was it insured?
I almost posted the exact thing. Lol
I’m a single woman living on her own and I’ve got two colanders. I didn’t have to tell anyone before I bought them. I had no idea what this all meant for my social standing!
Is “colander” this week’s “shift key”?
This explains it all!
Yes, you did.
"Unless you’re into the peace-corps granola-crunching type, I wouldn’t say “Africa”. Obviously, YMMV. When I hear “Africa”, I hear “Nigeria, Zimbabwe, AIDS”. I do not instantly think of South Africa or Egypt, which are two countries I look forward to visiting. "
Um. Ew. I don’t want to go to Africa, land of AIDS, pestilence, and disaster! I want to go to Africa, land of sexy Liz Taylor-esque eyeliner and cute orphaned baby elephants.
Hey - I didn’t say that, LindsayBluth did. Hopefully, you knew that, Freudian Slit.
Oh, I know. Sorry, I just quoted it as you since you were requoting Lindsay’s quote–I was too lazy to go back and find the original actual quote…
No problemo. I was lazy first. 
I think maybe it’s the girl who’s never had to provide anything for herself discovering during her (paid for) experience in college that “libertarianism” and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps really is the right way for everyone to live.
Nice - insulting the person who questions why she’s so mean.
I keep hearing Nellie Olsen’s voice with this.
Ooh, can I have it? My Bowl project is still in the prototype stage.
Dammit. I’m always late to the throw-down. When lindsay was all “Do you know anyone who’s been to Africa?” to you with the face, I was like Tootie from the Facts of Life. “Oooooooooooh! She’s in trou-ble!”
Not only has you with the face been all up and THROUGH Africa, but she once saved a little girl’s life there. The girl had contracted rabies and her family could not afford to give her the life-saving vaccinations that we all take for granted here. At the hospital, the family was mourning and wailing all around the little girl, who was still quite active and alive, because they knew she was as good as dead and that there was nothing they could do. And she would have died if you with the face hadn’t felt so awful and did what none of the other jaded health workers would do: pay for the vaccinations out of her own pocket. Yes, I’m bragging about my sis. I love her so much that I don’t care how bad that makes me look. Someone needs to know what she did, dammit. Someone needs to know how “interesting” she is.
(Oh yeah, she was also the lead CDC investigator in this Too-Crazy-To-Be-True-But-It-Unfortunately-Is Story. But that’s small potatoes compared to what she did in Africa.)
Saving lives of people who don’t share your culture or your language…that’s the kind of stuff that people like to hear about. lindsay, you may be too young to be able to make a mark like that in this world, but there’s time for you yet. I would try to hang out with more even svens, China Guys, and you with the face’s, and drop the “girls” you know who recoil in horror about Things They Know Not. Find people who are really interesting, who are REALLY worth talking about.
When I bought my luxury-class stainless steel collander from Krogers a few years ago, the adolescent cashier* who rang me up asked me what it was for. “Straining spaghetti,” I said, beaming with pride.
On that day, I knew I had finally arrived.
*yeah, she seriously didn’t know what it was. I thought collanders were a ubiquitous household item, but apparently they aren’t.
Now that is freaking interesting and awesome.
What a prole!
monstro, why you outing me on the interwebs like that?!!! I love you too, but damn girl!
And colander is spelled with just one “l”. Now everyone is gonna think of our family as being nouveau rich because you can’t spell things right.
Hang on just a second. Is that what a fecking Colander is? A bowl for straining spaghetti and rice and stuff?
Because we have a couple of those things downstairs right now, I just thought they were called strainers or something.
Bloody Colanders! I read this whole thread and never realised just how priviliged I really was.
Is it pronounced “co-LANDER” or “COL-ander”? Because I’ve been saying it the first way ever since I got this thing.
:crossing fingers, hoping I’m not embarrassing the family out in public: