Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.

'Shindig'


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.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2013 3:04:28 pm PDT #26178 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jilli, you have one of these [link] right?


Laura - Jun 17, 2013 3:07:53 pm PDT #26179 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Enjoy the tour guide role, Sheryl. No shortage of destinations in your areas.


Typo Boy - Jun 17, 2013 3:10:57 pm PDT #26180 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

One reason aside from botantical to count tomato as a fruit is it has a lot more sugar than most non-starchy veggies. So if you are watching calories but don't want to actually go to the trouble of counting it helps to think of a tomato as the equivalent of, say, a clementine, rather than as the equivalent of some mushrooms or a side of spinach. So in a context like the one where Teppy brought in up, nutrition, noting that a tomato is a fruit rather than a vegetable is more than pedantry. If we were comparing deliciousness, the distinction would be less important.


Dana - Jun 17, 2013 3:14:15 pm PDT #26181 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I am updating my resume, which is possibly more painful than job hunting.


Jessica - Jun 17, 2013 3:20:42 pm PDT #26182 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So if you are watching calories but don't want to actually go to the trouble of counting it helps to think of a tomato as the equivalent of, say, a clementine

Key phrase being "don't want to actually go to the trouble of counting" here, since a clementine has about triple the sugar of a similar-sized tomato and twice the calories. So yeah, if you don't actually count anything, they're more or less the same.


Trudy Booth - Jun 17, 2013 3:26:24 pm PDT #26183 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

mee OW


Dana - Jun 17, 2013 3:58:00 pm PDT #26184 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Holy shit, I'm applying to this job, and I've been launched into a 79-question personality assessment test.


Laura - Jun 17, 2013 4:03:04 pm PDT #26185 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

hahahahaha Is it wrong that I love love love those kinds of tests?


lisah - Jun 17, 2013 4:03:23 pm PDT #26186 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Don't care if fruit or vegetable. I love them all! And I love white beans even though I just cut the hell out of my finger opening a can of them. I don't blame the beans, I blame myself and the can opener.


Typo Boy - Jun 17, 2013 4:07:26 pm PDT #26187 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Given actual number of calories as opposed to ratio not that different 4 oz clemintine has 20 more calories and a 4 oz tomato. If you are doing exchanges not that different. And a LOT easier to keep track via exchanges than via calorie counting.