Like many people, I’ve been watching a lot TV recently. I love watching cooking shows and came across three (plus a mini show) I enjoyed and want to share.
First up is Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course (one season on Prime). He calls this “the only cookery course 
you’ll ever need.” He covers the basics, including how to shop for ingredients like fish and chiles and what equipment you need. Each episode focuses on a concept like Cooking With Confidence or Getting Organized. He also gives tips along the way like chopping garlic with salt to stop it sticking to your knife. Although it’s focused on the basics, I found this show fun to watch. The show is energetic and moves fast. Ramsay promises 100 recipes and 100 tips. That’s a lot to cram into a single season. He’s an energetic, charismatic chef who is fun to watch. He presents a wide variety of enticing recipes, and he explains what he is doing very clearly.
Next is Nadiya’s Time To Eat(one season on Netflix). This show features Nadiya Hussain, the winner of season six of the Great British Baking Show. The hook is that everyone is busy, so she’ll show you how to save time and effort so that you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family. It is a very BBC show, that pushes healthy
eating and promotes UK food producers. First, she shows you a recipe, then goes out to a stressed out person’s house and shows them how to do a different recipe. Finally, every show visits some UK food producer – a salmon farm, yogurt producer etc. Despite the propaganda aspects, I enjoyed the show. She is an appealing presenter and the recipes are also appealing.
Chef Michael’s Kitchen is another Prime show. This show is my jam as the whole point is to teach you to add your own twist to recipes. In each episode he demonstrates how to make a classic version of a dish like risotto then breaks down the recipe to identify the parts of the recipe you can customize. He 
then makes another version of the recipe with a twist. I will definitely be making Bacon and Bleu Cheese risotto. The whole season deals with seafood, which is the thing I find hardest to cook, so I really enjoyed this show.
Lastly, a fun little mini-show call Edible History (two seasons on Prime). It is hosted by Hannah Hart (also see My Drunk Kitchen on YouTube)and each episode 
is about ten minutes or so. She interviews an expert on a historical food period, picks a recipe and recreates it using as many historically correct ingredients and tools as possible. She’s adorable, punny and a little snarky. It’s a lot of fun to watch.
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Tulip
She is mythical.
/shakes fist at Tulip
Damn it. I’m trying to get off the cooking shows. I need to change up the diet to more healthy things than using a stick of butter for steak and potatoes.
/queues up the next episode of Alton Brown’s Quarantine Quitchen.
The spousal unit and I have been watching old episodes of Good Eats (that occasionally contain some advice that I now ID as either hilariously bad, outdated, or just plain ol’ too precious for words), as well as the Good Eats Reloaded stuff. I liked the old Alton Brown better overall — nerdy food geek was (and kinda still is) my jam. He’s turned into kind of a grump as he’s aged.
Working on creating a 67% whole wheat, milkless, sourdough Utane/Yudane bread recipe. First test run is tomorrow morning. I’ll share if anyone cares.
Please share
Done. Probably won’t have any results until after 1400 MDT.
Worst Cooks in America is one of my guilty pleasures. I find the first couple of episodes (when the people are clueless/playing clueless more entertaining) better then the last half. Hearing Alton and his wife argue back and forth while making cocktails entertains me. And considering I’m getting less then 5 tickets a day at work, I need more entertainment in my life.
Please share. My wife is getting into some sourdough intrigue. I cook; I don’t bake so she is on her own. Maybe I could pick up a hint or two from your experience.
I’m supposed to be getting the wheat flour for her. What am I looking for, exactly?
Any flour will work to make a sourdough starter. If you’re going for whole wheat for bread making, any whole wheat should work, it’ll be a preference as to if you have a favorite brand.
Thanks. Gold Medal is all I know, but I’ll look for some fancy organic whole wheat flour.
King Arthur or Robin Hood are both good quality
I really liked King Arthur’s White Whole Wheat.
It worked great in Cook’s Country Focaccia bread.
King Arthur had a whole thing saying you needed whole wheat flour to make a sourdough starter. Mine has been fed with whole wheat, spent grain, and AP flour. What I use to bake with is a different story (spent grain will not work well for items that you don’t want some chew to).
Look for my very favorite flour, Wheat Montana. Bronze Chief and Prairie Gold are their whole wheat products. I used to buy them, along with the Natural White, in 50 lb sacks.
What Neph said below. I’m using either whole wheat or half-and-half whole wheat and pastry flour; the little yeastie beasties are addicted to starch/carbohydrates, ’cause that’s how they roll. I typically put about a tablespoon of Rogers’ Golden Syrup into the dough as well, just to feed their addiction (Rogers’ Golden Syrup is basically like refiners’ syrup, or dark maple syrup, or “strong” honey). My yeastie beasties love me, until they get baked to death. ;-)
Er, “. . . what Neph said above.” I hate threading.
That’s a nice lineup.
Nice! I show my kids the Ramsay show all the time. His actual personality vs. His American personality is pleasing and inviting.
I have made his braised short rib in a garlic wine sauce and my god its awesome. I also use his perfect scrambled egg recipe and the family is not too keen, though I like it. Too ‘wet’
Ramsay has a soft spot for Kansas City. No idea why.
He only thinks a city should win a Superbowl once every 50 years?
LOL
Haven’t started on cooking shows. Got kind of hooked on the soft porn “Outlander.” “The Tudors” had plenty of sex and boobies too. Made me wish that, back in the day, “Dallas” could have done what they get away with today. Wasn’t there some dark haired chick named Mandy that was an 11 out of 10?
We watched a show from the 2010s called Hung….now thats softcore porn.
I watched a couple of episodes of that and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
It may be because I’d just come off glomming Boardwalk Empire.
I’ve been rewatching Burn Notice.
I approve of Gabrielle Anwar in sundresses.
Ah, yes, the time traveling bodice ripper. My wife loves that one. The 5 rapes per season got a little too eye-rolling for my tastes.
Well, as you build a tolerance for scripted sexual assault, you’ll eventually get to where 10-12 is the new threshold.
Or. so I was once told….
pushes healthy eating
Fatphobic healthy body shamers.
and promotes UK food producers
Nationalist white supremacists.
I’ve watched exactly zero hours of TV during the past month.
@ Mojeaux
This morning my gf said “I’m gonna start the big book today.”
She started reading Dunham. ?
w00 h00!
Now I’m skeert. Hope she likes it!
She started reading Lena Dunham?
She only peeks at Lena’s nekked pics when no one is looking.
Better than peaking at them.
Hateful.
I wish I’d been a little more careful about choosing names, lemme tell ya.
Kareneaux is available. JK, lol.
*haughty sniff*
I am not a tattle-tale.
*dismissive hand-wave*
At least not until someone calls you The Worst or offers to help you with puter issues.
Again, just having fun. Calm down
KarenMoj.I’m having fun back!
Also, Nikki’s the worst.
“Nikki’s the worst.”
Who? Gender Traitor is the worst, just ask her.
Tulip, I’m not much into cooking shows or videos, but I’m into this one YouTuber, Ann Reardon, “How to Cook That.” It might be her accent, but she makes things fun.
Anyway, so she does historical recipes from time to time. Here’s a centerpiece for Napoleon Bonaparte.
Fun!
I enjoy cooking shows – in small doses.
The exception being Alton Brown. I can watch his good eats back to back to back.
Cooking is my release so I can watch the shows. Wifey always asks if she can help in the kitchen and is always met with a stern ‘no!’ It is my time.
I’m a lazy cook, but I enjoy learning tips and tricks for the kitchen.
For me, the issue is that cooking shows start triggering grandiose ideas in my cooking. I’ve tried to teach the girlfriend cooking, but any hiccup causes her to default to panic mode. For me, it depends on if I’m cooking or baking. Cooking, I’ll adjust flavors as things are being cooked. Baking, I’ve had a couple of failures through my experiments (thinks back to a strawberry clafoutis he tried).
I’ve hosted Thanksgiving dinner for the past couple of years. The menu changes each year based on my mood and my tastes.
My biggest hang up with cooking is that so many people do not know how to NOT overcook shrimp, or sea bugs, whatever you want to call them. My wife is a fantastic cook and I still cannot teach her this. And she’ll always ask me ‘why is your shrimp so good?’. Because I don’t like eating fucking rubber, that’s why!
Seriously. I made a soup tonight that has shrimp. I turn off the heat of the soup and only then put the shrimp in, cover the pot, and let the heat from the soup cook it. On the grill, one minute, 30 seconds on each side and it’s done. Otherwise it’s non edible fucking rubber, gross!
Seafood is hard for many people because it cooks so different from land animals. Scallops are notoriously either undercooked or rubber hockey pucks.
A good scallop is fantastic and rare.
Yep. When you get one cooked to perfection you know it. I am terrible at cooking them
Seafood and fish (other than walleye) are the things I struggle with. They’re also expensive, so hard to practice. I can do clams and mussels.
I’m not a fan of shrimp, or most seafood. Ohio isn’t well known for ocean access. Overcooking things is almost as big of a fail as undercooking them (but with less risk of illness). I’ve managed to sell the girlfriend on pork tenderloins when I started introducing her to sous vide tenderloins (before the lockdown, we could get pre-seasoned pork tenderloins on sale).
Most people still cook pork to 160…145 is the sweetspot and my wife has started to realize that pork isnt as bad as she remembers.
Funny thing is, even with pork products from 40 years ago, if the sous vide method had been used back then, you could’ve held the pork at 140 Fahrenheit for several hours and killed all known pathogens in any case. We really are living in a golden age where cooking, infection control and food science is intersecting.
I aim for 145-150. ?
I never cooked pork like that. Everybody would ask me how I got my pork to come out so fabulously, but I would never tell them. “Mom’s secret recipe.”
Can you imagine?
“Undercook it and let it rest for a while to finish itself.”
Yeah, no. Not saying that.
Same with scrambled eggs. Under cook them and let them finish cooking on the plate. Got that from a line chef.
line chefshort-order cookYou all have me thinking “chef” instead of lowly “cook”. Gotten nothing but great advice from short-order cooks, all involving eggs.
Those guys/gals know their stuff.
There hasn’t been a commercial case of trichinosis in 30 years. Freezing also kills the parasite.
Texturally, I’ve learned that while chicken breast is safe at 60 minutes at 150 F, it doesn’t feel right. The girlfriend’s not happy with pork that’s under 160, so I usually cut mine off, and she pan fried some bits after the sous vide bath.
I love rare/raw beef, but I don’t care for rare chicken or pork. I can deal with a tidge of pink in pork and chicken as long as it’s hot and juicy.
“Too many cooks in the kitchen” is a saying for a reason.
My wife is a great cook but when I am cooking she makes me nuts. Go watch TV.
Yeppers…I am with you on that. IF, and it is a big IF, I need your help or assistance, I will let you know.
There’s a couple of reasons I watch Giada.
I binge watch ATK whenever I get enough of them saved on the DVR. I like how they explain the obvious options and why they went with the option they did. Stuff like “we’re getting all the rise from the baking powder, so the baking soda isn’t necessary from a leavening point of view. However, that extra punch of acidity from the baking soda really brightens the flavor profile”
Thanks for the recommendations, Tulip. I gotta start watching something other than shitty exploitation films of the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Just wrapping up “ Beyond Atlantis” on Amazon as I write this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Atlantis_(film)
I’ve always really liked Gordon Ramsay. Interesting guy and his recipes *always* work.
Thanks for the info on the others. I haven’t seen any of those.
Nadiya’s Time to Eat is what Semi-Homemade should have been with a decent host. Shortcuts are fine, using the time to do “table scapes” WTF?
LOL
Slutty Sunday will have you dreaming of lubricious declivities and sensuous concupiscence.
http://archive.li/NBtCU
https://tinyurl.com/y8ds7d2p
20
#21 looks like Beth Lily.
I’d like to see the rest of #8, #25, #29, #33, and #35.
We’re addicted to YouTube cooking shows…
If SP and I ever get around to filming The Libertarian Vegetarian, risotto will be my first one.
Butternut squash? That’s my favorite, but I expect bacon and bleu cheese to replace it.
Wild mushroom.
And if it’s exactly the right time of the summer, tomato.
/hides the chicken risotto he made tonight.
Doesnt matter if their is meat or no meat..Cooking really is just doing. You have to not be afraid or meek when you start.
Its all about the basics: heat, fat, acid, and salt. Build off of that and have fun.
Their, there, they’re….whatevers
Which is an awesome cookbook and pretty good show
As long as you understand the basics of what you’re doing with the cooking.
/tries to explain the difference between browning meat and greying meat to the girlfriend again
The Chef Michael show does a great job explaining which part of a recipe can be customized. I don’t think about that because I’ve been cooking for a long time, but I can see where it would be helpful.
That’s why it seems like a terrible rabbit hole for me to fall down into if I want to get back to losing weight. There’s a large amount of learning I’ve done through trial and error.
/to add onto the strawberry clafoutis, there was the tropical tiramisu I tried, the ladyfingers soaked up about a full bottle of dark rum…
I should finish reading that book.
And why is The Libertarian Vegetarians not already a show? I would watch that.
We could get tens of subscribers!!!! Imagine the crossover episode with The Hat and The Hair.
Retches. Never mind
We’re addicted to YouTube cooking shows…
#metoo
Curious about your favorites.
Among our many (Chef John, Chinese Cooking Demystified, Rick Bayless…), are two Mexican shows, in Spanish but easy to follow. This of course tells YouTube’s algorithm that we should get Spanish-language targeted ads (which of course, neither of us speaks or understands).
I binge watch Chef John. Also like the BBQ pit boys, and some cowboy guy that was linked a few weeks ago. I have watched a few episodes of My Drunken Kitchen but I can only taker her in short spurts. She looks a whole lot like whats her face number 1. I have watched dozens of Mexican home cooks none I can remember at the moment. One of my faves is that Wisconsin dude CPRM links to. He cracks me up. I watch almost everything that comes into the sidebar. I have spent a whole day drinking cheap box wine and watching youtube cooking before.
and some cowboy guy
This guy?
We love him. Hate his wife.
FIL knows him (FIL does chuckwagon cooking, and lives in OK). I asked him about Cowboy K a year or so ago. Said that the wife is the reason he’s as ‘successful’ as he is…I think she’s the one that started doing all the video production and/or got him on YT.
So, take that as you will.
I assume it will be like a perverted Mark Bittman liked vegetables.
Thanks, Tulip!
I’ll give the Ramsay one a shot. I cook a lot, but it’s really spectacular about how little I know.
This looks good, though.
Man oh man, Tundra, you’d better never go to France. You see stuff like this every single market day in every market all over France. Surprisingly, even though I eat my fill while there, I hardly gain any weight at all, even after weeks in-country. My rellies live the good life.
Oh, and when the spousal unit and I were in Florence, there was a market just a couple of blocks from the main train station that had a “food court” on the upper floor (with an entire cooking school in one corner!), and they kicked that chicken rotisserie up a notch by having piles of sliced Italian crusty baguettes underneath the roasting chicken, catching the fat and juices and browning up seductively. Order a chicken and a loaf’s worth of roasting chicken-y bread went into the take-out container as well.
Oh God, just feed me.
Centi-
pedechickenI think I saw a movie about that.
+3 cloaca-to-beak
The BBC cooking show I enjoyed, from back when BBC America actually ran BBC stuff, was Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook, in which two self-professed non-cooks would try to follow the chef’s rapid-fire instructions in cooking a meal. Though there was a lot of humor in the contestants trying to keep up, it was really subtly making the point that cooking doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might think.
I guess I’ve only ever seen Gordon Ramsay in full asshole mode – not appealing. Nor is Jamie Oliver or Robert Irvine, talented though they may be.
I never got the appeal of that. If someone has that much pent up anger they should go outside and kick a stump a few times. Come back when they are feeling better.
Preparing and eating food should be fun, relaxed and a time of celebration. Start screaming at me in the kitchen and you are liable to get a knot on your head.
Isn’t that when he’s trying to get people to take their businesses seriously?
Yes. Don’t say you are ready for the big show and bring a raw chicken to the line. Id be pissed too.
/looks at a local place that was on restaurant rescue, and then closed
Bad owners will make bad decisions, and continue making them usually.
Yep…same with the whole Bar Rescue. Though did run into a place in Milwaukee that was on that show. Kick ass wings, but was still a dive
Packy’s Pub was the place by the way.
That was 4th Street Tavern? IIRC
Then it became Cray bar (never went) and now it is City Tavern, and I really like it
Mad Cactus in Strongsville was on Restaurant Rescue. The went with the changes for a couple of months, then decided that they knew better, and changed back. They eventually went out of business, and the location has been for sale for several years now.
Ramsay’s asshole mode is a fiction invented for Fox television.
Ramsay is doing the yelling at work. At home? Yeah, It should be enjoyable. Having worked in restaurants and been witness to some of the dumbest behavior possible, I get why Gordon flips out. Not my style, but I get it.
Yeah that is his American personality…though I suspect in the kitchen he is demanding. As a teacher though, it is 180 from what you normally see on TV
GR was much calmer but still impassioned in the BBC version. Wonder if it’s on Britbox.
Nor is Jamie Oliver or Robert Irvine, talented though they may be.
They’re not.
If I wanted to get a small garage fridge exclusively for beer, what temp would I want to set it to for optimal coverage – wide variety, etc.?
Ideally, as a newer model, it should let me set it to an exact one avg temp.
What are your preferences flavor wise for beers?
Just about everything, but I stay away from most IPAs and anything over 40 IBUs.
If you’re going non-hoppy, and lower IBU, I’m going under the assumption of dark beers. Most of those will be best served at ~45 F. If you’re going to park a pack of lagers in there, drop the temp down by about 10 degrees.
Or find what you like, and roll with it.
https://vinepair.com/articles/best-temperature-beer/
Thanks for the link. I’ve appreciated that Left Hand always post optimal temp/pouring on their cans – wish more folks did that. Will probably need to aim for a happy medium between my main fridge (yuengling, some locals) and a beer fridge for everything special.
I know when I get the EARFquake (12.6% ABV, usually 10/$10 @ Kroger)….damn near frozen is ideal. The warmer it gets, your nose gets notes of fusel alcohol, model glue, sharpie, and compost.
Which is likely what its made from.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
No love for the Two Fat Ladies ?
Why are they not being arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road?
Tres, I’m worried about you. I’m pretty sure those two will stew your bones for porridge.
I will check it out. Looks fun
They may just eat you with several pounds of melted butter, though . . .
So, you’re going to cook on the next glib zoom, right?
Im making ghetto chicken florentine tonight. Again.
I remember seeing an episode long time ago where they went grouse “hunting”. After someone bagged a grouse, they cooked it in a lattice of about 3 lbs of bacon. Well hell, anything will taste good cooked that way.
I will definitely be making Bacon and Bleu Cheese risotto
That sounds delicious. Let us know how it turns out.
Made the pot roast below this afternoon, except did stove top instead of slow cooker and did homemade substitute for the onion soup mix.
https://youtu.be/Xtc3VGy2gmY
That looks good. That is the good side of the internet and YouTube. You get the world’s palette at your fingertips to share with your family.
It turned out well. Also added carrots and potatoes because it’s not a pot roast without those for me.
I ride or die with Chef John.
I was ride or die with North Beach Gianni but he doesn’t post so eff that mug.
Chef John is good, but his voice is really distracting.
Wondering how you would react to a stranger telling you and your friends, “You aren’t six feet apart!”
https://twitter.com/tweettruth2me/status/1262028136016986113
Nope. I know how I would react.
I would walk up to give that cunt a big old hug. It’s the only neighborly thing to do.
She’s probably get you charged with assault.
Hmmmm, come to think of it, that might be worth it.
🙂
DEG
I apologize for getting/being defensive in the glibfit post 🙁
*Checks thread* Uh, if that’s the bar for necessitating an apology, I owe quite a few myself.
You were?
*shrugs* I think so.
I asked a question and should have been gracious to those who answered it.
The muscle vs. fat bit? I missed this comment when I last refreshed the thread and just noticed it now.
Don’t worry about it. It triggers a peeve of mine when folks talk about muscle weighing more than fat. I should have been a little less short in my reply.
You got good answers from others.
Short and to the point works.
I just got embarrassed and felt like a dumb-dumb. So I got defensive.
It happens. Like I said, don’t worry about it and I should have been less short.
Language!
自分でファックして!
Cryptic. That seems like “Do the fucking yourself!”
Is it close to this sentiment?
She’s going to science the shit out of those people. Then they’ll understand.
Mrs. Hobbit loves to bake goodies. I have been overweight almost my entire adult life. She has to suppress her desire to bake goodies and I have to suppress my desire to eat them.
Becoming a grandmother has just made it worse.*
I’ve been trying to avoid carbs and starches but when the corona panic hit and bread disappeared we broke out the bread machine.
I make a walnut rye bread that is to drool for. After the first batch, however, we were out of rye flour. In the two months that this insanity has been going on we have not been able to replace our rye flour**
* Our baby had a baby. Daughter #3 presented us with granddaughter #3 (grandchild #6) on Tuesday.
**disclaimer: we are talking Los Alamos County here and have not made any sort of attempt anywhere else
I’ve been suppressing my baking habit with a drinking habit. I’m not sure it’s working better for me, but it’s probably better for anyone near me.
Have you shared that recipe, Hobbit?
I also cannot find rye flour anywhere. I’m dismayed, because I know that most of it that was hoarded will never be used and will go rancid. *sigh*
Also, congratulations on the new grandbaby.
Look towards homebrew stores. They probably have unmalted rye. Grind that, and you have flour.
That’s how one of our friends does most of her flour. The electric grinder she bought is a food geek’s wet-dream.
Yeah. At the beginning of the lockdown, when I saw that flour was scarce. I brewed a batch of beer. It’s the only batch I stored every bit of the spent grain to make into flour. I’ve got four cups of dried flour in the fridge, and another 8 cups of spent grains in the chest freezer in the basement.
I have so far resisted the urge to acquire one. I look at them about every 6 months, but then sanity kicks back in and I ignore them for a few more months.
I used a standard food processor. It did wind up with a bit of bran chunks, but if you run it through a sieve or sifter, it’ll filter that out. Overall, it still adds a chewy texture to anything you make with it.
GD3
D3 holding GD3
Awwwwwwww
Cute kid.
Little people are the best! Grat’s!
Our baby had a baby. Daughter #3 presented us with granddaughter #3 (grandchild #6) on Tuesday.
Excellent.
I make a walnut rye bread that is to drool for.
Tell us more please.
Congrats on the grandkid. I’m sure my parents are jealous. They have zero, you want to rent some out? ?
Still constantly shocked Battle of the Network Stars existed.
Between the above, and many instances similar to the above, and legendary moments like this, I’m amazed a doc about it’s greatness hasn’t been created.
I see YouTube allows the use of “Bruce” Jenner. Very progressive of them.
Apropos of nothing in particular, my little Shih-Tzu/Bichon Frise cross does this to me if I get up more than an hour later than the spousal unit in the morning:
https://imgur.com/gallery/i8npAkk
TW: cute overdose.
My God.
Aww.
My dog is currently insisting she is a lap dog and trying to get on my lap. She weighs 70 pounds and is all (sharp) elbows. So far, I’m winning, she can be next to me, not on me, but she’s not giving up.
You will eventually break down. Our pup shattered the final frontier six weeks ago when she jumped up on the bed at night and both I and the spousal unit shrugged.
She doesn’t stay there, but she’s there until lights out.
She’s allowed on the bed, just not on my lap. I’ve had her about 5-6 years, and every few months, she makes a play to be a lap dog. Nope
Haven’t watched much TV in years. I find youtube better.
This bad lip reading had me laughing pretty hard around the 1:43 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E
I don’t know how many sci-fi short films there are about lawyers, but this is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi short films about lawyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g
Well, time for my evening run. Was booze free today. Yay me! I don’t know if I will have a new satire this week. I may submit a re-run. Good night and have pleasant tomorrow!
I’ve been geeking out lately on “Alaska’s Wild Gourmet”. A Cordon Bleu trained chef forages and hunts Kodiak Island and then cooks out in the wilderness.
My family are picky eaters. The only time I get to cook what I want is at deer camp. Those guys (if they are drunk enough) will eat almost anything.
“I never ordered a Brandy in my life that wasn’t Cordon Bleu… I took two-hundred from shylocks, pop, to see Sinatra at the Garden? Sat two seats away from Tony Bennett. That’s success!”
Tomorrow is the first day of moving back to normal at work.
Field staff are returning to work in the morning.
Oh, and I’m our pandemic safety officer. Blech.
Hi Karen
SOCIAL DISTANCE
WEAR THE MASK
I too have that role. It’s ridiculous and I am glad my staff does not take me seriously. I mean I will probably get fired but hey, masks are dumb and uncomfortable af
Make all the Karens wear a special star.
I honestly have no idea now when I may even be allowed to go back into the office. The company I work for has made it clear that their choices override any company we support.
It’s good you are moving back to normal at work.
It sucks that you are the safety officer.
One of my college friends who went far left after graduating just posted that he is taking a job as a contact tracer. Had no idea he went full fascist. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t contact tracing only useful in the early stages of a potential outbreak? Also, aren’t the people who do contact tracing usually epidemiologists? I think he has a degree in political science.
This is all about creating a giant new cadre of government-sector workers.
I mean it could be interesting, but I agree with the consensus that there’s no sense in wasting millions of public money on it right now.
Then again, we can always just print more,
“Contact tracer”. Fucking reboots. Never remake Blade Runner.
Ha!
2049 was good, bro.
Over the years there have been many movies/remakes that I was ready to hate up front. 2049 was an unexpected pleasure.
(Right off hand I’d include The Adams Family and The Coneheads in that assessment.)
Also, aren’t the people who do contact tracing usually epidemiologists?
No, it’s a minimally skilled clerical job. Get a list of positive tests from labs/health care providers/state contagious disease reporting system. Call the patients, collect data about when symptoms started (if they did), places and people they had contact with for a set period, review quarantine restrictions/assess needs/what to do if/timeline. Call the people and businesses that had contact, determine if any have symptoms or positive tests, give whatever the current guidance (self isolate/monitor for symptoms) & whatever the current legal restrictions are. Follow up with both groups every day or couple of days until recovered or beyond the incubation period. Repeat ad naseum.
Like counting grains of sand on the beach or trying to pick fly shit out of a pound of pepper?
Walnut Rye Bread (bread machine recipe)
2 1/2 tsp yeast
2 cups bread flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup rye flour
1 1/3 tsp sugar
1 1/3 tsp salt
1/4 cup walnut oil
1 1/2 cup water
add 1 cup chopped walnuts at the beep.
My batches are always dry so plan on adding 1 tsp or so of water.
Now we’re talkin’. Thanks, mang.
Thanks, copy pasted.
My kingdom for some bread flour right now. Last pizza dough made with AP was lacking. I might have to make a trip to the “big city” where I hear there is a bakery selling high gluten flour to regular folk.
Breadtopia has high-gluten flour available. Some of their other products are currently not available.
So annoyed with all the non-baker hoarders.
In fairness, I did provide both my niece and an old friend of mine portions of my sourdough starter.
So, you’re saying it’s all your fault?
Most likely. I will admit that I found this amusing.
Hmm… I should give this a try. I like rye bread. Thanks!
Tres Cool has a secret gig writing for WaPo.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/17/washington-post-mocked-stacey-abrams-profile/
Fruit Sushi quoted in the article.
To his credit he got this one right. He was even funny.
I’m just an intern. Hardly my swan-song literature piece.
There’s still time to write about the tragedy of Adele’s weight loss.
“A visionary leader”? When I think Stacey Abrams, there’s only one “vision” that comes to mind.
Just…be ready.
Way OT: I’ve been a bit gloomy in GlibFit for several weeks. Sorry about that. I hope today’s article broke that streak.
In addition to the shutdown, I’ve been dealing with three past clients who have become huge distractions for me. Client 1’s case closed over 2 years ago. She filed for fee Arbitration claiming I didn’t actually do any work for her. I had the hearing a couple of months ago. This week I received the ruling. The arbitration panel found I had done the work, gotten the result I claimed, and ruled she owed me another $5k that I hadn’t billed her. The fucker actually said to me, “do you really think they will rule against a 72 year old woman!?!” Sorry sweetie. I’m looking forward to levying her bank account.
Client 2 reported me to the State Bar. I represented her for nearly 2 years, took her case to trial, and won her about $1,700,000. She wouldn’t pay my fees. I sued her, took it to trial, and won a six figure judgment against her. After that trial she reported me to the State Bar. The investigator was very nice and told me she sent a 51 page complaint. I sent him my entire file and a long letter rebutting her allegations. Today he emailed me saying they were closing their investigation and taking no action.
I will now explore the process for forcing the sale of client 2’s house to satisfy the judgment. If there is an auction, then I plan to personally attend.
Client 3 has sued me for breach of contract and malpractice. I had to file a motion to be relieved as her attorney when I discovered she covertly filed a motion to get money out of a blocked account using my firm’s information on her motion. She hasn’t responded to any discovery in the malpractice case even after the court ordered her to respond. Friday her attorney told me he is filing a motion to be relieved as her attorney.
I hate lunatics. They are a giant time and energy suck.
What’s incredibly weird is I’ve been in private practice for over 20 years. Never had a problem with former clients. Then these lunatics all descended at once.
Chafed, truly no worries man. I don’t think I’ve met anyone who’s going through this lockdown as they would their usual work. I doubt there’s anything an IT geek in Ohio can do to help, but reach out if there’s anything I could do to help.
Neph, I’ve been watching Babylon 5 on the regular thanks to you. It has been just the distraction I needed.
Oh, poor Chafed!
I’ve heard a lot of these stories firsthand but you’re right, not all at once. I’d develop an ulcer or drinking problem in your place (not intentionally of course).
Chafed, I’m so sorry. I’ve been dealing with two problem clients, but after your tale, I’ll just count my blessings.
Mo my advice is this. Either walk away from the client and the money owed or dig in like a tick. The first saves lots of time and drama. The second means taking on a Keyser Soze mentality. If only one of us is going to walk out alive then it’s going to be me.
One’s just needy like a child.
The other one I’m about to tell him to keep his money.
My unsolicited advice, walk away from the first one too.
Good luck with that third client. It’s true that just a few people end up taking up most of my time.
Sounds like justice was done so far…
Thanks HS.
Sorry to hear all that, but at least the findings are in your favor, as they should be.
And, I would also be on the verge of losing my sanity were I dealing with the CA government currently.
I suspect that’s the reason Newsom designated liquor stores as essential businesses.
Even the old Soviets knew you had to keep the vodka flowing.
Chafed, sorry to hear about your situation. My step-bother is in the same line of work as you and his work-life sounds exactly like yours. It always amazes me to hear about people who hire him to successfully sue the tar out of some other person but somehow not expect he would do the same to them once they stiff him on his cut.
OT: I wrote a short follow-up on my pull-up journey at the bottom of the dead Glibfit thread. Thanks for mentioning my pull-up article! I hope it was useful to the gliberverse.
I’ll go check it out.
It is astounding people think I’ll just lie down and take it. It’s especially astounding when I’ve gone to trial. They have seen what happens. Yet, they think they are the exception.
The lawyer I know frequently used in his dunning letters the phrase “Lincoln freed the slaves, and I don’t work for free.”
That’s funny. He’s got balls.
Sorry.
I “enjoy” clients who won’t abide by the contract and think they can get away with it.
That little paragraph about their liability for legal fees: it’s not going away; you’re just adding to your pain, bozo.
My soul mate.
even a lawyer tried that one!
I would give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was just weighing his odds and bluffing, but he flew it all the way into the ground instead of bailing out as soon as he was served
Please tell me he represented himself.
Should I need attorney representation…
?
That’s damn right.
When you bid on the house say “yeeeppp” real loud. It seems to throw the other bidders off their game.
Ha!
Also, I miss Brandi
Trouble in WaPo’s paradise.
http://archive.li/7lrwv
I’m shocked. Shocked I say, to discover the CCP can’t be trusted.
I have been watching WRC on board camera stages and late ’70s and early ’80s Formula 1 races. James Hunt was a great color commentator: “What an idiot!”
Canadian Air Force jet celebrating coronavirus front-line workers crashes into home
Good job Canada maybe you’ll convince the United States to stop with these tribute flights.
Yes, even one life if priceless, so Cuomo needs to close all airports in NY State before there’s another unnecessary tragedy.
It was a husband-and-wife team (pilot + technician). As of now it’s still unclear who was killed and who bailed out successfully (the Tutor jet trainer can take two people, and they were flying out of Kamloops to their next destination, not doing display flights that day). Latest I’ve seen is that the maintenance person, Captain Jenn Casey, was killed, and her husband is in hospital with serious injuries.
Yo, PO Nick: free Sirius trial through the end of the month. https://www.siriusxm.com/offers/free-listen
Ooo nice!
Danke
No fair! I pay for SiriusXM, if people get it for free I’m getting screwed. I demand satellite radio subscription forgiveness.
You dont know the “30-day trial” game yet?
I like to pay for the services I use, I’m funny like that.
Lookit Mr. $1200 check over there.
I call them every 12 months to renegotiate my rate. Bizarrely, they lowered it substantially last week when I called.
Just in time to tune in to this limited-time channel that a lot of us might really need right now. (The channel that’s usually at this spot on the dial, “The Spa,” has prevented me from killing my coworkers on more than one occasion.)
You like yacht rock, don’t you?
I do!!!!!!!!
Like this?
https://youtu.be/neq4QhMtNFY
Expecting this, but there’s the Chafed I know and love!
I’ll leave that for MikeS.
I baited the trap. Now I just have to wait.
Haven’t really checked that channel out. At work (I have a portable radio with a dock) I tend to bounce between ’80s and Soul Town (the latter of which often takes me back to junior high) unless I really need to lower my blood pressure.
The secret to getting rid of annoying coworkers is playing Anthrax. If you are willing to commit to a ⛧ tattoo it seals the deal.
Alternatively, you can play Body Count but you have keep a gun in your desk that’s visible when you pull the drawer out.
YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAM FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!!
Did someone say yacht rock?
http://somafm.com/seventies/
w00 h00!!!
Christopher Cross does not sound like anyone who could ride like the wind to Mexico
He meant break like the wind.
https://youtu.be/pJLOSuz147I
WRC on board
Germany:
Your driveway is probably wider than these roads.
I wish I could drive like that.
WRC is my favorite form of car racing.
It’s true, they do want cake.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYOtkhHXgAcANrx?format=jpg&name=medium
That’s… I…. just….
It has the right to vote…
Xe has the right to vote.
Xe has the right to have xir’s face shoved into that cake. If it intrudes onto my natural rights, it has the right to a .40 to the skull.
Does it have polio? Whats with those arms ?
Lack of working, I would say. Or, heroine, maybe?
Somewhere in CA judging by plate in background. F2M?
?
Dude…
any Twins fans on the thread ?
I’m sure that Q could come up with something.
I was until they built a stadium with my tax dollars.
indeed: that fairly rules out entire leagues, sports . . . the industry
I understand the game. I still hate it.
If I could quite playing (paying) it without going to jail I would.
I like Twins okay. But I prefer these twins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ43zj01b0
Oddly both were released in the same year.
These twins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ9nPidefaQ
Still better.
My fave of theirs.
Stuck in the 80s. Best Eurythmics song.
Fight me.
bitch got pipes whatever she sings
but, as a guitarist, Would I Lie to You has tone for days
I would agree with you about that, but then we’d both be wrong.
you do you, dewd; I can’t save ever-body
It’s a Memphis thang: horns, Strats, and colored girls; she can play wha-ever she want here any day she sho
She stole the whole ‘abusive boyfriend’ thing from Amy Mann and “Voices Carry”
I will concede on the solid horn section.
Needlessly revvving a bike in the middle of your song isnt ‘value added’. But it was the 80s
Voices Carry is as well-produced tune from that decade as I can think of.
NewWife likes Wave; real men play guitar, so I just skipped the eighties musically . . . except seeing SRV in 85.
I saw SRV play in Austin in 1989, same year I saw DAC live.
Always loved that one.
#metoo
Best TT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuv4f-AmKE4
Runner-up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=po2ahzuziEw
No. And then no.
But in the age of contact tracers….
Interesting. Haven’t heard that in ages if ever.
+1 on Love Is a Stranger.
(Also interesting: anyone else seeing Helvetica?)
Ive paid money to the Babylonbee.
I think you mean HEAVENvetica
Apropos of which, see 5:06 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ryqcp1Oxo
Helvetica gone again.
Yep. Dan Gladden and Kirby.
Tom Cruise isn’t an awful action hero, I guess.
We’ll only know if he gets cast in the remake of Above The Law.
http://archive.li/NIze7/38eea321afde72ac65d0764662ea706ba7dc6f93.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/RTdhT/aa274d327c41d0f248b26f1a9fe6cf7c19fc4f35.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/wqwVj/a970796a8d9a907298dc93d4f8f886b24222bdc0.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/ji8Eh/9e88f47d614710039f7e9b604494f95d51241115.jpg
NSFW.
yes
I think she had thrush.
Since Nick sent me looking for TT songs- Pale Shelter
Is Lockdown Turning You Into J.D. Salinger? – Ali Fitzgerald
I’d say it’s more likely to turn someone into Sirhan Sirhan.
No love for Bernie Goetz ?
My guess is the violence will be directed at politicians.
That makes me conflicted on the NAP and due-process, based on how the past couple months have gone.
Then again, les aristocrates à la lanterne!
I’m not advocating assissination. I just wouldn’t be surprised if it happened to one of the governors who are lockdown enthusiasts.
I said in the last thread there are a whole lot of angry people and those writing POs for Zyklon B are proudly letting their names and pictures be publicized. If I was making shit models, I’d be less social than Ted Kaczynskifor the next ten years.
I have a visceral dislike of Salinger after high school English. Holden Caulfield was the most repugnant protagonist since Mein Kampf.
Aw, his kid brother died, he witnessed a classmate commit suicide while wearing his sweater, other classmates nick his stuff, his teacher makes a pass at him, he ends up in a sanitarium… He’s isolated as hell!
I like him, and how he talks like an R-rated Wally Cleaver.
This is a strong reaction. I recall the book was funny until his encounter with a prostitute and then it got decidedly less interesting. Maybe I should reread it.
Probably the same on my end. It was HS, which killed many things for me.
I only read that damn book once, but my estimation of it was that it went nowhere and had no meaning. The author goes off on tangents that have no conceivable relevance to the story.
And I agree with Gustav; the protagonist is a whiny little dickhead. Zero fucks given what happened to him, so that makes for a pretty bad story.
Uppity citizens will just have to learn the hard way
-Governors (D-Icks)
Jesus that’s shitty.
It is amazing what passes for ‘probably cause’, and the other actionable concepts.
She may want to see if there is a public interest law firm that would take her case. There are usually state law privacy protections for child abuse investigations that are difficult to penetrate. But if you do then there is no telling what may turn up in discovery.
This may be coincidental timing or it may be a gross abuse of power.
Yeah, and I would think/hope there are some (one?) that have reached out to her. If this was done because they thought she was behaving in a way that put her kids at risk, due to COVID, coincidence is a non-starter. And, I doubt there is any other compelling issue at play.
Now I wonder if Texas CPS will see this, and start on the Dallas salon owner…
The one who got the governor and AG’s (grudging) support? No way.
Zillow is running ads featuring Shelter from the Storm. I want to shove a phillips head in both ears when I hear it: that particular bit o genius eludes me.
Huh…….https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/05/17/wait-arbery-video-leaked/
I think I’ve said it before, but file this in my column of predictions (i.e. offering a testable hypothesis). I’m with the Royal Astronomical Society and others who have a very, very good model of the sun’s output and they have been saying for a while that we’re headed into a Maunder Minimum. When I first learned of this it was probably 4 years ago – and I don’t know if they’ve updated their model – but I thought they were predicting later this decade, but then I just saw this article.
It’s verboeten now to deny the “climate warming” dogma, but I suspect there is gonna be a whole lot of crow being eaten in the coming decade. Don’t throw away your parkas, kids!
Also, buy grow lights and get some dirt and burpee seeds!
Offer not available in Michigan.
First of all, it is “global climate change” rather than “climate warming”. And that means, it doesn’t really matter what happens to the climate. Humans caused it.
It gets warmer, humans caused it.
It gets colder humans caused it.
The temperature stays the same. humans caused it.
You don’t think they will find some way to blame this on humanity?
Heya Chafed- I was reading about your headaches upthread (cause Id already commented down…who reads that shit?)
But when you said you were anxious to see someone’s house get forced to auction- could you bid/buy it at auction? Or is that a conflict thing?
Or could you be a dick and have a straw-purchaser bid/buy it? Or is it another pesky ethics thing ?
Hey Tres. I could bid on the house. There is no ethics problem since she is a former client. But I won’t because it doesn’t help me. Once her debt to me is covered by 3bid,any overage goes to her.
I want to apologize/not apologize for getting “falling down drunk” last night. I hope I didn’t hurt any Glib feelings.
Were you drunk? I saw nothing that made me think there was anything amiss.
Diggy, I was faced.
?”He’s in the shit-house now…”?
Now, I know why you were laughing as hard as you were!
You seemed like a perfect gentleman. Never would have known.
I’m what’s known as “High Functioning”. I’m tricksy.
I woke meself with an authentic head-desk about two hours after sign-off. The nose didn’t resume bleeding.
In These Troubled Times it seems someone found some yeast.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/gcks58/when_you_realize_yeast_doesnt_stop_working_just/
Just find a “questionable” girl and all of your yeast problems will be resolved.
You sure you aren’t….you know…now?
Nope. I can type coherently. Wouldn’t drive.
?L’Chaim!?
Was back at work today. Even though state supreme court ended the lockdown we’re still closed until further notice and I still have to wear a mask while I sit there and do nothing.
“Ah, the life”, huh?
It helps to just think of all the 2hour segments between breaks as small chunks that I ‘wreck’ and ‘destroy’.
Hmmmm….the “chunks/wreck” dichotomy is, well, problematic.
I’m not Tres, I’ve never wrecked a chunk.
::suppressed laughter::
That sucks but at least you are working. I’m going to chow on a BLT and watch part two of “IT” with Wifey. Smell ya later, Friends!
Enjoy!
BTW–this guy here, who does Hot Wheels, etc. restorations, uses decals, as seen in that link.
I would love to see the service he uses make some decals of H&H–from the merch line–and have one of the most ostentatious cars to be found restored in an H&H/US President theme.
Either black, as if it were an official POTUS car, or, metallic gold, because…well, Trump.
At least the increased CO2 level makes the time pass quicker.
At least I’m finally getting my glasses steamed at work.
So you’ve got that going for you.
I’ve sent an email to HR.
well I barely slept last nigh I was so pissed off… Good morning to whomever may still be around
Why is that, Pie–what was the issue?
The Romanian equivalent of driving with expired tabs or driving without the yearly engine inspection. He was 2 days past due and they pulled him over and wrote a big ticket.
Good Morning Pie.
Any way to appeal it? Or get it reduced?
No. If it was a speeding ticket for example you could appeal. But for this it is pretty clear there is nothing to appeal. I am more mad at being stupid than anything else…
I suggest tax evasion as a way of getting even.
Yeah, that is super frustrating. I can understand the lack of sleep.
I was sure I was good should have checked… I could have taken a different rout more likely to be cop free.
The thing is the covod emergency situation ended on the 15th. I should have thought this would happen, the cops were busy enforcing quarantine during the emergency period. So they did not give many traffic tickets. Now that it was over apparently they were out in force to make up for lost time. I should have thought of that and been more careful. If I took my normal route home I would have been fine I think, I took a longer one on purpose just to work the engine a bit more because the car sits most of the time now.,
Yeeesh. Not even a grace period, huh? When I went to work at my first police agency, the Lieutenant/Chief’s SIL told me just to wait for the 5 day grace period to end before dealing with the annual registration.
Thin blue line, I guess. Either that, or, way to get the full amount of time out of the registration sticker.
You are a CRIMINAL and deserve to be PUNISHED. Don’t go thinking you’ll get any sympathy from me! You should have paid money to get that sticker from a government stooge on time if you didn’t want to kill my dead grandmas and my never to be born children!
The fact that Pie can “err” may mean his is human after all.
he instead of his
One more day of being at work and doing nothing, then I get three days off. Bow before me, I am a Hero in these difficult times, the new normal.
That will be me on Wednesday night. Good times, I hope.
I am not going to remember how to do the actual job when we go back to it. I did it for like 3 weeks before all this started 3 months ago.
down time = re-reading notes/training materials?
Hah, naw. I don’t GAF now.
Really? Are you not going to stick around?
No, I’ll stick around. But this whole thing has made me meh on actual effort for now. Doesn’t matter how much effort I put into the job, I’m still just a cog on the lowest rung. Where as before I was actually going over procedures in my dreams to sleep learn (I learned I can do that). Now I won’t give an effort until I actually have something to do. No reward to do it now.
Ah–gotcha.
come one no one uses down time like that
They do when I train ’em. But, retaining the info is their responsibility.
https://youtu.be/_JTl6N7ZUjE
GI Joe live… it’s like the last 35 years never happened.
GT, feel free to laugh at me for this.
The last time I answered the Catwoman question it turns out I still haven’t seen any episode containing Kitt. I was comparing Newmar to Newmar. So when Kitt finally showed up in the Cat-astrophic season three, I went “Did three people play this role?”
I have a terrible eye for actors.
I would never laugh at you! ::turns head and snickers::
Did you have a pleasant weekend? Get away for a bit?
Well, on saturday, I visited my mother, then on sunday I drove to new hampshire to buy groceries.
I don’t think I’ve left home since we went to pick up Chinese carry-out Friday evening. I’m still on vacation this week – I may just have to force myself to get in the car and go somewhere.
If the return to the office plan includes ‘wear mask at work’ I’ll be taking a vacation too.
Honestly, that was my strongest motivation to take some vacation now. I just wanted to be away from the nonsense. General retail started reopening in Ohio last week, and I could stand to shop for a new pair of jeans, but I don’t know what annoying restrictions may still be in place. Will I have to be hosed down with disinfectant on my way into or out of the dressing room if I want to try something on?
I don’t know. I thought they did that anyway
/buys clothes by measurement
At least I’ve done some reading. Over the weekend, I finished the eleventh full-length book in Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St. Mary’s series. After that, started a stand-alone volume in Pratchett’s DiscWorld series.
I’m sore from head to toe, but almost everything is packed! No reprieve at night, as i dreamed of packing too. We finally know where we’re going to end up, which is a relief. We know that the appraisal won’t be a problem, which is the third to last hurdle. All in all, I’m pleasantly surprised how smoothly this has gone. Thanks be to God on that.
When you get there, you’ll be dreaming of unpacking.
I sure hope to be dreaming about something less mundane by then.
Whew! Moving sucks, but I know you’re delighted to be leaving where you are. Do I recall correctly you’re fleeing NOVA? And landing in TX?
That’s right! Getting TFO of the creeping DC swamp and heading for the friendlier waters of Dallas.
Sincerely hoping you make it out before they close the borders.