Althouse: At the Fried-Cheese-Curds-and-Naked-Ambition Café...

January 2, 2015

At the Fried-Cheese-Curds-and-Naked-Ambition Café...

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... there's a well-polished seat for you.

22 comments:

Louis said...: Oh hi; 1/2/15, 9:02 PM
Jane the Actuary said...: Happy New Year, everyone. Celebrate with me the fact that I got my first "insta-lance" today (actually, last night at 11 pm)!

(Even makes up for the fact that I'm working late to finish something up before a client call, and the woman who's supposed to be the client lead is thoroughly incompetent.); 1/2/15, 9:10 PM
Hagar said...: Following up on my gripe about my new washing machine the other day:

I thought I had found a reasonably priced GE machine that rinsed warm and had the oldfashioned controls with no locking lid, but fortunately kept reading the customer reviews, and on the 2nd or 3d page found a comment that "by the way, the published specifications page is wrong and needs to be changed; this machine only rinses with cold water."

I then googled "washing machine with warm rinse" and found that it seems I was right to start with. Top loading machines are all cold rinse only these days. Several commenters said the specifications for their (higher priced) machines were deceptive, in that they said "warm rinse," but in fact only gave a warm spray in the spin cycle while the actual rinse cycles were all cold.

There was considerable unhappiness from people worried about sensitivity to build-up of detergents and other chemicals in their wash, and not believing much that the EPA says it is all in their heads.; 1/2/15, 9:32 PM
Jane the Actuary said...: Not to minimize your quest, but what's the importance of a warm-water rinse?; 1/2/15, 9:36 PM
Hagar said...: Whatever it is, residual dirt or soap, fabric softener, etc., dissolves and get rinsed away easier in warm water than in cold.

For somethings, such as rubberized backings for bath rugs, etc, there also seems to be a problem with temperature shock going from warm or hot to cold, though personally, I use cold/cold and gentle cycles for such things. (I also have a very flat sewr service, which I do not want to get clogged with rubber flakes.); 1/2/15, 10:37 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."

Helter Skelter in 2015, people.

I am Laslo.; 1/2/15, 10:47 PM
madAsHell said...: How do you get the lid up, and where's the roll of TP??; 1/2/15, 11:00 PM
Chef Mojo said...: I love me some 'Sconsin cheese curds! I have a good friend in Tomahawk who comes down this way on occasion. She always brings me squeakin' fresh curds from the source. Man, I love em!; 1/2/15, 11:35 PM
Chef Mojo said...: By the way, it's much easier for me to do the Captcha thingy when I'm stoned. What's up with that?

Oh. It's medicinal, case you were wondering.

Wink-wink, nudge-nudge...; 1/2/15, 11:40 PM
Ron said...: With the ambition AND the cheese curds You may seize power and declare the Poutine Regime!; 1/3/15, 4:35 AM
Clyde said...: Overheard in the Senate:

"Hey, Harry! Does your face hurt? 'Cause it's killing me!"; 1/3/15, 7:06 AM
Hagar said...: The injuries do sound like the results of a disagreement with the Las Vegas mob.; 1/3/15, 7:17 AM
Hagar said...: Further on the washing machine saga:
Note that "Hot" wash cycle only means "Warm," and "Warm" only means "Not quite cold."
Also "Small load" means "Really small" and "Medium" means "Small."

This thing also is really noisy, so, provided I do not have taxes due, I do not think I shall have it for long.; 1/3/15, 7:23 AM
Clyde said...: Lesson: Don't cross the Koch Brothers!; 1/3/15, 7:30 AM
Hagar said...: It is 2 years to go, and I do not think the boomers of either party have another presidency in them.; 1/3/15, 7:37 AM
rhhardin said...: Derbyshire is in fine form in the first-of-the-month free podcast.

The white media story of cop killings gets mocked.

link.; 1/3/15, 7:39 AM
rhhardin said...: My 1975 Frigidaire washing machine has outlasted several generations of dryers.

It washes in cold hard water and rinses in cold hard water.

Gradually your whites turn well-iron colored but gradually they wear out anyway, so it all evens out. The trick is to have white socks the same age as your white shirt so it's coordinated.; 1/3/15, 7:44 AM
Hagar said...: "Who´s Running the Country?
A question being asked everywhere in the land.

I think the legacy of the Obama years is going to be a vast interconnected Federal bureaucracy that is not really run by anybody.

It won't be official, and you will only know it exists because, if you offend one part of it, you will suddenly have unexpected troubles from another part.
It will depend on who is married - quaint I guess, so "shacked up with" - to whom, and who either is hanging out with on their own time.; 1/3/15, 8:18 AM
Hagar said...: The tie-dyed effects from the undissolved detergent filler tend to bother me.; 1/3/15, 8:21 AM
William said...: The fat asses that come from eating fried cheese serve to keep the marble highly polished. That motto is self serving.; 1/3/15, 9:22 AM
chillblaine said...: Congratulations @Jane! I did notice that! Huzzah! (I think it's Insta-lanche but that's just cold water).; 1/3/15, 10:24 AM
jaed said...: Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her black-granite tuffet
Eating her fried cheese curds and whey; 1/3/15, 3:57 PM

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