I thought it was a bloat. But that's hippos.
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I dunno, I'll go with DJ Khaled here. This what he says about whether we have enough Laurens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVDQ_UVpnE
Melatonin, anyone tried it?
I didn't realize the Beer thread monitored LTE for inspiration. The plot is thicker and foamier than I understood it to be.
No dreams and wide awake at 3:30 AM.
off to (Calvin) Coolidge State Park for a hike and distanced outdoor lunch with friends...all hail Silent Cal!
Apparently, we need to be careful about our candy habit:
Man Dies From Eating Too Much Black Licorice, What Is Glycyrrhizic Acid?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele.../#1f26f9d349b9
I am not 100% opposed to black licorice and will (very) occasionally eat some. I suspect I am not in danger of an overdose.
I have no desire to eat black licorice. BiL Alan loves it, however. Maybe I need to warn him.
ETA - I don't think I have ever seen him eat even one package in a single day so I think he will be ok.
Marzipan - candy or not candy - discuss.
Candy?
Candy! High brow, but candy nonetheless.
According to Merriam-Webster it is "a confection of crushed almonds or almond paste, sugar, and egg whites that is often shaped into various forms". So the question becomes "Is a confection a candy?". :D
Is a confection a candy? Good question.
Is cotton candy a candy?
Also a candy? According to my dear mother, yes. As a wee youngster, I gave up candy for Lent one year. To my chagrin, I was denied marshmallows - ergo they are candy.
Couldn't have marzipan either. :D
Is this a safe space to confess I'm not entirely sure what marzipan is? I was aware of the term. Aware that it was dessert/sweet/candy related. It's ok if you vote me out of here. I can slink back to beer.
I didn't know what marzipan was until a fellow engineer brought some in to work one day in the mid-90s. In my youth, I lived in (West) Germany for 3 years and had visited just about every free country in Europe at the time and don't ever recall having had it. I was always under impressed by European desserts.
Best bread I ever ate was in Switzerland. Discovered that a local grocery store bakes a bread that is very close to it.
Also loved getting hot fudge sundaes there - bowl of ice cream with a rim of whipped cream and a gravy boat of hot fudge. :D
Coffee this morning? Or should I try housing a few bags of fun dip flavored sugar?
Was fun dip really just dipping a stick of sugar into a bag of sugar? Who let me eat that garbage?!?!
I have chronic insomnia (thanks, dad). I fall asleep just fine, but almost always wake up during the night for a few hours (like now- gong on 3 hours awake :mad:). Anyway, on the advice of many, I tried melatonin. Nothing. Tried it again. And again. And again. Still nothing. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch. :confused: :(
Hey sue71! Hello! How ya been? Nice to "see" you.
if we lose our football game to UVA tomorrow, I hear we could be signing a lucrative deal with Milk Duds.
Mine appears to be worry/stress related. I went a month or so sleeping through the night or at most waking up, looking at the clock, and going right back to sleep. During that time I was also very disciplined to not pick up a screen and activate the brain. I've regressed the last few days. I did try the melatonin again last night and now understand about the vivid dreams component that others have mentioned.
Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, and Pilsbury all say to not eat raw batter. Should I listen?
"candy corn" is neither candy, nor corn. Discuss.
New York Magazine published an article on marzipan in February. They call it a candy. There are some good pictures of a variety of marzipan styles to accompany the article.
https://nymag.com/strategist/article...ndy-trend.html
I tend to buy one small box of fruit shaped marzipan at Christmas time. I don't eat a lot of it, but Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without at least a couple of pieces of marzipan shaped like an orange or a strawberry.
From the googles.
Candy corn isn't just sugar. It's actually made up of several ingredients, including sugar, corn syrup, confectioner's glaze, salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, yellow 6, yellow 5, and red 3. It also contains gelatin, a protein made from animal parts like hides and bones.
EWWWWwwwwwie!
good question, maybe others were simply overindulgences.
I have thought about The Olde Candy Days...lots of loose candy in bags, and how 'bout them big waxed lips and other gross formats? The somewhat pointless Colored Dots on a Strip of Paper (odd sugar delivery system). No wrappers at all. Pick your nose then pick your candy! Builds a nice immune system.
One of the local theaters has a yearly short play festival that I participate in. (Side note: probably won't happen this coming year.) It has become a tradition to bring something that falls into the "I dare you to eat that" category. We've had pumpkin pie soda and birthday cake Oreos, among other choices. The guy who produces the festival is unflappable. He'll try anything and usually says whatever is on offer is either "Good" or "OK". We finally cracked him though a couple of years ago with . . .
peanut butter candy corn.
I brought the peanut butter candy corn to the event and it has become the standard for "I dare you to eat that" disgusting.
Man, this is one of those days.
Was thinking of bagging my camping trip tomorrow but now I need it desperately.
Knocking back a Yee Haw Oktoberfest waiting for a table at a cool restaurant in Chattanooga. Very tasty, classic Oktoberfest. Wrong thread. But this is like candy!
Just the thought of candy corn or circus peanuts gives me full body shivers. Also those nasty little colored sugared Easter eggs we used to find stuck (literally) in the plastic grass in our baskets.
I like to impale a piece of candy corn on each of my incisors and pretend that I'm a candy vampire!
Ok, maybe I stopped doing that when I was 9.
Or maybe I didn't. I don't eat enough candy corn to get sick, but I usually buy a bag of it come October.
I haven't had a typo on this thread in the last couple of days. What happened to my Butterfinger(s)?
Just off the Parkway. My buddy works for the Forest Service, so he knows off the beaten path places. I'll say it's near Skinny Dip Falls (not as fun as it sounds).
Decided to delay a day so I can get my Real World stuff arranged first. Should still be close to perfect.
Nothing beats time in the woods with a friend from college.
Nice rainy morning in SEPA. Brush of red and orange starting on many trees.
Serenity now!
I wish I still had a friend at US Cellular...
Sitting waiting for curbside...
Curbside? Curbside what? Your time stamp is rather early for a dinner delivery. ;)
I'm doing a virtual 5k today, except I'm walking it Arrow is coming too. And we're meeting up with our team to do a socially distanced walk together. It's for the Samaritans. This one and the Boston 10k for Women are the only two events that I do every year, although this is only year 3 for the Samaritans walk.
Yes, I'm already signed up to do the virtual Boston 10k for Women. I can do it any time between 10/7 and 10/12 this year, although it is traditionally run on the October Monday holiday, starts and finishes on Boston Common.
Heading to Iowa for the day.
I'll just go with Canadian Thanksgiving.
Starting to look a lot like I expect the Vandy game to go.
Wow, lots of negativity around on a Saturday night. Bummer.
DIY YouTube videos inevitably honk me off. Oh, look at this clean, easy home repair you can do yourself in 8 minutes. How wonderful it is to be king of your castle and do your own electrical and duct work. Meanwhile, 2 trips to Lowes, 4 up and downs into the attic crawl space, and a sore back later and my new bathroom vent fan is still not done!
And when I went to Lowes Christmas decorations were up and for sale! What the heck happened to Halloween and Thanksgiving? I've waited all year to dress my baby up as a meatball for Halloween dagnabbit!
Vandy looked better than expected...
You're funny! Oh that makes me laugh as I am sitting in the kitchen watching husband-of-weezie make repeated trips up and down from attic to breaker box in basement. He's got a long list today but electric fixture replacement is first.
What fun!
And ps maybe you will post a picture of meatball baby? That's an excellent costume idea!
Pork chops and apple sauce...
95F today, 75F tomorrow.
I'm beginning to think my 31 year old toaster is about to give up the ghost.
Our stove is pushing 60 - original to our house. The refrigerator is 30+ years old; it came with the house in the late 90s. We replaced the 55 yo (original) furnace only when we doubled the size of the house, despite the doom-and-gloom prognosticating from the annual maintenance guy. "We'll put in a high efficiency one. You'll get your money back in 10 years with the savings." "How long will the new one last?" "About 10 years..."
We've been through 3 dishwashers (the original and 2 since) in 20 years.
They don't build them like they used to, chaining us to a replacement treadmill. And I'm guessing that efficiency doesn't quite make up for the energy all the extra manufacturing needs. It certainly didn't when we looked into going geothermal.
-jk
yes, I feel like a codger for agreeing, but I do. Had to toss the original (working) stove at age 25 to remodel the kitchen, but that thing was better than the new, fancier one. My trusted juicer is 40; Cars may be getting more durable these days (not in all cases) but appliances not so much, by my experience.
I felt guilty getting rid of my 9 year old lawn mower last year. I did replace it with a battery powered lawn mower that had a subsidy from the local utility. No more "the gas can is empty" Saturday morning trips any more.
Is all this appliance talk coded 'kids these days' griping? Like, kids these days may be prettier than we were but they're less practical, don't work as well as hard or as long, break down every few years and can only be helped by specialty professionals?
My dishwasher is broken but I can't replace it. It's about 15 years old now. My washing machine keeps breaking and my husband keeps fixing it telling me I can't get a new one because a new one won't last as long as this one has (came with the house, wasn't new then so we figure it's at least 25 years old now, maybe 30.) The dryer is the same. I've told the hubby that I no longer care that a new one won't last as long, we won't be in this house long enough to see it break.
I live in a house full of broken s__t and it keeps getting worse.
But given what is going on with new appliances during the pandemic, I figure I'll have to put up with all the broken s__t for at least another year.
Wnd poof, just like that, a bad vacuum cleaner. Specifically, the roller brush powers on it kicks out the circuit breaker. Motor is rated for 11 amps, circuit breaker is 20 amps. Nothing else on for the circuit it is kicking. Hmmm...
Interesting list of songs from The Boss:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bruce-s...ing-stone/amp/
Bruce Springsteen’s Favourite Songs:
- ‘Hound Dog’ – Elvis Presley
- ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ – The Beatles
- ‘It’s All Over Now’ – The Rolling Stones
- ‘Madame George’ – Van Morrison
- ‘What’s Going On’ – Marvin Gaye
- ‘Out Of Sight’ – James Brown
- ‘Baby I Need Your Loving’ – Four Tops
- ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ – Bob Dylan
Our vacuum cleaner recently crapped out after only 11 years. It really irritated my wife because she never got a chance to use it.
I trie to get a trade-in for a newer model, but no one wanted her.
I've got a few cars nearly that old. (51 years)
Ba-de-bump-bump cymbal crash. Groan...
Seeing as how I'm certifiable, I have two Electrolux models that are 39 and 35 years old. Going strong albeit with a few trips to store for preventative maintenance. It's because I'm crazy.
Now let's talk assorted shop vacs! We once drove through Ohio and saw the sign for the Vacuum Cleaner Museum. I still regret not taking that detour.
I have a pair of Duke mesh shorts that I got my freshman year. Probably at The Duck Shop on Ninth, though I think they were still going by their other name at the time. That makes them 31 years old. And they still fit, albeit they are short on thigh length. I'm still trying to figure out if I can work them in to a conversation, "Well, I've got shorts older than you."
Toaster worked fine on the pop tarts this morning.
Weezie - I still love you but I'm pretty ticked at your Lions right now. What were they thinking - actually winning a game? Knocked me out of Survival Football, darn them.
Other than that, I'm happy for you.
I have the greatest pair of gym shorts ever, a knit pair from the University Store bought no later than 1988. I would still be wearing them regularly except the elastic dry-rotted, and I have not yet figured out how to replace it. I WILL do it, though. BEST shorts ever!
I don't blame you in the slightest. And we Detroiters have decades of being ticked at the Lion. Over on the NFL thread I complained that all they ever do is get one unlikely win and guarantee a lesser draft pick.
I'd much rather you still be kicking it in the Survivor contest.
Holy heck, the stink bugs are epic this year. Add the Spotted Lantern Flies and the yellow jackets getting drunk on my dogwood berries into the mix and there's just little bugs flying/hopping around everywhere right now.
No stink bugs here. But if you want pollen, we've got that...
Yellow jackets are one of many critters that go after my kousa dogwood berries...
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Probiotics? Yay or nay?
Peeps - candy or not candy?
Seasonal confection...
flu shot, geezer edition, in the arm
Peeps — food or art supply?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...7_gallery.html
-jk
Too many apps...
steady rain means finally cleaning the shower and vacuuming the house. First, some corned beef hash (crispy) with farm fresh eggs.
May need to stick to the EK board only.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
SomPk and I have been binge-watching Archer. Not a family cartoon though.
There are now two storms crusing west, south of Cuba. That = Gulf of Mexico which = good chance of Texas landfall.
I have bought DVD sets of some of my favorite cartoons. Hong Kong Phooey, Clue Club, Josie and the P-cats, Speed Buggy, Groovy Ghoulies. And of course the standards Looney Tunes and Scooby. Would LOVE to find Bailey's Comets. DVD doesn't exist, yet. I was REALLY small when it came on, but I remember it.
WOW! I cannot believe I was a wanker for watching a cartoon! Had to edit
The Boomerang channel was really good when it first started. Then it started showing almost all newer stuff, and they just aren't that good. They would show Peter Potamus, Secret Squirrel, and Top Cat. Old stuff from before my time, but I knew them b/c of my older brother. And I loved it when they would do a Laff O Lympics Marathon during the real Olympics.
Personal favorite: Underdog
I'd like to watch Wacky Races...
Shaking my head again.
There really is no outside limit to "beyond the pale" behavior on some threads here. Lots of folks actually were raised in barns I guess.
I thought Wacky Races was non-controversial...my apologies.
Whew.
Bold admission.
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What’s going on here?