xkcd

by **roband** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:53 pm UTC

There is no better breakfast than a massive fry up, in my opinion.

by **doogly** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:01 pm UTC

Oatmeal! I'mma go make some actually.
Some steel cut, with some flax up in there, some maple syrup, oh babies.

by **Izawwlgood** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:15 pm UTC

The trick is recognizing which foods are vehicles for booze or bacon, and saturating them with such.

by **M1k3_Nix** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:07 pm UTC

roband wrote:There is no better breakfast than a massive fry up, in my opinion.

...complimented with a strong black coffee and your favourite alcoholic beverage

by **roband** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:29 pm UTC

I'll pass on the coffee. And my favourite alcohol is tequila - not really a morning beverage

A beer however, would work.

by **M1k3_Nix** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:31 pm UTC

roband wrote:I'll pass on the coffee. And my favourite alcohol is tequila - not really a morning beverage
A beer however, would work.

How about a Desperardo's? Best of both worlds

by **roband** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:33 pm UTC

I can't stand the stuff. Way too sweet.

Combining two good things does not always result in an even halfway ok thing

by **Panonadin** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:04 pm UTC

Unless forced I seriously cannot eat in the morning. I have tried to get in the habit time and time again but whenever I eat in the morning I just feel sick for the first few hours of my day.

Beats me.

by **I Am Raven** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:38 pm UTC

Then don't. Apparently your body's different.

by **Felstaff** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:43 pm UTC

I physically cannot eat within an hour of waking. Which is why I 'deskfast' and use other horrific portmanteaux.

My desk here at work is cluttered with breakfast paraphernalia; bowls, cups, teabags, half-emptied cereal boxes, crumbs, slightly-browning bananas, a jar of mustard (?), nhân con ngông bay sriracha hot chilli sauce (??), three Peruvian nuevo sol dollars (???), a computer mouse amateurishly painted in the style of Tron:Legacy using board markers, a USB stick corporate gift that is in the shape of a business man, where you must remove the head to plug it in (the head has gone missing), at least 16 of those tiny single-serve soy sauce fish-shaped containers that you get with takeaways, a wallet-sized photograph of someone else I found, three origami T-Rexes, although they look like vicious kangaroos, a sign saying "you don't have to be competent to work here (but it helps)", three singed pages of The Necronomicon (pages 61-66, but I can't tell which story), numerous doodles of Bart Simpson riding a badger, a plastic Bic^® pen with a melted end (cause unknown), a photograph of myself with a former secret lover where I have printed off Max Payne's face and stuck it over her's, and a scratched copy of The Smith's Strangeways, Here We Come.

So... yeah. I only have breakfast at work, because I can't eat for an hour.

by **roband** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:45 pm UTC

I rarely eat breakfast at all. Today I had porridge in a tub (just add hot water!) and it was pretty bleh.

I might go back to not eating breakfast.

by **Panonadin** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:58 pm UTC

Felstaff has anyone ever described you as an intriguing fellow?

by **Little Richie** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:13 pm UTC

For me, nothing beats a steak one egg, and some bacon.
I also have to wait about an hour before I can eat, and enjoy it, in the morning.

Panonadin wrote:Felstaff has anyone ever described you as an intriguing fellow?

Quite the understatement.

by **pseudoidiot** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:14 pm UTC

by **Panonadin** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:24 pm UTC

Can't see frackin images at work. Miss out on so much content.

by **dubsola** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:38 am UTC

Felstaff wrote:nhân con ngông bay sriracha hot chilli sauce (??)

This stuff is liquid awesome.

by **ArgonV** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:59 am UTC

My fellow men, a simple question

Beard, yes or no?

by **torontoraptor** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:22 am UTC

If you can pull it off (not patchy, not neckbeard, preferably softer), then yes. If your workplace or SO says no, then try and get around it, and then yes.

by **doogly** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:30 am UTC

You can have it be not a neckbeard by shaving your neck. This trap is easy to avoid. (so avoid it.)

Beard.

by **Whelan** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:38 am UTC

Personally, I vote stubble.

by **big boss** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:18 am UTC

I think beards should be banned, mostly because I can't grow one

by **roband** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:15 am UTC

Do it. I'm currently rocking what I call the laze-beard. I could shave. I should shave. But fuck you, I like it.

I got ID'd for buying beer the other day, and the guy almost didn't sell me it - my driver's license has 17 year old me, barely a hair on my top lip, let alone the rest of my face, on it.

My gf hates it. My mother dislikes it. The guys at work give me stick. But fuck them, I like it.

by **ArgonV** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:57 am UTC

Oh, I'm already doing it, my avatar actually is me :wink:

Yeah, I got some flak at first, but now most people actually agree it suits me (except my sister, mostly). At work, some are joking about it, while other admitted they were jealous. I actually started my beard because of a bet at work. I'd wanted to do it for longer, but a bet of not shaving for 2 months = 2 cases of beer finally convinced me. I do trim it regularly though, else it gets all scraggly and shit.

I usually get estimated 7-10 years older than I actually am. But I've never once been carded, not even back when I was 15

by **The Scyphozoa** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:37 pm UTC

big boss wrote:I think beards should be banned, mostly because I can't grow one

I'm jealous. I don't like me with a beard but I'm too damn lazy to shave more than once or twice a week.

by **SecondTalon** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:49 pm UTC

ArgonV wrote:Yeah, I got some flak at first, but now most people actually agree it suits me (except my sister, mostly).

Indeed. The biggest problem with growing a beard and having no beard experience is... you have only a vague notion as to what to expect, you have to spend a week or so (maybe more, maybe less) looking like you failed basic hygiene, and it takes a month before you have something you can use to guesstimate a final appearance.

Because... (back when I had hair) this looks like this when clean-shaven.

(Of course, these days, I look like this. Minus the hat. Usually)

Spoiler:

by **Izawwlgood** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:30 pm UTC

Sigh... Those were the days:

Spoiler:

Although, I shouldn't be bitching; graduate school is like college minus expectations of hygiene.

by **SurgicalSteel** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:38 pm UTC

Izawwlgood wrote:Although, I shouldn't be bitching; graduate school is like college minus expectations of hygiene.

I hear this a lot and it's weird to me. Where I went it was the undergrads who were smelly and unwashed, and the grad students who knew what a bar of soap and a button-up shirt looked like.

by **Izawwlgood** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:02 am UTC

I'm kind of kidding; most of us are pretty clean, and none of us are coming to classes/lectures/journal clubs in sweat pants or pajamas. I think if anything, grad students have less social graces, but yeah, most of us bathe at least 4+ a... week

by **SurgicalSteel** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:46 am UTC

Well, yea, I know it's a joke, just like it's kind of a joke that undergrads are all unwashed and smelly. I'm just saying I have no experiences, and in fact have the opposite experience, from which to draw parallels to the joke, so it always sounds odd to me.

by **Izawwlgood** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:15 am UTC

My boss has made jokes that I'm the upper end of the social competency spectrum found here because I *sometimes* make eye contact in conversation.

Anyway. Beards. They were fun. I prefer to remain buzzed (razor hasn't touched my face in probably 6 years now?), but wouldn't bring any means of grooming on a long camping trip.

by **roband** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:36 am UTC

My thoughts of ST just improved dramatically (not that they were low in the first place) - great face fuzz.

by **SurgicalSteel** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:16 pm UTC

I'm in a bit of a conundrum regarding my beard. I like it, but I also miss shaving. Considering it's winter though, I think keeping it just barely wins over shaving. At least until April.

by **bigglesworth** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:25 pm UTC

Does it not require shaving the neck?

by **SurgicalSteel** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:52 pm UTC

I do shave my neck. But the part about shaving that I miss is my little ritual that goes with using a straight razor. I don't use a straight razor to shave my neck because I'm just bad at it. I can't seem to position the blade or my hands correctly, and I don't get a good shave out of it, so I just use a regular razor on my neck. Which is boring.

by **Kick** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:01 pm UTC

What's wrong with neck-beards?

Almost wrote bears...

by **e^iπ+1=0** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:08 pm UTC

Yeah, I currently have a bit of a neck-beard myself. Basically I didn't feel like shaving, so I just haven't for the past year or so. And I think it looks decent enough that I don't really feel like doing anything to it. *shrugs*

by **roband** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:10 pm UTC

I'm in the "just doesn't touch it" club too.

by **Shivahn** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:55 pm UTC

SurgicalSteel wrote:I do shave my neck. But the part about shaving that I miss is my little ritual that goes with using a straight razor.

I'm going to be perfectly honest here and say that one of the reasons I haven't started electrocuting my face hair off is because shaving with a straight razor and soap just feels really awesome.

by **Izawwlgood** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:58 pm UTC

If you're going to grow facial hair, keep that shit tidy. Neck beards are unacceptable unless it's down to your chest and the bones of your enemies are woven in.

by **Zarq** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:12 pm UTC

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