Re: Random Ramblings

by **Floyd Robertson** 2/15/2022, 6:48 pm

Nordic wrote:I'm officially at the age were I wear readers at the end of nose and tilt my head to look over them for distance.

Welcome to the club, always glad to see new members. Don't worry about the secret handshake.

by **The Pantry** 2/15/2022, 7:07 pm

Nordic wrote:I'm officially at the age were I wear readers at the end of nose and tilt my head to look over them for distance.

by **The Pantry** 2/15/2022, 7:23 pm

Nordic wrote:I'm officially at the age were I wear readers at the end of nose and tilt my head to look over them for distance.

Diagnosed nearsighted in my late 20's. Can still read tSwill in desktop mode on my phone unassisted.

Interesting you bring it up. BBQ forum poster started a thread about readers last week.

by Bill Cain 2/15/2022, 8:04 pm

One day I’ll move up north. Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Traverse City, Grayling.

One day

by **Motown Spartan** 2/15/2022, 8:07 pm

I got a snake man.

by **DWags** 2/15/2022, 8:11 pm

Nordic wrote:I'm officially at the age were I wear readers at the end of nose and tilt my head to look over them for distance.

It’s been my experience the eyes don’t get better.

by AvgMSUJoe 2/15/2022, 8:13 pm

Progressives suck ass fellow old people.

by Bill Cain 2/15/2022, 10:07 pm

“So much potential wasted”. As my coworker once said shaking his head.

Whatever.

I did it to myself. I reaped what I sowed

by **The Pantry** 2/15/2022, 10:45 pm

Bill Cain wrote:One day I’ll move up north. Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Traverse City, Grayling.

One day

You will do nothing because you can do nothing

by **Rocinante** 2/15/2022, 11:35 pm

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Progressives suck ass fellow old people.

Yeah people who want to make the world a better place are a drag.

by **MiamiSpartan** 2/15/2022, 11:49 pm

The Pantry wrote:
Nordic wrote:I'm officially at the age were I wear readers at the end of nose and tilt my head to look over them for distance.

Diagnosed nearsighted in my late 20's. Can still read tSwill in desktop mode on my phone unassisted.

Interesting you bring it up. BBQ forum poster started a thread about readers last week.

I'm nearsighted (that's where you can't see well at distances, right?). With my contacts I've always been able to read close up. But lately it's been getting a little harder. Might have to get bifocal contacts or use readers for that before too long.

by **Trapper Gus** 2/16/2022, 7:27 am

Rocinante wrote:
AvgMSUJoe wrote:Progressives suck ass fellow old people.

Yeah people who want to make the world a better place are a drag.

I'm old enough to remember when the baby boomers were going to do that.

by **Motown Spartan** 2/16/2022, 7:57 am

Rocinante wrote:
AvgMSUJoe wrote:Progressives suck ass fellow old people.

Yeah people who want to make the world a better place are a drag.

Sanctimonious bastard.

by AvgMSUJoe 2/16/2022, 8:52 pm

I thought we were talking about glasses.

by **tGreenWay** 2/16/2022, 9:42 pm

Whenever an Olympic athlete from Austria competes, their country’s designation is AUT. That’s because Australia got the designation AUS. That doesn’t seem fair, because AUT doesn’t make any sense. Australia has had it easy for too long, and it’s time for it to take the awkward AUT.
That’s right; I propose the two countries switch it up. It’s the right thing to do.

by **tGreenWay** 2/16/2022, 9:44 pm

DWags wrote:Aren’t we all really quarantined? Think about it. We’re never out of quarantine until we die. All we can do is vax our selves with love and treat each other with kindness.

DWags, you’re the alcohol wipe of my world.

by gomersbro 2/17/2022, 1:56 am

tGreenWay wrote:Whenever an Olympic athlete from Austria competes, their country’s designation is AUT. That’s because Australia got the designation AUS. That doesn’t seem fair, because AUT doesn’t make any sense. Australia has had it easy for too long, and it’s time for it to take the awkward AUT.
That’s right; I propose the two countries switch it up. It’s the right thing to do.

Well Austria in German is Österreich. So maybe the designation should be ÖST?

Many German speakers have a hard time with the whole Austria Australia thing. When they try to pronounce the two with their accent they sound very similar.

Edited to add:
I was wondering why I opened the Olympic thread. But since this is random ramblings may I add, i like the name for Germany in Spanish, Aleman. And then of course it is Deutschland. One land and so many different names.

by **Cameron** 2/17/2022, 7:43 am

I always have thought it weird that we call so many countries by different names than the people living there. Deutschland is too hard to say, but Kazakhstan is fine? I can discern no rhyme or reason.

by **Dendrobates** 2/17/2022, 9:29 am

I slipped on my garage stairs and my ass landed on the corner of the stair. And my whole right side then collapsed on the cement. I have this huge ass (pun intended) bruise, and it hurts to sit down.
I'm such a klutz.

by **DWags** 2/17/2022, 10:55 am

Dendrobates wrote:I slipped on my garage stairs and my ass landed on the corner of the stair. And my whole right side then collapsed on the cement. I have this huge ass (pun intended) bruise, and it hurts to sit down.
I'm such a klutz.

Wow. Lucky you didn’t break a tailbone.

Freeze that ass up girl. Ice.

by **Motown Spartan** 2/17/2022, 11:12 am

Dendrobates wrote:I slipped on my garage stairs and my ass landed on the corner of the stair. And my whole right side then collapsed on the cement. I have this huge ass (pun intended) bruise, and it hurts to sit down.
I'm such a klutz.

Pics. DM is fine.

by **The Pantry** 2/17/2022, 11:26 am

Oakland Hills is on fire.

by **MiamiSpartan** 2/17/2022, 11:33 am

Cameron wrote:I always have thought it weird that we call so many countries by different names than the people living there. Deutschland is too hard to say, but Kazakhstan is fine? I can discern no rhyme or reason.

Germany is kind of an unusual case, where the name is so different in different languages (the English name of Germany coming from the Romans calling the tribes Germanic; the Spanish name for it, Alemania, coming from an area that was called something similar, etc.). I believe most was still part of the Holy Roman Empire until the early 1800s, so there wasn't a real national identity under that name like there was for France and Spain, for example. At least that's my theory, without adding a lot of nuance to it.

But we at least call most other countries by pretty similar names, even if there are some spelling/pronunciation differences.

by Bill Cain 2/17/2022, 3:52 pm

Man my nipples are tender

by **Cameron** 2/17/2022, 5:04 pm

by **Dendrobates** 2/18/2022, 8:24 pm

God I love raw oysters. I could eat dozens of them if I could afford it.
Unfortunately, places that do a cheaper happy hour, I can never do it.

by **tGreenWay** 2/18/2022, 8:36 pm

Dendrobates wrote:God I love raw oysters. I could eat dozens of them if I could afford it.
Unfortunately, places that do a cheaper happy hour, I can never do it.

You don’t like them out of a can, do you? Floyd might have some bad news.

by **The Pantry** 2/18/2022, 8:52 pm

Dendrobates wrote:God I love raw oysters. I could eat dozens of them if I could afford it.
Unfortunately, places that do a cheaper happy hour, I can never do it.

Love sushi, raw kibbee, carpaccio, steak tartare, etc. But I can't stand raw oysters. They're like eating loogies.

by **Dendrobates** 2/18/2022, 9:38 pm

The Pantry wrote:
Dendrobates wrote:God I love raw oysters. I could eat dozens of them if I could afford it.
Unfortunately, places that do a cheaper happy hour, I can never do it.
Love sushi, raw kibbee, carpaccio, steak tartare, etc. But I can't stand raw oysters. They're like eating loogies.

I could eat sushi every day. I didn't care for kibbee. I've never had carpaccio. I've even had buffalo tartare (steak is better). I get the texture being difficult to deal with in oysters. It does involve getting past that. It's just amazing how different they taste from not just a different ocean, but a different bay.
It's also probably hard for some to mentally prepare eating them when they are alive when you eat them.

And no Greenway, I've never had them out of a can. I prefer them raw, even over fried in butter.

by **DWags** 2/18/2022, 9:48 pm

I made this seafood chowder today. It was great. Soooooo filling. I had bought one NY strip and salad ingredients for us to split. But as I was looking at the ingredients my wife and I decided it was enough for dinner.
Try it. I used frozen raw shrimp instead of canned and I used lump crab meat instead of imitation. Carrots, to my liking, made it a bit sweet. I’m going to use less next time. Also might add a dash of salt. But the potato’s and cream of… made it beyond filling.

Love slow cooker on a day like this.

gredients
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of potato soup
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of mushroom soup
2 1/2 cups milk
4 medium carrots, finely chopped
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
7 ounces canned chopped clams, drained
6 ounces canned shrimp, drained
4 ounces imitation crab, flaked
5 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

directions
Combine the cream of potato soup, cream of mushroom soup, and milk until smooth. Pour into crock pot.

Stir in the carrots, potatoes, onion, and celery.

Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 4-5 hours.

Stir in the clams, shrimp, and crab. Cover and cook on low for 30 more minutes or until the seafood is heated through.

by **DWags** 2/18/2022, 9:51 pm

Also, it’s going to be our dinner when we get home from the game tomorrow

by **Dendrobates** 2/18/2022, 9:54 pm

DWags wrote:I made this seafood chowder today. It was great. Soooooo filling. I had bought one NY strip and salad ingredients for us to split. But as I was looking at the ingredients my wife and I decided it was enough for dinner.
Try it. I used frozen raw shrimp instead of canned and I used lump crab meat instead of imitation. Carrots, to my liking, made it a bit sweet. I’m going to use less next time. Also might add a dash of salt. But the potato’s and cream of… made it beyond filling.

Love slow cooker on a day like this.

gredients
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of potato soup
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of mushroom soup
2 1/2 cups milk
4 medium carrots, finely chopped
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
7 ounces canned chopped clams, drained
6 ounces canned shrimp, drained
4 ounces imitation crab, flaked
5 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

directions
Combine the cream of potato soup, cream of mushroom soup, and milk until smooth. Pour into crock pot.

Stir in the carrots, potatoes, onion, and celery.

Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 4-5 hours.

Stir in the clams, shrimp, and crab. Cover and cook on low for 30 more minutes or until the seafood is heated through.

That sounds amazing and simple. I'm going to try this.

And I didn't know there was such a thing as canned shrimp, sounds gross.
I've got most of those ingredients right now. I'm going to make it this week. I love easy crockpot recipes

by **DWags** 2/18/2022, 9:58 pm

Dendrobates wrote:
DWags wrote:I made this seafood chowder today. It was great. Soooooo filling. I had bought one NY strip and salad ingredients for us to split. But as I was looking at the ingredients my wife and I decided it was enough for dinner.
Try it. I used frozen raw shrimp instead of canned and I used lump crab meat instead of imitation. Carrots, to my liking, made it a bit sweet. I’m going to use less next time. Also might add a dash of salt. But the potato’s and cream of… made it beyond filling.

Love slow cooker on a day like this.

gredients
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of potato soup
1 can (10 ounce size) cream of mushroom soup
2 1/2 cups milk
4 medium carrots, finely chopped
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
7 ounces canned chopped clams, drained
6 ounces canned shrimp, drained
4 ounces imitation crab, flaked
5 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

directions
Combine the cream of potato soup, cream of mushroom soup, and milk until smooth. Pour into crock pot.

Stir in the carrots, potatoes, onion, and celery.

Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 4-5 hours.

Stir in the clams, shrimp, and crab. Cover and cook on low for 30 more minutes or until the seafood is heated through.

That sounds amazing and simple. I'm going to try this.

And I didn't know there was such a thing as canned shrimp, sounds gross.
I've got most of those ingredients right now. I'm going to make it this week. I love easy crockpot recipes

Awesome. Wife and I agree that the carrots made it have a small sweet taste. We may go without next time. And yes anout the shrimp WTF? Random Ramblings - Page 13 502811600

The amounts posted up there are two hardy meals for two people.

by **Dendrobates** 2/18/2022, 10:03 pm

DWags wrote:
Dendrobates wrote:

That sounds amazing and simple. I'm going to try this.

And I didn't know there was such a thing as canned shrimp, sounds gross.
I've got most of those ingredients right now. I'm going to make it this week. I love easy crockpot recipes

Awesome. Wife and I agree that the carrots made it have a small sweet taste. We may go without next time. And yes anout the shrimp WTF?

The amounts posted up there are two hardy meals for two people.

I could tell by the amounts it's more of a 2 person (with some leftover meal). I would definitely double it, and have leftovers for another day.

That's how I cook. Whatever I make is going to be enough for 2 dinners. I don't have time to cook every day.

by **tGreenWay** 2/18/2022, 11:06 pm

DWags, you didn’t specify what type of potato to use. Should I get
RUSSET?
RED?
YELLOW?
WHITE?
PURPLE?
FINGERLING?
PETITE?

This is a critical piece of information, DWags. How am I supposed to pitch woo at Mrs. GreenWay with an incomplete recipe? It’s obvious the answer is… I can’t.

by **DWags** 2/18/2022, 11:34 pm

tGreenWay wrote:DWags, you didn’t specify what type of potato to use. Should I get
RUSSET?
RED?
YELLOW?
WHITE?
PURPLE?
FINGERLING?
PETITE?

This is a critical piece of information, DWags. How am I supposed to pitch woo at Mrs. GreenWay with an incomplete recipe? It’s obvious the answer is… I can’t.

Russert
Cubed.

by Bill Cain 2/20/2022, 12:35 am

I put myself in 6 months of cat-like hibernation during the fall and winter months. But it’s the end of February.

Time to go hunting. The sun is rising. The sun is appearing more and more with each day that passes.

I hibernate so I reserve energy so I can harvest wheat in the spring and summer

Time to download dating apps and find myself a

wife

I’ve cultivated my resources and energy for the last 5 months. Time to plan an active spring and summer. Tiger games, bowling, let’s do it.

Harvest season is upon us

by **DWags** 2/20/2022, 1:48 am

After a good hibernation I like to break my fast with a hardy breakfast.
When I make my Omelettes, I will add milk to the eggs. They are a bit fluffier. I put some diced onions and peppers with some ham in my omelette pan and fry them up until the onions are a bit translucent. Add the egg mixture. Also, I’ve become fairly adept at the flip. I like to use Monterey Jack in mine before I fold it.

Sometimes we’ll add a breakfast meat. But many times the omelette is way more than enough.

by **The Pantry** 2/20/2022, 5:54 am

Order omelets at restaurants. At home I prefer to make frittata...or scrambled eggs. Very rarely do you get proper scrambled eggs at a restaurant. At home I can make them with the perfect wetness. Sometimes throw in fresh spinach near the end.

Cats sleep a lot, but don't hibernate.

by Bill Cain 2/20/2022, 9:49 am

The Pantry wrote:Order omelets at restaurants. At home I prefer to make frittata...or scrambled eggs. Very rarely do you get proper scrambled eggs at a restaurant. At home I can make them with the perfect wetness. Sometimes throw in fresh spinach near the end.

Cats sleep a lot, but don't hibernate.

Humans are not cats. But out of the millions of invisible “parasites” one parasite ended up staying for thousands of years in humans. Why? Because it helped us sleep, increase body temperature, be less social, and go through occasional bouts of depression during the fall and winter months when there was less access to sunlight, specifically in European or populations with temperate climates. There was an advantage to developing this feature.

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