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I think we should just get rid of C all together S and K will be fine.
I'm keeping it. Here 'c' is used for a different sound, something like 'tz'.
Though to be accurate, we should get rid of 'k', as 'c' was actually that sound until it was messed up.
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Oh which reminds me John if you need a new pair and want them cheap(assuming your not using eye insurance) I know a good website.
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Yes quite.
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Don't get used to it buddy. We got the remainder of February here.
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I lived right next to Wabash County for several years when I was younger, and can say that I have never seen or heard of such a thing.I grew up one county north of where gran lives. My family didn't do it, but I knew families that did.My people were in Wabash County, IL.
I was really hoping it was just a thing they did because they were kids. I know the didn't have a refrigerator, but they did have an icebox. Maybe it was an inoculation against major food poisoning by getting a little bit of it every day.
On the plus side, I'm sure the leftovers - if there were any - weren't kept. They must have gone to the dogs or pigs. But with five teenage boys, I doubt much was left.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in. This was a story I'd heard secondhand from one person in the family, and the generation that participated is all dead. I figured if it was a local/farm custom, someone else would have heard of it.
what is it with this thread and Illinois?!?
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If it makes you feel better I have had no contact with Illinois.
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If it makes you feel better I have had no contact with Illinois.
go there and talk gran into room parties. It is your destiny.
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And you better keep it that way, buster.
So Room parties are a thing you should consider going into.
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The more I hear about stuff like that the more I realize how lazy cops are. I thought it was just our local ones. Also what are the chances of being that close to two different serial killers? That's wild.Fun fact: My dad was a social worker for one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims (and tried fruitlessly to get the cops to investigate his disappearance) and for a time we lived down the road from Ed Gein's property (which only obligated my mom to tell us the Ed Gein story every Halloween).
I apologize, It's nothing against you guys, you've all been great, and honestly I was way too uptight about it and was probably dealing with some s@#! outside of the boards and lashed out at you guys instead. I've been working on not doing that.
So don't worry about it, I'm good.
It's a small state, if you talk to enough people in a day you can easily find someone connected to Dahmer or Gein, were stabbed by Screech, knew Tony Romo in high school, or had Brett Favre flash his weiner at them.
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were stabbed by Screech, knew Tony Romo in high school, or had Brett Favre flash his weiner at them.
Who?
GothBard is just LOVING that video."i can see that (sus)"
It's kind of an impossible treasure, yes.
EDIT: My wife and I (admittedly already primed by really funny anime, and having read a funny article about it) laughed at it so hard and so daggum much that I collapsed into a coughing fit and couldn't breath easily for the next hour. It was amazing.
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were stabbed by Screech, knew Tony Romo in high school, or had Brett Favre flash his weiner at them.Who?
Screech = Dustin Diamond from Saved By The Bell (terrible show)
Tony Romo = Ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.Brett Favre = Ex-quarterback for the Green Bay Packers (and others).
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Is there anything more annoying than the, "Docs know all" PM/SME/Contact?
NobodysHome: I've been through the document you sent me. It's from 2018 and it doesn't discuss topic #1 nor topic #2. According to my research, here's the answer for topic #1 and here's the answer for topic #2. Is this correct?
Contact: It's all posted in a document. Here's the link!
And the same exact people complain about inaccuracies in our training/documentation.
Maybe, just maybe, if you'd take 30 seconds to understand the email that's sitting in your inbox, you'd answer the question instead of frustrating me and wasting both our time!
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If I go into a room party, it's to throw everybody out.And you better keep it that way, buster.So Room parties are a thing you should consider going into.
Boooooooooooo
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Speaking of "unwritten social rules" (though I'm fairly sure, "You shall not have a late-night party in your hotel room" is indeed explicitly written in the contract you sign when you rent a hotel room), Talky did it again.
Growing up, I was taught, "When you are a guest in someone else's house, ask politely if you'd like to partake of any food that is set out (for example, a fruit bowl), eat only what is proffered you (don't go through their fridge), have only seconds unless the host explicitly offers you more, and in general don't make a pig of yourself."
Normally when I serve chili dogs for the family, we go through about 7 dogs and they come 6 to a package so I make two packages. Since I figured both Impus Minor and Talky might want a little extra, I made three packages (18 dogs).
When Talky served himself, GothBard put it well: He created himself a wedding cake of hot dogs, chili, and buns. At least 8 dogs, a can and a half of chili, and half a dozen buns. The kids were appalled. "Haven't you eaten anything today?"
"Nope. I knew I was coming here and it was too much of a bother to cook for myself at home."
So now I have to take him aside and somehow gently explain to him that eating more than my entire family did combined is not "proper" guest etiquette.
EDIT: As LM can attest, it's a very "Persian" approach to hosting, though I don't have a drop of Persian in me (that I know of): Put out plenty of food so everyone can eat to their heart's content and make sure not a single food dish ever runs empty. In return, the guests are supposed to avoid taking advantage of the host by doing things like, say, fasting for an entire day in order to eat as much of the host's food as humanly possible. "Have a quick snack before going over," is a common refrain among parents. So the fact that he admittedly starved himself just to gorge himself was unexpected and irritating.
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Start with slow cooking (crock pot) the roast for 10 hours in au jus. Then let it sit in the fridge overnight to get the fat and oil to congeal for easy removal. Steam the veggies. Hand shred the roast. Add a ton of tomato juice with the au jus. Simmer for a couple hours. It's always better around day 2 or 3 than the first night.Although, if you really want to just throw a big chunk of beef and a bunch of whole veg into a pot of hot water and call it soup, I'm not going to stop you. In fact, I will probably slowly back away, making calming noises and gestures, and get in my car and drive away before the clearly insane cook decides to make me into a pie.Now if we are using a crockpot You can almost get away with that. It won't be good mind you but it will be edible.
My crock pot will brown the meat on the High setting. I usually put the meat and diced onions (and a little olive oil) in first and let them get brown by themselves, then add everything else later.
OK, this is an old-timey custom question. I think there are some folks from farm families in here. My grandmother grew up farming (very near to where gran lives, in fact). She said they made their big meal at lunch - nothing new there, right? But once they finished, they cleared the dirty dishes, left the food on the table, and covered the table with a tablecloth to keep the flies off the leftover food. They washed the plates and cutlery, and just took the cover cloth off the food when it was dinnertime.
Has anyone ever heard of that before, or was my family weird? They were orphans, so I imagine that a bunch of teens left on their own might have developed strange customs.
I have never heard of that before. But my brother's wife doesn't refrigerate her stick butter, and that freaks me out.
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I have lost 16 pounds in the last 6 weeks,
Hey, did you want them back? Cause I found half of them.
Also, congrats. {also glares}
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Speaking of "unwritten social rules" (though I'm fairly sure, "You shall not have a late-night party in your hotel room" is indeed explicitly written in the contract you sign when you rent a hotel room), Talky did it again.
Dammit paladin, stop telling me how to have a good time!
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That's why I stay at hotels in college towns or downtown any large metropolitan area if I can, as long as you don't trash everything and no one calls the cops you can pretty much do whatever you want.
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That's why I stay at hotels in college towns or downtown any large metropolitan area if I can, as long as you don't trash everything and no one calls the cops you can pretty much do whatever you want.
See now this guy gets it.
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I don't refrigerate butter.
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That's why I stay at hotels in college towns or downtown any large metropolitan area if I can, as long as you don't trash everything and no one calls the cops you can pretty much do whatever you want.See now this guy gets it.
I am suddenly picturing you flying to Wisconsin to set the Guinness World Record for "How Many Milkmaids Plus 1 Freehold Can You Squish Into A Hotel Room?"
Edit: Not sure if butter is involved or not.
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That's why I stay at hotels in college towns or downtown any large metropolitan area if I can, as long as you don't trash everything and no one calls the cops you can pretty much do whatever you want.See now this guy gets it.I am suddenly picturing you flying to Wisconsin to set the Guinness World Record for "How Many Milkmaids Plus 1 Freehold Can You Squish Into A Hotel Room?"
Edit: Not sure if butter is involved or not.
Butter would up the amount you could fit in the room for sure
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100% butter milkmaids would make it even easier.
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Ah, the interactions between contractors:
NobodysHome: Hey, GC, are you coming today?
GC: No; Boss Guy has me up in Napa again.
NH: When are you coming back?
GC: Don't know; you'll have to light a fire under Boss Guy for that.
NH: I'll let GothBard do that.
Boss Guy: Sorry! GC will be back at your place tomorrow!
GC Hee hee!
Being mellow people to work for seems to make you popular among contractors. Go figure.
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Butter is a dairy product, and most kids are taught how to churn butter by the time they're in first grade.
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Butter would up the amount you could fit in the room for sureThat's why I stay at hotels in college towns or downtown any large metropolitan area if I can, as long as you don't trash everything and no one calls the cops you can pretty much do whatever you want.See now this guy gets it.I am suddenly picturing you flying to Wisconsin to set the Guinness World Record for "How Many Milkmaids Plus 1 Freehold Can You Squish Into A Hotel Room?"
Edit: Not sure if butter is involved or not.
No, save the butter for me, I don't want to pay for damage to the room since I'm sure a certain Mr. Mono will crash the festivities thinking it a room party.
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And the award for most unilluminating email of the day goes to:
CH: I’m still confused. On Feb 2 you said you were getting paid (one way), and then on Feb 3 you said you were getting paid (a different way). So which is it?
Vendor (And I quote - this is the full email text):
CH: WHICH POINT WERE YOU MISTAKEN ON? THIS IS AN EITHER/OR SCENARIO.
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere folks...
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Speaking of "unwritten social rules" (though I'm fairly sure, "You shall not have a late-night party in your hotel room" is indeed explicitly written in the contract you sign when you rent a hotel room), Talky did it again.
Growing up, I was taught, "When you are a guest in someone else's house, ask politely if you'd like to partake of any food that is set out (for example, a fruit bowl), eat only what is proffered you (don't go through their fridge), have only seconds unless the host explicitly offers you more, and in general don't make a pig of yourself."
Normally when I serve chili dogs for the family, we go through about 7 dogs and they come 6 to a package so I make two packages. Since I figured both Impus Minor and Talky might want a little extra, I made three packages (18 dogs).
When Talky served himself, GothBard put it well: He created himself a wedding cake of hot dogs, chili, and buns. At least 8 dogs, a can and a half of chili, and half a dozen buns. The kids were appalled. "Haven't you eaten anything today?"
"Nope. I knew I was coming here and it was too much of a bother to cook for myself at home."So now I have to take him aside and somehow gently explain to him that eating more than my entire family did combined is not "proper" guest etiquette.
EDIT: As LM can attest, it's a very "Persian" approach to hosting, though I don't have a drop of Persian in me (that I know of): Put out plenty of food so everyone can eat to their heart's content and make sure not a single food dish ever runs empty. In return, the guests are supposed to avoid taking advantage of the host by doing things like, say, fasting for an entire day in order to eat as much of the host's food as humanly possible. "Have a quick snack before going over," is a common refrain among parents. So the fact that he admittedly starved himself just to gorge himself was unexpected and irritating.
Yes. Although, knowing full well that NH would cook enough food for an army and then scold us, saying, "Eat! Eat! I made a ton of food!" if we didn't eat enough, I would occasionally eat sparingly in the morning because I knew I was going to be doing a massive calorie bomb for the rest of the day.
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Although I'm pretty sure he did that because he knew how hard we were struggling, and groceries are freaking expensive.
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Although I'm pretty sure he did that because he knew how hard we were struggling, and groceries are freaking expensive.
A little from column A, a little from column B. Both Impus Major and I love leftovers, so when I ordered out I intentionally ordered *waaaay* too much food. And then you and WW insisted on trying to pay your "fair share" even though you were going to eat maybe 10% of it. So I made "too much" homemade food so that there would be plenty of leftovers and you'd be able to help yourself without feeling the need to pay me back.
If you or WW had ever gone for 6ths or 7ths I might have been bothered (yes, Talky had SIX servings of spaghetti and meatballs when I made that for the family), but you guys always seemed hesitant to eat too much in case it was "too much", so all I remember is going into the kitchen after 8 people had supposedly eaten lunch and thinking, "Wow! The pot's barely gone down at all! Someone's not eating enough!"
Also, that was back when Costco was a monthly thing for me. We're coming up on my one-year anniversary of avoiding Costco because of COVID, and feeding teenagers without Costco's bulk snack foods is expensive. Not more expensive than the 40% markup for having fresh food delivered from them, but still, somewhat expensive...
EDIT: And the "TMI because talking about money is somehow offensive" bit:
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Oh, and yeah, project handed off, manager AND co-worker out for the day, so very very little to do at work. So FaWtL.
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We'll probably get an inch or two of snow tomorrow night into Friday morning, when it's about -10 degrees out.
This is why I ask the person at the sporting goods store "What do mountain climbers wear?".
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We'll probably get an inch or two of snow tomorrow night into Friday morning, when it's about -10 degrees out.
This is why I ask the person at the sporting goods store "What do mountain climbers wear?".
It's a good call, if you can afford it. On days I have to sit around in a 52-degree house, I grab some of my old packpacking clothes to keep myself warm at the computer while still free to move about.
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Although I'm pretty sure he did that because he knew how hard we were struggling, and groceries are freaking expensive.A little from column A, a little from column B. Both Impus Major and I love leftovers, so when I ordered out I intentionally ordered *waaaay* too much food. And then you and WW insisted on trying to pay your "fair share" even though you were going to eat maybe 10% of it. So I made "too much" homemade food so that there would be plenty of leftovers and you'd be able to help yourself without feeling the need to pay me back.
If you or WW had ever gone for 6ths or 7ths I might have been bothered (yes, Talky had SIX servings of spaghetti and meatballs when I made that for the family), but you guys always seemed hesitant to eat too much in case it was "too much", so all I remember is going into the kitchen after 8 people had supposedly eaten lunch and thinking, "Wow! The pot's barely gone down at all! Someone's not eating enough!"
Also, that was back when Costco was a monthly thing for me. We're coming up on my one-year anniversary of avoiding Costco because of COVID, and feeding teenagers without Costco's bulk snack foods is expensive. Not more expensive than the 40% markup for having fresh food delivered from them, but still, somewhat expensive...
EDIT: And the "TMI because talking about money is somehow offensive" bit:
** spoiler omitted **
I love you.
In an entirely non-weird or creepy way.
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We'll probably get an inch or two of snow tomorrow night into Friday morning, when it's about -10 degrees out.
This is why I ask the person at the sporting goods store "What do mountain climbers wear?".
It's a good call, if you can afford it. On days I have to sit around in a 52-degree house, I grab some of my old packpacking clothes to keep myself warm at the computer while still free to move about.
When you work as much as I do outside it pretty much pays for itself.
I am making skid loader driver money after all.
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When you work as much as I do outside it pretty much pays for itself.
I am making skid loader driver money after all.
Don't be modest. You're also the founder of Dollar Shave Club for Bears.
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We'll probably get an inch or two of snow tomorrow night into Friday morning, when it's about -10 degrees out.
This is why I ask the person at the sporting goods store "What do mountain climbers wear?".
It's a good call, if you can afford it. On days I have to sit around in a 52-degree house, I grab some of my old packpacking clothes to keep myself warm at the computer while still free to move about.
This year (crap, that was over half a year ago...), I bought a supposedly thermal (long) underwear. When I finally got to wear it late in the autumn when it was getting colder, I was terribly disappointed. It was worse than my regular longjohns - ok, it was well fitting, but it completely failed to keep my ass legs warm, and it was when temperatures were positive (and I mean above 0 Celsius)... After that I haven't bothered with trying them after the snow fell and the temperatures fallen below zero.
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Although I'm pretty sure he did that because he knew how hard we were struggling, and groceries are freaking expensive.A little from column A, a little from column B. Both Impus Major and I love leftovers, so when I ordered out I intentionally ordered *waaaay* too much food. And then you and WW insisted on trying to pay your "fair share" even though you were going to eat maybe 10% of it. So I made "too much" homemade food so that there would be plenty of leftovers and you'd be able to help yourself without feeling the need to pay me back.
If you or WW had ever gone for 6ths or 7ths I might have been bothered (yes, Talky had SIX servings of spaghetti and meatballs when I made that for the family), but you guys always seemed hesitant to eat too much in case it was "too much", so all I remember is going into the kitchen after 8 people had supposedly eaten lunch and thinking, "Wow! The pot's barely gone down at all! Someone's not eating enough!"
Also, that was back when Costco was a monthly thing for me. We're coming up on my one-year anniversary of avoiding Costco because of COVID, and feeding teenagers without Costco's bulk snack foods is expensive. Not more expensive than the 40% markup for having fresh food delivered from them, but still, somewhat expensive...
EDIT: And the "TMI because talking about money is somehow offensive" bit:
** spoiler omitted **I love you.
In an entirely non-weird or creepy way.
But what if we would pay good money to see the weird and creepy way?
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Yeah, changing the subject, anyone seen the video for Midwest Siri?
I'm dyin'.
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The deep freeze should end by next weekend, unfortunately this weekend is supposed to be coldest.
Although in all honesty, it's not that deep of a deep freeze as I think the coldest it's going to get is -25 (not wind chill, I have wind resistant winter gear so I don't count wind chill, which is pretty much a made-up thing to make people feel better about not properly insulating).
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In Assassin's Creed Odyssey I finally got through the "introduction" into the actual game, and it only took me a month and a half.
On the plus side I now have a ship and a crew full of colorful sea shanties and a willingness to destroy any ship it happens upon.
In Ghost of Tsushima I returned to my ancestral castle, wrote a haiku about my dad and strapped on the family armor. Which I will accentuate with the headband of death. Also, I have a new saddle for my horse.
In The Outer Worlds I keep f***ing dying at this place with two rooms and two guys with flamethrowers and useless f%@#ing companions. Also, HOW ARE THERE NO GRENADES!!!! Otherwise it's a fun game.
In Days Gone I'm pretty far but I'm stuck on this mission where I have to outrun a horde through a multilevel mine. So far I get to the first barrier and then die. So I haven't played that one in a a month or two.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is too depressing to play during the winter and it's too boring to play in the summer.
Fallout 76 became too much of a grind with their everything everywhere is the same level as you bullshit so I uninstalled it.
God of War is a super good game but it's a bit too linear for me most of the time. Still, I love the story.