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Slifter posted:That is true, but so is living to see 30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Gnpdh0Lls&t=231s
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mindphlux posted:I can't really think of what would make me want to divorce this girl, which is why I was thinking of getting married to begin with. Currently breaking up with my gf (I think) pay me no mind.
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Halalelujah posted:Currently breaking up with my gf (I think) pay me no mind. Aw that sucks. I hope you feel better soon.
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Welp. Between the gf and myself we have 4 majors and three minors. And with her getting canned, neither of us are using any of them anymore.  We will put em to good use I guess running a farm, eh? 
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Casu Marzu posted:Welp. Between the gf and myself we have 4 majors and three minors. And with her getting canned, neither of us are using any of them anymore. Let me tell you a thing about going back to the land...
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Sep 20, 2012 03:13
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Let me tell you a thing about going back to the land... Been there, done that. I've been running my own place for just about a year now. Feels good, man.
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Sep 20, 2012 03:22
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GrAviTy84 posted:So true. Classic examples of this are oxtails, shanks, lobster, oysters, and pork belly. Whale. Used to be the poorest man's meat for ages. Now it's highly priced and sought after. Also delicious, which it might not have been in earlier years due to bad temperatures of the meat before bringing it onto shore.
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Sep 20, 2012 03:27
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Casu Marzu posted:Been there, done that. I've been running my own place for just about a year now. Feels good, man. No poo poo? Where you at? What you raising how's your market etc.? Let's get some farmchat up in this hizzouse.
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Sep 20, 2012 03:53
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Mr. Wiggles posted:No poo poo? Where you at? What you raising how's your market etc.? Kind of inherited an old farm in WI. Started out as a hobby farm with some milk cows and maybe an acre of veg. Then I expanded it to various veggies on about 10 acres for the farmers market circuit around here. Trying to revive an older apple and cherry orchard this summer as well as boarding horses. It is currently all over the place, haven't really found my niche yet, or decided if I want to go into this for the long haul.
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Casu Marzu posted:Kind of inherited an old farm in WI. Oh god where did you put the bodies?
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Walk Away posted:Oh god where did you put the bodies? Real cooks don't leave behind a body. 
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Sep 20, 2012 04:41
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Maybe just a carcass for some hearty stock later.
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Walk Away posted:Maybe just a carcass for some hearty stock later. Stock, and then you grind that poo poo to bonemeal. 
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Halalelujah posted:Currently breaking up with my gf (I think) pay me no mind. hey i also did that today! (gf of one year)
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Sep 20, 2012 04:52
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How much bonemeal you get out of a girlfriend?
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mindphlux posted:is it cheesy to propose in a restaurant I called the restaurant in advance and asked for a private table.
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Marriage is a bum deal, avoid it at all costs. (and my relationship with my GF is going just fine)
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Casu Marzu posted:Kind of inherited an old farm in WI. Started out as a hobby farm with some milk cows and maybe an acre of veg. Then I expanded it to various veggies on about 10 acres for the farmers market circuit around here. Trying to revive an older apple and cherry orchard this summer as well as boarding horses. Long haul is really life commitment, which is what a lot of folks getting into it don't realize, I think. And it's not a secure commitment, either. This year cows are great, and alfalfa is pretty good, and we got real bumper crops from the fruit trees and such; but at the same time, the bottom fell out of the hog and chicken markets around here. Also, it was a terrible water year, and if we don't get a lot more snowpack in the Sierra this year we are completely screwed for growing things next year. But this winter we'll eat well. Keep up the horse boarding - there is always money in that if there's people with horses around. You should also learn to be a ferrier to expand your service offering, assuming you're not already in the shoeing business.
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Yeah boarding horses singlehandedly kept the farm well in the black this year. The summer long drought conditions killed off a lot of my early crops. I really enjoy farming, but I dunno if this is something I could commit to in the long term. I get restless staying in one spot too long. We'll see, maybe I have found the thing I want to do forever.
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I've been married for 11 months to the day. It's not too bad, aside from living in Iowa now. Don't get married.
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Casu Marzu posted:Welp. Between the gf and myself we have 4 majors and three minors. And with her getting canned, neither of us are using any of them anymore. it gets worse. wait until you decide a masters is a good idea because you aren't using your undergrad. and then after you graduate, wait until you decide that because you're not using all your lovely liberal arts undergrad and masters degrees, that you should get a more practical law degree.  Eat This Glob posted:I've been married for 11 months to the day. It's not too bad, aside from living in Iowa now. Don't get married. what in the iowa christ
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Sep 20, 2012 05:27
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If you love someone maybe getting married is a good idea. If you think it is you should do it 
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mindphlux posted:what in the I'm moving to Iowa fulltime this Friday. I'm already brainstorming for what to make for the local Pumpkin Festival recipe contest.
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mindphlux posted:it gets worse. wait until you decide a masters is a good idea because you aren't using your undergrad. and then after you graduate, wait until you decide that because you're not using all your lovely liberal arts undergrad and masters degrees, that you should get a more practical law degree. That's basically how I ended up in a PhD program.
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GrAviTy84 posted:That's basically how I ended up in a PhD program. hopefully that will at least finally end well for you though. my gal landed a job at a lawfirm making 2-3x what I make, and I thought I was doing pretty aight in the world. I have a couple friends also in PhD programs, and they seem to think their job prospects are going to turn out pretty frosty. me, I just have all these degrees and basically don't use them v v
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Eat This Glob posted:I've been married for 11 months to the day. It's not too bad, aside from living in Iowa now. Don't get married. I'm a week away from being married for four years. And I think marriage is great.
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Marriage is p. cool. I've been making pakoras for 2 years. I've probably made enough of them fill a U-haul truck. Yesterday I finally, finally figured out how to make them without burning the poo poo out of my hands - and it didn't involve cockamamie schemes like pancake batter dispensers. It involved using a loving serving spoon instead of my fingers to drop the batter into the oil. I feel like the dumbest person on earth. My only consolation is that none of the previous pakora-cooks figured that out either. Also my boss wants me get a food manager's certification, which would be neat on my resume but I'm pretty done with food service at this point, although it looks like I'm stuck with it for the time being.
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Humboldt squid posted:It involved using a loving serving spoon instead of my fingers to drop the batter into the oil. I feel like the dumbest person on earth. The first time I came to that realisation, I felt even dumber. Because I used a plastic spoon.
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I've been known to use a pair of cooking chopsticks ...
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Look at these married chumps spending their lives with someone who loves them.
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Eat This Glob posted:I've been married for 11 months to the day. It's not too bad, aside from living in Iowa now. Don't get married. If your SO isn't worth living in an awful, terrible, lovely place, they aren't worth marrying. I'm in a goddamned desert and he's still worth it. I just go out and flip off the sun every so often and everything's grand. You could flip off the corn fields?  I hope she says yes, mindphlux.Mr. Wiggles posted:Keep up the horse boarding - there is always money in that if there's people with horses around. You should also learn to be a ferrier to expand your service offering, assuming you're not already in the shoeing business. Is there like, a school or a certification that you have to get for this to do it legally to other people's horses?
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Iowa is not a terrible place, it's just a rural place. Don't flip off the corn fields, eat them - drive around on dirt roads until you find a farmer sitting on the side of his field with a sign selling sweet corn for 25 cents an ear, fill up your trunk, then go home and fill your freezer. Enjoy living somewhere that has not only the climate for an actual garden, but good soil too. Seasons are pretty nice too, I miss those. We're just finishing up with Too Goddamn Hot and moving toward Slightly Cooler But With Higher Humidity And More Tourists here.
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bartolimu posted:Iowa is not a terrible place, it's just a rural place. Don't flip off the corn fields, eat them - drive around on dirt roads until you find a farmer sitting on the side of his field with a sign selling sweet corn for 25 cents an ear, fill up your trunk, then go home and fill your freezer. Enjoy living somewhere that has not only the climate for an actual garden, but good soil too. Seasons are pretty nice too, I miss those. We're just finishing up with Too Goddamn Hot and moving toward Slightly Cooler But With Higher Humidity And More Tourists here. I was just joshing about the Iowa thing. I actually drug my wife here, to the town I grew up in, from the picturesque lakes region of New Hampshire where she's lived her entire life until now. She's loving being able to garden, and it's so damned cheap to live here in the sticks. My mortgage payment (over seven years) is a quarter of what we were paying in rent. While I don't have the mountains to look at everyday anymore, I can't complain. Also, I was just out at our county conservation office when they were harvesting the summer's honey. I got a free 16 oz bottle of their wildflower honey 
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Eat This Glob posted:I was just joshing about the Iowa thing. I actually drug my wife here, to the town I grew up in, from the picturesque lakes region of New Hampshire where she's lived her entire life until now. She's loving being able to garden, and it's so damned cheap to live here in the sticks. My mortgage payment (over seven years) is a quarter of what we were paying in rent. While I don't have the mountains to look at everyday anymore, I can't complain. I almost want to live somewhere like that but I think I've been in So. Cal. way too long (my whole life). I mean, I would love to have a property with some land near the woods, a big yard and a place to garden/raise chickens and whatnot but goddamn I think that I would get so bored. I guess it's something of a pipe dream for me.
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Walk Away posted:I almost want to live somewhere like that but I think I've been in So. Cal. way too long (my whole life). I mean, I would love to have a property with some land near the woods, a big yard and a place to garden/raise chickens and whatnot but goddamn I think that I would get so bored. I guess it's something of a pipe dream for me. I thought so too, but I moved back here after 8 years away in a larger city, and I'm absolutely loving it. The area I'm in is so perfect. I have dozens of lakes and rivers to fish and kayak in, hundreds of miles of roads for biking or just enjoying a nice drive, minimal light pollution at night so I can see the milky way on a dark night stretching across the sky, and being able to grow like 90% of the veggies I eat? So nice. Living is cheap too.
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I spent my whole life in SoCal as well until I moved out to the middle of nowhere, and I discovered that the slower pace of life really is a lot better. In fact, I find that I have much less free time now than I ever had before.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Look at these married chumps spending their lives with someone who loves them. Protip: Die alone.
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Britgoonswithspoons, I need your assistance. I'm probably heading over to the UK for a couple of weeks next year (hopefully for a honeymoon) and the rough schedule is a week or so in London then some time up in Scotland split between Sterling and Glasgow. Having not been to London before what part of town should I be looking to stay in if I want to be close to subway transit so that I can get to cool things in the city? Any areas to avoid do to roving packs of dogs/chavs/tourists?
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I lived in Glasgow for 2 years. Trust me, it's pointless. No idea about Sterling. If in Scotland, go to Edinburgh, it's interesting. Also go to the Isle of Skye, it's great. London is awesome, which is where I am right now. You can stay anywhere you like, the Tube is everywhere.
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Make sure you check out the overground and the buses, too. Overground is really cheap compared to the tube, and the buses, whilst slower, allow you see sights and beautiful buildings that you would miss on the tube. As a good rule of thumb, you probably want to be staying at least inside zone 3 of the tube. Further out from the centre than that is a bit far from the action. Also, I agree with Steakandchips: Edinburgh is by a long way the best thing in Scotland; Glasgow is OK-ish, but Stirling really has nothing going for it. Oh, and dogs/chavs/tourists are unavoidable. Edit: And, when you're in London go to the Dali Universe on the South Bank. It's ace. Scientastic fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Sep 20, 2012 |
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