I was actually getting mildly annoyed at the food themed Drunk Threads as well, but I don't do any heavy lifting around here, so I didn't complain. You're doing a great job, 'wildered! Mainly, I just don't like Tolkien's work. But I can understand how other people do. Anyway, I just spent the last couple of hours cleaning transmission parts for Jungle Julia's car, and my hands are DRY AS FUCK. Gonna have to put on moisturizer tonight.
Absolutely she does. Anyone ever gives her shit shall be banned. @bewildered does a thankless job incredibly well.
I always found that using moisturizer before working on cars did a great job of helping me keep my hands clean. Something about the moisturizer filling the pores in the skin and blocking the oil/grease. Whatever it was, it worked a treat.
My skin has freaked the fuck out with the combo of winter cold, low humidity, and hard water. My neighbor suggested applying Vaseline before doing dishes (the backs of my hands are particularly bad) and it definitely helps to stay ahead of the problem rather than treating. I really like the Working Hands product to keep my hands from cracking and bleeding.
I think it's interesting that so many of you have started but couldn't finish LotR. I've been a fantasy and also somewhat sci-fi book maniac since I was a kid and probably took it as a personal challenge. So I'm the outlier, not y'all.
There is a product that is specifically designed for that. Does exactly as you says fills the pours and everything just wipes off.Can't for the life of me remember what it is called.
I finished it. I wasn’t happy about it. The ring was supposed to be super powerful and drive people crazy with temptation to own it, but only like…three people in the whole story ever tried to take it from the weakest little shits in all of Middle Earth. I don’t know, it’s been a while. Watership Down wins, in my library.
I’m a huge Tolkien nerd, and have read the LOTR books at least ten times. I’m not an evangelist about it though. People like what they like. I am a bit surprised that you guys find them boring, but that is probably because the first couple of chapters don’t have much forward momentum. And yes Aetius I’ve read the Silmarillion more than once.
Loved the LOTR movies, but couldn’t get into The Hobbit movies for some reason. As for the books, we have them and I tried, but no dice.
I guess I knew about the publication but didn't know the title. Maybe one day. Watership Down was fucking boring but I read the whole thing. It was one of those random books floating around my house when I was a kid and summers were long and void of anything to do. I spent hours every day reading and that was just one of many random books that was devoured. I read a fuckton of John Grisham stuff too.
After reading the Dead Pool thread, I feel sort of bad for having no idea who Taylor Hawkings was. After reading the Rant & Rave thread, I feel bad that some of you idiots are still dealing with winter weather. What I don't feel bad about is that today's high is 79* so I'm taking the top off the Corvette, going on a nice drive through the delta, doing some wine tasting while snacking on cheeses and cured meats. Hope y'all have a great weekend.
I worked with a guy 10 years ago who loved LOTR and announced in January his goal for the year was to read it. I asked him about it a few months later, and apparently he made it like 40 pages and put it back on the shelf and walked away.
The mistake people make is thinking that The Silmarillion is going to be a novel like The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. It's not a novel, and is in fact much closer to a religious text. It's basically The Bible for Middle Earth. Here's how it starts: