Nothing like the holidays to bring out the bitter and the judgmental, to make sure they tell you why you are doing it wrong, even though you are enjoying it. If ever the ‘opinions are like @$$holes’ adage was true, it’s the comments on an article like this.

I can't stop laughing at this - all the stars. 

Totally lost the thread when I started imagining Future Vegas. . 

Just how the hell did you know about my micro. . I mean, um, @#$% NO I’m HUNG LIKE A HORSE JUST LOOK AT MY F250 DUALLY KING RANCH!! So what if I’ve never carried anything heavier than the mail out of the mailbox down my driveway. . . HUGE PENIS!!

My Takeaways:

So, I’ll pose this to the commentariat - What are the actions one should take to: a. distance oneself from the all-too-empowered toxic component of nerdom, and b. To try and purge/segregate them from those of us that just like lasers and robots, etc?

The correct answer to the prostitute question is, “She looks just like your mom, but cleaner and with better teeth.”

. . .you do, but all of that is added to a real, traditional caramel...an overcooked one at that. Some recipes add vinegar, onions, it’s a versatile thing. Not being snarky - if you Google ‘fish sauce caramel’ there are quite a few recipes. None of them however, capture the aroma of nearly-burning sugar and boiling…

One year they were pushing a Calphalon frittata pan - I bet I made 200 frittatas over the holiday season, lots of bacon and onions and cheese.

Second this - All-Clad is superior and will last for a lifetime of cooking excellence.

Yeah, it’s a real thing. Add some chili flake and some garlic and you have a really interesting, sweet-hot sauce for milder fish. But man, when that fish sauce hits the hot saucepan, it is pungent.

I used to do demos and cooking classes at our local W-S, including one time a fish sauce caramel that probably stank up half the mall. . . .but I can attest that they do in fact get used pretty regularly, or at least they used to. Although yeah, typically it is more things like cider or mini muffins than really…

Went to one of those tapings when I was in middle school - room was even smaller than it looked on TV.

Star just for this screen name. . . ok, carry on.

I would give this 100 stars if I could. There is nothing worse than someone who willfully ignores his/her own unearned advantages while they preach to others who didn’t have them.

How is this not getting more stars.

They didn’t have to - this is the love child of greedy developers and corrupt local government, with the NFL leering during the act.

All the stars for this - my first computer was a Commodore 128.

“keeping” emojis - this made me laugh hard as hell, I’m not entirely sure why. Just sounds like something my family would say, I suppose.

My fingers bled from punching out the write protect tab on th other side to make my 5.25 floppies double-side writeable. . .Kids these days with their SSDs and terabyte flash drives. . .