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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time

The difference between Australia and New Zealand pt 2

ChaosEngine jokingly says...

and people wonder why we had a flag referendum...

also on the list of things of things Australia stole from NZ (nation of convicts, etc):
- pavlova (meringue-based dessert thing)
- pharlap (racehorse who was apparently quite good)
- Russell Crowe (actually, we're ok with this one... thanks 'straya!)

Why Wine Snobs Are Faking It

oritteropo says...

Australia has a pretty variable climate too. The best wines are often from years that the vines were stressed, so yields are lower but the resulting wine has more character. There also seems to be an odd year/even year variation here.

Another way stressed vines make more interesting wines is if they are infected with Botrytis fungus. This reduces the yield, and as it tends to kill yeast it makes wine making harder, but the result is a more intensely flavoured sweet dessert wine.

enoch said:

@Khufu
and interesting (if you find wines interesting) thing to note regarding "good" or "bad" years is that is almost exclusively a european thing.
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John Oliver Trashes Whole Foods

JustSaying says...

OK, let's ignore the sideshow and get to the point. Yes, you make choices that do no harm and make you feel better unlike others (I'm looking at you, homeopathy). So did Kriss Kross but I still feel compelled to call wearing your pants backwards stupid. Your food trend isn't that much better.
I don't have to sift through the internet to know that. Do you like dessert?
I make a lot of dessert. A LOT! Even vegan. Vegan Vanillasauce. I have to replace milk and cream with soymilk and the eggyolks with some starch (usually corn, for the gluten-free asshats). The only original ingredients are sugar (healthy!) and vanillabean.
You see the problem?
I replace ingredients you object to to mimic a product you shouldn't want in the first place. All the fucking time. All the fucking time I see vegan recipes of dishes that normally contain eggs or milk or butter or even meatproducts. I know a cook who can make vegan Leberwurst. Go on, google 'Leberwurst' and explain to me how somebody who wants to eat that and be vegan isn't a tool.
I don't mind vegetarians at all. They have actually compelling reasons for that diet choice. I wouldn't make that choice ever but I can respect theirs and believe everybody should (a lot of people don't). I loose my respect for individual vegetarians the minute they start talking about Tofuschnitzel. You want Schnitzel? Maybe you should just go and have Schnitzel. You can still eat vegetarian the rest of the week. You're just 'mostly vegetarian' then. That's fine too.
Imagine a man who tells you all the time how he disapproves of the 'homosexual lifestyle' and thinks that kind of behaviour is immoral and wrong. Then that man goes home, tells his wife to get her strap-on and moans 'Channing!' repeatedly while she does him from behind.
That man is as much of a tool as the guy who walks in a restaurant and orders vegan creme brulee. Or any pie. Or pancakes. Or Lasagne. Or a milkshake. Or something with Cheese. Or with Honey. Or icecream. Sorbets are fine though. They're mostly fruit, sugar (healthy!) and water.
I don't hate you, I just call out the stupid thing you do. You want to improve the treatment of animals, make it more ethical? That's fine, I'm with you on that. I just don't see how not using butter can help.

Mikus_Aurelius said:

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But all of this is a sideshow. The real point is that I make choices that do no one any harm and make me feel better. You on the other hand apparently go sifting through the internet for arguments against my lifestyle, fail to subject those arguments to even cursory critical thinking in your zeal, and parrot them on a video sharing community while proudly declaring your loathing for people like me.

I think this says a lot more about your relationship to eating animals than it does about mine.

Why Tipping Should Be Banned

ChaosEngine says...

I agree with you that wait staff can't rescue a bad meal, but I'm talking about really basic stuff here.

I've had plenty of meals in NZ where we get dumped at a table, no-one comes to take a drinks order for ages, then you're left even longer waiting to order food, and FSM help you if you'd like to see a dessert menu.

It's gotten better, but it's still a common complaint about NZ.

RedSky said:

@ChaosEngine

Is a waiter staff really able to contribute that much to the experience though? I've always felt that food quality, environment, speed of service are far more important. Politeness, being available at the right times are all very routine nowadays.

Mess With The Cat, Get The Fangs (And Claws)

Retroboy says...

"They played a bit,"

From HIS perspective maybe.

The cat clearly did not want to "play" from the very beginning, and that's a clear signal for you to leave it alone. It was showing very hostile and defensive body language throughout, and the guy wouldn't stop touching it, eventually bringing it into his lap and trapping it. We have no idea how long this was going on before this video started, but it's hard not to think the guy'd been interacting with it for a while.

"i'm not sherlock holmes but i'd say they bought a new toy, the cat for some reason didn't like it, and they filmed the reaction which they didn't expect to go so badly."

I didn't backtrack to that at all.

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As for "just desserts" and "vitriol", it's not like he got snuffed here. He took a couple probably really good claw scratches and puncture wounds and will remember to stay the hell away from that kitty for a good long time.

chicchorea (Member Profile)

oritteropo says...

Thanks We spent the day with friends and family, ate too much turkey, too many helpings of dessert, and drank all the beer I think that counts as a successful christmas!

chicchorea said:

Thank you very, and a belated Merry Christmas to you.

I thought to wish you such yesterday morning(Texas morning that is) knowing you live in tomorrow land. I chose sleep instead. When I got up and around I found I was banned. Second time it happened so. Glitch, fixed itself?

I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and thank you again.

Walmart Ice Cream Sandwiches Don't Melt

atara says...

Cheap ice cream contains a lot of fillers like that so that the product is a bit more forgiving to freeze/thaw cycles (eg, shipping, sitting on a loading dock, stored in a sub-optimal freezer). Also, fillers are cheaper than, you know, actual cream.

When ice cream partially melts and refreezes (even slightly), tiny ice crystals form in it, making it less creamy. That's why it's important to keep ice cream really cold. If you load the dairy dessert up on guar gums and the like, it retains that "creamy" mouthfeel even if it's been melted and refrozen.

Polar Bear yacht Fire - San Diego

Science Vlogger reads her comments

bmacs27 says...

Do you have any female friends that rarely get catcalled? Ever spoken with them about the women who always complain about how men are always interested in sex?

I know that women find it demeaning. I'm saying that's like being angry you ate too much steak and don't have enough room for dessert. Internet bullying can lead to suicide or severe depression. I find it sick that you (or she) would equate unwanted favorable attention with outright verbal abuse.

shatterdrose said:

I'd suggest talking to as many of your female friends as possible and find out from them whether or not they enjoy being catcalled. You'd be surprised by A) how many of them actually find it demeaning and B) how many of them determine if it's demeaning by what the other person looks like (I won't even go into what this says about them.)

Everyday Products You've Been Using Wrong

sixshot (Member Profile)

Preparation of Insane Japanese Dessert - Strawberry Balloon

yellowc says...

The starving people are more concerned about the vast quantities of food regular people throw out daily and the general waste mentality than they are about a dessert that is perhaps made once a month and eaten by maybe a few hundred people a year.

So it's actually really easy not to think about the starving people, you (meaning, us) do it every day constantly.

bareboards2 said:

Hard not to think of the many starving people around the world. I actually feel a little ill from watching this -- 1% indeed.

nock (Member Profile)



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