Everybody who commented on that post is now a zombie.
Pfft, as if.
I’m a ghast.
Nephilium
So this is what happens when I go away a while for a new job. You all go crazy, and start food wars. Meanwhile, I’m trying to stay up late enough to be able to reset my internal clock after the double fuckery of DST and going from Eastern to Central time within two weeks (then back to Eastern on Friday).
Yusef drives a Kia
PineApple
Sausage
Pepperoni
Black Olives
Onions
Xtra Cheese
Easy on the Sauce
Thick crust Because Dentures,
That’s my Pizza
Yeah I don’t share the same hate towards avocados as many here but no thanks not on a pizza.
Yusef drives a Kia
I love Avo, but I don’t think its right for pizza
Troy
I would try avacodo on a pizza. Especially if it came with Mexican ass sex.
Rhywun
I like avocado in sauce form with Mexican food. Any other use should be verboten.
Yusef drives a Kia
Sliced on a Burger with Cheddar, Fuckin Rocks, Must Be Fresh!
Suthenboy
Avodcado? Shoot that person. Shoot them.
Yusef drives a Kia
Ranch isn’t any better on a pizza
RBS
Ranch is disgusting.
NoDakMat
We have a pizza chain around here, Happy Joe’s, that makes a BLT pizza. Instaed of tomato sauce, there is a thin layer of mayonnaise under the toppings. I’ll grab a slice if its on the buffet, but I can’t imagine making a meal of just that. That’s a lot of mayo.
I went to Luke Days back in the 1960’s. They had the Thunderbirds, a low level flow overs by an F-111 both wing configurations. Plus I got to meet Eric Hartmann who was at Luke to check on the Luftwaffe student pilots.
I’m still of the belief that deep-dish Pizza joints don’t have an open kitchen because they’re shoveling foetuses into those casserole dishes.
Oh, and also that Pier One Imports is a money laundering operation.
Banjos
I’ve never in my life heard anyone say “yeah, I got it from Pier One Imports”. It’s the only logical explanation.
Waterfall Insurance
My wife worked near a Pier 1 it was like a pre gold ticket Wonka Factory, no one leaves or enters but trucks come and go.
RBS
My wife spent a bunch of money at Pier 1 over Christmas. For decorations that sit on a shelf above our front door that nobody will ever see.
Mustang
My mom loves Pier One, which means I avoid it like the plague. If she’s laundering money then I want a cut.
Not Adahn
There was an Italian restaurant just off of campus, on some extremely expensive real estate, that never had any customers…
Nephilium
Best money laundering location that I ever knew about was a coffee shop that operated in Downtown Cleveland. Weekends, they were open until 4:00 AM (bars need to close in Ohio at 2:00 AM). The house coffee? Jamaican Blue Mountain. Free refills too. They even sold the beans to go at $15 a pound (back in the late 90’s).
wdalasio
Funny story I’ve heard but can’t verify.
Apparently, at one time, it was common knowledge in New York that the best places to get an Italian dinner were mob fronts. So much to the point that when discussing an Italian restaurant, people would ask which family the restaurant was with more than which region of Italy the food was from.
It makes sense, really. If you’re running a money laundering operation, it would strike me that your major interest would be preserving the appearance of maintaining a brisk business, rather than actually turning a profit. You’re going to do what you need to to get bodies in the door. And if your mobster and his crew are regularly hanging out there, they’re going to be pretty finicky on their Italian food.
There’s the future of green energy, probably more efficient too.
Playa Manhattan
Brown energy.
wdalasio
So, who was filming the power plant to my orphan uranium mine?!
Yusef drives a Kia
That Was Cool!
Rhywun
Fifty state legislatures are crafting bans as we speak.
MikeS
Ban Mexican children?
Gustave Lytton
That looks only slightly more dangerous than my own childhood playground equipment. I look at current schools and it looks like cheap plastic equipment that maybe kids are allowed to touch but not climb or use. If their rubber protective suits allow it.
westernsloper
Don’t forget the protective recycled tire ground covering mat.
Waterfall Insurance
Or the sheet of heated metal posing as a slide.
pistoffnick
Hah! Our kids school trucked out the sand (at great cost) from the playground, then trucked in chopped up recycled tires. Some snowflake complained to the school board so they trucked out the chopped up recycled tires (at great cost) and put in wood chips. I’m waiting for those to be deemed unsafe as soon as some snowflake gets a splinter.
westernsloper
Also, I think this may be contributing to the pussification of society. Seeing a classmate get a compound fracture during recess or gym class is a learning experience.
KibbledKristen
Or that one time this kid decided to take a hot shower after a heavy summer workout just to see what would happen.
It’s not all Pizza. Some is Pizza and some is deep dish.
It’s ok to callmsomething what it is as opposed to what people think it is. That’s why Bruce Jenner is still a dude. And that’s why deep dish isn’t pizza.
Waterfall Insurance
Stuff a deep dish full of pizza rolls and pizza bagels, it should embrace what it is a pie filled with thing pretending to be pizza.
Yusef drives a Kia
I like to do a pulled Beef Sandwich with Kings Hawaiian Hamburger buns, but if they are out I use Sara Lee “Sandwich buns”, other than a larger Diameter, there is no difference between them and regular Hamburger buns, so.
At What point did they become “sandwich” buns?
At what point does Pizza become Deep dish?
At what point does tater tot Casserole Become Hot dish?
When is a beer too hoppy?
Inquiring minds want to know…….
Sandwich vs hamburger is probably a marketing decision to make them more marketable. Or the maker is a big Ayn Rand fan.
Tater tot casserole never becomes hot dish.
A beer is too hoppy at 78 IBU.
THAT WAS EASY!
Yusef drives a Kia
Oh yea?, when does Crunchy PB become Creamy?
how ‘Bout that Smart guy?
😉
Gustave Lytton
When chunks of PB can no longer get stuck in your teeth. Next!
Yusef drives a Kia
It’s like Grape nuts, why eat Dirt?
MikeS
When it comes back out.
NoDakMat
Tator Tot Hotdish isn’t hotdish? I mean, its right there in the name. Hotdish.
robc
You clearly failed to consider the ibu/in ratio. How choppy a beer is depends on the initial gravity as much as the ibu. 78 is high for a 5% pale ale, but low for a 9% double ipa.
90 minute is my primary example. It is 90 ibu but insanely well balanced.
robc
Ibu/gu
MikeS
Tater tot casserole never becomes hot dish.
Triggered!!!!!11!!11eleven!!
Homple
Tater Tot casserole becomes hot dish in Minnesota or North Dakota.
Pulled pork on kings Hawaiian is awesome. I don’t do it often but I crave it at times.
Mustang
Some of the best pizza I ever had was a monstrous deep dish that would deliver it to the bar I worked at. They used a brick oven to cook it and somehow the crust was always crunchy and delicious.
And yes, it was pizza.
Come at me bro.
But not like that you dirty hookers.
westernsloper
That is a waste of a brick oven. You can cook deep dish in anything that will get to a moderately hot temp. I bet the trunk of an old Camry in Phoenix during the summer would work. That sounds like an experiment for MS. What beer goes good with Camry trunk cooked deep dish?
Euro sodas are extra-fluoridated to make their citizens more docile. It’s true.
Gustave Lytton
Ugh. The Euro version is better. Closer to the original Nazi recipe perhaps.
Japanese Grape Fanta is like crack though.
A Leap at the Wheel
Fanta. How is this even a question?
MikeS
I have no idea what the hell any of those are.
And stay of my homogeneous lawn!
Tonio
Finally, factionalism and infighting! Because we all know it wouldn’t be politics without purity tests and denouncements.
I, for one, would like to see the cast iron skillet people thrown out of the Vortex so that we, the true pizzaterians may worship at the stainless steel maw of the mighty Blodgett what with its stone deck and fast recovery time.
westernsloper
Amen to that. Cast iron is only good for searing things and making corn bread. If a pizza aint decked it aint pizza. Even some of us hillbillys know that.
I made a chorizo and onion frittata in my cast iron skillet this morning, it was the first one I’ve made that didn’t stick one bit, five years of careful curing and I got a non stick pan that’ll put ’em all to shame.
Tonio
Yo, I love my cast iron cookware, but I don’t use it for pizza.
Romaine lettuce works well cooked briefly in Chinese style hot pot.
Number.6
SWMBO makes a white pizza with wilted arugula.
It’s a fucking abomination. I drink a beer and have cheese and crackers when that shit comes out of the oven
A Leap at the Wheel
Working 12 hours today: Booo
BigNFaceless Intnl. buys me dinner for working late: Yay
Daily Macros are Fucked because I went to lunch with a friend: Boo (need All the Protein!!!!11! but no calories)
But sushi place delivers: Yay
16 piece sashimi platter has 8 pieces of macarel: Booo
But I swear the 3 pieces of fatty tuna are like 50% melted butter: yay.
Ok, back to work.
egould310
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Mustang
I am going to make my first attempt at homemade deep dish because of you all. Probably this weekend. I’ll make sure I take pics of the monstrosity if it turns out any good.
Yusef drives a Kia
It’s going to be good,whatever it looks like, Pizza ain’t hard, Enjoy! and post them pics
A Leap at the Wheel
Deep dish is like sex. Even if its bad, its good.
And will also make you chlamydia.
Yusef drives a Kia
I’m already a Newt, why would I want to be a Chlamydia?
Mustang
I don’t want to be chlamydia.
Brasidas
*Sharpens Bowie knife*
Worst pizza I’ve had was bacon with a pesto sauce. Damn thing had an inch of oil and fat on it.
*Chambers 1911*
Best pizza I’ve had was a garlic and olive oil base with pepperoni and honey.
Yusef drives a Kia
Honey? erm…. I guess if Pineapple is OK, which it is…..
At a bare minimum, a pizza has to be able to be cooked on a flat surface without sides, be it a stone or a proper sheet pan. This is necessary, but not sufficient.
Deep dish casserole might be perfectly fine food, but it should stop trying to claim a title to which it is not eligable.
straffinrun
How about an Asian girl’s ass?
MikeS
Yes please. Could I have two?
Mustang
Pizza with a crust that goes up the side of a pan too scary? Should we ban assault pizza?
There is a distinction between being fine to eat and being pizza.
Mustang
Merriam Wevster defines it as a dish made typically of flattened bread dough spread with a savory mixture usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked — called also pizza pie.
Weird. Pie is baked in something with sides and has a crust that goes up the sides. Surely if pizza pie is also acceptable, then having a flat surface on which to cook it is not a requirement.
Mirriam Webster also gets the Definition of “Feminism” wrong. So I don’t really trust their judgement when it comes to culinary doctrines.
Mustang
So we just make up our own definitions then? Sounds social justice-y. Are you a pizza justice warrior?
MikeS
Deep dish casserole is amazing. It’s just not pizza.
Yusef drives a Kia
If you can hold the crust and the rest starts flopping, it’s good
Yusef drives a Kia
Does it taste Good? Then Who cares what you call it, I know we all jus funnin
Just Say’n
I hear Nick Gillespie hates deep dish pizza too. Your fellow pizza denier
Yusef drives a Kia
OMM: NOW! the Spring offensive has Begun! i need each and every one of You to report to the Nearest Cell leader for the Vest Dispersal, Allah Willing, We shall Decimate the Infidel!
Yusef: Umm, i think you’re posting to the wrong Website,
OMM: Nonsense I’m… oh Shit
MikeS
Looking for some advice. I’ll try and keep it short to not bore everyone.
On Thursday, 10 minutes after leaving work (just finished a 10 hour shift), I was called and told that we were out of some purchased parts and we needed to make them in house. If we didn’t, we would shut a customer’s line down and we’d be in deep shit. Since I am the only person who can program the machine they are made on, I was very popular.
So like a good company man, back in I went. I worked my ass off trying to get these parts made. I ended up going to sleep at my desk about 1:30 am and getting back up when others started showing up at 4:45. Got back at it and ended up having success (and going home) about 9:30 am Friday. I had arrived at 6:15 am Thursday.
My question: How much “thanks” should I expect from my employer? I got a couple emails right away thanking me for coming back in and working on it. And this morning the VP came in a shook my hand. Then I looked at my time card today, and my boss punched me out for 2 hours because I told him that I slept for a few hours.
I had half expected a very big thank you and maybe someone buying me lunch or a gift card or something like that. I certainly didn’t expect to get docked time for working so late that I had to sleep at my desk. Am I expecting too much? They paid me for my time. They did what they are supposed to. I guess if I were the boss, I’d do a hell of a lot more. Is that just me?
Rhywun
It’s just you.
MikeS
*narrows gaze*
Rhywun
Well… gut reaction. I’m reasonably happy after 19 years at my current place. I could be paid more… but the bennies and time off are good plus I’m way too lazy at this point to be looking. IOW… ignore me. 🙂
MikeS
That’s great that you’re on 19 years and happy. Hopefully you never have to pull an all-nighter. 😉
Rhywun
I’ve done plenty of all-nighters. I’m in IT and on salary – it goes with the territory. But… on balance… looking for greener pastures just isn’t on my radar. I’ve had trying times… believe me… but I got past them.
MikeS
Sorry to assume you hadn’t. And my condolences for being salary. I know it has it’s perks, but at least where I work, they seem to get taken advantage of. Yeah, surprising, huh?
Rhywun
Enh, I can’t say I’ve ever really felt taken advantage of. If I pull an all-nighter, it’s nothing if I show up late or not at all (or work from home) the next day. Maybe I’m lucky.
There was a period when I had an evil boss – in fact I quit because of him – but at the last second I stayed on, he left shortly later, and now we all tell stories about what an asshole he was.
The “perk” of being salaried at the state is that you are no longer eligable for overtime or comp time, but you still have to charge leave if you’re below hours expected.
Yusef drives a Kia
It’s not just you, but that’s life, you chose the job, and if you didn’t want to work you certainly could have spoken up, but in the back of your mind, you wish to retain extra value, you did in the long run, Carry on.
straffinrun
Yes, they should’ve at least bought you lunch or something. You did the right thing and you learned what they will do in response. Just don’t give up and start mailing it in at work because of it. Keep doing what you’re doing and if you decide to leave, go for it with your head held high.
MikeS
Thanks. I won’t be mailing it it, but like you (and others) said, now I really know how management values they people that actually make the product. It’s up to me to choose to act -or not- on that knowledge.
Sounds like a wash situation. You got some good recognition. On the other hand, Your boss is a douche if you got docked for pulling an all nighter. If I was your boss , I’d probably leave the couple extra hours. Did you book a shitload of OT?
Yusef drives a Kia
That’s the one thing I would NEVER forget, that’s a cheap shot right there
Rhywun
Fair enough. I don’t get paid by the hour so I hadn’t considered that.
MikeS
That’s another shitty part; I had taken Tuesday off for my birthday, so it was mostly making up time and saving vacation. Any other week and I would have made the equivalent of 5 more hours of pay.
What an asshole. Free dinner, at least. A good one.
Mustang
Sounds like you saved them a huge chunk of money, possibly even helped maintain some future customers because you helped the company keep it’s reputation. Seems to me that they should pay you those hours because if you hadn’t slept and something went wrong because of it, they’d be totally fucked. If they expect you to stay up that long, then that’s also messed up. Either way, you basically worked that whole time because if you hadn’t caught a nap the results could have been disastrous.
trshmnstr
I’d say that it depends on company culture. Some places I’ve worked will give something like Amazon gift cards for going above and beyond. At my current job, it wouldn’t get recognized until bonuses were issued (if then)
Drake
My company does “recognition points” you can use in a pretty decent catalog. I have enough for some Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones. A few more and I could get a Playstation 4. Kinda of waiting to see how much traveling I’ll be doing this year.
Drake
I have to remind myself to use all my points as a manager on people before the end of the quarter.
The state just points and laughs at you for being suckered into treating their problem as your emergency. The “no recognition ever” was to prevent managers from corruptly rewarding favorites.
It comes as no surprise that there’s little dedication beyond what is contractually obligated.
Wow, Fuck that, you worked around the clock to fix a problem and they dock you for some down time? You are expecting too little if anything. Slap me on the back, pay me for more time than I was there, and buy my diner for a week. Just getting assholes to show up for is work hard enough, if your bosses don’t appreciate your sacrifice then fuck them, there’s got to be people out there that will.
Yusef drives a Kia
When I have a Restaurant freezer down, I have to fix it, no matter when, or where, so I often work late nights and Weekends, But I bill the Fuck out of it, so no matter what happens, i get paid for my trouble. When I was an Hourly guy with Supervisor Responsibilities, I would open the job for my Crews after hours to load a job, Clock in and they would still have to buy me Beer for opening up the Shop, I made sure i was Compensated
I’d chalk it up too being the guy who exceeds expectations. Your reward may not have come last week, but it will come when you get hired away for being the best or you get promoted to a position where you’re utilizing all of your skill.
Or neither of those things will happen and you’ll still exceed expectations and get paid for the work you do. Either way, you’re being treated fairly (even if your extra effort isn’t recognized beyond the normal means of compensation).
MikeS
Yeah, they did what they were supposed to do. Hell, I slept for a little over 3 hours and “only” got docked for 2. So technically, they did give me something extra.
Having said that, if that happened to me, I’d probably have gone ballistic and would never give them a minute’s extra effort and would start looking to work for someone else immediately.
But I can be short-sighted, I suppose. And I’ve worked for a salary for so long, I don’t really even know what a time clock is anymore. Tradesmen and professionals who bill or get paid by the hour are used to a valuation of their labor being calculated by different metrics than what salaried people are.
MikeS
Having said that, if that happened to me, I’d probably have gone ballistic and would never give them a minute’s extra effort and would start looking to work for someone else immediately.
I am similar. The ballistic part was very close to the surface. I actually have an email sitting in my Drafts folder telling my boss basically that I feel like I was slighted. After a “time out” and getting reactions from all you guys, I am pretty sure it will go into the Deleted folder. But I will also be checking out the classifieds.
Also, for as long as I am here, there will not be any more sleeping at my desk. That’s for damn sure.
I’m horrible with people, but that is one thing I have learned to certainty.
MikeS
Yeah. I usually stop myself, but not always. This time, with all your help, I avoided making more trouble for myself.
Number.6
This is a bit of a wake-up call. What you do have as a result is a genuine, justifiable grouse if they try and jerk you around in future. Next time something like this happens, watch carefully and see if they pro-actively approach you to help. That’s your cue to make your point about your superior work ethic and how you got no recognition for it.
Personally, I consider that you did gain from this, albeit in non-monetary ways.
You’ve learned a lesson – going beyond the call of duty gets you no significant brownie points. Exploit you once, shame on them. Exploit you twice – shame on you.
MikeS
Thanks, 6. Your conclusion is spot on. Spot on. That is the knowledge I am moving forward with. There will be no second time.
So, my brother in law used to find himself in similar situations at his old job. Lots of times when he went above and beyond to pull management’s bacon out of the fire because management was a flaky dude who was great with people and shitty with running a business. He’d get plenty of thanks, no raises, and called every time something went to shit. He left for another job where he works hard and is paid accordingly.
I guess my answer is a question: How much thanks do you need to feel appreciated? It sounds like you went well above and beyond, and I would think a smart or at least a decent boss would at a minimum not dock you for the nap time, which to my mind is petty and shortsighted. If that’s how they roll, I’d seriously reconsider staying unless everything else about the job is fantastic. For my part, my pride couldn’t suffer it.
MikeS
My pride is suffering a bit. There are very few people here that I can think of who would have done it. And, considering I am literally the only person who can program the lathe, they are damn lucky I did do it.
I don’t know…It’s a decent place to work overall, but this episode will definitely not be forgotten. It also kind of woke me up to what my boss thinks of me.
straffinrun
Don’t know if you’re married, but you’re going through what every married dude in the world goes through.
MikeS
I am married. And even though I knew I wasn’t the only one who’s gone though something like this, it’s feels better to hear it from all you guys.
Also, just for clarification: when I said “here” in my reply to Bill just above this, I meant my work, not Glibs.
Well, on the one hand, you’ve made a reputation for yourself as a reliable guy who will fix the company’s fuck-ups, which gives you security. On the other hand, you’ve established yourself as the guy who will fix the company’s fuck-ups, so now they’ve got a guy who will do that, and know it. .
I had a situation at my job about a year ago that absolutely infuriated me. I won’t get too far into it, but I felt like somebody stabbed me in the back but wasn’t man enough to fess up, and I couldn’t figure out who for certain. It didn’t jeopardize my employment, but it definitely made me feel like I was unappreciated and like I’d placed too much trust in the people I work for. It was the moment when I realized, “Oh, just because my boss acts like a friend doesn’t mean I can trust him any more than a bum in the street.”
I went through a job hunt for a while and never found anything that quite matched what I get where I am. What I decided to do was to take full advantage of all the perqs I have here, put in enough effort to be able to respect myself and what I create, and constantly keep in mind that I’m basically a mercenary. I’m sad about that because I want to be able to believe in what I do and who I work for, but it’s sometimes a job is just a job.
I have a bizarre reputation for competance and getting shit done.
I say bizarre because I am the laziest son of a bitch I know. But I also get bored at work, so when they drop a task on my desk of say “Document the installation, patching and configuration of OHS for your environment”, while braindead simple as a task I tackle with with a zeal that ends up with a finished document out to the group at the end of the day for everyone else to follow.
Of course the measures are relative. There are people who will give you a deer in the headlights look when given a similar task, and others whose deliverables will be three days late and a rambling confused mess that wanders over unrelated, irrelevent content. So maybe the reputation isn’t as bizarre as it strikes me at times.
Won’t help me get promoted, but it keeps me from being bored.
I’m terrified that you are literally the male version of me at work. I’m fucking lazy as hell, but I learn quickly and can operate autonomously from the get-go. Employers love it. It keeps me in the trenches, but management ain’t for me anyway.
I’m almost at top of grade – if I want to make more money, I have to move into management sooner or later (there’s only one more technical title above where I am now, and that’s usually treated as the first management teir)
Rhywun
management ain’t for me anyway
Oh me neither. I see the BS my boss deals with and I want none of that.
I’ve been plagued with a self-discipline issue since I was a child. I excel in areas where I’m both interested and where I feel challenged. So, I’m fortunate where I am to generally have large projects that require me to learn new things and figure out a lot of new processes and a minimum of drudgery. That alone is a strong argument to stay where I am. Part of my interest in moving on stemmed from a lack of new work, but as that’s changed I don’t feel the urge to move on as strongly as I did.
That and having bills to pay and a family, of course. It’s difficult to be a prima donna when you’ve got a child and a mortgage.
Number.6
The reality of it is that it doesn’t matter if you are lazy in many jobs. Your value lies in being able to pull a rabbit out of your hat when a rabbit is needed.
As long as you’re not on a production line, most ‘office careers’ are 95% mundane plow-thru-it bullshit that rarely taxes the individual, but what differentiates you from those mewling lumpenproles is the other 5% of your time when you can make a boss feel good about you in whatever way they appreciate, whether you just deliver a result that is highly valued, or deliver an image boost to the boss.
MikeS
“Oh, just because my boss acts like a friend doesn’t mean I can trust him any more than a bum in the street.”
I am fast approaching the feeling you have. As a matter of fact, this episode probably puts me in the same boat as you. I will look around, but I’m not holding out hope as I am paid very well, and there aren’t a lot of openings in this area for my skill-set. But this was an eye opening experience. And I like your description; mercenary. That’s what I am.
There’s a lot to be said for having a job where you have stable expectations of yourself and stability. It’s not fun or sexy, but it’s a hell of a lot better than worrying about whether you can have electricity and a home at the same time. I have a hard time not taking the politics personally, but I’ve started looking at it as a situation where that’s what I’m really being paid to deal with.
Nephilium
^This^
Are you still happy at the job? Or are you now considering this story for an interview when you get asked about a time you overcame adversity and saved the company a lot of money?
MikeS
The later.
I know I’ll calm down over the next few days, but I will be looking around a little more, and this won’t be forgotten. I don’t hate my job, but at this point, I certainly don’t like it as much as I used to.
Nephilium
There’s a reason I made a jump to a new job. Although what I’m hearing from some of the other employees is that I should treat this job more as a resume builder, and be ready to jump in 2-3 years.
I’m quickly learning that web development is not a career you want to get into if you want to both develop professionally and stay with a single organization for a long time. You get one or the other, but not both, it seems.
Nephilium
I’m in the VOIP world. I kind of fell into it by accident, started at a company as a regular helpdesk person, then they realized I knew databases. From there, it became me being able to throw together reports, and then start working on the old Avaya phone system. Now, I’ve got a strong understanding of three different ACD environments, and everyone’s going with the one that’s the absolute worst to work with (Hello Cisco!). I’ve been at the job for just over a week now, and still don’t have access to any of their systems. I guess that comes next week…
I started out as a sysadmin. I’m good at sysadmin work.
Then the PeopleSoft admins started leaving because they couldn’t get promoted in-agency. So they rolled PSAdmin into my group. I swore the one thing I didn’t want to get stuck doing was PeopleSoft.
Then we got consolidated into the statewide IT agency. Sysadmin work was forcibly moved to DataCenter hosting, leaving me with application support.
I’ve got a very good friend who opted to take on some .NET dev tasks as part of a potential lateral move. Funding and organization changed, but nobody forgot that he volunteered, so now he does both regular back-end development and .NET junk, which he hates.
Could be worse. Could be Sharepoint.
Rhywun
Ha, I remember getting stuck with a Sharepoint installation once. Long after our Sharepoint developer left. Stack Exchange is your friend.
Oh man. Sharepoint is turrible. Luckily my most direct experience with it was helping to do a UX/UI consult on what the feds wanted to do with it at our place. It was hilarious, because we’d come up with these recommendations and the contractors were basically like, “…we can’t do that. What if we changed the background image?” “We’re talking about the menu structure. Like it doesn’t make any sense.” “Yeah…but our developer says he can’t do anything about that. What about making this cyan?”
westernsloper
How much “thanks” should I expect from my employer?
If there isn’t a strippers and blow party with an open bar I would kick the manager in the nuts and quit. I am not really good at giving advice though so it may just be a live and learn incident.
MikeS
Will you be my boss?
Pope Jimbo
Mike, I’m sorry to hear about that. I think you should watch the fine documentary Office Space to learn how to properly deal with this.
I know exactly how you feel. I have had shit like that happen a few times in my career. Coworkers find out that you give a shit about your job and your reputation and take advantage of it.
The best revenge is to live well. Find a new place that values you and leave. Let them know why you felt slighted in the exit interview.
MikeS
You know, the fucking printer does really piss me off.
Seriously, thanks for the advice. Dully noted.
Skol!
MikeS
I just want to say thanks to everyone who replied. You all talked me off the rhetorical ledge.
I’ll get all sappy for a moment and say that there is a damn good group of people here. From small problems like mine, to the bigger problems other Glibs have posted about, this place is full of thoughtful, kind, and helpful people. It’s almost like libertarians are capable of empathy.
Ha-ha. Naw, that’s crazy talk.
quincy
I associate pineapple in food with East German Communism.
Yusef drives a Kia
I knew you were a Fag! Only East Germans would say that, they probably don’t know what a pineapple looks like,
/Have some Kale……..
Well, once upon a time these People called Germans were very Bad, so the Soviets had to spank them so they would behave, which was fine until they ran out of Babysitting Money, then came Rammstein!
/WWII history in 10 seconds
Rhywun
I thought he was saying pineapples are the Trabi of fruits but that’s impossible because pineapples are amazing.
Yusef drives a Kia
Yes they are..
Drake
I put them on my tacos sometimes. And I won’t reject a pizza with them either.
Yusef drives a Kia
Hmm, never thought of that, will try, Thanks!
quincy
I visited East Germany in the ’80s. Pineapple seems to be everywhere on the menus of the open-to-Westerners Hotel’s restaurants. “We slather everything with pineapple from Cuba— look at our success!— but don’t talk about the fact that our TV’s are made of cardboard.”
Ahh. I too visited East Germany in the 80’s but I don’t remember any pineapple. We knew the restaurant owner & he closed the restaurant and gave us all an amazing dinner. Typical meat and potatoes fare.
quincy
Well, I guess I went to a better class of communistically alimentary establishments than you did. #ClasslessHipster
straffinrun
Ketchup on saltines with sliced pimento loaf. Of course you have to pick out those black things first.
Oh, man, totally with you. My grandfather used to make braunschweiger and mustard on rye sandwiches when I was a kid. Irish out of Philly, but ate like a German Jew. Almost certainly the better choice in terms of ethnic cuisines.
They come down our neck of the woods on the weekends to sell us bacon and hot dogs wrapped in pretzel dough, for which we are thankful. Also, I note with interest that several of the young Amish ladies look like they were at the club last night and just showed up in time to put the wimple on.
Yusef drives a Kia
Mexican cheaters!!!!
Homple
Smoked Leberwurst on dark rye bread with Bautzner mustard. Slice of Spreewälder pickle on the side.
In a follow up after the video interview, Butowsky told GWP that an FBI source showed him a receipt for a $56 hard drive that he says Rich used to transport files from the DNC server to his laptop before loading them into a DropBox account.
A few days after his initial phone call with the Rich family, Butowsky says that he was speaking to a friend from DC and asked if he may know anyone familiar with the Rich case. The friend told him that he did know someone with extensive knowledge about the murder — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh.
Two days later, Butowsky and Hersh were on the phone discussing the case.
Butowsky explained that Hersh was speaking so quickly that he recorded the call because he could not take notes fast enough. He promptly forwarded the recording to the Rich family due to the detailed, and shocking, claims that the journalist was making.
In the audio recording, Hersh states that Rich had contacted WikiLeaks with sample emails prior to the leak. He cited an FBI document that he was privy to as proof for his claim.
“What the report says is that some time in late Spring… he makes contact with WikiLeaks, that’s in his computer,” Hersh says in the recording. “Anyway, they found what he had done is that he had submitted a series of documents — of emails, of juicy emails, from the DNC.”
westernsloper
So what you are saying is Seth Rich was Russian.
Urthona
It’s a cool conspiracy theory, but there’s no way anyone connected to the Clintons could be that competent.
Timeloose
Here is my first shot in the great the pizza war of 2018.
Behold the Old Forge style pizza.
Thick crust like a Sicilian, but light and airy, cheese blend of mozzarella, provolone, and sometimes cheddar. Baked in a olive oil greased pan and with a sweet onion sauce.
My favorite is topped with chili flakes, anchovy paste, and olive oil.
We are also awash in great ny style pizza, Pizza Hut and dominos are few and far between.
Interesting…I’m skeptical of Pennsylvania cuisine, to be quite honest, but that actually sounds right up my alley. That probably goes well with cured meats.
Rhywun
Pennsylvania is the nexus of potato chips. They must be doing something right.
I mean, I’ll stipulate Utz, but everything else I’ve eaten in Pennsylvania tasted like it came out of a microwave or a cardboard tube. Stunning beer, but depressing food.
Timeloose
The town is all Italian American, so it’s not some Amish abomination. I admit it’s not my favorite type of pizza, but it’s different and good.
I’ve even found a few places to get Italian potato pie. Prosciutto, mashed or baked potato’s, roasmary, and red onion. It’s a carb bomb but good.
Nephilium
Amish abomination? Have you had Amish cooking? It’s so delicious, and terrible for you at the same time!
Timeloose
I’m speaking of thier pizza attempts. Pie crust with way too much meat on top.
I don’t get the strong emotions on both sides it elicits.
Nephilium
After hearing a coworker talk about talking a trunk of pork roll back home for him and his wife, I had to try it. It just tasted like a sad Canadian Bacon. And I’ve had beer made with scrapple.
Rhywun
It’s only decent application is in the “Jersey Classic”, i.e. in a roll with cheese and eggs.
Yeah, I don’t get it. I mean, scrapple is a distinct thing. It seems like Taylor Ham is pork roll is Canadian bacon. Maybe this is like how I don’t really get colors past the 32 crayon box or think there are pretty much two kinds of red and white wine (dry and sweet).
Timeloose
Gator ham and eggs on a long roll is amazing. Also Taylor ham in a burger.
There’s a sandwich culture just north of me that may as well be on Mars as far as my exposure to it goes.
Trigger Hippie
I’m a bit of a fan of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. Apple dumplings and chicken stew…not mixed together, mind you. Also, who doesn’t love a cheese steak? I mean a real cheese steak with proper Cheese Whiz. Not this mozzarella/provolone bullshit that seems to dominate the Midwest for some damn reason. It’s surprisingly difficult to find here.
MikeS
Not this mozzarella/provolone bullshit that seems to dominate the Midwest for some damn reason.
Don’t blame that on the Midwest. As I understand it, half of Philly feels the same way.
Trigger Hippie
No shit? Huh. I guess I’ve heard before that the original cheese steaks had either mozzarella or provolone on them but I’m really not sure if that’s the case.
MikeS
IIRC, the original had provolone. Also, pretty sure the sandwich pre-dates canned aerosol “cheese” so I don’t think Cheese Whiz was the original.
Trigger Hippie
I’m pretty sure it’s the Cheese Whiz you can purchase in a glass jar that’s primarily used for the sandwich. But you’re probably right about the provolone.
Rhywun
Here in NYC it’s American cheese. I didn’t know about the Cheez Whiz thing but that actually makes sense if you want it to properly mix with the beef.
Trigger Hippie
American cheese? That’s news to me. Granted, I’ve only been to NYC twice in my life. Both times were very short stays and I never bothered to try much of the local cuisine.
Provolone seems dry to use in a sauce. What are we talking, like a bechamel with provolone? I could get behind that if there were heavy cream involved.
Number.6
The only variation permitted when ordering is wiz/no wiz.
ruodberht
Cheese Whiz? Ah, the tourist cheesesteak.
Trigger Hippie
I guess you and Mike would know better than I.
But since the Whiz steak is hard to find in my area I always seemed to prefer it.
*shrugs*
ruodberht
Dalessandro’s with provolone was amazing. Never been to Dinic’s but that’s the other “non-tourist” one people talk about.
Yusef drives a Kia
I’m going back in… to season 6 of DS9, the Series is much better than the first time, the Character development is fun to watch.
I’m way past Razor fist’s Videos, but i’ll soldier on, See ya later!
Rhywun
I did a run through a few months ago – love it. You’re getting to the best parts.
Currently nearing the finish line on my second BSG run-through.
Raven Nation
Just finished S2 of BSG first time through. Still holding up well.
Rhywun
God I love that show. I want to live in it.
trshmnstr
I just finished the one where Rahm organizes a union.
Rhywun
Ugh not one of their best.
trshmnstr
It would’ve been better if quark told them to shove it up their ass and hired a bunch of bajoran scabs, putting the strikers out of work. But alas, Roddenberry was a commie, so the caricature of capitalism has to be idiotic and paper thin.
Rhywun
Seriously. That episode gave me the impression that the D team wrote it. Like, as ignorant as their usual depiction of Quark was, that episode felt like it was written by a high school student.
Not only was Gene a commie, but everyone involved in the show was either a member of, or an officer of a union, so there was zero chance of a fair discussion of the other side of the issue.
Yusef drives a Kia
But He had nothing to do with DS9, and the Union episode ended like a typical crony Episode would, cronies…
ruodberht
Rodd died during the fifth season of TNG, which was a year before DS9 even happened. The Rom episode was late in DS9’s run.
When I watched all of DS9 over a few months, I skipped that one. Well, I got about ten minutes in and had enough. Profit and Lace I bailed out of even quicker. TNG I could stomach all of them, although some of Season 1 is horrible. Same with 7, and that stupid episode where Lwaxana and Alexander do…whatever.
egould310
We’re in season 6 of TNG. Will start DS9 soon. We just watched the crossover episode yesterday.
TNG is pretty good. Thank Jesus for Netflix. It’s fun to watch them without commercials, in sequence. I can’t believe I ever watched cable tv.
Raven Nation
I’m somewhere in S3 of DS9. I didn’t see all of it when it first came out.
KibbledKristen
How I know my dog is in good health – he goes to the window at 9:30-10:00 every night to randomly bark at nothing.
When he was sick with a lung and ear infection, he didn’t do that for weeks!
Jack spent twenty minutes barking indignantly at a squirrel sitting in one of the crape myrtles out back. Twenty minutes. The squirrel was nonplussed. He also will crawl entirely under the blankets, fart for ten minutes straight virtually uninterrupted, and then stagger out of the bed in desperate search of oxygen.
And this is a dog who can open baby gates and bifold closets.
Sometimes healthy dog behavior is indistinguishable from dumbassery.
Rhywun
He also will crawl entirely under the blankets, fart for ten minutes straight virtually uninterrupted, and then stagger out of the bed in desperate search of oxygen.
You haven’t lived until you’ve had an 80+ pound pit bull quietly fart himself into asphyxiation under your blankets, then drag himself out and collapse onto the floor panting, only to repeat the process until he loses consciousness. Sometimes I think he’s trying to commune with the spirit world or something.
Yeah, that’s my boy. A pit and a pit mix. Between the two of them it’s just like one massive sulfur factory. I’m surprised the things can survive given what ghastly chemistry happens in their intestines.
MikeS
I am laughing my ass of. Jack sounds like a noble beast.
I’ve tried to find the magical dog food that won’t make them fart rocket fuel but so far no dice.
quincy
Have you considered a cat?
Timeloose
Mine likes to test the tensile strength of sodas lime glass when anyone dares to walk in front of the house.
Timeloose
When sick he acts like a cat.
Tonio
“Lung and EAR infection…”
Sounds like he was responding to some type of external stimulus that he could hear but you couldn’t see… neighborhood cat, possum, raccoon, other dog, deer. Don’t know what type of neighborhood you live in but I have all of the above.
I only took that pic because someone mentioned the other day how cats never use their bed and I thought to myself “oh mine always do”. So I look over and see that. Bitch.
westernsloper
I am surprised the Canucks have not weighed in on the pizza war. My Northern family introduced me to a great pie and I remembered I had a picture of one. The donair pizza is the schnizzle but I prefer the garlic sauce to the sweet sauce. The best one I had was in Calgary but I don’t remember the name of the place.
I need to find a way to reduce the number of components in this workflow.
Currently It goes
1 – Buy audiobook from major reseller
2 – use Dutch language program to convert file format to mp3
3 – Load mp3 into audacity
3a – Normalize the bitrate
3b – Split into chapters
3c – standardize the metadata to fit the sort method used by my card
4 – copy output onto usb drive
5 – load into car.
And adding a phone to the system is not an opion, because ‘major reseller’ changes based upon the audiobook in question, and their proprietary playback apps are not mutually compatable.
The program was written by a dutchman who didn’t bother putting any english labels on. Luckily the interface is two buttons which amount to “Load” and “Convert”.
quincy
“Load” and “Convert” are the two most successful buttons of colonialism. Just say’n.
The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
Easy Go (Michael Crichton)
Pirate Latitudes (Michael Crichton)
Island of Thieves
Murder Al Dente
Nagash, The Undying King
Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cuisine
Being a Poor Roman
Being a Rich Roman
Colonial Cookery in North America
Leaving the Oceans – The Rise of Plants on Land
Napolean
Origins of the Oceans
Roman Emperors – Good Bad and Crazy
Sneferu the Pyramid Builder
Spartan Warfare
Stalin
The Early Years of Rameses the Great
The Manhattan Project
The Tyanny of George III
Hallowed Knights – Plague Garden
Trigger Hippie
In regards to pizza, I like it in nearly all forms. Pan, deep dish, thin crust, calzones, pizza rolls, bagels,..I’ll even eat it in the form of Hot Pockets if I’m in a pinch. Yes, my tastes are for shit.
Now as far as bbq is concerned, I fucking hate vinegar and mayonnaise. Screw you, Alabama and South Carolina!
/ducks
Yusef drives a Kia
mayonnaise? BBQ? on what Planet? maybe as a base for… NO, just NO!
Timeloose
The only mayo based BBQ I’ve encounterd is Cornell chicken marinade and sauce. But it’s closer to in emulsified egg and oil with vinegar.
westernsloper
I have never encountered mayo in any form associated with BBQ unless it is dealing with the slaw. As to vinegar, that is the only way to go as a base for pulled pork sauces. Some tomato product in there is ok, but without vinegar you are just being an idiot. You may as well sauce with ranch dressing.
There’s a BBQ dressing you get in the ‘Bama that is basically mayo, white vinegar, and some other jazz. I like it, but I like mayo. I will readily concede that it’s not what you normally expect on BBQ.
westernsloper
I like mayo too on many things, just never thought of that for a bbq sauce. I have even went so far as to experiment with coconut milk type of sauces for pulled pork after seeing it on DDD. I have had success and failures but never remember what the successes were the next day. I need to write shit down.
Personally, I go vinegar on pork or brisket with nada. But I’ve had the Bama stuff and I can dig it. I like it better than the sweet sauces, honestly, because I’m more of a savory guy.
Timeloose
I like the vinegar mustard and red chili flake on the pulled pork. Brisket I like pickles and a savory sauce.
Trigger Hippie
As I said to Gilmore below, I’m okay with a little vinegar as long as it’s not the base of the sauce. When I smoke a Boston Butt for pulled pork I tend to go a little heavy on the dry rub, and use equal parts cherry, apple, and hickory woods and avoid the sauce altogether. Some may object to the hickory but I like a little bite to the flavor to offset the sweetness of the pork and fruit woods.
CPRM
Pork+mustard sauce+apple smoke=amazeballs
Trigger Hippie
I’m not much of a fan of mustard, to be honest.
I know, I know, I’m venturing into UCS territory at this point.
CPRM
Mixed with right sugar combo, it is the best with pork.
westernsloper
I am all hickory when smoking a butt. I sauce the meat pre serving with vinegar sugar and red pepper flakes. I really like vinegar though.
Trigger Hippie
To each their own. It just doesn’t suit my flavor palette, not to mention vinegar tends to severely upset my stomach.
Gilmore
“mayonnaise”
this is a thing? i’ve never even seen that before.
vinegar-based bbq condiments are a thing, but they don’t/shouldn’t really inspire any particular animosity since they’re not actually part of the way its served in NC, at least in my experience. you get your meat, and you can do what you want w/ it, sauce wise (or not). my preferred method (for pulled pork) has always been “throw some slaw + pickles on top” and nom nom. I think that’s most people’s thing too since a google image search for “north carolina pulled pork” has about half the examples like that.
there was a good bbq place in nashville called…. (probes memory)
…uh, Hog Heaven, i think. right on the side of centennial park. they had a pulled chicken that was good and it had a sort of spicy mayo-ish sauce that was on it.
Oooh, i found a picture. I ate there like 5 times a week in college. it was like $5 for a plate.
Trigger Hippie
Just Google ‘white bbq sauce’. It’s a thing. An abomination, but a thing.
I can stand vinegar in moderation but not as the main ingredient in any sauce.
Gustave Lytton
Recipe is on the jars of Duke’s mayo.
Timeloose
Pizza in all its styles can be good. I’m a bit traditional in my toppings, olives and sausage, pepperoni, and plain.
Raven Nation
Vinegar is an excellent condiment for use on french fries.
AND ALASKA IN WINTER IS BETTER THAN HAWAII ANYTIME.
CPRM
Q has proven he is blind, thus proving my point.
Gustave Lytton
Anchorage punches well above its weight in the culinary department.
Tundra
Great within five minutes of getting off the rink. Otherwise, ewwwwww.
Timeloose
Here is our old friend Hildog eating old forge pizza pretending she is a local. She has roots via her grandparents and the area is a battleground each election. So she pretends to be one of the little people during each visit.
The actual film accomplishments of Citizen Kane have been obscured. The true technical wonder was the use of deep focus, which with video is standard, but to achieve with film was an astonishing accomplishment. The rest is all hype.
That’s actually the best she’s ever looked as far as I’m concerned.
CPRM
That looks like quite the pot belly. I mean, on a local girl who’ll drink a case with me I wouldn’t mind, but for someone only famous for her looks, yeash.
Troy
Awwww. Who am I kidding? Who wouldn’t want to titty fuck the living shit out those beautiful hooters?
Mastering sauces is a keystone of cooking skill and will serve you well in any cuisine, as will a respect for the flavors inherent in fresh ingredients.
Also, cast iron is superior to all other surfaces. And, Glocks are fantastic. Furthermore, Stephen King is overrated.
The Living Daylights was the only classic Bond movie that felt like a spy movie, rather than an action-comedy for dumb people.
I don’t know if Kara was the best Bond girl (there’s strong competition), but she certainly belongs in any discussion of the best.
DOOMco
What’s the funniest conspiracy theory?
Mine is probably the one where the Nazis we t into the hollow earth at the end of ww2.
Mustang
There’s nothing funny about the truth.
DOOMco
I was just testing the waters.
CPRM
The Russians!?
KSuellington
Pizza takes many forms, thin, thicc, deep, etc. What matters more is how tasty it is, or how drunk and hungry you are. You could write a book on what toppings are and are not acceptable in what combinations.
KSuellington
Hawaiian is most certainly an accepted combo, just not the best. It does for an odd slice or two. The best would be mushroom, olive and sausage. With a hefty pinch of crushed red peppers.
DOOMco
I’ve been digging mushrooms and a bunch of garlic lately.
KSuellington
Tasty.
Hope all is well with you doom. I am going to replace the suspension on the Willys. Just got the springs and shocks and assorted parts together. Hope to get it on in next week or two but work and kids make it tough. How’s your locksmithing going?
DOOMco
Nice! Send pics! My 40 is still waiting out the winter.
It’s good. Learning campus is taking forever, and I’m still not used to waking up so early. Haven’t done that in a long time. Campus life is very different than my shop experience. Not in the what as much as the pace and attitude. We can’t work on door closers or hinges here. Union stuff. And nothing gets done without a work order. Which all makes sense but in my head when I pass a door that closes odd or something my instinct is to fix it.
KSuellington
Will do. Keep on picking.
wdalasio
Heathen.
Sausage (crumbled, not that sliced nonsense), minced garlic, and just a little anchovy. Nothing winds up soaking the crust and the taste is to die for.
Gustave Lytton
The Democrats are more open and amiable to libertarianism than Republicans. Or libertarians.
Hah hah. Sorry. Can’t keep a straight face on that one.
*This 34yr old man who was bullied as a child for liking comic books, and has an entire relationship with his nieces and nephews based on comic book movies runs away crying.*
Chafed
There, there CPRM. Deadpool is here to comfort you.
Trials and Trippelations
Deadpool would probably say cumfort
Chafed
They are not (usually, but not always)
You’re right
Yes she is and the real Q would post her tit pics.
Comments
481 responses to “World War G – continued”
Truce? Did I miss some drama!!??
There was a Deep Dish Pizza post at mid-day…. you can imagine what that started.
I just saw the picture of the finished product. I’ll be back after the heaving.
Next Up!
Rhywun, The Heavening!
Ha, I put the caps in upon re-reading my comment too. Someone with some writing talent could write the script.
There were no survivors. Everybody who commented on that post is now a zombie.
Pfft, as if.
I’m a ghast.
So this is what happens when I go away a while for a new job. You all go crazy, and start food wars. Meanwhile, I’m trying to stay up late enough to be able to reset my internal clock after the double fuckery of DST and going from Eastern to Central time within two weeks (then back to Eastern on Friday).
PineApple
Sausage
Pepperoni
Black Olives
Onions
Xtra Cheese
Easy on the Sauce
Thick crust Because Dentures,
That’s my Pizza
It’s not deep dish but it’s a start http://therusticwillow.com/avocado-ranch-hawaiian-pizza/
That’s Gross!
Yeah I don’t share the same hate towards avocados as many here but no thanks not on a pizza.
I love Avo, but I don’t think its right for pizza
I would try avacodo on a pizza. Especially if it came with Mexican ass sex.
I like avocado in sauce form with Mexican food. Any other use should be verboten.
Sliced on a Burger with Cheddar, Fuckin Rocks, Must Be Fresh!
Avodcado? Shoot that person. Shoot them.
Ranch isn’t any better on a pizza
Ranch is disgusting.
We have a pizza chain around here, Happy Joe’s, that makes a BLT pizza. Instaed of tomato sauce, there is a thin layer of mayonnaise under the toppings. I’ll grab a slice if its on the buffet, but I can’t imagine making a meal of just that. That’s a lot of mayo.
Which side is Lobster Girl on?
Mine.
OK, OK, I’ll post this in the living thread instead of the dead one! Sheesh!
Luke Days Air Show (incl Blue Angels)
I went to Luke Days back in the 1960’s. They had the Thunderbirds, a low level flow overs by an F-111 both wing configurations. Plus I got to meet Eric Hartmann who was at Luke to check on the Luftwaffe student pilots.
I’m still of the belief that deep-dish Pizza joints don’t have an open kitchen because they’re shoveling foetuses into those casserole dishes.
Oh, and also that Pier One Imports is a money laundering operation.
I’ve never in my life heard anyone say “yeah, I got it from Pier One Imports”. It’s the only logical explanation.
My wife worked near a Pier 1 it was like a pre gold ticket Wonka Factory, no one leaves or enters but trucks come and go.
My wife spent a bunch of money at Pier 1 over Christmas. For decorations that sit on a shelf above our front door that nobody will ever see.
My mom loves Pier One, which means I avoid it like the plague. If she’s laundering money then I want a cut.
There was an Italian restaurant just off of campus, on some extremely expensive real estate, that never had any customers…
Best money laundering location that I ever knew about was a coffee shop that operated in Downtown Cleveland. Weekends, they were open until 4:00 AM (bars need to close in Ohio at 2:00 AM). The house coffee? Jamaican Blue Mountain. Free refills too. They even sold the beans to go at $15 a pound (back in the late 90’s).
Funny story I’ve heard but can’t verify.
Apparently, at one time, it was common knowledge in New York that the best places to get an Italian dinner were mob fronts. So much to the point that when discussing an Italian restaurant, people would ask which family the restaurant was with more than which region of Italy the food was from.
It makes sense, really. If you’re running a money laundering operation, it would strike me that your major interest would be preserving the appearance of maintaining a brisk business, rather than actually turning a profit. You’re going to do what you need to to get bodies in the door. And if your mobster and his crew are regularly hanging out there, they’re going to be pretty finicky on their Italian food.
OMG SO FUN!
There’s the future of green energy, probably more efficient too.
Brown energy.
So, who was filming the power plant to my orphan uranium mine?!
That Was Cool!
Fifty state legislatures are crafting bans as we speak.
Ban Mexican children?
That looks only slightly more dangerous than my own childhood playground equipment. I look at current schools and it looks like cheap plastic equipment that maybe kids are allowed to touch but not climb or use. If their rubber protective suits allow it.
Don’t forget the protective recycled tire ground covering mat.
Or the sheet of heated metal posing as a slide.
Hah! Our kids school trucked out the sand (at great cost) from the playground, then trucked in chopped up recycled tires. Some snowflake complained to the school board so they trucked out the chopped up recycled tires (at great cost) and put in wood chips. I’m waiting for those to be deemed unsafe as soon as some snowflake gets a splinter.
Also, I think this may be contributing to the pussification of society. Seeing a classmate get a compound fracture during recess or gym class is a learning experience.
Or that one time this kid decided to take a hot shower after a heavy summer workout just to see what would happen.
Ambulance happened.
Did they survive?
Pretty sure he was back in school the next day
Ah, okay, so no guilt at all in calling him a dumbass.
I broke 2 bones trying to do a running dismount of a swing in 4th grade during recess.
Meh, deep dish, thin crust it’s all pizza, you want a fight? In think HOA are the Bees Knees , and that property taxes are the only legitimate taxes.
It’s not all Pizza. Some is Pizza and some is deep dish.
It’s ok to callmsomething what it is as opposed to what people think it is. That’s why Bruce Jenner is still a dude. And that’s why deep dish isn’t pizza.
Stuff a deep dish full of pizza rolls and pizza bagels, it should embrace what it is a pie filled with thing pretending to be pizza.
I like to do a pulled Beef Sandwich with Kings Hawaiian Hamburger buns, but if they are out I use Sara Lee “Sandwich buns”, other than a larger Diameter, there is no difference between them and regular Hamburger buns, so.
At What point did they become “sandwich” buns?
At what point does Pizza become Deep dish?
At what point does tater tot Casserole Become Hot dish?
When is a beer too hoppy?
Inquiring minds want to know…….
Sandwich vs hamburger is probably a marketing decision to make them more marketable. Or the maker is a big Ayn Rand fan.
Tater tot casserole never becomes hot dish.
A beer is too hoppy at 78 IBU.
THAT WAS EASY!
Oh yea?, when does Crunchy PB become Creamy?
how ‘Bout that Smart guy?
😉
When chunks of PB can no longer get stuck in your teeth. Next!
It’s like Grape nuts, why eat Dirt?
When it comes back out.
Tator Tot Hotdish isn’t hotdish? I mean, its right there in the name. Hotdish.
You clearly failed to consider the ibu/in ratio. How choppy a beer is depends on the initial gravity as much as the ibu. 78 is high for a 5% pale ale, but low for a 9% double ipa.
90 minute is my primary example. It is 90 ibu but insanely well balanced.
Ibu/gu
Triggered!!!!!11!!11eleven!!
Tater Tot casserole becomes hot dish in Minnesota or North Dakota.
Where the smart people are.
At What point did they become “sandwich” buns?
When ENB started using them.
Kings Hawaiian does rule though
Pulled pork on kings Hawaiian is awesome. I don’t do it often but I crave it at times.
Some of the best pizza I ever had was a monstrous deep dish that would deliver it to the bar I worked at. They used a brick oven to cook it and somehow the crust was always crunchy and delicious.
And yes, it was pizza.
Come at me bro.
But not like that you dirty hookers.
That is a waste of a brick oven. You can cook deep dish in anything that will get to a moderately hot temp. I bet the trunk of an old Camry in Phoenix during the summer would work. That sounds like an experiment for MS. What beer goes good with Camry trunk cooked deep dish?
What’s the average cooking temperature of the Camry trunk?
Jarritos vs Topos Sabores vs Fanta
Go!
Jarritos or sidral mundet
Fanta is the white people of 3rd world sodas
Fanta got kicked out of international soda school for bullying Dr. Brown.
Jarritos is so freaking good. I just polished off a 1.5L of lime I got late yesterday.
I don’t often drink jarritos. But when I do, it’s tamarino.
When I can find them I like the grapefruit and hibiscus.
If I’m in the mood for soda, I might pick up Goya Champagne, the Champagne of sodas.
**Cola Champagne
That’s good too. That’s become more common than Inca cola lately.
And here I was thinking of Bumblebee Man advertising Goya Champagne.
I hate the new XX dude.
Him or the Trivago Uncle? Fight!
That guy is just creepy af.
Euro Fanta or Americas Fanta?
Americas.
Euro sodas are extra-fluoridated to make their citizens more docile. It’s true.
Ugh. The Euro version is better. Closer to the original Nazi recipe perhaps.
Japanese Grape Fanta is like crack though.
Fanta. How is this even a question?
I have no idea what the hell any of those are.
And stay of my homogeneous lawn!
Finally, factionalism and infighting! Because we all know it wouldn’t be politics without purity tests and denouncements.
I, for one, would like to see the cast iron skillet people thrown out of the Vortex so that we, the true pizzaterians may worship at the stainless steel maw of the mighty Blodgett what with its stone deck and fast recovery time.
Amen to that. Cast iron is only good for searing things and making corn bread. If a pizza aint decked it aint pizza. Even some of us hillbillys know that.
I made a chorizo and onion frittata in my cast iron skillet this morning, it was the first one I’ve made that didn’t stick one bit, five years of careful curing and I got a non stick pan that’ll put ’em all to shame.
Yo, I love my cast iron cookware, but I don’t use it for pizza.
Hey remember the 90s? Theme song for tonight.
I do, but I remember it differently.
No, just NO!
Finally someone making some sense.
Deep dish pizza is just thicc pizza. I do love some thicc.
This was my attempted contribution to the war but it could have been much better. I was really hungover this morning.
It’s pronounced Ha-vai-‘i, philistines.
Actually, it’s pronounced “Sandwich Islands”.
+1 Cooked Cook
I’ve eaten pizza with kale on it.
Arugula is pretty good on top.
You guy are Fags, what next Romaine lettuce?
You do not cook lettuce.
Trust me. I’ve tried.
Romaine lettuce works well cooked briefly in Chinese style hot pot.
SWMBO makes a white pizza with wilted arugula.
It’s a fucking abomination. I drink a beer and have cheese and crackers when that shit comes out of the oven
Working 12 hours today: Booo
BigNFaceless Intnl. buys me dinner for working late: Yay
Daily Macros are Fucked because I went to lunch with a friend: Boo (need All the Protein!!!!11! but no calories)
But sushi place delivers: Yay
16 piece sashimi platter has 8 pieces of macarel: Booo
But I swear the 3 pieces of fatty tuna are like 50% melted butter: yay.
Ok, back to work.
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I am going to make my first attempt at homemade deep dish because of you all. Probably this weekend. I’ll make sure I take pics of the monstrosity if it turns out any good.
It’s going to be good,whatever it looks like, Pizza ain’t hard, Enjoy! and post them pics
Deep dish is like sex. Even if its bad, its good.
And will also make you chlamydia.
I’m already a Newt, why would I want to be a Chlamydia?
I don’t want to be chlamydia.
*Sharpens Bowie knife*
Worst pizza I’ve had was bacon with a pesto sauce. Damn thing had an inch of oil and fat on it.
*Chambers 1911*
Best pizza I’ve had was a garlic and olive oil base with pepperoni and honey.
Honey? erm…. I guess if Pineapple is OK, which it is…..
That does sound awful.
Who motherfuckin hoo!!
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Oil pressure looks kind low for 5000 rpm. Better check it.
At a bare minimum, a pizza has to be able to be cooked on a flat surface without sides, be it a stone or a proper sheet pan. This is necessary, but not sufficient.
Deep dish casserole might be perfectly fine food, but it should stop trying to claim a title to which it is not eligable.
How about an Asian girl’s ass?
Yes please. Could I have two?
Pizza with a crust that goes up the side of a pan too scary? Should we ban assault pizza?
Who said anything about scary? I’m stating criteria by which the typology is defined.
The second is that, when cooked, you should be able to fold the crust. If properly cut, you should be required to fold the slice to eat it.
Application of a fork is heretical.
FORK? What is this mythical pizza eating invention?
What is it? It is HERESY! I just said that.
Since deep dish pizza is amazing, you must have an irrational fear of it. It’s the only explanation.
I can agree about the fork thing, which is why a crispy outer crust on a deep dish is key.
You did not read my statement.
There is a distinction between being fine to eat and being pizza.
Merriam Wevster defines it as a dish made typically of flattened bread dough spread with a savory mixture usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked — called also pizza pie.
Weird. Pie is baked in something with sides and has a crust that goes up the sides. Surely if pizza pie is also acceptable, then having a flat surface on which to cook it is not a requirement.
Mirriam Webster also gets the Definition of “Feminism” wrong. So I don’t really trust their judgement when it comes to culinary doctrines.
So we just make up our own definitions then? Sounds social justice-y. Are you a pizza justice warrior?
Deep dish casserole is amazing. It’s just not pizza.
If you can hold the crust and the rest starts flopping, it’s good
Does it taste Good? Then Who cares what you call it, I know we all jus funnin
I hear Nick Gillespie hates deep dish pizza too. Your fellow pizza denier
OMM: NOW! the Spring offensive has Begun! i need each and every one of You to report to the Nearest Cell leader for the Vest Dispersal, Allah Willing, We shall Decimate the Infidel!
Yusef: Umm, i think you’re posting to the wrong Website,
OMM: Nonsense I’m… oh Shit
Looking for some advice. I’ll try and keep it short to not bore everyone.
On Thursday, 10 minutes after leaving work (just finished a 10 hour shift), I was called and told that we were out of some purchased parts and we needed to make them in house. If we didn’t, we would shut a customer’s line down and we’d be in deep shit. Since I am the only person who can program the machine they are made on, I was very popular.
So like a good company man, back in I went. I worked my ass off trying to get these parts made. I ended up going to sleep at my desk about 1:30 am and getting back up when others started showing up at 4:45. Got back at it and ended up having success (and going home) about 9:30 am Friday. I had arrived at 6:15 am Thursday.
My question: How much “thanks” should I expect from my employer? I got a couple emails right away thanking me for coming back in and working on it. And this morning the VP came in a shook my hand. Then I looked at my time card today, and my boss punched me out for 2 hours because I told him that I slept for a few hours.
I had half expected a very big thank you and maybe someone buying me lunch or a gift card or something like that. I certainly didn’t expect to get docked time for working so late that I had to sleep at my desk. Am I expecting too much? They paid me for my time. They did what they are supposed to. I guess if I were the boss, I’d do a hell of a lot more. Is that just me?
It’s just you.
*narrows gaze*
Well… gut reaction. I’m reasonably happy after 19 years at my current place. I could be paid more… but the bennies and time off are good plus I’m way too lazy at this point to be looking. IOW… ignore me. 🙂
That’s great that you’re on 19 years and happy. Hopefully you never have to pull an all-nighter. 😉
I’ve done plenty of all-nighters. I’m in IT and on salary – it goes with the territory. But… on balance… looking for greener pastures just isn’t on my radar. I’ve had trying times… believe me… but I got past them.
Sorry to assume you hadn’t. And my condolences for being salary. I know it has it’s perks, but at least where I work, they seem to get taken advantage of. Yeah, surprising, huh?
Enh, I can’t say I’ve ever really felt taken advantage of. If I pull an all-nighter, it’s nothing if I show up late or not at all (or work from home) the next day. Maybe I’m lucky.
There was a period when I had an evil boss – in fact I quit because of him – but at the last second I stayed on, he left shortly later, and now we all tell stories about what an asshole he was.
The “perk” of being salaried at the state is that you are no longer eligable for overtime or comp time, but you still have to charge leave if you’re below hours expected.
It’s not just you, but that’s life, you chose the job, and if you didn’t want to work you certainly could have spoken up, but in the back of your mind, you wish to retain extra value, you did in the long run, Carry on.
Yes, they should’ve at least bought you lunch or something. You did the right thing and you learned what they will do in response. Just don’t give up and start mailing it in at work because of it. Keep doing what you’re doing and if you decide to leave, go for it with your head held high.
Thanks. I won’t be mailing it it, but like you (and others) said, now I really know how management values they people that actually make the product. It’s up to me to choose to act -or not- on that knowledge.
Sounds like a wash situation. You got some good recognition. On the other hand, Your boss is a douche if you got docked for pulling an all nighter. If I was your boss , I’d probably leave the couple extra hours. Did you book a shitload of OT?
That’s the one thing I would NEVER forget, that’s a cheap shot right there
Fair enough. I don’t get paid by the hour so I hadn’t considered that.
That’s another shitty part; I had taken Tuesday off for my birthday, so it was mostly making up time and saving vacation. Any other week and I would have made the equivalent of 5 more hours of pay.
What straff said above.
What an asshole. Free dinner, at least. A good one.
Sounds like you saved them a huge chunk of money, possibly even helped maintain some future customers because you helped the company keep it’s reputation. Seems to me that they should pay you those hours because if you hadn’t slept and something went wrong because of it, they’d be totally fucked. If they expect you to stay up that long, then that’s also messed up. Either way, you basically worked that whole time because if you hadn’t caught a nap the results could have been disastrous.
I’d say that it depends on company culture. Some places I’ve worked will give something like Amazon gift cards for going above and beyond. At my current job, it wouldn’t get recognized until bonuses were issued (if then)
My company does “recognition points” you can use in a pretty decent catalog. I have enough for some Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones. A few more and I could get a Playstation 4. Kinda of waiting to see how much traveling I’ll be doing this year.
I have to remind myself to use all my points as a manager on people before the end of the quarter.
The state just points and laughs at you for being suckered into treating their problem as your emergency. The “no recognition ever” was to prevent managers from corruptly rewarding favorites.
It comes as no surprise that there’s little dedication beyond what is contractually obligated.
Wow, Fuck that, you worked around the clock to fix a problem and they dock you for some down time? You are expecting too little if anything. Slap me on the back, pay me for more time than I was there, and buy my diner for a week. Just getting assholes to show up for is work hard enough, if your bosses don’t appreciate your sacrifice then fuck them, there’s got to be people out there that will.
When I have a Restaurant freezer down, I have to fix it, no matter when, or where, so I often work late nights and Weekends, But I bill the Fuck out of it, so no matter what happens, i get paid for my trouble. When I was an Hourly guy with Supervisor Responsibilities, I would open the job for my Crews after hours to load a job, Clock in and they would still have to buy me Beer for opening up the Shop, I made sure i was Compensated
I’d chalk it up too being the guy who exceeds expectations. Your reward may not have come last week, but it will come when you get hired away for being the best or you get promoted to a position where you’re utilizing all of your skill.
Or neither of those things will happen and you’ll still exceed expectations and get paid for the work you do. Either way, you’re being treated fairly (even if your extra effort isn’t recognized beyond the normal means of compensation).
Yeah, they did what they were supposed to do. Hell, I slept for a little over 3 hours and “only” got docked for 2. So technically, they did give me something extra.
Having said that, if that happened to me, I’d probably have gone ballistic and would never give them a minute’s extra effort and would start looking to work for someone else immediately.
But I can be short-sighted, I suppose. And I’ve worked for a salary for so long, I don’t really even know what a time clock is anymore. Tradesmen and professionals who bill or get paid by the hour are used to a valuation of their labor being calculated by different metrics than what salaried people are.
I am similar. The ballistic part was very close to the surface. I actually have an email sitting in my Drafts folder telling my boss basically that I feel like I was slighted. After a “time out” and getting reactions from all you guys, I am pretty sure it will go into the Deleted folder. But I will also be checking out the classifieds.
Also, for as long as I am here, there will not be any more sleeping at my desk. That’s for damn sure.
Never e-mail mad.
I’m horrible with people, but that is one thing I have learned to certainty.
Yeah. I usually stop myself, but not always. This time, with all your help, I avoided making more trouble for myself.
This is a bit of a wake-up call. What you do have as a result is a genuine, justifiable grouse if they try and jerk you around in future. Next time something like this happens, watch carefully and see if they pro-actively approach you to help. That’s your cue to make your point about your superior work ethic and how you got no recognition for it.
Personally, I consider that you did gain from this, albeit in non-monetary ways.
You’ve learned a lesson – going beyond the call of duty gets you no significant brownie points. Exploit you once, shame on them. Exploit you twice – shame on you.
Thanks, 6. Your conclusion is spot on. Spot on. That is the knowledge I am moving forward with. There will be no second time.
So, my brother in law used to find himself in similar situations at his old job. Lots of times when he went above and beyond to pull management’s bacon out of the fire because management was a flaky dude who was great with people and shitty with running a business. He’d get plenty of thanks, no raises, and called every time something went to shit. He left for another job where he works hard and is paid accordingly.
I guess my answer is a question: How much thanks do you need to feel appreciated? It sounds like you went well above and beyond, and I would think a smart or at least a decent boss would at a minimum not dock you for the nap time, which to my mind is petty and shortsighted. If that’s how they roll, I’d seriously reconsider staying unless everything else about the job is fantastic. For my part, my pride couldn’t suffer it.
My pride is suffering a bit. There are very few people here that I can think of who would have done it. And, considering I am literally the only person who can program the lathe, they are damn lucky I did do it.
I don’t know…It’s a decent place to work overall, but this episode will definitely not be forgotten. It also kind of woke me up to what my boss thinks of me.
Don’t know if you’re married, but you’re going through what every married dude in the world goes through.
I am married. And even though I knew I wasn’t the only one who’s gone though something like this, it’s feels better to hear it from all you guys.
Also, just for clarification: when I said “here” in my reply to Bill just above this, I meant my work, not Glibs.
Well, on the one hand, you’ve made a reputation for yourself as a reliable guy who will fix the company’s fuck-ups, which gives you security. On the other hand, you’ve established yourself as the guy who will fix the company’s fuck-ups, so now they’ve got a guy who will do that, and know it. .
I had a situation at my job about a year ago that absolutely infuriated me. I won’t get too far into it, but I felt like somebody stabbed me in the back but wasn’t man enough to fess up, and I couldn’t figure out who for certain. It didn’t jeopardize my employment, but it definitely made me feel like I was unappreciated and like I’d placed too much trust in the people I work for. It was the moment when I realized, “Oh, just because my boss acts like a friend doesn’t mean I can trust him any more than a bum in the street.”
I went through a job hunt for a while and never found anything that quite matched what I get where I am. What I decided to do was to take full advantage of all the perqs I have here, put in enough effort to be able to respect myself and what I create, and constantly keep in mind that I’m basically a mercenary. I’m sad about that because I want to be able to believe in what I do and who I work for, but it’s sometimes a job is just a job.
I have a bizarre reputation for competance and getting shit done.
I say bizarre because I am the laziest son of a bitch I know. But I also get bored at work, so when they drop a task on my desk of say “Document the installation, patching and configuration of OHS for your environment”, while braindead simple as a task I tackle with with a zeal that ends up with a finished document out to the group at the end of the day for everyone else to follow.
Of course the measures are relative. There are people who will give you a deer in the headlights look when given a similar task, and others whose deliverables will be three days late and a rambling confused mess that wanders over unrelated, irrelevent content. So maybe the reputation isn’t as bizarre as it strikes me at times.
Won’t help me get promoted, but it keeps me from being bored.
That’s actually worth quite a bit.
So, like most successful IT people, Clever and Lazy.
I’m terrified that you are literally the male version of me at work. I’m fucking lazy as hell, but I learn quickly and can operate autonomously from the get-go. Employers love it. It keeps me in the trenches, but management ain’t for me anyway.
I’m almost at top of grade – if I want to make more money, I have to move into management sooner or later (there’s only one more technical title above where I am now, and that’s usually treated as the first management teir)
Oh me neither. I see the BS my boss deals with and I want none of that.
I’ve been plagued with a self-discipline issue since I was a child. I excel in areas where I’m both interested and where I feel challenged. So, I’m fortunate where I am to generally have large projects that require me to learn new things and figure out a lot of new processes and a minimum of drudgery. That alone is a strong argument to stay where I am. Part of my interest in moving on stemmed from a lack of new work, but as that’s changed I don’t feel the urge to move on as strongly as I did.
That and having bills to pay and a family, of course. It’s difficult to be a prima donna when you’ve got a child and a mortgage.
The reality of it is that it doesn’t matter if you are lazy in many jobs. Your value lies in being able to pull a rabbit out of your hat when a rabbit is needed.
As long as you’re not on a production line, most ‘office careers’ are 95% mundane plow-thru-it bullshit that rarely taxes the individual, but what differentiates you from those mewling lumpenproles is the other 5% of your time when you can make a boss feel good about you in whatever way they appreciate, whether you just deliver a result that is highly valued, or deliver an image boost to the boss.
I am fast approaching the feeling you have. As a matter of fact, this episode probably puts me in the same boat as you. I will look around, but I’m not holding out hope as I am paid very well, and there aren’t a lot of openings in this area for my skill-set. But this was an eye opening experience. And I like your description; mercenary. That’s what I am.
There’s a lot to be said for having a job where you have stable expectations of yourself and stability. It’s not fun or sexy, but it’s a hell of a lot better than worrying about whether you can have electricity and a home at the same time. I have a hard time not taking the politics personally, but I’ve started looking at it as a situation where that’s what I’m really being paid to deal with.
^This^
Are you still happy at the job? Or are you now considering this story for an interview when you get asked about a time you overcame adversity and saved the company a lot of money?
The later.
I know I’ll calm down over the next few days, but I will be looking around a little more, and this won’t be forgotten. I don’t hate my job, but at this point, I certainly don’t like it as much as I used to.
There’s a reason I made a jump to a new job. Although what I’m hearing from some of the other employees is that I should treat this job more as a resume builder, and be ready to jump in 2-3 years.
I’m quickly learning that web development is not a career you want to get into if you want to both develop professionally and stay with a single organization for a long time. You get one or the other, but not both, it seems.
I’m in the VOIP world. I kind of fell into it by accident, started at a company as a regular helpdesk person, then they realized I knew databases. From there, it became me being able to throw together reports, and then start working on the old Avaya phone system. Now, I’ve got a strong understanding of three different ACD environments, and everyone’s going with the one that’s the absolute worst to work with (Hello Cisco!). I’ve been at the job for just over a week now, and still don’t have access to any of their systems. I guess that comes next week…
I started out as a sysadmin. I’m good at sysadmin work.
Then the PeopleSoft admins started leaving because they couldn’t get promoted in-agency. So they rolled PSAdmin into my group. I swore the one thing I didn’t want to get stuck doing was PeopleSoft.
Then we got consolidated into the statewide IT agency. Sysadmin work was forcibly moved to DataCenter hosting, leaving me with application support.
Now most of what I do is peoplesoft.
I hate peoplesoft.
I’ve got a very good friend who opted to take on some .NET dev tasks as part of a potential lateral move. Funding and organization changed, but nobody forgot that he volunteered, so now he does both regular back-end development and .NET junk, which he hates.
Could be worse. Could be Sharepoint.
Ha, I remember getting stuck with a Sharepoint installation once. Long after our Sharepoint developer left. Stack Exchange is your friend.
Oh man. Sharepoint is turrible. Luckily my most direct experience with it was helping to do a UX/UI consult on what the feds wanted to do with it at our place. It was hilarious, because we’d come up with these recommendations and the contractors were basically like, “…we can’t do that. What if we changed the background image?” “We’re talking about the menu structure. Like it doesn’t make any sense.” “Yeah…but our developer says he can’t do anything about that. What about making this cyan?”
How much “thanks” should I expect from my employer?
If there isn’t a strippers and blow party with an open bar I would kick the manager in the nuts and quit. I am not really good at giving advice though so it may just be a live and learn incident.
Will you be my boss?
Mike, I’m sorry to hear about that. I think you should watch the fine documentary Office Space to learn how to properly deal with this.
I know exactly how you feel. I have had shit like that happen a few times in my career. Coworkers find out that you give a shit about your job and your reputation and take advantage of it.
The best revenge is to live well. Find a new place that values you and leave. Let them know why you felt slighted in the exit interview.
You know, the fucking printer does really piss me off.
Seriously, thanks for the advice. Dully noted.
Skol!
I just want to say thanks to everyone who replied. You all talked me off the rhetorical ledge.
I’ll get all sappy for a moment and say that there is a damn good group of people here. From small problems like mine, to the bigger problems other Glibs have posted about, this place is full of thoughtful, kind, and helpful people. It’s almost like libertarians are capable of empathy.
Ha-ha. Naw, that’s crazy talk.
I associate pineapple in food with East German Communism.
I knew you were a Fag! Only East Germans would say that, they probably don’t know what a pineapple looks like,
/Have some Kale……..
Explain.
Exploitive.
Well, once upon a time these People called Germans were very Bad, so the Soviets had to spank them so they would behave, which was fine until they ran out of Babysitting Money, then came Rammstein!
/WWII history in 10 seconds
I thought he was saying pineapples are the Trabi of fruits but that’s impossible because pineapples are amazing.
Yes they are..
I put them on my tacos sometimes. And I won’t reject a pizza with them either.
Hmm, never thought of that, will try, Thanks!
I visited East Germany in the ’80s. Pineapple seems to be everywhere on the menus of the open-to-Westerners Hotel’s restaurants. “We slather everything with pineapple from Cuba— look at our success!— but don’t talk about the fact that our TV’s are made of cardboard.”
“We were required to buy the pineapple so Castro had something to export – now eat it, because we’re out of other food.”
But the proletariat didn’t get to eat it, I did.
What were you doing in East Germany?
*narrows gaze*
Visiting my grandfather’s hometown.
Ahh. I too visited East Germany in the 80’s but I don’t remember any pineapple. We knew the restaurant owner & he closed the restaurant and gave us all an amazing dinner. Typical meat and potatoes fare.
Well, I guess I went to a better class of communistically alimentary establishments than you did. #ClasslessHipster
Ketchup on saltines with sliced pimento loaf. Of course you have to pick out those black things first.
You’ve been in Japan too long.
+1 , Thousand Island dressing prawns pizza with hotdog slices
That’s disgusting.
Picking out the black olives was the only part of that that made any sense.
braunschweiger is delicious. Who is with me?
Me.
Me
On Rye with Mustard and Fresh Onion
Hahaha! Jinx! I think I was the only kid who actually enjoyed stuff like rye bread and liver thanks to my grandfather.
::raises hand and waves it violently so everyone notices::
Oh, man, totally with you. My grandfather used to make braunschweiger and mustard on rye sandwiches when I was a kid. Irish out of Philly, but ate like a German Jew. Almost certainly the better choice in terms of ethnic cuisines.
See, we can Agree on lots of things!
I love this country! We get the best of everything!
Never had it.
*looks it up*
Probably good.
How about Eva Braunsweiger? Tastes best hot from the oven.
Now, the real question is…braunschweiger or liverwurst?
Braunschweiger is smoked and contains bacon. Does that answer your question?
So, what you’re saying is, why fly coach when you’ve got a free upgrade to first class?
There are things that the Amish in PA are great at. Meats, chips, and the desserts, are great.
They come down our neck of the woods on the weekends to sell us bacon and hot dogs wrapped in pretzel dough, for which we are thankful. Also, I note with interest that several of the young Amish ladies look like they were at the club last night and just showed up in time to put the wimple on.
Mexican cheaters!!!!
Smoked Leberwurst on dark rye bread with Bautzner mustard. Slice of Spreewälder pickle on the side.
Onions, don’t forget Onions…..
Me.
Ed Butowsky Sits Down With Gateway Pundit for First Interview After Being Sued by Family in Seth Rich Murder Mystery
Wow. Not much doubt about what happened and why.
So what you are saying is Seth Rich was Russian.
It’s a cool conspiracy theory, but there’s no way anyone connected to the Clintons could be that competent.
Here is my first shot in the great the pizza war of 2018.
Behold the Old Forge style pizza.
Thick crust like a Sicilian, but light and airy, cheese blend of mozzarella, provolone, and sometimes cheddar. Baked in a olive oil greased pan and with a sweet onion sauce.
My favorite is topped with chili flakes, anchovy paste, and olive oil.
We are also awash in great ny style pizza, Pizza Hut and dominos are few and far between.
https://slice.seriouseats.com/2013/08/old-forge-pennsylvania-pizza.html
Enjoy or hate.
Interesting…I’m skeptical of Pennsylvania cuisine, to be quite honest, but that actually sounds right up my alley. That probably goes well with cured meats.
Pennsylvania is the nexus of potato chips. They must be doing something right.
I mean, I’ll stipulate Utz, but everything else I’ve eaten in Pennsylvania tasted like it came out of a microwave or a cardboard tube. Stunning beer, but depressing food.
The town is all Italian American, so it’s not some Amish abomination. I admit it’s not my favorite type of pizza, but it’s different and good.
I’ve even found a few places to get Italian potato pie. Prosciutto, mashed or baked potato’s, roasmary, and red onion. It’s a carb bomb but good.
Amish abomination? Have you had Amish cooking? It’s so delicious, and terrible for you at the same time!
I’m speaking of thier pizza attempts. Pie crust with way too much meat on top.
This doesn’t compute.
/carnivore
THIS!
Have you had the strangeness that is Taylor Ham?
I have tried it.
I don’t get the strong emotions on both sides it elicits.
After hearing a coworker talk about talking a trunk of pork roll back home for him and his wife, I had to try it. It just tasted like a sad Canadian Bacon. And I’ve had beer made with scrapple.
It’s only decent application is in the “Jersey Classic”, i.e. in a roll with cheese and eggs.
Yeah, I don’t get it. I mean, scrapple is a distinct thing. It seems like Taylor Ham is pork roll is Canadian bacon. Maybe this is like how I don’t really get colors past the 32 crayon box or think there are pretty much two kinds of red and white wine (dry and sweet).
Gator ham and eggs on a long roll is amazing. Also Taylor ham in a burger.
Gator ham? Thanks auto correct. Taylor ham.
There’s a sandwich culture just north of me that may as well be on Mars as far as my exposure to it goes.
I’m a bit of a fan of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. Apple dumplings and chicken stew…not mixed together, mind you. Also, who doesn’t love a cheese steak? I mean a real cheese steak with proper Cheese Whiz. Not this mozzarella/provolone bullshit that seems to dominate the Midwest for some damn reason. It’s surprisingly difficult to find here.
Don’t blame that on the Midwest. As I understand it, half of Philly feels the same way.
No shit? Huh. I guess I’ve heard before that the original cheese steaks had either mozzarella or provolone on them but I’m really not sure if that’s the case.
IIRC, the original had provolone. Also, pretty sure the sandwich pre-dates canned aerosol “cheese” so I don’t think Cheese Whiz was the original.
I’m pretty sure it’s the Cheese Whiz you can purchase in a glass jar that’s primarily used for the sandwich. But you’re probably right about the provolone.
Here in NYC it’s American cheese. I didn’t know about the Cheez Whiz thing but that actually makes sense if you want it to properly mix with the beef.
American cheese? That’s news to me. Granted, I’ve only been to NYC twice in my life. Both times were very short stays and I never bothered to try much of the local cuisine.
I mean, I’ve had that variation. It’s worth doing once to calibrate your tastes, but that’s about it.
The provolone is usually a cheese sauce and is damm good. The wiz is great too.
Provolone seems dry to use in a sauce. What are we talking, like a bechamel with provolone? I could get behind that if there were heavy cream involved.
The only variation permitted when ordering is wiz/no wiz.
Cheese Whiz? Ah, the tourist cheesesteak.
I guess you and Mike would know better than I.
But since the Whiz steak is hard to find in my area I always seemed to prefer it.
*shrugs*
Dalessandro’s with provolone was amazing. Never been to Dinic’s but that’s the other “non-tourist” one people talk about.
I’m going back in… to season 6 of DS9, the Series is much better than the first time, the Character development is fun to watch.
I’m way past Razor fist’s Videos, but i’ll soldier on, See ya later!
I did a run through a few months ago – love it. You’re getting to the best parts.
Currently nearing the finish line on my second BSG run-through.
Just finished S2 of BSG first time through. Still holding up well.
God I love that show. I want to live in it.
I just finished the one where Rahm organizes a union.
Ugh not one of their best.
It would’ve been better if quark told them to shove it up their ass and hired a bunch of bajoran scabs, putting the strikers out of work. But alas, Roddenberry was a commie, so the caricature of capitalism has to be idiotic and paper thin.
Seriously. That episode gave me the impression that the D team wrote it. Like, as ignorant as their usual depiction of Quark was, that episode felt like it was written by a high school student.
Still the best Trek series though.
Not only was Gene a commie, but everyone involved in the show was either a member of, or an officer of a union, so there was zero chance of a fair discussion of the other side of the issue.
But He had nothing to do with DS9, and the Union episode ended like a typical crony Episode would, cronies…
Rodd died during the fifth season of TNG, which was a year before DS9 even happened. The Rom episode was late in DS9’s run.
When I watched all of DS9 over a few months, I skipped that one. Well, I got about ten minutes in and had enough. Profit and Lace I bailed out of even quicker. TNG I could stomach all of them, although some of Season 1 is horrible. Same with 7, and that stupid episode where Lwaxana and Alexander do…whatever.
We’re in season 6 of TNG. Will start DS9 soon. We just watched the crossover episode yesterday.
TNG is pretty good. Thank Jesus for Netflix. It’s fun to watch them without commercials, in sequence. I can’t believe I ever watched cable tv.
I’m somewhere in S3 of DS9. I didn’t see all of it when it first came out.
How I know my dog is in good health – he goes to the window at 9:30-10:00 every night to randomly bark at nothing.
When he was sick with a lung and ear infection, he didn’t do that for weeks!
There has to be something out there that happens at that time. Possibly something you can’t hear (and he coudln’t when his ear was infected)
On the next episode of the Dog Whisperer, UCS teaches Fido to not eat dog treats that contain salt.
Jack spent twenty minutes barking indignantly at a squirrel sitting in one of the crape myrtles out back. Twenty minutes. The squirrel was nonplussed. He also will crawl entirely under the blankets, fart for ten minutes straight virtually uninterrupted, and then stagger out of the bed in desperate search of oxygen.
And this is a dog who can open baby gates and bifold closets.
Sometimes healthy dog behavior is indistinguishable from dumbassery.
I’ve had nights like that.
You haven’t lived until you’ve had an 80+ pound pit bull quietly fart himself into asphyxiation under your blankets, then drag himself out and collapse onto the floor panting, only to repeat the process until he loses consciousness. Sometimes I think he’s trying to commune with the spirit world or something.
Welcome to my life.
Hi I eat farts.
https://imgur.com/gallery/xCa4Y
I got that dog in a Video!
Oh my god. That’s Jack, but add fifty pounds and four years. As soon as I figure out this fancy image hosting I’ll post a pic.
Lemmy’s 8 years old and about 85lbs. 10 lbs of that is fart.
Yeah, that’s my boy. A pit and a pit mix. Between the two of them it’s just like one massive sulfur factory. I’m surprised the things can survive given what ghastly chemistry happens in their intestines.
I am laughing my ass of. Jack sounds like a noble beast.
We refer to him as “built for comfort”. He’s like a mobile hot water bottle. Here’s Stinkin’s.
Great looking dog. Mine is happy only when he is snuggled with my wife or me.
did you borrow my dog?
I’ve tried to find the magical dog food that won’t make them fart rocket fuel but so far no dice.
Have you considered a cat?
Mine likes to test the tensile strength of sodas lime glass when anyone dares to walk in front of the house.
When sick he acts like a cat.
“Lung and EAR infection…”
Sounds like he was responding to some type of external stimulus that he could hear but you couldn’t see… neighborhood cat, possum, raccoon, other dog, deer. Don’t know what type of neighborhood you live in but I have all of the above.
Yea for Puppy! Glad to here He’s in good spirits!
Cat bed fail.
That cat did that on purpose.
I only took that pic because someone mentioned the other day how cats never use their bed and I thought to myself “oh mine always do”. So I look over and see that. Bitch.
I am surprised the Canucks have not weighed in on the pizza war. My Northern family introduced me to a great pie and I remembered I had a picture of one. The donair pizza is the schnizzle but I prefer the garlic sauce to the sweet sauce. The best one I had was in Calgary but I don’t remember the name of the place.
I need to find a way to reduce the number of components in this workflow.
Currently It goes
1 – Buy audiobook from major reseller
2 – use Dutch language program to convert file format to mp3
3 – Load mp3 into audacity
3a – Normalize the bitrate
3b – Split into chapters
3c – standardize the metadata to fit the sort method used by my card
4 – copy output onto usb drive
5 – load into car.
And adding a phone to the system is not an opion, because ‘major reseller’ changes based upon the audiobook in question, and their proprietary playback apps are not mutually compatable.
You lost me at “audiobook”.
I need to listen to something during my commute, and radio is just not an option.
Books fille that void well.
Damnit. I agree with UnCiv.
I listen to music and read but I don’t drive so there’s that.
Why are you translating things into Dutch? Are the Patroons that oppressive?
The program was written by a dutchman who didn’t bother putting any english labels on. Luckily the interface is two buttons which amount to “Load” and “Convert”.
“Load” and “Convert” are the two most successful buttons of colonialism. Just say’n.
“Miscegenate”
That’s just asking for trouble when reparation time rolls around,
That too.
Smoke more Weed
Done and done.
Well my conversion mess is done.
I have a stack of audio to go through.
The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
Easy Go (Michael Crichton)
Pirate Latitudes (Michael Crichton)
Island of Thieves
Murder Al Dente
Nagash, The Undying King
Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cuisine
Being a Poor Roman
Being a Rich Roman
Colonial Cookery in North America
Leaving the Oceans – The Rise of Plants on Land
Napolean
Origins of the Oceans
Roman Emperors – Good Bad and Crazy
Sneferu the Pyramid Builder
Spartan Warfare
Stalin
The Early Years of Rameses the Great
The Manhattan Project
The Tyanny of George III
Hallowed Knights – Plague Garden
In regards to pizza, I like it in nearly all forms. Pan, deep dish, thin crust, calzones, pizza rolls, bagels,..I’ll even eat it in the form of Hot Pockets if I’m in a pinch. Yes, my tastes are for shit.
Now as far as bbq is concerned, I fucking hate vinegar and mayonnaise. Screw you, Alabama and South Carolina!
/ducks
mayonnaise? BBQ? on what Planet? maybe as a base for… NO, just NO!
The only mayo based BBQ I’ve encounterd is Cornell chicken marinade and sauce. But it’s closer to in emulsified egg and oil with vinegar.
I have never encountered mayo in any form associated with BBQ unless it is dealing with the slaw. As to vinegar, that is the only way to go as a base for pulled pork sauces. Some tomato product in there is ok, but without vinegar you are just being an idiot. You may as well sauce with ranch dressing.
There’s a BBQ dressing you get in the ‘Bama that is basically mayo, white vinegar, and some other jazz. I like it, but I like mayo. I will readily concede that it’s not what you normally expect on BBQ.
I like mayo too on many things, just never thought of that for a bbq sauce. I have even went so far as to experiment with coconut milk type of sauces for pulled pork after seeing it on DDD. I have had success and failures but never remember what the successes were the next day. I need to write shit down.
Personally, I go vinegar on pork or brisket with nada. But I’ve had the Bama stuff and I can dig it. I like it better than the sweet sauces, honestly, because I’m more of a savory guy.
I like the vinegar mustard and red chili flake on the pulled pork. Brisket I like pickles and a savory sauce.
As I said to Gilmore below, I’m okay with a little vinegar as long as it’s not the base of the sauce. When I smoke a Boston Butt for pulled pork I tend to go a little heavy on the dry rub, and use equal parts cherry, apple, and hickory woods and avoid the sauce altogether. Some may object to the hickory but I like a little bite to the flavor to offset the sweetness of the pork and fruit woods.
Pork+mustard sauce+apple smoke=amazeballs
I’m not much of a fan of mustard, to be honest.
I know, I know, I’m venturing into UCS territory at this point.
Mixed with right sugar combo, it is the best with pork.
I am all hickory when smoking a butt. I sauce the meat pre serving with vinegar sugar and red pepper flakes. I really like vinegar though.
To each their own. It just doesn’t suit my flavor palette, not to mention vinegar tends to severely upset my stomach.
“mayonnaise”
this is a thing? i’ve never even seen that before.
vinegar-based bbq condiments are a thing, but they don’t/shouldn’t really inspire any particular animosity since they’re not actually part of the way its served in NC, at least in my experience. you get your meat, and you can do what you want w/ it, sauce wise (or not). my preferred method (for pulled pork) has always been “throw some slaw + pickles on top” and nom nom. I think that’s most people’s thing too since a google image search for “north carolina pulled pork” has about half the examples like that.
there was a good bbq place in nashville called…. (probes memory)
…uh, Hog Heaven, i think. right on the side of centennial park. they had a pulled chicken that was good and it had a sort of spicy mayo-ish sauce that was on it.
Oooh, i found a picture. I ate there like 5 times a week in college. it was like $5 for a plate.
Just Google ‘white bbq sauce’. It’s a thing. An abomination, but a thing.
I can stand vinegar in moderation but not as the main ingredient in any sauce.
Recipe is on the jars of Duke’s mayo.
Pizza in all its styles can be good. I’m a bit traditional in my toppings, olives and sausage, pepperoni, and plain.
Vinegar is an excellent condiment for use on french fries.
vinegar isn’t a condiment, it’s an ingredient.
Fish + chips + malt vinegar
You forgot the salt.
Q + UCS = the right way to eat fish’n’chips
We do ‘fish’n’chips’ round here every friday, it’s called a fish fry. Tartar is the only condiment needed for the fish, unless the cook sucks.
If you’re using tartar, your cook sucks.
If you’re not using tartar, you suck. I bet you’re one of those sickos who brutalizes fresh fried fish with lemon. You disgust me!
Proper malt vinegar. Tartare has its place (in a jar, in the ‘fridge) but undistilled malt vinegar is the Only True Way.
*shakes head sadly*
Ass men are objectively wrong.
FATALITY.
Who Da Fool Said that?
*raises hand*
Sorry, Q. I’ll take a firm, perky booty, regardless the size, over big boobs 9/10 times…well maybe 7/10.
This hippie is a smart guy
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/flbp-75.jpg >>> http://litbimg1.rightinthebox.com/images/384×500/201512/euvvts1450248471779.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/10yl3pf.jpg is inferior to http://beaverhunt.biz/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/photo-Big-Tits-Beach-799156112.jpg
You’re not changing my mind here but the effort is appreciated. 😉
Nope. Love ya, Q, but that ass is superior to almost everything.
That is a historic ass, Bill.
AND COORS LIGHT IS GREAT BEER.
I no longer trust your opinions on breasts if you are that bad with beer.
Right? That’s fucking ridiculous.
Now he’s just trolling
Go home, Q, you’re drunk.
AND ALASKA IN WINTER IS BETTER THAN HAWAII ANYTIME.
Q has proven he is blind, thus proving my point.
Anchorage punches well above its weight in the culinary department.
Great within five minutes of getting off the rink. Otherwise, ewwwwww.
Here is our old friend Hildog eating old forge pizza pretending she is a local. She has roots via her grandparents and the area is a battleground each election. So she pretends to be one of the little people during each visit.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2017/10/06/i-tried-hillary-clintons-chardonnay-and-hot-sauce-diet-for-a-week/amp/
She also carries her own hot sauce, to appeal to the ni…blacks.
I would rather listen to cats being burned alive in a burlap sack than Radiohead.
Bob Dylan has a shitty voice.
BMW’s are overpriced tin cans.
NO SACRED COW IS SAFE
Q, you’ve got this trolling thing wrong. The way you’re doing it, you come off as a homeless dude screaming at traffic.
NTTAWWT, of course.
I thought we all were? You mean no one else here is?
I don’t know about you, but I am a homeowner.
hnuuuur — hnurrrr, you said ‘homo’, Beavis …
I told my wife we had purchased a mortgage. She didn’t find that funny.
Radiohead is worse than Hootie and the Blowfish.
Yes, but the dude can write.
You spelled Audi wrong.
Radiohead is awesome. Better than Pink Floyd. Fatso Axl Rose singing for ACDC is an abomination.
Bill’s farting dog is better than Pink Floyd.
Radio Head, Pink Floyd and Fat Axl Rose are all inferior to S Club 7!
1000 Years of Solitude is crap.
French cuisine is a pile of cream-covered effluence.
Citizen Kane is an impenetrable mess.
BRING IT ON
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
French cuisine, Dinner Mondu.
“Gee, I’m real sorry your mom blew up Ricky”
Damn, what a great scene!
This is fabulous liquor.
The actual film accomplishments of Citizen Kane have been obscured. The true technical wonder was the use of deep focus, which with video is standard, but to achieve with film was an astonishing accomplishment. The rest is all hype.
Kate Upton is unfuckable because she has no hips.
Another shot fired in World War G!
And you’re not serious.
http://celebritynaked.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kate-upton-nude-1.jpg
NSFW!
That’s actually the best she’s ever looked as far as I’m concerned.
That looks like quite the pot belly. I mean, on a local girl who’ll drink a case with me I wouldn’t mind, but for someone only famous for her looks, yeash.
Awwww. Who am I kidding? Who wouldn’t want to titty fuck the living shit out those beautiful hooters?
100 years*
Mastering sauces is a keystone of cooking skill and will serve you well in any cuisine, as will a respect for the flavors inherent in fresh ingredients.
Also, cast iron is superior to all other surfaces. And, Glocks are fantastic. Furthermore, Stephen King is overrated.
No strong feelings on cast iron.
CZ75 >>> Glock.
Stephen King is garbage.
Love cast iron.
Glocks don’t feel right.
Salem’s Lot was a really good book,
Agreed, also hops in moderation, whiskey with ice, and dogs over 20 lbs.
Yep. No ice in whisky, though. Manual over automatic. Veronica over Betty.
Glocks really don’t feel right. Maybe if they would try not using a brick or a bunch of legos as a template?
CZ75 doesn’t come in .45GAP.
*bam*
Tangfoglio in a CZ clone makes a 45, 38 super, and 10mm
CZ 97 comes in 45 ACP.
You could call the 45 GAP “45 Kurz”, because it’s just like the 380 compared to a 9mm.
The major difference between 45GAP and ALL the others is that you can actually find all the others on shelves.
Grammar Nazi.
Zombie Oswald Mosley as headmaster of a boy’s grammar school.
+avocado!
Star Trek, in all its iterations, sucks balls.
Our bromance is OVER!
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/wtf-is-this-shit.jpg
Gay
https://imgur.com/VEU7kMz
And they were good.
Uh…
I think a horse ejaculated on your fries.
‘I Think A Horse Ejaculated On Your Fries’, the new Oscar nominated film, is taking the world by storm! prediction for 2020.
Weinstein’s cumback.
Just ate some home made fries myself. After Q’s comment, I’m glad I just ate them with salsa.
The war is back?!
https://youtu.be/59tRaxf4uag
The Matrix is more interesting if you think his avatar in the Matrix was Cowboy Curtis before he broke free and became Morpheus.
Woah. New plan. Rewatch with this.
Eggs by themselves are inedible swill.
As are 95% of all breakfast foods (minus bacon and sausage).
Vodka is disgusting.
Old people, am I right?
https://youtu.be/9DCXk0YzH3Q
There ain’t no party like an S-Club party!
You win. That sucks worse than anything else on this thread.
You hate star trek, so.
Don’t make HM come down here and post whatever is on his browser or camcorder.
Did you say something? I was picturing a four way with Rachel, Hannah, and Tina.
Would red bra girl with extreme prejudice.
Jo? So you like them manly? OK, not judging. (judging in secret)
Don’t call me baby.
I actually like that track…yes, I was a raver kid back in the day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIF81M0yQA
And now I’m down the rabbit hole….
Game of Thrones sucks.
Rye is better than bourbon.
Shy girls are better than slutty ones.
“it’s about the process.” Dennis Reynolds
I have not seen one episode of Game of Thrones.
All of your opinions on pizza are wrong. Here’s why. https://youtu.be/RpkQEq75y18
You can sick that sign up your ass!
Bacon is overrated.
(not the Glib)
*autistic screeching*
But if you don’t demand, what will happen to the supply?!
Bacon was a poor person food before, now they took that from us! It’s cultural appropriation!
Even in Flatliners?
YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR SIR.
Still laughing.
https://youtu.be/juQyy00x-Mw
Timothy Dalton was the best bond, The Living Daylights is the best Bond movie, and Kara was the best Bond girl.
Truth to power!
Also, a great villain in The Rocketeer.
All I remember is Jennifer Connelly.
It was a great part of ‘Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way’ when Billy Campbell (star of the Rocketeer) became his arch nemesis in casting.
The actual relevant part of the book.
*fist-bump*
The Living Daylights was the only classic Bond movie that felt like a spy movie, rather than an action-comedy for dumb people.
I don’t know if Kara was the best Bond girl (there’s strong competition), but she certainly belongs in any discussion of the best.
What’s the funniest conspiracy theory?
Mine is probably the one where the Nazis we t into the hollow earth at the end of ww2.
There’s nothing funny about the truth.
I was just testing the waters.
The Russians!?
Pizza takes many forms, thin, thicc, deep, etc. What matters more is how tasty it is, or how drunk and hungry you are. You could write a book on what toppings are and are not acceptable in what combinations.
Hawaiian is most certainly an accepted combo, just not the best. It does for an odd slice or two. The best would be mushroom, olive and sausage. With a hefty pinch of crushed red peppers.
I’ve been digging mushrooms and a bunch of garlic lately.
Tasty.
Hope all is well with you doom. I am going to replace the suspension on the Willys. Just got the springs and shocks and assorted parts together. Hope to get it on in next week or two but work and kids make it tough. How’s your locksmithing going?
Nice! Send pics! My 40 is still waiting out the winter.
It’s good. Learning campus is taking forever, and I’m still not used to waking up so early. Haven’t done that in a long time. Campus life is very different than my shop experience. Not in the what as much as the pace and attitude. We can’t work on door closers or hinges here. Union stuff. And nothing gets done without a work order. Which all makes sense but in my head when I pass a door that closes odd or something my instinct is to fix it.
Will do. Keep on picking.
Heathen.
Sausage (crumbled, not that sliced nonsense), minced garlic, and just a little anchovy. Nothing winds up soaking the crust and the taste is to die for.
The Democrats are more open and amiable to libertarianism than Republicans. Or libertarians.
Hah hah. Sorry. Can’t keep a straight face on that one.
What brought that on?
Alcohol. What else?
Pizza rolls are just Italian flavored Tide pods.
Comic book movies are useless.
Macs are overpriced rubbish.
Alison Brie is not that attractive.
*This 34yr old man who was bullied as a child for liking comic books, and has an entire relationship with his nieces and nephews based on comic book movies runs away crying.*
There, there CPRM. Deadpool is here to comfort you.
Deadpool would probably say cumfort
They are not (usually, but not always)
You’re right
Yes she is and the real Q would post her tit pics.
Q turned his bump stocks in.
Trying to figure out this euphemism…
You didn’t feel bad that Denver hasn’t had any turned in?
Must everything be a euphemism, q?
Penis.
Denver was the last Dinosaur.
42.