Random Rants 0x52: [Obligatory rant about title]

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can confirm this years flu shot caused more pain in the muscle than usual.

Also learned: apparently taking NSAIDs like ibuprofen reduces the effectiveness of a flu shot

...oops...

 

[AdamCrock]

I know that you are not Germans, but the process above does not sound that different from a choucrout garnier -long-boiled cabbage and then add in meat.

The name of the dish choucrout garnier sounds French to me Anyways bigos is considered Polish national dish and appears in many poetic and novel instances like in for example "Pan Tadeusz" , which is Polish National Epic :

In the pots warmed the bigos; mere words cannot tell
Of its wondrous taste, colour and marvellous smell.
One can hear the words buzz, and the rhymes ebb and flow,
But its content no city digestion can know.
To appreciate the Lithuanian folksong and folk food,
You need health, live on land, and be back from the wood.
Without these, still a dish of no mediocre worth
Is bigos, made from legumes, best grown in the earth;
Pickled cabbage comes foremost, and properly chopped,
Which itself, is the saying, will in one's mouth hop;
In the boiler enclosed, with its moist bosom shields
Choicest morsels of meat raised on greenest of fields;
Then it simmers, till fire has extracted each drop
Of live juice, and the liquid boils over the top,
And the heady aroma wafts gently afar.
Now the bigos is ready. With triple hurrah
Charge the huntsmen, spoon-armed, the hot vessel to raid,
Brass thunders and smoke belches, like camphor to fade,
Only in depths of cauldrons, there still writhes there later
Steam, as if from a dormant volcano's deep crater.

Adam Mickiewicz (translated by Marcel Weyland),
Pan Tadeusz (Book Four, Diplomacy and the Hunt)

btw did Count Ostaszewksi recover from his gluteal wound?

Oh the name is legit but the fact he was shot on a hunt was just my imagination - licentia poetica -

edit : Rant ! I could use some bigos right about now , Aimee only feeds me with peanuts !

 

[Synobun]

edit : Rant ! I could use some bigos right about now , Aimee only feeds me with peanuts !

Only the finest circus peanuts for the zoo animals.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

The name of the dish choucrout garnier sounds French to me

Well we have indeed our own variation of boiled cabbage with meat called "choucroute". It's mainly cooked in Alsace. I just read that the meal is actually originated from... china (a big surprise to me). It's excellent but I am still digesting the one I ate last friday...

rant: why on earth children wake up at 6 am (when they don't make a short break at 2 or 4)?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I love being poor!

 

[Takhisis]

My wayward e's have been fixed.

+1 to the Polish poem!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I've made a horrible mistake!

Spoiler :

I don't know how I ended up with two copies of the Calibre quick start guide!

 

[Takhisis]

They don't seem to be the same copy, though. One has two pages fewer than the other.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think the second one was from an earlier version.

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

What are you ranting about? You appear to have 2 copies of what looks like a wonderfull book... are you communist?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think I made it worse:

 

[Takhisis]

She does live in a country with a red flag and she does use Comic Sans as her system font.

Edit: oh dear.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm totally not procrastinating by changing my Calibre UI font to ridiculous choices....

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I like video games

 

[Farm Boy]

I do too. Probably too much!

 

[Synobun]

The microfiber cloths I bought for the bathroom are working tremendously. I bought a pack of three but received six instead. They are the cloths used by mechanics and car enthusiasts and they work very well. A little thicker than I'd like, but once they've been matted down by weight there's no issue putting things on them. What's more is that they can withstand my roommate's experiments with water-bending and be completely dry again after only a couple hours.

Naturally, when one problem is solved, people feel the inherent pull towards bringing things back to balance. I may not believe in a god, but I certainly believe in a cosmic trickster who tampers with reality solely to inconvenience me. My roommate now wears muddy shoes in the bathroom and doesn't clean the floor or the bathmat.

His response: "We wear shoes in the house back in India, it's just what we do."

Yeah, dude. Indoor shoes. Slippers that never breathe outside air. Not the shoes you've been wearing while traipsing through mud and puddles for the entire day.

Of course, he doesn't see what the big deal is.

 

[Farm Boy]

Google boot scrapers and pick a nice heavy one for throwing?

 

[tjs282]

His response: "We wear shoes in the house back in India, it's just what we do."

To which one possible response might be,

"People in India also take dumps in public, in street gutters and on railway tracks*; there are many places where the tap water is not safe to drink**; and -- just coincidentally I'm sure -- cholera and tuberculosis are (still) prevalent in parts of the country as well***. None of which applies to Canada****, where you are currently living, so what's your point?"

Spoiler Citations needed... :

Just FTR, and before anyone slams me.

*Eyewitness testimony from our month-long visit to India in late 2005. New Delhi main railway station absolutely stinks (and that was in October-November, god only knows how bad it gets during June-August, when it's really warm)
**Per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water#Developing_countries
***Per Wikipedia: India has had several cholera outbreaks since 1990, and India also recorded the highest number of TB cases worldwide in 2010: a graphic shows TB deaths per 1 million by country in 2012, with India in the second-highest category (for comparison, most of the African nations are [also] in the second highest, or highest categories)
****OK, admittedly this is an assumption on my part (though TB is on the rise again in the developed world, likely in part due to antibiotic abuse).

 

[Synobun]

Hah, well, they really do wear indoor shoes inside the house there, which would be fine. And in fact, that's what he had been doing up until this month. Only when the rain season started did he start wearing his muddy, wet outdoor shoes inside. Even if you were going to wear outdoor shoes indoors, why would you do that during the dirtiest season and not the driest? I could have tolerated it during the summer, I guess, but right now is when shoes are at their dirtiest! Salt, mud, dirty water! Everywhere! Why now of all times?

I struggle to see it as ignorance or different standards or whatever. He had been doing it the right way up until this point and consciously made the decision to switch to the baffling wrong way. I just don't get it.