A Little Of What You Fancy
Because you crave one, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
Oh, and here’s something savoury.
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I see what you did there.
I see what you did there.
This is my innocent face.
[ Holds up stock photo of adorable puppies. ]
The announcement of “NEW cooking instructions” bodes well. I suspect there may be a story there.
[ Holds up stock photo of adorable puppies. ]
The announcement of “NEW cooking instructions” bodes well.
Stewed puppies? Stir fried?
Also encouraging is the one-year-distant best-before date. Presumably, the wholesomeness of the ingredients, and the quality of the dining experience, cannot be impaired by the mere passage of time.
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The notable shrinkage most likely due to the cold of the refrigerator. Just a guess.
The notable shrinkage
Or an offcut of a transvegan
The announcement of “NEW cooking instructions” bodes well. I suspect there may be a story there.
Lol. Not for all the tea in China.
Maybe the new instructions involve building up their self-esteem before cooking commences?
Something along the lines of “don’t believe what you see in the adverts, 5 inches is a perfectly good length”.
“The water was cold!”
Joan’s been staring at that photo longer than is strictly necessary.
Tessa, a 29-year-old in the Midwest who teaches 14- to 18-year-olds at a private school for students with learning impairments, says that while many of her students “simply take on the talking points and politics of their conservative parents,” this can make them especially ripe targets for full-blown radicalization and infatuation with far-right figures. “A few started listening to Joe Rogan’s podcast, which led to them reading Jordan Peterson’s books,” she says. “I think that Joe Rogan’s ideology is the biggest threat to critical thinking in the last decade.”
Never heard a podcast referred to as an ideology before.
Also, Joe Rogan is “the biggest threat to critical thinking in the last decade”? Is that possible?
Jacob, a 28-year-old teacher in Texas, says that [it] can be a very delicate balance. “I would never want to ‘convert’ someone to being liberal, because you shouldn’t be converting anybody to political ideologies,” he says [ .. ] The trouble, Jacob says, is that when he discusses ideas with his students that pose even the mildest challenge to the conservative orthodoxy that prevails in his region, he faces backlash from parents. [ … ] “I’ve had to accept that from time to time I will teach tolerance, and it will be seen as brainwashing,” he tells me.
Fnnk, heh … he he he he he a-ha ha ha ha [ Falls into coughing fit. Drinks water. Eyes ‘water’ glass suspiciously. ]
Tessa says[:] “I feel like I should be able to do a better job at teaching critical-thinking skills and they should have enough trust in me to believe that I’m telling them the truth.”
“Honestly,” she adds, “it makes me feel like I’ve failed at my job.”
I was so convinced that this was an Onion- or Babylon Bee-like satire that I had to Google the source to find out.
But as far as I can tell,apparently it’s in deadly earnest:
“[Men’s lifestyle magazines were] an area that really needed reinvention and to be blown up, in the same way that Jezebel and the Cut and the women’s side of things had been doing things right for a while [ … ] there was a real opportunity to fill a need with a certain kind of male consumer and reader [ … ] it’s never been there just to push razors. It’s been there to be a thought leader on modern masculinity”
[ Falls into coughing fit. Drinks water. Eyes ‘water’ glass suspiciously. ]
Again, preening and ludicrous.
It’s been there to be a thought leader on modern masculinity
I was going to sarcastically say that modern, like social, is now a negative. But then I thought, that’s actually true, isn’t it? Modern art, modern architecture, modern anything really.
Stewed puppies? Stir fried?
How very topical — https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kim-jong-un-reportedly-orders-north-koreans-hand-over-pet-dogs-so-they-can-be-eaten
Heh. Just ran across this. Was the joke intentional?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_Supervisor_Sleeping?wprov=sfti1
A couple of empowered young women take on a misogynist who has the temerity to speak to them. Boy, did they show him…
https://twitter.com/warlikefire/status/1294025864615690240
Tell me, ladies, would you put one of those in your mouth?
longer than is strictly necessary
Snicker.
Snicker.
It’s amazing just how quickly this place goes downmarket.
I’ll try my best to raise the tone with this observation:
Why do vegan / vegetarian food manufacturers strive so hard to make their products imitations in look and taste of normal food products? If they market their soy protein patties as a substitute for hamburgers, are they engaging in meatface?
imitations in look and taste of normal food products
Those were normal food products?
Tell me, ladies, would you put one of those in your mouth?
Not if you paid me to. If that 08/21 sticker is the expiration date – what the heck is in that fake “meat”? Plastic?
After seeing the enlarged version – the store should not be displaying those packages vertically in the display case – gravity is not kind to those plant-based pink slime tubes. Although even laying horizontal I don’t think they would look much more appetizing. Just maybe a little less like something else 😛
After seeing the enlarged version
*sniggers*
…it’s never been there just to push razors.
One notes that a search for “Portland” on the Mel Magazine site brings up a number of articles:
— “We Were Never Taught How to Civilly Disobey”
— “‘Bottoms, Tops, We All Hate Cops’ Is This Year’s Pride Chant”
— “Should I Bring My Dog to a Protest?”
— “Abolish the Department of Homeland Security”
Evidently, it’s beyond the pale for young people to listen to Dr. Peterson tell them to take control of their lives, but chucking Molotov cocktails at police stations is perfectly acceptable.
After seeing the enlarged version
*sniggers*
Heh.
I’m not even sorry.
These people are mad. And your new word today is “rape-pardoned”.
Aren’t all sausages plant-based?
Why do vegan / vegetarian food manufacturers strive so hard to make their products imitations in look and taste of normal food products?
Well, remember: The known main problem with a diet that is strictly only vegan or vegetarian is that as soon as you run out of them you have to go back to other forms of meat.
In addition to meatface, vegan food companies are also engaging in eggface.
“Aren’t all sausages plant-based?”
As Captain Vimes knew, a sausage without mysterious green bits is deeply suspect. Any trace elements of meat that may happen to enter the process can come under the heading of “Colouring and Flavours”.
(In all seriousness, my great grandfather was a butcher. His customers used to complain that his mince and sausages were more expensive than his steak. To which his answer was that the mince was made of steak and the sausages were made of mince, so what do you expect?)
Maybe Hal can find this — years ago, when “Hagar the Horrible” was funny, the waiter brought him a huge slab of meat, spilling over the ends of the platter. Hagar pointed to a little speck on top and said, “What’s this?” “Sprig of parsley, sir.” Hagar howled: “I ordered steak, not steak all smothered in vegetables!”
vegan food companies are also engaging in eggface.
Not sure how they get away with this. Food labelling laws are very strict when it comes to normal food. J U S T Egg should be labelled Not At All Egg.
Oh, and what’s the hardest part about eating vegetables?
Digesting the wheelchair.
[ Rimshot ]
I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your server.
Food labelling laws are very strict when it comes to normal food.
For example, around these parts we have a product which a lot of the world calls Canadian bacon. In my part of Canada, we call it peameal bacon, which was originally a cured pork loin rolled in pea meal (dried ground peas). Well it hasn’t been made with pea meal for over 70 years. Instead, it is rolled and coated in corn meal; but it’s still known as and called peameal bacon. Well, the food police weren’t going to stand for this great fraud and fined the food companies forcing them to rename the product “cured pork in cornmeal.”
Way more than you ever wanted to know about peameal bacon I’m sure. If you ever visit Toronto (if we’re ever allowed to travel again), you should visit the St. Lawrence market and have a peameal bacon on a bun. It’s a simple but great sandwich.
A sausage properly belongs at the peak of any trophic pyramid.
You know, if you watch sci-fi movies featuring 8 foot tall aliens with weird orthodontia, tails and acid blood and you see BLACK FOLK as villains, maybe the racist is you.
And your new word today is “rape-pardoned”.
No fooling — I honestly thought Darleen’s reference would link to a joke about how Bill Clinton and Joe Biden both got invited to speak to the DNC yesterday.
I displayed the picture to my husband, and after staring at it for about 10 seconds, he croaked: ‘Take it away. It gives me the willies!’
For all you colonials who may be linguistically challenged, and for the regalement of my compatriots:
https://metro.co.uk/2010/12/02/lloydspharmacy-penis-map-shows-different-words-for-willy-around-uk-596797/
But ‘to give someone the willies’ just means ‘to creep them out’. (I assume that’s US English as well?)
“You know, if you watch sci-fi movies featuring 8 foot tall aliens with weird orthodontia, tails and acid blood and you see BLACK FOLK as villains, maybe the racist is you.”
The trouble is that the Xenomorph and Predator don’t speak. If they did, you’d discover that they’re English.
penis-map-shows-different-words-for-willy-around-uk
Don’t forget the song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPkzkV1icWY
Don’t forget the song!
Or the SNL sketch!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mshi6
Maybe Hal can find this — years ago, when “Hagar the Horrible” was funny, . . . .
Hmmm. Does look collectable, but basic Googlemancy ain’t getting anything . . . You’d prolly have to find an archive and start dredging . . .
‘Take it away. It gives me the willies!’
For all you colonials who may be linguistically challenged, and for the regalement of my compatriots:
Some number of years back there was a formulaic family-friendly story. very definitely targeting the younger audience, with songs by Michael Jackson, New Kids on the Block, and SWV. . . .
I don’t know of the length of the following or if the these are uncut, but apparently there are:
Free Willy
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove
Those are clearly not kosher.
Penseivat: “Tell me, ladies, would you put one of those in your mouth?”
I believe the classic rejoinder is ‘if it’ll fit in my mouth, I ain’t interested, honey…’
You know, if you watch sci-fi movies featuring 8 foot tall aliens with weird orthodontia, tails and acid blood and you see BLACK FOLK as villains, maybe the racist is you.
That article’s extraordinary – and not in a good way.
Could the photo have been taken in the US, where dates are the wrong way round? In that case the 08/21 expiry date would be tomorrow, rather than one year hence. I find imperishable Frankenfoods disconcerting, though I did recently consume some pre-lockdown eggs without any ill-effects. Hard-boiled, obviously.
In that case the 08/21 expiry date would be tomorrow, rather than one year hence.
You may be right. And yet somehow that thought hasn’t significantly enhanced the appeal.
For those who are curious, possibly tempted, the foodstuff featured above is “made from plant-based ingredients including peas, fava beans and rice.” Oh, and algae. The alleged “meat colour” comes from beets. Said items should not be boiled, or microwaved, or cooked from frozen. They can, however, be grilled, griddled, or fried.
There’s also a “hot Italian” variant with added potato starch and “apple fibre.”
“made from plant-based ingredients including peas, fava beans and rice.”
Vegan, you say ? You knew this was coming…