Tonight a great many people from work are meeting at the bar for an informal combination birthday party for myself and two other guys. At a bar I live 2 blocks from. I anticipate someone having to pour me into bed at around 2:30.
Manolo Blahnik would disagree with you. Come on, man. Did you really think you could argue with me about shoes? *Hair toss*
Pabst is great in bottle form, very underrated. Love getting an 18 pack and playing cards with the caps.
Question for everyone regarding hot water. At work today, our engineer was about to put on the kettle to make himself some tea. He turned the faucet onto 'cold', and I said, "Here, run it hot so it boils quicker." This brought on a reaction somewhat akin to me moving to shove one of his children into traffic. He snapped it back to cold, and we had this exchange: Jeff: Do you know where that water comes from? DCC: The hot water heater? Jeff: YES! DCC: Is something wrong with our hot water heater? Jeff: You don't ever drink water from the hot water heater! It's full of sediments and mercury and who knows what else! How have you lived this long? Turns out, everyone I work with - when they need to boil water - uses the cold water side of the tap, because they don't want to drink water that's been sitting in the hot water tank. This had never even OCCURRED to me before. I simply run water I'm about to boil as hot as possible, so I don't have to wait long for it to heat up. Am I crazy?
I had Pabst last night for the first time in decades. Not bad for a cheap shitty beer. And it goes well with pickled eggs. As well as anything can go with those monstrosities, anyhow. I still have heartburn from the four I ate last night. note: I'm also getting an error message when i post.
I saw this on the news while standing in line at the bank today. I have nowhere else to share this, so here you go:
I was taught never to use hot water from the tap when I'm boiling it for cooking, but was never told why. Or if I did I don't remember that being the reason. It was one of those things that was ingrained in me really young.
Every time I've posted tonight I've gotten this error message: Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/theidiot/public_html/messageboard/cache/queue.php on line 3 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/theidiot/public_html/messageboard/cache/queue.php on line 3 But it posts anyway. Nerds: explain, please.
It sounds like you have a virus. If you reinstall Windows and rub a lucky's rabbit's foot for 7 minutes, the problem should go away.
Audrey, I've had the same problem along with this subject has already been posted (or something to that extent). I know I'm pretty new here but it ain't making it easy.
DCC, if you want it to boil quicker, use cold water instead of hot, it comes to a boil faster. Try it if you don't believe me. It works in reverse if you want to make quick ice...use hot water instead of cold. Science.
Had a discussion with the techs this week about how boiling water in a microwave somehow alters the chemical structure of water so that plants (and, presumably, people) are no longer capable of recognizing it as water. And this is why people get sick so often. Thank fuck they're not paid to make actual decisions with logic like that. With reference to your water, didn't you live in Uganda for a while? Somehow I think you're better off with water from the heater than from a well downstream of the latrine. What a bunch of pansies. "Oh no, there's sediment and mercury in our hot water tanks!" Wouldn't he like to know how much mercury is in the fish he eats. This reminds me that my ex-girlfriend used to boil and filter every drop of water she drank. And if you dared ever let the water level in the pitcher go below the filter so that the filter had the chance to dry out, you were in shit. Because activated charcoal turns poisonous when it's dry. Morons, everybody.
In everyone's defense, I think that if you put a chunk of frozen meat in cold water, it thaws quicker than putting it in hot water. But that may also be an urban myth.