Over in the Men’s Rights subreddit, a fella called EatsTinyBaldBabies offers this, er, insight:
It became quite clear to me some time ago that your typical woman would be fine making most men live in cages under 24/78 supervision if it meant they could feel just slightly safer about their lives. This is why feminists spend so much time lying to make them afraid.
Last I checked, he had gotten 18 upvotes for this BRAVE comment.
H/T to DancingMidgets in the AgainstMen’sRights subreddit for finding this little gem.
*where I’d have been insta-banned anyways cuz not woman born woman living as a woman
Dude ranch – how did I miss that before?
I’m seeing all these horseless cowboys wandering around, gazing mournfully out over the fence at the great prairie, while chewing the
cudquid.IMO onnly baked goods with a distinctly american feel (eg choc chip cookies) should be called cookies instead of biscuits. But cookies vs biscuits has very little to do with the DNA of the object and everything to do with the person talking about it. It’s like the question “What is sport?” Or obscenity – “I’ll know it when I see it”.
But I don’t think there is any description of a cookie you could come up with that there isn’t an example of a biscuit that fits it. Other than it’s a cookie because people call it a cookie.
And thank you auggziliary for the info about birds. It does sound like it takes a lot of dedication so I will make sure I have some to spare before I go getting a bird. Conure are gorgeous (I was at a pet expo on the weekend and a guy was walking around with one of these on his shoulder – http://www.scientifickr.com/aves/psittaciformes/psittacidae/aratinga/solstitialis/) but if they scream, I don’t know if I could handle that. It’s one of the reasons I’ve never liked cockatoos – they make such awful noises. And if you’ve ever heard a flock of rainbow lorikeets roosting in a tree at night. They are so raucous. Galahs on the other hand, sound lovely, and that ringneck parakeet in the video sounded sweet. And that they learnt to speak is awesome. But yeah, I think I need to spend some time around other people’s birds and get to know some to see if we’d be compatible.
This reminds me of that whole ‘black panic’ problem the states had when they freed the slaves. You know the wide spread fear that if black people where freed they would take up arms and start killing all the white people out of revenge for the brutality they suffered while enslaved. And while thatdid happen……it was only like 4 times ever.
In these communities there seems to be this terrified rhetoric that you can’t trust women because they can’t love men and seek only to use and discard them just as much as they themselves seek to use and discard women.
It’s this weird kinda “its ok that we’re horrible because women are really just as horrible as we are.” logic going on there.
Kim – yup, it’s simply an American phrase (cookies being sweet and crackers savoury, and biscuits something else again, iirc) vs the Australian one, for instance, where biscuits is biscuits is biscuits. They’ll always be Teddy Bear Biscuits and Maryland Biscuits and Chocolate Royal Biscuits and so on … Arnott’s Famous Biscuits, not Arnott’s Famous Cookies.
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as soon as I hit send I see all my writing errors…..it hurts so much……
America does scare me with biscuits. Who puts biscuits in gravy? That’s just… sick.
American biscuits are good though. McDonalds has (or had at least) an equivalent to the McMuffin but on a biscuit instead. So much better.
etymonline.com tells me that cookie comes from the dutch for “little cake” and biscuit comes from the old french for “cooked twice”. which helps not at all…
Biscuits are somewhat like English muffins except biscuits are leavened with baking powder or a combination of buttermilk and baking soda instead of yeast. And they are quite delicious when covered in gravy with little chunks of sausage.
FTFY.
In all seriousness, though, I’m going to need some biscuits here STAT. Probably I’ll have to make them myself, though, because I have no idea where to get a decent biscuit in Vancouver. Anyone have any Southern US-style biscuit-making tips?
If we’re talking English muffins, as in the sort you toast – I like them, especially the ones with fruit in. I’m very meh about the cake-type muffins (as in “muffin top”).
Biscuits and muffins may be made a similar way, but they end up nothing alike. English muffins are horribly hard, and what’s with the gritty stuff on the outside?
I think I’m probably just biased against English muffins (the toasty kind) because the ones my parents always bought when I was a kid were absolutely awful. And then we moved south and with the steady supply of biscuits, I never felt the need to try them ever again. They’re probably quite fine but I just have a twitchy hatred of the idea of them.
Maybe I just have a sweet tooth, but IMO biscuits (the REAL KIND AMERICA FUCK YEAH) are God’s gift to honey. Ones made with cheese and herbs are good too.
Store-bought muffins are basically hydrogenated oils held together with a little flour, so that’s pretty nast, but proper homemade muffins are delightful when they’re fresh out of the oven. The trouble is you have a dozen of them and they’ll get cold and undelicious in an hour…
*Monacle-popping aghastitude!*
You realise, of course, that this means war? Such heathenry shall not stand!!
I lurv English muffins, with the nooks and the crannies and the butter and the Hero sour cherry jam and the gritty bits on the outside. I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurv them.
If you want nooks and crannies, crumpets are infinitely superior.
Crumpets and honey I can do on occasion, though they seem to soak up the honey way too fast and need MORE put on.
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I’m going to try English muffins with a thin slice of Bega cheese now. I’ve been living on toast and cheese at the weekends lately, it strikes me that this might be good too …
THat’s the whole point of crumpets – those holes that run allthe way through so that the butter & honey soak through to the bottom (and drip all down you when you take a bite). :-p
Think of them as being a kind of dumpling crossed with a plain scone.
I had a big problem working out American biscuits – with gravy! urrrgh! – until I realised that what I was reading about wasn’t a biscuit at all as Australians understand them.
Even if they were like British biscuits it couldn’t be any weirder than sausages with marmalade, which some people at my high school ate for breakfast.
Re: Radfem reproductive biology, tongue in cheek.
There are many internally fertilizing animals without penis-equivalent structure or penetrative copulation. These include many non-mammalian vertebrates, notably most birds. They copulate with a so-called cloacal kiss, where some of the ejaculate ends up in the female cloaca. In some spiders the sperm is transferred manually into the female reproductive opening. Mammals are kinda adapted for PIV insemination but of course we humans can use our hands (at least the woman’s hands, I suppose) and simple tools like turkey basters to manage artificial insemination.
Conclusion: Patriarchy was obviously involved in the evolution of penis in Mesozoic proto-mammals. More to the point, same probably applies to internal fertilization in the first place, because it requires unnecessary poking of the female body. Not to mention recent placental evolution leading to menstrual bleeding, extended pregnancy and traumatic childbirth.
Further conclusion: Nature intended us to reproduce in water, with external fertilization.
If you think about it, it’s not that different from lamb with mint jelly, or turkey with cranberry. My main problem is with sausages for breakfast at all.
But I hate all of those combinations too. Not a fan of meat + jam-like sweet sauces in general.