u/ravia

When I grew up, "tossed" salad meant putting everything right on a bowl of lettuce, onions, garlic, etc.: meaning, oil, vinegar, black pepper, oregano, etc. all were sprinkled right on the dry lettuce, then the whole thing was tossed over and over to both mix and coat with the "dressing", which was never mixed as a dressing.

It worked well, and it does seem like there is something different in the taste from doing this as opposed to whisking a vinaigrette in a bowl then just putting it on lettuce with a brief toss to coat.

I've never seen this talked about.

There were two courtesans, and one would say something provocative to the King, while the other would, in a wonderfully fawning way, explain it away as something nice. I loved how those two did this, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Is it on Youtube anywhere?

Starts with the chyron (?): "this show is based on extensive historical research."

Then in the first scene, we find George Washington doing something Washingtonian. He picks up his cell phone and tells a corporal that he's been "phoning in" his actions in the field. Etc. You get the idea. Seems like it could be fun.

I thought it would be so good, health-wise, but imagined it wouldn't taste so good. In this salad, it was low fat raspberry dressing + walnut/pistachio butter (homemade), and a can of "Louisiana hot sauce sardines" and some walnuts. The thing is, it tastes great, which is a game changer for me, allowing me to get salad plus sardines (a meal in itself). I just an so surprised it tastes so good. Has anyone done this? Other things you mix sardines into? I ask in part for health reasons.

I mean, there was literally one post. It seems like there must be a subreddit that is active.

A woman is at the beach with her son, daughter in law and their kids. Her son is swimming out a bit far and it looks like he's in trouble. The woman shouts, "Help! My son, the doctor, is drowning!"

It seems like it's a piano concerto (or maybe violin?) that lacks the soloist. Someone should write a piano part. Cal me goofy, but I just can't quite get into that piece, as much as I have tried. I mean, it's Brahms, so cheesecake and all, but it decidedly lacks main melodies in a weird way.

Often it's a child who says they're in college but it's all a lie, then when it comes out, they kill their parents. Or someone who's doing some online thing that is a big lie carried to extremes. I can't even remember the stories, but I've seen so many of them. That leads me to wondering about what I'm calling "major life lies" and how people who do that are somehow especially prone to violence. Thoughts?

A major life lie is not just a fib, or a lie about a single thing in a given moment. Rather, it's them misportraying themself systematically, over a lot period of time, etc.

What got me thinking about this is thinking about one year when we had just a ton of daily rain, off and on for weeks. Well my tomatoes did incredibly well that year. It's been mainly dry now, so I've been watering every day or two (with some mulch on the ground already), but there was some rain here and there. It just got me wondering if anyone does any kind of strategic "super saturating" watering. Is that a thing? Something over and above just plain watering, really going excessive. Is it a good idea? (Located in Western PA).

You ask AI a question and you get a paragraph or two, with some bulleted points. Now, what you tend to see is answers that say some people believe that X, while others say that Y. Think about this. This is a decidedly non-cherry picking answer, thrown right in the face of people who might very well be determined to cherry pick some piece of information. True, they can just cherry pick the "some people" or "others", but at least the AI is giving both sides. I think this is a very important basic function/factor.

Need more of that. Just a shout out in case you need a good vibe. Or, of course, you can go to the source and play some Earth, Wind & Fire.

I just keep seeing all the wonderful trimmings (e.g. cabbage leaves) in the produce section of a local market. I asked a worker there once if I could have some and he said no, but he wasn't the owner. But that got me wondering about what kind of compost operation would happen if the worked out special trash bins that were devoted to vegetable waste, which would then be picked up by a designated composting operation. Perhaps this is already done a lot.

It's just too restricted to in the ER in real time. It can't develop too many things. I loved it and hung on every second, felt each episode was over way too quickly, but over time I'm just left thinking, "wait, what was that?"

I don't think the format can work, ultimately. It doesn't give enough info on the lives of the characters. I long for some British show with a lot of "in the home" scenes. I say British just because American network shows are so lousy. But yeah, I need to see into their lives, flashbacks of their childhoods, you name it. The constraint of putting it all in the ER, in real time, doesn't work well enough in the end.

I did think it would be interesting if they explored a kind of tricky format where they did the first half of each episode in real time in the ER, but the second half went into other various settings, past and present, or something else that would set it off from the usual wide ranging formats we all know.

Acorns doesn't have one I'm interested in.

Incredibly entertaining, even for movies one hasn't seen.

I think they figured about a half cup of water per pound. You just add it and mix it in. It's....well despite being weird, it's interesting. Anyone do this?

Dude driving in front of me as I go to the airport, around Robinsin to start (I drive a taxi). He seemed to like all the lanes, but couldn't seem to decide which. Maybe it was the left lane, because he slowed down to 38 MPH to savor it, but then he drifted back to the middle, then the right, then back, and so on, while people coursed around him on the LH shoulder, etc. I flashed my lights at him and honked, and he pulled over. I pulled over in front of him. I got out and he got out and I shouted "Are you alright?" He was at the rear passenger door, opening it, which gave me considerable pause, while I had State Police on the phone. I told them I wasn't going to approach him and they agreed I shouldn't. I got back in the cab and sat, and eventually he pulled out and started off again, with the same erratic driving, while I followed inconspicuously (I didn't want him to flee and speed up.) I had given them the reg and car type, and the cop showed up remarkably quickly, so I didn't have to follow him to Hopewell or Aliquippa (etc.) and I could leave. The cop got behind him (the dispatcher had told me to put on my flashers so the cop could ID me) and waited just a brief time, presumably to see him make a bad move, which the driver did, and the cop put on his lights and pulled him over. I told the dispatcher to tell the cop to be careful because this guy had gotten into the back seat for some reason (scary to think about; was he going to get a gun?)

Probably drunk, but it could have been some health situation (unlikely IMO, but you never know).

Be careful out there.

They stand there, staring into space, waiting for the light to change. Then they think, "Oh, the light changed, I'll cross." Except it was green (for them to cross) and it changes to red (meaning don't cross), and the immediately start crossing. I've seen this so many times.