Ninety-third week paid.

Unfortunately, what should be the case and what is the case are often two very different things.

That might be the case if the victims didn't try to blame the innocent users who were impersonated. Certainly I don't want to ever have to deal with that, hence the warning in my signature.

Sigh. Again with the Telegram imposters. OP, I'm sorry you had to learn this the hard way, but anyone on Telegram can claim to be anyone else and delete all evidence of wrongdoing after the fact. I'd mention that I'm paying The Pharmacist a fair amount to display my avatar, and that he therefore has no reason to scam anyone out of such a (relatively) small sum as €30, but such character references technically don't disprove anything. Instead I'll just ask you to read the warning in my signature, and head it from now on when dealing with anyone claiming to be a high-profile member.

Only the connector? Not much happens in that case. Electricity follows the path of least resistance (to grossly oversimplify) resulting in it flowing through the water instead of your hard drive's power supply, causing at worst a temporary loss of power to the drive and possibly the whole USB bus (knocking out all connected USB devices). In that case, just turn off your computer and dry everything out before restarting and everything should be good as new. It's unlikely you'll cause permanent damage that way.

But before you go using your hard drive as a coaster, note that if any water enters the hard drive itself, it's a whole 'nother story, assuming it's an actual hard drive and not an SSD*. In that case, the internal mechanical components can be seriously damaged, and the disk surface itself can be corroded, rendering your data irrecoverable.

*SSDs, including flash drives and memory cards, are pretty much indestructible, and on more than one occasion I've accidentally left one in my pocket while doing laundry with no ill effect (in my defence, they're getting smaller all the time).

Ninety-second week paid.

(Oh yes, and obligatory congratulations to all the actual winners. )

EDIT: Fixed image link.

You mean you've never heard of Australian kissing? It's like French kissing, but down under.

Don't be absurd. He's just helpfully lighting the fish man's cigar with the burning money. (You should never light a good cigar with a lighter; lighter fluid imparts a foul flavour to the cigar. Always use a wooden match, butane torch, or if neither are available, money.)

Since I don't (yet) have any 30 year old whisky lying around, to celebrate AU$30K I am drinking two Glenfiddich 15YO Solera Reserves*: one old (left), one new (right):



To be honest, I'm not a fan of the new bottle design, especially the label. It's just too modern. As for the contents of the bottles, which is all that really matters, they are both quite similar, with the light fruitiness and spice that Glenfiddich is known for, though the new bottling is slightly more fruity and less spicy, and a bit smoother overall (no doubt more ex-sherry casks and less virgin casks). Almost disappointingly so; I much prefer the extra spice and intensity of the old bottling, which is vaguely reminiscent of a good American rye whiskey. Or maybe it's just a case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks (warning: TV Tropes link). The new version is still good (especially for the price), just maybe not as good as the old version.

*Yes, the solera aging process means a miniscule fraction of the whisky in this blend is indeed over 30 years old (37 in the case of the new bottling), so I could have just drunk one on a technicality, but that just wouldn't be right.

It's just another shameless display of casual racism. That Indian fellow should be snorting a line of coke off one of the girls' buttcracks or something, not sitting in the corner looking sad for not being included. Seriously, why are only the white people having fun? It's disgraceful!

Ninety-first week paid.

Ninetieth week paid.

At the risk of ruining the joke if you're actually trolling and not merely stupid (it's getting harder to tell these days), I'd like you to check whether the word "satire" appears in the latest edition of the OED.

You can download a complete archive of all your email messages (in zipped mbox format) for import into other email clients at Google Takeout (which also provides data for all other Google services; just deselect everything except Mail (and Contacts if you need to transfer those as well)).

Call the cops and tell them there's a deranged lunatic on the loose. They get paid to deal with you people; I don't.

You'd probably just get probation if it's a first offence and a psychiatric evaluation determines you're not dangerous, but the point is that your behaviour would never be tolerated in the real world.

Eighty-ninth week paid.

Vaccines do not provide 100% immunity, and some people (eg those with immune disorders) cannot be vaccinated at all. Thus many people remain at risk of infection and rely on everyone else being vaccinated to prevent the spread of disease.

I'm not from the UK, but I can say that I definitely won't be injecting this vaccine into my body. The last time I injected myself with a vaccine, I had a Hell of a time convincing my doctor to update my vaccination record, since I had no evidence other than the empty vial to prove I had actually taken it, and he wasn't happy about it at all. From now on, I'll let him inject the vaccines, and save self-injection for drugs that don't require his involvement.

(Anti-vaxxers can all go to Hell, and probably will soon enough; I just wish they wouldn't take so many others with them. )

I don't suppose it ever occurred to you to simply ask what is and isn't appropriate, as I did when attempting to determine whether my contest entry was acceptable.

When I said "Western society", you know perfectly well that I meant current Western society, which I'm well aware has been negatively influenced by religious conservatives. You can spare me the art history lesson.

I'm only offended by your apparent confusion about how drag performance works: Conchita Wurst is not a man in a dress; she is a fictional bearded lady, who is played by a man in a dress (Thomas Neuwirth) - and the dress itself is merely a stage costume. It just makes it really hard to take you seriously when you start conflating actors with the roles they play.

Verified. The forum proxy is not doing any weird alterations/conversions/optimisations.

Thank you. "Distasteful" is exactly what I was going for with that piece. Though if tasteful nudity is more your thing, I've done that too: IsFoxpupStillANSFWVixen.today (even more NSFW) (Graciously hosted on loyce.club, so no Cloudflare nonsense, unless there's something LoyceV's not telling me.) Again, I've never posted that link on this forum without a NSFW tag, which is how I get away with this sort of thing; tastefulness counts for nothing.

In light of recent events, I don't think the Catholic Church should be held up as an example of what kinds of genitalia are appropriate to look at.

NSFW is not, and never has been, a euphemism for porn (or anything else). It has the plain meaning of the words: anything that is not safe to look at in at least some workplaces because it could get you fired. That category includes a lot more than just porn (but often does not include text regardless of content, because everyone knows that managers are functionally illiterate too polite to read over their employees' shoulders.)

Sorry. In my defence, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find image hosting sites that a) allow NSFW art; b) allow hotlinking; c) don't resize/recompress/otherwise mangle the original file; d) don't use Cloudflare or anything worse; and e) don't do anything even more obnoxious that I haven't listed. Here it is via the forum's image proxy: ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fd.facdn.net%2Fart%2Ffoxpup%2F1572178064%2F1572178017.foxpup_btcntlk10yrs.png&t=619&c=82s3t2f-vi7JLA (NSFW)

My objection to forum policy is not so much that it reflects Western society's unhealthy obsession with genitalia and "female-presenting" nipples, but more that it's applied inconsistently and even in cases where it makes no sense, such as in the art contest.