Couch 167 1/2; Tennis Anyone?

atisketatasket · May 25, 2018, 08:06 PM

Nah—I have all this frozen chicken and am slowly cooking or baking or sauteing or casseroling it. Tonight chicken, potatoes, cheese, onions, garlic, sour cream in a casserole.

Besides, while there is a menu at my dinner party, that does not mean there is any food.

fille_folle · May 25, 2018, 08:10 PM

Cheese with potatoes sounds lovely. I am again too tired to make myself dinner. Will probably just eat a banana.

stopdog · May 25, 2018, 08:25 PM

Surely you all do not believe I would leave the really good scotch out where hooligans could find it.
And everyone has fun jumping on the couch until somebody puts an eye out.

velcro003 · May 25, 2018, 09:13 PM

cheese and potatoes is even BETTER than cheese and rice!

atisketatasket · May 25, 2018, 10:34 PM

I think we need a Couch coat of arms.

unaluna · May 25, 2018, 11:10 PM

For the gouda the couch, i would agree.

Or did you mean sergeant at arms, to stop people jumping on the couch?

velcro003 · May 25, 2018, 11:19 PM

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I think we need a Couch coat of arms.

that would be awesome

atisketatasket · May 25, 2018, 11:45 PM

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For the gouda the couch, i would agree.

Edam fine idea.

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Or did you mean sergeant at arms, to stop people jumping on the couch?

Geez, is it an antique or something?

CantExplain · May 26, 2018, 05:32 AM

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ATAT — yup, exactly, I was flummoxed at how Blondie describes it.

Your mention of the Greek meaning is exactly what I’ve grown up with as well (not just my family but broader norms).

And, while I understand that some of the cultural stuff is different in how it plays out (E.g. We still have a strong expectation of parents living under the same roof as the children even if there’s no specific need for it), I didn’t think the broader idea of what family means or what kids owe their parents etc is terribly different.

But, clearly from all you guys have said, Blondie’s kinda off on her own island — I wasn’t sure if that was the case because she actually told me once that in her culture (she specified “WASP” culture and made a distinction from her husband’s Italian roots), her behavior is the norm (and nor does she harbor any doubts about the validity of it!).

Most ethical systems teach that people with different ethical systems are evil. I suppose they have to. Nevertheless, this creates much misery in the world.

CantExplain · May 26, 2018, 05:33 AM

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Heat wave here, 90s and humid for about the next week. Yuck. My dog is miserable. We are hanging indoors and I've stocked up on ice cream

Good plan!

CantExplain · May 26, 2018, 05:39 AM

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AY, I think Blondie has a definite resentment there that she's being quite dishonest about--or is in denial about. WASP culture in the extreme is that the children will stand to inherit. I've known many WASP adult children who were bitter to the core when they were either cut out of the wills, or Dad had the nerve to follow some speculative path with "their" money, or Mom or Dad dared to remarry and the new spouse got the loot.

In every case, they were quite entitled in their attitudes, and believed that the parents should look out for themselves--but not at the expense of their inheritance.

But there's something else lurking there, too: she didn't marry a WASP, and she seems acutely aware of that fact. The only WASP kids I knew (I went to school with Cabots and Lowells--as in "Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God" fame) who even dated outside their ilk did it to spite their parents. And marriage? To a swarthy one? That there is worthy of disinheritance. She's got something in the closet.

Technically I'm a WASP, but I never expected to inherit a fortune. I got a small bequest when my mother died (enough to buy a used car?), and apart from that, I'm making my own way.

My real inherirance is White Privilege, which is worth more than rubies.

CantExplain · May 26, 2018, 05:52 AM

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Is cheese with potatoes OK? That’s what’s in the oven now.

Want some of SD’s scotch?

Apparently, cheese with potatoes is very nearly a balanced diet. You can survive on just that for years at a time.

unaluna · May 26, 2018, 07:31 AM

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Apparently, cheese with potatoes is very nearly a balanced diet. You can survive on just that for years at a time.

How? As a mummy? I would never poop if that were my diet

stopdog · May 26, 2018, 07:47 AM

I am not a huge potato eater. They are okay but not a favorite. I like rice a lot more.

88Butterfly88 · May 26, 2018, 07:48 AM

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Apparently, cheese with potatoes is very nearly a balanced diet. You can survive on just that for years at a time.

Who says you can survive on it for years?

unaluna · May 26, 2018, 07:50 AM

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Who says you can survive on it for years?

Like the big one of Penn and Teller went on a potato diet and lost like 100 lbs. So maybe the Irish?

stopdog · May 26, 2018, 07:52 AM

People can survive on all sorts of restricted diets. They have done so since the beginning of time.

Pennster · May 26, 2018, 08:26 AM

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Like the big one of Penn and Teller went on a potato diet and lost like 100 lbs. So maybe the Irish?

Yes! Irish people did survive on it for years - potatoes and buttermilk was what most poor Irish people ate in the 19th century before the famine. The potato blight hit so hard because they didn’t have a lot of alternatives, as the other things that were being grown there were were being shipped to Britain for the British landholders. (Coastal areas used to have fish but many people sold their fishing equipment to buy food the first bad year, in the expectation that the next year would be better and they could buy it back, but the next year was worse.)

They ate a really high volume of potatoes, however.

88Butterfly88 · May 26, 2018, 08:27 AM

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Like the big one of Penn and Teller went on a potato diet and lost like 100 lbs. So maybe the Irish?

Hmm, if I was convinced that diet really worked I'd so try it.

awkwardlyyours · 09:07 AM

Also, if I remember right, the folks who came up with the Atkins diet made a whole lot of money on the idea that eating just a whole lot of carbs and little else is the way to go.

ETA: Wait, I looked up Atkins — it was low-carb

But, think there was a high-carb one as well, distinctly outside my imagination.

unaluna · May 26, 2018, 09:05 AM

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Hmm, if I was convinced that diet really worked I'd so try it.

I couldnt make it to the second meal. The second mealy meal! Really boring!!!

I even read his book, which was very interesting.

atisketatasket · May 26, 2018, 09:15 AM

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I couldnt make it to the second meal. The second mealy meal! Really boring!!!

I even read his book, which was very interesting.

He also redesigned the hot tub with women in mind. You know, with the placement of the jets? It’s called the Jill-Jet.

awkwardlyyours · May 26, 2018, 09:47 AM

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He also redesigned the hot tub with women in mind. You know, with the placement of the jets? It’s called the Jill-Jet.

I can't decide if I'm only totally creeped out or also mildly amused.

unaluna · May 26, 2018, 09:53 AM

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He also redesigned the hot tub with women in mind. You know, with the placement of the jets? It’s called the Jill-Jet.

Gillette. I get it. I still dont know if thats penn or teller.

I hope people dont ever get us so entwined in their minds like that! Okay that was weird. That should not be our coat of arms.