Back to cheap food...
Would it be a faux pas to suggest potatoes as cheap but nourishing food to Irishman?
so long as you dont take the Mrs. Archer approach, you should be fine.
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She's pretty hot, and I do enjoy the company of older women, but Pam is more my speed.
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On the plus side the boss has us booked solid for most of the year already.
LOL. OK, last night I was pretty out of it (watched most of Angel Beats, which I'm finding surprisingly enjoyable), but apparently Bethesda "patched" Fallout 76 again, the patch broke more things than it fixed again, even the fixes didn't work all that well (now Shiro only spawns trapped in the floor 50% of the time, instead of 100% of the time), and even their patch notes had errors in them.
Y'know, if you're not even going to bother to try, then what the heck are you doing?
(Apparently one of the new glitches, a mistake with slider behavior, was such a common noob programmer mistake that both Shiro and Lara Croft Guy started laughing out loud when they saw it, calling out, "Noob mistaaaake!")
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I love furry creatures too! And feathery creatures! I pet anything that I get the chance to.Not really a dinosaur type. I prefer critters with fur. So fluffeh!
I'm not a feathers person myself to be honest.
I don't think feathery creatures will let you pet them. Of course feathery creatures tend to be rather skittish around me, like if you read the thread on Big Norse Wolf makes you question your humanity here, you would have heard me complain on my attempts to try to photograph those elusive feathery critters.
I can sort of understand why they might be skittish around a large cat though. Considering I could come up with ways to cook them.
My brother hand raised his chickens. They are not quite the cuddlebugs.
Parakeets and lorrekeets can be quite the cuddlebuddies too if you raise them right.
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Honestly, you dont need a rice cooker to cook rise. Cooking rice if freakishly easy. Its also very very cheap. You can generally get a few kilos of rice at the asian shop for very little.
Also buying beans dried saves a lot of money. They dont spoil, and you just leave them soaking in cold water overnight. Beans contain a lot of protein, so a good bean meal doesnt need meat added.Also, the idea that you need a meal with meat for protein is needlessly expensive. If you need the protein, a boiled egg with your potatoes/veggies works just as well.
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It's really depressing when companies that are ripping you off with 1000%+ mark-ups don't even try.
Glasses are one of those areas where, if you order from an optometrist, you're going to end up paying $250-$400 for a pair of $15 frames. My insurance covers it, so the numbers are eye-popping, but I don't think much about it, except...
...yesterday I picked up my new glasses. Within 10 minutes, one of the lenses popped out. I figured they just hadn't tightened the screw enough, but when I went to put the lens in, holy cow!
The screw was already scratched up, as if someone who didn't know what they were doing had tried to screw in the lens. Even worse, it was completely stripped; I'm going to have to take the glasses back to the optometrist and have the frames either repaired or replaced.
Because in spite of charging me $250 for a frame that probably cost them under $1 to manufacture, they couldn't afford to pay someone who knew how to use a jewelry screwdriver?
*SIGH*
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I've never needed a rice cooker to cook rice.
Also, waiting to hear if I got hired for a coding job, or training at the very least. School starts next week, and me and a friend plan to co-op play Nioh in the coming days, assuming my schedule allows such.
ONLY RICE COOKERS FOR COOKING RICE YOU SAVAGES
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Oh, don't get me started on rice.
Too late.
As I've mentioned, I started cooking for my family of 6 when I was 11. By the time I was 12, I was planning the menu, making the shopping list, and making the meals from scratch 7 nights a week. My father was an absolute monster of habit: Every single Monday he had a soft-boiled egg for breakfast. Every single Tuesday it was French toast. On Wednesday it was pancakes. Every week. Every year. For decades.
For dinner he wanted rice 3 nights a week (and precisely 3 nights). If I messed it up (by undercooking it, burning it, oversalting it, etc.), he would make me sit at the dinner table after dinner and eat it, no matter how inedible it was. (And trust me, rice that has been burnt so much that the pot is blackened is REALLY foul. And pretty darned crunchy.)
So I developed what GothBard refers to as "rice sense". Once I put on a pot of rice, no matter where I am inside or outside the house, no matter how drunk I was, I would say, "It's time to turn down the rice!", or, "It's time to stir the rice!", or, "The rice is done!"
When people ask GothBard whether she has a rice cooker, she says, "Yes, and his name is NobodysHome!"
She bought me a rice cooker anyway, and I use it, and I like it for the most part, but I *do* find that I still make better rice than it does.
Horrible, punitive practice makes perfect.
Oh, don't get me started on rice.
Too late.
As I've mentioned, I started cooking for my family of 6 when I was 11. By the time I was 12, I was planning the menu, making the shopping list, and making the meals from scratch 7 nights a week. My father was an absolute monster of habit: Every single Monday he had a soft-boiled egg for breakfast. Every single Tuesday it was French toast. On Wednesday it was pancakes. Every week. Every year. For decades.
For dinner he wanted rice 3 nights a week (and precisely 3 nights). If I messed it up (by undercooking it, burning it, oversalting it, etc.), he would make me sit at the dinner table after dinner and eat it, no matter how inedible it was. (And trust me, rice that has been burnt so much that the pot is blackened is REALLY foul. And pretty darned crunchy.)So I developed what GothBard refers to as "rice sense". Once I put on a pot of rice, no matter where I am inside or outside the house, no matter how drunk I was, I would say, "It's time to turn down the rice!", or, "It's time to stir the rice!", or, "The rice is done!"
When people ask GothBard whether she has a rice cooker, she says, "Yes, and his name is NobodysHome!"
She bought me a rice cooker anyway, and I use it, and I like it for the most part, but I *do* find that I still make better rice than it does.
Horrible, punitive practice makes perfect.
...is it zojirushi?
*accepts glass of scotch happily*Thank ya kindly.
Appreciate the offer. :) It's not great, that's for sure. The loan was mainly for wedding stuff, and she takes the view, she didn't cancel the wedding, she didn't get no wedding, she ain't paying for no loan for a wedding. Though in the end, only about half the loan money went on the wedding that didn't happen, and she knows it as well as I do.
I could probably drag out the argument, or go back to the courts about the level of maintenance I pay on the basis of my now much-more-restricted finances, but at the end of the day, what do I gain, at what cost? A little money, at the cost of a working relationship with my son's mom, and possibly making things harder financially on my son. I'll take the hit there, every time.
*Nods, give more shoulder pats and pours Synos another scotch*
I can see why you would want that. It's the most decent thing to do for the little kiddo.
Still...
Meh.
I'll let it lie.
Just know you're a decent chap and I/we want to help if we can.
^^
Back to cheap food...
Would it be a faux pas to suggest potatoes as cheap but nourishing food to Irishman?
*Trys to remain stoic and above the joke...but fails miserably*
I love furry creatures too! And feathery creatures! I pet anything that I get the chance to.
*Waddles up to Woran and rubs against her leg while attempting to purr*
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I don't believe we should be slaves to housework, like my mom is.
*Gives Mort a head pat*
Nor should you…
If I had the audacity to tell a woman, up here, that she'd be doing all the house work. I'd be expecting to be chased from the building by said woman, wielding her family heirloom Æbleskivepande* ^^'.
*Second picture
I would buy a Roomba for my vacuuming needs. Then force my BF to do the dishes with the horse whip Cover Turtle gave me =P
*Claps turtle feet, as his gift whip is being put to good use ^^*
...Cut alcohols...
*Stares at Mort while tilting his turtlehead*
?...What?...no alcohol…
*Blue screens*
Clocking out. Good night, all.
*Waves Nighty Night*
Oh, and she said she'd babysit and suddenly they're trying to have her for an overnight stay.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned (I'm not), but in my day babysitting was for a few hours tops.
*Nods*
Same here…
Any longer then 3-4 hours and the whole thing would be planned meticulously far in advance - Notes about what to do when, either frozen meals ready for reheating or "pizza-money", back-up "sitter*" who would come by or call half-way through the sitting to check up on things...the whole shebang.
*Often a family member, friendly neighbor or family friend.
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*Trys to remain stoic and above the joke...but fails miserably*Back to cheap food...
Would it be a faux pas to suggest potatoes as cheap but nourishing food to Irishman?
Hey, potatoes are really cheap and nourishing!
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Prom shenanigans continue.
"Yeah, Midsummer Night's Dream won."
"We're gonna make the forest into Vietnam!"
"Have any of you actually read Midsummer's?"
"No."
"...I'm getting a horse mask."
"...don't do that."
"But it would fit the theme!"
"Your date is going to hurt you."
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...is it zojirushi?Oh, don't get me started on rice.
Too late.
As I've mentioned, I started cooking for my family of 6 when I was 11. By the time I was 12, I was planning the menu, making the shopping list, and making the meals from scratch 7 nights a week. My father was an absolute monster of habit: Every single Monday he had a soft-boiled egg for breakfast. Every single Tuesday it was French toast. On Wednesday it was pancakes. Every week. Every year. For decades.
For dinner he wanted rice 3 nights a week (and precisely 3 nights). If I messed it up (by undercooking it, burning it, oversalting it, etc.), he would make me sit at the dinner table after dinner and eat it, no matter how inedible it was. (And trust me, rice that has been burnt so much that the pot is blackened is REALLY foul. And pretty darned crunchy.)So I developed what GothBard refers to as "rice sense". Once I put on a pot of rice, no matter where I am inside or outside the house, no matter how drunk I was, I would say, "It's time to turn down the rice!", or, "It's time to stir the rice!", or, "The rice is done!"
When people ask GothBard whether she has a rice cooker, she says, "Yes, and his name is NobodysHome!"
She bought me a rice cooker anyway, and I use it, and I like it for the most part, but I *do* find that I still make better rice than it does.
Horrible, punitive practice makes perfect.
But of course! I love the little thing: it just can’t help it that my “fuzzy logic” is better than its. I still use it 95% of the time anyway, because as others have said, it’s easier.
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But of course! I love the little thing: it just can’t help it that my “fuzzy logic” is better than its. I still use it 95% of the time anyway, because as others have said, it’s easier....is it zojirushi?Oh, don't get me started on rice.
Too late.
As I've mentioned, I started cooking for my family of 6 when I was 11. By the time I was 12, I was planning the menu, making the shopping list, and making the meals from scratch 7 nights a week. My father was an absolute monster of habit: Every single Monday he had a soft-boiled egg for breakfast. Every single Tuesday it was French toast. On Wednesday it was pancakes. Every week. Every year. For decades.
For dinner he wanted rice 3 nights a week (and precisely 3 nights). If I messed it up (by undercooking it, burning it, oversalting it, etc.), he would make me sit at the dinner table after dinner and eat it, no matter how inedible it was. (And trust me, rice that has been burnt so much that the pot is blackened is REALLY foul. And pretty darned crunchy.)So I developed what GothBard refers to as "rice sense". Once I put on a pot of rice, no matter where I am inside or outside the house, no matter how drunk I was, I would say, "It's time to turn down the rice!", or, "It's time to stir the rice!", or, "The rice is done!"
When people ask GothBard whether she has a rice cooker, she says, "Yes, and his name is NobodysHome!"
She bought me a rice cooker anyway, and I use it, and I like it for the most part, but I *do* find that I still make better rice than it does.
Horrible, punitive practice makes perfect.
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New relationship category for 2019: Friend With Rice Benefits.
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I has a rice cooker that I don't really know how to use? I'm a noodle person?
That being said yeah you could have eggs for your protein but iron content? The last time I looked, vegetable iron wasn't that well absorbed by the body(though taking vitamin C helps). Same applies for egg iron as well.
Though fish is pretty meh on the iron side.
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My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
its b12. A multivitamin will usually remedy that.
My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.
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The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
LOL. We live in SUUUUUUUCH different worlds!
But yeah, Berkeley.
If you even mention that you like meat you will be chastised by at least 4 other people in the restaurant you're in... even if they are currently eating meat...
Vegetarianism around here isn't a lifestyle; it's a well-respected religion that you daren't cross.
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The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
You'd be right at home in the Midwest.
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The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
LOL. We live in SUUUUUUUCH different worlds!
But yeah, Berkeley.
If you even mention that you like meat you will be chastised by at least 4 other people in the restaurant you're in... even if they are currently eating meat...
Vegetarianism around here isn't a lifestyle; it's a well-respected religion that you daren't cross.
I can pretend to be a lacto vegetarian quite convincingly =) Spending 2 years with meals with a lacto vegetarian does that. Besides I'm an eat anything sort.
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I remember when I told my mom I wanted to be a vegetarian, she just laughed and said we were too poor for me to be a vegetarian.
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You'd be right at home in the Midwest.The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
The greatest danger of vegetarianism these days are obnoxious carnivorous friends and acquaintances who get butthurt over someone being a vegetarian or vegan.My recollection is that the real danger of vegetarianism is actually certain B vitamins; beans and rice give you a complete protein, you're getting plenty of *almost* every other vitamin, but there are some Bs you're missing (I want to say riboflavin, but I'm probably wrong).
LOL. We live in SUUUUUUUCH different worlds!
But yeah, Berkeley.
If you even mention that you like meat you will be chastised by at least 4 other people in the restaurant you're in... even if they are currently eating meat...
Vegetarianism around here isn't a lifestyle; it's a well-respected religion that you daren't cross.
This is my experience as well. Far more vegans/vegetarians telling people how evil and wrong they are for eating meat than meat-eaters complaining about vegans not doing so.
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I refuse to eat sushi because I firmly believe that my ancestors tamed fire so that I can eat my meat cooked.
Sometimes an otherwise trusted source will claim that "some sushi is smoked" or even "sushi doesn't mean fish."
But I know they lie, for they dishonor the ancestors, and they would see me come to death and ruin.
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I refuse to eat sushi because I firmly believe that my ancestors tamed fire so that I can eat my meat cooked.
Sometimes an otherwise trusted source will claim that "some sushi is smoked" or even "sushi doesn't mean fish."
But I know they lie, for they dishonor the ancestors, and they would see me come to death and ruin.
more for me.
I just hate seaweed.
If a sushi can be made without seaweed I'll give it a try.
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Bathroom leak finally got fixed today.
Also, I finally started drafting character sheets in Hero Labs for my Ankh Morpork City Watch game.
Thanks to Drejk's recent run of princesses, I think I've got my mystery monster and my antagonist: the princess monster being controlled by the scholar princess, wreaking a certain amount of havoc on the city.
(Hermione, who wants to play the aristo-werewolf sergeant Angua, will love this plot device.)
I just hate seaweed.
If a sushi can be made without seaweed I'll give it a try.
Yes, it can.
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I refuse to eat sushi because I firmly believe that my ancestors tamed fire so that I can eat my meat cooked.
Sometimes an otherwise trusted source will claim that "some sushi is smoked" or even "sushi doesn't mean fish."
But I know they lie, for they dishonor the ancestors, and they would see me come to death and ruin.
You can have sushi with components that were cooked with fire or equivalent application of heat. You probably confuse sushi (which is primarily rice with additions) with sashimi (pieces of raw fish). A lot of people do that.
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I refuse to eat sushi because I firmly believe that my ancestors tamed fire so that I can eat my meat cooked.
Sometimes an otherwise trusted source will claim that "some sushi is smoked" or even "sushi doesn't mean fish."
But I know they lie, for they dishonor the ancestors, and they would see me come to death and ruin.
This is a man who knows wisdom.
I'm back.
I'm related to Vlad the Impaler.Should we declare today to be Talk Like You're Irish Day.The accent may be fake but I am Irish among a hodge podge of other things.
Also related to Charles Dickens. True story.
That's pretty awesome.
Doing laundry on my day off. WHEE!
You absolute mad man. you're just a Wiild and CraZzy kid..
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Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
I thought that died way back with the advent of caller ID. I'd give the kids one chance, but the second time they called my room I'd call the front desk and say, "Yeah, kids in room xxx have prank called me twice now, once at 5:36 pm and the second time at 7:48 pm. I'd appreciate it if you'd tell them to stop, thanks."
I've never received a third call...
I would have gone that route, except that the hotel room phones don't actually have caller ID.
Yeah, I know.
Close your mouth.
This advice is probably to late now. just unplug the phone.
I really hated the part if you're friends with X, you can't be friends with me because I hate X. Can't you guys just get along or at least don't drag me into this mess?
I guess the office equivalent is A tells you to do B, C tells you not to do B, so who the F do you listen to?
I hate conflicting orders. Gimme a clear set of orders, I'll carry em out. Don't give me if and maybes.
Well if they both told you to do B. I'd say just do B... Otherwise go with the option you think is right.
Also how about sashimi then cap'n? No seaweed there well except maybe on the side.
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It's really depressing when companies that are ripping you off with 1000%+ mark-ups don't even try.
Glasses are one of those areas where, if you order from an optometrist, you're going to end up paying $250-$400 for a pair of $15 frames. My insurance covers it, so the numbers are eye-popping, but I don't think much about it, except...
...yesterday I picked up my new glasses. Within 10 minutes, one of the lenses popped out. I figured they just hadn't tightened the screw enough, but when I went to put the lens in, holy cow!The screw was already scratched up, as if someone who didn't know what they were doing had tried to screw in the lens. Even worse, it was completely stripped; I'm going to have to take the glasses back to the optometrist and have the frames either repaired or replaced.
Because in spite of charging me $250 for a frame that probably cost them under $1 to manufacture, they couldn't afford to pay someone who knew how to use a jewelry screwdriver?
*SIGH*
Zenni-optical.com Great prices you just have to know your prescription and your eye distance which you can measure with a ruler. they had them for as low as 15 dollar. I got my pair with all the works for under 100.
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Tonight's Fallout Fun:
- Lara Croft Guy spawned with both his arms ripped off. Particularly impressive since that's not an effect your PC is supposed to suffer in the game
- As they were discussing how much worse the latest patch had made the game, GothBard's character suddenly became naked (not uncommon)... and a man!!!
So I guess their bug fixes involve ripping off people's limbs and gender changes. Who knew?
EDIT: The absolute best was Bethesda sending Shiro an e-mail today asking him whether he'd like to pre-order the next Elder Scrolls game. "Considering how well you treated me for pre-ordering Fallout 76, no, no I would not, thank you very much."
Pre-Scorpion session training - playing Shadow Tactics: Blade Of The Shogun (courtesy of Synos-sama). Oh, it's 8 am? Time to bed...