The unofficial bad day thread.

[Otaking]

Hardy har har. DX I wonder if I'm gonna be attacked by a butterfly on my way to work today.

http://zzanyy.blogspot.com/2010/07/madrilenial-butterfly-bloodsucking.html

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/animal-planet/38513-top-10-bloodsuckers-madrilenial-butterfly-video.htm

[LadyObvious23]

X3 Wow, vampire butterfly. I'm glad a caterpillar just bit my ear.

[Freemage]

You have more than one Burger King that's available to you without having to go on base? (Yes I -can- go on base, but it requires doing a little paperwork and a wait that varies depending on how many people are in town to see their military families, and the food courts are the only places I can buy anything. Not totally worth the effort, really. )

...can I move in with you guys?

Heh. We could use the rent, but you've got to live in a closet.

And yeah, one nice thing about living in the inner ring of the 'burbs is that you generally have LOTS of eating options. Three BKs in easy driving (with two more a bit further off, but highly convenient when going to the toll road), maybe four McDonalds, a Wendy's, a Taco Bell, a Jimmy John's, two Subways and an Arby's. And that's just the fast food--there's also three different "grill joints" (menus vary between the three, but it usually includes hot dogs, hamburgers, gyros and Italian beef* and sausage).

*: I've commented on this before, but it bears repeating. Italian beef is the food of the gods, and it's really only done much in the Chicago area, as far as I can tell. It is juicier than a Philly Cheese-steak and a thousand times more flavorful than a French Dip. Done right, it can single-handedly destroy any diet it encounters.

[LookingIn]

*: I've commented on this before, but it bears repeating. Italian beef is the food of the gods, and it's really only done much in the Chicago area, as far as I can tell. It is juicier than a Philly Cheese-steak and a thousand times more flavorful than a French Dip. Done right, it can single-handedly destroy any diet it encounters.

Freemage, you are amazing! You have no idea how much I owe you for this recomendation, I'm heading there next month and was looking for something like that to try

[Freemage]

*: I've commented on this before, but it bears repeating. Italian beef is the food of the gods, and it's really only done much in the Chicago area, as far as I can tell. It is juicier than a Philly Cheese-steak and a thousand times more flavorful than a French Dip. Done right, it can single-handedly destroy any diet it encounters.

Freemage, you are amazing! You have no idea how much I owe you for this recomendation, I'm heading there next month and was looking for something like that to try

Portillo's serves an acceptable Italian beef, but it's usually better at stand-alone joints rather than chains. Also suggest trying a pizza puff while you're here. Again, totally unhealthy for you, but beyond delicious, and near as I can tell, it's almost as unheard of outside our area as the beef sandwiches.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

Whoof. So I hit the thermostat because I notice even though the temp is set at 74, it's 77, right? Then I notice the "filter" light flashing. So I take it out, go out to the back and see about de-clogging it some.

Big mistake.

There was so much dust on that thing that after the first smack, the cloud was big enough to send me into a coughing fit for about five minutes. So I'm just gonna sit here and wait for my lungs to finish trying to escape via cough and sneeze, thankee. x.x

[Muttley]

Use a vacuum cleaner?

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

Not really an option with the one this household has. It's a little too weak. It also turned out the filter should've been replaced about a month ago anyway, so I caused my lungs to effect an escape attempt for nothing. XP

[NobodySpecial]

*: I've commented on this before, but it bears repeating. Italian beef is the food of the gods, and it's really only done much in the Chicago area, as far as I can tell. It is juicier than a Philly Cheese-steak and a thousand times more flavorful than a French Dip. Done right, it can single-handedly destroy any diet it encounters.

Freemage, you are amazing! You have no idea how much I owe you for this recomendation, I'm heading there next month and was looking for something like that to try

Portillo's serves an acceptable Italian beef, but it's usually better at stand-alone joints rather than chains. Also suggest trying a pizza puff while you're here. Again, totally unhealthy for you, but beyond delicious, and near as I can tell, it's almost as unheard of outside our area as the beef sandwiches.

Pizza puffs are, indeed, wonderful and delicious tools of the devil. (Warning - many of them are made with pork. If dietary restrictions don't apply, ignore this warning.) Italian beef is also amazing, but I've had to avoid that for a number of years. Oh, yeah, Looking - if ordering a burger, try to avoid ketchup whilst in the Chicago area, as they're a bit provincial on that sort of thing.

[Freemage]

*: I've commented on this before, but it bears repeating. Italian beef is the food of the gods, and it's really only done much in the Chicago area, as far as I can tell. It is juicier than a Philly Cheese-steak and a thousand times more flavorful than a French Dip. Done right, it can single-handedly destroy any diet it encounters.

Freemage, you are amazing! You have no idea how much I owe you for this recomendation, I'm heading there next month and was looking for something like that to try

Portillo's serves an acceptable Italian beef, but it's usually better at stand-alone joints rather than chains. Also suggest trying a pizza puff while you're here. Again, totally unhealthy for you, but beyond delicious, and near as I can tell, it's almost as unheard of outside our area as the beef sandwiches.

Pizza puffs are, indeed, wonderful and delicious tools of the devil. (Warning - many of them are made with pork. If dietary restrictions don't apply, ignore this warning.) Italian beef is also amazing, but I've had to avoid that for a number of years. Oh, yeah, Looking - if ordering a burger, try to avoid ketchup whilst in the Chicago area, as they're a bit provincial on that sort of thing.

Ketchup on a hamburger is no big deal. Asking for ketchup on a hot dog, however, will often yield the response, "So, what are you, 12?" Chicago hot dogs are works of art, and ketchup has no place on them:



Part of the reason for the anti-ketchup snobbery is that there's a wide variety of flavors of ketchup, from the absurdly sweet to the tangy; each of them would mix quite differently with the above ingredient list, which is largely considered sacrosanct. The only permitted variable to the above is the decision to use brown spicy mustard in place of yellow.

Also, so long as I'm covering the Chicago Food Culture bases, there's the Maxwell Street Polish:



Some joints will try to give you a small amount of grilled onions on your polish sausage. This should be regarded as a personal insult. A proper MSP has such a pile of grilled onions on it that you have to double-check to locate the sausage. There should be a bit of yellow mustard between the two; again, brown mustard can be substituted, but this is far less common than with the hot dogs.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

It's funny that people go in for all those ingredients, when everyone knows only chili and melted cheese should be on a hot dog.

[Artemisia]

I need to make my own hot dogs. I can't have corn syrup, which is in almost all of the hot dogs on the market.

[retrophrenologist]

Ketchup on a hamburger is no big deal. Asking for ketchup on a hot dog, however, will often yield the response, "So, what are you, 12?" Chicago hot dogs are works of art, and ketchup has no place on them:

Freemage, you've convinced me that, should I ever visit Chicago, I should play it safe and stick to Chinese food.

[Freemage]

Ketchup on a hamburger is no big deal. Asking for ketchup on a hot dog, however, will often yield the response, "So, what are you, 12?" Chicago hot dogs are works of art, and ketchup has no place on them:

Freemage, you've convinced me that, should I ever visit Chicago, I should play it safe and stick to Chinese food.

I recommend the sweet pork rolls from the Chinese bakery at the southern end of Chinatown's main drag. They're perfect for munching while you walk around Chinatown proper and shop.

[Artemisia]

It's been a rough day for me. On the good side, I leave for Goddard in a few days, and have my room mostly cleaned so that the swap around can be done while I'm gone. On the other hand, I've been coping with bad GID today. I found out that the only site out there that is still going after me over my being 'trans' is a militant feminist site that sees all trans women as being not-women. As I've mentioned before, I'm intersexed not transsexed. While I have to undergo SRS and the rest, but unlike the trans people I've met over the years, I just think completely like a woman without being conscious of it. That sounded wrong. Over the years, the trans people who I have met with bodies similar to mine (with the normal body structure of a woman) have all been intersexual at some level beyond the brain. (incidentally, from the way she's drawn, I think T should write Chrissie as trans/inter-sexed. She's too female of form and I doubt that she's had the extensive surgeries necessary to make her appear that way, so if it's natural, she's intersexed at some level).

Yeah, I get the fact that there are many trans women out there who retain way too much in the way of male-centered thinking, but, you know, that's not true for all of us.

You know something- these kinds of people make me so fucking angry. They think like the very patriarchs that they claim to hate. You know, in those societies that valued women highly and who had a very matriarchal structure- being trans/inter didn't exclude one from the female only spaces and from being seen as a woman because that's what you were. The shaman in me reviles these kinds of women because they really are among the worst out there. They just want to replace phallocracy with gynocracy and one form of tyranny with another.

I may really not like men, and try to avoid being around men as much as possible, but even I don't like that idea.

Sorry for the rant. I needed to get that out.