They Insisted On Showing Their Gratitude
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Damsons also seem to have gone missing from the fruitary.
Demanding that only hunchbacks play a hunchback ignores that little detail called acting ability, though lacking that doesn’t seem to have hurt some actors much.
When 8 yr olds snap their heads around to look at a hot babe and ride their tricycle into a tree, then maybe they need sex ed. But of course in the real world they have no idea about the whole sex thing because it requires your hormones to kick in. Adults know this. But don’t call it grooming, no no no.
Demanding that only hunchbacks play a hunchback ignores that little detail called acting ability…
Taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean that only blind actors should play blind characters, likewise deaf, mute, and so on. Only retarded men should play Forrest Gump. Only homicidal actors should play killers. And who should be allowed to play Hannibal Lecter in the next reboot?
These demands are all bullshit, of course, and the proper response should be “FOAD”.
Could Orwell call it, or what?
*sigh*
Of course we have fruit. Here, have some of the delightful liquor of the agave plant…
The Amazing Kreskin would be a better choice than that ‘teacher’.
OK, I am officially confused, wouldn’t a “transqueer” be straight?
Please ignore the tortured grammar in the article so as not to offend whatever her or his pronouns are. However, speaking of tortured language…
“Enflesh”, nope, gonna leave that one alone, but this goes to show why there needs to be a wall around California. Nashville used to be fairly normal.
I do find it just a little incredible that he was unaware of the New Netflix Normal.
The comment section of that article is all about boundaries, about the process, about not questioning the professional authority of HR types. It’s a different world from old-school Hollywood, where the good people are spontaneous, authentic, sensual, seeking to transcend conventional morality and cold professional formality; and when the bad people wonder if this is an excuse for going to bed with young actresses, they only expose themselves as uptight, repressed, projecting, seeking to control female sexuality.
His moral muscle memory from old-school Hollywood is telling him he’s a good person.
“transqueer” “genderqueer” what? What? Words used to have meaning. They don’t mean “gay” but something else–but what?
visionary thinker–if crazy is visionary (and I suppose the crazy do have visions) then the woke have visionary all locked up. Sure, go ahead and smash the system–buy some land and grow your own food.
The gibberish quoted we can blame on post-modernism and Faucault et al. who insisted reality is just “discourses”. Right.
Working through your ‘reheated’ posts. 🙂
Tip jar hit.
So, what do your pour over your raspberries, strawberries, and other summer fruits?
We have to make do with heavy cream, which is a somewhat weaker version of double cream. From research I have done, double cream has a higher milkfat content than heavy cream. I don’t know why US dairies don’t produce double cream – I’m guessing it’s some bureaucratic diktat from the USDA (dept of ag) or the FDA – probably something that came out around WWII.
Caster sugar is another one I see in baking recipes from Britain, but that one I think there is a decent substitute for here in the US.
Tip jar hit.
Bless you, sir. May the smell of fresh paint never outstay its welcome.
“what do your pour over your raspberries, strawberries, and other summer fruits?”
Ice. Crushed with generous helpings of rum…
As to cream, try “manufacturers” in the States.
One must give the transqueer person in Duke Divinity School credit for choosing precisely the right word. Anyone gazing at
hertheir picture would agree that ‘enflesh’ is wonderfully appropriate.As to cream, try “manufacturers” in the States.
Yes, but manufacturer’s cream is hard to find in retail stores, at least from the few supermarkets I have checked.
the transqueer person in Duke Divinity School
Bears a passing resemblance to Zippy the Pinhead.
Caster sugar is another one I see in baking recipes from Britain, but that one I think there is a decent substitute for here in the US.
This is the one I use.
wouldn’t a “transqueer” be straight?
And a trans non-binary, binary?
Bears a passing resemblance to Zippy the Pinhead.
I was thinking, more like Humpty Dumpty.
You can make caster sugar by just grinding regular sugar a bit finer–my coffee grinder works ok for that.
“Next week on Practical Housekeeping…”
You can make caster sugar by just grinding regular sugar a bit finer–my coffee grinder works ok for that.
Maybe it would help to have a friend who runs a bakery…
the THRICE CURSED rhubarb either
As a tad, my mother used to grow rhubarb in the garden and I have fond memories of rhubarb pie. As an adult I have learned that it’s also supposed to have strawberries in it. We were kind of poor, apparently.
this would mean that only blind actors should play blind characters, likewise deaf, mute, and so on
Um…yes? Deaf activists have been insisting on this since Children of a Lesser God. Billy Bob Thornton got criticism for Sling Blade. It’s louder now and amplified by wine moms, but it’s always been there.
Next week on Practical Housekeeping
Get a coffee grinder and grind your own spices. It makes a world of difference.
As a tad, my mother used to grow rhubarb in the garden and I have fond memories of rhubarb pie.
Me, too. Delicious.
Get a coffee grinder and grind your own spices. It makes a world of difference.
But clean it very thoroughly between uses, I suppose, or your recipes and coffee will taste a little odd. Come to think of it, I suspect that a lot of people I know hardly ever clean their coffee grinders.
Next week on Practical Housekeeping.
Get a coffee grinder and grind your own spices. It makes a world of difference.
Oh yes. I especially like giving anise seed a coarse grind right before adding it to the biscotti dough.
Next week on Practical Housekeeping.
Do you have bird feeders and nesting boxes? Save your egg shells, dry them out in a 300 degree (F) oven for 10 minutes, cool, and give a coarse grind in a coffee grinder. Then put out near feeder or on top of fence where birds (especially during nesting season) can get to them to add much needed calcium to their diet.
Thank you, I’m here next week, too. 😉
But clean it very thoroughly between uses
I use a can of compressed air. As long as your spices are dry there’s not usually any aftertaste.
I use a can of compressed air. As long as your spices are dry there’s not usually any aftertaste.
On the other hand, some people like a bit of pepper in their coffee.
As a tad, my mother used to grow rhubarb in the garden and I have fond memories of rhubarb pie.
I remember eating raw rhubarb with my brother dipped in white sugar and making sour faces at each other.
Get a coffee grinder and grind your own spices. It makes a world of difference.
Yes, but if you’re going to do it on the regular, buy two and use one for spice and one for coffee.
As long as your spices are dry there’s not usually any aftertaste.
Still, you can never get rid of the oils that work themselves into the grinder (not Grindr). They’re part of the reason that grinding your own spices (especially the seed based ones) gives so much more flavour than dried.
I still prefer the old fashioned mortar and pestle. Crushing gives a different result than the cutting that occurs in a grinder.
This is the one I use.
Oh cool – thank you! I’ll be on the lookout for it – being a dry good, I bet I can buy it online pretty easily. I actually found Lyle’s golden syrup in the International Foods Brit section, next to the Heinz salad cream and the Heinz beans. They had Marmite and Branston pickle, too. Double cream I think is one of those things we’ll prolly never see in US grocery chains, although I guess some in select places here sell manufacturer’s cream.
I remember eating raw rhubarb with my brother dipped in white sugar
Just to be clear the rhubarb was dipped in sugar, not my brother. 😉
I actually found Lyle’s golden syrup in the International Foods Brit section
Corn syrup has the same properties as golden syrup and bakes the same. It’s probably easier to find and cheaper. The town I grew up in had a plant that manufactured the stuff along with corn starch and a bunch of other corn based products. The brand was BeeHive. One of the local hockey teams was called the Dixie BeeHives.
I don’t know why US dairies don’t produce double cream – I’m guessing it’s some bureaucratic diktat from the USDA
How about cultural divergence which can be traced all the way back to the colonies? Pure speculation, of course, but note the names that are common in England but extremely rare in America. Few members of the aristocracy and wealthy classes came to America, and disproportionately large numbers came from certain parts of England.
Not a headline you’ll see everyday.
Oh sheeeeeit.
I went to high school in Somerville.
(So did Lee Van Cleef.)
I still prefer the old fashioned mortar and pestle. Crushing gives a different result than the cutting that occurs in a grinder.
True, but if there’s a bunch of spices in a recipe, and going in at the same time, they’re going in the grinder. Still use the mortar and pestle from 30+ years ago, though.
Native women raise clenched fists outside Wisconsin state capitol: “This epidemic of missing and murdered Native women and girls must stop,” said Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge Munsee Community, one of the 11 federally recognized tribal Nations in Wisconsin. “It’s not a tribal, singular endeavor. It is an everybody endeavor.”
An “everybody” matter? No, it’s a tribal matter, because nearly all the murders are committed by Native men, not by white men. But establishment news coverage will somehow neglect that fact, and the reporting and protests will be crafted to shame all of us. Furthermore, the tribal lands are to a large degree autonomous, so what are we white people supposed to do about wrongs committed by Native people and largely on Native lands? But I do know that I have been cautioned to avoid driving through Native areas because the Native police like to harass white people.
“because nearly all the murders are committed by Native men,”
Except for the first one the article mentions… the murderer is best described as an aspiring rap star…
So yeah, you white guys better shape up, fast.
I still prefer the old fashioned mortar and pestle. Crushing gives a different result than the cutting that occurs in a grinder.
Really? I also have a mortar and pestle, I’ll have to try it and see.
This epidemic of missing and murdered Native women and girls must stop
You’re supposed to import our comedians, not our bullshit.
nearly all the murders are committed by Native men, not by white men
One of the hastily buried facts in our own Royal Commission into this was that native women are murdered/go missing exactly in proportion to their demography. Areas with lots of natives also tend to have a lot of crime against women generally, apparently.
Really? I also have a mortar and pestle, I’ll have to try it and see.
Warm up the spices in a pan first and then use the mortar and pestle.
Just to be clear the rhubarb was dipped in sugar, not my brother. 😉
“How that elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.”
“How that elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.”
With difficulty?
I also have a mortar and pestle…
A mortar and pestle, or a vessel with a pestle?
Pinged you a little something for your trouble, barkeep.
Pinged you a little something for your trouble, barkeep.
Bless you, sir. Should you be applying styling product to your hair, and thus have sticky hands, may your father-in-law not choose that exact moment to phone you. (Ditto the brushing of teeth and use of mouthwash.)
Right, we’re off to the local IMAX to see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. From what I’ve heard, it could go either way. Wish me luck.
we’re off to the local IMAX
Giving church a miss this week then?
In other religious matters; Happy Birthday Buddha, 2,500 and something. The cake must be enormous for all those candles…
The BBC informs that butterflies are returning again in encouraging numbers to California. Pictures of the iconic Monarch show them in clusters hanging from eucalyptus trees. An Aussie export helping the cause or just happenstance?
[ Waits for someone to restart the heated debate about the word aluminium. ]
Was just reminded of another terminological difference: British valves vs. American vacuum tubes. “Valve” really is a good name for what such a tube does, although I doubt more than one person in a hundred knows this. I still recall, albeit somewhat vaguely, the introduction to the physics of tubes and transistors that I got when I was working on my degree.
The BBC informs that butterflies are returning again in encouraging numbers to California…An Aussie export helping the cause or just happenstance?
As far as I know, this is entirely due to efforts to protect and expand habitats in Mexico and in America. And as a matter of fact, I occasionally walk by homes displaying signs announcing that the gardens are “Monarch-friendly”.
I still prefer the old fashioned mortar and pestle. Crushing gives a different result than the cutting that occurs in a grinder.
My mother taught me that, but I did find that crushing was a lot more work: Those caraway seeds were tougher than I expected.
You’re supposed to import our comedians, not our bullshit.
No need to import: America produces a surplus every year with no sign of depletion of reserves.