Well this is interesting

MarjaE · April 18, 2021, 3:53am

RAvery · April 21, 2021, 1:50am

RAvery · April 21, 2021, 7:22pm

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 21, 2021, 7:33pm

Immensely fucking cool.

jerwin · April 21, 2021, 8:01pm

It beats the pitch drop experiment (1927), that’s for sure.

jerwin · April 21, 2021, 10:48pm

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 22, 2021, 3:56pm

Last night, I dreamt I was shopping in a grocery store - there were no masks. There was a man and a woman with their four- or five-year-old boy shopping; they were white, and and the wife kept talking about the insurrection, and how it was Antifa that caused it (we seemed to end up in the same aisle a lot). At that point, I couldn’t take it and told her, “Lady, excuse me, but there IS no Antifa, okay?!” Her eyes got so huge, and we got into a short “yes there is/no there isn’t!” thing for a few seconds, then she grabbed her son and skittered away to the next aisle.

DaakSyde · April 23, 2021, 9:03am

I’m kinda late to find this story, but it’s new to me:

kxkvi · April 23, 2021, 2:52pm

Capitalism at its finest: outright warfare. Enough to stop eating guacamole.

DaakSyde · April 24, 2021, 8:00am

Old history now, but a pretty good writeup, and seemingly fair, acknowledging that it’s been overdramatized in the past, about Ross Perot’s quixotic rescue mission in Iran:

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 24, 2021, 3:57pm

jerwin · April 25, 2021, 8:58pm

I’m in the midst of cleaning out Safari’s reading list, as I no longer have 24 GB of RAM to waste on cruft.

For now, however, I’ll just mention one special find from today: a 37-page classified “Dictionary of Terms, Expressions, Names, and Abbreviations Used by Terrorist Subversives,” prepared by DEOPS’ Specialized Delegation of Social Order in December 1973.

“TORTURERS – Expression utilized by subversives and by communists in general, to designate those who directly and indirectly effect or contribute to the imprisonment of terrorist subversives” (p. 33)

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 26, 2021, 9:19pm

Oh dear…
https://www.johnsonville.com/sausage-strips.html

kxkvi · April 26, 2021, 10:02pm

How about ground bacon formed into small patties?

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 26, 2021, 10:30pm

There’s this…

RAvery · April 27, 2021, 3:23am

I wonder what glue they used to hold those together.

Lucy_Gothro1 · April 27, 2021, 3:17pm

It’s called fat.

Actually, I got curious myself and Googled “how are sausage strips made?”
Johnsonville introduces sausage strips | 2020-06-26 | MEAT+POULTRY.

And my son, when I told him, told me it made him think of this:

Addendum: I want to have a creative collective and call it “Functional Ingredients”.

kxkvi · April 27, 2021, 4:10pm

Oh, there are so many choices. In my glue box alone I have

Five minute epoxy
Thirty minute epoxy
Silver conductive epoxy
Metal epoxy
Urethane glue
Elmer’s glue
Aileen’s Tacky Glue
Wood glue
Bookbinder’s glue
A thick version of rubber cement
Regular super glue
Thick super glue

Then there’s duct tape, scotch tape, painter’s tape, rubber bands, etc.

jerwin · April 27, 2021, 4:18pm

possibly this?

kxkvi · April 27, 2021, 4:26pm

I missed this:

So I thought this was a new thread. It was fun trying to figure out why you’d posted it. Once I got to “Industrial and culinary applications” I had to laugh.
SMH!