Useless Conversation

[voodoolily]

Someone should figure out how to produce Honeycrisp apples all year round. 

If you don't care about carbon footprints then you can eat Honeycrisps from New Zealand during the spring and summer and ones from the Pacific Northwest during the fall and winter. It's how I get my fix (I try to give in to non-locally seasonal fruit only once in awhile).

[Signe]

I really do prefer to buy local whenever I can and try and adapt to that seasonally.  Luckily,  in this part of the world, it's easy to do.  I got the A-Mish right up the road, too!

[Cyrrex]

Local is always nicest, but even imported Honeycrisps are better than any other local apple.  The NZ ones I had were just fine, if not as good as the Washington ones (or whatever).

[Oban]

Wow, I have never seen Honeycrisps from New Zealand, is that a new thing?

[Cyrrex]

Pay attention Oban!  We only eat the NZ ones when the local ones go out of season.  They have this crazy, opposite season thing going on down there.

[Strazos]

So apparently, even in practice sessions with people you know, fielding possibly random questions from a possibly hostile crowd is possible really REALLY hard.

Oh, and not fun.

[Yegolev]

[schild]

So apparently, even in practice sessions with people you know, fielding possibly random questions from a possibly hostile crowd is possible really REALLY hard.

Oh, and not fun.

No it's not, don't be a pussy.

[Murgos]

So apparently, even in practice sessions with people you know, fielding possibly random questions from a possibly hostile crowd is possible really REALLY hard.

Oh, and not fun.

No it's not, don't be a pussy.

I used to have a job where I would have to speak/train for 1-2 hours in front of groups from 10 to (my largest) 600 with the average being around 30.  I never had any problem with the actual groups anywhere near like as in the practice sessions with the other instructors/speakers.

People who have gotten the fucked up questions, or know where the holes in your knowledge are before you ever start can be brutal.

I always thought it was fun though.

[Nebu]

I make a living teaching people that try their best to put you on the spot with difficult questions.  I enjoy it.  Either I answer their question and earn a bit of their respect or I admit that I don't know and it gives me the incentive to go and learn something new. 

 

[Lantyssa]

As someone who does a few training panels a year, I would have to agree it's the people who know the subject that are the most brutal.

I can get away with generalities, often I need to use them for the uninitiated.  I cannot do that when teaching knowledgable instructors.  My language needs to be more precise, I have to go into more depth, and take into account complex interactions.  Which is fine, but it requires considering my answers carefully.

[voodoolily]

Pay attention Oban!  We only eat the NZ ones when the local ones go out of season.  They have this crazy, opposite season thing going on down there.

I wonder if they import Washington apples down there this time of year, or if they just stop eating apples.

[Cyrrex]

Pay attention Oban!  We only eat the NZ ones when the local ones go out of season.  They have this crazy, opposite season thing going on down there.

I wonder if they import Washington apples down there this time of year, or if they just stop eating apples.

If they know what's good for them, they are importing them, because the Honeycrisps that come out this time of year are GLORIOUS.  I wanna say it's like having an orgasm in your mouth, but that just doesn't quite come out right.

[Nevermore]

Yeah, not as salty.

[voodoolily]

Perfectly-ripe Bartlett pears make me weak in the knees. Cameo and Jazz apples are really great too, fyi. Perfect crispness and tart-to-sweet ratio.

[rattran]

I have Bartlett pears (a bit underripe, how I like 'em) honeycrisp apples, sharp cheddar cheese, rosemary & olive oil bread, and a weird local stout that uses lactose in the brewing.

It's a lovely dinner.

[Strazos]

There's a distinct difference between a knowledgeable crowd shooting precise questions at you, and an outright hostile crowd. A hostile crowd that knows what they're talking about is probably a worst-case scenario, especially when responding with essentially, "durr, I dunno, I'll have to get back to you" is practically never an option. Thankfully, that's not the cone I picked.

On the upside, my class finds out where we're all going to be living for the next few years, so that will be nice. Unfortunately, we don't find out until late in the day, so no one is going to be able to concentrate at all until then.

[Lantyssa]

Oddly enough I just got a Honeycrisp apple in Free Realms.  I'd never heard of it until this discussion.

It was not salty.

[Fraeg]

Hazmat.....   shit I thought I had left behind me in the 90's..... transferred from CA to NM awhile ago.    

Land in a new state, new job blah blah... and receive "oh you have worked on Superfund sites we would like you to work at site XYZ "

So I am running crews at a fucking nasty ass site that I want to have nothing to do with... but being employed is good.  By springtime I need to figure out how we are going to sample for White phosphorus .  If you do not know, Whiskey P is some really.. I mean Really fucking bad shit.

[Lantyssa]

I suggest lighting some flares and sticking them into the suspect substances.  If it catches on fire, it burns incredibly fast and hot, and you can't put it out, you might have white phosphorus.

[rattran]

White phosphorus grenades were one of the neatest things to get to use. And at White Sands they didn't seem to care how many you wasted for 'training'

Only thing more fun was firing off Dragons.

[Signe]

I went to the shops the other day and bought toilet tissue.  I opened the package this morning and found that I had somehow bought giant people's toilet tissue.  These are the biggest rolls I've ever seen in my life or even dreamt of in my philosophy of toilet tissue.  They're enormous.  The package of eight might last us a year.  It's freaking me out, man. 

[Salamok]

I went to the shops the other day and bought toilet tissue.  I opened the package this morning and found that I had somehow bought giant people's toilet tissue.  These are the biggest rolls I've ever seen in my life or even dreamt of in my philosophy of toilet tissue.  They're enormous.  The package of eight might last us a year.  It's freaking me out, man. 

Did it say brawny on the package? sounds like you wandered into the paper towel section.

[Murgos]

Time to start experimenting with Chili recipies.  

[Signe]

Did it say brawny on the package? sounds like you wandered into the paper towel section.

[Sky]

Front row center Skynyrd tickets. Not that they have much in the way of original members, but it's always a good time show and I want a Rossington pick.

[Strazos]

Posted to DC to fight pirates. Now I get to find, and move into, a new apt in the next week or so.

[Engels]

Should be a quick job. Just arrest everybody.

[schild]

What kind of pirates? Do I need to ban you?

[Strazos]

The kind that terrorize the high seas.

[rattran]

Quick, hide Trippy!

[Oban]

I have no idea how my Iridium phone ended up on a raft full of Somalis or where those wire transfers you are asking about came from Sir.

[Lantyssa]

The kind that terrorize the high seas.

They get a lot of those sailing up the Potomac?

In other news, Central Market had some honeycrisps, and thanks to this thread I bought a few.  It was, without exaggeration, the best apple I have ever tasted.

[Oban]

In other news, Central Market had some honeycrisps, and thanks to this thread I bought a few.  It was, without exaggeration, the best apple I have ever tasted.

One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!

[Cyrrex]

The kind that terrorize the high seas.

They get a lot of those sailing up the Potomac?

In other news, Central Market had some honeycrisps, and thanks to this thread I bought a few.  It was, without exaggeration, the best apple I have ever tasted.

I KNOW!  I just had one for breakfast.  I am sad that I already finished it.