“pint of your best bitter, please” is my goto.

reminds me of having heard trainee barbers used a real razor to ‘shave’ foam from balloons

Bet you that isn’t the case with guys like Kathay, Singapore or Jal. Some airlines in the civilized West are convinced we work for them.

Tea Tree, Jojoba, Coconut...

Nah. It’s just lazy thinking. The person who cleans the space in front of the seat can accomplish the action in 4 seconds, or less with experience. Take a look at the teams cleaning the Japanese bullet train.

History.

Makes a lot of sense, and is a must try. Thanks.

bento version of “Starry Night”- Thank you for this!

It does seem to me that irreplaceable world-heritage-level assets ought to be protected by custom, fail-safe source, huge caliber, controllable pressure fire suppression equipment. I may be miles off target here, but I don’t think Paris had something like this in place. 

Eeeew.

Nifty idea, thanks. I have a feeling I’m gonna keep using my other method:

Preferring the cheap ones you miss on the fantastic experience of the putty gun in your mouth!

Whoa, a new way to incur dental bills - your own mastiff!

Oh, fantastic. Great read. My dentist for the last 25 years (he hung up his drill a month ago) was too nice, and would not make me wear a night guard. Finally, after lots of years I had a new, expensive as hell set of upper jaw hardware, and also an elder person acceptance of what times does to us all. Have been using…

I tried. It works well as a substitute for Tia Maria or Kahlua. In truffles or in their runny formulation - icing/dipping chocolate sauce.

Sometimes it is imperative that you unambiguously specify stuff. Quoth Jacob [of Bible fame]: I will serve seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 

Thanks!

I’m much aware of the open possibilities, but don’t care to invest the time

It’s tough; I would suggest you approach this as a creative/artistic endeavor. An escape from timeline dictatorship into the freedom of decompression. Like a painting workshop. In that one you’d be a beginner too, but that’s expected. So’s with cooking.

this thing with onions and (later) garlic going in first is still true, but applies to stuff that will be ‘wet’ in the end, i.e. something in sauce, or a soup; when the onions are translucent and the garlic isn’t yet burned, one adds some ‘wet’ stuff, and proceeds from there