Nah. I'm really an omnivore. Though I do a decent job of faking I'm a vegetarian, should the occasion arise.
I definitely know enough about vegetarian dishes to get the best stuff at vegetarian buffets(hint, hint - get the deserts and the mock mutton curry) and can even converse convincingly about vegetarian recipes=)
Omnivores, yo!
(I heart veggie plates.)
EDIT: not that much; *get's dressed*
I feel its wrong to kill an animal for the horn. What you should have done was to butcher the animal and eat every part of it. Waste not, want not =)agreed.
And also agreed.
There was a time when they'd just call it "free market working as intended." But no, gotta blame the younguns.Well apparently millennials are killing the jewelry industry so We are technically doing our part to save the rhinos by not buying the ivory.One of the more convincing arguments for vegetarianism is stated here, where they talk about feed conversion ratios. Basically on the same plot of land you could feed more people growing soya beans then raising cattle. And since land is a limited resource...the more cattle you're raising means you can feed less people over the same land.
When it comes to animals, aquaculture and poultry rearing are the most efficient, but still not as efficient as just eating the plants themselves.
Of course, there is the counter argument that certain lands are only good for raising cattle and are totally useless for growing soyabeans...
And the world goes by supply and demand. Want to save all those rhinos? If you stop buying rhino horn products, the poachers will realize it isn't profitable, so they'll stop poaching rhinos.
*dang youngin's! Get offa my lawn!*
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaalso worth noting, my Youngest has actually started saying, "GET OFFA MY LAW~!" at everything he can, but especially if it frustrates him in some way.
Also the fact that meat is delicious and soybeans are not.One of the more convincing arguments for vegetarianism is stated here, where they talk about feed conversion ratios. Basically on the same plot of land you could feed more people growing soya beans then raising cattle. And since land is a limited resource...the more cattle you're raising means you can feed less people over the same land.
When it comes to animals, aquaculture and poultry rearing are the most efficient, but still not as efficient as just eating the plants themselves.
Of course, there is the counter argument that certain lands are only good for raising cattle and are totally useless for growing soyabeans...
Also.
Chunk light tuna
Tuna is so good.
Nobody likes plain grits.
I, uh... I, uh... I do.
>.>
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...a child used "ludacris" in their essay. They did not mean the rapper.
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...a child used "ludacris" in their essay. They did not mean the rapper.
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Well, they say, "Write what you know..."
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...a child used "ludacris" in their essay. They did not mean the rapper.
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when I was a kid, I tried to spell different like it was diff'rent strokes.
Mom was not amused.
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COWARDS, WEAK, THOSE RUSHING TO DIE! FOXBIRD!
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Soo...there was a lot of things covered.
1: "The console wars": Pfff, Nintendo, Sony...Bah! Out of the way! We members of GPGMR (or PMR if you prefer) own this show!
2: "Stuff I've eaten": Being stuck in the cold North, we actually don't see that much "exotic Food-stuffs" up here. I guess we could eat some of the frogs, insects or reptiles but there really isn't any tradition for such uo here.
But comming from a family of farmers/hunters...
1. Several species of duck
2. Several species of deer
3. Boar
4. Rabbit and Hare
5. Partridge
6. Pheasant
7. Several species of dove
8. *Ahem* Woodcock... (seriously that's what its called in english I believe)
9. Snipe
10. Probably a bucketload of other gamebirds, that I don't know the english names of ^^
3:"Christmas":
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HA! *takes a swig from his Rum bottle*
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...one of my children has managed to stay so on-top of everything, including bonus questions on prior tests, that they could literally ignore this essay and finish the semester with 100%.
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I will not be pointing this out to them.
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I will not be pointing this out to them.
that's fair, I think. And yet, strangely unfair. I was in a similar situation in junior high, and I had a near nervous breakdown because mom refused to let me focus on the class I was having trouble with because my advanced english class may suddenly switch books and so made me reread chapters i already knew...
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"I'm gonna fail!"
"You are not."
"I'm gonna bomb the test and fail!"
"The...test is worth less than 10% of your grade. Unless you're hovering right above, which you are not, it's not even going to knock you down a letter grade."
"I'm gonna fail."
"It is mathematically impossible for you to fail at this point."
"I'm screwed."
"....you know what, sure. Yep."
My college-age daughter asked if we would disown her if she got a B in Organic Chemistry....
I think I did my job too well...
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Y'know, as I grow older, I'm totally OK with radio stations playing the music I like being referred to as "oldies stations".
But when I ask Pandora for "Classical" Christmas music, I'm expecting stuff no more recent than the 19th century, or at least stuff that sounds 19th century or before.
So when they put on the 1950's warblings of Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra, I hit my Thumbs Down and ask, "How is THAT 'classical'?"
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Y'know, as I grow older, I'm totally OK with radio stations playing the music I like being referred to as "oldies stations".
But when I ask Pandora for "Classical" Christmas music, I'm expecting stuff no more recent than the 19th century, or at least stuff that sounds 19th century or before.
So when they put on the 1950's warblings of Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra, I hit my Thumbs Down and ask, "How is THAT 'classical'?"
Try this one. Beats the heck out of Rosemary Clooney singing "Here comes Suzy Snowflake".
A Festival of Carols in Brass: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0M3AkLyq4Vzjc7MJblj0E9P0Nrwysmxd
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I am only 26 and am suprised at how new the oldies are. Micheal Jackson does not seem oldies to me.
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You're welcome to show up! I'll buy! But you may end up getting volunteered, so up side, down side.And those yummy corn fritters...NobodysHome, Totally Not a Hedonist Tempress (Tempter? Tempticon?):
Chaperone 1: We should probably just hold the meeting at the high school.
Chaperone 2: Or at someone's house, if anyone's willing to volunteer?
Chaperone 3: Let's go some place we can get coffee or tea.
NobodysHome: The local pub serves coffee and tea.
No way. I'll take you up on it sometime when I don't have to deal with other people.
But take a number, because The Not-a-Russian is taking me out for brunch on Friday.
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Y'know, as I grow older, I'm totally OK with radio stations playing the music I like being referred to as "oldies stations".
But when I ask Pandora for "Classical" Christmas music, I'm expecting stuff no more recent than the 19th century, or at least stuff that sounds 19th century or before.
So when they put on the 1950's warblings of Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra, I hit my Thumbs Down and ask, "How is THAT 'classical'?"
Try this one. Beats the heck out of Rosemary Clooney singing "Here comes Suzy Snowflake".
A Festival of Carols in Brass: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0M3AkLyq4Vzjc7MJblj0E9P0Nrwysmxd
I enjoy classical on occasion.
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
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It all tastes like chicken.
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We used to own a rabbit farm.
But then our rabbit and poultry wholesalers (two brothers) tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt him because they thought he was a werewolf.
I think that's the 10th time I've mentioned that here.
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There was a time when they'd just call it "free market working as intended." But no, gotta blame the younguns.Well apparently millennials are killing the jewelry industry so We are technically doing our part to save the rhinos by not buying the ivory.One of the more convincing arguments for vegetarianism is stated here, where they talk about feed conversion ratios. Basically on the same plot of land you could feed more people growing soya beans then raising cattle. And since land is a limited resource...the more cattle you're raising means you can feed less people over the same land.
When it comes to animals, aquaculture and poultry rearing are the most efficient, but still not as efficient as just eating the plants themselves.
Of course, there is the counter argument that certain lands are only good for raising cattle and are totally useless for growing soyabeans...
And the world goes by supply and demand. Want to save all those rhinos? If you stop buying rhino horn products, the poachers will realize it isn't profitable, so they'll stop poaching rhinos.
Of course! When they do something, it's is freemarket working as intended... When someone else does it, then it's killing the industry. Obviously!
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Star Wars Battlefront 2, how is it?
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With or without considering the microtransaction fiasco?
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Still can't beat the Lich King in HS. Went 7/8 on two dungeon runs, during my therapies.
Dungeon run is some luck involved with what set of quest rewards you get. Lich king is sheer dogged persistence with a mage deck with molten giants, faceless manipulator, faceless shambles and molten reflection. If you don't start with a molten giant in your hand, reset until you do. Try aim for Kabul guy for free secrets for one turn then when he hits you to 1 health with a spell, do the same to him after stealing the spell through mana bind. You also need ice armor, and preferably ice block(I don't have it) for that deck.
It took me 3 hours...
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So apparently my BMI is 28.1 and I am in the red zone...
<.<
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Text exchange this afternoon...
Me to Whingey Wizzard: "Profoundly Grinchy. I hate wiping butts, mopping up pee, and noise. I feel like smoking cigarettes and listening to Tom Waits."
Whingey: "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk?"
This is why I keep him around.
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Come with the woods with me. I'll take you on a snipe hunt. Trust me. They're really, really delicious!
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With or without considering the microtransaction fiasco?
Both.
I'm curious because it's free with a console, I assume there's a reason they're handing it out for free...
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Come with the woods with me. I'll take you on a snipe hunt. Trust me. They're really, really delicious!
Mom told us there was a Hodag in the woods behind our house.
It turned out to be an incredibly cantankerous snapping turtle.
I'll never understand why parents make up fictional monsters to keep kids out of certain areas, it only has the opposite effect.
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Pheasant = Gamish chicken, though not very "fatty" in taste and somewhat dry.
Patridge = This one is hard to describe...Darkish meat fowl, medium fatty taste, and a lightish game taste.
Snipe = I find that like, Woodcock, this is a very very gamey bird. The meats tender (atucally is very tender and breaks apart very easily) and juicy, but not overly fatty.
Dove = Not as dry as Pheasant, but on the dryer side. Gamey and a bit "sweeter" tasting then chicken.
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Ah, Clueless Lawfulness, how I hate thee!
So, I'm making chicken soup tonight, but the house got utterly trashed over the weekend (lots of shopping, little cleaning), so I want to send Impus Major to the corner store to get the ingredients. Unfortunately, said ingredients include a bottle of white wine, so he can't do it for me in spite of the facts that:
- The people at the store know him and know he shops for me
- I could give him a note or whatever was necessary to say, "Yes, on this one date he has permission to buy one bottle of wine,"
- It's a 10-minute trip, so it's not like he'd be able to run away with $5 in change and a bottle of wine.But no. No exceptions. No thought. Just, "This is illegal, period. Can't focus on the intent of the law, must focus on the letter."
So I have to find time to go myself. Feh.
That works here the same - selling liquor to under-aged is strictly prohibited. You can get fine and lose license for selling alcohol. So is selling alcohol to drunk folk. Yeah, alcoholism is a sort of problem here. At least in some regions.
To quote what my friends said today: In Poland if you give someone 20 zloty for a favor, he'll likely be offended and punch you, give him a bottle of vodka for a favor and he'll happily do it for you...
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With or without considering the microtransaction fiasco?Both.
I'm curious because it's free with a console, I assume there's a reason they're handing it out for free...
Probably to attempt to scrape together players' good graces after the fiasco.
I haven't played it so I can't comment on how good a game it may be on its own merits. I do know that the nonsense they tried to pull with their lootbox plan significantly extended the time they'll be on my "never buy anything from this company ever" list.
Granted, I'm not really at all part of their target audience so that probably doesn't mean much, but its the intent that counts.
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Come with the woods with me. I'll take you on a snipe hunt. Trust me. They're really, really delicious!
Mom told us there was a Hodag in the woods behind our house.
It turned out to be an incredibly cantankerous snapping turtle.
I'll never understand why parents make up fictional monsters to keep kids out of certain areas, it only has the opposite effect.
I spent sooooo much time as a kid walking through the woods on our land, TRYING to find a hodag lair.
It was useful; I got very good at identifying all sorts of tracks and scat (ages of deer measured by their hoofprints, wolf by scat composition, etc.) just so I would know what to rule out. I was certain that if I was patient enough, I would find one. So disappointed.
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We have begun the session with an argument about whether or not the alchemist has chloroform.
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How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Come with the woods with me. I'll take you on a snipe hunt. Trust me. They're really, really delicious!
Mom told us there was a Hodag in the woods behind our house.
It turned out to be an incredibly cantankerous snapping turtle.
I'll never understand why parents make up fictional monsters to keep kids out of certain areas, it only has the opposite effect.
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I wouldn't mind being out in the woods(so long as there aren't any leeches). The problem is I have no sense of direction, so you'll need to send someone to find me after since I won't be able to find my way out.
I'll take you on a snipe hunt.
Purrrrrrfect!
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*Adds Patridge, snipe and woodcock to the to gobble list*
How do you remove the feathers since at their size they are mostly feathers? Sorry, city cat here.
All our chicken we see is already de-feathered.
The most butchering I've ever done is to clean and gut a fish and remove the innards of a chicken.
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Text exchange this afternoon...
Me to Whingey Wizzard: "Profoundly Grinchy. I hate wiping butts, mopping up pee, and noise. I feel like smoking cigarettes and listening to Tom Waits."
Whingey: "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk?"
This is why I keep him around.
Signs of growing older:
Age 40: "I look forward to the day that I never have to see another diaper again for as long as I live!"
Age 50: "Look! I found cloth diapers on Amazon! Do you know how amazing these things are for cleaning up spills?
So we've been cleaning up after cats, teenagers, and yes, even Hermione and Tiny Valeros, so I just ordered a couple dozen Indian cotton cloth diapers. And now I'm using them to clean up everything. Soooooo happy...
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Hodag?How does pheasant, Patridge, woodcock, dove and snipe taste like,Kjeldorn?
Wait...did you eat snipe?
I had no clue there was really a bird called snipe...
Come with the woods with me. I'll take you on a snipe hunt. Trust me. They're really, really delicious!
Mom told us there was a Hodag in the woods behind our house.
It turned out to be an incredibly cantankerous snapping turtle.
I'll never understand why parents make up fictional monsters to keep kids out of certain areas, it only has the opposite effect.
I admit, I mostly bought Kingmaker because of the Hodag.
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That's an old Disney joke where they put jungle slug on the menu, claiming it tastes like chicken.
It all tastes like chicken.
I assure you, it's much older than 1995.
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It's actually quite nice to go for a walk in the woods, especially the non tropical ones since there are less creepy crawlies.
The problem is you can't really get a good fire in the woods, so you'll end up eating most stuff raw or half cooked. I like seeing flora and fauna though and have spotted geckos and kingfishers around the Park connectors before.
I also have no trapping skillz nor shooting skills, sadly =( Never fished before too =(
Maybe a rank or two in stealth for animal photography.