Fyraltari's Furiously Farcical Random Banter Thread #247

[Batcathat]

Zodi and I just finished "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off" a bit ago.

Only complaint is we didn't get to spend more time with certain characters.

Lots of good moments, I think my favorite line was the very last.

I'm only two episodes in, but so far it's looking good. I'd compare it favorably to the movie version, which was pretty good too (I've read at least part of the original comic, but to be honest I don't really remember it well enough to compare).

Speaking of new shows, I've also watched the first episode of "A Murder at the End of the World" and it's looking pretty promising.

[ShadowShinobi]

ETA: make it a bit more savoury and do a proper pancake instead of thick American ones, and then get some actually decent sausages and I can see it working.

We do make the "proper" pancakes. The thin things, overseas? Those are called, crepes.

[halfeye]

ETA: make it a bit more savoury and do a proper pancake instead of thick American ones, and then get some actually decent sausages and I can see it working.

Hell I can see doing American pancakes topped with sausage and eggs, you'd probably be better off making Yorkshire puddings but I think it'll work.

AKA toad in the hole.

[Anonymouswizard]

...if it had been whole franks, I'd be more forgiving about mixing up hot-dog-in-pastry pigs in blanket with sausage-link-in-pancake pigs in blanket.

No, those are sausages wrapped in bacon, you seem to be thinking of some kind of knock-off sausage roll.

[Rynjin]

No, those are sausages wrapped in bacon, you seem to be thinking of some kind of knock-off sausage roll.

Sausages wrapped in bacon would be "pigs in a pig", yeah?

Sausages wrapped in puff pastry and/or croissants is much more fitting for the name.

[halfeye]

Sausages wrapped in bacon would be "pigs in a pig", yeah?

Sausages wrapped in puff pastry and/or croissants is much more fitting for the name.

Names being fitting for the thing named? whatever next, a language with a logical grammar?

[Anonymouswizard]

Sausages wrapped in bacon would be "pigs in a pig", yeah?

Sausages wrapped in puff pastry and/or croissants is much more fitting for the name.

Surely those would be 'pigs in duvets'?

[Rynjin]

Surely those would be 'pigs in duvets'?

"Pigs stuffed in a pillow", even.

[Peelee]

Names being fitting for the thing named? whatever next, a language with a logical grammar?

Look, if you start having logical grammar, next thing you know you'll get into logical spelling ans pronunciation and at that point is it even English anymore?

[Bartmanhomer]

Hey Peelee, you're an expert on dragons. I have a question to ask you. Have you ever heard of a turkey dragon?

[Anonymouswizard]

"Pigs stuffed in a pillow", even.

I dunno, the croissant idea would have so many layers it's at minimum a duvet, two blankets, and a dressing gown.

[Rater202]

My family's doing Thanksgiving tomorrow instead of Thursday since that works better with everyone's schedules.

We're getting ready to make the Cranberry sauce in a minute or so but we weren't able to get a fresh orange for juice and zest and we misplaced the recipe we used last year so we're not sure on the exact measure for cinnamon and eveything we look up, including the website we got the recipe from last year, is suggesting anywhere from 1/8th teaspoon to 1/4th teaspoon but I measured it out and that seems like less than we used last year so hopefully it all turns out okay.

Grandma commented that while it was good, it was also really sour, not sweet enough, which is really weird since she usually complains that things are too sweet, so this year we're using a brown sugar substitute instead of a white sugar substitute. Not only will it be sweater but the molasses flavor should play well with the cinnamon.

Edit: If nothing else, it smells good.

[Batcathat]

I hate riding my bike in fresh snow. I can deal with packed snow or ice, but when the snow is loose it's like bicycling on a damn beach.

[Bartmanhomer]

I'm going to the Thanksgiving Parade tomorrow. I haven't been to the parade since the pandemic.

[Grantpaswall]

Oh joy, a riveting rendezvous where we generously grace each other with the marvels of trivial discussions—because who needs coherent threads when we can bombard everyone with our random musings?

[Bartmanhomer]

I've been writing stories a lot on Wattpad and this forum. I'm going to take a break and rest.

[Rater202]

My family's doing Thanksgiving tomorrow instead of Thursday since that works better with everyone's schedules.

We're getting ready to make the Cranberry sauce in a minute or so but we weren't able to get a fresh orange for juice and zest and we misplaced the recipe we used last year so we're not sure on the exact measure for cinnamon and eveything we look up, including the website we got the recipe from last year, is suggesting anywhere from 1/8th teaspoon to 1/4th teaspoon but I measured it out and that seems like less than we used last year so hopefully it all turns out okay.

Grandma commented that while it was good, it was also really sour, not sweet enough, which is really weird since she usually complains that things are too sweet, so this year we're using a brown sugar substitute instead of a white sugar substitute. Not only will it be sweater but the molasses flavor should play well with the cinnamon.

Edit: If nothing else, it smells good.

Update: Operation Premature Turkey was a success.

And apparently, since we started making our own cranberry sauce everyone decided that they liked cranberry sauce after all because everybody ate some.

It's good but it feels like something was missing, but everyone else liked i so I must be doing something right.

[Lord Raziere]

I've already had thanksgiving dinner tonight with my mother and brother.

my brother had a funny little story about his job where he works in architectural construction and is currently doing a job for WotC, and they constructed this room made out of this special charred wood the method of making originated from Japan, and the CEO just goes into the room, declares that they hate it and its too dark and then left and my brother had a laugh about it because he and the company he works at just gets paid more because of it. also because he's working the job my brother he apparently just keeps getting MTG cards for free, they just hand booster packs to him and I'm a tiny bit jealous.

[Peelee]

Hey Peelee, you're an expert on dragons. I have a question to ask you. Have you ever heard of a turkey dragon?

Pictured below: not a turkey dragon.

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[Batcathat]

Pictured below: not a turkey dragon.

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That... might be one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a long time.

[Rater202]

Peelee? I mean no disprespect but... The ****, man?

[Peelee]

In my local friend group discord chat, people were saying happy Thanksgiving. So i opened the gif search and typed in turkey. Ans laughed for a good five minutes at that gif. I figured i had to spread the joy.

Spoiler: I also found another.

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ETA: I don't even know why y'all looked, i clearly said it was not a turkey dragon.

[Anonymouswizard]

Talking about Thanksgiving, part of me wonders what would happen if you deep fried a goose.

[Peelee]

Talking about Thanksgiving, part of me wonders what would happen if you deep fried a goose.

My parents used to bake goose every Christmas. My in-laws, on moving to Louisiana, learned to deep fry turkey.

I wish they had combined their powers. It'd be delicious.

[Anonymouswizard]

My parents used to bake goose every Christmas. My in-laws, on moving to Louisiana, learned to deep fry turkey.

I wish they had combined their powers. It'd be delicious.

In my experience geese and turkey have the opposite issues when cooking. There is clearly only one solution.

But the question is how we teach birds to use Tinder.

[LaZodiac]

The only thing I know about American Thanksgiving this year is that the new Luffy balloon got his hat popped by a tree. So sad, poor guy.

[Rater202]

The only thing I know about American Thanksgiving this year is that the new Luffy balloon got his hat popped by a tree. So sad, poor guy.

American Thanksgiving is the day that Americans remember the time that some religious weirdoes who started an illegal colony in the New World because they ran out of beer while fleeing England didn't ****ing die because the native peoples were willing to show them how to grow native crops.

We do it by eating food that they almost certainly had no access to in excess and arguing about politics.

We always have it on the third Thursday of November as the next day is the official start of the Christmas shopping season and back during the Great Depression starting that too late or too early meant that our Economy would not survive.

[LaZodiac]

American Thanksgiving is the day that Americans remember the time that some religious weirdoes who started an illegal colony in the New World because they ran out of beer while fleeing England didn't ****ing die because the native peoples were willing to show them how to grow native crops.

We do it by eating food that they almost certainly had no access to in excess and arguing about politics.

We always have it on the third Thursday of November as the next day is the official start of the Christmas shopping season and back during the Great Depression starting that too late or too early meant that our Economy would not survive.

Rater you're my friend and I love you but I specified "this year" for a reason. Thank you, though, I didn't know the "third Thursday of November" bit!

Everyone always says turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving meal, but people also say turkey is the traditional Christmas meal, and I'm sick of it. Why the worst and most difficult to cook properly bird???

[Rater202]

Rater you're my friend and I love you but I specified "this year" for a reason. Thank you, though, I didn't know the "third Thursday of November" bit!

Everyone always says turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving meal, but people also say turkey is the traditional Christmas meal, and I'm sick of it. Why the worst and most difficult to cook properly bird???

I actually overlooked the "this year" part. Sorry.

Also, brain fart, it's the fourth Thursday of the month.

Turkey being the traditional Thanksgiving Meal is propaganda. The Pilgrims didn't eat turkey at their harvest festival, though they did eat several unspecified birds, the main dish was most likely deer.

As For Christmas... People argue about it all the time. Traditional in England would be goose or duck, though in the US people often eat Ham. Other countries have their own traditions.

[Peelee]

I actually overlooked the "this year" part. Sorry.

I almost did too and hit reply to cast my doubt. Only noticed it when the text box popped up.

Also, turkey is the traditional meal. That's different than saying "it's what was eaten in the 1600s"but that's all propaganda anyway and its not like harvest feasts are a US-only deal.