Conquer Club

You think we can hit page 3000?

Nope.

autoload wrote:

Dariune wrote:Therefore your theory holds as much weight as a gnats genitalia

How about bull testicles?

Personally im into women but whatever floats your boat auto

well today has been shit it started fine but has turned in to the worst day ever. and i really hate things right about now

Don't let the bastards drag you down

Dariune wrote:

autoload wrote:

Dariune wrote:Therefore your theory holds as much weight as a gnats genitalia

How about bull testicles?

Personally im into women but whatever floats your boat auto

I know I got that picture somewhere...

I have had several disappointing days in a row, not much of a weekend really.
Friday, the curlson's school had a party/bake sale in his grade - a social for the kids, and a fund-raiser for the school. So I made a whole bunch of welshcakes. I also typed up a real interesting educational note - what they're called in Welsh, how the welsh used to cook them, interesting historical tie to Alfred the Great.
Not enough kids wanted to go, so the thing was cancelled and they gave all the baked goods to the food bank for the local hungry. Now, I don't object to feeding the hungry, but I usually pick up some canned goods and drop 'em off, not spend hours baking gourmet items and providing a history lesson.
Saturday, the kids' new basketball hoop was delivered (the movable sort, on a pole with a base you fill with sand or whatever.)
"Some assembly required".
At the end of Saturday the damn thing still wasn't complete - the instructions deserve an award of some kind. I have reviewed the episode mentally, and I can garuantee every bolt and nut has been undone again at least once. I mean how hard can it BE to put a bag on a stick?
Saturday night, we managed to get away from the kids for a coupla hours, and we decided to use the gift token for a posh restaurant in the next town that we'd had hanging around for months. Nice as it was to get out alone with mrs curl for once, the food was very very pedestrian. The best thing was the variety of breads they brought you before you ordered the starter.
Sunday all the kids' sporting fixtures were cancelled due to soggy grounds, and when I decided to go out for a pint a coupla hours ago, the pub had a private function on and the only other nearby bar was inexplicably shut tonight.
Oh and the murder mystery party which we'd offered to write, which we were to host host on Saturday night as a fundraiser for the curlette's school was cancelled due to lack of customers after quite a few hours work on our part.

Hopefully this week will be better.

I didn't read that.

Interesting Jones. I'm not upset but had a similar episode with a high end restaraunt, fortunately also gifted.

I took Mrs.dimes to this new place. Ordered the $38 bison steak. If I had paid I'd be livid. It was ok but at that price I want to have come home to start a thread on all forums I have membership on uncontrollably bragging about the meal.

Absolutely - this was a promotional gift from my dentist of all people ( I had a LOT of work done last year, replacing some ancient socialist fillings with good capitalist ones). It was for a hundred bucks, so we were happy to go for expensive dishes.
My main was Ossobucco, again at $38. There was nothing wrong with it, but it was absolutely unremarkable. AS you say, had that been MY money, I'd have felt cheated.

Incidentally, bison doesn't make that great a steak. It's a lovely-tasting beast, but so low in fat that it cooks up too dry very easily. As a cook I will always grind it. (mince it, for the UK readers). And cook it with a juicy sauce of some sort, or mixed with something fatty like bacon. Alternatively it should be marinated or brined for ages.

I love me some Bison and it was fine. Possibly in the top 3 $25 and under steak dinners I've eaten. $38? I don't think so. One of my lifetime best buddies wife raved about this place.

Let me tell you, I am quite happy and take solice in the fact I wore my jeans small hole in the ass and a Harley T-shirt to such a pretentious place.

I think pretentious restaurants are the worst. If they can produce the goods, maybe I'll forgive 'em.
But for instance there's a place near me which is consistently praised by the press. I've never been, based purely on the fact that, if you decide two of you want to share a dish, they charge you $18 for the extra fork. It's opposite a delightful diner where you'd be pressed to eat $18 dollars worth of food.

Absolutely, this eve we went to our overall favorite Chinese place.

It's barely shy of my all time best for flavour, they are deadly consistant, wonderfully polite family run, in the same parking lot as that Redwater Grill place I'm complaining about, and to feed the kids with us and take home two lunch servings cost $1.30 less than that steak. Seriously what the mullet?

Hope you have a steller week Jones!

jonesthecurl wrote:I think pretentious restaurants are the worst. If they can produce the goods, maybe I'll forgive 'em.
But for instance there's a place near me which is consistently praised by the press. I've never been, based purely on the fact that, if you decide two of you want to share a dish, they charge you $18 for the extra fork. It's opposite a delightful diner where you'd be pressed to eat $18 dollars worth of food.

What the fork?!? 18 dollars?

Bring your own fork. Go buy one. Share the fork. Split it in two with your bare hands. It's easier than getting one from them.

autoload wrote:

Dariune wrote:

autoload wrote:

Dariune wrote:Therefore your theory holds as much weight as a gnats genitalia

How about bull testicles?

Personally im into women but whatever floats your boat auto

I know I got that picture somewhere...

... what picture?

john9blue wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:I think pretentious restaurants are the worst. If they can produce the goods, maybe I'll forgive 'em.
But for instance there's a place near me which is consistently praised by the press. I've never been, based purely on the fact that, if you decide two of you want to share a dish, they charge you $18 for the extra fork. It's opposite a delightful diner where you'd be pressed to eat $18 dollars worth of food.

What the fork?!? 18 dollars?

Bring your own fork. Go buy one. Share the fork. Split it in two with your bare hands. It's easier than getting one from them.

I think the fork (as well as being an actual fork) is a metaphor. I don't think taking your own fork would stop them charging you. DUnno. Never going in there. (It also means that there is going to be not a single dish that's less tha $18 in there...)

autoload wrote:

Dariune wrote:Therefore your theory holds as much weight as a gnats genitalia

How about bull testicles?

Not this again.

sailorseal wrote:You think we can hit page 3000?

Well I know we can reach it as far as punching a series of data that makes up a page that we haven't even got to...that would take some effort.

autoload wrote:Nope.

There's auto. Always the vote of confidence

targetman377 wrote:well today has been shit it started fine but has turned in to the worst day ever. and i really hate things right about now

I know what you mean things are so terrible. they just sit around being so lazy not really doing anything. Now ideas, those guys work hard.

Quirk wrote:Don't let the bastards drag you down

drag them up.

strike wolf wrote:

Quirk wrote:Don't let the bastards drag you down

drag them up.

Just what I'm doing with my kids. Not bringing them up, dragging them up.

jonesthecurl wrote:I have had several disappointing days in a row, not much of a weekend really.
Friday, the curlson's school had a party/bake sale in his grade - a social for the kids, and a fund-raiser for the school. So I made a whole bunch of welshcakes. I also typed up a real interesting educational note - what they're called in Welsh, how the welsh used to cook them, interesting historical tie to Alfred the Great.
Not enough kids wanted to go, so the thing was cancelled and they gave all the baked goods to the food bank for the local hungry. Now, I don't object to feeding the hungry, but I usually pick up some canned goods and drop 'em off, not spend hours baking gourmet items and providing a history lesson.
Saturday, the kids' new basketball hoop was delivered (the movable sort, on a pole with a base you fill with sand or whatever.)
"Some assembly required".
At the end of Saturday the damn thing still wasn't complete - the instructions deserve an award of some kind. I have reviewed the episode mentally, and I can garuantee every bolt and nut has been undone again at least once. I mean how hard can it BE to put a bag on a stick?
Saturday night, we managed to get away from the kids for a coupla hours, and we decided to use the gift token for a posh restaurant in the next town that we'd had hanging around for months. Nice as it was to get out alone with mrs curl for once, the food was very very pedestrian. The best thing was the variety of breads they brought you before you ordered the starter.
Sunday all the kids' sporting fixtures were cancelled due to soggy grounds, and when I decided to go out for a pint a coupla hours ago, the pub had a private function on and the only other nearby bar was inexplicably shut tonight.
Oh and the murder mystery party which we'd offered to write, which we were to host host on Saturday night as a fundraiser for the curlette's school was cancelled due to lack of customers after quite a few hours work on our part.

Hopefully this week will be better.

That really sucks.

2dimes wrote:Interesting Jones. I'm not upset but had a similar episode with a high end restaraunt, fortunately also gifted.

I took Mrs.dimes to this new place. Ordered the $38 bison steak. If I had paid I'd be livid. It was ok but at that price I want to have come home to start a thread on all forums I have membership on uncontrollably bragging about the meal.

If I paid $38 for a meal, I expect that thing to be cooked perfectly and taste good enough that my tongue would literally be dancing in my mouth.

jonesthecurl wrote:Absolutely - this was a promotional gift from my dentist of all people ( I had a LOT of work done last year, replacing some ancient socialist fillings with good capitalist ones). It was for a hundred bucks, so we were happy to go for expensive dishes.
My main was Ossobucco, again at $38. There was nothing wrong with it, but it was absolutely unremarkable. AS you say, had that been MY money, I'd have felt cheated.

Incidentally, bison doesn't make that great a steak. It's a lovely-tasting beast, but so low in fat that it cooks up too dry very easily. As a cook I will always grind it. (mince it, for the UK readers). And cook it with a juicy sauce of some sort, or mixed with something fatty like bacon. Alternatively it should be marinated or brined for ages.

Now I'm getting hungry.