The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[Timsup2nothin]

I looked at it and there was grease splatters. I guess that was what made the smoke.

Yeah...when there's no pot of stuff to bleed off the heat the burner gets a lot hotter than normal, so grease that has been there baking along suddenly gets burned up. As long as you aren't stuck with a lingering burnt smell that you just can't stand you should be okay.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I took the fan out of the closet and it blew the worst of the smell away.

 

[Cutlass]

I took the fan out of the closet and it blew the worst of the smell away.

If an electric burner is burning up, it will often glow white hot in a place and then stop working. If it smells like burned food, then food was spilled on it at some point, and is being burned off now.

 

[Takhisis]

BS. Living as a credit ghost is pretty much the same for everyone who does it (me included). It is in no way similar to being dead, or even all that bad when you get right down to it. A huge part of the power that creditors exert is that such a pretense is widely accepted. There is a whole lot of freedom attached to being able to say "What are you gonna do, ruin my credit? Go fornicate yourself."

Look, I live as a credit ghost (not by my choice, mostly) so I know perfectly well that you can still have Internet access and games and food and a place to live in and so on. But what I am saying is that these companies target people who have already been conditioned to think of living like a credit ghost as worse than death. And if you met the actual person I know IRL you'd agree with me that he was a square and terribly vulnerable to manipulation, but, surprise, surprise, that's the type they target.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Look, I live as a credit ghost (not by my choice, mostly) so I know perfectly well that you can still have Internet access and games and food and a place to live in and so on. But what I am saying is that these companies target people who have already been conditioned to think of living like a credit ghost as worse than death. And if you met the actual person I know IRL you'd agree with me that he was a square and terribly vulnerable to manipulation, but, surprise, surprise, that's the type they target.

They're probably the only ones who are available to target. And definitely the only ones that make sense to target. The last thing they want to do is get into this kind of contract with someone like you or me, who is already in the habit of saying "What are you gonna do, ruin my credit? I don't use credit. Now what, ya boffin?" I learned when I was a finance manager that it is easier to get a bank to buy a deal with someone who has bad credit than it is to get them to buy a ghost, because at the end of the day ruining your credit is all they can do and the ghost doesn't care.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

On the radio, there is a local advertisement with some voice actors that sound suspiciously similar to the radio hosts. Was this done on purpose? It seems shady.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Anyone have any ideas what I can do with my mission patches?

I don't want to make a jacket with them. The only other thing I think I can do with them is put them in a frame or hang them individually. Anyone else got any other ideas for a craftsy project I could do with them?

 

[Cutlass]

On the radio, there is a local advertisement with some voice actors that sound suspiciously similar to the radio hosts. Was this done on purpose? It seems shady.

It wouldn't be uncommon for a local business to hire any local talent to do a commercial. And in a modest size town like where you live there are going to be few working actors, so they could hire on air personalities like from a radio station.

 

[Synobun]

Anyone have any ideas what I can do with my mission patches?

I don't want to make a jacket with them. The only other thing I think I can do with them is put them in a frame or hang them individually. Anyone else got any other ideas for a craftsy project I could do with them?

Do you like Christmas? You can turn them into ornaments for the tree.

If you decide to go hiking, you can get them sewn into a sturdy hiking bag.

Turn them into magnets for the fridge?

 

[Takhisis]

Anyone have any ideas what I can do with my mission patches?

I don't want to make a jacket with them. The only other thing I think I can do with them is put them in a frame or hang them individually. Anyone else got any other ideas for a craftsy project I could do with them?

Weave them into a frame using a loom.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Do you like Christmas? You can turn them into ornaments for the tree.

If you decide to go hiking, you can get them sewn into a sturdy hiking bag.

Turn them into magnets for the fridge?

I always ask for ornaments for Christmas, this is a great idea. I also like the hiking bag idea as well. I'm currently feuding with a friend over whether mission fridge magnets or mission patches are better so I'll pass on the last one out of spite, though it's a great idea.

 

[Cutlass]

I always ask for ornaments for Christmas, this is a great idea. I also like the hiking bag idea as well. I'm currently feuding with a friend over whether mission fridge magnets or mission patches are better so I'll pass on the last one out of spite, though it's a great idea.

How about mission badge stickers, and cover your car with them?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I lease my cars and I'm about to give up my own altogether; the Mrs wouldn't like them on hers.

 

[Synobun]

I lease my cars and I'm about to give up my own altogether; the Mrs wouldn't like them on hers.

Well phooey to her! Now you won't put a picture of her on the satellites you build. That'll show her.

 

[Cutlass]

I lease my cars and I'm about to give up my own altogether; the Mrs wouldn't like them on hers.

I don't see why she should get a say in that...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Well phooey to her! Now you won't put a picture of her on the satellites you build. That'll show her.

That'd be like her giving the kids she teaches tshirts with my face on it so I'll pass.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Anyone have any ideas what I can do with my mission patches?

Fire them into space.

 

[Dachs]

That'd be like her giving the kids she teaches tshirts with my face on it so I'll pass.

students will accept a free t-shirt regardless of source or content

remember thit?

 

[Ajidica]

students will accept a free t-shirt regardless of source or content

True that.
Somehow at college I ended up with a College Republicans t-shirt.
Probably still back in the box-of-many-things from college at my parents house come to think of it.

Question: I'm trying to make oven-roasted pulled pork tomorrow and have the pork shoulder marinating, but I realized I don't have an oven thermometer to check internal temperature. It is about a 4 lb shoulder and the recipe says it should be in the oven for about 6 hours at 300, but my pork shoulder is smaller than the 5-7 lbs recommended. Does 6 hours sound about right, or should I cook it for less time? FWIW my oven tends to run a bit on the cool side.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Question: I'm trying to make oven-roasted pulled pork tomorrow and have the pork shoulder marinating, but I realized I don't have an oven thermometer to check internal temperature. It is about a 4 lb shoulder and the recipe says it should be in the oven for about 6 hours at 300, but my pork shoulder is smaller than the 5-7 lbs recommended. Does 6 hours sound about right, or should I cook it for less time? FWIW my oven tends to run a bit on the cool side.

Set it for the six hours, but take it out after five and cut it in half. If it isn't pink in the middle see if the center part can be pulled by scratching at it with a fork. If it's pink, or it won't pull, put it back in for the rest of the time in the two pieces. Set the cut sides down in the pan.