Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Heavyarms55 Yes, but can you handle their wasabi allotments?!

I LOVE spicy everything, and I LOVE curry. But wasabi will burn me from the inside out. Of course most wasabi isn't actually wasabi....so I'm not sure I've ever even had "real" wasabi.

@Heavyarms55 Hehe. Yeah that’s really spicy stuff. Habenero peppers have that very upfront and instant burn when used in food.

If it’s that Habanero Tabasco you’re referring to, that stuff is pretty good. I’m too much of a wuss for the Habenero El Yucateco sauce though.

@Heavyarms55 I always try to prepare the food I eat myself, but it seems that many Japanese curry recipes rely on those curry blocks. Even a friend of mine who is Japanese only makes curry using those blocks. Her mom always brings a ton home every year when she visits Japan. So to me Japanese curry is that one dish that requires those mystery cubes. Granted, I haven't actively searched for an ''authentic'' curry recipe that makes it from scratch.

@NEStalgia Wasabi is a different kind of spicy, like mustard. My spicy tolerance doesn't work for wasabi either.

And yeah, most ''wasabi'' pastes contain only a fraction of wasabi, and the rest is horseradish. Wasabi is quite expensive, and I've once heard that it's only really good when eaten fresh. I'm actually interested in growing wasabi myself, just for the sake of it, but it's rather complicated. But if you have a big garden with a pond with running water, it may be possible.

@NEStalgia I got a 35 in ProbStat my Junior year. I just wasn’t interested in the stuff, and nothin my teacher did could get me involved. I skated on Math Tech 3 for my requirement. I was more focused on history and civics. The real civics, in the late 90s, not whatever it is they do now.

I think math is just a hard subject to raise interest in for those that can do it, but aren’t concerned with the why or how.

@Octane Curry blocks? I just use curry sauce, curry paste or boemboe/bumbu.

@NEStalgia If you love spicy, you should try green curry. It'll come pretty close to the wasabi sensation you've experienced...

@HobbitGamer I think most of the problem is that most "math teachers" don't actually understand the math itself, and therefore can't teach what they don't know or understand. They learned from teachers that didn't understand. They managed to grasp the academic rote of just "doing" it, without understanding what they're doing or why, or why the forumlas and values work as they do, or how it relates to the physical world...they just rote memorize "this is what you do" and the repeat it.

I don't work that way. I can rote memorize NOTHING. EVER. I need to understand, in depth, the how, the way, what it's trying to accomplish, how and why it gets from A to Z, the relationship to the physical world. If I don't understand the whats, whys, and hows, of a process, it's purpose and its effect, I can't understand it at all, and it effectively doesn't exist at all to me. Which is of course the actual PURPOSE of math. The joke they call education is a process for busy work, not actually understanding anything.

Engineers of course understand all of that at that level...the problem is nearly always they're great at understanding, but horrendous at explaining and trapped in their own minds...so they can't convey to someone else how it all works.

If you can get someone that understands, in depth, the hows and why's, AND can convey that with clarity, I could be the next Rain Man. But that's like one out of every 100 teachers. Spend 17 years of your life trying to learn rote memorization and process of forumla from a bunch of people that don't understand what they're doing or why beyond repetition for the sake of it, and it's never going to happen for me. They could solve problems in front of me for unlimited hours for years on end and by the end the only understanding I'm going to come away with is 2+2=22.

@ThanosReXXX man, it's like you're still on a completely different wavelength. There are times, I simply don't get you...this is one of those times.

@ThanosReXXX Those are mostly used for Indonesian curries/sauces.

As far as I know, most Japanese curry is made with these kind of spice blocks:

Randomly going back to the zombies.... I think we need more games with vampires!

@NintendoByNature - Just had a chance to check the eShop, and you’re right, there’s quite a few good titles on sale. I’m currently torn because Mark of the Ninja is one I’ve considered an insta buy on sale (hasn’t been on sale in over a year I think), but I told myself I wouldn’t spend any more money on games this year after I pre installed LM3. Terrible spot I’m in, just terrible. How’s Monster Boy? Looks decent for the price.

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@Heavyarms55 Everything I've read about curry so far looks delicious! I'd definitely try a milder curry and work my way up lol. I like spicy hot food but do have my limits. I've found I can hardly stand anything hotter than a jalapeno. I tried cooked chili peppers one time, but those had teeth.

@bimmy-lee The PETA article was basically them giving UGG an award. Something about how the goose was driving the invading humans off from its natural habitat or something. Then the statement chimed that geese shouldn't be used for their feathers. I'm ashamed to admit that I read the full article, but that was also before I went to bed; sleep fogs my memory sometimes. XD

Yep, gotta watch some of the woolly worm species you handle. Most are fine, but some of those fine hairs on a few species can embed themselves into human skin and cause a reaction. There was even a viral FB post recently warning about a white variety with a few yellow hairs.

@NEStalgia You've gotta start prefacing your posts with some sort of Wall of Text alert.

I was normally pretty decent at math, but disliked the subject. Beyond basic algebra and a few other one-offs, I don't see much use for the higher stuff unless one either plans to go into professions that use it or is just a math masochist who somehow adores the subject. Most of my math teachers ranged from meh to decent. A lot of it came naturally, but I'd need the stuff that didn't explained in detail. As you posted, some of these explanations come a lot easier to some people than others.

Yes, in a lot of professions, there is a teacher hierarchy. You have some like my mother who are truly passionate about teaching. Then there are others who merely use it as a stepping stone to get into administrative jobs or other related positions/fields. Mom's former superintendent was one of those people who had barely spent any time in a classroom.

There are also teacher cliques; it's so high school in some cases. It's mainly the high school teachers vs. the grade school teachers. Many of the HS teachers didn't fully understand some of the grief the administration gave the grade school teachers.

Then of course, there's the athletic favoritism. Mom doesn't deal with that these days since she teaches a lower grade level, but when she taught fifth grade...eesh. It didn't happen often, but every once in awhile you'd have a coach who'd heavily pressure a teacher to raise the athletic kid in question's grade up to where he or she was barely passing so that they could play. IMO that teaches the kid nothing.

@bimmy-lee so i said the same thing but ended up buying two games yesterday. Only $14 total though so it was worth it. I didn't grab monster boy but ghoulboy. It's a 16bit action platform that seems to be like ghosts n goblins. With it being October and all, I was on board very easy. And it was only $3. But I want to at least beat ori before i play that or guacamelee 2.

JOKER WAS INCREDIBLE

I had to scoop up Anodyne. At .99, it’s quite hard to say no.

Woohoo! First night of Haunt season! Free food, crazy people, and terrified patrons, here I come! Y'all likely won't hear much from me over the next few hours outside of some dead periods where there aren't any customers for awhile.

Side note: I do enjoy wasabi, or what passes for it anyway. As @Octane mentioned earlier however, true wasabi is hard to come by due to the price. I enjoy horseradish though, so it's a discrepancy I tolerate.

@ThanosReXXX The thought alone of dressing up like Audrey and terrorizing someone who's terrified of her (within legal limits) is quite satisfying. XD

Don't worry, no drinks were actually snorted at the mention of ever-pointy cosmetic add-ons. Stuff like that always seems like a waste of money to me, not to mention the complications that may be involved. I do give a pass to those who genuinely need plastic surgery for bodily reconstruction purposes after an accident or something though. (Not saying that you were implying that btw, just mentioning that I think it's okay in certain contexts)

Also glad we agree on the Audrey thing. I'm happy to let the topic go as I do feel like we've started going in circles at this point. At the very least, a fun mental image alluded to in my first paragraph to you, as well as a chance to use a Wednesday meme sprang out of it.

Please tell me how it is.

We're gonna visit a Japanese restaurant that looks quite authentic in a few weeks, so I may try some curry there.

But I'm a huge coward when it comes to hot foods, so maybe not!

I also want to try takoyaki, even though I hate seafood. But it's like so iconic.

I absolutely love Japanese food from sushi to hibachi. You cant go wrong with any of it.