unwashed dishes and toilet paper tubes

[Angua]

I really hate the changes in daylength in England. It's even worse than having to put up with the weather. In the winter, it gets dark so early that I start feeling tired at around 8 or 9, and in the summer it stays light late, so I don't feel tired until 12, but then it starts getting bright around 4 with the bloody birds singing, so my body wants to get up early.

Everywhere should have constant day-lengths like the tropics.

[TimelordSimone]

I need to get thicker curtains, because my bedroom window faces pretty much due east, and the sunlight tends to wake me up way earlier than I'd like in the summer.

[emceng]

Yeah, a few years ago I had major issues with not sleeping, and figured too much light was an issue. I have blinds, but they didn't get the job done. Was too lazy to get blackout curtains. Instead just shoved towels int the top of the blinds. Worked really well actually.

[The Cat]

The Ts will require more thought. Zebras are awesome. I've waded through the outdoor outfitters parlor before. If I recall, we had a delivery man, band of machete waving punks, and many other things that are not considered appropriate for an American job interview. The tip man got a black eye the next day! From his best friend! Whats the relationship between the delivery man and fine outdoor products? Was it a "Hey, how are you doing with these characters?" I won the patio debate series. At least they had the common decency to have a real conversation. All this beer and waiting has really done a number on my bladder...

[Shro]

All this beer and waiting has really done a number on my bladder... The tip man got a black eye the next day! From his best friend!

The elipses suggest that the tip man getting a black eye from his best friend is somehow related to having to go to the bathroom. Sometimes I have to make up very elaborate stories in my head to fill in the blanks.

[The Cat]

The elipses suggest that the tip man getting a black eye from his best friend is somehow related to having to go to the bathroom. Sometimes I have to make up very elaborate stories in my head to fill in the blanks.

Fixed. thank you. If it's thin, I'll say it's thin. Hearing the story first hand, from both of em, while staring at the black eye, is slightly less than thin. I won't elaborate on the story.

[elminster]

There's something quite satisfying about a sharp knife. Although the last time I sharpened the kitchen knives properly my house mates complained they were too sharp. Shortly followed by a hospital trip when one of them chopped the tip of their finger off. I guess being sharp enough to glide through paper and shave hair does make the danger of knives more obvious.

[Giant Speck]

Chocolate Therapy? Ben & Jerry's, what have you done?!

[Steax]

Probably entirely intended and working-as-planned, but still mind-bending nonetheless.

[Ulc]

There's something quite satisfying about a sharp knife. Although the last time I sharpened the kitchen knives properly my house mates complained they were too sharp. Shortly followed by a hospital trip when one of them chopped the tip of their finger off. I guess being sharp enough to glide through paper and shave hair does make the danger of knives more obvious.

Actually, when people are at least somewhat capable in a kitchen, I find that dull knives make for far more accidents than sharp ones. A good sharp knife goes where the user wants it, without being forced. A dull one requires force to cut through things, so it tend to go every odd way it possible can when it clears the cut, or even within the cut itself.

The only accidents I've had with sharp knives recently is the fact that half our dish-towels have cuts in them.

In short: Tell them to learn how to handle a knife without using force, then sharpen the shit out of those kitchen knives.

[elminster]

Actually, when people are at least somewhat capable in a kitchen, I find that dull knives make for far more accidents than sharp ones. A good sharp knife goes where the user wants it, without being forced. A dull one requires force to cut through things, so it tend to go every odd way it possible can when it clears the cut, or even within the cut itself.

The only accidents I've had with sharp knives recently is the fact that half our dish-towels have cuts in them.

In short: Tell them to learn how to handle a knife without using force, then sharpen the shit out of those kitchen knives.

Yeah, really it's been quite a while since I cut myself with a kitchen knife. I think the last few times was where I was tempted to check the edge (after sharpening) with a finger (Lightly trying to judge the edge). Paper works much better.
Using the proper technique (Mostly a claw style grip) it's not only safer, it's more accurate and faster. At first I was amazed by chefs, but changing grip with a little practice it's easy stuff.
Cutting with a butter knife isn't fun.

On a related note: I find it rather ironic how people buy granite chopping boards and such, when that's precisely the kind of thing that you don't want for your knifes.

[Ulc]

granite chopping boards

It's rare that the internet makes me exclaim out loud in pain. But this did it, I've never heard of that, and the notion repulses me.

[The Cat]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! Looks like a dbl feature day. That explains a great deal. I hope they get better. Cheers!

How do I get free?
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Limited resources and we'd get some interesting combinations. However, you're right. I refrain on the second, lest the onset of tingling lips followed by acute paralysis. Congratulations! Very well deserved. Cheers!

[SlyReaper]

Right, that does it. I am officially bored of zombies. On the DVD rack in Asda, there's Ninja Zombie, Ozombie, War Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead, and several other zombie-themed films I've not bothered to remember the names of. What the shit? When did every film-maker and his dog decide to start cashing in on zombies?

[Menacing Spike]

Right, that does it. I am officially bored of zombies. On the DVD rack in Asda, there's Ninja Zombie, Ozombie, War Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead, and several other zombie-themed films I've not bothered to remember the names of. What the shit? When did every film-maker and his dog decide to start cashing in on zombies?

I'm, like, officially annoyed by people overusing officially. Like, seriously.

[The Cat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tb7yCCT ... re=related

[bigglesworth]

A dull one requires force to cut through things, so it tend to go every odd way it possible can when it clears the cut, or even within the cut itself.

Yeah - to illustrate this a short story:

I was cutting onions with a pretty blunt knife (because I couldn't be bothered to sharpen it halfway through the job) and something that happened once or twice was the knife clearing the first few layers, then sliding along another layer. Essentially I could only cut the top layers of the onion before it slid off the core layers. Very annoying.

[The Cat]

Have y'all tried serrated? They work great for me.

[SurgicalSteel]

Depends on the application. For sawing through things, like breads or overcooked meat or something, serrated knives are fantastic. For things that require more of a push or a slice, non-serrated is better in my experience. I use non-serrated knives for vegetables, fruit, chicken, uncooked beef, etc.

Dull knives are safer (safer is a relative term) if you're dicking around with it , sharp knives are safer for actual work for the reasons bigglesworth gave.

[SlyReaper]

Right, that does it. I am officially bored of zombies. On the DVD rack in Asda, there's Ninja Zombie, Ozombie, War Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead, and several other zombie-themed films I've not bothered to remember the names of. What the shit? When did every film-maker and his dog decide to start cashing in on zombies?

I'm, like, officially annoyed by people overusing officially. Like, seriously.

Yeah? Well I'm, like, officially annoyed by people using any kind of vernacular whatsoever.

[The Scyphozoa]

Interesting... I was burning a CD on an unplugged laptop... It ran out of batteries before it was done and automatically went into hibernate. I quickly plugged it back in but I didn't turn it back on because the disk drive was still spinning. When it stopped spinning I turned it back on, and when it finished restoring Windows it continued with the "finalizing" stage of the burning. The disk works just fine. I guess a computer can still burn disks while hibernating.

[brakos82]

Interesting... I was burning a CD on an unplugged laptop... It ran out of batteries before it was done and automatically went into hibernate. I quickly plugged it back in but I didn't turn it back on because the disk drive was still spinning. When it stopped spinning I turned it back on, and when it finished restoring Windows it continued with the "finalizing" stage of the burning. The disk works just fine. I guess a computer can still burn disks while hibernating.

Well I learned something today.

[The Cat]

Me too, I think. Avengers is a surprisingly good movie. I'll start in the right place next weekend. I try to say off the roads after dark.
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I have some serrated knives that are great for slicing fruits and veggies.


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Grande slinky chicken on that one.

[You, sir, name?]

Steak.

Steak is good.

[brakos82]

Steak, wrapped in bacon.

[darknut]

Steak, wrapped in bacon.

and then you put that inside a chicken and bacon strips and that into a pig and bacon strips
and serve witha side of bacon, smart, smart

[brakos82]

I don't think there's anything Seattle's weatherman Steve Pool can't do... he hasn't aged in 28 years (there is proof of this), he answers tricky questions, and now he's becoming an actor.

[e^iπ+1=0]

I imagine it got boring reporting on the rain, so he took up hobbies like biogerontology.

[SlyReaper]

Steak, wrapped in bacon.

Steak, wrapped in bacon, stuffed inside a chicken, and sandwiched inside the original steak.

[The Cat]

look, young lady, I've tolerated your nonsense for long enough. I've tried to be kind, polite, honest and patient, but these concepts seem Foreign to your nature. this Aggression will not be tolerated. I've been honest from the beginning. I'm not known to be a liar, nor my associates. This is America. In America, some things are more important than "what you have in the bank". I would've though you understood that by now. Silly American, "he thinks it's in the ice!" some of those cheetahs Scratch like they have flees.

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[micco]

I find it dissapointing that having a barbecue in a public park is forbidden here...

[Garm]

Steak, wrapped in bacon.

Steak, wrapped in bacon, stuffed inside a chicken, and sandwiched inside the original steak.

Would this be something like a mobius turducken?

Really tho', I enjoy Steak with grilled onions on it (Schwäbisch style). If you combined the grilled onions with wrapping the steak in bacon that might be pretty excellent. Best yet might be wrapping it in smoked bacon (speck).

[You, sir, name?]

Steak, wrapped in bacon.

Steak, wrapped in bacon, stuffed inside a chicken, and sandwiched inside the original steak.

Sadly only works with 4-dimensional steaks.

[UniqueScreenname]

Cows are three dimensional. Just make a giant steak.

[You, sir, name?]

Cows are three dimensional. Just make a giant steak.

How do you know? They could just be 3D projections of a larger, N-dimensional bovine.

For all we know, the N-dimensional creature may intersect our reality multiple times, forming different creatures. Here is a diagram of how that would look

This is all in line with my hypothesis that there is only one type of citrus fruit, a type of hypersphere that exists largely in a dimension inaccessible to us; that has different size, colors and shape depending on its distance, red-shift, and Lorentz contraction (the latter two from motion along an axis we can't perceive).

[broken_escalator]

I prefer my cows non-euclidean, personally.

[UniqueScreenname]

Shouldn't the same be applied to all seemingly 3D objects, including humans, therefore making the whole point negligible?

[You, sir, name?]

Shouldn't the same be applied to all seemingly 3D objects(A), including humans, therefore making the whole point negligible(B)?

A: Yes.
B: I don't see how this follows.

[KestrelLowing]

I find it dissapointing that having a barbecue in a public park is forbidden here...

Wait, what?? What's the point of a park then?!

[UniqueScreenname]

If everything may very well be a visible projection from a higher dimension, why does it change that fact that an entire cow would allow the mobius terducken?