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So we have a inspection "secret shopper" expected this week I think I figured out who it is. No normal human being asks me such precise questions and is that ready with personal information.
So, you've seen the "Hotel Inspector" episode of Fawlty Towers, right?
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Of course I'm naked; I just woke up.
Where's that damned lizardlich floozy armor I was wearing yesterday?
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It's 5:40 in the morning and I'm still in bed and I'm on holiday.
Be a nice kitty and bring me a slice of that cake you were talking about, will you?
It just occurred to me that:
Online social media functions much like a Ouija board...except as used by millions of people simultaneously, most of whom hate each other, know nothing of substance about each other, and in very nearly as many cases, don't even know how to properly use a Ouija board.
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The current prevailing social/political/cultural climate.
FINIS
Its a very human trait to crave personal validation.
Heck most people tend to be rather miserable creatures when they aren't validated in their feelings, beliefs or even just existence.That said, when in olden days you had just your immediate present peers to validate you, the process seem slow, fraught with social coding and social maneuvering and intersperse with long periods introspection and personal readjusting.
Now it seem we've handed a huge swath of humanity a 'giant megaphone' so we can scream out that need for validation into the aether, waiting impatiently for the echo to bounce back at us from the amorphous mass of feelings, opinions and anxieties that swirl around out there in net-space. And lo and behold an answer we get to assure us of our doubts! Since there's now millions upon millions of 'peers' there's always some who'll agree with us. Thus we become sated, as our validation has been archived and our existential (or maybe fundamental?) angst and doubt have been temporarily quasted, until our next 'personal crisis'
*shakes cane at screen*
"People aren't going to care about you, so you need to take care of yourself."
** spoiler omitted **
And I'll leave that at that before I get myself in trouble with the FaWtL police. :P
Yea, let's just say I don't agree.
We are island. Or more accurately our 'worlds' projected through our egos are.They are islands which constantly form land bridges onto other islands, where the sea washes some away, just to reveal new ones as the tides recede.
Or at least that's what it feels like most of the time...
Lord Synos. I make a mean orange cake (I actually sold one for $ 15^^ - I'm not sure how heavy it actually weighed I'd guess around 1 kg). And a decent banana cake. I'm still working on that chocolate cake...so the word cake and not available doesn't ring any bells in my head =)Even if there were NO shops selling cakes, I'd just bake my own...it doesn't really take very long, maybe 3 hours of work, including baking time?
*mouth waters*
Are steel-toed boots allowed?
Was wearing a pair...
Doesn't really help much when he steeped right on top of the 'foot bridge', just bellow the shin >_<'
I'm sorry about that stallion. Did you have words with him? Spank him? Have you put your foot into an ice tub?
Yup.
Along the lines of: "Get off your f&!&er!"and pinched the tip of his upper lip/muzzle until he steeped off.
Got a cold-pack on my foot right now.
*Swigs the last of his scotch*
What language did you read the Christian Jacq books in? I liked his earlier series, the Ramses series, The Stone of Light Series, The Queen of Freedom Trilogy. The rest not that much.
English, but I'm pretty sure they were originally written in French.
I do not do tattoos or jewellery.
Hello, IHIYC!
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It just occurred to me that:
Online social media functions much like a Ouija board...except as used by millions of people simultaneously, most of whom hate each other, know nothing of substance about each other, and in very nearly as many cases, don't even know how to properly use a Ouija board.
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The current prevailing social/political/cultural climate.
FINIS
Its a very human trait to crave personal validation.
Heck most people tend to be rather miserable creatures when they aren't validated in their feelings, beliefs or even just existence.
That said, when in olden days you had just your immediate present peers to validate you, the process seem slow, fraught with social coding and social maneuvering and intersperse with long periods introspection and personal readjusting.Now it seem we've handed a huge swath of humanity a 'giant megaphone' so we can scream out that need for validation into the aether, waiting impatiently for the echo to bounce back at us from the amorphous mass of feelings, opinions and anxieties that swirl around out there in net-space. And lo and behold an answer we get to assure us of our doubts! Since there's now millions upon millions of 'peers' there's always some who'll agree with us. Thus we become sated, as our validation has been archived and our existential (or maybe fundamental?) angst and doubt have been temporarily quasted, until our next 'personal crisis'
*shakes cane at screen*
"People aren't going to care about you, so you need to take care of yourself."
** spoiler omitted **
And I'll leave that at that before I get myself in trouble with the FaWtL police. :P
Yea, let's just say I don't agree.
We are island. Or more accurately our 'worlds' projected through our egos are.
They are islands which constantly form land bridges onto other islands, where the sea washes some away, just to reveal new ones as the tides recede.Or at least that's what...
I dunno, Kjel.
There are parts of what you say that I absolutely agree with.
As one of my profs in college was fond of saying, "We are each of moored on our own little reef of solipsism, with the sharks circling."
And, yes, very often the function of social media seems to be a sort of sonic ping in the darkness to see if there is anybody out there who can, yes, validate us.
But then there's FAWTL, which, in a world of Facebook and Twitter, for me functions exactly as Lord Synos suggested.
I hopped onto FAWTL a year and a half ago, during what was without question the second-worst year of my life. Because I needed a place that was safe from the gossip and busybodyness of social media, TBH.
And, yes, there are occasional arguments, and yes, a little shade is thrown here and there, but for the most part, I've found the people here to be kind and good and supportive of one another, and I've been on the receiving end of more acts of kindness from people thousands of miles away than I can, at this point, count.
Honestly, knowing I've still got FAWTL is one of the things that is making this upcoming move to Texas just a little more bearable.
Yay! Excavation! My favorite word in the English language.
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Lord Synos - I won't have access to my recipes since it's the weekend, but would you want ze Orange Sponge Cake Recipe when I can get my paws onto it?
I know my banana cake tends to be a bit wet since I opted to use bananas instead of any kind of flavouring, and bananas add water content to the cake.
Hmm, I'd love to take you up on that. :D I'll take the banana cake too, if that's alright? I usually use real bananas too anyhow, can't beat the real thing for taste. :D
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Let me see...I'm checking my google drive, I think I can recreate the recipe from memory and some notes.
2 cups of plain flour
3/4 cup of sugar
2 large oranges
200 g of butter
3 large eggs
200 ml of orange juice
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 tea spoon of bicarbonate of soda
1)Take the butter out of the fridge and let it warm up for half an hour or so.
1) Skin both oranges for the orange zest, then grate it finely.
2) Squeeze out the orange juice of both oranges. If it's more then 200 ml, drink up the extra. If it's less (shouldn't be less then 150 ml, or you really should have gotten bigger oranges, top up to 200 ml mark)
2) Grease the pan with butter/oil (I'm not sure of the measurements of my pan, I really should go home and check)
3) Heat the oven at 320 F while you do the other steps of the cake.
4) Sieve the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a separate bowl.
5) Cream the butter with the sugar using a mixer.
6) Add eggs, one by one into the butter sugar mix and have it mixed further.
7) Add the flour(mixed with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda) into the butter,sugar and egg mix, in 3 batches. As the mixture gets drier, add in the orange juice and orange zest. After that pour the mixture into the baking pan.
8) Put it in the oven to bake, about 1h 30 min (Also depends on how hot your oven is - stick it with a satay stick to determine if its cooked or not). On the last 10 mins or so, increase the temperature to 338 F - to get the cake to peak.
The preheating of the oven will take about 30 min, but you'll be using those 30 min to do the other steps (to save time) so the preheating will be done by the time you're ready to put the cake in.
When I say cups, I mean use a Measuring cup
All measurements for tablespoons and teaspoons are done using Measuring spoons
Banana cake I rather not because the amount of sodium bicarbonate is quite a bit higher and the steps are slightly different.
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What language did you read the Christian Jacq books in? I liked his earlier series, the Ramses series, The Stone of Light Series, The Queen of Freedom Trilogy. The rest not that much.English, but I'm pretty sure they were originally written in French.
I do not do tattoos or jewellery.
Hello, IHIYC!
I also read them in english. Maybe Christan Jacq isn't the type of author for you. We all have different tastes.
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LM, I have no cake at the moment, my last chocolate cake experiment went...kaspoof and I ended up with brownies >.< Dry brownies.
I suppose when I increased the amount of cocoa powder added, I should have increased the butter and water added in as well =(
And I'm nephew sitting tomorrow, I won't have time to bake any cake.
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What does IHIYC mean, Limey?
Also, LM - I tried this earlier, but it turned out too wet for my taste.
What does IHIYC mean, Limey?
Also, LM - I tried this earlier, but it turned out too wet for my taste.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet posted earlier.
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*has no reaction**paws up and waits with bated breath to see Gran's reaction*Please don't eat Sheppard's pie. He saved the universe (multiple?) times, and then you just go and eat his pie. You prick.Now I'm hungry for Sheppard's pieNothing quite like family.Without question. Is my sister tactless and tasteless? Frequently.
She has this obsession with calling out my mother's family's WASP insularity... they eat nothing with any kind of seasoning or spice (or flavor, to be honest) other than salt and pepper, won't try anything outside of their narrow little box, won't explore anything the rest of the world has to offer, and turn up their noses at the suggestion that it might actually be good.
Does she say so non-offensively? Of course not. She's my sister.
Reminds me of my family, especially my mom who will stick pretty much to nothing but Chinese food. I think it's one of the things the older generation get(sorry if I'm insulting anyone). My Aunt is happy eating Japanese food and my Dad can be quite happy eating steaks, but too long of western cuisine(like what happened in Italy), and they'll have to find whatever passes for Chinese food in the country and eat it.
I probably have mentioned it before, but the only time I suffered from that was when I was in UK on a school trip. The salmon was over baked and dry, and they kept giving me fried fish and chips. I did try them with mash peas, and I'll say the taste is pretty unique.
Mushy peas, oh yes.
Did you have hot pie & peas?
No, no, its a pie made from the commander. Its an old Krogan recipe.
Its his favorite pie on the citadel.
*is disapointed and sighs*
I'm Hiding In Your Closet is what it means. :-)
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...*is*has no reaction**paws up and waits with bated breath to see Gran's reaction*Please don't eat Sheppard's pie. He saved the universe (multiple?) times, and then you just go and eat his pie. You prick.Now I'm hungry for Sheppard's pieNothing quite like family.Without question. Is my sister tactless and tasteless? Frequently.
She has this obsession with calling out my mother's family's WASP insularity... they eat nothing with any kind of seasoning or spice (or flavor, to be honest) other than salt and pepper, won't try anything outside of their narrow little box, won't explore anything the rest of the world has to offer, and turn up their noses at the suggestion that it might actually be good.
Does she say so non-offensively? Of course not. She's my sister.
Reminds me of my family, especially my mom who will stick pretty much to nothing but Chinese food. I think it's one of the things the older generation get(sorry if I'm insulting anyone). My Aunt is happy eating Japanese food and my Dad can be quite happy eating steaks, but too long of western cuisine(like what happened in Italy), and they'll have to find whatever passes for Chinese food in the country and eat it.
I probably have mentioned it before, but the only time I suffered from that was when I was in UK on a school trip. The salmon was over baked and dry, and they kept giving me fried fish and chips. I did try them with mash peas, and I'll say the taste is pretty unique.
Mushy peas, oh yes.
Did you have hot pie & peas?
No, no, its a pie made from the commander. Its an old Krogan recipe.
Its his favorite pie on the citadel.
I was expecting you would call Woran out on it going something like, "How could you?!"
Considering you complained about people eating his pie.
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I dunno, Kjel.
There are parts of what you say that I absolutely agree with.
As one of my profs in college was fond of saying, "We are each of moored on our own little reef of solipsism, with the sharks circling."And, yes, very often the function of social media seems to be a sort of sonic ping in the darkness to see if there is anybody out there who can, yes, validate us.
But then there's FAWTL, which, in a world of Facebook and Twitter, for me functions exactly as Lord Synos suggested.
I hopped onto FAWTL a year and a half ago, during what was without question the second-worst year of my life. Because I needed a place that was safe from the gossip and busybodyness of social media, TBH.
And, yes, there are occasional arguments, and yes, a little shade is thrown here and there, but for the most part, I've found the people here to be kind and good and supportive of one another, and I've been on the receiving end of more acts of kindness from people thousands of miles away than I can, at this point, count.
Honestly, knowing I've still got FAWTL is one of the things that is making this upcoming move to Texas just a little more bearable.
I kind of get it LM, I really do.
It's not that the net is just a bad thing, cause it isn't. This is a nice place, no doubt about it! There's so many good and nice people here! I would never want to dissuade you of treating this place as a place of comfort and calm in your life.All I'm saying is that people are a complex bunch.
Unfortunately that means that even these boards aren't free of people grasping for validation for their particular cause however benign or frivolous it might seem.
Not to talk about the constant attempt to pigeonhole complex issues into tired tripe universalisms
*Looks at what's he's writing...yea that could kind of count too*
It's making me feel old and tired…
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"Do you want me to tape a spoon to the end of that and you can use it to eat your pudding cup" - Coworker, after I shave off a half inch exactly with our mini bobcat.
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"Do you want me to tape a spoon to the end of that and you can use it to eat your pudding cup" - Coworker, after I shave off a half inch exactly with our mini bobcat.
That's just ridiculous. I know crane operators are working with that level of precision, but they have spotters and radios. I'm assuming by your statement nobody was spotting for you.
No spotters, it's only a fifteen foot by fifteen foot patio hole I'm digging out.
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No spotters, it's only a fifteen foot by fifteen foot patio hole I'm digging out.
Regardless of it only being a 15x15, that still requires fantastic eyesight and spatial awareness, as well fine control of the machine.
The reason I'm so quick at building walls is because when I put in a base block it's already level. :-)
Also, I like to watch other people do it, they have a phenomenal group of older skid loader operators where I work.
Plus, for an older group of guys they are incredibly cheerful!
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THE CON IS ON
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It just occurred to me that:
Online social media functions much like a Ouija board...except as used by millions of people simultaneously, most of whom hate each other, know nothing of substance about each other, and in very nearly as many cases, don't even know how to properly use a Ouija board.
∴
The current prevailing social/political/cultural climate.
FINIS
Its a very human trait to crave personal validation.
Heck most people tend to be rather miserable creatures when they aren't validated in their feelings, beliefs or even just existence.
That said, when in olden days you had just your immediate present peers to validate you, the process seem slow, fraught with social coding and social maneuvering and intersperse with long periods introspection and personal readjusting.Now it seem we've handed a huge swath of humanity a 'giant megaphone' so we can scream out that need for validation into the aether, waiting impatiently for the echo to bounce back at us from the amorphous mass of feelings, opinions and anxieties that swirl around out there in net-space. And lo and behold an answer we get to assure us of our doubts! Since there's now millions upon millions of 'peers' there's always some who'll agree with us. Thus we become sated, as our validation has been archived and our existential (or maybe fundamental?) angst and doubt have been temporarily quasted, until our next 'personal crisis'
*shakes cane at screen*
"People aren't going to care about you, so you need to take care of yourself."
** spoiler omitted **
And I'll leave that at that before I get myself in trouble with the FaWtL police. :P
Yea, let's just say I don't agree.
We are island. Or more accurately our 'worlds' projected through our egos are.
They are islands which constantly form land bridges onto other islands, where the sea washes some away, just to reveal new ones as the tides recede.
I dunno, Kjel.
There are parts of what you say that I absolutely agree with.
As one of my profs in college was fond of saying, "We are each of moored on our own little reef of solipsism, with the sharks circling."And, yes, very often the function of social media seems to be a sort of sonic ping in the darkness to see if there is anybody out there who can, yes, validate us.
But then there's FAWTL, which, in a world of Facebook and Twitter, for me functions exactly as Lord Synos suggested.
I hopped onto FAWTL a year and a half ago, during what was without question the second-worst year of my life. Because I needed a place that was safe from the gossip and busybodyness of social media, TBH.
And, yes, there are occasional arguments, and yes, a little shade is thrown here and there, but for the most part, I've found the people here to be kind and good and supportive of one another, and I've been on the receiving end of more acts of kindness from people thousands of miles away than I can, at this point, count.
Honestly, knowing I've still got FAWTL is one of the things that is making this upcoming move to Texas just a little more bearable.
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So, some good news. I got a new job, and start on Monday.
In other news, my birthday is only eight days away, and I'm pretty excited oddly enough.
Congrats on the new job!
So, some good news. I got a new job, and start on Monday.
In other news, my birthday is only eight days away, and I'm pretty excited oddly enough.
ICY ICY ICY ICY ICY ICY ICY ICY
Yes?
So, some good news. I got a new job, and start on Monday.
In other news, my birthday is only eight days away, and I'm pretty excited oddly enough.
Good luck on your new job Icy.
And as another July b-day child (twelve days) congrats too ^^
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I may be meeting vanykyre later and I found a housewarming gift for Lisamarlene.
I love conventions.
I am actually possibly going to a convention on my birthday. It's a gift for me, and a late gift for my brother, who turned 15 on June. They grow up so fast...
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So we have a inspection "secret shopper" expected this week I think I figured out who it is. No normal human being asks me such precise questions and is that ready with personal information.So, you've seen the "Hotel Inspector" episode of Fawlty Towers, right?
Edit:
Of course I'm naked; I just woke up.
Where's that damned lizardlich floozy armor I was wearing yesterday?
its right here,in the portable wardrobe i keep for just such an occasion.
Hey there, Kjel! Is your new employer doing okay by you?
Yea, its alright.
Still need to find my way around. Getting use to the different 'This is the way we do things here'. Horse names still not sticking and I hurt my foot today, but all in all I'm 'satisfied'.
(Sorry for the typical Danish low-key answer ^^')
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You know why I majored in Geography in undergrad? I just got round trip tickets to Tokyo, complete with a day trip in Beijing, for $575. That's why.
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I may be meeting vanykyre later and I found a housewarming gift for Lisamarlene.
I love conventions.
Yep. I'll be leaving the house in about half an hour. Neither Aiymi nor Zelda are available tonight, so you only get to meet me. My condolences.
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You know why I majored in Geography in undergrad? I just got round trip tickets to Tokyo, complete with a day trip in Beijing, for $575. That's why.Enjoy your trip, Rosita.
Oh, I shall. I arrive in Japan on the evening of January 8 and depart on the evening of January 18. I arrive in Tokyo, so Akihabara is a must, and I imagine I'll be visiting Yokosuka (the museum ship Mikasa, Kanagawa Bay, and Mt. Fuji are there), Kyoto, and Hiroshima (big maritime museum here). Also need to find a castle and a train museum, nd ride a Shinkansen. I have 9 full days to do all these things.
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its right here,in the portable wardrobe i keep for just such an occasion.So we have a inspection "secret shopper" expected this week I think I figured out who it is. No normal human being asks me such precise questions and is that ready with personal information.So, you've seen the "Hotel Inspector" episode of Fawlty Towers, right?
Edit:
Of course I'm naked; I just woke up.
Where's that damned lizardlich floozy armor I was wearing yesterday?
How many Red Sonjas are in a common-or-garden suit of floozy armour?
Asking for a friend.
Who is also, coincidentally, called Limey.
