Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

The vikings also were white dudes from Western Europe, but they didn’t go and tell the rest of Europe “hey, look what we found”. The difference was not in being a “white dude from Western Europe” but in telling people back home.

As for the natives, they weren’t documenting that America was there, they were living in it. They weren’t telling anybody.

Seriously, Shot, I know you’re just being an ass for being-an-assness’ sake, but I’m not going to believe for a minute that you’re stupid enough to have missed The Divine Father’s point. If you want to go argue with him, I’m sure I can get the address of his grave.

I don’t care how bad the audio is! Unless it’s impossible to understand a single word, transcribe what you can! We aren’t personally punishing you by making you type it, it’s just the crappy part of the job!

I bought canned salmon for 2 reasons: 1) To make salmon patties for dinner. 2) so I could cut the tops and bottoms out of the cans and have pastry rings/forms for making english muffins.

So of course, the canned salmon I bought from Costco doesn’t have a lip around the bottom of the can, so it won’t fit in the can opener, so I can’t cut the bottom out. Dammit.

I got his point. I just think he used a completely retarded example, because Columbus’s consideration as the “discoverer” has nothing to do with documentation documentation per se, but rather by the “right” people *to *the “right” people. And you know damn well that Scandanavia really wasn’t part of western Europe at the time they were hanging out in the western hemisphere.

Seriously, when I’m being an ass, 99.999% of the time it’s not just for assness sake. It’s because it’s what I genuinely think, and I just happen to be in a place where I don’t have to put a nice face on it. Columbus was a disgusting excuse for a human being and any credit he gets is too much.

Do the cans need to do anything but cut the dough? If so, does it matter if one side is still there? Granted, you couldn’t poke the cut dough back out from the other side, but a few taps might could* loosen it.

*“Might could” isn’t a construction native to my dialect, but it’s so useful, I’m damned well adopting it and to hell with anyone who doesn’t approve.

Yeah, I recognize it now, but if I had kids, I might fall victim to this kind of stupidity. I’d be around other moms a lot and I’d start breathing in the helicopter-parent fumes. And I’d get on the email lists and get infected that way too. A lot of people think it won’t happen to them.

Damn millipedes AGAIN!

At least they aren’t on the ceiling today, but all over the damn floor. I know our office is next to a field, but seriously, so is my house, and I put chemicals on the door jamb to keep them out. Why the hell are these all getting past, when the commercial pest control guy said he would spray the fucking door jamb.

Its only going to get worse as it gets colder and the bugs come inside more.

I’m not quite as squicked out as I was last week (none available for falling on my head or in my drink) but seriously, I still get the heebie jeebies over this stuff. Its a miracle I haven’t had a bug-induced nightmare that causes me to shove the dog out of bed.

Euuuuuuughrghrlgrglgrglgrgl. Aren’t there some kind of fucking health codes for this shit? Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross.

I am not planning on using it to cut dough at all, but rather as a form for making nice round yummy english muffins on a griddle. And for that, I need it open on both sides so when I flip it, the other side can cook. I could go all nuts on it with a dremel, but frankly I have too much other shit that needs doing than to break out tools so I can save a few bucks on pastry rings.

It occurs to me you might not know WTF I am talking about, but basically you put the rings onto the griddle, and then scoop the dough into the ring, allow it to cook on one side, and then flip.

I know what you’re talking about and I think you want to spend the couple bucks on pastry rings, pain in the ass as that is (this is how we end up with drawers full of random kitchen odds and ends and an egg slicer no one will ever admit to buying, praise Annoia, rattle my drawers, amen) as the salmon cans are likely lined with epoxy resin containing BPA. And even if you don’t care about BPA, you probably don’t want melted epoxy on the edges of your english muffins.

No, as soon as you said it was for making them on the griddle, I knew exactly what you meant.

That is the exact thing Alton Brown does in his muffins show, except he uses tuna cans. Of course, I think some tuna cans are also round off on the bottom now too.

Yeah, that’s where I got the idea.

I had to go through enough hell as a child with a disease that nothing could have prevented. I cannot comprehend parents who wouldn’t do anything to prevent the diseases we can do something about. Those people aren’t parents. They’re people who somehow managed to reproduce.

And yes, the whooping cough vaccine does wear off. Ain’t that a damn shame. :smiley:

Just to check, you’re using the type of can opener that “uncrimps” and not the kind that cuts, right? Because I’d think the cutting kind would leave you with potential sharp bits that would not play well with your griddle, should it have a nonstick coating.

See? **Shot **is a nice person who looks out for others and is considerate of non-stick coatings.

:smiley:

Bah. Guns can be mean, righteous, kind, considerate, bitchy, whatever. Just so long as she gets to tell someone they’re wrong. :smiley:

Wrong.

See?

No.