The Off Topic Topic

[alfred russel]

I also made it. 

So I can eat all my calories as ice cream, and I will be fine? 

Can we go through what's exactly wrong with this?

I mean vitamins and roughage, but what else?

I'm hardly a nutritionist, but as you mention you won't get vitamins and minerals, etc.

Also, while I don't think proteins vs. fats vs. carbs are so critical, I think too many simple sugars is really bad (see diabetes). You also need a minimum of proteins.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting.

I mean I wouldn't go down that route because I enjoy food. So unfortunately for me the greatest dietary risk is probably gout.

[Jacob]

I don't think protein would be the problem in an all icecream diet, since there's protein in milk and cream, right? Sugar overload and lack of complex vitamins of various sorts would probably be a bigger issue. Don't think it'd be good for the digestion either.

Though didn't someone ski across the arctic once, subsisting only on dark chocolate and vitamin supplements or something?

[MadImmortalMan]

So here's a question. I have a bad history with Thai food. I've been to some purportedly wonderful Thai restaurants, but I've never had anything I really liked very much. Vietnamese, I love.

I usually look for the stuff on the menu that looks like it hasn't got sugar in it. Or coconut milk. My best Thai food experience involved a vegetable side dish that was hot as fuck but you could still tell there was sugar in the sauce. It was too hot for anyone else but me to eat. But it was hot enough for me to like it in spite of the sweetness.

If you have lots of experience with Thai food, please tell me the best stuff to order that will not be sweet or have coconut milk in it.

I feel bad because we have a couple joints in town that most people think are absolutely great and my wife likes them too. But I just can't get into it.

Today I had something that the menu said was beef stir fried with basil, onions and peppers in a chili garlic sauce. Sounded like the most non-sugary thing on there. There was enough sugar in the sauce that it was more like ketchup to me than chili sauce and it was not hot at all. This place is super highly-rated and has been on the food network and stuff. So I guess it was supposed to taste like that. I think I was expecting something a little more Szechuan in style.

[Admiral Yi]

The basic building block of the Thai restaurant meal, nay the veritable foundation upon which the meal is erected, is Pad Thai.  With shrimp.

After that I like to get a curry.  I think the green curry doesn't have coconut milk.

The spring rolls with the celophane wrapper are very light and nice.

The red soup definitely doesn't have any coconut milk; shit loads of lemon grass.  Tom num gai??  Dumbass language.

What's your beef with coconut milk?  I think it's yummy.

[Ideologue]

So anyway, I arrive at a red light late this afternoon, ahead of the other traffic.  In the distance of my rear view mirror, coming out of the setting sun are three motorcycles in standard wedge formation.  As they grow closer and larger, I can make out through the shimmering heat off their pipes wide-bodied bikes, fatboys and softails.  Those little black barely-legal helmets, bottle capping wide jowls with long beards.  Straight out of Central Casting.

Boss Biker pulls up, and he's got a massive speaker rig on his land yacht.  What's he blasting?  Motorhead?  Danzig?  Priest?

Alanis. Fucking. Morissette.  Of course, and why not.  You Oughta Know.

It's a great fucking tune, though.  I shriek that shit when it comes on the radio.

[MadImmortalMan]

What's your beef with coconut milk?  I think it's yummy.

I don't hate it, but after the first few bites it's like that feeling where you've had too much candy. Hard to explain.
I need a go-to dish to order that I know I won't hate when I go to these places with people.

[garbon]

I love pad see ew which is generally more on the salty, savory side.

[Ideologue]

Truly fit for a king, or any royal personage.

Unfortunately she was a nurse and not a nutritionist, so my mother's idea of making my father and I lose weight isn't about eating right, but eating less.  Pigeons don't eat portions so small.  And since I'm tired of going to bed hungry, I supplement now and then.   

Wasn't there a Languishite arguing that it doesn't matter what kind of calories you eat, but weight loss was only a matter of calories in vs. calories out? 

I think King Christian IV made that argument.

(Not a bad pun, Ide.)

I've made that argument in the past.  I was wrong, and it was one reason why I never gained any muscle mass.  That is why I drink protein shake/vitamin drinks now along with my 12 cookie lunches.

[Jacob]

Audio record of the end of WWI - the guns firing near the Moselle River:

[Razgovory]

Not all the guns went silent.  My Great Grand father was wounded by enemy fire shortly after the armistice.

[jimmy olsen]

So I was reading the Guardian recap of a new reality show about Tatler, the magazine for posh people and this totally ruined my day:

1) Posh people really, really love their dogs. One of Tatler's best-selling issues featured a corgi on the cover. This is not just a window into the curious mind of the Tatler reader, but an explanation for why their style advice often features lines such as: "The Whippet has over taken the pug as the chic dog de jour," and why every editorial meeting seem to include mention of a dog – "What is Tatler porn? Is it labradors gamboling?" – and why there is also a dog in the office. All of which brings up terrible memories of the events of 2013, when Alan TBH Plumptre, Tatler's staff daschund, met an unsightly end in a revolving door. RIP, Alan.

I met someone whose chiuahua got it's leg stuck and mangled in an escalator!

Thankfully it healed nearly completely, leaving it with just a slight limp.

[CountDeMoney]

Thankfully it healed nearly completely, leaving it with just a slight limp.

Good, you can walk in the same circle together.

[garbon]

Thankfully it healed nearly completely, leaving it with just a slight limp.

Good, you can walk in the same circle together.

Isn't it past your bed time?

[CountDeMoney]

I'm posting from under the covers, all quiet-like.