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- Nairn2
I made some stock from some chicken bits last night, had it on for a couple of hours, but the strainer went into the washing machine, so I topped up a bit of water and thought I'd just wait for the washer to end.
Went into the living room, and, very stupidly - dozed off. Was awoken an hour and a half later by two smoke alarms going spastic, and upon running to the kitchen was met with fucking horrific amount of smoke billowing out - acrid, plasticky, disgusting-smelling smoke.
Opened every door and window and spent the next hour sheepishly trying to sort this immense fuck up out.
Weirdly, my partner wasn't entirely pissed at me, which was .. unusual, in the extreme.
I came back home after dropping the kid off at school this morning (who slept through it all, blissfully unaware of how much of a fucking moron her father is) and spent awhile trying to de-pong the kitchen. It's much bette rthan it was, but fuck, thatstench is going to be lingering as a constant reminder of my stupidity for a few weeks.
How the fuck can someone burn stock?!
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Last time I made stock fro a roast chicken carcass, I had to throw it out as the chicken was very citrussy whihc did not at all well translate to nice-tasting stock. I think fate's trying to tell me not to bother.
- Spelling mistakes are intended as proof of human composition.Nairn
- oh i've burnt stock, stew, boiled bain maries dry, memorabily once fusing a plastic tub containing a christmas pud into the pud.hans_glib
- i've lost count of the number of pans i've ruined. the hare stock was the worst, that stink lingered for two weeks.hans_glib
- also boiling beetroot. i ended up carbonising the lot. i couldn't see the end of the kitchen the smoke was so thick. wifie's reaction: "AGAIN!!?!?!?".hans_glib
- Well that makes me feel a lot better!
My father still brings up the time I put a boiled in the bag rice into cook in the pan, entirely forgetting the water...Nairn - He'd injured himself and was immobile, so I was cooking for him for a few weeks as a dumb-ass 15 year old.Nairn
- I gotta say - cremated hare stock does indeed sound like it wouoidl reek a bitNairn
- bainbridge4
I went right to Chat GPT today to generate ideas for a project without thinking for myself.
- I had to go to ChatGPT to ask what your post was aboutYakuZoku
- ChatGPT just told me that YakoZoku is a surfer that loves cats.utopian
- you thought for yourself going to chat gpt.. thats plenty enough thinking for startersneverscared
- It’s weird eh? I find myself forgetting how to do things the old school way of pen and paper ideation or at least it feels like I’m missing out on something_niko
- Resist!mort_
- It's a tool, not a toy.
ACTUAL Intelligence > ARTIFICIAL Intelligence bro!!!
; )ideaist - Use it or lose it.monNom
- What would PhanLo think? Stay true to the art folksIanbolton
- Nice one Ianmort_
- So far I’ve had limited luck actually saving time with gpt or really getting creative work out that’s remotely interestingmonospaced
- Same with Claude. Good for ideation though.mort_
- Fucking boycott Open AI already!mort_
- +1YakuZoku
- garbage3
Also totally forgot, but I know there's some cross-contamination.
Anybody else getting spam mails from Y@yhooray?
- Nah. This was one website to which I never signed up. They can't spam an address they don't have! Have some of *that*, fuckers!Continuity
- I got 1 last weekYakuZoku
- I thought it was dead, still didn't checkYakuZoku
- @cont lol, you weren't missing much.
@moldy didn't check either. There was maybe 3 good users there, and then just an endless march of cunts.garbage - Got onepango
- Me too, two in the last two months. Didn't remember signing up there...Longcopylover
- yepprophetone
- Yep.. went and still Konik and few others arguing over .. no clue, doesn't even make sense.hydro74
- ^ This is both hilarious and unsurprising.garbage
- Gardener3
win/fail of the day : I found an original UK top opening mono with all the inserts & inners at the boot this morning. The lady had all of The Beatles original mono pressings albums for £15 a pop, but I chose this one over the others, which tbh I already have. So it had a few tape marks on the edges at the front so I took some isopropanol and a cloth and cleaned them off sweet, however in my wiping frenzy I rubbed it's unique printed number clean off!
I have to say I never thought it would actually rub off so easy as I thought it was printed deep into the sleeve, but no. The pic below is of my old copy for comparison but I am not cheeky enough to try and pass off the rubbed sleeve as a low number, or am I? mwahahahahaha, etc.
- duckseason0
Pali the muse
- stoplying3
Had a crazy storm here over the weekend with intense winds. Trees down all over town, including one of my neighbors onto my roof. The tree landed and stayed on our roof, making a small hole from one of the branches. Neighbor is a total wild card, definitely either battling with addiction or recovery or both. So my wife and I knock on his door - because he never looks out the back of his house even - and told him what happened. We ask if he can check his homeowners insurance policy to pay for the tree removal. He immediately offers to help, apologizes for not taking care of the trees sooner (we'd talked about it in the past), and asks to come see the damage. He demands that we get three estimates from tree services, etc. But we want the tree off our house asap. A tree guy comes to give a quote later that day, and when he gives his price of $1200, my. neighbor loses his shit. WHAT? YOU'RE A THIEF! THAT JOB ONLY TAKES 20 MINUTES!
We were shocked at how aggressive he got so quickly, and the tree guy threw up his hands and said "go get someone else".
30 mins later a text from neighbor apologizing saying he works construction and knows what things cost, blah blah. But he asks if I can bargain with tree guy to get a lower price - but neighbor wants to "supervise" the job. Oh brother. I call tree guy, get him down to $1000, neighbor agrees to pay, they bring the crane, remove the tree, slide it into the woodchipper, and all is good. Neighbor paid, and brought over some roof patching kit for us to use until we get it properly fixed - hey, that's really nice.
It was a nice reminder to always be civil towards your neighbors, but damn...it was a wild ride with him!
- PonyBoy8
Watching folks age and losing love for life and the things they were once very passionate about (to the point they couldn't shut up about it) is heartbreaking... :(
Talk my fucking ear off again... please. <3
- I see this in myself. I spent decades music-obsessed and now...? I barely listen to it.
Need to fix this, massively. If only because I can't have my kid...Nairn - ...grow up in a house without song.
I don't know what happened.
But it did. And I hate it.Nairn - Same with fiction. Used to work in a bookshop, haven't read a novel in years. Just writing that is painful.Fax_Benson
- Although I do have music on 24/7, which might be the problem.Fax_Benson
- We're old, tired and fed up... But, tomorrow, tomorrow will be better ;)OBBTKN
- nairn can't convince me he's not mid tampopo broth montage :)kingsteven
- that's one of the sign for depression.pango
- I see this in myself. I spent decades music-obsessed and now...? I barely listen to it.
- ArchitectofFate6
the fact that we have more posts in "toilet of the day" than "vid of the day-design" hurts my delicate feelings
- kingsteven3
in the existential attic lay twenty pairs of slim jeans from four forgotten caches: 28/32, 29/32, 30/32, 31/32 uugh
- Well, at least you're not shrinking. You're quite thin? I've been pretty much constantly 32" waist .. well, since I stopped getting taller, and I'm a waif.Nairn
- I'm 30/32 and constantly get called lanky. 31/32 ain't so bad.garbage
- yeah i'm 6' and would have been under 11st to fit in those 28's - over 10 years ago, still wear 31/32' but not slim jeans! lolkingsteven
- All of my jeans are 30/34 (or 31/34, depending on the brand), and have been since I was a teenager. :\Continuity
- 30/34? Everybody run, Conty is Slendermangarbage
- Haha. Mines like 31, 32, 33, 34. Getting old is crazy.monospaced
- lol @ garbage ...that's something I haven't heard about in years! Those were simpler times.Continuity
- i_monk0
Let's see if QBN is still shit.
- what did you conclude?Ianbolton
- A couple of posts are still *very* shit.palimpsest
- It's not diarrhea.
But, rather, a good, healthy firm shit that comes with having proper nutrition.Continuity - We are recovering.monospaced
- On remission but still have hemorrhoids.palimpsest
- Ianbolton11
I've spent the last year or so struggling so much with addiction and today I just feel bored and finally seem happy with that feeling. Like, I'm happy to sit and do nothing. At peace with myself.
- Cheer up Ian! <3OBBTKN
- just sitting and being happy with yourself is a challenge in our modern times!Chimp
- Keep up the good work - I'm rooting for you!stoplying
- Husband is coming up on 1200 days sober. Still dealing with it, but dealing with it.i_monk
- Good luck Ian, steady as you goGardener
- Currently doing a detox as well. Boredom is the WORST lol. I'm looking forward to being happy with boredom. Hang in there Ianny.garbage