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.
Awesomesauce!
I googled “kitty high five”, and got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWtkg7fUNA4
Also, today I made coq au vin, avec beaucoup de vin. Et cognac. Hic!
Would it be weird of me to like chocolate chip cookies, but also have my favorite bits be the cookie, and not the chocolate chips?
I just like the way the cookie tastes.
Just made a strawberry mousse. It’s very labor intensive, but totally worth it.
ETA
@PI – I have a recipe for a cookie that’s basically chocolate chip without the chocolate chips. I forgot what they’re called, but they’re really good.
Edit #2: They’re called Blondie cookies.
PS: Here’s the recipe for the coq:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/coq-au-vin-recipe4.html
You won’t need THAT much salt or pepper, and dried thyme works just as well.
(Also, it’s not pronounced “cocoa van”. Although a vanload of cocoa would also be lovely.)
Sorry I’m late at checking the comments but I’m still evacuated from my house until the bathroom remodelling is done. I just had to thank all of you who were so kind to join in my excitement over a new, well, to use his word, relationship! (Yes, it’s come to that)
@EJ
He is from Belgium, so it’s only a two hour flight. He’s a teacher at a uni so he will get plenty of holidays we can use as an advantage. Also, I’m not that fond of living in Finland in case things get super serial. 😉
Our older son has been approved for SSI. We had lots of help, which was good. I did the waiting room/talking to claims processors part, because my husband is good at lots of things but dealing with bureaucracy gives him a deep and lasting pain. It was easier than dealing with the local school district to get him into an accommodative school environment.
So that’s a positive. He’s still refusing the medication that would decrease the voices and hallucinations. Being eighteen, he has that right, and he hasn’t been a danger to himself or others. We’re not best pleased by his refusal, but are accepting his decision as long as it’s tenable.
Also, he picked up a disagreeable habit online of referring to women as ‘females’. We are very diligent about correcting him when it happens.
Also, best pie ever is blueberry Finnish style. I felt like I needed to put that out there.
Bina:
I’m totally floating on cloud nine. I can’t believe this is happening.
ROFLMAO. 😀
NOM!
Leda Atomica:
Ah but so many styles in that too… here’s mine!
This article is super depressing. A woman is being sued for not being a perfect housewife. http://m.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/news-features/woman-to-go-on-trial-in-italy-for-being-a-bad-housewife-20160205-gmn857.html
@Kupo
The nerve of that woman, how could she do that to her husband! She didn’t cook or clean enough and horror of all horrors she kicked him out of their bedroom on occasion!! What is the world coming to when a man can’t come home every day of every year to a spotless house, gourmet meals, and sex on demand!? Doomed I say, the world is doomed if this keeps happening!
(sarcasm mode off)
Seems like she had good reason to kick him out of the bedroom on occasion.
We had the ultimate brinner (breakfast/dinner) for Super Bowl last night. We stole the recipe a few years ago from a place called King’s Chef Diner in Colorado Springs (hideous website here: http://www.cosdiner.com/).
It goes like this:
– A big mound of hash browns
– On top of that, your choice of bacon, ham, sausage or “fakie” – we did fake bacon AND fake sausage (fake ground meat + a spice mix of chili flakes, sage, marjoram, brown sugar, cloves, fennel, salt, black pepper)
– On top of that, grilled onions
– On top of that, tons of shredded cheese
– On top of that, another big mound of hash browns
– On top of that, two fried eggs with runny yolk (because why not)
– On top of that, country gravy all over the whole thing
– On top of that, more cheese
They call it “The Grump”, and it’s $16.35 for all the calories you need in a week. I’d show pictures, but frankly it tastes a lot better than it looks.
I washed this down with two giant margaritas (golden tequila with mezcal, triple sec, fresh lime juice mixed 1:1:1, and heaps of powdered sugar), and two equally giant cups of white wine and sprite mixed 1:1.
Today my body is asking “why?”
A coworker emailed this to everyone in our department:
Re: blueberries and the native European “blueberries” or properly bilberries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry
From what I’ve heard, Finnish wild berry industry insists on calling bilberries by their proper English name, to distinguish their brand from blueberries. They have an even higher anthocyanin content than blueberries, which is a potential edge on the global superfood hype market.
Proper blueberries originate in North America. Apparently, most European languages call them by whatever name was already in use for bilberries (in Swedish literally blåbär or “blueberry”). This causes regular confusion, especially since bilberries are not very well known to most English speakers.
(Sorry, this is my field of professional pedantry!)
@Arctic Ape
I’ve never ever heard of this distinction before. My mind is blown.
Bilberries > Blueberries (the latter is often called “pensasmustikka”, “bush bilberry” in Finland).
So much more flavorful! Imagine ten blueberries packed in a single bilberry, that’s roughly the difference.
How do elderberries compare to bilberies? I’ve had the former, but not the latter.
Bilberries are certainly more flavorful, if also smaller and less sweet than blueberries. I haven’t tried elderberries, almost nobody has where I live.
To further complicate the nomenclature, Finnish (as well as Swedish) has fully distinct names for the two locally native bilberry species, common bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) and bog bilberry (V. uliginosum).
Lingonberry (V. vitis-idaea) is also called red bilberry in English, although it looks and tastes almost more like cranberries (V. macrocarpon in America and V. oxycoccos in Europe). The popular trade name “lingon” in originally Swedish.
Soooo I actually tried to help a MGTOW the other day. I’ve been watching some life coaching videos by one particular coach I like. He focuses a lot on people who’ve been abused by narcissists. He goes on to explain that if you are convinced the world is shit, it will be shit because you’ll go out of the way to confirm your biases. He then goes on to explain how it’s really hard to get OUT of the shit tunnel, but you CAN with a few tips he has (one being, “When you’re thinking the world is shit, ask yourself, ‘What about the kittens? Are there no kittens? Do they not have pink noses?’ and you’ll remember that there is something good in the world.” :D).
This MGTOW goes on and starts whining, “But why bother? If you get out of the tunnel but you get into a world where women are still so entitled and spoiled and gold digging and get rewarded for their bad behavior, what’s the point? You might as well stay in the shit tunnel!”
He went on for ages in typical MRA fashion. Now….I figured since we’re all watching these videos for help since we’ve all been abused in some way, that we’re all looking to GET OUT OF our poop tunnels, we could all be allies. I know, I know, stupid of me, but I wanted to at least try to help. I told him maybe a way he could get out of that shit tunnel is to think of a good woman he knows that isn’t a spoiled, self entitled, golddigging jerk. Surely he must know at least one. I told him if he doesn’t, he could talk to me. I told him I would honestly listen to his complaints and would help him out of them if I could. I told him I would never call him names or try to get anything out of him.
…..so instead of taking me up on my offer, I had to hear about how that was of course impossible because I’m a woman and I’m obviously out to trick him somehow. Then I had to read another thesis about how women are terrible. I decided to try an experiment. I tried to see if I ALWAYS treated him kindly and ALWAYS refused to play into his paranoia if I could make headway. I went on to say from a place of concern some examples, “This is how you could end up if you don’t change your attitude. You obviously don’t want to end up like that or you wouldn’t be here seeking help.”
“Wow…I can’t believe you went there…” and more novels about how terrible I was.
I again told him, “No matter what you say to me, I’m not going to be unkind to you.”
So he kept being horrible, I kept being kind…..and he stayed horrible. He also recruited his friends to harass me on my Youtube account. Of course, I just blocked and deleted, and also told them all, “Sorry, you can’t make me feel bad no matter what you say to me,” which just pisses them off to no end.
Ultimately, it’s tragicomical. It’s funny they’re so convinced they are right no matter how much evidence is given to them, on the other hand it’s sad knowing someone will be a miserable flaming tithead their whole lives. A part of me really thinks these people can be rehabilitated. It can’t feel good thinking and acting the way they do….it CAN’T! I am convinced that no one wakes up in the morning and says, “Gosh, it feels good to hate women.” It must suck ass! I know because I’ve been in hate tunnels before and they weren’t easy to get out of (which I told him). It’s also clear that some of them want help but can’t/won’t reach out because that wouldn’t be very alpha so they’ll just get mocked by these folks claiming to be on their side if they do (which I also told him).
I dunno…I guess I should have known better….I’m not MAD at him or anything…I think of him as a crying toddler upset that his mommy wouldn’t let him have ice cream. I truly pity him. Is it completely stupid and naive to think maybe he WILL some day get out and be a better person? That maybe there is some hope for at least a handful of these fart goblins? Meh.
A Land Whale – you have to be commended for your patience and all round decency. But this man not only refused your kindness, he actually enlisted others to make you feel bad!
Now that is a fucked up and nasty thing to do, and also shows that he DOES have a support system, however toxic that may be (and clearly is very). It is not up to women to ‘prove’ to this nasty piece of work that we are not the way he is depicting us. Really that is the old ‘better be nice in case he turns nasty’ thing that all girls and women learn from a very early age.
I really think he has created his situation and he can wallow in it. It will almost certainly lead to poorer physical health and an earlier death than if he had made different choices.
A Land Whale – good on you for fighting the good fight. Reminds me of Robert Anton Wilson’s idea of ‘reality tunnels’ – your view of reality is necessarily constrained, but you can make your tunnel bigger to let in more reality.
Or, as you saw, you can smear your tunnel with poop and then complain that you’re in a tunnel of shit and it’s NOT YOUR FAULT. It’s tragic to give other people the responsibility for making you happy.
A Land Whale: All the kudos to you for trying, all the boos to him for not only refusing, but doubling down in his own misery. And yes, “tragicomic” is really the operative term for most of these guys.
I like lingonberries. I don’t think most Americans who aren’t Minnesotan and/or of Scandinavian descent know they exist though.
Well done, A Land Whale. That sort of thing is draining but can help people greatly too. It speaks immensely well of you as a person.
Thanks for the kind words, folks. I know it’s possible:
https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/confessions-of-a-former-misogynist/
Additionally, I don’t care for lingonberries only because they sound too closely related to dingle berries. XD