Re: September\'s Bells and Schools Thread
 

I was working on it off-and-on since July, somewhere between 10-15 hrs of actually doing it.

Re: September\'s Bells and Schools Thread
 

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Comparable amounts of alcohol from beer will run you 100-150 calories or so, maybe more for some really sweet beers like anything given the name imperial, lambics, tripels, and quadrupels. The fact that a beer doesn't add all that much on top of the base alcohol calories. If you're really concerned, the only solution is to drink less. On the other hand, beer isn't that much worse than anything else, since the stuff in beer doesn't add that much more to your waistline than the alcohol. If you're going to drink a certain amount of alcohol, you can do it with two lite beers or one good beer, and the two will have comparable caloric content. Might as well drink something that tastes better, right? I'd check out the beer styles you enjoy, and then perhaps explore some others of the same style that have lower alcohol content.

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150 calories per beer? No problemo! I will just cut out my daily bagel/swiss cheese and substitute a beer in the evening. I don't like light beers. I prefer ambers.

Curious, do you know how many calories are in a glass of Guinness? I think it tastes like burnt caramel. It's super thick and heavy.

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If that's either your breakfast or your lunch, that's a pretty bad idea.

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OMG! Blarg has an avatar! Cool! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Who is in your avatar, Blarg? What's gotten into you?!

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I just came into this thread to say "Blarg has an avatar. WTF, blarg isn't supposed to have an avatar."

For some reason, I don't approve. I guess I need some time to get used to it.

Hah.

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My understanding is that Blarg's had an avatar for a year or so now, but it's basically been a "non avatar", a blank box. He has avatars turned off IIRC so someone could have put one in his profile and he'd never know unless someone asked him about it.

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It was given to me by someone else, this is the first I've seen it. I have no idea what it is. The guy is under a statute of "The Thinker," and looking at something, but I don't know what it is. And there looks like there's a nameplate or something, but I can't read it, it's too small.

Was asked to return it if I don't like it. How do I do that?

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haha! nice.

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The guy in the pic is Jose Maria Aznar, a former Spanish President. I guess the Thinker thing is related to Blarg's posts, dunno. I suck at interpreting things.

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I didn't think this statue was The Thinker. The statue in Blarg's avatar looks more like some guy who's disgusted or anguished about something.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8...pimage0pe8.jpg

I thought this was The Thinker:

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/p...es/thinker.gif