Brainless moments

[Ar-Pharazon]

Don't mince words Timby, what do you really think?

What the Christ?

Mincing words?

I mean I understand eating words (plus the occasional foot in the mouth) but.... mincing? That's dicing words, not consuming them.

That's as insane as the idea that using words instead of sticks and stones "will never hurt me".

Holy shit.

Were you & Timby separated (not nearly enough) at birth?

Or maybe there's an echo here.

Or maybe there's an echo here.

 

[auntiehill]

My hubby has a thing for brined pork chops--where you soak the pork in a solution of salt and sugar before cooking. In about 6-7 cups of water, I add half a cup a salt and slightly less sugar, and then the pork chops soak in it for awhile.

What the Christ?

Pork in brine?

I mean, I understand marinade (toss some pork in a mix of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, a few pinches of salt, some pepper, fresh garlic, a little mustard, rosemary and minced shallot, and then refrigerate overnight, and you'll have meat candy), but ... brine? That's preserving the pork, not flavoring it.

That's as insane as the idea that searing meat "locks in the juices."

Holy shit.

Hubby freakin' LOVES it. In fact, he complained tonight that I made breaded pork chops, instead of brining them. You have no idea the grief he gives me when we have pork and I don't brine it. "It increases the water in the pork so it's extra juicy after you cook it!" It's also the most UNHEALTHY thing on the face of the Earth.

Go figure. Google "brining pork" and you'd be surprised how many recipes there are. Some people even brine pork for like 6 hours. That's a bit much, even for me. I mean, I love salt, but come on!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I just remembered a story an Italian uncle of mine told me ages ago.

So during the 1974 football world cup he went to Germany to see some of the games. First time in Germany and he didn't speak any German. So while he was driving on the Autobahn surely enjoying the lack of any speed limits he got a bit worried wondering if he got lost.
He suspected he was driving in a big circle around a city called "Ausfahrt" because he saw that on every bloody highway exit sign for like 100km. What worried him even more was the fact that he had never heard about a city called "Ausfahrt" so he knew that it can't possibly be a city so big that it stretches over more than 100km.

Only after an hour it dawned on him that "Ausfahrt" was just the German word for "exit (ramp)".

LOL!!! At least that's not just plain immature, like what I thought and said the first time I saw the words Ausfahrt and Einfahrt.

When you're an English-speaker, the jokes are just TOO easy.

(Which makes me wonder, does English ever sound silly to Germans, like bad attempts at German words?)





My brainless moment...I was looking for apartments for graduate school (yes, that sets the context here), and we found this one by a golf course. And I noticed the grass was a really weird, artificial shade of green. So I commented to my mom how incredibly vain it was that they felt the need to spray paint the grass to make it look as though it were green in the winter, and what a horrible color choice they'd made.

I was promptly informed that people spray grass to winterize it. I felt like SUCH an idiot.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

^^

Continuing on the German jokes, I was watching ST: Nemesis with German subtitles on (I've been working on self-teaching German). When "Warpfart 5" appeared on the screen, I couldn't do anything except giggle and wheeze for several minutes. Now whenever I'm watching Trek I have to make a fart noise when the ship goes to warp.

There's been times when I'm getting ready to play my guitar, and I sit down with my guitar and realize that the amp isn't on. I get up and turn it on, sit back down... and notice the amp isn't plugged in. Plug it in, sit down again, and the guitar isn't plugged into the amp! By the time I set up all the electronics, I sit down again... and my picks are all the way across the room, on my dresser.

 

[MacLeod]

I was a day early for my appointment... I knew exactly when my appointment was, I just forgot what day it was the night before when getting prepared.

Could have been worse, you could have been a day late.

 

[TerokNor]

These are really some funny moment you´ve had there!
As for "Ausfahrt/ Einfahrt" ... damn you, now I will start giggling, when coming across the words and no one here will understand why.
And silly words...I am sure there are some, but cannot really point at them right now. Though while finding out recently that my favourite bird the "Dohle" is a "jackdaw" in English I also found out that a "Elster" is a "magpie". I always though a magpie would be something to eat, like an apple pie. Glad I found out what it is, cause that spares me the embaressing moment asking one day in a restaurant, if I could have a piece of magpie to try.

TerokNor

 

[MLJames]

More than twenty years ago my grandmother and my aunt came up from Texas for a visit, and as I'm the family baker my contribution was dessert: a pound cake. In preparation, I got the butter out of the fridge and set it on the kitchen counter to soften. When it was ready, I got out the rest of the ingredients and set to work on the cake. The timer goes off, I pull the cake out of the oven, and set it on a rack on the counter to cool......right next to the butter (now thoroughly softened). Fortunately, it didn't turn out to be a disaster. The cake was just a little firmer and dryer than usual, and since we were going to be having it with ice cream and whipped cream anyway, the extra dryness wasn't a problem. We all had a big laugh about it at dinner, especially my grandmother. She had once made a birthday cake for my uncle and forgot to put in the sugar, so she baked another cake to replace it and forgot the sugar in that one, too!

 

[Finn]

My brainless moment...I was looking for apartments for graduate school (yes, that sets the context here), and we found this one by a golf course. And I noticed the grass was a really weird, artificial shade of green. So I commented to my mom how incredibly vain it was that they felt the need to spray paint the grass to make it look as though it were green in the winter, and what a horrible color choice they'd made.

I was promptly informed that people spray grass to winterize it. I felt like SUCH an idiot.

Must be a regional thing, since I've never heard of that. The golf courses where I grew up weren't green in the wintertime .I'd have thought the same if I was in your place.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Pork in brine?

...

That's as insane as the idea that searing meat "locks in the juices." .

Well, it's more akin to curing it and is an acceptable way to prepare turkey as well, so not quite as bizarre as you're making out since it also changes the texture of the meat. I prefer cured salmon to smoked generally because it's firmer and chewier.

Searing meat to "lock in juices" is bullshit, I'll agree.

 

[{ Emilia }]

And silly words...I am sure there are some, but cannot really point at them right now. Though while finding out recently that my favourite bird the "Dohle" is a "jackdaw" in English I also found out that a "Elster" is a "magpie". I always though a magpie would be something to eat, like an apple pie. Glad I found out what it is, cause that spares me the embaressing moment asking one day in a restaurant, if I could have a piece of magpie to try.

That reminds of that friend of mine I went to Ireland with. He ordered "apple pee". And for a second the waitress seriously seemed to wonder what the hell that's supposed to be and what kind of weird apples we might have in Germany.

 

[B.J.]

Glad I found out what it is, cause that spares me the embaressing moment asking one day in a restaurant, if I could have a piece of magpie to try.

I dunno. Depending on the restaurant, they might try to accommodate you!

 

[Goliath]

So, my new CD arrived in the mail today, from Israel.

Only it wasn't a CD. I purchased a cassette by mistake. I'd like to blame the international Jewish conspiracy and their diabolical mind-control powers, but in reality, I just had a brainless moment.

I didn't think even underground bands made cassettes any more. I can't even remember the last time I even saw a cassette for sale, anywhere. Though I think I still have a player...somewhere.

 

[An Officer]

Probably every time I propose a short-cut, which isn't a short-cut - I'm famous for those. I once managed to get lost in the middle of a film when I excused myself to the ladies. It was the Fulham Broadway complex, one of the strangest layouts I've encountered, but that doesn't excuse my inability to distinguish between fire exits and lavatories. I managed to find an exit that led out of the building instead of the ladies, and a one-way door had closed itself behind me!

I finally came back in through the front half an hour later, after having wondered past the back passages and kitchens of various shops and restaurants, thoroughly baffled, and somewhat spooked - I'd navigated huge, long, semi-dark, concrete corridors with not another soul in sight on a busy weekend. It was a first date, too. The guy must have been wondering what in the world was going on.

 

[Jadzia]

I didn't think even underground bands made cassettes any more. I can't even remember the last time I even saw a cassette for sale, anywhere.

Cassettes are all the rage now.

Local composer Ceephax Acid Crew releases almost all of his stuff on cassettes.

 

[KJbushway]

YES. thats it. to many to count.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I didn't think even underground bands made cassettes any more. I can't even remember the last time I even saw a cassette for sale, anywhere.

Cassettes are all the rage now.

Local composer Ceephax Acid Crew releases almost all of his stuff on cassettes.

I though vinyl was all the rage now. Cassettes just suck

 

[Yoda]

I forgot what flat screen tvs were called the other day. All I could think was calling them thin tvs.

Bad news, you still have it kind of wrong. Flat screen can (and does) also refer to big ugly bulky CRTs that have... well, a flat screen, as a way of differentiating them from CRTs with curved screens. I like to call those hideous screens 'curvovision,' but apparently that's not going to catch on.

I think the preferred term for what you are trying to say is flat panel.

I think flat screen has pretty much become the "official" term for flat-panels now. I don't think flat screen CRT's were around for very long, were they?

But ignoring CRTs for a second, DLPs are very much alive. They're thinner in comparison to CRTs of the same size, but they would certainly not be classified as flat panels. They do have flat screens though.

Just going by the fact that the guy was thinking "thin TV," it seems he would've meant to exclude DLPs. Since basically all new TVs being sold now are flat screens maybe people should just refer to them as TVs at this point.

 

[scotpens]

. . . So I'm storming off to work, pissed that I've already locked myself out of the apartment (I had only been there for two weeks) and pissed that I'm going to have to pay $30 to have the rental group come out and let me back in. About halfway to work, I stopped and realized that the door was unlocked. The only reason I noticed the keys were gone was because I was trying to find them so I could lock the door. Sure enough, I found my keys sitting on the table behind an open door. D'oh!

That sort of thing has happened to me more times than I care to remember. I’ll be wondering where the hell I put my keys, or glasses, or cellphone, or whatever, and then I realize I’m holding the object in my hand. Along with my dick, probably.

What is this “rental group” you speak of? If I ever accidentally locked myself out of my apartment, I’d be shit out of luck because the building has no resident manager and the owner lives a couple of hours’ drive away. I’d have to pay a locksmith $40 or $50 to pick the lock and let me in.

. . . And silly words...I am sure there are some, but cannot really point at them right now. Though while finding out recently that my favourite bird the “Dohle” is a “jackdaw” in English I also found out that a “Elster” is a “magpie”. I always though a magpie would be something to eat, like an apple pie. Glad I found out what it is, cause that spares me the embaressing moment asking one day in a restaurant, if I could have a piece of magpie to try.

If that happened, you’d wind up eating crow!

 

[archeryguy1701]

^It's basically a rental "middleman" group. If you have a house or some apartments you want to rent out, you can make a deal with this group and they'll do all of the advertising, rent collection, interaction with renters, etc. They''ll also bring spare keys out if you lock yourself out, but it'll cost you.

 

[Goliath]

I didn't think even underground bands made cassettes any more. I can't even remember the last time I even saw a cassette for sale, anywhere.

Cassettes are all the rage now.

Local composer Ceephax Acid Crew releases almost all of his stuff on cassettes.

I though vinyl was all the rage now. Cassettes just suck

Interesting. Some kind of analog counter-revolutionary movement?

I guess that's one way of making it more difficult for people to download your music: don't record it in a downloadable format. And now that dual-cassette stereos are no longer ubiquitous, it must be more difficult to make analog copies as well. People will still find a way, of course, but at least you're not making it easier for them.

But like Ar-Pharazon, I don't feel any nostalgia for cassettes. LPs, yes. Cassettes, no.