The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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You can make batter with beer, which probably helps with the bubbles.
Pay him more, or tie him to the sink.
Not a drinker so never have any to hand, but I suppose I could keep a bottle of cheap cider to hand and use that instead.
Sadly they don't sell cheap Tonic Water in large resealable bottles either, or I'd have tried that as well.
Mischief to be Managed: Cardiologist checkup tomorrow morning. Also, breakfast at TimHorton's, and a bloodtest. But a wrinkle has crept in, disturbing my carefully laid plans. I need to make a run to the drugstore to pickup a critical prescription that I don't dare trust the post office with again. Last time, it took a week to go 7 miles.
I'd rather spend another $10 for an Uber sidetrip than risk being without my prescription. I might skip the planned lunch at the hole-in-the-wall beanery, and the Szechuan Chicken from the Chinese takeout, and a sub-sandwich from Subway, all at the decrepit old mini-mall. Depends on how frugal I feel.
But tomorrow is also pay-day.
Yeah, I wasn't sure the consistency of your batter; that would make a difference.
Mine looks a lot more like the one pictured below (although a bit more...ahem... "weathered"). I'm told it was my great-grandmother's. The provenance of the one pictured here goes back to the mid-1800's (you truly can find anything on the internet) so it's possible it goes back to her mother as well.
A few of ideas, not that I have tried any of these but they might work,
1. Drip the batter mix into hot oil with a turkey baster, syringe, pipette or similar device. You'll have to do a smallish number at a time so the first ones don't burn before you drip the last bit in.
2, Might it be possible to pass the batter through a sieve as you shake the sieve (similar to using a riddle to separate soil/stones/crops) to get a rain shower of batter.
3. Double cook the batter, first cook at lower temperature in bigger pieces in order to solidify the batter mix but without over colouring the batter. Remove from batter and allow to cool a bit before breaking into smaller 'scrap' sized pieces, fry for a second time at a higher temperature to crisp and colour the batter.
*Notes:
a. The built-in spellchecker is insisting I.ve spelt colour wrong, I haven't I'm just British.
b. It also tells be spelt should be replaced with spelled, again no, I'm British.
It's sad that the English have trouble spelling words in English.
...The I Want the "English" English Spelling Complaint thread.
The Brits don't have trouble spelling Enhlish. Engleesh. Inglish. English. We just have trouble spelling words in American.
Regards,
Richard
That's why I use a spellchecker, but unfortunately the built in one defaults to American English, but I just found the British English language setting so now it knows how to spell colour!
Also I tend to think of myself as British most of the time, I'm only English when the Scots annoy me, English parents, born in Scotland (which means if they ever go independent I'm entitled to a Scottish passport as well as a British one, as are my children, but not my wife!) have lived all over the mainland (but not Wales).
Got to go, off on a hike with the (mad) dog and the (English) wife.
It's sad that English has words that are difficult to be spelled. Do what the Americans do, simplify the spelling.
Yeah, yeah, it's still hard, but we ain't finished yet.
"OT: The Cathartic Unimportant Complaints Thread"
It's not just Americans, the French do it as well. I have a French synthesizer which they claim has an "Analog" filter, but I think they really meant "Analogue".
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions regards the batter. In hindsight I'm being a bit dim here since all I really need to do is batter the chips directy. I don't mean take a sledge hammer to them or anything, I just mean, for simplicity sake, make some flour and water and baking soda batter, put it into a bowl, pour my uncooked chips into it, and then pour that bowl of batter covered chips directly into the chip basket while catching the excess drips in another bowl ready for dipping the next lot of chips into next time.
All I need to do then, is lower the batter-covered chips into the pan, and fry my way to chip-shop-taste bliss!
As for Kinich and his hike, man, you're so damn lucky to have a woman who's into the outdoor life, and having a mad dog can only make it more funner!
I wish you a wonderful hike, be safe, and may the sound of raindrops on your tent at night, soothe-away the stresses of life as only nature can.
Back from our hike, a bit over 8 miles (about 13 Km for the metric-o-philes) but as we are currently in North Devon on the edge of Exmoor there is a substantial vertical component to take into account, the weather forecasters claim it's about 19'C, I suspect it's warmer. Good news is the dog is knackered, she had a doggy ice cream as a treat on the way back, we had a couple of pints of cider (British/English cider, the alcoholic type, not full blown scrumpy though as I can still both see and walk).
As for the little woman (she is of below average height so this is an accurate description) we've been married now for 33 years and together for a few more than that, but my camping days are well behind me, it's a wooden lodge this time so no raindrops on canvas, but as we are six feet horizontally and about 25 vertically from the river we are lulled to sleep by the sound of water as it cascades over the rocks.
Yes I know I'm mixing Imperial measurements with metrics ones but I grew up as Britian was making the switch so I have a foot (30.48cm) in each camp.
Mischief Managed: Everything went as planned, including food stops, except for the sub-sandwich from Subway. It was approaching the noon-ish time when Uber rates turn into monsters, so I grabbed a ride while rates were still sane. Got home after spending a bundle on medical necessities and food but didn't break the bank (and I even made it to the bank too).
Non-complaint: Cardiologist didn't freak out during my exam, and he scheduled another appointment in six months. I like his confidence.
...I use a British keyboard set Yeah it's a bit odd as [Shift] "2" is now the double quote mark (which is actually rather convenient), while [Shift] " ' " is now the "@", [Shift] 3 is now the "£" symbol and "\"becomes the octothorpe "#" key. that .Good I don't programme anymore as the "\" and "︱" are not reassigned (need to use the .[ALT] "092" and "0124" codes to type those).
Need to get an actual British keyboard but hard to find here in The States.
I got a printer which won't print. Or maybe it prints in in Ink? I don't know where to take it to be looked at.
Work in general.
Well maybe there's this thing.
SNAP! I use a British keyboard layout as well, but I do have British keyboards, one of the advantages of living in Great Britian (that and we spell correctly
), main fully mechanical keyboard, a couple of cheap backups, and the one on the Chromebook I am currently using whilst away enjoying North Devon & Exmoor, and yes it does count as a keyboard not a computer as it is detachable which turns the Chromebook into a tablet.
I have encountered a few alternative keyboard layouts at work, some new legacy compatible PCs (PCI & ISA slots, PATA drive interfaces and the like) we use to replace critical older machines come from the US and some come with keyboards, US layout, and back during the COVID years we had a couple of German laptops used to setup/monitor proximity sensors all the on-site staff had to wear, that used German layouts which was somewhat confusing as not only were some of the symbols keys switched around but so were some of the actual letters, then there were letters with accents. As the laptops where fully encrypted (data protection) and had preset passwords you had to remember to switch the keyboard to German at startup and then double check what you were typing.
Complaint: Little dude choked on a cracker, and it activated the Barf Everywhere switch. And he'd just drunk a full glass of water. And once he starts going off, he just sort of runs around in circles in a panic.
Non-complaint: At least it's not a sick-barf (so, he's not feeling poorly, and also it's not likely to have another wave in half an hour), I have a portable steam-cleaner, and Elder Child was merciful enough to keep him occupied so he didn't decide it might be fun to scamper around where I was trying to clean up, thus tracking the mess everywhere. Also, although one of the casualties was my shoes, the tread on them was pretty well dead anyway. Out they go, and tomorrow I start breaking in a new pair. And since I bought several pairs off the Prime week sale a couple years back, I just have to pull a box from the closet and I'm good to go.
At least it wasn't raw egg, poop, peanut butter, toothpaste, or chocolate syrup, all of which I have ranked higher on the "wow this is a nightmare to clean up" list.
Complaint: We have to go back home at the weekend, and back to work the next week.
Non-Complaint: The view upstream from where we are staying for the week.
Neither Complaint or Non-Complaint: I've been up for over three hours and the Toffee (the mad dog) has hardly moved.
Non-Complaint: The view across the river from the lodge.
Complaint: The photos where taken on the Chromebook because I forgot to grab a camera before leaving home, for which I have no excuse as I have several mostly digital but there's an old 120 roll film one somewhere in a cupboard, and a Canon IX7 APS SLR for which I can no longer get new film.
Elder Child hasn't gotten a lot of stomach bugs, but when they were little and we were still co-sleeping, I remember wondering if there was an age where the first round wouldn't be point-blank on me, although they didn't tend to hit much else. Also, thankfully, got the hang of the bucket pretty fast.
Little Dude has cyclical vomiting syndrome (yeah, it's as fun as it sounds) as part of his autism parfait and tends to go for overall AoE. Some of the distances he's hit have been impressive, no lie. Have to find humor where one can, I guess.
That little steam cleaner is seriously the best gift I've ever given myself.
For some cameras you can get new backplates with digital sensors, I believe.
I have an appointment for the doctour soon. I think I shall wear my alligatour shoes.
Don't you mean "digital sensours?"
Okay, I'm through now.
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