So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[2jakes]

I will say, grey and silver vehicles are the hardest to see in certain light conditions. all the cars I have pulled in front of in recent years were one of those colors! I now sympathies with the driver that pulled in front of James Dean's silver 550 Spyder!

One time a friend who had just purchased a 911 Carrera with turbo engine
took me on the freeway. He was showing me how the engine could go
from start & in so many seconds accelerate to super fast speeds.

He told me not to worry about the traffic in front which was far away
from us.

I told him to slow down because the drivers ahead of us
were not aware that the 911 would be there within seconds,
putting us in direct path should they decide to change lanes.
With fatal results at the high speeds he was doing.

It was on a Thanksgiving Day this occurred & I was a very grateful
for many things that day, but especially that this turkey took
my advice to slow down.

I believe the color of Dean’s car, the time of the day,
and his assumption proved fatal.

I‘ve read that the surviving passenger said that
Dean’s last words were;

“That guy up there has gotta see us. He’s gotta stop.”

Book Review: Against Death and Time - Car News - Car and Driver

 

[Zombie_61]

Why don't you make your test more difficult? Every one knows the correct answer is 3! Incidentally, I had an elderly women do that in front of me just today.

I forgot option #4: Drive straight into the obstacle at full speed because it was so important that I immediately read Brittany's text about her manicure.

 

[Edward]

It steers very easily even without any kind of power assist -- I can drive with one hand on the wheel if I want to, even though I usually don't. The only difficult thing about it is parallel parking, but I think that may be me as much as the car. I also couldn't parallel park the Toyota to save my life.

I'm using the original 75-year-old steering box without any kind of a rebuild, so I imagine it would be even easier to steer if I ever replaced that.

I haven't driven in close to eighteen years - since moving to London, there's no need - but I well remember hating both parallel parking (fortunately, I never had to do it in the wild - for my test, I was asked instead to reverse round a corner, and I only drove half a dozen times between 1994 and 1999...) and power steering. The latter left me feelingl ike I had no real control over the car.

People who refuse to shop at Walmart for ethical reasons but have no problem going to Target.

I hear the same sort of thing in a lot of contexts; Halal / Kosher is a common one in the UK these days, with folks objecting to one but ont the other (typically based on underlying prejudice). It's one of the side-effects, in part, of ethical shopping becoming fashionable: certain things become fashionable to buy or boycott, and sometimes the underlying ethics are lost. (I'm reminded here of Naomi Campbell, who famously starred in an anti-fur advertising campaign, then a couple of years later ore it on the catwalk.) On the flipside, that very fashionability has probably raised more awareness of the issues generally in the long run, so...

I refuse to shop at Walmart because it's impossible to find anything. It's like they just took one of everything, threw it up in the air, and wherever it landed, that's where they stocked that item.

One rule of thumb I've discovered over the last few years is that typically the easier it is to find what you want in a shop, the more expensive it will be.

There are still places today where if you want an item this week, it's either Walmart or a 6 hour drive. I can understand, and I've noticed that Walmarts in small towns attracts a completely different crowd than the ones in the city.

Be interesting to see how that changes / is changing with ecommerce undercutting so many Bricks and mortar places. Can't for the life of me recall the product, but I saw the other day that Amazon was advertising something that you could buy an have delivered within the hour.

We have a double garage that houses two cars and years of collected chattels. We have three sheds stuffed full, we have my wife's dressmaking cabin that also houses her collection of antique sewing machines. We have an attic that is also stuffed full. And we have various cubby holes that have things like, a lifetime of photographs. One day, I'm going to collate those photos, one day.

I have photos like that.... I really need to do it; someday, my brothers' kids might like to discover that once upon a time I had long hair and coulf wear tight trousers without looking like Humpty Dumpty...

That conjures up an image of a toffee apple with a pair of dentures stuck in it. Much as I love corn on the cob, I more often than not pass up on it. Two reasons. It looks so gross seeing someone trying to pick the debris from their teeth. And, I don't know about anyone else, but sweetcorn is so laxative, and seems to go through almost undigested. Regular consumption could help you blitz the limescale off the toilet pan.

I'm told that nutriotionists encourage it because its very indigestibiity means it scours out our plumbing, which is healthy.

When I first had the internet, about twenty years ago, I was on good old dial up. Thinking back, it seems like the stone age.

In September 2015, I asked my final year undergraduate class (20/ 21 year olds) what media technologies they remembered coming and going. Only one or two of a class of over fifty could actually remember dial up.

Being paid for a freelance job with a rubber check.

Being *CHARGED FIFTEEN STINKING DOLLARS* by the bank for the chargeback that resulted from my depositing the rubber check I was unknowingly paid with. On top of $70 worth of overdraft fees for *my* checks that were compromised by the bad payment.

Wanting to punch someone in the face but not knowing whether to start with the client or the bank.

I know a lot of cabaret performers who report this, and chronically-late, payments all the time. It's appalling. I bet those same folks that do it to you would be the first to kick off in your positio - always the way, and it makes it worse.

I suppose it doesn't really tick me off so much, but I do find it quite hilarious: "hipsters" (if that's the correct term) who wear ball caps with their ears tucked in.

I suspect they're the ones who have experience of wearing said cap in the sun, then having the tops of their ears sunburned in the past...

This is not so trivial; but I am really sick of bystanders. If you think something is oh so horrible, then do something about it.

Yip. If you can't help out, move on.

That kind of driver isn't unique to western Europe then, I say western because it's like Armageddon in the east, you only have to watch YouTube to see how crazy they are.

Worst I've ever seen was in India - especially Bangalore. Half of the drivers have no rear view mirror. Trucks almost all have a sign to the effect of "No rear view - soun horn to let me know you're there." Every. Single. Driver. in that city drives with one fist on the horn, sounding it so constantly I began to believe they navigate with some form of sonar.

Only the USA has the term, "Road Rage."

Commonly used in the UK for a couple of decades at least now - we've had a couple of high-profile 'roadrage' murders, labelled as such all over the media.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

People who refuse to shop at Walmart for ethical reasons but have no problem going to Target.

I've known people with long "shopping lists" of products, companies and shops that they are boycotting for one reason or another. Just going grocery shopping with them is a frustrating experience.

 

[GHT]

Boycotting is about the best way to show your dislike or contempt for something. For example:
Foie gras, french for "fat liver," is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. By French law, foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by force-feeding corn with a feeding tube.
Force feeding just to produce what has become known as a delicacy is repugnant to me, that's why I boycott it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even if foie gras was good I wouldn't like it.

 

[tonyb]

Can't recall ever having foie gras, but if it's anything like chicken liver, I'd like it (which says not a thing about the treatment the feathered beasts who provide the liver are subjected to by us humans).

 

[BlueTrain]

It sounds like an acquired taste to me. But then, that pretty much describes tobacco, beer and most liquor. There are a few things, like homemade Serbian vodka (or paint thinner, whatever it is), that you aren't expected to develop a taste for, merely a tolerance.

 

[Bamaboots]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_foie_gras_law

 

[vitanola]

Can't recall ever having foie gras, but if it's anything like chicken liver, I'd like it (which says not a thing about the treatment the feathered beasts who provide the liver are subjected to by us humans).

It is a delicacy beyond description. Mild in flavor, smooth, creamy, with a perfect texture. Simply heavenly! It has been many years since I enjoyed it, for it is so very expensive, and all food after all meets the same fate. American foie gras is made from ducks who, while force fed are not immobilized, and actually appear to line up for feeding, as counter-intuitive as that might seem. It appears that a considerable addition of alcohol (brandy) to their diet not only improves their disposition, but promotes the creation of good quality foie gras, which after all the result of fatty liver disease.

Having seen how ducks are raised for foie gras in Upstate New York and having seen industrial chicken farms here in Michigan I can assure you that the foie gras farm is the far more humane. We who step so delicately between the butcher and policeman can ill afford to be picky about the source of our meat fowl or fish. The only truly humane food is vegan, after all.

 

[BlueTrain]

Your description fits several foods.

 

[tonyb]

It is a delicacy beyond description. Mild in flavor, smooth, creamy, with a perfect texture. Simply heavenly! It has been many years since I enjoyed it, for it is so very expensive, and all food after all meets the same fate. American foie gras is made from ducks who, while force fed are not immobilized, and actually appear to line up for feeding, as counter-intuitive as that might seem. It appears that a considerable addition of alcohol (brandy) to their diet not only improves their disposition, but promotes the creation of good quality foie gras, which after all the result of fatty liver disease.

Having seen how ducks are raised for foie gras in Upstate New York and having seen industrial chicken farms here in Michigan I can assure you that the foie gras farm is the far more humane. We who step so delicately between the butcher and policeman can ill afford to be picky about the source of our meat fowl or fish. The only truly humane food is vegan, after all.

Yeah, I can dig that. Some billions of chickens lead their short, miserable lives in what can fairly be described as "industrial" conditions so that people such as myself can buy their flesh at low prices. I don't fool myself about that, but I do disregard it.
I love duck, but it's waaaaay more expensive than chicken, and finding it fresh can be a challenge. Fortunately, there's a large Asian supermarket about a mile and a half from this place we bought last year, and a few smaller specialty ethnic groceries and bakeries and meat markets near here as well. I count that as among the district's finer attributes.

 

[GHT]

One of my favourite meals is called Roman Liver. The recipe includes lambs hearts and lambs tongues, both of which I substitute with the Italian bacon known as, Pancetta. The meal, once cooked, is delicious when served on a plate of farfalle, sometimes known as, pasta bows. Once the pasta is cooked the point of: Al dente, drain the water and toss the hot pasta in a pan, with a generous knob of butter, until all the butter has melted, and all the pasta is coated. Set on a serving dish with the Roman Liver poured over the pasta. Eat and enjoy. It goes well with a chilled bottle of Chianti. In keeping with the Italian theme, and if you have still got room, serve Tiramisu as a dessert, along with Italian coffee and an amaretto liqueur.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I keep looking for a good recipie for Minced Overfatted Liver Of Le Garcons du Marchette, but I guess I'll just have to make one up myself.

Heart meat, on the other hand, was my favorite childhood food. Nothing fancy, just the kind you get wrapped in brown paper at the meat counter. My mother would boil it, cut it up, and make it into sandwiches. Good eating, and it terrified the other kids at school when I nonchalantly told them I was having a sheep's heart for lunch.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is pork-liver, potatoe-mash and selfroasted onions still popular in the US?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kartoffelbrei+leber+zwiebeln&FORM=HDRSC2

 

[ChiTownScion]

I keep looking for a good recipie for Minced Overfatted Liver Of Le Garcons du Marchette, but I guess I'll just have to make one up myself.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Boston Butt, barbecued! Now that's good eatin'!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Aaaah, that's the thing!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_butt

 

[2jakes]

Although it was not my “favorite” childhood food, nevertheless
I ate it as a kid.

“Menudo” soup & tacos made from “tripas”.


And I can’t say that it terrified the other kids in school because the
majority of them ate it too.

There might be ladies present who might get upset so I won’t explain
what the ingredients consist of.

I’ll just leave it at...

” Amigo...you need a strong stomach for it!”

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^

Menudo is great stuff.