Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[Birdjaguar]

Rant: Made pulled pork in my slow cooker today, but I forgot to trim the fat cap off of the shoulder cut so the pulled pork ended up super greasy. Adding to my annoyance, the recipe ended up too watery so I didn't get a nice sauce on the pork or much flavor beyond a vague porkiness.
Now I have like three pounds of pork left over.......

Heat the pork liquid with the meat and the fat will separate. Pour all the liquid off into a big enough cup or jar. The fat will rise to the top. Scoop 90% of it off and add the juice back to the meat.

 

[The_J]

The keyboard of my Surface stopped working .

 

[JohannaK]

I wanna beat someone up. Probably myself. Or cry myself to sleep. Maybe both.

 

[really]

I changed a bulb on my wife's car and checked a few other bits while at it.
I sniffed the screenwash - it is vile and the smell is still stuck in my nose.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

rant: (incoherently screams incoherently)

 

[Zkribbler]

I changed a bulb on my wife's car and checked a few other bits while at it.
I sniffed the screenwash - it is vile and the smell is still stuck in my nose.

The folks at PistonHeads say, siphon out the old, put in the new.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=877158

 

[JohannaK]

Indeed!

 

[amadeus]

Microsoft decided I needed something called Edge.

I already have a browser.

 

[Commodore]

Just spent 4 hours reviewing camera footage. Yay.

 

[really]

To clarify it is the new screenwash that smelled like a strong chemical, not the old one. I had an undiluted bottle I added to the reservoir.

Its a 12 year old ford focus - it also seems to be burning oil. Topped it up today so I will keep an eye on it. I feel very grown up.

 

[Snerk]

I need a book and I need it yesterday but the bookstore has apparently decided to send it with by snail mail or something. So I'm annoyed.

 

[tjs282]

Its a 12 year old ford focus - it also seems to be burning oil. Topped it up today so I will keep an eye on it. I feel very grown up.

We just got rid of our nearly-20-year-old Focus (bought with 78,000 km on the clock, disposed of with almost exactly 250,000 km), which had also started drinking a lot more oil relatively recently (I was throwing another 1.5 L in every couple of months).

Last time we put it through the TÜV (= German MOT), we asked the mechanic if he had any idea what the problem might be, and he just shrugged and blamed the car's age/wear. It was likely a slow leakage past one or more worn piston-rings -- enough to blacken the exhaust pipe with carbon buildup, but not quite enough to turn the exhaust blue. But lifting out the engine and dismantling it to replace the rings would have cost more in parts + labour than the car was worth by that point.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here in Nova Scotia, a teenage girl went missing (accompanied by a 40-something man). A week later, they finally send an Amber Alert....in the middle of the night.

I don't know what the emergency management office is thinking. If they're going to wait a week to send the damn alert, why not send it when people are actually awake?

 

[Takhisis]

Aaaargh! Correcting homework! Mrs. Tweedy, the students are revolting!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Suddenly remembered BC sabotaging its election referendum so it would fail, and then the federal government simply canceling its promise of electoral reform as well. Mad. Give me ranked ballots.

Justin was all about electoral reform during the campaign, but after he won a majority, it wasn't such a priority. And then when the committee didn't vote the way he wanted, he decided electoral reform wasn't what people considered important enough to agree on.

That would have been enough (if he hadn't legalized marijuana) to guarantee that I will never vote Liberal while he's the leader. And before anyone jumps on me about marijuana, the fact is that I don't care if they eat it. I do care if they smoke it, because I'm allergic to all kinds of smoke, no matter the source.

I don't know what to make of Morneau's resignation and Freeland becoming the Minister of Finance. People are acting like he's a victim, when he's as corrupt as any politician and more than many. Seriously, the first thing that came to mind about Freeland was, "Does this mean she'll stop wearing that stupid dumpy red dress that doesn't fit?"

Also, I thought I was getting better, but today it's bad again. That's what I get for getting uppity and thinking I could eat some boiled chicken and green beans yesterday.

What were you thinking? Green beans are not food!

Did you get tested yet?

Here in Nova Scotia, a teenage girl went missing (accompanied by a 40-something man). A week later, they finally send an Amber Alert....in the middle of the night.

I don't know what the emergency management office is thinking. If they're going to wait a week to send the damn alert, why not send it when people are actually awake?

Post this sentiment on CBC.ca and you'll immediately get flamed by a dozen people accusing you of being a child-hater and braying that of course it's acceptable to get an Amber Alert at 3 am, and of course you should immediately get up and make the rounds of every convenience store and gas station within 20 miles just in case you spot the missing kid. You're just being selfish if you have to keep to a sleep schedule for work, school, or health reasons and how dare you put a missing kid a thousand miles away ahead of your own sleep?

When I pointed out that waking me in the middle of the night in Central Alberta for a missing kid north of Edmonton, south of Calgary, or in another province was useless because I'm not about to trip over said missing kid, I was told that due to airports it would be easy for the kidnapper to take the missing kid to my neighborhood convenience store where I could see them. They had no answer to me pointing out that planes travel to every continent on the planet, including Antarctica, and they'd better send Amber Alerts to the entire planet, including the International Space Station (since the kidnapper might have sneaked on board a rocket heading up there).

Seriously, if a missing kid ever turns up on or below my balcony, I'll call the cops. Otherwise, don't bother me about what I can't do anything about.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I was moving 100+ emails to another folder. I accidentally double-clicked while trying to drag. It opened every one of those emails in a separate window.

 

[Synobun]

Did you get tested yet?

Nah, I can't. The wait times are five hours long now, and you have to stand outside in a line without shade that whole time around other suspected infected people. BC has absolutely collapsed in its COVID-19 management. Our infection rate is soon going to far surpass what we had at the beginning of the first wave, and we're going full steam ahead on reopening schools. Bonnie Henry's caved to the pressures of "muh economy." Guess she's fine with coasting on the award she got a few months ago. Our death rate is staying stagnant for now, which might suggest that the earlier infection rate was "low" because of lack of testing, or simply that all the people being infected now are idiot Gen Zs and less likely to die.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Went into the nearby grocery store for lunch. They used to have the best salad bar I've ever seen. There were four, 15' buffets. Two were salad stuff, one was hot food, and one was antipasto (different types of olives, all kinds of pickles, etc). Of course they closed it down months ago, but I expect it will never be back. 'First-world problems', but still a bummer.

 

[Hygro]

The six year old went to the dentist. It would be a comfortable moment for those of us left in the house but instead of enjoying the freed vibe, the two year old feels left out and wouldn’t stop screaming about how unfair it is.

 

[Takhisis]

The wait times are five hours long now, and you have to stand outside in a line without shade that whole time around other suspected infected people. BC has absolutely collapsed in its COVID-19 management.

Did you import some Argentine crisis-management experts?