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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Basically someone left a Mon Cheri (I don't know if you have those in the US) on his car, together with a thank-you note

    It was laced with strychnine and the mayor narrowly survived although he suffered severe neurological damage

    The guy who did this was later found due to DNA evidence and sentenced to 20 years for attempted murder

    I found them on Wikipedia, but the first Google result was for prom dresses, which I find makes a much more interesting story.

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    A what?

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    They're alcoholic and slightly bitter which was an attempt to mask the taste of the strychnine

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Good grief!

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    They're made of a chocolate housing with a small cherry floating in liqueur inside it

    I was never particularly fond of them but I don't really like alcohol

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Sounds pretty delicious

    Sans strychnine, mind

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    According to WIkipedia:

    Strychnine was popularly used as an athletic performance enhancer and recreational stimulant in the late 19th century and early 20th century, due to its convulsant effects. It was thought to be similar to coffee. Maybe the fella just wanted to help this mayor do better at running.

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  • Sir FabulousSir Fabulous Malevolent Squid God Registered User regular
    Bring back food tasters for all civil servants ranked Principal and above, I say.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Oh man, Mon Cheris

    When I was a kid, a family friend used to always have them in her fridge.

    I overdosed on them one night during a party at their place when I was in a situation with a full box and no adults to supervise me.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Bring back food tasters for all civil servants ranked Principal and above, I say.

    It calls for Oglaf
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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    According to WIkipedia:

    Strychnine was popularly used as an athletic performance enhancer and recreational stimulant in the late 19th century and early 20th century, due to its convulsant effects. It was thought to be similar to coffee. Maybe the fella just wanted to help this mayor do better at running.

    Small dose will still kill you

    The guy who did this tried to make his son spit into a jar so he could circumvent DNA testing

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Bring back food tasters for all civil servants ranked Principal and above, I say.

    I'd probably be a food taster. Sure there's the chance of poisoning but think of all the delicious non-poison delicacies you'd get to indulge in before that.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Update on buying myself flowers: my room smells vaguely like my job of five years. I did not think this through.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Real talk, if somebody gave me poisoned fudge I would totally still accept fudge from the next stranger that offered it to me no questions asked.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Real talk, if somebody gave me poisoned fudge I would totally still accept fudge from the next stranger that offered it to me no questions asked.

    "Surely such a thing couldn't happen twice..."

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  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    Update on buying myself flowers: my room smells vaguely like my job of five years. I did not think this through.
    immersion therapy!

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  • SkuntySkunty Registered User regular
    Love thread, Friday night bar hopping. Good idea or bad?
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Real talk, if somebody gave me poisoned fudge I would totally still accept fudge from the next stranger that offered it to me no questions asked.

    Thanks. You've ruined pretty much my first choice post break up comfort.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Skunty wrote: »
    Love thread, Friday night bar hopping. Good idea or bad?

    Depends on your local bar scene and what you want from your Friday night, I guess. Could be a good time.

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  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    ...poisoned fudge? fudge from strangers?

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    Skunty wrote: »
    Love thread, Friday night bar hopping. Good idea or bad?
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Real talk, if somebody gave me poisoned fudge I would totally still accept fudge from the next stranger that offered it to me no questions asked.

    Thanks. You've ruined pretty much my first choice post break up comfort.

    You go out there and you get you some delicious ass fudge and you eat the goddamn shit out of it.

    Fudge cannot harm. It can only heal.

    Let it heal you.

    Juggernut on
  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    i'm gonna confess something here

    not a fan of fudge
    chocolate is a different story!
    but fudge almost always just makes me want a drink

    texture is like... slightly dried, raw batter, i guess. not into it. which is funny, 'cause raw batter has its place.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    Finally, I am home

    Trudged for 45 minutes through the rain to get to the parents, where Dad had done homemade burgers and chips, and me mum had made a swiss roll for dessert. They all listened to me moan about work and were very sympathetic and my Mum said "you're a good man, looking after your colleagues all week like that." Sister then made me a coffee and I sat watched 80s Top of the Pops with them while my shoes dried, then got a lift home from the old man. Love my family.

    Now I am in bed and snuggly with a columbian coffee and some chill out music playing, and I don't have to go to work tomorrow

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

    Solar on
  • PassionateLoviePassionateLovie Registered User regular
    Had my first nightmare about me and boyfriend fighting and breaking up. Thanks anxiety >.<

    Things are going good though! I'm really happy! :D

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Had my first nightmare about me and boyfriend fighting and breaking up. Thanks anxiety >.<

    Things are going good though! I'm really happy! :D

    I'm glad you found someone who makes you feel that way.The anxiety is tough, but if your fella makes you happy then that'll keep you right!

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Overexposure to the smell of fudge on Mackinac Island as a child turned me off of it for years

    Even now, I'm not that enthusiastic about it

    I don't really like heavily chocolate things that aren't just like, a chocolate bar though

    Like, chocolate ice cream with chocolate in it or brownies or whatever just ain't my jam

    I think they might be too sweet for me

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    Butler wrote: »
    Apropos of nothing here is a picture I found on wikipedia

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Ahahaha

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    This is now my favorite thing.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Ahh, nothing like getting home from work at 3 PM.

    Sorry, Solar, not trying to rub it in, just really happy to get off early for once.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Ahh, nothing like getting home from work at 3 PM.

    Sorry, Solar, not trying to rub it in, just really happy to get off early for once.

    deaaaaaaaaath

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Nah man good for you, it's always nice to get off...

    ...work early

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Nah man good for you, it's always nice to get off...

    ...work early

    Yeah, I almost added that this is the only situation in which you'll hear me say I was happy to "get off early".

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I'm considering ditching work early myself

    It's real nice out, and I got a fridge full of beers to finish by the end of the month

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular

    For some reason it bugs me that this horse has hands instead of hooves

    And even tiny fingernails

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Nah man good for you, it's always nice to get off...

    ...work early

    Yeah, I almost added that this is the only situation in which you'll hear me say I was happy to "get off early".

    You still intending to Parks and Rectify?

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I'm considering ditching work early myself

    It's real nice out, and I got a fridge full of beers to finish by the end of the month

    How full is full? Is it beer worth drinking or is it chore beer, for the express purpose of getting drunk?

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I'm considering ditching work early myself

    It's real nice out, and I got a fridge full of beers to finish by the end of the month

    You've got two weeks.
    How many beers do you have?

  • FlarneFlarne Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I'm considering ditching work early myself

    It's real nice out, and I got a fridge full of beers to finish by the end of the month

    How full is full? Is it beer worth drinking or is it chore beer, for the express purpose of getting drunk?

    fun fact, the Swedish word for drunk is full

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular

    For some reason it bugs me that this horse has hands instead of hooves

    And even tiny fingernails

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Flarne wrote: »
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I'm considering ditching work early myself

    It's real nice out, and I got a fridge full of beers to finish by the end of the month

    How full is full? Is it beer worth drinking or is it chore beer, for the express purpose of getting drunk?

    fun fact, the Swedish word for drunk is full

    I'm wondering if he is regretting having to quickly drink high quality craft beer and not able to savor it, or regretting having to quickly drink low quality alcohol water. Either way, he will probably regret it.

    Deadlines shouldn't go with beer.

    Maybe it is Schlitz, so he can get Schlitzed. Or Hamm's so he can get Hammed. Low quality beer should at least come with a gimmicky way to say drunk.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
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