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.
@Paradoxical
Ahem! We prefer the term “Beaver folk”, also that’s our word so you can’t use it.
Tim Horton’s would definitely catch me. Even just the coffee would, theirs is splendid.
Marco Rubio’s behavior during the Republican debate is reminding me of a BUGSer. He keeps repeating the same mantra over and over about how Barack Obama does know what he’s doing, and has a deliberate plan to “diminish” America by making it more like the rest of the world but Rubio believes that America is exceptional and the greatest nation in the history of the world, blah blah blah.
Rubio repeated the exact same words no fewer than three (or was it four?) times. Did he go to the BUGSer/Bob Whitaker school of repetitive propagandistic mantras? The only difference is that Rubio keeps talking about how the rest of the world is a threat to America’s greatness and existence, but BUGSers talk about how nonwhites are all a threat to the greatness (and indeed the very existence) of whites.
Is American exceptionalism just the colorblind version of white supremacy/nationalism? It’s starting to seem that way.
The Timbits would catch just about anyone…they’re nummy doughnut holes. I’m partial to the chocolate-cake ones and the cherry ones, but I’ll eat ’em all quite happily.
And who can resist a roll-up-the-rim-to-win coffee cup? NOBODY. (The contents are also good, although I’m not a coffee person myself — too jittery.)
Ooh, looks like this thread has turned to the subject of pies! Any fans of Undertale who wanted to taste a butterscotch cinnamon pie?
SQUEE! OMG FOLKS!
It looks like I will be getting TWO kitties mid-March! OMG OMG OMG.
*runs around screaming and waving her arms*
Significant Otter approved my kittyplan, and due to twist of fates, two might be miiiiiiiine! (All depends on if they take a shine on us, they’re adult cats, and they’re going to do a two week test-stay at my place.)
I would like to second Pumpkin Pie.
I’d like to make a vote for angel pie, though in our family the recipe doesn’t call for lemons like the Food.com recipe does, but for crushed graham crackers, egg whites, and other things. I think it calls for chopped walnuts as well. It’s delicate to make, since you have to beat the egg whites into a foam and then fold the dry ingredients into it, but it is heavenly when served with some whipped cream.
I might be able to get the recipe for it if I can find it at my parents’ place, and we have more recipes than we can handle there.
Also, does anybody know anything about empanadas or just food prep in general? I might have gotten myself in over my head with a possible job, because I asked the owner of a restaurant that makes empanadas if he needed temporary help at his restaurant and he said he’ll call me on Monday about it. No, I am not making this up; I’m a little petrified of the consequences.
I can make empanadas, but what are your doubts? Don’t worry too much, I am sure they will take the time to teach you. As long as you are not completely inept in the kitchen, you’ll do well.
He doesn’t expect you to have a gastronomy degree or something, does he?
@Hu’s on First
It most certainly is not. There’s nothing colorblind about it.
Even after world wide outrage he has s at less than 25,000 followers. Funny how a man who claims 1/4 of us are mentally ill whores spends his entire existence vying for female approval. Wanting to restrict a woman’s choice because he knows they will not choose him. I think what he meant to say was “Could not bang.” Bandits ALWAYS hang themselves.
@Chiomara: my main doubts come from a lack of experience in the food service industry and doubts about my own abilities. I can be detail-oriented when I need to be, but I feel like I’m too fussy about some details and oblivious to other ones. I know I have a habit of short-selling myself or downplaying my accomplishments as “no big deal, I just did what was asked,” so the self-confidence issues are gnawing at me as well. I at least have some kitchen skills going for me from preparing meals, though.
The owner doesn’t seem pretentious or demanding, either; these are just empanadas, and it certainly isn’t haute cuisine. He just seems harried from being swamped by customers, because he sold out on Friday and had to close early because of it.
To me they seem more like compatible concepts usually shared by the same people.
@katz
I really don’t see any difference except the dog whistle; since day one it’s been used pretty much exclusively as an excuse to kill darker skinned folks and take their land and/or not creating functional infrastructure because it might benefit people of color.
@Chiomara
Nope, he decided that he was not into a lying married dude, and cut the encounter short while he had most of the evening to find other no strings to make the sex with. 😛
Thanks for the advice, Kreator and EJ! (If anyone else answers my original comment after the editing period for this one ends, I thank you too.) I’ll probably end up reserving the movie at some point, but not anytime within the next week. I’m usually pretty good at ignoring movie problems in order to focus on what I like, so I think I’ll be OK when I finally cave. And I now feel brave enough to explain why I wanted to watch that movie in the first place-simply put, I have major pantsfeels for Will Arnett and can ignore all sorts of crap in a movie if it means I get to see him a little bit.
Paradoxical Intention, what general area of the States do you live in? I live in the Illinois/Indiana/Ohio/Kentucky region of the Midwest and there’s a Tim Horton’s about 10 minutes away from me, so I’m thinking they just haven’t opened any locations in your area yet. I highly recommend going if they do-their coffee and cinnamon rolls are great.
If we’re still doing pie wars, I’m Team Chocolate, unless there’s peanut butter pie-then I’m Team Peanut Butter.
OK, so everyone is pretty much in agreement that Time Horton’s is an acceptable place for a first date right? Because I’ll need to write it down if so.
@Biot Don’t worry. According to my experience, he is going to take a day to teach you the job. And empanadas are quite easy and fast to make once you have some practice ^^
@MsException OH, damn, that’s my girl.
I honestly don’t understand how can some women carry on after that, or even go after men that they know are on a relationship. I know the biggest fault is on the cheating man, but I just can’t avoid being disgusted at the woman.
Story time: I have a sexually open relationship and I see my boyfriend flirting on Facebook sometimes. Some women flirt with him without knowing our relationship is open but knowing that he is in one, some straight out hate me, offend me and especifically want to sleep with him to humiliate me (without even KNOWING me sometimes) (needless to say I don’t let him flirt with them anymore), and ONE of them cut him right off and said “look, you are cute and everything, but shouldn’t you be saying those things to your GIRLFRIEND?! Be a better human being, don’t do that to her, I will tell her if you don’t stop”. I was so happy to read that, I wanted to freaking hug her. I was more than happy to let them hook up.
But it’s baffling to me that all these years and only one woman had the decency of saying “respect your girlfriend”, instead of even pretending to like me in public, sometimes, and attempting to stab my back in private.
@ Paradoxy
Congratulations on the V/O job!!!!
For future reference if you get the throat thing again, over here we have something called AAA Spray, hopefully you have that or an equivalent over there.
Gets used a lot by professional singers. You can’t overdo it or you get nodules, but it’s find for the occasional emergency.
Dalillama: See, I’d classify that as imperialism, which I think of as a result of American exceptionalism, not the same thing. And exceptionalism also shows up in other places: It’s why we refuse to copy European infrastructure even though it’s clearly better, for instance, and it causes common lies about history like “America was the first democracy.” All of which is clearly bad, but not white nationalist, per se.
(Yes, I’m being totally wonkish, since the same people believe all these things.)
My cable/internet were out yesterday, so I’ve missed a lot! But I made banana bread and cookies, so not a total loss!
All my good thoughts to you, Nequam. I hope your dad is getting better.
But, I’m not so much a pie person, but I do like cookie-crust pies. Especially Coco’s chocolate silk pie which they only have during the holiday season now :(. It’s the pie-crust I don’t dig, never have.
If I’m making fruit dessert, it’s going to be a wonderful cobbler recipe my mom got from the Capper’s Weekly cookbook she received in the early 50’s as a wedding present. It wasn’t new when she got it, either. Unfortunately, the book perished in a fire at my dad’s in 1998. I’m almost over it. Not really.
“Lets get ready for crumble!!!”
most delicious fruit dessert/coffee snack/indulgence:
sliced peach/apricot/apple
raspberries/blueberries/blackberries
raw honey
cream cheese
melba toast
cream cheese on melbs. add fruit in your arrangement/assortment of preference. top with honey. eat and get fat cause dey so good.
apparently capitalization is misandry.
@ katz
That’s exactly my point; the underlying reason, whenever you pin one of these clowns down about why we can’t have, say, a functional healthcare system like you find elsewhere in the industrialized world, IME the answer always involves how ‘homogenous’ the populations of those places are,.