Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.

'Lessons'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Steph L. - Oct 03, 2013 6:16:00 am PDT #7699 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm going to kill this washer repair guy. Guy #1 came out Saturday, didn't know how to do the repair, even though he's allegedly trained by Samsung to do it. But I appreciate that he didn't try to do something he didn't know how to do, because it could have fucked up the washer more.

They send out Manager today, and he looks at everything -- the washer is still taken apart, from when Guy #1 was here and took it apart. Manager says, "I don't know if I can put this back together, because I didn't see how it came apart." Which is fair, but, really? YOU'RE A REPAIR GUY. THINGS COME APART.

I offer to pull up the schematics online for him, and he says "No, if I can't do it, Guy #1 will come out Saturday and do it."

I say "We're going to be out of town then."

Manager says, "Well, he'll do it SOMETIME."

You know what? That is BULLSHIT. Guy #1 can't fix it, Manager can't put it back together, Manager doesn't want to look at the actual schematics THAT I CAN SHOW HIM, Manager doesn't give a crap about servicing this in a timely manner.

BULLSHIT. I can't even deal with this.


tommyrot - Oct 03, 2013 6:34:37 am PDT #7700 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Can you talk to his manager? Damn, that would really piss me off too.


Steph L. - Oct 03, 2013 6:44:20 am PDT #7701 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think he is THE manager. It's a small shop.

I hear a power tool downstairs, so I'm hoping he can do his fucking job and put the washer back together. I'm resisting the urge to tell him this is a learning experience.


Hil R. - Oct 03, 2013 6:46:35 am PDT #7702 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My mom just told me that she found a bunch of savings bonds that people gave me for my bat mitzvah that she had forgotten about. So I'm now $1400 richer, and also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.


Tom Scola - Oct 03, 2013 6:47:49 am PDT #7703 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.

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juliana - Oct 03, 2013 6:51:42 am PDT #7704 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I like lamb, though I tend to have it in forms that are mixed with something else. Never had goat. Have had a few buffalo burgers.

Love lamb, love buffalo, love moose. Cannot eat goat, but will happily nom on all forms of goat dairy - goat milk, yoghurt, cheese, butter - all good. (Which is good, because cow milk and I do not get along any more.) The goat milk from TJ's is very good, very mild. Much tastier than almond milk.

Seriously love lamb, though. M and I cook it more often than we cook beef.


Hil R. - Oct 03, 2013 6:52:08 am PDT #7705 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I searched my last name at that link, and got one hit for my father, one for my mother, and one for a cousin who died several years ago.


Jessica - Oct 03, 2013 7:04:35 am PDT #7706 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I tried the unclaimed property thing and it was a MASSIVE pain - I don't know how much money I'm missing, but it's a dividend in my mother's name, listed under an address I had ten years ago. (So in order to claim it, I would need to prove that my mother lived at that address. Which, since she didn't, is not really all that possible.)


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 03, 2013 7:04:38 am PDT #7707 of 30000
"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

I really like lamb when it's fixed right (usually by Middle Eastern restaurants or me), but it's a lot easier to do badly than beef, so I'm hesitant to order it out at most places.


juliana - Oct 03, 2013 7:07:37 am PDT #7708 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I'm hesitant to order it out at most places.

Oh, me too (I have the same issue with salmon, as well). But it's so tasty when grilled at home.