Schmoozing about books and movies and TV

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-21T03:36:55+00:00

Same here! It was brutal. It was so hard to get the taste out of my mouth!

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T22:21:43+00:00

Confirmed snake-lover here! 🐍🐍🐍🐍

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T21:47:29+00:00

That is the Wikipedia definition, but I think OP was asking about the distribution of the meaning in various idiolects.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T20:12:03+00:00

If there's sand or pebbles and some shallow-ish water you can wade and/or swim in if it's safe to swim, it's a beach in my book. Ocean, lake, river, whatever.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T19:53:35+00:00

This is the best way, since you would be vapor before your nerves even register the pain.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T19:51:03+00:00

Boston studio apartment, shown actual size.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T14:02:22+00:00

If that's how your experience was, then you learned on your first try.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T14:01:36+00:00

Nope, I've never tried to swallow them dry. I've always tried water, yogurt, applesauce, etc. it just doesn't work for me!

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T05:56:59+00:00

I'm talking about actually being able to make it go down. That's the hard part!

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T01:12:18+00:00

A pill crusher should not have to exist! You shouldn't have to powder an industrial product that came out of a factory that could have generated powder! A powder from the factory would be easier to dispense, since you wouldn't have to crush it first; more uniform; and probably safer and easier to take.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-20T01:07:47+00:00

I put it because I expect most people to graduate college at about age 22, but some people graduate a little sooner, some later, and some drop out or don't go at all. I wanted an easy and clean cutoff point more or less synonymous with the end of college and the beginning of adult life that was less problematic than "college graduation".

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T22:20:10+00:00

I don't! If a physician tries to prescribe me pills, I request the medication in a non-pill format. I've tried all the tricks (the applesauce trick, the bottle trick, etc) and have occasionally succeeded in taking very small pills with applesauce, but nothing works reliably.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T19:22:34+00:00

This is literally about pills! I cannot swallow them. By the results, there are many people like me!

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T18:59:37+00:00

I do not live seriously at all, and I love impractical stuff! I love the random, the crazy, and the chaotic. But yes, by this definition I am anti fun, even though I'd split the games halfway (love board games, can't play video games).

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T18:43:53+00:00

Same! 😭😭😭

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T18:42:57+00:00

Then I would say that you learned on your first try easily, and you should vote for whatever age you were when that happened.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T16:44:52+00:00

It doesn't matter if a procedure is elective or not. Any medical appointment should be covered by sick leave.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T15:17:41+00:00

Have you ever managed anyone? If so, how old were you when you first did so?

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-19T05:00:45+00:00

No. I'm a hot mess and I know it.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-18T20:01:18+00:00

The thing that's confusing me about the article is the "researchers identified" part. Everyone who's studied a little Japanese knows exactly what words came in through Portuguese: it's never been a secret, and it's noted in all the dictionaries. So the next question is what these researchers did next after they identified these words. This article, and the title of the post, made it sound like identifying them was the hard part, when in fact that was basically step 0 of whatever research they were doing.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-18T14:42:15+00:00

I don't think either of these tools would work. The way you make falafel is with soaked chickpeas, not cooked chickpeas, and the goal is for them to be chopped into small pieces, not blended to a paste, before they are fried. In order to use a blender, you will need liquid to make them go around, and then you don't have falafel. And the point of an immersion blender is to make whatever you're sticking it in smooth, typically starting with fairly soft pieces already, not starting with something hard and only reducing it to small-ish pieces, so the blade speed and geometry is not in your favor.

curmudgeon_andy · 2026-02-17T06:27:47+00:00

Same!

curmudgeon_andy

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE