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When eating nuts in shells, particularly pistachio, count each nut that you get already shelled. (these are known as freebies and count as one point), and offset those against any that are just the empty shell (known as killers).
You play this is a Russian Roulette style, picking nuts until one
is killed by dropping below zero.
You can turn this into a drinking game by having the first “dead” player to buy a round…
Pistachio Nutrition
http://www.pistachi...thnut.asp#nutrition
[Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004]
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*Some* people might find this amusing. Low cost, and nutritious, too! [link] (+) |
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Have you been bothered by unpleasant thoughts or images that repeatedly enter your mind, such as:
Losing count in a game of Pistachio Roulette?
Are you overconcerned with keeping objects (intact Pistachios, freebies, killers) in perfect order or arranged exactly?
Do you have mental images of dogs/cats/rats pissing/licking on/off contents of Pistachio bag/bowl or other horrible events?
Do you worry about fire, burglary, or flooding damaging Pistachios?
Do you worry about accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car or letting it roll down the hill more/less than losing count of killers and freebies while simultaneously driving and playing Pistachio Roulette?
Do you not worry about spreading an illness such as Pistachio Roulettitus throughout the halfbakery? |
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Fishbone for making me think of “Beer Hunter”. |
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I confess it escapes me why this idea would attract fishbones the way it has. |
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Hey, liam, please don't delete annotations praising [thumbwax]'s annotation. I swear, if you'd deleted his anno, I'd reach through this internet and bonk you! |
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It's generally considered bad form here to delete dissenting opinions, unless they're out-and-out attacks. Indicating boredom doesn't count. |
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Sorry if my deleting pointless "oh that’s a cool thing to say" causes offence but the interjections prevent the whole page from reading well. |
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I am not changing the posts to be all positive, indeed I've removed my own annotation(s) too. I'm just trying to cut the wheat from the chaff. |
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I've no problem with negative opinions, and indeed the original thumbwax posting at least shows some originality, but IMO comments on comments are pointless unless they add something new. |
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Frankly, I've no idea why this little game is getting so heavily fishboned, and I think it’s just that my original posting was in the first person rather than discussing the game in the third person and that seems to have set people off. |
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liam: the first annotation posted here (mine) said, essentailly, "ho hum," which is hard to interpret as a comment on a comment. Don't take it personally if I say your idea bores me. Instead, get a thicker skin and tell me why it's not boring... |
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snarfyguy , if my deletion of your erudite "ho hum," has wounded you, then you are the one that requires the thicker skin... If it had told me why you found it boring, or if it amused then your comment would have survived. |
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At least UnaBubba's comment on shells & fibre is amusing. |
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Look, I'm sorry *sorry* I fail to see the interest in counting nutshells, and I don't really care if you delete my posts. I'm not trying to have a fight. I was just telling you how things work here about deleting others' comments. |
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Then why do we have the delete function at all? If it's to remove _bad_ things, then we [1] could have a report function, and admins/peers could remove them. |
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I never intended to prune anti-Pistachio Roulette comments, just to keep the page readable. Which regretably, I've now failed miserably at... Time out, a beer, and perhaps a peanut this time... |
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[1] this board/community/blah |
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First-person is not an issue. I think the fish are probably because counting miniscule things is just taken as boring and tedious. |
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On the other hand, now and then an idea comes along, the disdain for which seems strangely inappropriate. It seems rather innocuous to me. |
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Pass the swiss cheese, please. Quite a few annotations disappeared, waugs. snarfguy yawned, Gulherme suggested the author get checked for o.c.d. - I explained what prompted THAT to the ever-excitable TSwitch, UnaBubba explained why he offered a fishy treat - twice - and I guess a few 'bakers replied to my first anno, as well as the explanatory anno to the first anno which remains.
The *idea* of playing a drinking game such as this when I was young and stupid is so beyond innocuous, it's boring. I've got a canister of peanuts - reensure'd rather play this for cashews - whoop-tee-doo - it's still the most mindnumbingly dull, dull, dull drinking game I've ever seen. |
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It is not specifically a drinking game, but one can turn this pleasant diversion into one. |
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Aside from all the arguments here, it seems to me that this wouldn't work anyway. I can tell the difference between a shell-less nut, and empty shell, and a normal pistach by feel.
So, an alternative Nut Roulette (only playable by English people who have peanut allergies):
Use a pack of Revels. |
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Sorry, I know that's old. |
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Despite the childish nonsense going on over the HB etiquette, I am voting purely on the basis of my opinion of this idea. No hints as to how I'm voting, either. Everyone else, please take note. |
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of my "voting purely on the basis of my opinion of this idea". |
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