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Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Radical and BADical! posted:

seriously. baking is so much easier when you weigh the ingredients.

It takes the "art" out of it though. I would know, I used to be a baker (we used a weird hybrid of weight and "scoops" to bake everything because it was a hybrid of family recipes over a couple generations. It was annoying).

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# ? May 12, 2024 13:20

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Volumetric measurements become problematic with coarse substances though. Like the aforementioned grated cheese. If I grate cheese with my mandolina it is finer grated than store bought, so a cup of store bought cheese will have more air in between the cheese flakes and be essentially less cheese. That's a problem with all ingredients that don't have a standardized size.

And it is totally annoying when it says "1 cup of olives, chopped". Technically this means using 1 cup of olives and then chopping them as opposed to "1 cup of chopped olives" which means chopping olives and then measuring a cup. If you get it wrong, you end up with too much or too little olive.

If it just says "100 grams of chopped olives" it doesn't matter whether you chop first or not because it will always be 100 grams of olives.

# ? May 27, 2017 20:51

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

fruit on the bottom posted:

I'm American. I have to poo poo on Celsius if I want to keep my healthcare

You got healthcare?

# ? May 27, 2017 23:10

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got any sevens posted:

You got healthcare?

Not for much longer.

# ? May 27, 2017 23:49

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Solice Kirsk posted:

It takes the "art" out of it though. I would know, I used to be a baker (we used a weird hybrid of weight and "scoops" to bake everything because it was a hybrid of family recipes over a couple generations. It was annoying).

LOL if you have to use actual measurements in cooking instead of handfuls, pinches and so on. If you have to have everything spelled out for you to the smallest measurement you might as well just microwave a hot pocket

# ? May 28, 2017 01:19

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Defiance Industries posted:

LOL if you have to use actual measurements in cooking instead of handfuls, pinches and so on. If you have to have everything spelled out for you to the smallest measurement you might as well just microwave a hot pocket

Eh, for cooking I'd agree with you, but baking is a lot different so sticking with the right proportions or the correct weights is very important. Baking is basically yummy chemistry.

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Defiance Industries posted:

LOL if you have to use actual measurements in cooking instead of handfuls, pinches and so on. If you have to have everything spelled out for you to the smallest measurement you might as well just microwave a hot pocket

Look at this carefree spirit, measuring in such lackadaisical units as pinches, dashes, and unicorn feathers.

# ? May 28, 2017 05:44

tsaofen: May 20, 2009

BEEP BOOP I AM A ROBOT WHO CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE STANDARDIZED UNIT OF MEASUREMENT!

Just use whatever you feel like and have the basic intelligence to convert between them on the fly you huge pedantic nerdlingers. Or, I don't know, use google? It does it for you without any further steps. If you don't have access to google at all times I don't know what to tell you.

In any case, just stop all of this. It's 317 stone of worthless posting.

# ? May 28, 2017 05:46

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# ? May 28, 2017 07:57

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One cummies worth of low fat milk

# ? May 28, 2017 08:01

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Fartbox posted:

One cummies worth of low fat milk

Two Fartboxes worth of ground cloves

# ? May 28, 2017 12:38

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

purple death ray posted:

Two Fartboxes worth of ground cloves

Making Hot Tooties eh?

# ? May 28, 2017 12:41

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# ? May 28, 2017 12:47

Radical and BADical!: Jun 27, 2010; by Lowtax; Fun Shoe

Solice Kirsk posted:

Eh, for cooking I'd agree with you, but baking is a lot different so sticking with the right proportions or the correct weights is very important. Baking is basically yummy chemistry.

yeah, i was gonna say that cooking is philosophy but baking is science

# ? May 28, 2017 16:38

Radical and BADical!: Jun 27, 2010; by Lowtax; Fun Shoe

tsaofen posted:

BEEP BOOP I AM A ROBOT WHO CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE STANDARDIZED UNIT OF MEASUREMENT!

Just use whatever you feel like and have the basic intelligence to convert between them on the fly you huge pedantic nerdlingers. Or, I don't know, use google? It does it for you without any further steps. If you don't have access to google at all times I don't know what to tell you.

In any case, just stop all of this. It's 317 stone of worthless posting.

some of us are not good at numbers you ableist fucktard

# ? May 28, 2017 16:39

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

I have never been in a kitchen that measured things by weight instead of volume

# ? May 28, 2017 17:26

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

"man, imperial measurement systems are so illogical and make no sense whatsoever"
"ok, but celsius is not useful for non-technical usage"
"yeah, maybe if you're too stupid to understand it :rolleyes:

quote:

So with this whole Manchester bombing thing going on, a recurring... issue? I have just resurfaced. I'm a super chill, 'couldn't hurt a fly' type of person. I hate reading stories or watching movies featuring people being abused/severely hurt, they make me sick.

But whenever there's a terrorist attack with multiple casualties I get some sort of warm feeling inside. I don't know why it happens, but it just feels so good, and then I feel like I should feel lovely about it? So I try to force myself to feel bad about enjoying it, but I know that deep down I don't feel any remorse for being a lovely person I guess.

I've been trying for a long time to rationalize what's wrong with me. There was one instance when I felt genuinely lovely about enjoying the whole mass casualties thing. Last year when the Florida nightclub terrorist attack happened I went through the whole warm feeling inside process, and as usual I was obsessively reading every piece of news I could find about it. One of the articles I stumbled uponq was dedicated to some of the victims of the shooting, so it had stuff like pictures of the deceased, their bios etc. As I read that I started to feel so bad that I couldn't finish it. So I guess turning '50 faceless dead people' into 'John and Sarah and Bob and [...]' makes me empathize with the victims, but I still have no idea why I feel good when I read about a bunch of people being killed in the first place.

And I guess I should add that it has to be people being killed. Like if I read something about a fatal plane accident, or a nightclub fire that started by negligence and resulted in multiple deaths, it doesn't make me feel good at all. Make it a suicidal pilot crashing a plane into a building or an arsonist trapping hundreds of people into a burning nightclub? Bam, instant warm feeling inside.

I normally don't think about this kind of stuff at all, it's something that only resurfaces when there's been a recent terrorist attack or something similar. I went to a concert not long after the Bataclan terrorist attack, and I remember that every few minutes my heart would start racing (in a good way, like a rush of adrenaline I guess) thinking about the whole place blowing up and all of us dying to some sort of terrorist attack. Of course I've never told anyone about this.

I blame the media

quote:

At college when my girlfriend and I got in a fight I used friendsy (kind of like tinder for college students. You click if you want to be friends, date or hook up with a person and they can only see if they also click on you) to hook up with a girl. She was cute, funny, great. I ended up getting back with my girlfriend and not really talking to the girl I hooked up with. She sent me a text that said just "LOL" when she saw my back with my GF like 2 nights later, but she seemed cool and like she wasn't going tell anyone which I was appreciative for. Seemed a little sad but w/e. Life sucks. This would have been in late 2014. Senior year (end of 2016) we worked on some project together in a class which seemed fine though she seemed a little sad/cold, and we graduated. She got a sweet IB (Investment Banking) job at Merill-Lynch after graduating. About 2-3 weeks ago she killed herself.

I know its not my fault. I know in no way she did it was about me. I still feel really guilty. I was in the military before school and had a good friend kill himself. Even though I wasn't her closest friend I feel like I should have seen the signs more than anyone else. I can't talk about it to anyone cuz my GF doesn't know about this happening. (She would probably consider it lying/cheating which is fair TBH. It wasn't a big enough fight to justify this and I should have told her.) I just really needed to tell someone this cuz other students in my town are talking about this. I can't really participate, but now I told someone. Thanks!

# ? May 28, 2017 18:18

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

got any sevens posted:

I have never been in a kitchen that measured things by weight instead of volume

Commercial bakeries and anywhere in Europe do it by weight.

# ? May 28, 2017 18:18

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First goon, you're going through that phase most people grow out of by their mid-teens where they like things they aren't supposed to to rebel against societal norms. You're the grown rear end adult version of the 14 year old carving swastikas into their locker or talking about how cool charles manson is. Being a twizted psychopath :twisted:

isn't something to be admired. I bet you'll feel much differently if your parents/sibling or your girlfriend (who am I kidding, you probably don't have one of those) or other close friend is killed in a terrorist attack.

Second goon, first of all don't do that annoying thing where say acronym/abbreviation (thing the acronym/abbreviation actually means). It defeats the purpose of abbreviating it in the first place. Just say the full name instead of signalling that you're "in the know" about the industry terminology. As for the suicide, it's fine to feel bad about it but as you yourself acknowledge, it clearly wasn't about you and blaming yourself in any way shape or form is kind of presumptuous and arrogant. Clearly something was going on in her life that had absolutely zero things to do with you. So grieve, but don't be that guy who tries to leech off of other peoples' pity by saying "maybe it was me oh god why didn't I do something to stop it".

# ? May 28, 2017 18:47

Hail Mr. Satan!: Oct 3, 2009; by zen death robot

loquacius posted:

I mean, on the one hand this is dumb and you are going to end up in jail for a very short period of time one day or at least get yelled at in the Walmart security office

On the other hand though gently caress Walmart

The cool thing about this is when they eventually get caught, Wal-Mart loss prevention will absolutely comb through tapes to see if he did it in the past and add charges. They take that poo poo super seriously and they are usually bored in the middle of the night.

# ? May 28, 2017 19:19

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# ? May 28, 2017 19:29

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quote:

She got a sweet IB (Investment Banking) job at Merill-Lynch after graduating. About 2-3 weeks ago she killed herself.

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# ? May 28, 2017 20:30

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quote:

She got a sweet IB (Investment Banking) job at Merill-Lynch after graduating. About 2-3 weeks ago she killed herself.

Yeah I think 12+ hour days and likely sexual harassment are more to blame than the 'fesher in this case.

# ? May 28, 2017 21:15

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

loquacius posted:

"man, imperial measurement systems are so illogical and make no sense whatsoever"
"ok, but celsius is not useful for non-technical usage"
"yeah, maybe if you're too stupid to understand it "

I blame the media

Celcius is perfectly fine for non-technical usage, just ask literally every country besides america and libya

# ? May 29, 2017 00:10

Radical and BADical!: Jun 27, 2010; by Lowtax; Fun Shoe

School Nickname posted:

Yeah I think 12+ hour days and likely sexual harassment are more to blame than the 'fesher in this case.

valid reasons to kill yourself, imo

# ? May 29, 2017 01:48

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Improbable Lobster posted:

Celcius is perfectly fine for non-technical usage, just ask literally every country besides america and libya

ok

so is fahrenheit, and it's intuitively better for the one use-case relevant to anyone's everyday life

quote:

First things first, I'm a 31 year old virgin. I don't have any experience dating and am generally awful around women. This is, I fear, coloring my responses a bit.

I met a girl. To put it simply and avoid talking around the problem, she's homeless and has turned to prostitution in order to stay alive. I understand this is not ideal for a relationship, let alone my first relationship. But consider the following.

She is really nice to me. She caught my eye a few times walking between work and the bus station, and we eventually started talking after she called me "Cute" one day. She is super interested in my day and listens to me talk while I wait for the bus to come.

She is extremely attractive. Even with some of the issues of being homeless like dirt, bad hair, bad hygiene, odor, and ratty clothing. She's still super attractive and would be an absolute knockout with a day at the spa and some new clothes.

We get along. We have talked about a lot of stuff. I've helped catch her up on pop culture and she's talked about some cool spots in the city I've never even heard of.

The homeless thing is not a big deal to me, personally. I have an apartment and she can stay with me, or I'm sure we could find her a woman's shelter or something. The prostitution piece is a bit of an issue. In our first conversation she mistakenly thought I was a john looking for sex. I told her that was wrong and she went on to describe that she has sex to pay for food, sometimes to crash at someone's house, and various other things to stay alive. I felt my heart breaking - I couldn't imagine living a life like that.

I started giving her my spare money (like 10-20 bucks) every evening and said "Stay out of trouble" but I'm guessing she's still forced to do it.

I have no qualms about dating a girl who's had sex before. But I am worried my virginity and overall lack of experience is making this seem more appealing than it really is.

Filing this one under "coming on a little strong with how dumb the poster is"

quote:

My grandfather died back in March. My grandma was already dead and he had no surviving siblings, so he left everything to my parents and to me.

It was the usual stuff - his house, his car, whatever small amount he had in the bank, and a small fishing cabin he had about 200 miles away. We got everything in order but were unable to visit the cabin because it's so far away and we've been busy getting everything else in order like selling his house and car.

I ended up venturing up there by myself a few weekends ago. It was honestly really difficult to find because it's on a gravel road which isn't very well maintained. And my grandpa hadn't been up there in years due to his health, so there was a lot of fallen branches and overgrown weeds hiding the place. But I found it and started taking pictures and cataloging everything in there. We were still unsure if we'd sell the thing or if it'd even be worth anything, or if there was anything in the cabin worth checking out.

Nothing major, just some old furniture that was in bad shape from years of just sitting there in a pretty lovely cabin. Rotten wood, water damage, all that usual stuff. Then I found a metal locker. It was pretty rusted up so I was able to jimmy the door open with a pry bar.

Massive amounts of pornography. Magazines, stuff obviously just printed off the internet. I'm guessing at least 500 magazines and 1000 things printed up on paper. I burnt it all and will never tell my parents about this.

Now I know my grandpa's fishing cabin was mostly just a jack shack. RIP Grandpa, I still love you.

Man, it must be super weird being from a generation where you're so repressed you have to drive 200 miles away from your house to jerk off even though your wife is dead and your kids are grown

# ? May 29, 2017 04:11

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# ? May 29, 2017 04:13

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Lets see here, Fahrenheit is better at

*checks notebook*

Nothing. It says here that it is "trash" for "trash people". Hmm, interesting

# ? May 29, 2017 04:17

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Fartbox posted:

*checks notebook*

Nothing. It says here that it is "trash" for "trash people". Hmm, interesting

You accidentally read the listing for your own face.

# ? May 29, 2017 04:19

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Fahrenheit strikes me as a something an autismal would come up with, and everybody else in the room was too tired of his poo poo to disagree any more so they just let him run with it

# ? May 29, 2017 04:24

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# ? May 29, 2017 04:25

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

all forms of measurement are inherently arbitrary :siren:

# ? May 29, 2017 04:30

Jastiger: Oct 11, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

loquacius posted:

all forms of measurement are inherently arbitrary

How hot was this burn in Fahrenheit pls?

# ? May 29, 2017 04:34

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Ed Lewis posted:

she's homeless and has turned to prostitution in order to stay alive.

Homeless + hot = not homeless. She's a garden-variety prostitute who has a sideline of going "oh poor me I'm homeless" so suckers will let her stay at their house, wherein she steals all their stuff.

If you want to get your dinky stinky, hire a real prostitute. If not, just stay a virgin, there's no shame in that.

# ? May 29, 2017 04:47

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That one reads almost like the psycho goon who was in Thailand before getting fired for eating chalk in front of children who never left his hotel and thought the bar girl on the corner was into him.

# ? May 29, 2017 04:54

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

loquacius posted:

ok

so is fahrenheit, and it's intuitively better for the one use-case relevant to anyone's everyday life

Oh yeah, 72 degrees being room temperature makes sooooo much more sense then 20 degrees. Really just waaaaay more intuitive. And snow starting at 32 degrees? That's way better then 0!

# ? May 29, 2017 04:56

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Improbable Lobster posted:

Oh yeah, 72 degrees being room temperature makes sooooo much more sense then 20 degrees. Really just waaaaay more intuitive.

I mean, those numbers are super arbitrary, like all forms of measurement

72 degrees Fahrenheit is 22.2222 degrees Celsius, not 20. This post is literally complaining that a number you picked yourself is not a round number. I would have said 70 degrees even, which is as good a number as 20.

# ? May 29, 2017 04:59

Fartbox: Apr 27, 2017; What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
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everything about Celsius is less complicated

even the name is less complicated

its chill as gently caress

# ? May 29, 2017 05:03

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

loquacius posted:

I mean, those numbers are super arbitrary, like all forms of measurement

72 degrees Fahrenheit is 22.2222 degrees Celsius, not 20. This post is literally complaining that a number you picked yourself is not a round number. I would have said 70 degrees even, which is as good a number as 20.

I was making a point that Fahrenheit isn't any more intuitive then Celsius because they're both arbitrary and your argument that Fahrenheit is intuitive is loving dumb.

Celsius, unlike Fahrenheit, is used by the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, majority of the world and since they're both equally arbitrary Celsius is superior.

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loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Fartbox posted:

everything about Celsius is less complicated

even the name is less complicated

its chill as gently caress

How on Earth is Fahrenheit "complicated" :confused:

Like, do you think everyone who uses it has to convert it to Celsius in their heads or what

# ? May 29, 2017 05:10

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