Thumper wrote:I know! If your husband was handy, he'd have already installed the new disposal.
pumpkinpi wrote:I just and a person in to install a new garbage disposal. After he finished, he told me to keep an eye on our plumbing because it's sagging. It's not leaking now, but it could. He said, "If your husband's handy, they sell a whole kit at Menard's."
Now, he certainly could be a good person overall. But that kind of thinking is what's going to keep us from moving forward. He doesn't even realize he just made a sexist comment!
pumpkinpi wrote:I just had a person in to install a new garbage disposal. After he finished, he told me to keep an eye on our plumbing because it's sagging. It's not leaking now, but it could. He said, "If your husband's handy, they sell a whole kit at Menard's."
Now, he certainly could be a good person overall. But that kind of thinking is what's going to keep us from moving forward. He doesn't even realize he just made a sexist comment!
Thumper wrote:I know! If your husband was handy, he'd have already installed the new disposal.
vendic wrote:They were the founding "fathers"
Or, "Oh, my husband and I are both quite handy. We've just risen to the point where we don't have to do menial stuff like this. We can just pay people to do the dirty work."Thumper wrote:Or, "I don't have a husband, and I'm just as handy as my wife Lucy."
Thumper wrote:Or, "Oh, my husband and I are both quite handy. We've just risen to the point where we don't have to do menial stuff like this. We can just pay people to do the dirty work."Thumper wrote:Or, "I don't have a husband, and I'm just as handy as my wife Lucy."
* I have the utmost respect for many plumbers and tradespersons in general and I know neither you or I would ever say this. My takeaway was that your plumber was trying to be helpful and probably had no idea that he insulted you. Which was probably your point.
gethen wrote: I told him "Trust me, honey, women have been thinking about it for millennia. Ever since some woman already had more kids than she could feed."
Swift wrote:gethen wrote: I told him "Trust me, honey, women have been thinking about it for millennia. Ever since some woman already had more kids than she could feed."
Google natural substances for terminating pregnancy. The FDA might not rule favorably on "safe and effective" by modern standards, but this is not a recent invention. I suspect it may be as old as tool use and fire.
gethen wrote:Was talking with my husband tonight about the whole Supreme Court ruling business, about how they were attempting to interpret the Constitution in light of things the founding fathers had never seen coming. I said, "Like gay marriage." He said "Like abortion. Bet they never thought of that." I was dumbfounded. Apparently he thinks that abortion was never even thought of until maybe 75 years ago. I told him "Trust me, honey, women have been thinking about it for millennia. Ever since some woman already had more kids than she could feed." Maybe we really are separate species.
code monkey wrote:I know that contraception goes 'way back. not sure about abortion.
and while we're talking about original intent... the founding fathers included an method for altering the constitution - amendments. so please, is anybody able to explain to me why, in light of the fact that they saw the need to modify this document - to have it live - we should rely on attempts to read their minds and be bound by this?
code monkey wrote:I know that contraception goes 'way back. not sure about abortion.
and while we're talking about original intent... the founding fathers included an method for altering the constitution - amendments. so please, is anybody able to explain to me why, in light of the fact that they saw the need to modify this document - to have it live - we should rely on attempts to read their minds and be bound by this?
squ1d wrote:The only female plumber I know is Maggie from Northern Exposure.
code monkey wrote:G_D: thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of its mother
moses: oh, I see. we must not eat cheeseburgers!
G_D: moses, I said thou shalt not seethe a kid in the mild of its mother
moses: I am sorry for my slowness. I understand now. we must not drink milk when we are having a pot roast.
(this goes on for a bit but i'll spare you)
G_D: (deep sigh) moses, do whatever you want.
vendic wrote:code monkey wrote:G_D: thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of its mother
moses: oh, I see. we must not eat cheeseburgers!
G_D: moses, I said thou shalt not seethe a kid in the mild of its mother
moses: I am sorry for my slowness. I understand now. we must not drink milk when we are having a pot roast.
(this goes on for a bit but i'll spare you)
G_D: (deep sigh) moses, do whatever you want.
Kid = young goat. Goat milk tastes like crap. Cooking a nice tasty juicy young goat (kid) in goat milk ruins the flavor so badly you just wan to do a Gordon Ramsey on someone's ass that just did that. It comes out tasting like an old billy.
Personally I think that line was one of the first cooking instructions as a fore runner to recipes. Same as salting the meat (it tenderizes it) etc.
I'm not sure how it got extended to not mixing dairy with any meat though. Because that works out great and tastes good.
vendic wrote:code monkey wrote:G_D: thou shalt not seethe a kid in the milk of its mother
moses: oh, I see. we must not eat cheeseburgers!
G_D: moses, I said thou shalt not seethe a kid in the mild of its mother
moses: I am sorry for my slowness. I understand now. we must not drink milk when we are having a pot roast.
(this goes on for a bit but i'll spare you)
G_D: (deep sigh) moses, do whatever you want.
Kid = young goat. Goat milk tastes like crap. Cooking a nice tasty juicy young goat (kid) in goat milk ruins the flavor so badly you just wan to do a Gordon Ramsey on someone's ass that just did that. It comes out tasting like an old billy.
Personally I think that line was one of the first cooking instructions as a fore runner to recipes. Same as salting the meat (it tenderizes it) etc.
I'm not sure how it got extended to not mixing dairy with any meat though. Because that works out great and tastes good.
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