It’s quittin’ time here at We Hunted the Mammoth. So let’s start off the weekend with a Roosh-Free open thread. Feel free to talk about anything and everything that is not Roosh. Like, for example, that weird old ad above. No trolls, no MRAs allowed.
@Scildfreja
Thank you! 🙂
This morning I bought donuts, and now I’m sitting across the dining room table from a wonderful man. LEAP-YEAR DONUTS WORK. And since I’ve been married to this wonderful man for nearly 20 years now, obviously LEAP-YEAR DONUTS CAN BEND THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM and arrange for happy marriages before those donuts are bought!
FEAR THE POWER OF THE DONUT.
I may or may not be on a bit of a sugar high here.
@scildfreja my friend lives in the Uk with her boyfriend so she is getting her treatment on the nhs and with help from a charity called Christies. I guess that is also similar to the system in Canada. Good, government healthcare is a blessing. Best wishes for your dad also. I’m glad to hear they caught it early. Also thank you @EJ
Scildfreja – I had NHS treatment for cancer, 4 years ago. It was SO GOOD. Everything was done right, and as you can tell it was successful!
One thing that I became aware of was that the NHS puts a lot of resources into the life saving stuff. Sometimes that means that non life saving stuff is neglected. This is of course ammo for the pro private pro insurance system. Private systems can be very good at providing private rooms, better food, cosmetic surgery etc etc, but sometimes they do not have the equipment necessary for the life saving stuff.
I really hate it when people trash the NHS, or ‘socialised’ healthcare generally.
I have a Canadian-American friend who thinks the same. When I asked her why she said you have to schedule surgeries weeks in advance. I explained it’s the same here unless it’s a critical situation, plus you get to pay $10,000 per day you spend in a hospital room, but she didn’t want to hear it.
Just found this:
A British fashion label has made the decision after some women turned up so hungry they were “delirious”.
The founder of Rose & Willard says she made the decision after seeing how much pressure models are under to lose weight.
“They’ll say that they’ve had a huge breakfast, they’re stuffed, they’re not hungry, and you know they’re hungry,” Heidy Rehman tells Newsbeat.
“We had one model at our last casting who was actually delirious by mid-afternoon”
“She wasn’t making sense.”
Heidy says shoots can last 10 hours and some models she’s worked with won’t eat during that time.
Included in the new contracts, models will be required to share a meal during photo shoots.
It’s concerning when you hear a young woman who is starving herself because she’s under this pressure.
But Heidy says she won’t tell models how much, or what, to eat.
I am sure doughnuts would be acceptable!
Really? I guess the US is very different. Around here shoe-in for supervisory positions means ability to suck up to the bosses and tendency to pretend everything is all hunky dory all the time. In other words, it means people the bosses like are promoted with little regard to whether they’ll be organized and good at problem solving or able to work well with the people under them.
In my admittedly limited experience, this is absolutely correct.
Also my experience. That’s where the saying that someone is “promoted to incompetence” comes from. At least, that’s a saying here! Good workers are given promotions because they suck up to the boss, and are utterly incompetent at their new position but stay in it because of that reason.
I have arthritis and need to go to the hospital once every two months for IV treatment in order to function. Sometimes I need cortison injections in my achilles heels or fingers in order to manage swelling. In addition, I see my doctor once every few months for regular check ups. I also need to have my blood work done regularly in order to keep track of my liver and vitamin levels. Currently I’m also in therapy, trying to figure out if I have ADHD, Tourette’s syndrome, depression, etc.
My IV treatments are scheduled every two months and if I need to reschedule I can just call the hospital and do so. When I need a cortison injection I don’t need to schedule an appointment – I can just drop in and get one during their regular hours, any day of the week. The blood work is also done without an appointment, but sometimes I have to wait an hour or so since I live in an overpopulated area. Therapy is currently scheduled weekly, and it took less than one week between when I applied for mental care and my first appointment with a therapist.
This all can cost me a maximum of 1100 SEK/year, which translates to roughly $130. Every time I go in for any form of treatment or appointment, I pay 50, 100 or 300 depending on what I’m doing that day, and I get a stamp reflecting the amount of money I paid and the current date. When it’s added up to 1100 in total, I don’t pay any more money for the rest of the year, until exactly one year after my first stamp. Once the year is up, my free pass is torn up and I start over.
I can’t tell you how fucking relieved I am that I live in this country, considering all the various treatments that are absolutely necessary for me to function. There are many things that disgust me about this country, but let’s just say health care isn’t one of them.
@Chiomara
If you like I have a wonderful pecan pie recipe – it’s mostly pecans with the filling just holding them together or it would be pecans in a pie crust that scatter and crumble when you cut into it. It’s also super easy, otherwise it wouldn’t have been a family recipe as long as it has. 😉
I’m still playing with the bake time required to convert the recipe quantity from 2 8-10″ pies into tart-sized though.
NEW SUBJECT: Apparently, mammoth meat tastes dreadful: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/05/465309625/two-grad-students-use-science-to-bust-the-dinner-hoax-of-the-century
@Msexception
I would love the recipe! Even though, I don’t think I will be able to cook it for years. At least not in my country. Pecan nuts here are 80 reais per kg. That’s about 20 dollars. I don’t know if it sounds like much for Americans, but for me, I can buy two good pairs of shoes with that. I am not rich, so that just sounds like eating solid gold.
But in the best 4 days of my life, when I was in Paris, I ate them twice, and I am convinced that it’s my favorite food in the world. So give me your recipe and when I am in Europe again (I don’t know how, but I WILL BE) I will probably try to make some ^^
Seriously, folks, mail me pecan pies and I will love you forever. I’m not even kidding.
@Chiomara
Mailing address? :3
What’s the law in Argentina about sending food in the post?
@Chiomara
Sounds like what you need is someone to send you a heap of pecans…well if you can get the rest of the ingredients. I’m trying to imagine shipping pecan pies but if it’s anything like the way packages are treated even when they’re being shipped from one end of California to the other and have a big label that says “FRAGILE” or “DO NOT BEND”, when it arrives it will….look like it was stomped on and then used as a substitute ball for some sports game, or….be bent in half or in thirds. When the United States Postal Service is the delivery method it will usually take a multi-state tour around the country even if it’s being shipped from one end of California to the other – and you will think the rate you’ve been charged should be enough to send it on a world tour with a stop in every country. Fedex and UPS are marginally better but they also charge an arm and a leg, then make you arrange to pick up at one of their locations after ‘attempting’ delivery but that only means they drove by, stopped a minute and then decided that they didn’t want to go to the trouble of getting out and walking through a gate to get to your door. Who do I have to kill to get decent shipping service!?
I’m going to share the recipe here so anyone and everyone can try it out if they wish. 🙂
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Ingredients:
2 10″ pie shells (unbaked)
1 lb light brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
6 large eggs (may use only 4 as desired)
1 cup melted butter or margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups pecan halves
Combine all ingredients in order given except for pecans. Blend thoroughly and then fold pecans into the blended mixture. Pour into pie shells and bake at 350 degrees F approximately 45 to 50 minutes using a cookie sheet under the pies to catch possible overflow in the oven.
@Chiomara
I would, but after international shipping, the cost would end up the same.
Ugh. UPS handled my passport after I’d sent it to the US Embassy for a visa. Their version of “attempting delivery” was to knock on the door, count to five then leave. Twice this happened before I was able to get it from their courier, only by being careful not to be further than fifteen feet from the front door for the whole time of the delivery slot.
@Scildfreja and Dalillama D’aaaawww, that’s too lovely, dears! I was just kidding, I didn’t imagine anyone would ever consider doing this. Thank you plenty, that’s ALMOST better than actual pecans :3
@EJ I don’t know. I am Brazilian. And I once received chocolate from Germany without problems ^^ I think it’s only a problem if it’s in great quantity.
@Msexception I will actually go and research about the costs. Who knows one of my international acquaintances live in a place where it’s cheap enough to be worthwhile. And this recipe sounds DELICIOUS.
Does anyone have a recipe for home made feta cheese? It’s another thing I tasted in Europe and loved but can’t find here for less than a billion dollars.
@Chiomara
Have you made cheese before? It’s not exactly simple and it requires special equipment and ingredients, but I enjoy it. I haven’t made feta, but my go-to website for cheese-making recipes has one: https://www.cheesemaking.com/Feta.html
You can order supplies there, too, and it looks like they do international shipping.
Oh please let this turn into a pie recipe thread.
I’m sorry Chiomara, I’m very embarrassed now. I shouldn’t get people’s countries mixed up, especially for other people from the Correct Hemisphere.
@Kupo
I am the Queen of DIY. I home make everything that is too expensive to buy, from dresses to Nutella. I have made cream cheese, but that’s all. I will look at that site, thank you! Hope I can find the ingredients here ^^
@EJ absolutely no offense taken! South America has so many countries and even I don’t know the name of the money of all of them. And I have absolutely no idea of where you come from (my memory is so terrible, sorry), so, really, no reason to say sorry at all :3
Ah, the coin of Argentina are Pesos Argentinos, as far as I know, for future reference ^^
I am way drunk off margaritas made with golden tequila + mezcal. What’s this stuff about pecan pie and how can I get in on it?