#changlingsea

[xanadontit]

@millerflintstone @changlingsea - I loved Kids in the Hall and that weird brand of comedy shaped so much of what I find funny today. I had a huge crush on Bruce McCulloch, too, which should tell you a lot about me.

(Please remember my other tween crushes: Niles Crane and Nathan Lane I’m ok this is fine)

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your link “Detectorist in Scottish Borders uncovers bronze age haul”

I saw this article on Reddit and immediately thought, “@elephantbitterhead is gonna be pissed!”

You were correct! I just need to get with the program and actually get a metal detector. Then the probability of my finding something would at least marginally  increase -- I really do feel like we have to be running out of Iron Age-to-Roman trash that I could find, but I might be wrong. 

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your photo: maplebungus: fucking GET you

I can attest: hedgehogs bite hard! And, sometimes, won’t let go with their little peg teeth.

I had no idea this was a common occurrence. I mean, I figured they were able to hold their own in the garden _somehow_, but I wasn’t sure exactly what they were doing. Now I know. 

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your photoset “Here are some garden highlights from today. Those gooseberries are the...”

That pond picture, from before you worked on it, somehow is a visual representation of my life. I look at it and think, “yep, that’s me”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe get someone to pull out the giant water lilies that are swamping you? Refresh your banks by removing hard paving & replacing it with plants? If it’s any comfort, the pond was functional then. I just wanted it to be prettier and to attract more creatures. 

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your post: Rabbit science time

My pet rabbit lives in a large dog kennel and the top ends up covered in stuff (because that’s what happens to any flat surface in our house). I will sometimes try to clear the top because it seems very gloomy in there but he HATES it. He wants the top to be covered because he likes it gloomy and, if the top is open, anything could get him. A hawk! A fox! A dried leaf! So, rabbits are claustrophiliacs and also just weirdos.

I feel sure she knows what’s best for them, but it’s a shame that their safety has to come at the price of oxygen deprivation. 

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your post: Do your nearly nude guinea pigs need clothing to...

That one is almost cute for a hairless guinea pig. The worst ones are the red eyed/ruby eyed with the random sprouts of bristly hair. Like those Mexican hairless dogs that win the ugliest dog competitions all the time.

I agree that these are not truly terrifying. I thought the one in the little dress looked rather like a baby hippo, apart from the nose tuft. 

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea replied to your

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Human Rabies — Virginia, 2017

I am terrified of rabies but I also feel compelled to read about it. This case is going to give me nightmares. That other lady that was bitten too is fucking insanely lucky.

I feel the same way -- it’s a horribly fascinating disease! The highlight of my (brief) medical-editing career was working on an article in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology describing a patient in Germany who was inadvertently given transplanted lungs taken from a person with rabies -- what a nightmare! The article is behind a paywall, but you can see the preview here. It’s a shame you can’t see the whole thing because the offhand way in which the authors say that the patient croaked is hilarious. I mean, yeah, their focus is on the exposed health-care workers (of which there were many), but jeeze.

[elephantbitterhead]

changlingsea

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just trying to liven things up as the mornings...

I feel this relates to my reaction to some of the food that is made on GBBO. Suet pudding? Shudder. Game pies? Gag. That one meat pie that poured out grease and meat juices? Barf! But Brits obviously love those things.

I am sorry to report that every bad thing you have suspected or heard about British food is almost surely true. I hope that there is some kind of food Mecca in London, and maybe there is, but I have had so much bad food -- and seen so many bad recipes -- here that it’s hard to believe. And it’s the actual cooking that’s the problem. There are some great raw ingredients available here, and even some nice regional specialty ingredients, but once those things make it into a British kitchen (professional or domestic) they are doomed. ‘Overcooked and Underseasoned’ is the UK food motto. 

The upside is that our home cooking has improved dramatically as a result and we save a lot of money by never eating out.