rando Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Quote SNAP is an acronym for food stamps - a monthly free allocation of wine would be my preference The shoema.... Oh, you said wine. Much seems a poor choice of word that doesn't account for frequency and level of attack. I don't see someone who actually contributes - when they do post - voicing discontent, outside the realm of personal attacks, towards a subject or group that has reached the point of needing to speak out against it as the problem here. That is the textbook definition of forum. Habitual needling, corrosively staining everything touched, and placing intellectual befuddling well above (if not as the solitary purpose) intellectual advancement strike me as tendencies that do need to be metered. GFYM stands in stark relief if you remove these elements. This wasn't a comment aimed at you, Ralf, so much as a comment directly replying to someone directly engaging in this thread who is an active part of the environment here. Link to comment
bigbob Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 9 hours ago, Ralf11 said: SNAP is an acronym for food stamps - a monthly free allocation of wine would be my preference A very modest 'supplemental nutritional assistance program.' I receive $163/month or $41/week as a disabled retiree. Only Lobster tails and Filet Mignon on that kind of budget The Computer Audiophile 1 Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 10 hours ago, Ralf11 said: SNAP is an acronym for food stamps - a monthly free allocation of wine would be my preference I know, I work in a County Hospital half the time... No electron left behind. Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 50 minutes ago, bigbob said: A very modest 'supplemental nutritional assistance program.' I receive $163/month or $41/week as a disabled retiree. Only Lobster tails and Filet Mignon on that kind of budget I hope that's not your entire food budget... No electron left behind. Link to comment
bigbob Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 16 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: I hope that's not your entire food budget... When I am in a Chronic phase of Audiophilia--you might be amazed at how I survive. Money spent around here falls into two categories: Food or Stereo. Like "guns vs. butter" I often chose Stereo over Food, and I was surprised yesterday to weigh-in at the clinic, and have lost 38 lbs. (10% of my body weight) in the past few months. So much for the ameliorating effects of Hi-Res Audio... Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 2 hours ago, bigbob said: When I am in a Chronic phase of Audiophilia--you might be amazed at how I survive. Money spent around here falls into two categories: Food or Stereo. Like "guns vs. butter" I often chose Stereo over Food, and I was surprised yesterday to weigh-in at the clinic, and have lost 38 lbs. (10% of my body weight) in the past few months. So much for the ameliorating effects of Hi-Res Audio... That's dedication. I think I would choose food every day of the week over audio. No electron left behind. Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 ... not if it's hot dish ... AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
mav52 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 24 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: That's dedication. I think I would choose food every day of the week over audio. Same here, it would be difficult at best serving up some tasty audiophile cables cooked over a Class A amp. Give me food and drink while I;m setting in a comfy chair listening to music. AudioDoctor 1 The Truth Is Out There Link to comment
Popular Post AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2018 9 minutes ago, Ralf11 said: ... not if it's hot dish ... Especially if it's Tater Tot Hotdish! The BEST kind. ShawnC and rando 1 1 No electron left behind. Link to comment
bigbob Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, mav52 said: Same here, it would be difficult at best serving up some tasty audiophile cables cooked over a Class A amp. Give me food and drink while I;m setting in a comfy chair listening to music. I prefer good food but since most of my CAOTC upgrades are about a good sack of groceries, I am willing to eat beans and rice for week if I HAVE to have something. My Audiophile friend built his system as Self-employed house painter. He bought Linn-Naim and ate tuna, pancakes and grilled cheese... Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 I vowed not to do that after college... No electron left behind. Link to comment
Popular Post sandyk Posted February 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2018 6 minutes ago, mav52 said: Same here, it would be difficult at best serving up some tasty audiophile cables cooked over a Class A amp. Give me food and drink while I;m setting in a comfy chair listening to music. Likewise. I would starve to death if I waited for cables to cook over my Class A amplifier, but my cat loves getting into my equipment cabinet and laying on top of the Class A's top cover in winter. mav52 and AudioDoctor 2 How a Digital Audio file sounds, or a Digital Video file looks, is governed to a large extent by the Power Supply area. All that Identical Checksums gives is the possibility of REGENERATING the file to close to that of the original file. PROFILE UPDATED 13-11-2020 Link to comment
rando Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 22 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: Especially if it's Tater Tot Hotdish! The BEST kind. The worst hotdish, if it could even be called that, I've ever had served to me was in Oregon. Then the guitar and folk songs came out and man was it just hard to swallow anything that night. Good thing I had an emergency butcher package of bratwurst at home in the freezer waiting to be cooked in beer for this type of dire circumstance. AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
bigbob Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 6 minutes ago, rando said: The worst hotdish, if it could even be called that, I've ever had served to me was in Oregon. Then the guitar and folk songs came out and man was it just hard to swallow anything that night. Good thing I had an emergency butcher package of bratwurst at home in the freezer waiting to be cooked in beer for this type of dire circumstance. In Indiana (Iowa, and Illinois) we have the Breaded Pork Tenderloin or a schnitzel to folks of the Germanic heritage. One genius decided that it wasn't 'good enough' so he soaked it in brown commercial gravy and termed it a 'Wet Tenderloin'. When served with Mashed Potatoes it might be called a Hot Mess. Hoosier have casseroles, the most popular was Slumgullion or Goulash: Macaroni, tomatoes, hamburger meat, onions, cheese and tomato sauce...grew up on it. rando 1 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 34 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: Especially if it's Tater Tot Hotdish! The BEST kind. a Herbes de Provence Potato Gratin would be one of the top potato dishes, and it is hot BigB is pointing out how a great recipe can be deconvoluted into a mess when people don't care... AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 6 minutes ago, Ralf11 said: a Herbes de Provence Potato Gratin would be one of the top potato dishes, and it is hot BigB is pointing out how a great recipe can be deconvoluted into a mess when people don't care... Yesterday, it was my heritage, today it's my Grandmas cooking... Damn you Ralf... No electron left behind. Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 could be worse - my grandmother was an xlnt cook, but we almost always ate my mother's "cooking" my friend who lives in Mini-Soda claims they have good bakeries... OTOH, man does not live by bread alone, hence the let them eat cake comment... AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 We have good everything... No electron left behind. Link to comment
bigbob Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Don't get me started. I live in NC and what they do with food is politely said, Interesting. I figured that to go Mimby I will need vegetable soup for a couple weeks... good kind with Ocra and cabbage and big chunks of veggies. Link to comment
Popular Post wgscott Posted February 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2018 My wife is British, so I do a lot of my own cooking. When we lived in Cambridge, it appeared to be a local custom to boil all of the chlorophyll out of the vegetables (albeit the small subset that had chlorophyll in the first place). AudioDoctor and semente 2 Link to comment
new_media Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 16 minutes ago, wgscott said: My wife is British, so I do a lot of my own cooking. When we lived in Cambridge, it appeared to be a local custom to boil all of the chlorophyll out of the vegetables (albeit the small subset that had chlorophyll in the first place). Pretty much how vegetables were handled when I was growing up in Louisiana. Boil them down to mush and add bacon. Link to comment
beancounter Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 My wife's late first husband was a pastor, and they served at a little country church in Pennsylvania Dutch country; all the little old ladies gave her their best recipes, so that she could entertain well. I am so, oh so fat... AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
Allan F Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Many of the posts in this thread about food are quite distasteful. 4est 1 "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 hour ago, wgscott said: My wife is British, so I do a lot of my own cooking. well put - all that needs to be said Link to comment
wgscott Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, Allan F said: Many of the posts in this thread about food are quite distasteful But, nonetheless, far more delectable than the self-righteous indignation of those with an emotional support dwarf hamster clogging their plumbing. Link to comment
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