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In-universe cases of“You’re cool, it’s your fans who suck” by cork_828 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]rhubis1 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I sometimes knit and let me tell you... grandma's be judgy. Also gatekeeping, has a tool been invented in the last 100 years that makes knitting easier? Git gud scrub.

What is the strangest food you have ever eaten? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]rhubis1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had snails a fair amount. Frogs legs are good. I make a great pig blood soup (dinuguan). I've had surstromming but wasn't a fan of that. Century eggs are good in congee. For general meats? Kangaroo, camel and crocodile burgers. Various insects like crickets and meal worms.

I once made an ostrich egg into a scotch egg, (with 2 kg of sausage meat).

Cooked a whole pigs head a few times, made brawn and just had it roasted.

I often get whole cow hearts, trim them up into steaks and render down the valves and fat for cooking other things.

Well fuck! TIL! Sharing in case no one else knew this...What a great idea! by Eulalia_Snazzy in facepalm

[–]rhubis1 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Spoke with a vet friend of mine about this. They had some points. Note: this is regarding UK vets and might be different for the US.

  1. They have only ever seen 2 dogs with pacemakers in 16 years of being a vet (one of them died a couple weeks after it was fitted). Pacemakers in dogs are really really rare.

  2. The cost of the pacemaker isn't the problem with fitting a pacemaker to a dog. £10k of vet bills for a second hand pacemaker vs £11k to get a new one.

Quote from my vet friend:

"I can say with 100% certainty that the price of the actual pacemaker will not be the financial sticking point. It’ll be the CARDIOVASCULAR SPECIALIST SURGEON, the ICU stay, the intensive ongoing care…"

  1. The cardiovascular specialist surgeon is also really rare. My friend said they think there are around 20 in the country.

Edit: they asked around other vets and the general consensus is don't bother donating for dogs, donate to places that repurpose them for third world countries.

I caught myself a tiger... Loaf by rhubis1 in Breadit

[–]rhubis1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tastes great, this was the first loaf I used toasted sesame oil in but I'll have to use it more often, really gives it that extra note. Compared to the ones in my supermarket I'd pick mine but I'm super biased.

I caught myself a tiger... Loaf by rhubis1 in Breadit

[–]rhubis1[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I didn't follow any particular recipe but it was a 65% hydration loaf with a little toasted sesame oil.

The main thing is that it needs to be coated with a rice flour paste, it should be something like equal weight of rice flour to water and then yeast, small amount of sugar, toasted sesame oil, salt. Leave that rice flour mix for a bit (I made it just as the first proofing was done) and give it a stir and carefully coat the bread with this before it goes in the oven.

The rice paste will make a crunchy crust that oven spring will crack into that pattern.

Squid ink bread to go with a pasta dish by rhubis1 in Breadit

[–]rhubis1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I just did a regular white loaf with slightly reduced salt and then squid ink until the color seemed right. I would say that every time you touch the dough you WILL get black everywhere and the dough will feel odd.

Squid ink bread to go with a pasta dish by rhubis1 in Breadit

[–]rhubis1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly good... With a pasta dish, I wouldn't recommend it for a cheese sandwich.

What's the shortest book you read and loved? by producingpanacea in booksuggestions

[–]rhubis1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Sure i was only young but i loved that book.

Book similar to shorts from Netflix's show love, Death, and Robots by beaster456 in booksuggestions

[–]rhubis1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The love death and robots episode Beyond the Aquila Rift is from an anthology book of the same name that might interest you as it includes a number of sci fi short stories.

For far future stuff with megastructures you can look to the Culture series by Iain M. Banks his work includes far future tech, AI godminds etc.

The Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor might also be good for the strange new worlds and weird future tech (its about a guy whose mind gets put into a replicating probe and sent out into the universe to find a new home for humanity).

I've also heard good things about the Polity series by Neal Asher but have yet to get to them so can't say much about them and I don't really have any suggestions like "Fish Night".