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Cleo_II posted...

Cornmuffins posted...

I used to work at a restaurant that did it by placing it under running water. That place sucked.

I do that with seafood. Never heard of doing it with meats.

I do it all the time with meat. Hell sometimes I just leave things out on a plate in the kitchen overnight.

Despite all the cautionary tales about food safety I figure that if it's been in the freezer anything harmful is already dead, and a couple of hours on a countertop isn't gonna change that. Also it's about to go into a 450F oven, it's fine.
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The charger cable. In fact Apple in general with their proprietary plug shapes are the fucking worst.

My sony headphones, my nintendo switch, my samsung phone - they all charge using the same cable. Meaning I take one charger with me everywhere.
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I bought this pair and seriously don't regret it at all.

The only thing I don't like about them is the lack of easy switching between devices, which the bose qc35II can do.

Other than that, excellent sound.
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Maybe I need to try it but it looks like what a drunk and stoned bachelor would cook up at 2am in an attempt at making pizza
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This is the most boomer way to say "happy thanksgiving", lol
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Hotel_Security posted...

I hate recruiters.

What recruiter? For what job? In what context? The vagueness of this is quite telling. You don't explain anything so this thread is worthless outside of you pathetically trying to look like a badass via text.

Also, yes, Recruiters are just fool's gold. TC is a schmuck for wasting his time. Likely not getting any calls from actual employers.Gee, I wonder why.

This is a very CE response to this topic, lol
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lol
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Recruiters generally are fairly attractive women in my experience
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

I really didnt like Tommy for the longest time, but....he really is THAT good.

Makes Joe Satriani look like an amateur while having all the stage presence in the world.

R.I.P. Jerry Reed

I don't like his music in all honesty. It's like the background music you'd expect to a tourism ad about the wheatbelt.

But nobody can deny that his technique is perfect. The guy doesn't know how to stub a note, never mind miss one. And the stuff he does defies explanation sometimes.

I just find myself wishing he would tone down the hamminess in some of his covers because sometimes he approaches perfection and then ruins it with some insane frilly nonsense. But I guess that's just who he is.
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Nevermind.
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treewojima posted...

pinky0926 posted...

It's just like Trump really.

At least Trump is recognizably incoherent most of the time. I get the feeling that BoJo's frat boy persona is partly political calculus.

His entire persona is calculated imo, by inside accounts he's ruthless and ambitious
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Vicious_Dios posted...

I see... so, he was reading his opponent's moves this entire time, and now I'm going to explain how to the slow-as-fuck audience because the creator of the show feels like they couldn't possibly grasp the sheer brilliance of the show's nuance with handholding you every step of the way.

Tbh the main reason this happens is because shows are adapted from manga and it's difficult to show in comic form without some exposition

I imagine there's some kind of agreement in place to a certain amount of faithfulness or whatever
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/e1z0xm/jeremy_corbyn_is_not_a_racist_but_boris_johnson/f8trhwn/

I don't want to sound too tinfoil-hat, but it really is a creation of our right-wing press, which is then dutifully reported on by the Beeb and others. (The Beeb has to appear balanced, apart from when they get to read out "tomorrow's newspaper front pages" on air.)

So we live in this bizarre place where BoJo isn't criticised for things he actually, factually has said and done: calling black people "piccaninnies with watermelon smiles", Islamophobic incidents rose by 375% in the week after he compared veiled Muslim women to letterboxes , he's called gay men "bum boys".

These are undisputed real true facts, and he has repeatedly refused to apologise for any of them.

And Corbyn is smeared using innuendo and suggestion: maybe he's secretly anti-semitic, even though he consistantly says he isn't and decries antisemitism, even though he's demonstrably spent a lifetime fighting racism and prejudice. So it's "maybe he hasn't done enough to fight antisemitism in the party".

"Maybe Corbyn's a secret Brexiteer, despite him campaigning for Remain at the time. But "maybe he hasn't done enough to promote the Remain cause, so he's to blame for the Brexit referendum result?"

On the one hand you have things BoJo has actually, undisputedly done and said, and we're "balancing" this with hints and suspicion that maybe Corbyn hasn't done enough.

It's a mad world out there, but the complete inequality of standards demanded of the two men is insane.

Every goddamn day I hear about how Jeremy Corbyn might be anti-semetic. Nebulous rumours and tabloid gossip. Nothing particularly concrete. Maybe it's that he's not doing enough to fight anti-semitism.

Meanwhile any time Boris Johnson speaks like a plantation owner from the 1800s it's passed off as him being a silly billy. What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with us?

It's just like Trump really.
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I made a bed of onions, parboiled potatoes and garlic

https://i.imgur.com/D9w96Ac.jpg

Put chicken thighs on top. These had been marinading in a mixture of mustard, soy sauce, brown sugar, chipotle, garlic and vinegar. Into the oven for 35 minutes.

https://i.imgur.com/xQl1Z3i.jpg

When you bake or fry meat that's been marinading in sugar or honey it tends to blacken quite a lot but that's not generally a sign of being overdone. It was perfect inside and nicely crisp on top.

https://i.imgur.com/yaZU1Lg.jpg

The potatoes needed another 10 minutes though.

https://i.imgur.com/mlrhvHp.jpg

Ain't nothing wrong with that. Bachelor cooking.

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berlyman101 posted...

Some of you people have never lived in a rural area and it shows. I'm just guessing that's where TC is, although it could also be a poorer town just about anywhere in America.

Yeah. I've worked in rural offices and honestly if someone got fired every time someone made an inappropriate workplace remark then the entire county would be unemployed.
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konokonohamaru posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Sadly this isn't the first time she's tried this so I'm just gonna pretend I haven't seen the email and drop the bomb on her Friday morning.

don't do that.

Believe me, this is not my first reaction. You give someone the benefit of the doubt the first time, and then the second time you give them another chance. The third time you might have a sense of grace to just roll with it.

But if it continues to happen then you need to let karma bite them in the ass. She is just a general manager, not mein fuhrer. If she can't manage a simple schedule then that's her not doing her job correctly, nothing to do with me.
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TheGoldenEel posted...

Tc do you have an out of office reply set?

Yep. And leave scheduled in diary, and all important people notified, handover notes given, etc. etc.

This is 100% because the GM has a memory like a goldfish. I'm not going to work out of hours to make up for that, I'm amazed that anyone would think that's the correct response.
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Alteres posted...

You are working that day, you are supposed to be versed on your duties.

Showing up and going, I don't know what I am talking about lol, isn't going to end well for you.

Man up and be ready.

So would you schedule a meeting on a sunday night for the entire team at 9am on a monday morning and then be upset that the team did not know and prepare for the meeting?

No. The only way to prepare for this client presentation would be to take 3 hours of my scheduled leave time to work, settinga precedent that leave time is just working from home time. I simply am not going to do that.

How about you man up and not take shit from your job? Once again, her piss poor planning is not my emergency.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

if she's the one in charge though you'll be the one that ends up paying. even if it's her mistake. should just tell her now.

I've given her several chances in the past, so I absolutely intend to have the shit hit the fan this time. Sometimes you've just gotta let it happen before people get the point.

Also I absolutely do not want to set the expectation that I check emails while on leave. Her shitty planning is not my emergency.
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Well, important thing is you go in prepared with examples of comments they've made to you and so on.
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I'm off work til Friday. Checked my emails just now. She's scheduled a presentation in my calendar with a client for Friday at 9am on a particular bit of software that 1) only I can present and prepare and 2) takes around 3 hours to prepare for each presentation.

Sadly this isn't the first time she's tried this so I'm just gonna pretend I haven't seen the email and drop the bomb on her Friday morning.
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I don't know what work culture is like in America but honestly I would have shut that stuff down almost immediately. Hindsight is 20/20.

When's the meeting then?
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pauIie posted...

i find jazz, classical and flamenco harder to play than metal, but metal is definitely nerdier.

Sometimes things are just hard but sometimes they are designed to be hard as if to say "look how clever I am".

Which is how I feel about a lot of say, jazz funk rock fusion. The giveaway (to me) is when the audience cheers any time the solo musician (and there will be a lot of solos) does something particularly difficult.

It's funny actually because when I put it that way that's exactly what flamenco music is about and that doesn't seem nerdy, so I admit my opinion is just my own.
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Squall28 posted...

That is an incredibly contrived and pointless story, and doesn't help your argument at all. And yes, I do believe in climate change.

What are you talking about, this is a real thing that happened just now for real
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konokonohamaru posted...

This analogy would be more accurate if said doctor has been telling the man he'd die for 30 years and the man still hasn't died.

Even more accurate still to say the doctor predicted 30 years ago that he would get extremely sick, and now he has.

Also, the doctor wants to take your money to help this man who he says is gonna die if you don't give him money.

Imagine the audacity of a doctor asking for funds. Those pesky quacks at it again!
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Funkydog posted...

It all fell apart when you said "A man walks into a Doctor's office"

Just completely unbelievable. Sorry, pinky.

A man, escorted by his wife, walks into the reception of a clinic and approaches the reception sheepishly
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BuckVanHammer posted...

work with a lot of nerds, celtic music seems to be pretty popular with the crowd.

Oh yeah this is true too. Always those classics students that hang out in parks with various circus equipment.
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So honestly, how is the game?
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JBaLLEN66 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

JBaLLEN66 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

I lived in Nigeria for 2 years, and while it's not anywhere near as bad as Chad I'll tell you this - pretty much anywhere in the world is nice to live if your family has money and status.

As a caveat, I don't think I would want to be in chad. The only reason Nigeria felt fine was because we had literal armed guards and 15 foot barbwire-topped walls around the building.

your basically just a tourist

You do not want to live "as the people do" as a white person in Africa

Was it that bad

No it seemed fine since I was 6 years old, generally confined to a secure compound and protected by round the clock armed security. My parents hated it though. They have some stories.
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Any music subgenre where almost the entire focus is on how difficult it is to play and how complex it is musically.

There's a lot of examples from various different genres but I can't be bothered arguing with nerds anymore today
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The doctor, even more alarmed, jumps in. "Now listen, this is ridiculous. There's a very small chance that he's fine. And if he is fine, then the worst that will happen is he'll have to stay in hospital for a bit and get poked with needles. But if we're right, then if he walks out that door he's going to die. You can look at the charts! Just look at the charts! I'm a doctor for Christ's sake!"

"Doctor, I'm sorry but we're done here, and your elitism isn't helping. Your dubious data won't convince me of anything since you already admitted that you don't have a true consensus. But I tell you what - if he dies I'll concede that you happened to be correct."

And so now we all understand climate change scepticism.
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He's bleeding from sores all across his body. His skin is a dark yellowy green. His hair is flaking off in chunks. He coughs and blood sprays out. He tells the doctor that every time he tries to go to the toilet he's conspitated and sometimes blood comes out. The doctor takes his temperature and it's a whopping 105F.

The doctor looks alarmed, and says "Honestly, I think you're very ill. Let's get you into the ER."

At that moment, a heroic skeptic bursts through the window.

"Hang on a minute doctor", he says, "how can you be sure that he's ill? Correlation does not mean causation. Just because he's burning up, bleeding, flaking, discoloured and limping does not mean he is necessarily ill."

"Well", says the doctor, "I am a doctor and that's my opinion so far, but it doesn't take a doctor to see this man needs to be treated as an emergency. I mean, just look at him."

"The arrogance of so-called professionals", opines the skeptic. "If you were a true scientist, you would prove it. And just because you are a doctor does not mean you are automatically right. This man may be a conman, and these symptoms may be entirely false."

The doctor has to admit this is technically true, and she was going to investigate it further anyway, so she takes the man away and performs a series of tests. She performs an MRI scan, CT scan, X-rays, a colonoscopy, a sigmoidoscopy, a few blood tests, urine and stool samples and checks the patient visually for any further symptoms. She passes the results to her team of 10 specialists who evaluate the output and provide a diagnosis.

The doctor returns to the skeptic. "We've had a look at the results and have concluded that we think he is indeed, Extremely Very Ill."

The skeptic is unconvinced. "But just a minute, what do you mean you think? You mean you don't know for sure?"

"Well we can never really be totally sure, and there was some disagreement, but that is our general consensus after all the test results from various equipment designed to measure this sort of thing."

"Ah", the skeptic smiles. "So in other words, you made assumptions? You didn't prove in your experiments that the machines also work, that they perform the exam accurately and conclusively? And further, your team didn't totally agree?"

"We disagree on particulars. For example I and 7 other of my colleagues give the patient 2 days if he doesn't get treatment immediately. A couple of my colleagues expect he'll live as much as a week. And there's that one guy who doesn't think he's ill at all. And we don't have time or the resources to prove these machines work, they have always been correct before."

The skeptic leans back triumphantly. "So in other words, you really don't know for sure, there is no consensus, you haven't proven anything, and you're relying on past data to inform what is currently happening now. And finally one of your colleagues - as much a doctor as you are - thinks he is not ill at all?"

The skeptic turns to the man, "You can go home now. They don't have proof that you're ill."
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Kingdom of Amalur and the entire story behind that studio is sad simply because it should have been great (and was, in many ways), but the final result was mediocre.

Also gonna say Black and White 2, Fable 2, really anything Molyneux ever touched.
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Romulox28 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

I lived in Nigeria for 2 years, and while it's not anywhere near as bad as Chad I'll tell you this - pretty much anywhere in the world is nice to live if your family has money and status.

why were you living in nigeria?

Dad was a diplomat, got posted around to various places
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JBaLLEN66 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

I lived in Nigeria for 2 years, and while it's not anywhere near as bad as Chad I'll tell you this - pretty much anywhere in the world is nice to live if your family has money and status.

As a caveat, I don't think I would want to be in chad. The only reason Nigeria felt fine was because we had literal armed guards and 15 foot barbwire-topped walls around the building.

your basically just a tourist

You do not want to live "as the people do" as a white person in Africa
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I lived in Nigeria for 2 years, and while it's not anywhere near as bad as Chad I'll tell you this - pretty much anywhere in the world is nice to live if your family has money and status.

As a caveat, I don't think I would want to be in chad. The only reason Nigeria felt fine was because we had literal armed guards and 15 foot barbwire-topped walls around the building.
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Vermander posted...

I am honestly a fan or Blake Richardson:

https://youtu.be/nRTI4cE1LJw

I did not get a jazz vibe from OPs original vid. It did not even have a groove.

I haven't heard of this guy before but will check him out

It's 6/4 but with lots of syncopation. Similar but different drummer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCoYAsyKYqw

He played on Bowie's Blackstar album
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Flockaveli posted...

That's some weird projection you got going on.

I'm not shitting on the jazz genre entirely, I listen to it and will tell you about how much it influences all kinds of music and really was the first genre to set the bar for any kind of percussionist. Metal just sets the bar SO HIGH with any instrument. Tomas is a robot.

It was just an odd comment to make.
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Flockaveli posted...

Pretty much what I expected from CE. Entry level jazz bullshit where the guy moves like he's having an episode of tourette's.

https://youtu.be/axGn6qeJHcM

I've really got to laugh when you make this comment and then post meshuggah, like that's some esoteric nobody-knows-this-high-IQ-band thing to do

Chill man, it's ok to like more than one kind of music. Tomas Haake is legit.
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Veggeta X posted...

Funny because

Even without how hypocritical this now is, this is a real shitty thing to say about women simply because you were blessed with beyond perfect genes.

Meh, ultimately I'm not invested but it's weird to me when women put other women down for their bodies
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OpenlyGator posted...

If the person you're choosing to marry is demanding you blow a small fortune on a ceremony just so they can feel better about staying with you...you might want to reassess your investment choices, including the relationship.

This would be especially relevant for couples on the progressive left who claim to be self-conscious about differences in societal privilege. Having an exorbitantly expensive wedding ceremony would of course be a huge contradiction to that claim as it is an enormous sign of wealth and privilege. And, yes, asking the parents or other family members to foot the giant bill still qualifies as flexing that privilege...

Not sure why this suddenly got political but honestly I think progressive lefties are more the kind to have lowkey weddings, something-other-than-diamonds and some vintage wedding dress.
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eston posted...

I hope he gets well soon

rip

Vermander posted...

The first half was grating, and that is coming from someone who lists to a lot of prog metal written in odd time signatures; Felt like he was just hitting whatever.

The second half when he spend up was a little better.

He knew what he was doing, not a single misplaced hit there. It's intentionally disorientating though.
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guis
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Bold take, I know.

I'm a fairly ordinary 30 something year old man I've been to tonnes of weddings at this point, and I can quite seriously draw an inversely proportional graph showcasing how good a wedding was versus how much it cost.

The absolute most boring wedding I ever went to was at the most pompous catholic cathedral in town (the service was about 2 hours of "If you guys ever break up God will never forgive you in Hell" nonsense), followed by a 3 course meal at a reception venue at the top of a landmark. Who decided that sitting next to 8 people you don't know on a table so big you can only speak to 2 of them would be a good party format?

I believe that wedding cost something like $120k and they broke up within 9 months. The ring was $20k and it's resale value was something like $3k.

The best wedding I went to was at somebody's farm. They built the furniture and decorations themselves, they had their friends play in the band and another friend do the catering. There was no sit down part of it at all. And there was no goddamn church. The service itself was on the beach next to their house. Total cost was like $4k, mostly on booze. They didn't bother with an expensive ring and just decided to go on holiday instead. Everyone just camped on the grounds that night.

That's how you do a wedding! A big party with no pomp or circumstance and just good people. Save your goddamn money for something actually fun.

If you had an expensive wedding I apologise. But I stand by my opinion.
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Siiick
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I get where you're coming from TC but you're not gonna get sympathy from people who live paycheck to paycheck and earn in a year what you earn in a month. You just aren't.
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It's basically entirely tasteless

But somehow taking one of those balls and just tearing it apart and stuffing it in your mouth is so yum
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KILBOTz posted...

I got you beat. I forgot my laptop at home and had to get a loaner. The IT guy is nice and personable and delivered the loaner lap top quickly. I filled out the survey and gave him the highest marks for the service he provided. And Im a bit sore from work I did over the weekend.

Worst. Day. Ever.

Damn, I bet you had a pleasant but nicely succinct conversation and everything

MI4 REAL posted...

my cat is now permanently handicapped.

Those MFers now charge for recycling. Note recycling centers have gone down in 20 years, especially with the known destruction of the earth.

I put down a cat a month ago

my dad nearly died of sepsis.

I work on a goddamn assembly line with a demented 61 y/o tandem partner.

Man sounds like you're having a bad year :(
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AsucaHayashi posted...

pinky0926 posted...

- Locked myself out of my house this morning

it sounds obvious but "spare keys".

I keep a set of spare keys at the office for this exact purpose. However I had just happened to take them home on friday to lend to someone who was staying over. Heh, I should have included that detail.
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