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Total Members Voted: 64

[ankhtahr]

you guys forget about how creepy the person who discovered that it's possible to get milk from a cow must have been. Especially when a large portion of the people used to be lactose intolerant.

[KOK]

Why does Dora wear ear plugs? Eventually I realized that that was not what Tai meant.

[celticgeek]

Quote from somewhere or other:  "The guy who ate the first oyster must have been SOME hungry."

[Akima]

you guys forget about how creepy the person who discovered that it's possible to get milk from a cow must have been. Especially when a large portion of the people used to be lactose intolerant.

Creepy? Why? Humans used to live in close proximity to cows, sheep, goats, pigs etc. Anyone who observed a calf suckling from a cow would have noticed that it is exactly the same process as a human baby suckling from its mother.

Jonathan Swift supposedly wrote: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster", but archeological evidence from middens and so on demonstrates that our ancestors ate all sorts of improbable things. The seasonal hatching of the Bogong Moth was a bonanza for Native Australians, for example, but its really no different from eating prawns. Potential starvation is a powerful spur to experimentation.

[Is it cold in here?]

Anyone who's ever supervised a really young human can tell you they will put anything that will fit into their mouths. How we survived as a species is a perpetual mystery.

[GarandMarine]

Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.

"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet?  It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!?  That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob.  He'll eat anything."

And thus, cheese was born.

And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING.  But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"

No kidding. But then, a lot of what we now know to be amazing is, bluntly, hella freaky on the face of it. I mean who was the first guy to pull up a lobster and, instead of freaking out at all the spines and claws and waving antennae, said "you know what, I'm gonna eat that."

Slaves. Seriously. Lobster was considered a nasty thing fit only for the poor, indentured servants and slaves. So one of the more popular and more expensive foods in the world (IT'S A GIANT SEA BUG! CRABS ARE JUST HUGE SPIDERS WITH ARMOR) started at as food fit only for the lowest of the low. Welcome to humanity. Check any concept of sense at the door.

[Tulpa]

Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.

"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet?  It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!?  That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob.  He'll eat anything."

And thus, cheese was born.

And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING.  But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"

No kidding. But then, a lot of what we now know to be amazing is, bluntly, hella freaky on the face of it. I mean who was the first guy to pull up a lobster and, instead of freaking out at all the spines and claws and waving antennae, said "you know what, I'm gonna eat that."

Slaves. Seriously. Lobster was considered a nasty thing fit only for the poor, indentured servants and slaves. So one of the more popular and more expensive foods in the world (IT'S A GIANT SEA BUG! CRABS ARE JUST HUGE SPIDERS WITH ARMOR) started at as food fit only for the lowest of the low. Welcome to humanity. Check any concept of sense at the door.

XKCD recently did a strip on lobster.


On an unrelated note, I never get ear cheese, but I do get a waxy build up that would become ear cheese if I didn't clean it every couple days. Mostly just skin oil and such. No smell whatsoever.

[westrim]

XKCD recently did a strip on lobster.

COMIC!

On an unrelated note, I never get ear cheese, but I do get a waxy build up that would become ear cheese if I didn't clean it every couple days. Mostly just skin oil and such. No smell whatsoever.

Anti quote tunnel!

I found that comic quite unreasonable back when I read it, and my opinion hasn't changed. There are lots of people in THIS universe that are okay with eating spiders, most of them just aren't lucky enough to live in the northeast US. The only good reason not to is so they can live and continue to prey on pests. What plants, animals, and byproducts thereof are considered edible is a social construct. We're omnivores, baby- just about everything can be consumed or rendered safe to consume.

What your talking about is not and will not become ear cheese (though it may end up an addition to said cheese). It's waxy because it IS wax, and far from being food for bacteria, it is actually antimicrobial to a degree.

[Platypodes]

Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.

"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet?  It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!?  That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob.  He'll eat anything."

And thus, cheese was born.

And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING.  But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"

That dialogue cracked me up!

The one I've always wondered about is olives. Who the heck bit into an olive straight from the tree and said, "Ecch!  Ptooie! Give me something to take this horrible taste out of my mouth!! ...Hey, let's add a shit-ton of salt to these, wait a few weeks, and then eat 'em!"?  (Assuming salt-cured came first.  If they started by saying "Let's soak these in lye and then eat 'em," I'd really wonder what was up with those dudes.)

[Is it cold in here?]

Maybe they were politicians and lyeing came naturally to them.

[techkid]

Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.

"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet?  It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!?  That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob.  He'll eat anything."

And thus, cheese was born.

And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING.  But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"

No kidding. But then, a lot of what we now know to be amazing is, bluntly, hella freaky on the face of it. I mean who was the first guy to pull up a lobster and, instead of freaking out at all the spines and claws and waving antennae, said "you know what, I'm gonna eat that."

Given my general voraciousness towards food, both "Bob" and the lobster guy might have been either my descendants or pre-incarnations.

[Neko_Ali]

Actually, as I understand it cheese making was discovered in the Middle East. Travellers on long trips would take with them drinks in water skins, often made of animal stomachs. Some people discovered that, you put goats milk or what have you in one of those bags, travel all day in the heat with the agitation and rennet in the stomach skin bag and instead of milk you had cottage cheese. From there they refined the procedure and spread it.

[KOK]

Troub from  Wizard of Id once sang a song about how the bravest man in history was the first to eat an oyster raw.

[Kugai]

Poll results for this week


 So, what's on Dales continuing training session for this week?

MOCKachinos ................. 7 (10.4%)

Chocolate Lattes ............. 1 (1.5%)

Cappuchino of Doom ....... 6 (9%)

THE SECRET MENU!!! ...... 19 (28.4%)

Sword wielding Practice ... 13 (19.4%)

Spathe Ham ................... 4 (6%)

Butts!! .......................... 11 (16.4%)

Purple Monkey Dishwasher 6 (9%)


Voting is locked - Polls over for the week.  And the Secret Menu remains SECRET         

[DSL]

I think it was George Carlin who wondered on stage about the first person to eat a tomato. "They're all larval inside!"

[Toe]

I will never understand why some people think stretching their ears out is a good idea.

I mean, I certainly understand the pleasure of stretching out some of your body's other holes to fit larger and larger objects in them, but your ears?!

[westrim]

I will never understand why some people think stretching their ears out is a good idea.

I mean, I certainly understand the pleasure of stretching out some of your body's other holes to fit larger and larger objects in them, but your ears?!

We already know Dora is into ear fucking.

I REGRET NOTHING! 

[Mad Cat]

Apropos of nothing, anyone else think of Tai when they see Liz Ricarro from IGPX?

[Mr_Rose]

Not really? But then I've never seen "IGPX" and from the pictures supplied the only physical resemblances are skin tone and hair colour.

[Loki]

I am not familiar with the show in question, but the pictures seem to imply a certain quirkiness, a trait similarly present in Tai.

[KOK]

Not really? But then I've never seen "IGPX" and from the pictures supplied the only physical resemblances are skin tone and hair colour.

The ear piercings are similar.

[Akima]

The eye-colour isn't.

[Mr_Rose]

Not really? But then I've never seen "IGPX" and from the pictures supplied the only physical resemblances are skin tone and hair colour.

The ear piercings are similar.

Not really? Tai wears plugs AFAIK and those look like fairly standard stud posts to me, positioned in pretty much the exact same way millions of women have for decades.

[KOK]

Plugs and studs are different?

[ackblom12]

Plugs:



Studs:

[KOK]

OK, but how can you tell the difference in a comic? Both are just a colored circle on the earlobe.

[Mr_Rose]

Size, distortion of the earlobe shape (or lack thereof), shading, alternate views showing shape, that sort of thing.
Ms. Ricarro's jewellery is rather small for a plug, particularly one adorned with a stone but is fairly standard for a polished turquoise stud. Speaking of, they are also shaded as hemispheres—another common feature in turquoise jewellery—which is confirmed in the other views supplied.
Basically, a bunch of stuff vastly skews the probability in one direction even before you account for personal and/or cultural bias on the part of the author.

[ackblom12]

Basically we're nerds for gettin' stabbed.

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