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― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
plaid shirts
i love the picture of the two tailors in plaid shirts, with beards, measuring the man wearing a plaid shirt, with the beginnings of a beard, presumably to fit him for a fourth plaid shirt (not pictured)
― j., Saturday, 24 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
I come from a long line of tailors. My grandfather was a tailor. My great grandfather was a tailor. My great great grandfather was a tailor. My father was an investment banker, and, prior to 2015, I had never held a needle and thread, let alone sat in front of a sewing machine. But after graduating from an expensive private college with a degree in comp lit and moving to Brooklyn, I realized that, while there were already dozens of neophyte "high-end" tailoring houses already in the market, none seemed to possess my unique specialness. With my heritage, my trust fund, and a year of private lessons, I founded Brooklyn Cephalopod Fine Shirtemaekers, Maekers of Fienee Shierts.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
I started that paragraph hoping you were going to tell us how you took up sewing :(
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
Lock thread
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
lol man alive
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
My grandfather actually was a tailor in Brooklyn. Sadly, my father was not an investment banker and I have no trust fund.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
A propos of nothing really but I really want to move to the country and slowly restore a whole houseful of woodwork by hand with qtips. There's definitely an appeal as compared to city life. How will I afford to eat while I strip 100 years of paint off a banister, you may ask? Hmmph. Good question.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
You won’t need to eat, you’ll get all the nourishment you need from inhaled solvents
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
from an article linked on another thread. here's how, in orbit:
“People talk all the time about what they dream of, and I decided to stop talking about it and just do it,” Ms. Shiver said. “I was looking for more meaning.”She divorced her husband, packed her Yorkie Pomeranian, Stanford, in the car and drove west.
She divorced her husband, packed her Yorkie Pomeranian, Stanford, in the car and drove west.
see? simple
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
What if my Yorkie Pomeranian isn’t named Stanford?????
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
I cried because I had no Yorkie, and then I met a man with no shih tzu
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
in orbit you'll need an apron, maybe something in gray. can you fold your arms and look serious? the q-tip will need to have a body of reinforced handcrafted steel and the tips should be hand-pulled lamb's wool. it should be about the size of a medieval weapon.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
I would restore the wood with other wood not qtips I think qtips would look funny
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
q-tips are fine they just need to look big and forged
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Actual me crossing arms seriously (from over 10 years ago but I was very skilled at a young age).
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― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
lol sorry hueg
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
Call bs on srs that is imo a smirk
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
man alive
ha where is that from
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
It’s from the promotional materials for my new tailoring shop, Brooklyn Cephalopod
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
i remember that picture! best picture.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
i was thinking of opening a restaurant where they serve food on wood planks
the twist will be that there will be an artisanal lumberjack in the front of the house who will hand-cut a bespoke wood plank for each meal
― the late great, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
and you get to pick which kind of tree wood you want obviously.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
"Hey have you ever been to that place Plank? You get your own plank."
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
xp yes scott and also there will be craft beer-istas who can help you pair your beer with your plank
― the late great, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
chop down your own tree with our experienced lumberjacks -- beginners welcomed!
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
"Fuck you. I will destroy your business." pic.twitter.com/SwERjETSih— For Exposure (@forexposure_txt) March 26, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
I've been spending almost all day reading this.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
the shtick of weirdos demanding strangers make them things for little to no money has become widespread enough that I've seen a few people questioning whether some of the really blatant ones like this are fabricated viral content
I mean, people really are that weird and demanding, but...
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Like, I quilt just for myself as a hobby. So many people tell me to sell them. Basically, I have no interest because of everything that this twitter documents. I would rather just give them away to people I like. But reading all the tweets is so fascinating.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
I mean it's almost on par with reading tinder dms where dudes go from 0 to "f you, you whore, you're not even pretty" within the span of one screen.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
I have a photographer friend who posts his own real forexposure-style requests that he receives pretty often. He is a guy who has done album covers for bands you know and his work has been in the NY Times and a bunch of major music mags.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
I reluctantly am willing to accept everyone is actually this horrible
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
It's a lifehack! Ask for free stuff all the time!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
the only risk is to your own reputation! and possible legal action for harassment!
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
anyone up in here want to hook me up with some free coffee
thats either an obvious troll or a fake. no way you anyone continue to respond after the first f bomb
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
I mean some of these people feeling entitled to free stuff or drastically reduced costs are obviously teenagers but some of these are so abusive, negging, gaslighting...the usual shit some men do.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
I would respond because it's fascinating and f bombs don't disturb me.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
What’s Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War
https://nyti.ms/2pGkWjc
On one side were those who viewed cooking an egg over a fire as the embodiment of food elitism and all that is annoying about the Slow Food movement. Only people who are very rich or very poor have fireplaces in their kitchens, critics said. Where is a working parent supposed to find the time?In the opposing camp were people happy to discover a slow, delicious way to make those farm eggs that they had worked so hard to find. Even if the egg spoon was merely aspirational, it set the bar for a simpler way of cooking and eating — one in which a fire-roasted egg slipped onto levain toast seemed the antidote to an unthinking, tech-dominated culture fueled by unhealthy, overly processed food.The egg spoon became a mark of insider status and a tool of seduction. ...Kat Kinsman, the senior food and drinks editor of the website Extra Crispy, devoted a column to what she saw as the inherent sexism in the egg-spoon attacks. If Francis Mallmann, the subject of a recent Esquire profile titled “Is Francis Mallmann the Most Interesting Chef in the World?,” had cooked an egg with a spoon instead of roasting a lamb on a wooden cross near blazing wood, he’d be a hero, she wrote. (Ms. Waters, incidentally, has given Mr. Mallmann one of her own beloved egg spoons.)The new round of criticism also struck a nerve with Samin Nosrat, a cookbook author and New York Times Magazine columnist. Cooking an egg in an iron spoon over open fire is really no more precious and probably a lot less elitist than cooking an egg in $300 sous-vide machine, she said in a recent interview — except that women tend to do the former and men the latter.
In the opposing camp were people happy to discover a slow, delicious way to make those farm eggs that they had worked so hard to find. Even if the egg spoon was merely aspirational, it set the bar for a simpler way of cooking and eating — one in which a fire-roasted egg slipped onto levain toast seemed the antidote to an unthinking, tech-dominated culture fueled by unhealthy, overly processed food.
The egg spoon became a mark of insider status and a tool of seduction.
...
Kat Kinsman, the senior food and drinks editor of the website Extra Crispy, devoted a column to what she saw as the inherent sexism in the egg-spoon attacks. If Francis Mallmann, the subject of a recent Esquire profile titled “Is Francis Mallmann the Most Interesting Chef in the World?,” had cooked an egg with a spoon instead of roasting a lamb on a wooden cross near blazing wood, he’d be a hero, she wrote. (Ms. Waters, incidentally, has given Mr. Mallmann one of her own beloved egg spoons.)
The new round of criticism also struck a nerve with Samin Nosrat, a cookbook author and New York Times Magazine columnist. Cooking an egg in an iron spoon over open fire is really no more precious and probably a lot less elitist than cooking an egg in $300 sous-vide machine, she said in a recent interview — except that women tend to do the former and men the latter.
― fleetwood machiavellian (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
If holding an egg in a spoon over a fire is "simpler" than frying or soft-boiling it then it would be even simpler to omit the spoon and hold it in your fingers.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
or just eat the egg raw with boiling water chaser
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
an egg spoon is a spoon for eating boiled eggs. this is a wee iron frying pan surely
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
I have thought about this a lot and agree that "simpler" is an indefensible word choice here.
It would have been slightly more defensible to say something along the lines of rugged/primitive/elemental, back-to-basics, back-to-nature, rather than "simpler." No, of course it's not simpler than just tossing an egg around in a nonstick Calphalon over gas.
One COULD make an argument following Thoreau, who proposed a race of some distance between him walking, and someone else taking the train. Because the man who takes the train needs to work all day to earn the train fare, whereas the walker can set out immediately. But that would be bullshit, because everyone involved in the conversation clearly ALSO has a normal stove and normal skillets. It IS about the perceived coolness of the endeavor.
And on that ground, no, the egg spoon is no more precious than spatchcocking with hand-forged swords, or making your own yeast, or making broth from scavenged squirrel bones, or sous-viding your morning oatmeal, or hand-hewing your own shad planks, or raising your personal flock of civet cats to process your coffee beans, or whatever other shit some hipster gourmand recommends.
― fleetwood machiavellian (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
If I had a fireplace, wood burning stove in my house I would totally make my eggs in it. In my mind it seems more efficient and tastier.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
Activate those almonds, brother.
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
A sous vide circulator is less than $100 now, that's a pretty bad comparison to a $250 Kinfolk-approved spoon (which is pretty much the entire controversy I've seen).
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
Every time we grill (not often) I just look for random things in the kitchen to cook over a fire. I am going to try eggs now.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
If I already have a wood fire going for other reasons, I love to cook things in/on it. I am unlikely to build a roaring fire just to fry an egg, though. Just my own personal line in the sand; other may vary.
― fleetwood machiavellian (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
(i vaguely know KK from that article, she took me up the empire state building once. or was it too foggy? it was 1997)
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link