Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.

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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Scrappy - Mar 15, 2013 9:00:17 pm PDT #14973 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

All forks are cake forks.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2013 9:26:27 pm PDT #14974 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If I can't get purple, I go with jewel tones, or least as bright and clear as I can get, maybe a nice fire hydrant red.

But if I had more kitchen and more money, I might go nuts. PURPLE POTS.

Looking at Zulily, for some reason one item just hit home the fact that these aren't (yet) spat out of tireless computers, waxing rhapsodic. So, no. Someone sat down at their desk, looked at a photo of three metal bowls...and had to do something.

In this case something looks like:

These stainless steel bowls are the perfect addition to any well-equipped kitchen. Use them to present your famous sour cream and onion dip in a style befitting the family's secret recipe. Simple but sophisticated, they're a must-have for any culinary expert worth their salt.

Whose tone, to me, is a tacit admission that they're not guying their own schtick, and a hint of "cry for help".

We have definite cake forks at home--one tine is two or three times the width, to make it a better "cutter". From there on in, I assumed that the same small ones without the widened section were cake-aimed as well.

I don't like to eat cake with the big fork (or dinner with the small (or anything for salad)). Propriety--it's not just your friend, it's your friend that comes over with ice cream and awhip.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 16, 2013 3:22:20 am PDT #14975 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Stabbing update: my wound doesn't hurt much this morning, and there's no inflammation (it barely looks as bad as a paper cut). I'm going to chalk this one up to luck and having washed the knife in hot water just before cutting into the avocado.


-t - Mar 16, 2013 3:31:49 am PDT #14976 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Do you not eat salad, or do you not use utensils for salad?

I bought a set of tiny pots basically because they were purple (they're meant to be a child's learning-to-cook set or maybe for dorm use on an illicit hot plate) but now that I have them I use them all the time. A saucepan that holds 2 cups if I fill it up to the brim is perfect for one serving of a lot of things. And the wee frying pan is great for a single burger, or searing one tuna steak, etc. I actually bought a second mini set (this one every pan/pot a different color, but all clear tones that go with my Fiestaware) because the wee pot came with an insert for poaching one egg, which is kind of awesome now that I am a person who eats poached eggs. The tiny pink square griddle I have not really used much, but it's very cute. And both sets fit into the "warming cupboard" of my fake old-timey cast iron stove, right above the burners at eye level, which is super handy.


-t - Mar 16, 2013 3:32:27 am PDT #14977 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Glad to hear it, Matt!


Jessica - Mar 16, 2013 3:35:31 am PDT #14978 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yikes, puncture wound!

For future reference how to pit an avocado. No pointy bits anywhere near your hands.


Jesse - Mar 16, 2013 4:03:49 am PDT #14979 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My kitchen accessories are mostly lime green, and I feel fine about eating cake with a salad fork.

Glad your hand is OK, Matt.


Nora Deirdre - Mar 16, 2013 4:16:44 am PDT #14980 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Okay, I admit it: I'm pretty stoked to register for wedding gifts.

Yeah, that was fun. I like the little handheld computer gun you point and shoot at stuff you want. Pew pew pew!


sarameg - Mar 16, 2013 4:21:52 am PDT #14981 of 30001

If Pumpkin will stop mugging me for attention, I'll do my shopping run. Market got done in a record 30 min AND I got cheese grits. Nom.


-t - Mar 16, 2013 4:34:27 am PDT #14982 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mmmm, cheese grits.

Putting stuff on a gift registry is tons of fun. Like turbo-charged window shopping. And then people give you stuff, which is also pretty nice.