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[Steelcan]

Peace and quiet, fireplaces, hot drinks, spicy food, and attractive women.

 

Also old timey sodas

[lynroy]

Oh, a tall glass of ice cold Dr Pepper. Or during the summer, a tall Dr Pepper float. Bliss in a glass.

[Duelist]

Running early in the morning or late at night when it's just me and the road, landing my left hook clean, steak, women.

[wright1978]

Curry, Guinness,

[Undead Han]

Stargazing. Especially outside of the city. Never gets boring.

 

I grew up in a major city where on a clear night you're lucky to see maybe a dozen stars. The first time I was far from home and someplace remote, I was floored by the sight of the Milky Way rising over the horizon. it was a really dark and moonless night, so the light of it also cast shadows on the ground. I didn't even know what I was seeing at first.

 

It was probably the closest I've come to a religious experience. It would be hard to find a more majestic scene than the Milky Way in the night sky, and its no wonder that ancient people sitting around campfires were inspired to create myths from it.

[Biotic Apostate]

I grew up in a major city where on a clear night you're lucky to see maybe a dozen stars. The first time I was far from home and someplace remote, I was floored by the sight of the Milky Way rising over the horizon. it was a really dark and moonless night, so the light of it also cast shadows on the ground. I didn't even know what I was seeing at first.

 

It was probably the closest I've come to a religious experience. It would be hard to find a more majestic scene than the Milky Way in the night sky, and its no wonder that ancient people sitting around campfires were inspired to create myths from it.

I live in a capital, so I don't get much chance to do that here, but I was lucky enough that we had a house in the woods when I was little. The trees actually made a nice backdrop for the sky that was filled with stars. I often slept outside on the hammock when it was warm enough. Later my parents sold it and build another at the sea, and I remember how amazing it was (and still is) to see the stars while sitting on the beach. When you add the soothing sound of waves and the reflections in the water, which make the sky look like it blends with the sea, you get something breathtaking. One of the reasons I'd like to live in a city near the coast.

[HuldraDancer]

So had that talk with my grandmother and it lasted less than two minutes. Went very well her response was mostly 'Hey your life I got no say in how you live it, now stop stalling and help me with the trailer' I very much appreciate how nonchalant she was. Now my next worry if she'll just be dropping it around to anyone cause it might generate something new for her to talk about.

[Suketchi]

The smell of the ocean makes me happy. I spent a lot of time on grey, rocky beaches when I was little, so it brings back good memories. 

[lynroy]

I've only been to the coast once in my life. I finally went last year when visiting my family in the Pacific Northwest. It was so serene to hear the waves crashing on the shore, a cold wind blowing, the salty air. I loved every minute of it. Shame we only spent one night there. Had a decent view of the sunset from the hotel.

Spoiler

 

The memory of that vacation makes me happy.

[correctamundo]

In two weeks I'm going to the mountains for a week of skiing with the family. It's going to be soooooooooo good. Snow is deep.

[Lady Artifice]

Today on the radio:

 

Host: Welcome to our caller. So, what kind of things do you look for in a woman?

 

Caller: Um. Boobs.

 

H: Well, you're in luck. Most women have those.

 

C: yeah but there are like different kinds.

 

H: There are different kinds of breasts?

 

C: (in a monotone drone) yeah there are like melons, ski slopes, apples, skittles, pillows, balloons, bee stings, pears, pointers, cucumbers.

 

Host: Uh huh...Is chivalry dead?

 

C: I dunno.

 

Host: Right. So you mentioned ski slopes? 

 

C: Yeah, that's when they look like ski slopes.

 

Host: (speaking really quickly) Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh. 

 

Then they cut to music, and I was still laughing really hard. 

[HuldraDancer]

At my game session today I managed to actually do something rather useful even if another character had to put it into my character's head to do it. Point was that I managed to do it and secure something pretty good for our game's goal despite suffering a -5 to most of my character's social skills. Though that is helpfully due to the GM not asking for those rolls while my character was flirting hard with a possible supplier^^; 

[Serelir]

Oh yes! Speaking of the natural world:

 

• swimming in the foam at the Outer Banks
• looking for critters in the tidepools in northern California
• snow days!
• hiking in the Sierra and New England
• starry skies in the country, especially if there are no mosquitoes
• the islands and mountains and seas of western Scotland
• covered bridges and apple picking in the autumn
• canoeing and rowboating and kayaking pretty much anywhere 
• wildlife of many kinds: the wrens nesting on my porch, the discovery of an unusual mushroom, a praying mantis in my garden, the crazy calls of woodpeckers and screech owls, a young fox leaping through the grass

[lynroy]

Derp me, how could I forget this? I play the piano, so I love to sit down and lose myself playing song after song. I'm in my own world when I sit at that piano bench. Music makes me really happy.

[Serelir]

Do you have any of your music online, lynroy? I've just been listening to my friend's music on Soundcloud, and that definitely goes in the what makes me happy category.  She's shy about sharing it, but it's such a gift to her listeners.

[lynroy]

I don't have any of my own written music available, but I do have a small YouTube channel I poke at on occasion: https://www.youtube....etterjam/videos

Reminds me, I should probably record something. It's just my little camera, keyboard, and laptop. Nothing fancy, can't afford it.

[Serelir]

Thanks for sharing that! 

 

You know, I'm pretty sure that Once We Were is a traditional Irish tune, The South Wind:

 

[Biotic Apostate]

I don't have any of my own written music available, but I do have a small YouTube channel I poke at on occasion: https://www.youtube....etterjam/videos

Reminds me, I should probably record something. It's just my little camera, keyboard, and laptop. Nothing fancy, can't afford it.

*looks over, finds Far Horizons* well done!

I'm so glad so many people do their own recordings of Skyrim's soundtrack. As much as I enjoyed Trevor Morris' work on DAI, especially Trespasser, I was sad that we didn't get more of Jeremy Soule. His soundtracks to Icewind Dale, Total Annihilation, and Neverwinter Nights is the music that I constantly listen to and remember fondly.

[DomeWing333]

C: (in a monotone drone) yeah there are like melons, ski slopes, apples, skittles, pillows, balloons, bee stings, pears, pointers, cucumbers.

Alright, maybe this is my naivete showing but...skittles? The other ones, I can sort of make out the analogy, but I'm just not getting this one. And a Google search of "skittle breasts" yielded nothing but pages on overall body shape and a feeling of deep shame.

[nightscrawl]

^ Uh... perhaps that is a reference to nipple shape? But that doesn't really fit amongst all of those other ones. I mean, if that's all you have, then you don't really have boobs at all.

 

Unfortunately, we don't have rainbow boobs. Man, that would be fun!

 

Fruit-flavored, maybe?

[Lady Artifice]

That one caught my attention too. I don't understand why both "skittles," and "bee stings," are listed, unless it's because one is meant to describe really small breasts, and one is meant to describe breasts so small they're practically nonexistent. 

 

Or maybe the guy was just really, really high and didn't know what he was saying.

 

It any case, it reminds of the South Park riff on Hooters. "Raisins."

 

Fruit-flavored, maybe?

 

 

I wonder if people would have different flavors. 

 

This is definitely going to keep getting weirder the more we analyze.

[SporkFu]

I saw a question on Yahoo answers once where someone asked whether the food a person ate had any influence on what their ...er, bodily fluid tasted like. I don't remember any serious responses though, nor was I expecting to read any, heh.

[SardaukarElite]

Well that escalated quickly. 

[DomeWing333]

I saw a question on Yahoo answers once where someone asked whether the food a person ate had any influence on what their ...er, bodily fluid tasted like. I don't remember any serious responses though, nor was I expecting to read any, heh.

IIRC, it does to a limited extent. Sweet fruits like pineapple are said to enhance the taste (I think because a surprising amount of it is comprised of fructose), while things like smoking are said to make things more bitter and acrid. Don't know if any of that is actually proven or just anecdotal.

 

I...I look up a lot of stuff when I'm bored.

[HuldraDancer]

I heard that too, fruits make it taste more sweet while things like meat make it taste more salty. No idea how true it is but I have heard it in a few different places.