I am into ''practice'' where it has some relation to the ''practice of everyday life'' - recognizing that your job/calling/duty/ethics are not static things, but made up of countless little actions and choices, is super important to me. Also implies getting better at something, working towards something, trying an approach through doing... idk I think it's okay.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 February 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
"activist judges", mostly cos it aggravates me that people still think SCOTUS randomly seeks out cases outside of its purview and creates new laws in a fluid motion
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 9 February 2017 01:59 (seven years ago) link
My cooking-show pet peeve is the invariable formula "I've made for you" in presenting dishes to judges. This is so prevalent on Chopped (and its spinoffs) that I wonder if it's contractually required.
Contestant 1: "Chefs, today I have made for you a toe jam remoulade with a crisped snakeskin tartlet, garnished with some wild phlox berries."
Contestant 2: "What I have prepared for you today is a gumball goulash with a garlic gastrique, served on a bed of jalapeno polenta."
Contestant 3: "Judges, I've made for you some persimmon fritters dipped in balsamic reduction with flash-fried nose hairs on top. It's my playful take on an authentic Albanian flrzigribl."
Contestant 4: "Chefs, what I've made for you today is..." DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 February 2017 03:34 (seven years ago) link
Overuse of "curate". You don't run a museum, you just made a spotify playlist.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:36 (seven years ago) link
DJI - instruction manuals do this too. Sometimes subbing in the word "just":
"Just create a bootable installer and follow the instructions that appear on the screen."
No no that's fine it's not like these are the INSTRUCTIONS that ought to be taking me through the process step by step instead of telling me how goddamn SIMPLE everything is well guess what if it was so SIMPLE I WOULDN'T BE READING THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU COCKFARMER
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYPp9w-0Uk
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Feeling Tracer Hand on this 100%.
I was thinking about VG when I was making dinner tonight and telling a story in my head about how I would present it on a cooking show to a panel of chef judges. It went something like "today I've prepared for you a 'Game Day' soup, which "reconstructs" chicken, carrots, and celery in a cream soup with blue cheese and Buffalo seasonings, served with diced "French Fry" potatoes and crispy duck skin."
I actually prepared this and it is good, but it sounds way more fancy with the mandated cooking show lingo.The contestants must be coached/forced/edited to use that formula.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
"prepared"
― DJI, Friday, 10 February 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
thank u quincie for not using "a little bit of" any of those things
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
soup sounds dope as hell btw
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link
oh god yes
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
Somewhere there's a passage from the middlebrow yet genial Bill Bryson that parodies that flowery culinary language; lemme find it:
I had, and I quote, 'Fanned Galia Melon and Cumbrian Air Dried Ham served with a Mixed leaf Salad' followed by 'Fillet Steak served with a crushed Black Peppercorn Sauce flamed in Brandy and finished with Cream' .... I was greatly taken with this new way of talking and derived considerable pleasure from speaking it to the waiter. I asked him for a lustre of water freshly drawn from the house tap and presented au nature in a cylinder of glass, and when he came round with the bread rolls I entreated him to present me a tonged rondel of blanched wheat oven baked and masked in a poppy-seed coating. I was just getting warmed up to this and about to ask for a fanned lap coverlet, freshly laundered and scented with a delicate hint of Omo, to replace the one that had slipped from my lap and now lay recumbent on the horizontal walking surface anterior to my feet...
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
<3 Bill Bryson I think of Notes from a Small Island all the time re British place names: "They live in Barking and Dorking and Shellow Bowels!"
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 10 February 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
This post brought to you by me watching a show called like "Animal SOS" about vets rescuing foxen and badgers and other English countryside animals and referring to a place called "Woking" which it turns out is not far from Dorking after all.
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 10 February 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
British Isles town names (eg. Twatt in Scotland, Studland down south) are great LOL. Alien.
― jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 10 February 2017 07:11 (seven years ago) link
heddington fosleywilming-on-seasnibbinghamshirecuxforth daleeast glesforthhostencester (pron. hoster)minceworthtwabbingwoodcharking
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 10 February 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link
(they don't annoy me, just contributing)
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 10 February 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link
Scunthorpe ftw
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Used to work with a guy from a Scunthorpe. A Scunny man, as Peter Cook would have said.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Don't ignore the good folk of Penistone.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 10 February 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
What's their demonym?
(Like Mancunian, Cantabrigian, Liverpudlian, or - my favorite - Crested Beautician for residents of Crested Butte)
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
Gotta be Penistoners.
― jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 10 February 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
any attempt at shortening the word "sandwich"
― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:23 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sammichsammiesandiei literally saw "wiches" recently
― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:24 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
update
"sando", from an institution apparently "Known for their #baconslut sandwich & a customer favorite PB&J"
― qualx, Saturday, 11 February 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
sando is the worst, might as well call it a bro-wich
― nomar, Saturday, 11 February 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Sandos for randos
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 12 February 2017 01:56 (seven years ago) link
"Tonight Beyonce Ended Music"
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 February 2017 08:22 (seven years ago) link
almost as bad as "[Celeb X] Won Halloween"
(x) just (y) and it was (z)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 February 2017 08:35 (seven years ago) link
http://www.englishcountrywalks.com/blog/walks/5/190507/11-fingringhoe.jpg
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2017 09:43 (seven years ago) link
― billstevejim, Monday, February 13, 2017 3:22 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What a terrible sentiment.
― how's life, Monday, 13 February 2017 11:48 (seven years ago) link
Ended music 58 years to the month that it originally died.
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
It just means she ended some music. She ended a song.
― jmm, Monday, 13 February 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Beyonce invented ending things. Before then stuff just went on and on and it all got pretty tedious.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Music was fun while it lasted.
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
getting so fucking sick of "fake news"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 06:33 (seven years ago) link
Re cooking lingo above, some of it really gets on my nerves.I noted one ina book the other day that called for "a scant 2L of stock"
OK so is it 2L of stock, or less? Or heckwhocares?
Its like Jamie and his glugs and slugs and sloshes of every fucking thing.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 04:31 (seven years ago) link
a scant 2L of stock is 2 QT of stock irl
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
Fie on your quarts!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
so then, I expect you'll be wanting to use ~1890 ml for this recipe
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
i'm tired of seeing "GASLIGHTING - the word you need to understand to survive 2017"
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Political gaslighting is different, though: it's about dismissing people as 'not real' in the service of trying to flesh out some bullshit about 'real people'.
― jane burkini (suzy), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
'A feature, not a bug' has been grating with me recently.
― least virile man on the list (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
I feel like this isn't the proper thread to report that I hate the handclap emoji.
― billstevejim, Friday, 17 February 2017 05:55 (seven years ago) link
'And so it begins'
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 February 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
I saw this for the first time on Monday. I saw it for a second time today. I'm afraid for how many more times I'll hear it again.
"boy mom"
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pyn6X98.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YydzZFO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PmFDBBY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cKEviQM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YQnMNCF.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Search for "girl dad" reveals a mugshot, some abortion memes, two photos of Peter Gallagher for some reason, and this:
http://i.imgur.com/I5dFGOP.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 01:45 (seven years ago) link
Blech to all of that!
― DJI, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
i'm the drummer from boy dad
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link