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It's got to be close to 30 years since I played Shadowrun.
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Huh. Well look at that.
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.
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The playing in mud portion of my day is complete.
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Ah, the inevitable "week before the event" nonsense:
Very amusing. I wanted to text back. "Nope. Nor is he welcome at the 1-on-1 after-dinner hot tub party," but I felt that might have been mildly inappropriate.
NobodysWife put it really well: You want to have a big get-together with your friends. Your choices are:
(1) Choose a restaurant everyone can readily afford. Which, when you're dealing with teachers, writers, and teenagers boils down to $15-$20 a plate, which around here is basically fast food or Chinese.
(2) Cook a giant meal at home. Kind of removing the entire fun of the situation, since you're working 6-8 hours just before the gathering.
(3) Have the home meal catered. Costs just as much as a restaurant, plus your house gets trashed.
(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.
People are just SOOOOO obsessed with money and fairness, when we all know that money isn't fair. All I want is to have a really nice dinner with all my friends and have nobody even think about what it costs. Instead, the whole weeklong debate leading up to dinner is, "Are you SURE you can afford it?"
If I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't be doing it.
And I'll shout out Lisamarlene as being a champ in NOT doing this. She listened to my arguments and said, "Good enough for me," and let it go. Thank you, Lisamarlene!
Anyway, should be a fun dinner anyway...
EDIT: And I'll openly admit, Shiro gets that impish look on his face whenever I mention the dinner, so I'm suspicious that I won't be getting hit for the full 100% of the cost. Or else I'm going to get a couple of free trips to Rivoli out of it. Win-win, in my book.
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Ah, the inevitable "week before the event" nonsense:
After going around the Fake Russian to his wife to get a confirmation, then confirming with the restaurant, the Fake Russian had a sudden (and very legitimate) need to bow out. Now I'm waiting on his wife to find out whether to call the restaurant and drop 1 or two. (Honestly, 14 to 13 doesn't need a call, but 14 to 12 usually means they can slip in a table for 2 somewhere else.)
Similarly, choir director texted with, "I forget. Is my husband invited?"
Very amusing. I wanted to text back. "Nope. Nor is he welcome at the 1-on-1 after-dinner hot tub party," but I felt that might have been mildly inappropriate.
Still having issues with the whole, "NobodysHome is paying for dinner. Stop arguing," thing.
NobodysWife put it really well: You want to have a big get-together with your friends. Your choices are:
(1) Choose a restaurant everyone can readily afford. Which, when you're dealing with teachers, writers, and teenagers boils down to $10-$15 a plate, which around here is basically fast food or Chinese.
(2) Cook a giant meal at home. Kind of removing the entire fun of the situation, since you're working 6-8 hours just before the gathering.
(3) Have the home meal catered. Costs just as much as a restaurant, plus your house gets trashed.
(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.People are just SOOOOO obsessed with money and fairness, when we all know that money isn't fair. All I want is to have a really nice dinner with all my friends and have nobody even think about what it costs. Instead, the whole weeklong debate leading up to dinner is, "Are you SURE you can afford it?"
If I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't be doing it.
And I'll shout out Lisamarlene as being a champ in NOT doing this. She listened to my arguments and said, "Good enough for me," and let it go. Thank you, Lisamarlene!
Anyway, should be a fun dinner anyway...
is the Fake Russian the one I sound like?
I forget which one I sound like...
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.
My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.
if its from a video game or an anime, I probably like it. Everything else is case by case.
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if its from a video game or an anime, I probably like it. Everything else is case by case.Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.
If memory serves correctly I subjected you to my love of Johnny Cash a few years back.
Sounds like you and my daughter, Arden, have the same taste in music.
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.
You must still be young. In my teens I misliked most pop songs, and despised metal. By my late 40s, I was starting to admire just how polished and cleverly-crafted many of the 90s pop songs were, and I find myself seriously enjoying Impus Major's European metal.
Dressing up like Joakim Broden at 50 was quite the blast, too.
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...is the Fake Russian the one I sound like?
I forget...
No idea. You keep knocking me unconscious and stealing all the women I know to the abscondicave. All I've ever heard is your maniacal cackle.
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.You must still be young. In my teens I misliked most pop songs, and despised metal. By my late 40s, I was starting to admire just how polished and cleverly-crafted many of the 90s pop songs were, and I find myself seriously enjoying Impus Major's European metal.
Dressing up like Joakim Broden at 50 was quite the blast, too.
Don't know if I'd call 43 young. Though I reckon to some it may be. ;)
I tend to kind of stay the same through out my life, hell until about 4 years ago I've only ever cut my hair one way. Still dress the same as I did as a teen, jeans and either tshirt or button up, converse all stars or work boots.
I even weigh within 10 pounds of what I did at 15, around 185. I'm like Peter freaking Pan that way.
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I am for the first time ever considering the purchase of minis, for the D&D-like game I am running at home. I have no idea what other companies have to offer, but Paizo's offerings look both impressive and reasonably-priced. I'm thinking paper minis or pawns for NPCs/monsters, and 3D for PCs.
Any comments or recommendations?
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.You must still be young. In my teens I misliked most pop songs, and despised metal. By my late 40s, I was starting to admire just how polished and cleverly-crafted many of the 90s pop songs were, and I find myself seriously enjoying Impus Major's European metal.
Dressing up like Joakim Broden at 50 was quite the blast, too.
Don't know if I'd call 43 young. Though I reckon to some it may be. ;)
I tend to kind of stay the same through out my life, hell until about 4 years ago I've only ever cut my hair one way. Still dress the same as I did as a teen, jeans and either tshirt or button up, converse all stars or work boots.
I even weigh within 10 pounds of what I did at 15, around 185. I'm like Peter freaking Pan that way.
Lucky! I did hard-core Tae Kwon Do (22 hours a week!!) from 20-23 and fought at 155 lbs, but quitting cold and continuing to eat 5000-6000 calories a day is detrimental to your body shape. I ballooned to 185 within 2 months, and have stayed within 15 pounds of that for most of the last 27 years.
In terms of fashion, I'm wearing much the same stuff (loose cotton pants and T-shirts), but skate pants with skulls 'n' such went out of fashion, so I've switched to Chefwear. Explaining the many references to me and "fish pants".
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I am for the first time ever considering the purchase of minis, for the D&D-like game I am running at home. I have no idea what other companies have to offer, but Paizo's offerings look both impressive and reasonably-priced. I'm thinking paper minis or pawns for NPCs/monsters, and 3D for PCs.
Any comments or recommendations?
I'm a convert to WizKids pre-painted plastic, because even though both Dark Sword and Reaper make some really good-looking minis, the fact that they're unpainted and I'm hopelessly untalented means that I end up with things like my beautiful unpainted mini for my gnome rogue still being in its box while I use the Wizkids Lini iconic mini because it's easy.
I have dropped the plastic figures dozens of times, and a few have bent or broken, but they're even easier to fix than the metal ones.
So, as we all know, I have a ridiculous disposable income and I don't spend it on much of anything other than food and Pathfinder (and Disneyland). So I have 5 battle cases (Rise of the Runelords, Wrath of the Righteous, Skull & Shackles, Crown of Fangs, and Shattered Star), and I love having that many minis to choose from. And yeah, they're not the best they could be; when GothBard decides to create a custom mini for herself from a Dark Sword base she creates something truly astounding.
But for a lazy GM who just wants something that remotely resembles the monster it's supposed to be, WizKids pre-painted plastic is one of the cheaper, easier options.
Having done both paper minis and pawns, I found that the paper minis similarly suffered from the "too much work" issue (a glass bead and a picture on your computer screen to show what they look like works just as well), and both I and my players significantly prefer minis over pawns, even though the art on the pawns is "better".
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.You must still be young. In my teens I misliked most pop songs, and despised metal. By my late 40s, I was starting to admire just how polished and cleverly-crafted many of the 90s pop songs were, and I find myself seriously enjoying Impus Major's European metal.
Dressing up like Joakim Broden at 50 was quite the blast, too.
Don't know if I'd call 43 young. Though I reckon to some it may be. ;)
I tend to kind of stay the same through out my life, hell until about 4 years ago I've only ever cut my hair one way. Still dress the same as I did as a teen, jeans and either tshirt or button up, converse all stars or work boots.
I even weigh within 10 pounds of what I did at 15, around 185. I'm like Peter freaking Pan that way.
Lucky! I did hard-core Tae Kwon Do (22 hours a week!!) from 20-23 and fought at 155 lbs, but quitting cold and continuing to eat 5000-6000 calories a day is detrimental to your body shape. I ballooned to 185 within 2 months, and have stayed within 15 pounds of that for most of the last 27 years.
In terms of fashion, I'm wearing much the same stuff (loose cotton pants and T-shirts), but skate pants with skulls 'n' such went out of fashion, so I've switched to Chefwear. Explaining the many references to me and "fish pants".
No kidding! I fought Muay Thai from 20-24. Quit fighting after meeting my wife. Of course now I pay for thinking I was indestructible back then.
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Reaper has good product. The only downside is that they're unpainted.
The second downside is that many of their products also require to be epoxied together.
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if its from a video game or an anime, I probably like it. Everything else is case by case.Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.If memory serves correctly I subjected you to my love of Johnny Cash a few years back.
Sounds like you and my daughter, Arden, have the same taste in music.
your music is damn good. You need to hang with markthomas66.
How is she? Probably tall and grown and breaking hearts, she was cute last I saw her.
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Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.You must still be young. In my teens I misliked most pop songs, and despised metal. By my late 40s, I was starting to admire just how polished and cleverly-crafted many of the 90s pop songs were, and I find myself seriously enjoying Impus Major's European metal.
Dressing up like Joakim Broden at 50 was quite the blast, too.
Don't know if I'd call 43 young. Though I reckon to some it may be. ;)
I tend to kind of stay the same through out my life, hell until about 4 years ago I've only ever cut my hair one way. Still dress the same as I did as a teen, jeans and either tshirt or button up, converse all stars or work boots.
I even weigh within 10 pounds of what I did at 15, around 185. I'm like Peter freaking Pan that way.
Lucky! I did hard-core Tae Kwon Do (22 hours a week!!) from 20-23 and fought at 155 lbs, but quitting cold and continuing to eat 5000-6000 calories a day is detrimental to your body shape. I ballooned to 185 within 2 months, and have stayed within 15 pounds of that for most of the last 27 years.
In terms of fashion, I'm wearing much the same stuff (loose cotton pants and T-shirts), but skate pants with skulls 'n' such went out of fashion, so I've switched to Chefwear. Explaining the many references to me and "fish pants".
shut up, the two of you.
Master Freehold, you continue to weigh 230-something, and-
I SAID SHUT UP!
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No idea. You keep knocking me unconscious and stealing all the women I know to the abscondicave. All I've ever heard is your maniacal cackle....is the Fake Russian the one I sound like?
I forget...
i dont knock you unconscious, the drugs in the chocolate cake do!
Its not stealing, its absconding! Oh, btw, please tell your wife her personalized card for her private abscondi-cave suite is ready for pickup.
And I wasn't cackling, I was coughing! Lisamarlene, thank you for the lozenge.
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if its from a video game or an anime, I probably like it. Everything else is case by case.Oof. Current Me wants to grab Then Me by the throat over certain musical taste decisions.My taste in music hasn't changed much throughout my life, I just add new stuff to it from time to time. But then again I've always been hung up on 50s and 60s country and rock.If memory serves correctly I subjected you to my love of Johnny Cash a few years back.
Sounds like you and my daughter, Arden, have the same taste in music.
your music is damn good. You need to hang with markthomas66.
How is she? Probably tall and grown and breaking hearts, she was cute last I saw her.
OMG, she's taller than her momma now, and all into her "rocker phase". As for the heart breaking, her first girlfriend broke up with her right before the end of school, but I bought her a new guitar and she's pouring herself into music. Shoot me a text if you still have my number, I'll send you some pics.
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I've had the same haircut since I was thirteen, more or less, I have cut it twice, and in my teenage years I had it shaved into a Mohawk (never did get it to stand up) but it's so thick and curly you hardly noticed.
My clothes are the same, T-shirt and cargo shorts.
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I'd be pissed if I woke up as a surface elf.
Those art wordes of fyghtyngge. Bring it ye on, purple-balls.
Juste as well that tonighte, we diddeth Ytalian side-sworde, thenne dagger. I did enjoy mineselfe mightily, heatewayve be damndeth.
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(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.
I'm clearly missing something here, why would everyone hate you?
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(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.I'm clearly missing something here, why would everyone hate you?
Preparing dishes for a west coast potluck is some hardcore competitive s%$%!
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So, uh, Empire Of Bones.
The question isn't "How do I turn it into Mars Attacks" but more "How do I NOT turn it into Mars Attacks"
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So, uh, Empire Of Bones.
The question isn't "How do I turn it into Mars Attacks" but more "How do I NOT turn it into Mars Attacks"
Akk akk! Akk akk akk!!
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(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.I'm clearly missing something here, why would everyone hate you?
I think potlucks in the midwest and south are fundamentally different from potlucks around here. CY put it decently, but there are a lot of things going on in California potlucks:
I have rarely been to a potluck in California that was anything short of unpleasant, and most were far worse than that.
My curry had too much sodium. (Or was too hot. Or wasn't hot enough. Or wasn't authentic. Or was offensive because I wasn't Indian. I made a lot of curries for the dojo, and was usually insulted about them at by at least one person, and a different one every time.) My chicken was roasted when everyone knows chicken should only ever be fried. My seared ahi sashimi was apparently so bad that someone took one taste and threw both platters in the trash.
To say I mislike potlucks is akin to saying .
I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.
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*closes eyes and whimpers as she tries to run away**Puts shell back on*
*Wobbles after kitty, and places a turtle foot on her shoulder and gives her a small pats, while giving her the 'Sorry-for-pulling-a-stunt-like-that-look'*
*Offers apology nuzzle*
*gingerly cracks open an eyelid to check if Cover Turtle is not showing off his butt, then nuzzles him back. *
But singapore has strict laws against nudity here and having s*x in a public place is an offence.
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(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.I'm clearly missing something here, why would everyone hate you?I think potlucks in the midwest and south are fundamentally different from potlucks around here. CY put it decently, but there are a lot of things going on in California potlucks:
People take them very, very seriously and constantly try to out-do each other on their dishes.
People have no issues whatsoever telling you the shortcomings of whatever it is you brought.
At least 3 people will tell you why they can't eat what you brought, and why you're a horrible person for not knowing these fundamental things about them.
I have rarely been to a potluck in California that was anything short of unpleasant, and most were far worse than that.
My curry had too much sodium. (Or was too hot. Or wasn't hot enough. Or wasn't authentic. Or was offensive because I wasn't Indian. I made a lot of curries for the dojo, and was usually insulted about it at by at least one person, and a different one every time.) My chicken was roasted when everyone knows chicken should only ever be fried. My seared ahi sashimi was apparently so bad that someone took one taste and threw both platters in the trash.To say I mislike potlucks is akin to saying .
I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.
So it's nothing to do with the food and everything to do with people being a&~!$%&s. Got it.
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weeping, that my job is not as awesome as yours.what are you doing nowadays?Always good when one enjoys their work, I love mine after all.Cap will agree with you. He works in landscaping and honestly seems to enjoy it.I'd say that sounds fun, but I'm not sure you'd agree with me. In the end it should at least be rewarding?Wow! So much mud.I gotta ask Cap'n, what are you up to in the mud?A little bit of everything today.
A timber planting box, moving some boulders, and a wall, so far.
After three years in Houston I left the town and a decade+ of pest control to move to Boca Raton Florida....
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How about you?
It is pretty fun. Although some women are hesitant to speak to me about issues.... others really have no problem telling me EVERYTHING. O.o
Later this year the company is releasing a couple of designs that me and the wife came up with, that's got us excited.
thats wonderful.
So glad you guys are making new toys.
LOL. Trying not to think of the new toys bit. But if you're looking for a toy, I'd go for the school of being as open as possible with the toy manufacturer so it fits your requirements.
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I think I'd wake up as a dwarf. You know, short and tubby?
Which reminds me, my paws are aching now. I guess I'm not exactly used to repeatedly punching stuff, and my right hind paw is aching from holding combat stance yesterday. Ah well. It's a good ouch, if you get my drift =)
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NH - chicken can be roasted. Fried is a sh *t ton of calories which would make me feel really guilty after. Curries are tricky things. Make a curry that is mild enough for me to eat, and my aunt and dad would complain because it's not spicy enough for them.
Basically the larger the group, the harder to please everyone. Even cooking at home, if the salt content makes my mom and brother happy, it'll be too bland for me and my Dad.
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LOL. Trying not to think of the new toys bit. But if you're looking for a toy, I'd go for the school of being as open as possible with the toy manufacturer so it fits your requirements.
o_O
And here I was thinking of Mort as a prude...
So... many... double-entendres...
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.. Which reminds me, my paws are aching now. I guess I'm not exactly used to repeatedly punching stuff, and my right hind paw is aching from holding combat stance yesterday. Ah well. It's a good ouch, if you get my drift =) ..
*Lumbers over with a new ice-pack for kitty, looks her paw over and gives her a 'Good-night nuzzle'. Continues on to his spot besides her basket, where he spins around himself a couple of times, yawns, and lies down to go to sleep.*
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LOL. Trying not to think of the new toys bit. But if you're looking for a toy, I'd go for the school of being as open as possible with the toy manufacturer so it fits your requirements.o_O
And here I was thinking of Mort as a prude...
So... many... double-entendres...
I think I'm digging myself into a deeper hole, but if you want something that works, shouldn't you tell the product manufacturer what you want to see?
Also I don't have issues with female nudity, just male. Because too many people in the gym have been going starkers in the changing room. So if you kept trying to avoid looking, nothing would get done.
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.. Which reminds me, my paws are aching now. I guess I'm not exactly used to repeatedly punching stuff, and my right hind paw is aching from holding combat stance yesterday. Ah well. It's a good ouch, if you get my drift =) ..*Lumbers over with a new ice-pack for kitty, looks her paw over and gives her a 'Good-night nuzzle'. Continues on to his spot besides her basket, where he spins around himself a couple of times, yawns, and lies down to go to sleep.*
*purrs and nuzzles the turtle as well*
There are shell less turtles as well.
I shouldn't be that shell prejudiced.
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I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.
That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
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Hey all, what have I missed over the weekend?
I created a FaWtL Discord named DaWtL (and, though it started out as an unintentional pun, it is now very intentional), and have lost most of my sleeping time to a variety of games and kids.
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You haven't experienced hell until you've been to a good old fashioned Midwestern potluck/barn dance.
Someone will bring Lutefisk, and then insist that everyone HAS to try it (do not try it).
And then the dance, my gosh, I have a notoriously terrible sense of smell, but even I can smell the stench of a large group of people that had just eaten lutefisk and are jostling around in a poorly ventilated barn.
*shudder*
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You see food is a strange thing. I may cook something nice(at least to me) but the saying one man's meat is the other's poison. Like my family in Italy. They kept complaining about no Chinese food that they started going for some sub-standard crap, even though there was all that lovely pizzas and pastas around.
I don't really understand their decision to this day.
So if I started stewing braised pork (btw, I can't really do that - I never learnt the recipes that require a lot of prep time, since I'm a lazy hack), you guys may be unused to the taste, and thus unwilling to even give it a try.
Personally, despite all the stuff I've complained about cheese Rangoons I would try one if offered. Then I'd give my opinion about it.
I know too strong cheeses like the stinky blue don't go well with me since I've actually tried a small piece of it at a buffet.
And sorry, no, I don't take Cabonara. Aglio Olio, please, or tomato base spaghetti.
What in the Sam Hell have y'all been up to since I last popped on?
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