start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Birch Barlow: Mayor Quimby, you are well known for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family was tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob....

Mayor Quimby: What is your, ah, question?

Birch Barlow: My question is about the budget, sir.

Lol <3

exactly

The car in front of me at the Dunkin Donuts drive through paid for my coffee this morning. I can't STAND when people do that!

And just think of the smug self-satisfaction they're feeling RIGHT NOW

It weirds me out because I'm all set to pay for my own drink, then I have to re-evaluate the situation. Am I expected to participate in this too? Is the person in front of me a stalker or something? Is there someone behind me now? Did they order a coffee or a dozen donuts? Am I on candid camera?

There was no one behind me to pay it forward to, thank god, so I tipped the counter dudes and got the hell out of there.

So cynical!

I don't think it's cynicism as much as anxiety.

is it ok to be cynical about restaurants that commodity this behavior?

http://i.imgur.com/eOq7JbR.jpg

it's nice that some of the money is going to charity, but it's impossible not to see this as a calculated marketing strategy to turn a profit under the guise of "random" acts of kindness, barf.

i think generally pay it forward is kinda nice, but it can for sure throw you off kilter

i am suspicious of people who do it habitually though. one of the managers in our office is a habitual pay-it-forward-er & loves to faux-humbly drop it into conversation etc & basically thinks he's got a box seat in heaven bcz of his Good Deeds. i take a very dim view of his charity in general because i know that he wants the world to know about it AND hopes that we're keeping score

that apple crisp looks pretty good, I can't just buy it for myself and support the cause??

I kind of hate the phrase pay it forward.

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp? those mini desserts are basically a dollar per spoonful - I'd be almost insulted if a stranger passed one on to me as a heroic act of goodwill or whatever

xp: good thing to hate, imo.

A mini dessert is all you really need though, if you're being honest with yourself. They're actually doing YOU a favor. ;)

that apple crisp looks pretty good, I can't just buy it for myself and support the cause??

I guess it's like sake where someone else is supposed to pour it for you.

It's like that thing in Australia that McDonalds does--don't know if it's universal--where they get celebrities in to flog burgers for a day, and give $1 from each of a certain kind of burger sold to a charity. Nothing is ever said about all the extra $$ they must make from people wanting to buy shitburgers from faded singers etc

Do you get like John Farnham or something?

probably

Richard Jefferson's attached earlobes.

or maybe just donate $5 to Autism Speaks and make your own apple crisp?

or just don't donate to autism speaks at all

huh, I wasn't aware of all that (although it appears that they've since reversed their position on vaccination)

Guys u are seeing througb motivations for good acts so hard rite now i congratulate u all

"happy fathers day... to all the single moms!" "happy fathers day... but it's maybe not so happy for ppl who have a so-so relationship with their fathers so you know don't say this to them!" OK I GET IT YOU ARE THE MOST EMPATHETIC PERSON IN THE WORLD

people who post "if you are <insert criteria>, please go ahead and defriend me now"

when items on amazon are priced $27.56 - $253.00

lol I love when they have t-shirts with wildly swinging price ranges that are randomly more expensive for one size

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the Dad's...even the one's NOT on Facebook!

i hate facebook so much Dad's one's

there was one dude a few years ago who was chastising people posting Happy Father's Day/Mother's Day, replying "why don't you PICK UP THE PHONE and tell them".

most people replied "uhhh ya doofus I already did" or "I'm sitting next to mine right now asshole"

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying and it annoyed the crap out of me

her analogy was dont buy me a storebought birthday cake, please bake it from scratch because that means you care rmde

if it's a competition then fuck it, get nothing & like it because i sure as hell dont like you enough to write you a bloody letter

googling recipes for stuff (which i never follow, just trying to look up proportions when i don't want to use cookbook/memory) and every recipe blog is the same healthy mom "eating clean" (retch) picture of herself and sad empty husband on the right side, annoying food photo you stood on a table to take w/ garnish that makes no sense, trying to turn my blog into a book deal

otm

and having to scroll past 20 paragraphs of crap where they refer to "hubby" and repeatedly use the word "nom" and then another 20 staged photos to get to the recipe at the bottom of the page

echoing a post from upthread, i'm trying to figure out a blu-ray edition to get but every edition of a movie has the same reviews, with few exceptions. so there's a blu-ray from 2015 and on the page there are reviews from 2001 crowing about how glad the reviewer is that the DVD isn't a pan and scan that you have to flip over halfway through.

xp oh god this recipe blog I used to go to for baby-led weaning drove me UP. THE. WALL.
Literally every recipe was 'I simply adore how the wholesome muffins are studded with gorgeously juicy fruit' bleaugh bleaugh
everything 'studded' and everything 'simply adored' and everything 'spiked with' herbs and 'kissed with' cinnamon 'nestling' in a fucking vintage dish

I feel a bit mean now because they are good recipes and it's not like I paid for them
but come on

http://i.imgur.com/qWhB8Xx.jpg

holy shit they are the literal worst

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying and it annoyed the crap out of me

her analogy was dont buy me a storebought birthday cake, please bake it from scratch because that means you care rmde

if it's a competition then fuck it, get nothing & like it because i sure as hell dont like you enough to write you a bloody letter

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, June 19, 2016 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow that's a load of horseshit. I would be seriously irritated if every fucking friend of mine called me on my birthday - i'd be on the phone for hours. my bestie and family, ok...but beyond that, leave me some me time! I love my FB love on my b'day, and besides I usually see my friends at a pub later that night anyway where they can tell me in person.

and then if you wrote a letter she would say "I'm so sad nobody wished me happy birthday" when all the letters arrived weeks late

echoing a post from upthread, i'm trying to figure out a blu-ray edition to get but every edition of a movie has the same reviews, with few exceptions. so there's a blu-ray from 2015 and on the page there are reviews from 2001 crowing about how glad the reviewer is that the DVD isn't a pan and scan that you have to flip over halfway through.

Yes! I was trying to buy a DVD of a German film, preferably in German with a choice of English or German subtitles for German-practising possibilities, but good luck working out which version comes with what when all the reviews have been merged

and yes, recipe sites where you have to scroll past a billion photos just to get to the recipe, and they all have so many ads on that my laptop almost catches fire and it takes 30 seconds just to respond to page down or w/e. bonus rage points if you finally get to the recipe and the main ingredient is a brand-name sauce that you can't buy in whichever country you're in anyway

is there any website specifically dedicated to reviewing/cataloging the different versions of DVDs/Blu-rays and what they contain? I used to have the same issue above.

insufferable spouse of an old friend wrote this long livejournally fb post about "please dont wish me happy birthday on FB because that means you dont care, please write me a letter or call me " but longer and more annoying

How hilarious would it be if she'd cut and paste it from some meme rant as well, like a big hypocrite.

and then if you wrote a letter she would say "I'm so sad nobody wished me happy birthday" when all the letters arrived weeks late

Okay now I agree with the anger there, but you know that in the frankly medieval version of friendship that she endorses, you would be expected to remember weeks in advance and write the letter then.

xp I'm amazed that I can't find anyone ranting on the IA threads about American Recipes and 'cups'.

if you finally get to the recipe and the main ingredient is a brand-name sauce that you can't buy in whichever country you're in anyway

― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, June 19, 2016 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I know I've come across a website called the cook's thesaurus that had possible substitutes for ingredients a cook might be missing. i.e. alternatives to using butter and other forms of fat or if you can't get a certain type of bean or whatever.
Not sure if they went into things like proprietary brands' sauces but would think that if they didn't, somewhere online might.

Does the UK have a different cup value?

Weight not volume!

I mean also yes, its difficult to find measuring jugs or whatever that have US cups as a measure, but it's also not how things are sold. Are things like flour or cheese actually sold by volume in the US?

xp We did have a slightly different cup value but now we just use ml. Probably most people under 60 don't know what a cup is, unless they regularly try to follow American recipes or old cookbooks. (OK, maybe it's not that bad, since as an only very occasional recipe-follower I have a vague idea that it's somewhere in the 200-250ml range, which tbh is probably precise enough for me)

The ones which get me are the different verbs for things, e.g. sautéing for pan-frying, broiling vs grilling. I've probably complained about being confused by them on ILX before and there was probably a giant shitstorm of "omg British people are wrong about all these perfectly self-explanatory things and shouldn't be allowed near any cooking equipment" so let's not do that again.

un-xp ah yes, good point, a "cup" of a solid or powdery substance is confusing, esp if you're trying to buy the required ingredients

> Weight not volume!

tablespoons are a volume. does america have tablespoons?

ha ha

http://www.tablespoon.com/posts/tablespoon-conversions-tablespoons-in-cups/bdf92edc-7542-4af5-8d55-6bd11ef77101