Good gravy, what's possessing me to hang around in Yahoo!Answers Religion and Spirituality section [link] ? It's worse than reading comments on news stories.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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WindSparrow - Dec 12, 2009 3:38:00 am PST #3431 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
JZ - Dec 12, 2009 3:52:40 am PST #3432 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, WindSparrow, please don't do that. Really. They're...not large-minded. I used to post there a lot on a couple of Catholicism threads way, way long ago in the early 90s, until I discovered Salon and Table Talk (especially the Mothers Who Think threads...I still can't believe I never got majorly dinged at work for all the time I spent there). Eventually I had one of those days where you run out of internet, and I remembered the old threads I'd so enjoyed posting at and went back poking around. I mentioned Salon, and one guy's immediate response was that everyone there was a leftist atheist and a PRO-ABORT BITCH and if I liked posting there, it didn't say much about my faith. It went downhill (and even asscappier) from there (including other posters trying to smooth the waters by telling me that I needed to understand that he was just very passionate about abortion and he wouldn't be asscapping me if he didn't care so deeply, and telling him that he was being so angry they almost felt sorry for me--but not quite, because I shouldn't have been at Salon in the first place).
I never, ever went back, and I beg of you not to either. The only nice thing I can say about it is that it's better than the YouTube comments threads. But, then, so is raw sewage.
WindSparrow - Dec 12, 2009 4:13:38 am PST #3433 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Oh, JZ. I have escaped. Thank you for your kind support. I usually concentrate on Cats. Those are relatively sane areas (aside from the inevitable running out of tactful ways to say, "Take your #!%@ cat to the $*#@ing veterinarian")
sj - Dec 12, 2009 5:50:55 am PST #3434 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am skipping ahead to ask a baking question. I am looking at a brownie recipe that says to store them at room temp for no more than one day. That seems strange to me for brownies. Can they really go bad that quickly? I'm looking to ship stuff to relatives out of state.
Anne W. - Dec 12, 2009 5:55:14 am PST #3435 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
sj, I'm wondering if it's not so much that the brownies will go bad as it is that the texture of them will start to change after a day or so. With brownies, the big problem is that they'll get hard. So, if you package them as airtight as you can, you may be okay.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 12, 2009 6:45:37 am PST #3436 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Oh, I'm so sick. Still, can probably handle latkes. Which is good, 'cos there are people coming over to make them with us.
It's a longstanding Jamaican tradition. It was called egg cup, and people would travel from house to house getting served egg cup at each one, and they'd pour out a libation for departed ancestors.
That's a great tradition. Clearly I'm wrong about the American thing. Wikipedia thinks it began in eastern England, but I have no idea how reliable that is. [link]
Hil R. - Dec 12, 2009 6:50:34 am PST #3437 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'd always thought of eggnog as a British thing -- it just seemed like what they'd be drinking at Mr. Fezziwig's party -- but I don't know why I thought that.
Hil R. - Dec 12, 2009 6:52:01 am PST #3438 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just went to 7-11 to get some frozen burritos and a bag of potato chips, and they had a display of vegan cookies from a local bakery right at the front. I'm both impressed and confused. Local bakery selling stuff at 7-11?
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2009 6:56:28 am PST #3439 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I like Silk Nog quite a bit, though.
Mmmm. Silk Nog. I might need to get some today. Or just make eggnog.
I do love the nog.
I don't approve of sheets under 400 thread count.
I've read a few articles that say that manufacturers who claim their sheets' thread count is above 400 are just engaging in deceptive wording: [link] .
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 12, 2009 6:57:08 am PST #3440 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
it just seemed like what they'd be drinking at Mr. Fezziwig's party
That sounds about right actually. You just don't encounter it much now. First time I got to try it (this was a mistake) was in the US.
The Girl is annoyed that she can't find Baldrick's drum song, from Blackadder, on youtube. So she's looking through an entire season of episodes on DVD for it. Now that's dedication to the cause.