Thanks for the reply.

This may come as a shock, but the overlap between deadspin readers and w-s staff is probably just me. I’ve showed it to a few people and they get it. Understanding that a lot of the inventory is ridiculous stuff for ridiculous people doesn’t exactly necessitate a higher level of consciousness.

you say non-stick and normally i’d agree (I scratch them to shit in months), but the Zwilling ceramic-nonstick saucepans are great. Weren’t crazy expensive, have had over a year and not managed to scratch.

“It’s a whole new level of nut-holding you will remember with fondness fondleness for years to come.”

They do still offer that service. We’re mailing our knives back to them for rehabilitation; the ones that can’t be saved will be replaced by W-S (we were sure to get that in writing).

All-Clad d5 7 or 10 pc set will get you in a good spot for life.

There was a girl in my town who was caught smearing feces on the cap of her toddler’s central line (an IV that goes to the heart). The baby was born really premature but still was “sick” at 3 years old with all manner of infections. The mom had a LiveJournal where she chronicled all the illnesses and also got into all…

Medical professionals absolutely DO NOT keep good records. This is why you must advocate for yourself and remind them of any preexisting conditions because they will prescribe medicine that can fuck you up. And doctors will listen and be swayed by patients which is a good thing when you are advocating for yourself but…

Because she probably inflicted injuries on the child to “prove” her point of him being sick and ensure he got some medical attention. Munchausen is no joke.

Almost always in these cases, the parent is actively doing things to make the child sick, like feeding them toxic chemicals or injecting them with things to cause health problems. The symptoms of these actions tend to be unusual and hard to diagnose. Worse, parents who do this are sociopaths who only care about the…

Hard, really hard. Like the day a woman came in and purchased two small containers of salt. The total came to over $30. For salt.

I think convincing doctors to do unwarranted procedures qualifies. And after he went into the hospital and got away from her care, he pretty much immediately got better, which tells me she was doing *something* to keep him sick. In these cases, it usually takes a while for details of what that *something* is, so I’m…

OK, I read the part about how the mom lied to doctors about the kid’s condition, but... these are medical fucking professionals. They can tell whether a kid is sick or not, whether he has cancer or not, whether he needs certain tests or not. I get that some of these might be necessary but... 13 fucking surgeries?…

I took my Shun knives to a W-S to be sharpened, and they totally ruined them.

I think it would be harder to field overwrought and hyperdetailed questions about useless features of overpriced crap. “No sir. I’m afraid that our entry level nut bowls are not microwavable. However, for another $15 you can level up to the ‘Night Before Christmas’ nut bowl that is not only microwave safe, but also…

It’s like an expensive car. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. And I don’t love cheese hard enough to spend that kind of scratch on it.

Cheese futures are just too volatile to constrain themselves to the limitations of print

HOLY SHIT. I looked it up and the twelve months is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS (currently on sale for $480). So you get no discount on buying more months and the last three months are the least impressive (French, English, Italian).

I’m morbidly curious what it is about the 12-month cheese subscription such that they couldn’t put the price there. Like the last three months are aged in a specific cave that requires hours of spelunking to get to?

also, what happens with the 12 month subscription that they can’t print it in the catalog. Why do I have to go online to find out the cost of my 12 month subscription!? What are they hiding!?