For posterity:
I like almost everything that's been discussed (cilantro, olives, grapefruit, calimari, bacon) with the exception of root beer. I've never been much of a soda drinker even as a kid, and root beer is also too sweet to my tastes and real ginger beer is (sadly, as I love ginger) too spicy for drinking.
The silverware thing: I tend to switch but I can fake it not switching if I feel I may look declasse on front of whoever I'm eating with.
Beer: I like about 90% of the styles out there, except for lambic (fruit and non-fruit) and other belgian-style sour beers (though Dogfishhead has a seasonal peche out that proves the exception to this rule); macro-brewery lagers; and for some reason I'm highly suspicious of bocks, although they are usually OK. I won't ever order one or seek one out, though. I'm trying to get over my lager prejudice and branch out to drinking microbrew lager styles. Whisky: where!??!?! yes, though I don't drink it much anymore, just due to lifestyle shifts.
Tomatoes: I used to hate them and I still won't eat them raw except in tomato season, when they are just awesome and sweet and flavorful and full of Teh Yum. But during the other 10 months of the year I tend to avoid them (raw) as they are tasteless. (so excited for tomato season!)
cilantro, lime and ginger: made to go together.
Particularly cilantro and lime.
Yummy.
It bugs me when right-handed people wear watches on their right arm. Have no idea why, but this goes back to when I first wore a watch in 1st or 2nd grade....
Come to think of it - maybe it's because wind-up watches have the winding knob on the right, so it's a lot easier to wind (and set) if it's on your left arm.
I ate something that upset my tummy yesterday. I haven't barfed, but I can feel the ick passing through my digestive track.
NPR did a story on Lindsay Lohan this morning.
NPR.
Lindsay Lohan.
World ending?
World ending?
It was a piece about how she's reallytruly a serious actress. I'm'a vote yes.
Dammit, why can't Bush get arrested for drunk driving?
Wait, he already did. I think some attorney named Gonzales got him off....
It bugs me when right-handed people wear watches on their right arm.
Sorry, tommy.
I used to wear it on my left hand, but then for some reason or other (maybe a rash under the strip or something? I forget), I had to switch for a couple of days to my right hand. And when it was time to switch back, I kept wishing I still had the watch on my right hand, because it was so much more comfortable. Because I'm right-handed, I use my right hand way more than the left, so it was so much easier to glance at it, while doing other things, and find out the time. With the left hand, I always had to raise it especially for checking the time, it couldn't be done while doing other things, because those other things were right-hand territory. So it went back to the right hand, and stayed there, and that was years ago. The End.
Tom, make sure you hydrate yourself, OK? And if you're hungry, try to eat only simple stuff, like maybe crackers or a toasted bread (with as little as possible other than the bread). Oh, and maybe a Coke?
t /Jewish mommy
I don't think this is really the right place,
Sophia. Natter is never the wrong place. Maybe someone can point you to where a more thorough discussion happened, but EVERYTHING is always right to post in Natter (whitefont disclaimer for plot points blah blah).
