Friday Ephemera (733)
Gambling den of note. || From 1978, a brief guide to stuffed chine. || Cross-section of something familiar. || Not finding it didn’t matter. || Meanwhile, in Wales. || Leaf sheep, also glows. || Now that the clock is ticking, name the countries of the world. || Humans next to enormous things, a thread. || Careful now. || Wooing tip. || Yam fondling. || Joe has had a face transplant. || The thrill of patent leather. || An elevated pig. || Pole dancing. || Perhaps he identified as a slow-moving truck. || “Be real,” much hooting. || A lowering of the scrotum. || A tool for every job. || She’s got a big one. || Suboptimal location. || Burdensome behaviour seen from afar. (h/t, pst314) || Don’t send gifts. || A footwear choice was made. || And finally, because you demanded it, AI does breakdancing.
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Not from that perspective it’s not.
Dendrocalamus Giganteus – God’s own soda straw.
You can just feel that social credit score slide away.
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
‘Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.’
Meanwhile, in Wales.
Certainly walks like it has balls.
Humans next to enormous things, a thread.
I seem to recall a song called “The Big Bamboo.”
Yam fondling.
I can’t tell if it’s angry or blushing.
The thrill of patent leather.
Patent leather is the only thing I can think of worthy of the description “snazzy.”
An elevated pig.
Homer Simpson warned us.
She’s got a big one.
That almost brought my Baba back to life. Cabbage rolls and kapusta for everybody. Accompanied by polka music from The Shmenges, Yosh and Stan.
Wooing tip.
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What kinda cheese we talking about?
That’s a LOT of parsley.
Morning, all.
Hundreds.
Described as ‘a taste of Britain’, is stuffed chine. One we probably don’t want to bring back…
And on the subject of cookery, why don’t American cooks ever ‘rub in’ fat to flour with their fingers, as we were taught to do here in the UK? They all seem to use a contraption of some sort called a ‘pastry blender‘….
[ Fetches greaseproof paper, slides large quantity of fat towards Julia. ]
I’m mindful of my patrons’ fat-rubbing needs.
Why is there a NSFW warning?
Just to remind Steve of the Old Country.
Update on Griffin Sivert, the unfortunate phalloplasty patient, on her cause of death.
I was taught to use two table knives, doing a criss-cross motion through the butter/lard, cut the two ingredients together.
[ Slides large quantity of fat towards dicentra. ]
[ Sets up camera to record impending fat-rubbing competition. ]
Some interesting choices were made.
Gambling den of note
Are those colorful laundry baskets you can win that are hanging up?
[ Taps watch. ]
What time do you call this?
Was up earlier but first a walk through the woods so the Weim Crime Syndicate could pee, then makes toast and coffee, and then first read news headlines.All before 5 am MY TIME.
Humans next to enormous things, a thread
Reminded me of this and the rhyme, “If it’s black, fight back; if it’s brown, lay down; if it’s white, say goodnight.”
I appreciate an eye for detail.
Only just noticed them. 😀
Well, to be fair, there was a lot to take in.
I’m now pondering a world in which people play guinea pig roulette to win a nasty plastic laundry basket.
Why is there a NSFW warning?
Why is there one and an 18 & over warning on leg in an anatomy lab?
Some interesting choices were made.
That may be the UK HQ of the Velvet Jones School of Technology, but why the hell are there charcoal briquettes in the fireplace?
Because it was automatically generated by software that looks for “red flag” words and phrases.
I hate to be a décor snob, but, taken as a whole, it is a bit much.
Because it’s more efficient? My mother had one, I recall.
[ Waits for womenfolk to start fat-rubbing contest. ]
Attention, readers. I bring TikTok fad news.
Wow, High Culture on display.
(can’t believe I am wading into this topic after several nsfw notices and a phallic yam…)
Size of fat particles determines flakiness of pastry. In “short” pastry the fat is blended into flour. It is not flaky, more like a french pate sucree. So I assume that’s what you get when you rub (=melt) shortening with your fingers.
American style pie stresses flaky crust. To get that texture cooks will use shortening cut into pieces up to the size of marbles or walnuts to make something like “rough puff pastry”. Everything is chilled to keep the fat particles separate. This is where the pastry blender comes in to keep things cool and minimize disappearance of the shortening into the flour.
Unfortunately, that twitter account also publishes chemtrail and 5G paranoia.
[ Slides greaseproof paper, large dollop of fat to Ben David. ]
At some point, my mother began using cooking oil instead of shortening, but I do not clearly recall if this was because she liked how the crusts turned out or because of government health warnings about saturated fats.
Is that hump fat?
Is she taking that to the Highland Games?
For those unfamiliar with the substance in question.
[ Uses foot to discreetly push enormous bucket of fat out of sight. ]
[ Uses foot to discreetly push enormous bucket of fat out of sight. ]
Imagine the mindset.
Our betters and their recreational malice.
A quite thorough video playlist on deleted and unfilmed scenes from Alien.
Oh no! How will black, gay, disabled people be seen, welcomed, and included now?