Australian here.
You sound like a cross between a duck lure and a dog stuck in reverse.
TheBananaKing
joined 2 years ago
Where do you think lawyers come from?
Depends on the pain.
If it's joints or ligaments, stop immediately. Coddle the shit out of them.
Muscles, treat them like dirt, get shit done.
I worked for a company once that installed a remote-activation killswitch in their drivers, as a secret weapon to force the customer to stay current on their maintenance contract.
The CEO was a fuckup however, and the code killed their system even without being activated - resulting in a bunch of angry phonecalls and some of the most egregious lying I've ever heard.
god, he was a piece of shit
Yeah, frozen puff pastry is a go-to ingredient. You just won't catch me making it by hand because as my grandmother used to say, bugger that for a game of soldiers.
My kid's 18 and thinks he's a fucking loser.
Croissants. Tasty and pretty, but a ridiculous amount of fiddly work with all the rolling and folding.
Ditto puff pastry from scratch.
Pavlova is almost boringly simple, though.
Beat eggwhites and sugar for ages with a little vinegar along the way, dump onto a parchment lined baking sheet, bake - then turn off the oven, leave the door open a crack and leave a few hours to slowly cool.
Instead of making a big intricate arrangement with the fruit, go rustic with it - bowl of sugared berries, bowl of whipped cream, dollop of each on each slice.
Until he dies, you say?
Interesting.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.
Ten brick-thick volumes that will alternately fill your heart to bursting then stomp on it until you're wrung out like a rag. It is one HELL of a ride. It does have a steep immersion curve, so be prepared to take a couple of attempts to finish the first one.
When you find yourself laughing at the tragedy and crying at the jokes, you'll know.
Also, the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Adorkable romance, badass as hell, will break you. Gets increasingly weird as it goes along. Is good, has massive cult following.
And by no means least, the Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee. Ostensibly weird Korean military space opera, but with a real gut punch; you won't forget this one.
One at the white house, one at the sun.
Like they're talking into a pickle jar.