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12:00 AM
I always think "What the hell do you want us to say? Sure, eat it! Feed it to your kids!" That I'd usually eat it is usually beside the point.
 
Let Josie try it. Josie eats anything!
Hey Josie!
 
@Jolenealaska Is it? I'd probably eat it too.
I got some food from my friend-neighbour, she told me to get it from her fridge because she will be away for a while.
 
@Cerberus You are a coprophagic scavenger. I am not sure you are a good standard by which to compare.
 
I'm the stack canary.
 
@SAJ14SAJ I am a good standard and what most people here would do.
@Jolenealaska If you die, it's not safe?
Do you ever die? I don't.
 
12:03 AM
that's it!
 
@Cerberus Except for the, you know, eating #%#% thing.
 
What?
 
Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces. The word is derived from the Greek κόπρος copros, "feces" and φαγεῖν phagein, "to eat". Many animal species eat feces as a normal behavior; other species may not normally consume feces but do so under unusual conditions. Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces eating including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics),of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or its own (autocoprophagy), those once deposited or taken directly from the anus. In animals Invertebrates Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of lar...
 
I know Greek.
Oh, well, you're not an expert, you don't have the experience that we do.
 
To the best of my knowledge I've never even had the slightest touch of food poisoning. I'll eat leftovers that have been out overnight. I don't give it a thought. I defrost stuff on the counter, I often eat meat very, very rare, I ate street food in Seoul. I'm just a rebel.
 
12:07 AM
Just because the dog hasn't bit you yet doesn't mean it won't. With its nasty coprophagic mouth.
 
The one thing I'm really careful with is raw poultry. I don't know why, but poultry is in a special category for me.
 
@Jolenealaska Same here. The only times I got food poisoning—which are a handful in a lifetime—were probably causes by restaurant or supermarket-prepared food, never because of my own hygiene. You just have to smell and taste it, most of the time. There are exceptions.
@SAJ14SAJ I would never bite Jo-Jo, except out of love.
 
Yeah I'm also careful with raw fowl.
Raw pork I never eat.
 
The thought of triple hickies is creeping me out.
 
12:14 AM
Except in this one supermarket microwave hamburger that I got sick from. But it was several days past its expiration date...
@SAJ14SAJ Scarf.
 
I don't eat raw pork, but I will eat it rarer than recommended. Not chicken though. Probably mostly because I don't care for it underdone.
 
Actually, I think the pork in that hamburger was pre-cooked.
 
user58869
@SAJ14SAJ why did you post this?
 
@Cerberus There should be no pork in a hamburger.
 
Oh, I want my chicken just right. I don't like it when it gets dry or tough.
@SAJ14SAJ I wouldn't be so sure, it's supermarket food.
 
12:15 AM
@Alex It makes perfect sense in context, if you know that Cerberus is a three headed dog.
@Cerberus I suspect that it couldn't be labelled a hamburger here if that was the case.
 
@Alex Never mind the cat, he's just crazy.
 
I like dark meat falling off the bone, and white meat just done.
 
@SAJ14SAJ Hey, it's not a European protected name, so all bets are off!
I have carrot soup. But I've eaten too much carrot soup this month already.
 
user58869
@SAJ14SAJ it's just that i have a phobia of insects and seeing that close up of it's face frightens me, also the stuff it's standing on... it makes me feel quite odd, i hope that it was nothing to do with preparing certain types of meal
 
It wasn't.
 
user58869
12:17 AM
that's lovely
 
Is it?
 
user58869
yes, because the idea of eating that stuff is quite unpleasant to me, i just opened up the page and the first thing i saw was that fly with the words "frying pan" next to it and the explanation from wikipedia
 
@Alex This is a high risk chatroom.
 
user58869
i'm actually shaking slightly
 
user58869
insects do that to me
 
12:20 AM
Heh.
 
user58869
and the texture of the feces in the image was quite startling
 
Only the kitty likes that stuff.
 
I think we have a couple of questions on the main site about eating insects.
 
user58869
it's not often that i see such images
 
user58869
i was thinking the other day about what it would be like to eat insects
 
12:21 AM
@Alex Perhaps if you stop talking about it, your mind will move on.
 
My brother ate various insects in exotic countries, and said they were all bland and boring.
Which confirmed my suspicions hehe.
 
user58869
i ate a chocolate covered scorpion a few years ago
 
user58869
but that's not the same thing
 
user58869
i dont think it is anyway
 
Haha wow.
Sure it is the same thing?
A scorpion is an insect, is it not?
 
user58869
12:27 AM
@Cerberus i guess so, but for some reason i'm not scared of them, never have been
 
You're insane!
 
user58869
ha ha
 
Scorpions are my most-feared insect. Always have been.
 
user58869
i must admit if i'm probably not scared of them because i've never seen one, i imagine that if i did i would move away
 
But you have eaten one!
I've only seen tiny ones.
 
12:49 AM
@SAJ14SAJ By the way, I'm not eating crazy nuts.
Or, more correctly, crazy's nuts.
 
@Cerberus I have no idea what you are talking about here
 
1:16 AM
@SAJ14SAJ Oops I meant now, not not.
You know, crazy date. He offered me some nuts from his father's garden.
 
 
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2:29 AM
The new answer from the new guy on the noodle soup question. I don't really remember it, but what was so bad about the first answer that it was deleted? The second had to go, but why the first?
Nevermind...it's still there.
 
 
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4:31 AM
@Cerberus i infer you are still seeing him. I hope this does not end badly for you.
 
@SAJ14SAJ Not yet at any rate!
We had a second "date".
 
@Cerberus How did that go?
 
That is, I was running, and my normal route goes by his house, more or less.
So I told him I'd be beneath his window so he could wave.
 
@Cerberus I am not sure that counts as a date.
 
So he did, then offered me a drink.
Haha.
So we had drinks (no alcohol), and instead of half an hour, I stayed for six hours.
 
4:39 AM
Oh Cerby, you are hooked.
 
Haha not yet.
 
Six hours?
 
Yeah we kept talking and talking.
We have this great click for some reason.
Nothing...untoward happened.
 
I don't think untoward is the issue, so much as six hours of talking.
 
Haha.
I know you do.
The thing is, he's completely normal when you're talking to him.
 
4:41 AM
I am sure.
 
Yesterday he was going to eat out at some restaurant for his brother's birthday. He was already worrying about that when we met.
 
Sibling holiday participation? You are passed hooked.
 
Huh?
The non-date was two days ago.
 
Ah, I thought you went with them.
 
Oh, no!
Now that would be crazy.
 
4:45 AM
I am glad there is some evidence of non-craziness.
 
I was just saying he even has trouble attending a dinner party with his brother.
 
I don't know what to say to that.
 
Anticipatory anxiety and such.
Even though he admitted such occasions were usually fine once he was there.
 
She is sitting with me.
I figured you needed your vicarious feline fix.
Does CB like cats?
 
Haha yay.
CB? Crazy Boy?
I'm not sure. He said something about dogs that I tried to ignore.
 
4:52 AM
@Cerberus He doesn't like dogs?
 
No he likes dogs, or something. I don't really like dogs.
 
@Cerberus There is some irony there?
 
That is, some dogs are quite OK and friendly, but I should rather not have one myself or be around one all the time.
@SAJ14SAJ Yes.
How much does your Maine Coon weigh?
 
About 16 lbs.
 
Ah OK.
 
4:54 AM
I think I calcluated that is 7.2 of those kilograms you all use.
 
That's heavy for a cat, I suppose, but not for a Coon.
Yes, something like that.
 
Her father supposedly weighted 25.
I saw a picture of him, he is one of the prettiest cats I have ever seen.
The boys are bigger.
She is a pretty good size for a girl.
She has giant paws.
 
Ah, of course tomcats (is that word even still in use?) weigh more than pussies (same).
 
Yeah those are large.
 
4:56 AM
Yes, toms is still a word.
 
Partly because of all the fluffy hair.
 
She has fur on her paws, but they are still big.
When she was a kitten, and her paws were relatively giant, she looked really funny.
 
Yeah some cats have bigger paws than others.
 
She likes to pet me. I think that is what she is doing, anyway. OR just put her paw on me. She doesn't realize that she has claws in them.
 
Ah, yes, some cats are clever enough to hold back their claws when they're "pumping" or "milking" your knee, but others sadly are not.
 
4:58 AM
She doesn't put them out, but they are in there and very sharp.
 
It's part of being a cat owner servant.
 
Sure.
Stepping on a wet hairball in the middle of the night is a tougher adjustment.
 
So how did CB earn his Seasoned Advice nickname?
 
Hmm never had that.
Merely bloody squirrels, rabbits, birds, moles...
And various kinds of vomit.
 
@Cerberus I don't think I am following you.
 
5:04 AM
@Jolenealaska Ask the cat!
@SAJ14SAJ Things we stepped into at my parents', thanks to the cats.
 
Ok...@SAJ14SAJ, how did CB earn the nickname?
 
He is in fact crazy.
If I hadn't told you that.
 
That would be the reason, Josie.
 
(The cats also liked to hide things like gnawed-at mouse tails in the Lego box.)
 
I've picked up that he's a bit socially different but that's it.
 
5:06 AM
Well, he suffers from certain rather serious anxieties.
 
Ahhh
 
So he in on an hiatus from his studies.
 
but one on one he seems ok with you?
 
And he is going to go to some clinic for treatment five days a week and stay the nights there, starting two months from now.
@Jolenealaska Yes, perfectly normal.
Most of it is anticipatory anxieties, I gather.
The problem is arranging a date, that's apparently very hard for him; but, once I get there, he seems fine.
 
Hmmm...2 months out? I've never known anyone to do that. Usually that's the kind of thing that starts today.
 
5:09 AM
Well, there is no specific urgency, apparently.
He was doing cognitive-behavioral therapy.
But the therapy was hard on him, confronting himself with his anxieties and such.
 
You seem to hook up by running by. If that works...alrighty then.
 
So he kept skipping sessions. So that didn't work.
So being committed to this clinic 5 days a week may work better.
@Jolenealaska Yeah it's weird. The first date was in a bar, though.
He did need to pop some pills to get there.
 
ah yes. Appointments like that don't work if you don't go.
 
Yeah.
 
what kind of pills?
 
5:11 AM
Tranquillisers.
 
That's not great.
 
Yeah.
Like he says, he's crazy.
 
Same age as you?
 
But he didn't take any pill for our last meeting.
No, he's pretty young, 24.
 
Well that's good.
I remember you saying that now.
 
5:13 AM
Yes. It is very well possible that he had already taken a tranquilliser earlier that day, though.
Ah OK.
But the weirdest thing is that he appears completely normal, socially and in any other respect.
 
That's a bit of a stretch but well within the not creepy range.
 
What's a stretch?
 
16 to 23 is creepy. 45 to 52 not in the slightest bit.
 
Oh haha.
Yes, I prefer my own age. But my parents also have 7 years between them...
My father even babysat my mother when she was 9 or so.
They grew up in the same neighbourhood.
Then later met again at university.
What the largest age difference you have ever dated at, and how old were you?
 
I've always preferred older men. Unfortunately that was also my preference while in my teens.
 
5:17 AM
Heh.
How old?
 
@Jolenealaska you have reached the outskirts of creepytown there :-)
 
Aww nah.
Okay, maybe. But who cares, if both of you enjoy it...
 
lets see...16 to 25 back then...46 to hmm, a healthy 60 now.
 
Ah OK.
16 to 25 is a bit creepy, but still legal, at least in most places.
 
just barely 16 and just barely legal.
 
5:19 AM
 
@Jolenealaska Did you enjoy your time with 25yo?
@SAJ14SAJ Gorgeous. But too young for us.
 
Enjoyed? I dunno. I learned a lot!
 
Haha.
 
@Cerberus Not here.
 
"I dunno" doesn't sound good?
@SAJ14SAJ Oh it's legal here.
 
5:21 AM
Eh, I guess I look back on it fondly.
 
@Cerberus Amsterdam is a notorious den of iniquity.
 
OH OK, that's good.
@SAJ14SAJ Iniquity? Hey, if they both enjoyed themselves...
 
I honestly don't know if it was legal in the jurisdiction at the time. It was in Arizona.
 
And it's legal wherever Jolene lived too.
Oh OK.
 
@Cerberus Jolene is misinformed. 16 is statutory rape almost any where.
 
5:22 AM
Meh.
There is a danger that the older partner will dominate and manipulate the younger one in a bad way, of course, but this probably won't happen most of the time.
 
I don't think so. 16 is legal in at least a few states...hold on, I'll look it up.
 
But I sure wouldn't tell anybody if I were 16, least of all my parents...
Then again, I probably wouldn't have done that at all.
And I would try to get a friend to break it off if he were the 25yo.
 
And alleged legality would not reduce the creepiness factor at all.
 
Mebbeh.
But both parties may still enjoy it even if it seems creepy to the outside world.
 
5:25 AM
That isn't the point. If you accept that the law has any purpose, it is because the 16 year old presumably doesn't have the judgement to make that decision.
 
@SAJ14SAJ Some 16yos probably don't, sure.
 
Lots of states are 16, including Maryland. Not Arizona.
Wow, California is 18.
Latin America...lot of 12!
 
16 seems to be most prevalent around the world...
 
5:28 AM
Now that's creepy.
 
@Jolenealaska Only Mexico.
 
Yep, Mexico.
 
I wonder why.
I also wonder about 20 in Tunisia.
 
Tonight has to be the all time nadir of creepiness in this chatroom.
MAybe we should talk about the Horned Brioche some more.
Did you eat it all?
Did creepy neightbor get any afterall?
 
Who?
 
5:30 AM
Does he know you stole his syrup?
 
Nope, I was good and put half in the freezer.
 
You wouldn't believe the things we have Googled at work. Those children want to know stuff about all kinds of topics, like the age of consent, drugs, terrorism...
 
Yes, he knows. He also knows better than to bitch about it.
 
Good.
 
Syrup-napper!
 
5:31 AM
He's rude and crotchety. Not particularly creepy.
 
Better. I think.
 
18 in South Korea, 15 in North Korea
 
Please stop.
 
ok ok
I got sucked into a YouTube vortex a while ago. It's a good thing I had this window open. I'd still be watching wierd-ass stuff if I hadn't seen that conversation was happening here,
 
I am almost certain I don't want to know.
 
5:39 AM
Probably not. I did watch a funny cat compilation. Those are always good for a giggle.
 
Real cats are better.
You can make a captain picard brioche
 
Bald, without horns?
 
IT would be a borg picard. The horns would be the cyborg stuff.
 
I just tried to do some reviewing. I can't go on. Especially close-votes. Not my bailiwick.
 
I have given up reviewing. I vote to close things that I run across naturally, but I don't do the queues any more.
 
5:53 AM
I looked earlier at savory brioche things. One looked pretty interesting, but whoa what a lot of work.
 
That does seem a little like overkill.
 
They look good, but I'm just not feeling the love.
 
I am not sure the work to flavor ratio is favorable.
 
I'm almost certain it isn't. What I haven't made in a while that suddenly sounds good is French Onion Soup.
 
That is always good.
But can you get Gruyere in Anchorage?
 
6:04 AM
Oh yeah. Cheese is pretty easy.
 
And that exotic yellow onion?
 
Even really good cheese, but we pay a bit more. Of course we pay a bit more for everything. Exotic yellow?
 
Crazy exotic onions.
You might have to settle for white.
 
Nothing crazy, just normal yellow. That almost all I ever buy except for the occasional red to pckle.
 
Pretty soon you are going to tell me you can even find potatoes up there.
 
6:09 AM
Yep :) We even grow them up here.
 
I don't mean giant man-eating potatoes, just regular ones. To mash.
 
Did you see my amazing potato picture from a couple of weeks ago? Kind of looked like something from Alien?
 
I am sure that I can go an entire lifetime without seeing oddly shaped vegetables.
 
That's a bit more than oddly shaped
 
I saw those but oddly shaped is not the adjective that comes to mind.
Desiccated, disgusting, dehydrated, dilapidated, and should be defenestrated.
But not oddly shaped.
 
6:16 AM
Haha.
 
Its 2:15. I really should go to bed.
Bon soir.
 
Bon jour.
 
Yes, it's time for me to go to bed too. Now that my computer has crashed once, that's generally a sign.
G'nigt guys.
 
And for me!
Good night!
@Jolenealaska What are you running btw.? What OS?
 
It's downright cozy!
 
6:24 AM
I'm on XP.
 
Win 7
 
And my computer never ever crashes.
Laptop?
I'm tower.
 
Nope. HP desktop Costco computer in a box.
 
Hmm.
Strange.
Okay, good night!
 
It's usually shockwave when I crash.
 
6:25 AM
It's funny how all three of us happen to have the same bedtime today.
Oh...Flash crashes my Firefox sometimes, but never my computer.
Bai! <poof>
 
Considering the disparity in our time zones :)
 
Indeed.
<is not here>
 
G'night. Cya soon.
 
 
2 hours later…
8:29 AM
Friday comes at last, the work week draws to a close. Roll on the weekend.
 
 
3 hours later…
11:06 AM
@ElendilTheTall Weekend imminent; count not all the syllables; who gives bloody %@%@?
 
 
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2:16 PM
chirp, chirp
 
 
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3:46 PM
ka-kaw, ka-kaw
 
catches bird in net
Which would you prefer, roasted or stuffed?
 
stuffed then roasted, naturally
 
4:08 PM
Oh, you like it both ways.
Very well.
 
4:27 PM
@Cerberus I see a problem there. I can tell from the clean salad fork you have accidentally served the entrée before the salad.
Also, it appears you have provided two butter knives. That's, umm, interesting.
 
@derobert Lindy is the entrée.
And his spine is so soft you don't need a sharp knife.
And no salad.
And entrée means the course before the main course goddammit!
stamps paws
 
@Cerberus Not in english.
 
Sure it does.
 
4:59 PM
@Cerberus well, not in Americanish, then!
 
sniffs
It just sounds so wrong. Avoid the word entirely and say starter?
 
Starter is pretentious speak for "appetizer".
 
We have talked about this...
 
Then evidently it has come around on the guitar again.
 
in English Language & Usage, Nov 14 '13 at 2:06, by Cerberus
It seems they say starter and main course in Oxford, as I would say.
in English Language & Usage, Nov 14 '13 at 2:06, by tchrist
That’s what I would say.
Dixi haha.
I always dixi.
 
5:05 PM
I have no idea what that means.
But that tchrist person is not from around here, and is not representative of the US linguistic culture.
 
You no more or less than he.
* Dixi — popular Latin expression, literally translated as "I have spoken". When used, it usually means: "I have said all that I had to say and thus the argument is settled" *Dixi, a company producing portable toilets * Dixi, a former trade name of the historically famous German automobile manufacturer Automobilwerk Eisenach * DIXI is an acronym for "Deep Impact Extended Investigation", part of the EPOXI space exploration program * Dixi is a rock band from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia that was founded after the disollution of Trilogía See also * DIXY, a Russian grocery chain * Dixie (d...
Sorry to go all Wikipedia on you...
 
5:30 PM
I'm supposed to go to the doctor this afternoon and the car is broken down. What a pain in the ass.
 
Oh no!
Public transport?
Taxi?
 
Too far to walk to take the bus, to far to taxi unless the VA will pay for it.
 
Taxi to the bus stop?
Ask a friend to take you there in exchange for a brioche or confection of his/her choice?
 
The VA pays for the appointment. The taxi to the bus stop could work, bit still a pain. The bus picks up too far from my apartment and drops off too far from my appointment. The broken down car actually belongs to the crotchety neighbor. We share, I pay for the insurance.
The VA is my best bet, but I don't know if they'll do it or not. It's a non-VA appointment.
 
What's the VA?
A government agency?
 
5:38 PM
Veteran's Administration.
 
Ah.
Are you a veteran?
 
I get my health care from them.
Yes. Army Vet.
 
Oh cool.
You could call them up?
 
Twas a loooong time ago.
Yeah. I'm going to try. I just hate that kind of thing, so I'm procrastinating. The appt is pretty important and shouldn't be postponed, so they'll probably pay (I think).
 
If they say no, ask for them to pay for the taxi to the bus stop and from the bus stop to the doctor's?
As a compromise that you can keep up your sleeve.
 
5:43 PM
The big issue is probably not the money, but the fact that it is a non-VA appointment. I'd have to go to the VA to pick up the vouchers, then have the taxi take me to the appointment. I've never heard of anyone doing that.
But, I do need to get there.
 
Ow...
Can't you arrange the voucher business later?
Or ask the VA to mail the vouchers to the doctor? Or scan them?
 
No, the taxi will want the voucher at the time of the ride.
They could perhaps email them to me, but again, I've never heard of anyone doing that. The vouchers are always originals.
 
Ugh.
And can't the VA reimburse your taxi drive later?
 
I have no way to pay now. It's getting towards the end of the month. I can't pay attention.
 
I'd call them, explain the situation, and ask how "we" can solve the problem, "we" being you and they.
@Jolenealaska Ah OK.
 
5:49 PM
Yes. I'll call after another cup of coffee.
 
Good.
 
I think you're good at staying friendly on the phone, right?
 
Oh yes.
Even if I wasn't, the VA is used to that too. It's the kind of thing though that they'll either do or not. The person I talk to will probably have no discretion in the matter.
So far no answers to my brioche WTF question. Not a lot of views either, so I can still hope.
 
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