Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX It's ok, you have those awesome exhaust vents.

@HobbitGamer If death tastes like bacon, I don't want to live.

@bimmy-lee Everything is twice the price and half the size. But frozen foods/ice creams is rediculous. You need to eat 5 to get the same thing you had with one 30 years ago. Americans don't eat a lot, that's a myth. We just buy a lot of boxes of itty bitty food and eat it all at once to make a meal.

Note to self: Don't use the bathroom after @HobbitGamer.

@HobbitGamer That does sound good, indeed. Over here, we've got a small heat wave going on, so I've adjusted my diet accordingly. Lots of quick, mainly cold dishes and lots of water and thirst-quenching beverages.

Today, I had a feta salad (tomato, shallots, cucumber and feta cheese, seasoned with 4 season pepper, parsley and olive oil) and a small piece of pork loin/tenderloin.

@NEStalgia Don't want it regardless.

@NEStalgia There are probably restaurants that should have similar warnings posted on the restroom doors. Places that serve hot wings should go first.

@ThanosReXXX That sounds deliiiicious. I've been downing more ice water the past month, just from our heat. It's obviously not 100+F here, but the humidity and lack of wind or clouds in my neck of the woods during summer is just... I dunno, it's like sitting in a sauna with all your clothes, while the sun is shining in your eyes. I end up drinking around 100oz ice water each evening

@HobbitGamer - They’re an epic ice cream treat. Guaranteed to freeze your teeth at least once though. Totally worth it. That salsa mix sounds delightful. Sweet heat. Just to be clear, I’m a pineapple lover, but not on my za.

@ThanosReXXX - Is this you coming out as a person who doesn’t like bacon? I thought everyone loves bacon, even vegans. I thought it was the ONE thing all humans could agree upon.

@NEStalgia - Big grocery karts full of small boxes of tiny food. Bet I could plow through three choco tacos in a single sitting. I don’t even mess around with standard size candy bars. King size or get it away from me. Fun size just makes me angry. What exactly is fun about arousing your sweet tooth without sufficiently bedding it back down. Terrible.

@HobbitGamer We've had a heatwave ever since last Tuesday. Temperatures on average are now between 100° - 110°F. Supposed to go down to 98 tomorrow, and from Sunday onward a sharp decline towards 80 - 80.5, but I'll believe that when I see it. We did already have some thunder storms yesterday night, because the Dutch skies can't handle all that subsequent heat all at once, so something's gotta give.

Seeing as I've been working from home, I've got a standing fan running all day, but when the day progresses and the heat builds up, all it does is circulate warm air, so I'm trying to spend as little energy as I can. Probably also the reason why there haven't been any real text walls from me, these last couple of days...

P.S.

Here's a picture of the aforementioned dish, to wet your appetite even more:

@HobbitGamer I hear that......except here it's always cloudy. And raining. Always. It's rare to go more than 36 hours without rain of some sort. And half the time it's not raining there's just the continuous drone of thunder from 10 miles away.

You know the Dark World in ALttP? That's where I live.

@bimmy-lee Oh, no worries there: I actually DO love bacon, but only to eat, not to use as a perfume for my entire house.

@bimmy-lee You're supposed to eat the whole bag of fun size. Duh.

It's true though, portion sizes are tiny. Remember when a cake from a supermarket was a cake? You could serve to a group. Or you could eat it yourself over days and make it economical. It was never good cake. In fact it was always terrible cake. But it at least used to taste like cake and be sized like cake. About 3 or 4 years ago even the decent ones became what I call "large cupcakes" the whole cake is like a serving for one person. MAYBE for two days. It went from a 9" 2 layer cake (already small) down to this weird 6" x 1.3" iced muffin, a half a single layer. And it tastes worse. All chemical tasting. With "whipped non-dairy topping" icing (that I'm pretty sure is the same stuff sold in a 4lb tub in the Home Depot insulation aisle for $7). And the whole "cake" is like $12.99. I have a better idea, I'll eat a crouton, give them a $20, and declare it a cake. That's what's next anyway. (OMG, I really am becoming @rjejr!)

@ThanosReXXX Everybody loves bacon. Bacon is the great uniter. If you don't like bacon you're not just un-American. You're inhuman. You monster.

Edit: Oh, good, you're human. Still, then there's actually no difference bewteen eating bacon and francing your house with it. The latter comes with the former absolutely free of charge!

@NEStalgia And here I was thinking you were actually the hermit in the cave, handing out helpful stuff to little old Link...

@ThanosReXXX Nah, it's all rocky wastelands under permanently blackened skies and the continuous thunder and flashes of lightening overhead, with miles of stagnant swamplands at the bottom of the craggy hills. Noon looks like the blackness of midnight.

On the very very rare days the forecast lists 0% chance of rain, it still rains, even just a few drops.

There's no place like home.

@NEStalgia Well, at least you don't have monsoons...

@ThanosReXXX - Whew, good. Reality was beginning to crumble around me. Delicious looking lunch by the way. I have an undying love for shallots, especially in a salad. Stay cool my friend. One of my old tricks in my pre AC days was to wet a hand or full size towel, and put it in the freezer until it was frozen, then drape it over my head, wrap it around my neck, or stuff it down my pan... well, never mind. You get the idea. It’s bootleg, but effective.

@NEStalgia - It’s the truth. I remember massive round cakes and sheet cakes that took two people to safely transport. My wife got our kids individual bday cakes at Earth Fare last year. It was like $25 per cake, and the quarter cuts amounted to about a quarter cupcake. But hey, they were organic!

@bimmy-lee Lunch? That was my dinner.
I know the stay cool tricks (back of the neck is the best spot, by the way: thinnest skin vs best nerve and blood vessel ratio), but at some point, the heat still takes over. Here's hoping the weather forecast actually gets it right this time, and we can enjoy a relatively cool 80 degrees next week...

@ThanosReXXX that dish looks like a nice greek/Mediterranean salad 😉. I definitely approve of this!

@ThanosReXXX - Ah, silly mistake by me, and I even knew you’re on metric time (emoji). Yeah, the neck is great for a quick cool off. One of my coaches in high school had us run the underside of our wrists under cold water, that’s a nice little trick too. You’re right though, there comes a point when the heat is simply unbeatable, and we’re forced to endure.

@NintendoByNature It actually is Greek/Mediterranean inspired. Good guess.
When I was younger, I used to frequent the Spanish coast a lot, as well as what was then still known as Yugoslavia and last but not least, I've been to Greece multiple times as well.

I like to cook and/or prepare my own food, and I'm always inspired by these other regions and dishes, so that's why I also use their ingredients a lot, especially around this time of year. Reminds me of all the summer holidays I enjoyed in those countries.

@bimmy-lee Yup, and then I just go into minimal energy spending state, or as I like to call it: sloth mode.

And yeah, wrists are good too, for a quick cool down. It's basically for the same reason as with the back of the neck.

P.S.

As a standard rule, simply just add six to seven hours to your local time, and you're close enough to my time zone, to figure out whether I'm having breakfast, lunch or dinner...

@ThanosReXXX looks delish. Especially on a hot day like you're having, I'm sure it's refreshing