I’ll buy that failing to dry may cause blackening or rust, but very few people out there are buying knives these days that aren’t stainless, so this is a nonissue for most of us. I went to the original article to find out why failing to dry my knives causes them to get dull faster, which made zero sense to me. Since…

Remarkable as this may seem, there are many consumers out there that are rational, and still may want different things than you. I know it may be less intellectually taxing to assume that you are, in fact, the basis for all that is reasonable, but most people grow out of that in time.

Remarkable as this may seem, there are many consumers out there that are rational, and still may want different…

It may be where you are in life too. I’m over 50. Among other things, it means that creature comforts centered around my ass and sitting long periods carries far more value than it did in my 20s.

It may be where you are in life too. I’m over 50. Among other things, it means that creature comforts centered…

It is comparable to the other beach chairs I see on the beach height-wise (seat; they are high-backed compared to some others, but I like that). Besides, beaches are sand—you want it lower, use your heel to drag a trench before you put it down. And, from the link “5 reclining positions and arched seat front for…

It is comparable to the other beach chairs I see on the beach height-wise (seat; they are high-backed compared to…

Ah, my favorite kind of bullshit value judgment—the old “anyone who doesn’t agree with my values is stupid” commenter. Maybe I have to haul my chair around a lot more than you do, so the fact that it is superlight is worth money to me. Maybe I use mine a lot more than you do, so marginal comfort is worth more to me.…

Ah, my favorite kind of bullshit value judgment—the old “anyone who doesn’t agree with my values is stupid”…

Lafuma low elips (sic) folding chair. Just under $100 from Amazon. The only insanely light chair I could find that was well-engineered and durable.

Lafuma low elips (sic) folding chair. Just under $100 from Amazon. The only insanely light chair I could find that…

Oh good lord no.

I had a poor relationship with pegboard—not a huge fan of the look, and the damn pegs always seemed to fall out or require too much maintenance. I switched to commercial slatwall for wall hung stuff in my garage (lawn tools, extension cords, sporting gear, etc), but in my shop areas I tend to like drawers—too many…

Not sure why that stuff doesn’t fall out. I’m guessing it is wedged in there, but then it seems like a PITA to get out. I use laser cut French fit EVA foam inserts in my drawers, but you obviously don’t have the falling out issue there. And you can cut away little segments for fingers so you can pick stuff up easy.

A $10 stick specifically formulated for this lasts a long time (hell, I got mine for free, since the guy who sold me his wide belt sander threw it in for nothing). And isn’t floppy with loose stuff coming off of it, so probably safer. And doesn’t smell like an old shoe and hasn’t been in contact with dog shit or…

She’s riffing on the classic Yotam Ottolenghi/Sami Tamimi recipe, so here’s a link to the original:

I use a Modernist Cuisine recipe for pressure cooker chicken stock, which produces a phenomenally rich stock (although not exactly cheap to make). Calls for 1.5# chicken wings (chopped/broken up), 1.5# chicken thighs (skinless/boneless ground), 1T oil, 1C onions (thinly sliced), 1/2C carrots (thinly sliced), 1/2C…

And you’re just a shining example of intellectual capacity. Fully evolved all the way to 3rd grade, huh?

I’m assuming you are making that comment out of some misguided view that the subsidization inherent in the postal system (see someone’s comment further up about Hawaii) is beneficial to the common man. But I’m not sure why I should be subsidizing mail to Hawaii and Alaska when they rank #3 and #6, respectively, in my…

Actually, I’m a liberal democrat and, as far as Constitutional thinking goes, about as far away from strict construction as you can get.

My response to you didn’t get close to personal until the last paragraph, yet that is all you seize on, so your play to staking out the intellectual high ground is sort of bullshit. You want the high ground, ignore the insults and take up the argument. The larger point is and remains that your “a-f” either support…

Fuck off—like your attempt to assert some moral high ground here isn’t condescending and trolling?

I’ve done this all my life—things in my house used to be in a gradual migration back to where they belong. A bag of tools from repairing the 2nd floor bathroom might get deposited next to the door to the basement stairs as I came down the next morning. But then I got married to someone who hates clutter and puts…

I’ve never asked my wife “permission” to buy anything nor has she asked me. We have a good sense of what discretionary income we have and neither of us has any interest in acting irresponsibly as a fiscal matter. I’ll mention larger purchases to her, largely because she does the finances and I’d like to avoid…

Again, the idea of having some amount of discretionary spending isn’t an argument in favor of separate accounts. It is an argument in favor of having come to an understanding with your spouse. Retirement accounts is a red herring. I’d consolidate them all if I could.