Gosh, you're FUN.

Well, that's an entirely different matter; your original comment made me think you were merely talking time.

Not sure what Starbucks article you mean, which is fine with me, I'm always half the time going around not knowing what people are talking about.

That happens to be an excellent reply to a specific question someone asked (not that I'd advise paying Williams-Sonoma prices on anything, but you wanted that wok; I do stuff like that too). Don't know if anyone else noticed, but I did.

Funny, I thought this post was "How to Do Something You Don't Already Know How To Do."

I'm a middle class white person. But you knew that.

Okie dokie, fella. Nice meeting you, too.

A much better method. I'm definitely in the buyer's remorse stage with the sous vide thingy. Since you really MUST add a sear in a separate step for most everything, it's a pretty cumbersome method, without any immediate Wow! reaction that I've been able to produce.

Yeah, it's fun stuff, playing with your food, but it's like any hobby, you have to throw money to learn. Don't know if you saw that sous vide offer on here a month or two ago—I bought a sous vide circulator, and have used it three times since then.

Didn't know about velveting. Why didn't I know about that? What else don't I know?

"Not for nothing, I did about five times as much time as he did, I think. What the hell does he know?"

Which part makes you think you're a better writer? That he's a boxer, a murderer, or a Mexican? Why don't you read his shit and shut the fuck up about it until then? Or should I judge your writing by the NYP article on you? Or the fact that you worked at Princeton Review, test prep by the stupid for the slightly…

"Im no tough guy, I would never be able to threaten anyone with any kind of violence. Too much of a pussy."

Snottiness aside, that's a useful link. Think I might give that a read.

By calling you out and getting shot down in turn, Pistons2203 actually lent credence to your writing, to those of us who honestly don't know whether the ring of truth is just a hollow sound.

Horse meat is common as hell in lots of places—so when you put it number 5 is that some sort of super-arch, non-humorous humor or something? I tried to seek out dog meat in Seoul, but this was about a year before the Seoul Olympics, and I was told they were running the dog meat places out of the capital. Maybe someone…

Yeah, they eat it in Japan, too. Had a little ba-sashi in my time living in Tokyo, horse sashimi (not completely raw, singed around the edge like they do with chicken sashimi, mmmm chicken sashimi with ume and shiso), as well as some sparrow, a grasshopper or two, some kangaroo...

I think what Gouda Samaritan is trying to say is what ordinary tragedy happened between this man and his wife is none of your, his, or my business.

Thank you. The whole discussion of whether homosexuality is a choice is really a discussion of whether the folks who want to are allowed to discriminate against gays.

I think your list is exactly right.