How is that post any different than Beck saying she’s just got her own thoughts and feelings about some people and is entitled to express them here?
I mean, I have thoughts and feelings that I think better of expressing, so at least usually I don’t express them. But it seems an odd thing to me for someone to say who appears to be criticizing Beck for doing so.
@CairoCarol , I certainly did not mean to hijack your thread.
Thx so much for reporting me. Gah! This is getting so old.
I made one post. My opinion. It was not me who hijacked. It was others responding to my post, which was quite lame. At worst.
Exactly
…as the ghost of Idle Thoughts looms ethereally over this…
I very much doubt that was the reason for the mistake. Community cookbooks, where plagiarism is the last thing on anyone’s mind, are rife with such carelessness.
Gotcha
What?
The context of the recipe is that it was his entry in a hotdish competition among the members of Minnesota’s house delegation. He was a congressman comoeting against other congressmen. I think he can handle coming up with his own way to combine meat, cheese, condensed soup, and tater tots.
This is a strange hill to die on.
And for the record, I’m the one who flagged your post for threadshitting, not CairoCarol. There you go tossing off unfounded accusations again.
I believe you believe this. Copying from community cook books is one thing. A VP candidate who has made embellishments about his life has to be careful(or his people do).
Well, Carol said she flagged it.
Don’t worry I ain’t dying in no hill. Not about this foolishness.
I’m still confused.
Sorry. What do you need to know.
I guess we both did!
The peer pressure, the group shaming, the ‘how dare you say mean things about Beck’ aspect.
I’m not really so upset about Beck, because I ignore her, but the people rushing to her defence, as if she is above criticism does annoy me. Especially in the Pit. Go make a Beck support thread in MPSIMS if you feel she needs it.
Well, to be honest, I’m not saying I think expressing the particular thoughts about Walz was a good idea. I don’t think it was. I don’t think there’s any way to tell whether somebody likes to cook by looking at them; or by knowing that they like to do something else, at least unless it’s something genuinely antithetical to cooking, such as agitating to make everyone live on identical Human Chow.
I was, however, pointing out what seems to me to be a contradiction in the particular post. I don’t think it’s fair to criticize you for doing something while upholding somebody else’s right to do the same thing.
I’ve had those. I’m good.
Unless you wanna spread the love. 
Oh well, this is vanishingly unimportant. I should spend my time being confused about important things, not this. But anyway, if you are willing to engage, let’s start …
What false thing is it that you think I believe? And why is my pointing out that plagiarism is not a concern in community cookbooks a “gotcha”? Is it because you think I am providing evidence that Tim Walz “stole” his hot dish recipe?
Which, I admitted was a lame thing to say. Again, he’s a public figure. You, me and Uncle Joe are free to judge him by whatever criteria we deem important.
Good grief.
I think it was a big mistake to break this out into even a mild pit thread. The poster in question is incorrigible and intrusive and annoying, but pitting is pointless. Report individual posts as appropriate, is my advice, and let it go at that.
Never said any of that.
I’m saying, one more time: He did not post it. He possibly followed his Grandma’s recipe when he won a contest.
Hotdish is not particularly hard to make. I don’t know where his Granny got the recipe. Don’t care.
My judging him on his type is not anything that no one else is doing.
I’m saying, it doesn’t really matter. He’s not cooking his or anyones meals. So he was in a contest for a hot dish recipe. I suppose half of Minnesota can say that.
Around here it’s King Rance recipe. Everyone, every person I know makes it. Tastes the same, every time. Some might add more peppers. It doesn’t matter because everyone drowns it in Louisiana hot sauce.