RETIRED The Vviles world of LLAMANIA Thread

Depends on your budget (and what you're looking for). I wouldn't recommend the "home theater in a box" approach for most people, but I picked up a Samsung Blu-ray/receiver/surround system recently that was on the markdown rack at Sam's Club for $45. Not high-end, certainly, but it was for the sister of a friend of mine who was looking for a fairly small setup, so with a 32" TV, blu-ray player, receiver, speakers, and everything else it was still under $300.

Sony has some decent deals every so often. They had the STR-DG720 7.1 receiver for $99 and I picked one of those up for someone else who had a setup more similar to yours, I think. She was just setting that up with a couple of used stereo speakers, but she can always add more speakers to it later on.

One issue to keep in mind is what outputs your TV has. Most these days have an optical audio output (and often nothing else), so if you want the sound system to play the audio from broadcast TV, you'll want a receiver that can use the output of the TV, too.



Pics? Pre-designed costume or a roll-your-own?



Lots of different reasons. Depends on the person. I've never done it, but I can understand a lot of reasons for having the urge to. Sometimes it's a matter of control (similar to some kinds of anorexia), sometimes it can be inspired by having the people around you angry at you all of the time and/or constantly telling you what a terrible person you are. When you can't do anything else, you can take it out on yourself, too.


P.S., never underestimate the power of Spandex. I had to use the flesh braking system a while back (truck passed me and then made an abrupt right turn into an alley right in front of me without signalling) and though the skin of my hip and thigh was pretty well torn up, the Spandex survived and I didn't have to spend an evening picking pieces of gravel and dirt out of my leg. I was pretty happy about that.

P.P.S., am I the only person left who doesn't particularly care for bacon? Not that I dislike it, it's more of an 'eh' feeling, and I might have a bite or two if it showed up on a plate, but even a full strip is more than I'd care to eat.

Depends on your budget (and what you're looking for). I wouldn't recommend the "home theater in a box" approach for most people, but I picked up a Samsung Blu-ray/receiver/surround system recently that was on the markdown rack at Sam's Club for $45. Not high-end, certainly, but it was for the sister of a friend of mine who was looking for a fairly small setup, so with a 32" TV, blu-ray player, receiver, speakers, and everything else it was still under $300.

Sony has some decent deals every so often. They had the STR-DG720 7.1 receiver for $99 and I picked one of those up for someone else who had a setup more similar to yours, I think. She was just setting that up with a couple of used stereo speakers, but she can always add more speakers to it later on.

One issue to keep in mind is what outputs your TV has. Most these days have an optical audio output (and often nothing else), so if you want the sound system to play the audio from broadcast TV, you'll want a receiver that can use the output of the TV, too.



Pics? Pre-designed costume or a roll-your-own?



Lots of different reasons. Depends on the person. I've never done it, but I can understand a lot of reasons for having the urge to. Sometimes it's a matter of control (similar to some kinds of anorexia), sometimes it can be inspired by having the people around you angry at you all of the time and/or constantly telling you what a terrible person you are. When you can't do anything else, you can take it out on yourself, too.


P.S., never underestimate the power of Spandex. I had to use the flesh braking system a while back (truck passed me and then made an abrupt right turn into an alley right in front of me without signalling) and though the skin of my hip and thigh was pretty well torn up, the Spandex survived and I didn't have to spend an evening picking pieces of gravel and dirt out of my leg. I was pretty happy about that.

P.P.S., am I the only person left who doesn't particularly care for bacon? Not that I dislike it, it's more of an 'eh' feeling, and I might have a bite or two if it showed up on a plate, but even a full strip is more than I'd care to eat.

I produce all of my own costumes. I might buy pieces here or there, but it all ends up original. I've got hot glue gun skills and mom does the difficult seams
I'm a vegetarian so I'd only make the bacon for LW or a guest

IDK what B>>>S means, no I don't do that stuff, do/did you? I am sure stuff like that happens at schools, just no one finds out.

Also, I prefer Vampire Diaries over Gossip Girl... I am not gay, my brother likes to watch GG for some reason though... it's kool bc theres a couple hot girls in it, but I never got into it.

Wait those tofu products, the tofu bacon, tofu hotdogs, and such. Are those any good? I have never had those before.

Blair > Serena
2 GG characters , I had presumed you were a fan

I never fooled around with a teacher. Of course I was married in college and grad school

I never saw Vampire Diaries.

I have an idea for you to see lots and lots of V , TP. You want to be a dr? Be a gyno!!! Plus you could do breast exams too

I don't eat textured soy protein if I can help it
I don't have an interest in real burgers or dogs, so I am not pulled to eat fake ones
I prefer whole real fresh food from the earth

TP the future gynecologist...
Don't do obstetrics, too much liability these days....

Oh man you can see all kinds of V

Yea about that, I only want to see one hopefully, and that would be my wife's... IDK why, but I have the mind set of just finding the "perfect" one if you will say, and just settling down. I mean sure I see a hot girl, and be like wow "I'd hit that" and such, but that's about it. IDK if it is family value or what, I always wanted something serious over some one night fling or similar variant. Does that sound weird to you?

Yea, but with Gynecology, people tell me it is usually a gay guy or a woman who does that. What type of doctor does breast exams? And if I seriously wanted to do/see all of that, become a Plastic Surgeon...

I produce all of my own costumes. I might buy pieces here or there, but it all ends up original. I've got hot glue gun skills and mom does the difficult seams
I'm a vegetarian so I'd only make the bacon for LW or a guest

I don't eat textured soy protein if I can help it
I don't have an interest in real burgers or dogs, so I am not pulled to eat fake ones
I prefer whole real fresh food from the earth

Original is definitely better--so what are you doing to make yours a unique angel? (I figure you aren't going to be satisfied with just a standard angel outfit.)

I'm not a vegetarian myself, though I don't do a lot with meat. And I'm not really adventurous about it, either--Chewy's culinary adventures go far, far beyond anything that I'd do. (Making horror movies is bad enough; I don't think I'd want to eat a pig head where special effects are not involved.)

But I'm weird about these things--like I don't ever want to go fishing because I can't watch it without imagining how the fish would feel. On the other hand, it doesn't bother me to watch surgery on myself or something like that--I've offered to help before, but they've never taken me up on it. (And they should have the time they lost the washer down inside my leg somewhere and had to go hunting for it with a scalpel and screwdriver.)




I haven't had them for years, but I recall that the Lightlife "Smart Dogs" were okay. I don't care for any of the veggie burgers that are trying to simulate hamburgers, though. The ones that are trying to be a food substance all their own--just in a burger shape--can be good. Like the Morningstar Farms original garden veggie burgers (not the "grillers"--those are the "pretending to be a hamburger" type) and their spicy black bean burgers are good.

But it's mainly a convenience thing. They quick and tidy to prepare in two minutes of microwave time.

Do you like Peyton Manning?

Never met him. (Had to use Google to find out who he was.)

I have to confess that watching sports has never held the slightest appeal for me. _Playing_ sports I understand, but unless it's people I know, I'd rather not sit around watching someone else play. (Well, I guess there *are* a few indoor sports that are not so bad to watch, but they usually don't involve teams).

(Oh, dear. I don't watch team sports, I don't care much for bacon, but I do like baby corn. I may be in danger of getting myself kicked out of the thread....)

Oh, well you said your location was near Denver, so I had to ask.