The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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I got my iPad back but I forgot the passcode.
...did you write it down and put it somewhere like a desk drawer just in case?
Not to my knowledge. If I did, it probably got thrown out?
Pick a new passcode. It will probably turn out that was the old passcode.
@Richard
Potato Dauphinoise sounds a bit fancy! Had to look it up and found it to be thinly sliced potato baked in cream. Sounds (very) nice, although I've never heard of anything being baked in cream before, nevermind potato! It sounds like something Sainsbury's would sell, so I'll have to buy one in ready-made form next time I'm in there, see what I'm missing! Regards your mandolin, that sounds like a pretty damn good one if it has wing-nut adjustment, so I'd fix it up if I were you! The modern ones I keep coming across are absolutely useless!
@NylonGirl
Nice, but these days it seems a humble bar of cheese costs as much as a bar of gold, and they'd charge even more for slicing if they offered that here!
@kyotokid
They only had "Mango Chainsaw" and "Severed Lime" so I bought two of each to make up the offer of four for a quid. Tried both and they're not bad. They're a bit weird, sort of like a fizzy drink, but where the fizz lasts longer than the taste. I suspect it's due to it being made of Mountain Water and not having any sugar in it. I would definitely buy them again, but I would never pay the sort of prices I suspect these drinks normally sell for. But these worked out at 25p per can (and they're big cans as well), so to get four for a quid was a bit of a bargain cause that makes two litres at 500ml per can.
@SilverGirl
I hear you about the washing part. Just looking at the design of some of them makes me think "ouch". Anyway, I'd rather not go to such extremes but I think I'll have to buy one of those rotary slicers instead. Seems like overkill for cheese, but at least those things have a fully adjustale thickness knob and you get to keep your fingers! I suppose I could use it for the tomatos as well, or even making Potato Dauphinoise if it turns out I like it, which from the sounds of it I probably will.
Anyway, according to photograph 4 it's got a variable knob that goes from slice to slab (so hopefully the slice end goes as thin as I need it to):
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3631799?clickSR=slp:term:slicer:1:20:1
Yes, it probably is worth at least trying to save.
You can also bake courgettes (zucchini) in cream, sprinkle on a bit of nutmeg and season. Probably not in the same meal as dauphinoise though.
Complaint: A plane crashed into a house less than five miles from where my parents live
non-complaint: Grateful it wasn't my parents' house... though wow my heart goes out to the family who just lost their house (apparently all are safe, I'm guessing they weren't home? I hope they didn't have any pets... it was an inferno in the news footage) and the loved ones of the people who perished in the plane crash.
Regarding baking-in-cream... if using cream-of-whatever soup counts, the Midwest is probably at grand champion level for that.
Noncomplaint: Duke advances to the final 4.
Um, mandolin or Mandoline? Either one is a potential cheese slicer but one not so much.
my Stepdad will be happy! It is also his birthday.
Me too! But it's the only thing that lets me keep up with my doggos.
Complaint: Our ISP, The Worst & Slowest DSL Ever™, keeps dropping/glitching just enough that I can't get the items I bought yesterday downloaded with DIM. So manual download won't solve the problem. Maybe I should take my laptop to the library next week & try their wi-fi.
Related Complaint: We probably have to wait on getting Fiber Optic, new to our rural area, until we can pay off the super high winter electric bills (over twice what they were for similar weather the previous winter).
I did wonder if the spelling was different, but I don't think I've ever seen it written down. Of course, at least in my case, the missing e might just be a typo.
Just found out I work tomorrow and more days than just Saturday next week.
I am hungry but there is chicken in the oven.
The mandolin shown in LeatherGryphon's post is actually quite a nice one from the looks of it, and even has a knob! However I won't shop at Amazon or eBay so they're not an option for me.
And anyway, every time I see the design of them I can't help but be reminded of how dangerous they are. If I were to use it for slicing something soft, like tomato for example, then I suppose it woud be safe enough providing care is taken. But when slicing something 'grippy' like cheese, I can't help but imagine it randomly gripping a bit too much and causing my hand to shoot-off and erase the skin from my knuckles!
Nah, I'm actually really attached to my fingers, I do a heck of a lot with 'em, so I'll buy the proper slicer from Argos and hang on to 'em!
More space taken-up, but I suppose I'll use it a heck of a lot once I have it, and despite that "Cookworks" brand I believe being their own, every kitchen device I've bought I've bought by that brand, and all have held-up like a boss and performed flawlessly. They're all pure white though, and I'm puzzled why I can't find a white version of the slicer. My kettle, blender and toaster are all pure white, so trust that thing to be jet black!
Regards the spelling; whether I search "Mandolin" or "Mandoline", I still get image results of both the slicing and the instrument variety, so I suppose it could be that "Mandoline" is the French spelling. But anyway, thanks for the input on my complaint. It has helped push me into a decision, in fact I better get it ordered now while the sale is on. Just goes to show though, you really have no idea what life is about to throw at you. One minute you have no interest in mandolins, next minute you're either contemplating the design flaws of the various mandolin manufacturers out there, or you're wondering what "Potato Dauphinoise" tastes like!
...was this the one just south of Minneapolis? I saw a story about that on the news last night. Indeed pretty bad though no reports of injuries or fatalities at the time.
...there are mornings when I wake up that I feel I got the wrong kind of shot to the knee.
My download is almost finished.
Now I can't figure out how to make the file work.
@richardandtracy
That's some proper luthier-type stuff you're reading there, and I wish I had something nice and witty to reply with but actually I'm a bit embarrassed right now. I literally just had to stop myself from buying that slicer, because much as I want one, I'd likely have to sell it again in the (hopefully not too distant) future since I'm hoping to buy and convert a van, and live the nomadic lifestyle. Space is precious living like that, so I think it's best to wait and see what I end up with first.
@SfariahD
You should see my download speed sometimes, it's worse than dial-up internet!
Hoping there was only one! Brooklyn Park is northwest of Minneapolis. Reports I saw said no survivors from the plane, but that everyone who belonged to the house was safe.
...sad about the pilot and passengers, good news aboit those living there.
ABC news needs a geography lesson.
They did get the proximity part right, though... from where that crash was, it's only about 20 mins to get to Minneapolis, assuming clear traffic.
It's right off a major highway, and there are a lot of restaurant and retail things around there (including big ones like Target and a grocery store), as well as a medical clinic and an assisted living facility. There's definitely never a /good/ thing for a plane to crash into when you're talking urbanized areas, but that could've easily had a very high body count.
ETA: Current reports look like it's suspected that it was just the pilot on board, who was a US bank exec. Audio from the air traffic control has two warnings to the pilot that he was flying too low. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/plane-that-crashed-into-brooklyn-park-home-departed-from-florida-originally/
...thanks for the update,
I used to live in Wisconsin and often flew to, or through, MSP (the days of old Northwest and North Central Airlines). Also made trips on the old Milwaukee Road Hiawathas from Milwaukee to LaCrosse and Minneapolis (pre Amtrak days). Very pretty country in that area but winter there just got too darn cold for me (lived in Stevens Point for a number of years).
Nice mandolin! Looks just like mine!
...not that I can play it. I just have it and a lot of good intentions. Someday, I hope.
Oh neat! My grandmother grew up in Steven's Point! Small world!
....yeah I lived there for the most part from the early 1970s until May 1980* when I moved to Seattle.
* save for most of 1977 when I was in New Orleans.
Grandma left in the 40's, but my great-grandparents might still have been there then (they died before I was born, but I'm unclear by how much; I'd have to look at Mom's family history book). Trippy. I passed through there once on a Greyhound en route to Oregon to visit friends. It's not like it's a big town.
...yeah, it was easy to bike from one end of the town to the other. The big draw there is the college (which I attended for a few years but never finished). The town has changed a quite a bit since I lived there,
Gone are the old Main Street places I remember like Woolworth's (where a friend and I would go to for lunch), the Penny's store, "Bob's Food King (the local independent market), Citizens Savings Bank *(where I had an account that got around 6% interest), and the Ben Franklin "5 & 10", just to name a few. The old Public Square, which when I lived there was the city's Tavern district where college students would hang out (when the legal age was still 18), It has since been transformed into a real public square again where events and a summer farmer's market are held..
My last residence there was and old mansion built by a local businessman in 1886 and willed to his wife after he died (hence the name below) it was later turned into a rooming house along with three furnished apartments on the first floor (one of which a couple friends and I rented). Locally was referred to as "The Castle" due to the two towers on each of the front corners. It's actual name is the Chrstina Khul House which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
(sniff) Yep, smells like Monday.