Hello?

@jsh139

@KittySprinkles

@PurplePawprints Awwww…

Got a light?

@mfladd I quit smoking, so I don’t have a light on me. The only drawback to vaping…

@PurplePawprints He’s an asshat. A local rep.

@lisaviolet Is he? I didn’t know who it was; I just looked for a vaping gif and always enjoy seeing reps who vape because we need more advocates. It sucks that he’s an ass otherwise.

@PurplePawprints One of the first to back trump. Congressman Duncan Hunter. Following in his daddy’s footsteps.

@PurplePawprints You don’t carry a lighter just because you like fire? So weird…

@lisaviolet

@PocketBrain I’m afraid the joke went over my head.

/giphy I’m a little slow

@PocketBrain Yeah, my cousins’ 9- and 11-year-old sons kept stocking up on lighters every time they went to the grocery store while we were at the beach last week and were constantly lighting them just for the joy of fire.

The rest of us were very scared.

@narfcake

@dashcloud Thanks, DC.

@lisaviolet

@RiotDemon I have a new appreciation for you. And safe words are for pussies.

@mfladd I laughed too hard at that gif… Just what is happening???

@RiotDemon Shhhhhhh…

@mfladd

@hallmike We should totally hang out together.

@mfladd Is that what it was? I couldn’t tell so I changed it…sorry I foiled!

@mehbee You were away from the hive for a bit too, bee. Missed ya.

@mfladd Thanks, haven’t felt well for like 4 weeks and I just didn’t have the energy to participate…I missed y’all though so I’ve been trying to get back on more. This forum is the only one I participate in, I’m not even on Facebook that much anymore.

@mehbee Facebook…ack. Glad you are back here, and hope you feel better.

@mehbee - That’s a long time to be sick - Hope you feel better!

@KDemo Thanks bunches

@juststephen Swear to the Almighty. Haven’t worn it in ages. Wearing this wOOt shirt right now.

It has been in the drawer so long my son said it smelled - little shit!

@KDemo Oh no. Happy Birthday!!!

@mfladd - Thanks! Glad to see you, you look well rested.

@mfladd - And did you hear? The great and mighty @snapster stepped in and ended the coastal wars in one fell swoop! Mwa ha ha ha

@KDemo oooo…don’t get me started. As a card carrying member of the Eastie Whiner Delegation, I was glad to hear of the concessions made by the Meh party. But not nearly as glad as I was to see some of the Westies whine about it. Fuck you Westies!

Forgive me, I can’t help myself when it come to to the East/West War. (one of my true loves here)

@mfladd I wish I could star this 10 times!

@mehbee me too!

@sammydog01 Thanks! Don’t make me steal that kiss!

@conandlibrarian Just Chillin…Oh Shit!

@somf69 This is the longest gif ever.

@connorbush You are kissing me! I am not…you are! Bitch, wait till I have you on your back - shitz going to get real!

@mfladd no tongue this time and I want a discount for the fiasco that was last time.

@jbartus Ha! I am not even going to to mention the ball gag. That was in the first version of the post.

@mfladd that image is so wrong on so many levels… do Minions even have breasts?

@jbartus I will never tell.

@mfladd so how badly did you miss out? Did you get a birthday fuko? Cake shirt? Anything?

@jbartus

@mfladd aw, if I’d known you were gone I would have snagged you a cake shirt to send with the iPod.

By the way, I snagged a Fuko this time around and my order number yielded some results I thought you’d like.

@jbartus You’re a good man.

@mfladd you probably missed my edit I just made to the post (had to find my own post to link) but you might want to take a look.

@mfladd what size t-shirt do you need??? (even though they called 'em sprinkles – look like jimmies to me!)

@thismyusername Thanks. Returning to work is what sucks. What? The frog is missing? Since it is probably an alien, that is a job for the MIB - I’ll help.

Crap. I’m out

@mfladd I know, can you believe those heathens had the nerve, the sheer gall, the unparalleled audacity to call them sprinkles? Why I oughta…

@mfladd You’re not watching when you’re on vacation. When the cat is away…
/image when the cat is away

@jbartus I was at a ice cream stand in western Mass. I said “and jimmies, or do you call them sprinkles?” She said “sprinkles” but she has heard them all. She added she has heard them called “shotz” “shots”, have you ever heard that one?

I told her I refuse to call them sprinkles. She was OK with that.

@compunaut

@mfladd I would have walked out of that establishment…

Okay maybe not, but I would have made my displeasure known as I went out of my way to inject the word ‘jimmies’ into the conversation at every turn to reinforce…

OKAY FINE, I’d take my ice cream, be polite, and leave. You caught me. I’m too nice!

I think Shots is a term that came from those heathens in Connecticut. No idea beyond that. I don’t get what people don’t get, the differences are simple:

Jimmies

Strands of colorful confectionery, eaten on ice cream, cakes, and donuts

Chocolate Jimmies

Similar to Jimmies but made with Chocolate

Sprinkles

Crystals made of sugar that you sprinkle on cupcakes and cookies. Available in all the colors of food coloring.

?? Shots ??

Maybe these? Thus called because their round appearance is like birdshot or similar?

@jbartus So if you sprinkle the crystals made of sugar onto ice cream and what not, how are jimmies applied?

@jbartus And you actually caught me in a mistake. I traveled so much between 4 states during my vacation you are correct!!! I was in Connecticut (visiting my sister) during the “shots” incidence. Right around the “Mohegan Sun Casino - Ledyard” area. Nice call on the “CT” faction.

@mehbee in the best of places they are in a tray and the ice cream is rolled through them.

@mfladd Hooray for inadvertent correction finding!

@jbartus That does sound good! Now I need some ice cream.

@mehbee What you need is Hodgies ice cream in Salisbury/Amesbury Ma.

Every time I go home to see mom I make a trip there for Kahlua Chip. This poor women probably ordered a large. From growing up there I know to order a 1/4 Kiddie.

Buyers Beware of the sizes.

@mfladd what are your thoughts on Richardson’s and did J.P. Licks exist when you were up here?

Gonna have to make a trip to Hodgie’s next time I go up to Portsmouth. I’m due up on Tuesday, if I get out in time… ICE CREAM!

@jbartus JP licks I don’t know. Richardson’s is NOT Hodgies. You won’t be disappointed.
http://www.hodgies.com/

@mfladd I’m gonna try it, I’m gonna try it, settle down!

So not a fan of Richardson’s then, check.

@jbartus I want a pic and reviews!

@mfladd fine, now check out the other pic I left you while you were gone already! (Look for where you called me a good man in this thread :P)

@jbartus you ninja’d the above post. Powergirl, I love!

@mfladd I’m sorry I didn’t mean to.

Yeah I got lucky on that order number pulling that up and immediately thought of you!

@mfladd Now that is one decent sized ice cream. I don’t think I could eat all of that and I am addicted to ice cream. If I’m ever up that way I’ll definitely make a stop but I think I’ll stick with a small, or maybe a medium. My favorite ice cream place is Baskin Robbins, chocolate chip mint umm umm good. Dairy Queen is my favorite soft serve, and Marble Slabbery is a one in a while treat…I like it but don’t necessarily love it.

@jbartus oh really?? Heathens??? We don’t say nasty things about Massholes!! (my feelings are VERY hurt)

@mfladd not liking you either at the moment!! Rescinding the question about t-shirt size…

@mikibell all who refer to jimmies by any other name are heathens. I love you all otherwise.

Edit: I can’t tell if you’re really upset or just playing along with the joke. I like Connecticut, it’s just the place that ‘shots’ seems to have come out of. In reality IDGAF what people want to call them – jimmies, sprinkles, shots, etc – it’s just a fun gag to act all indignant when people don’t call them jimmies and call ‘nonbelievers’ heathens and such. o.o

@mikibell wait…what? Where the hell did this just come from? Plus your t-shirt offer was very nice. Am I missing something here? You are a jimmie girl.

@mfladd yeah, I am…and @jbartus called me a HEATHEN… And you agreed…;’(

@mikibell I didn’t! If you call them jimmies you weren’t even included in that!

@mikibell Ok. I finally found the heathen comment. This is what rustled your jimmies??? It’s all good…breathe.

@jbartus am I a double heathen since I call them sprinkles, and I really don’t like them either?

@RiotDemon ooooo…you so are! Spanking is in order.

Jimmies for everyone!

@mfladd

@jbartus sniffle… my heart is still broken… but ok…

@mfladd … and here I missed you… :)… ok, I will send you a t-shirt…

@jbartus I think my dislike of sprinkles started as a child…
Living in Norway we had delicious Nugatti on bread (similar to nutella)

and then the weird Danes to the south had hagelslag on buttered bread…

Why why why wouldn’t you want a smooth delicious spread instead of dry sprinkles. Ugh. For some reason a few people in Norway actually preferred it. Whyyyyy!

@jbartus

@RiotDemon Because chocolate > hazelnut

@RiotDemon because texture and taste preferences are unique to the individual? Also what @compunaut said.

@compunaut but it’s chocolate AND hazelnut!

@jbartus I’ll just continue being a heathen and hating on those SPRINKLES.

@RiotDemon JIMMIES

@RiotDemon When & for how long did you live in Norway?

@compunaut Only when I was a youngin. Moved to the states in the 90s and started 2nd grade.

@mikibell I am so confused. Are you hugging me or am I hugging you and it’s unwanted attention. O.o

@RiotDemon My paternal grandparents emigrated from Norway to Chicago in early 1930s; I got to spend a summer with them at the old family homestead near Elverum when I was a kid (early 70s). I have vague memories of chocolate sprinkles on buttered bread…

@jbartus i am the old lady hugging you…silly… (IRL, I only give the ruggies and hubby hugs…)

@mikibell @jbartus @mfladd, I’m not a heathen! I’m southern… I sprinkle! But I also don’t judge…bless your little jimmies hearts.

@mikibell oh, good.

@mehbee you are if you don’t call them jimmies!

@jbartus I refuse to accept that… I feel I’m just Jimmie-challenged

@mehbee you can only be Jimmie challenged if you are unaware of the error of your ways.

@jbartus I sprinkles!! Heathens Unite!

@mehbee Heathen rabble rousers are the worst sort of heathens

@mikibell I have a question I want to ask you, would you mind hitting me up at meh@jbartus.com?

Calling @mikibell

@jbartus opps sorry… I don’t have email notifications on…will do in a few…

@mfladd so I did a thing…

It was… okay. I can’t honestly say it was the best ice cream I have ever had, even commercially, but it was pretty good.

That said, it’s possible that my experience was soured by their cash-only policy. I wouldn’t normally mind it in a small business but they had their own ATM which charged me $2.95 to withdraw $20 outside for my $5.50 ice cream. Depending on how you choose to see it I either incurred a 14.75% tax on my cash withdrawal, a 53.63% premium on my ice cream, either way it far exceeds the expense to the proprietor to accept a modern payment method.

Credit card processing costs ~2.9% on average to the vendor, a cost they could easily absorb by reducing their portions even a smidge. Of course that comes with the caveat that it’s harder to hide from the tax man which can often be a motivating factor for cash based businesses. (Mom’s a CPA, it’s just a general observation not a direct accusation of Hodgie’s) There is of course the fact that they get to profit off of those ATM transactions by means of either renting the space to the ATM company or having a direct share in the ATM fees. Either way it’s consumer unfriendly.

@jbartus What? Did you get Kahlua Chip?

Yes. Cash only. You don’t carry enough cash even for an ice cream cone? Sorry, You did not like it. I love it.

@mfladd I didn’t dislike it, it just wasn’t Earth shattering and I’d had better. It was pretty good but coupled with the hassle.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I forgot you had specified a flavor though… I will trek back (prepared this time) and try at least a single scoop of Kahlua Chip, perhaps some flavors are more special than others.

As for cash, no I don’t. Time was I kept $100 tucked behind my ID in case I needed a cab fare in a pinch or something but it never came up and after ~8 years of doing that and never needing to dip into it as things like credit card acceptance in cabs and mobile payment solutions became commonplace that $100 bought something I wanted. Generational thing I guess?

@metageist He’s totally stalking that girl…

@carl669 Glad you are back in one piece, Bitch!

Also,