentality it takes to get through something like that, I can see wanting to show the world you did it. But even then, I kind of doubt I would.

Frankly, nothing in my life is so freaking important I need to advertise it to any Joe Smoe I happen to meet. Maybe that's my failing? Maybe I need to be pushing myself to be better? Somehow I really doubt that's the problem.
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in." -- Fran Lebowtiz
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Sep 29, 2017, 15:10
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jdreyer wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 14:03:
Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 13:34:
Who is more of an idiot? The "model" asking for a tattoo on her eyeball, or the tattoo artist who agrees to do it? Or I am ignorant on the subject and tattooing an eyeball an actual thing that can be done "safely"?

Either way, I'm thinking it's nucking futs. At least with a skin tattoo, if you change your mind there are ways to undo it. That eyeball treatment looks pretty permanent. And who knows the long term effects.
God gave you 2 lungs, 2 kidneys and 4 balls (2 balls for the females). I is getting one of everything tattooed.
Because I'm the coolest like that.

Tattoo's are an IQ test, eyeball tattoo's just prove that you failed that test.
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Sep 29, 2017, 14:08
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Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 13:34:
Who is more of an idiot? The "model" asking for a tattoo on her eyeball, or the tattoo artist who agrees to do it? Or I am ignorant on the subject and tattooing an eyeball an actual thing that can be done "safely"?

There are people out there with eye tattoos, and a handful of tattoo artists that know what they're doing. She's an idiot for going to one that didn't and probably hadn't done it before. He's less of an idiot for trying something new that he could put on his CV or Instagram or wherever tattoo artists brag about accomplishments, but an idiot for thinking he can do it without seeming to have read up much on how to do it.
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Sep 29, 2017, 14:03
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Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 13:34:
Who is more of an idiot? The "model" asking for a tattoo on her eyeball, or the tattoo artist who agrees to do it? Or I am ignorant on the subject and tattooing an eyeball an actual thing that can be done "safely"?

Either way, I'm thinking it's nucking futs. At least with a skin tattoo, if you change your mind there are ways to undo it. That eyeball treatment looks pretty permanent. And who knows the long term effects.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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Sep 29, 2017, 14:02
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Mother facing jail time for not vaccinating son.

About freaking time.

"I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in, than giving in to something I strongly don't believe in," she told WXYZ. "God forbid he were to be injured by one of the vaccines, then what. That scares me."

God forbid he get chicken pox and get scarred for life, or mumps and die, you idiot. If it were the mother in danger, and she made the choice as an adult, I'd say more power to you: potential Darwin award winner. But to inflict such beliefs upon her son when the benefit of vaccines has been so empirically proven is gross negligence.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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Sep 29, 2017, 13:57
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Canoeing drunk in Canada. Yup, sounds safe to me.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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Who is more of an idiot? The "model" asking for a tattoo on her eyeball, or the tattoo artist who agrees to do it? Or I am ignorant on the subject and tattooing an eyeball an actual thing that can be done "safely"?
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in." -- Fran Lebowtiz
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Sep 29, 2017, 12:50
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Being drunk in a canoe in Canada has a long history. Are they trying to tempt the devil? La chasse-galerie
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Beamer wrote on Sep 29, 2017, 11:38:
I'm pretty certain "model" is code for "unemployed."
The intelligence of your average human should never be over-estimated.
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I'm pretty certain "model" is code for "unemployed."
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Rockets for transportation, Philip K. Dick would be proud.

Coffee is only healthy if you don't read the articles asking if coffee is healthy.

Nothing better than mom getting self taught off of the internet. Good parenting 101.
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