Alert: The Maps Thread

The older I get the more I prefer vanilla ice cream.

 

While I do really like that Blue Bell vanilla, and it sells more than the rest of their line combined, two years ago they paired with another Texas product to produce something that was fantastic.

 

The first thing my eye fell on was rum raisin, so I immediately knew it was bullshit.

 

Seriously. Bro just wanted them all out of his (fiery) hair. Like Gandalf isn't grumpy when he wakes up from his dreams of having Galadriel massage his feet? It's basically the corrupted lesser Maiar equivalent of "get off my lawn". The older I get, the more I empathize. Whenever I see the kids looking to play touch football on my lawn, I always reach for my fire whip and chase them away.

 

They shall not pass!

 

Fascinating read, thanks for sharing.

 

It's vanilla with fudge swirl and peanut butter cups.

 

Best ice cream flavor.

Fight me.

 

What's the point of fighting you when everyone already knows you're wrong?

 

Try coming down off the mountain and experiencing life a bit! Having Graeters Banana Chip is the closest to Nirvana we can get!

 

This seems like a bad idea.

 

Who’s going to rotate the corpse cellar if you leave?

 

Right! I have responsibilities.

 

I feel like Hungary's authoritarianism is because of this map. (And the history it represents.) For a long time, Hungary was the little bitch partner of Austria. Austria was the one involved in global affairs, and Hungary was... there. After Napoleon, Austria-Hungary maintained its borders, but Hungary was agitating for more authority. The revolutions of 1848 and Austria getting whupped by Prussia in the 1860s led to Hungary being more of an equal partner with Austria. Then after World War I, the allies start carving up the losers, including Austria-Hungary. Austria loses, you know, South Tyrol (to Italy) and maybe little bits elsewhere, but they kept almost all the German speaking bits and stayed about the same size.. Hungary gets carved into little pieces - anywhere that wasn't majority Hungarian gets assigned to different new countries based on language or ethnicity - Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, what will become Yugoslavia, etc. and Hungary is left with just a tiny piece. They were bitter about it for a century, and a leader like Orban comes along going "Make Hungary Great Again" and suddenly they're throwing out their institutions. Revanchism is a hell of a drug. I didn't think "Make America Great Again" was going to work the same way here, but I was wrong about that.

 

I hear a shotgun can get you even closer.

Too soon?

 

All this squabble about ice cream is definitely getting on my nerves[vana]!
....and the winner is!
Ben 'n Jerry's "Dastardly Mash"!

 

I really like their Americone Dream.

 

Phish Food for me.

 

I am a fan of Vanilla Bean ice cream with Midnight Moo from Trader Joe's



I would never bother opening a carton of ice cream to remove that small an amount

 

Cherry Garcia and Everything But The... are my faves. If you want decadence in your ice cream, Everything But The... is the way to go

 

I did not know that Poland has an island.

 

I wonder if things are all friendly on those islands. Pretty sure the neighbors on Cyprus and Ireland aren't that friendly.