SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223

[enderlord99]

I don't make tea often, and I mix it with milk less often, but on those rare occasions when I do.

How exactly are you supposed to put the milk in the cup before the teabag without ruining the brewing process? Do you use boiling milk or something?

[Tvtyrant]

I don't make tea often, and I mix it with milk less often, but on those rare occasions when I do.

How exactly are you supposed to put the milk in the cup before the teabag without ruining the brewing process? Do you use boiling milk or something?

If you are fancy you get a milk steamer, otherwise you heat milk on the stove until it steams and then add it in. Usually you add the milk after you remove the teabag though I believe.

[enderlord99]

Usually you add the milk after you remove the teabag though I believe.

Yes. That's exactly what I do... but apparently that makes me a "great enemy" or something.

EDIT: To be clear: we are all talking about brewing in-cup, right? Is that what everyone, including SZbNAhL, has been discussing? I don't want to end up in a Who's-on-first situation.

[Anonymouswizard]

I enjoy the implication that the agricultural advisor is intended for use across the BBC and just happens to visit the Archers offices more regularly. Somewhere in the Poldark writing room they're sitting around saying "where the devil's Steve? We can't do this scything scene without him!".

I mean, he probably also visits Gardener's Question Time during his lunch break...

The Scottish? The French? The Cornish? Northerners? Wait ... surely you don't mean the great enemy. They whose name can never be spoken aloud lest it corrupt the very notion of speech itself.

Spoiler: I cannot even bear to type it unspoilered

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People who put the tea in before the milk.

I mean, I thought we exiled all of those people to the colonies. We had to stop the spread or else they might stay putting on sugar before picking up the pot.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to sneak behind the lines of the Scottish/Northern/French alliance, I'm dying for a shag and creme brulee.

EDIT:

Spoiler

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Milk in first is specifically the rule when using a teapot, when brewing in the cup there's no right way. Which I mean 'put the milk in first when brewing in a cup'.

[halfeye]

Okay so here's a random deep cut from hell.

Like a billion years ago there was this great new cartoon animator search. I only remember three shows from it;

1: a super hero, vaguely megaman styled, who attached two celphones to his face to become a hero. One of the test episodes was him fighting an alien robot rabbit thing trying to take over Earth and he blowed him up while saying "Silly rabbit, Earth is for humans!

2: A show about a timber wolf trying to do timber wolf things, but with a tic of saying what he is... with the dire consequence of every time he says timber a tree falls on him. Loon Tunes esque.

3: The George of the Jungle TV Show that actually exists now in real life. Even though I can find no evidence supporting this claim online at all.

My question is um, does anyone else remember this? I wanna watch that first one again. Also I want to prove these were all real.

I remember George of the Jungle. It was a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_of_the_Jungle

I think I saw repeats with only George, maybe in some other show.

[2D8HP]

Given that England invented Heavy Metal twice, I think the US could stand to be more original...

Likely missed me saying it, but the first actual heavy metal band was Steppenwolf, a Canadian-American band

Who invented Heavy Metal?

Are you testing me?

Stepenwolf?!

Nope, "Born to be Wild" wasn't till '68

The Brits?

Good contenders with The Kinks, and The Yardbirds, but for a heavy sound I'd nominate San Francisco 1967 and Blue Cheer and their version of "Summertime Blues,

but we can go earlier: 1965 Detroit, Michigan and The MC5's "Black to Comm"

(no visuals, but better '65 audio here,

by '68 they performed it like this)

You want heavy?

Check out The Stooges, also from Detroit, and their 1969 recording of "I Wanna be Your Dog"

Can we go earlier still?

Sure!

Link Wray in 1958 with "Rumble"

Even earlier?

Muddy Waters' invented electricity, check out "Rollin' and Tumblin from 1950!

Earlier than that?

Robert Johnson "Me and the Devil Blues in 1937.

Though I suppose we can credit the Brits with "gallows pole, since it was written down by them in the 19th century.

[Tvtyrant]

Yes. That's exactly what I do... but apparently that makes me a "great enemy" or something.

EDIT: To be clear: we are all talking about brewing in-cup, right? Is that what everyone, including SZbNAhL, has been discussing? I don't want to end up in a Who's-on-first situation.

Somehow I missed the context there. I have no idea how you use milk while brewing in a cup, I use a teakettle and teapot like a civilized person :P

Honestly I prefer drinks on the tepid side, so I would use cool milk in that case so the tea doesn't scald my mouth. I don't even drink my coffee hot.

[SZbNAhL]

How exactly are you supposed to put the milk in the cup before the teabag without ruining the brewing process? Do you use boiling milk or something?

You use a teapot.

Spoiler: The British tea method

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1. Tea into pot.
2. Water into pot.
3. Milk into cup.
4. Brewed tea from pot to cup.

For comparison:

Spoiler: The American tea method

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1. Dump tea into Boston Harbour.
2. Pollute until the oceans boil.

[AMFV]

Their point is that there generally aren't 'diet' versioms of alcoholic drinks, so if the Ginger ale everyonecwas talking about is in fact an alcoholic drink (it's not, it's just a soda), then he's surprised there's a 'diet' version.

Have you not heard of lite beer?

[Tvtyrant]

You use a teapot.

Spoiler: The British tea method

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1. Tea into pot.
2. Water into pot.
3. Milk into cup.
4. Brewed tea from pot to cup.

For comparison:

Spoiler: The American tea method

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1. Dump tea into Boston Harbour.
2. Pollute until the oceans boil.

British Method:
1. Pretend appropriated cultural practices are indigenous.
2. Look down on other cultures for not having appropriated enough.

I would be salty too if my indigenous foods were warm beer, mutton and peas porridge :P

[Anonymouswizard]

British Method:
1. Pretend appropriated cultural practices are indigenous.
2. Look down on other cultures for not having appropriated enough.

I would be salty too if my indigenous foods were warm beer, mutton and peas porridge :P

Guess somebody doesn't like apple pie (also ale is supposed to be warm).

[LaZodiac]

I remember George of the Jungle. It was a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_of_the_Jungle

I think I saw repeats with only George, maybe in some other show.

I know that show exists! Everyone who has read this has said the same thing regarding this show when I tried really hard to make that point clear.

I mean that there is no evidence of The Contest, which is what I wanna find again. That and the cell phone show.

Who invented Heavy Metal?

My point was that the term Hevy Metal wasn't first used until Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild, but go off I guess. I needed the music rec.

Have you not heard of lite beer?

I don't think that really classifies as diet beer, personally?

[Tvtyrant]

Guess somebody doesn't like apple pie (also ale is supposed to be warm).

Apple Pie was eaten without sugar or a crust before the New World. Keep your roasted apples in a coffin :P

[Insane Jeenyus]

Let's see ... 9+6=15, 15*16=240 ... you're 248? Either I'm missing a joke, one of us sucks at base conversion or the US healthcare system is much better than I've been lead to believe.

I am of Indonesian blood by my Father.

[Mith]

Okay so here's a random deep cut from hell.

Like a billion years ago there was this great new cartoon animator search. I only remember three shows from it;

1: a super hero, vaguely megaman styled, who attached two celphones to his face to become a hero. One of the test episodes was him fighting an alien robot rabbit thing trying to take over Earth and he blowed him up while saying "Silly rabbit, Earth is for humans!

2: A show about a timber wolf trying to do timber wolf things, but with a tic of saying what he is... with the dire consequence of every time he says timber a tree falls on him. Loon Tunes esque.

3: The George of the Jungle TV Show that actually exists now in real life. Even though I can find no evidence supporting this claim online at all.

My question is um, does anyone else remember this? I wanna watch that first one again. Also I want to prove these were all real.

TTTTTIIIIMMMMBEEERRR: https://youtu.be/0dFJ1gw3F4E

(I just assumed it was a Chuck Jones cartoon).

As for the first one, I recall a few cyber themed shows that I may spitball some names and see if anything interesting crops up.

[2D8HP]

...My point was that the term Hevy Metal wasn't first used until Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild, but go off I guess. I needed the music rec....

My apologies.

You're right.

Speaking of music...

...since I just discovered that one of my wife's favorite bands of the '90's Lush covered two songs of one of my favorite bands of the '70's Wire here's Lush performing "Mannequin in 1996,

and the 1977 original by Wire.

And here's Lush performing "Outdoor Miner" in 1992,

and the 1979 original by Wire.

(and as a nod to my earlier punkier self here's 12XU recorded by Minor Threat in 1981,

and here's the 1977 original by Wire).

[LaZodiac]

TTTTTIIIIMMMMBEEERRR: https://youtu.be/0dFJ1gw3F4E

(I just assumed it was a Chuck Jones cartoon).

As for the first one, I recall a few cyber themed shows that I may spitball some names and see if anything interesting crops up.

This is the correct show but still no sign of that contest, and the mystery cell phone power suit man.

[enderlord99]

Speaking of music...

[Mith]

This is the correct show but still no sign of that contest, and the mystery cell phone power suit man.

....that's what I get for mobile forum searching at 11:00 at night.

[LaZodiac]

....that's what I get for mobile forum searching at 11:00 at night.

I mean it helps, don't get me wrong! But I really wanna find that contest, so I can find that cell phone sow, and I can find no evidence of it.

[Mith]

I mean it helps, don't get me wrong! But I really wanna find that contest, so I can find that cell phone sow, and I can find no evidence of it.

Clarification of tone: I read the checklist, so I completely missed the preamble. Really more :smallembarrassed: than anything else.

I would potentially start seeing if WB had such a contest, given that first short.

[Durkoala]

Also, now I'm awake and not thinking this through at the end of the day, we have at least a date of 'Before 2001' as that's when the Timberwolf cartoon started airing.

Edit: or maybe it was 2002?

[Anonymouswizard]

The doctor says I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but not at a problematic stage and I can take a bit of time losing weight (he'd be happy with a kilo every other month or a bit less, he agreed that a kilo every other week is an okay goal).

And I need ideas for things to do this Sunday that 1) require leaving the house, 2) might help me meet people, and 3) aren't rock climbing.

[SZbNAhL]

And I need ideas for things to do this Sunday that 1) require leaving the house, 2) might help me meet people, and 3) aren't rock climbing.

Have you considered joining a local walking group? Good light excercise, interaction with other humans but only a few at a time, low-noise environment, very low chance of rock-climbing.

[FinnLassie]

Good God, 10 pages since I was last here!

How's people? I'm a stress ball. Well, a stressed out ball. I got three days to finish an assignment that I've started before, but have seemed to lose the file for. There goes hours of work that I need to speed up through. Whatever, I just wanna finish the damn curse!

[LaZodiac]

Good God, 10 pages since I was last here!

How's people? I'm a stress ball. Well, a stressed out ball. I got three days to finish an assignment that I've started before, but have seemed to lose the file for. There goes hours of work that I need to speed up through. Whatever, I just wanna finish the damn curse!

You can do it Finn, I'm cheering for you! *sends anti stress waves*

I'm a weird bundle of emotions because work is terrible for Not Me, so it's a lot of second hand stress that is impacting me super hard, but also I'm re-watching Gurren Lagann with a friend so that rules and kicks ass. So I'm in a bit of a kerfuffle, humanity wise.

But yeah, good luck Finn. You're kick that assignment to pieces! If you want to look for the file I recommend Recycling Bin or seeing if it may have accidental been moved, that happens to me sometimes. Either way, you can do this!

[AMFV]

I don't think that really classifies as diet beer, personally?

The entire point of lite beer is that it has less calories. That's the whole reason for it's existence, although now people tend to buy it because it's cheaper, but the initial marketing campaigns for it were all about calories and being better for your health and what-not.

[HalfTangible]

Monday I was bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to kick my final semester's classes right in the ass.

Tuesday I felt like a train wreck for no apparent reason and today isn't much better.

Lack of energy comes and goes for me irrespective of how much I work. Don't know why.

[LaZodiac]

Monday I was bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to kick my final semester's classes right in the ass.

Tuesday I felt like a train wreck for no apparent reason and today isn't much better.

Lack of energy comes and goes for me irrespective of how much I work. Don't know why.

It's the depression, probably.

[Insane Jeenyus]

And I need ideas for things to do this Sunday that 1) require leaving the house, 2) might help me meet people, and 3) aren't rock climbing.

Repelling? you get to go outside, breath fresh air, it is not rock climbing, but rather the other direction and you get to meet people like paramedics, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, hospital bill collection services, .. .. ..


On a more serious note, sorry all, I am going outside. The weather is just perfect and I am not going to waste it.