True.  IBTNP has a Facebook friend whose birthday is today.

True.

IBTNP sets the bar for "comfort food" (meatloaf, for instance) with $maternal_figure's being the gold standard to which none other can aspire.

Correct.  I have not eaten a cupcake today.

IBTNP has never listened to "Nails" by the Look People.

What that question directed at me?

You never introduced yourself to me in the proper way and at the proper place.  Therefore, I am debating whether you are one of Lacerda's sock puppets or a rabid goldfish.  Or whether Lacerda might be a rabid goldfish.

I don't use a secondary fermenter, although there have been times it would have been nice.  You can get very good beer without a secondary fermenter.
I guess it really depends on a couple of things.  What constitutes "a bunch of money" for you?  If you follow instructions precisely and keep everything sanitized, you won't make bad beer (unless you use a recipe that calls for rice malt.)
Basements in general are a good place, but the actual temperature is dependent on your yeast.  If you use an ale yeast, your fermenting temperature will be higher than with a lager yeast or a champagne yeast.  Ale should ferment right in the 68-72F (20-22C) range.  You can go a little bit outside those ranges, but that's the "sweet spot."  You'll only need a fridge for lagers (45-55F, or 7-13C).

I haven't had a really bad batch yet.  I cook the wort in an old canning pot and just shove the fermenter in a quiet dark corner.  I'll let the hydrometer tell me when fermentation is done (that is, if you're following a recipe, it should include an original gravity and a final gravity, and fermentation is done when you hit that final gravity.)
It does cost some money, but not a ridiculous amount.  A lot of the equipment can be purchased at garage sales or on craigslist.  A thermometer is a thermometer.  The brewing-specific equipment you'll need really is the fermenter with airlock, bottling bucket with spigot, bottles (which can be reused bottles that aren't the screw-top type), racking cane and tubing, hydrometer and bottlecapper.

Home brewing is awesomeness and win.  Well worth the investment.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent."  You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas.  You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Result Breakdown:
100% The Midland
67% Philadelphia
65% The South
63% The Inland North
57% The West
45% The Northeast
38% Boston
36% North Central
Quiz Created on GoTo Quiz

Yes, you did, but maybe Jadzia doesn't know what a bacon sausage is.

Jadzia, most bacon software allow certain words to be blocked or changed by things called "sausages". Normally, sausages are used to sausage out obscenities or slurs. However, here at TEH GHEEKERY OMFGLOL, sausages are sometimes used to alter perfectly ordinary words for the purposes of achieving a humorous effect, in the hopes of eliciting an occasional "LOL", "*snerk*", or even "ha ha".

HTH

I don't get it.

Welcome, new person.

Answer me this: if a couch fort can only consist of 3 pillows, what color T-shirt should Bobert wear?

<scoff> I owe Toronto a visit at some point
<Mr_Shfty> outstanding warrants?
<scoff> Well, they're okay but I wouldn't say they're outstanding

I'm hoping you're good at writing homoerotic A-Team fan fiction