I love the NHS as much as the next britisher but 'clap for carers'? c'mon lads
Worse things than the clap right now I'd imagine.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
the slow clap, for sure
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Mr. Snrub it is called
THE NEW MUSICAL COMPANION, being the twenty-second edition of The Musical Companion (revised & brought completely up-to-date, 1957), edited by A. L. Bacharach (VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, LONDON)
the musical companion was first published in 1934, with new edition annually: 1957 being the year of revision and updating, hence "new". almost all of it is a detailed and fairly orthodox guide to classical music (how a sonata works, who glazunov was etc, orchestras past and future -- it has a page on theremins etc -- and stockhausen gets a one line mention). the section on the effects of radio and gramophone is just a page long right after the mention of stockhausen, but it's simply expressed and exposed by its position and hence very memorable.
there's also a long and (to me) very interesting essay at the end by ERIC BLOM (once upon a time a famous critic, editor of Grove etc) about (classical) performance and (classical) listening, which also briefly discusses how the gramophone is changing things. blom doesn't write as if he knows any other kinds of music exist really (also pp 705-736 have been bound in upside down lol).
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Every single thing Dylan has done since 'Desire'
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 27 March 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
otm
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
kelp!
― mark s, Friday, 27 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
(i just don't care abt it)
kelp me if you can i'm reddish brown
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
lol nice
― budo jeru, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
Whatever the fuck Tiger King is
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
2nded
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
i saw some of it. it just seems sad and gross and exploitative on all fronts.
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
Black pepper. Chilies, hot peppers, sweet peppers (green, red, yellow) - sure. But ground black pepper? I barely use any of it when I'm cooking, and never add it to anything after. It just makes me sneeze or gets caught in my throat and doesn't make anything I cook taste better. And when they offer it on salads at restaurants? Why? Practically useless compared to salt.
(Also, co-sign on Tiger King. I think I get the idea based on a single screen shot and title and don't need more.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
it seems that you do care about black pepper! you just don't like it
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Hmm, fair point.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
way to ruin the entire thread KARL
― rob, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
black pepper sauce is one of the best sauces tho
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
don't care!
;) no, jk, i do care, i do
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/JRN7q1MqwRI5vjHV_L017HPI_xA=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3535-1487971792-8284.jpeg.jpg
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
i love black pepper but that should probly go on the I Love Black Pepper board
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
xxpost You mean like in Szechuan cooking? I don't mind Szechuan peppercorns, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
I was going to defend black pepper, but I've been using a peppercorn mix (black, white, red) for such a long time now, I'm not sure what plain black pepper tastes like
― rob, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
like angry shit
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
yeah, i don't get how black pepper with salt became the default table setting. I have to force myself to use it. I much prefer any other pepper.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
Black pepper is a delight and I put it on everything!
― epistantophus, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
^^^
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Pliny also complains, "There is no year in which India does not drain the Roman Empire of 50 million sesterces", and further moralizes on pepper: It is quite surprising that the use of pepper has come so much into fashion, seeing that in other substances which we use, it is sometimes their sweetness, and sometimes their appearance that has attracted our notice; whereas, pepper has nothing in it that can plead as a recommendation to either fruit or berry, its only desirable quality being a certain pungency; and yet it is for this that we import it all the way from India! Who was the first to make trial of it as an article of food? and who, I wonder, was the man that was not content to prepare himself by hunger only for the satisfying of a greedy appetite?— Pliny, Natural History 12.14
It is quite surprising that the use of pepper has come so much into fashion, seeing that in other substances which we use, it is sometimes their sweetness, and sometimes their appearance that has attracted our notice; whereas, pepper has nothing in it that can plead as a recommendation to either fruit or berry, its only desirable quality being a certain pungency; and yet it is for this that we import it all the way from India! Who was the first to make trial of it as an article of food? and who, I wonder, was the man that was not content to prepare himself by hunger only for the satisfying of a greedy appetite?
— Pliny, Natural History 12.14
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Friday, 10 April 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
Pliny notm
― silby, Friday, 10 April 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
Side note: Greek and Roman philosophers were a pretty ascetic group on the whole. They did a lot of moralizing about cookery in general and tended to frown upon anyone wanting food to be tasty or wanting a highly varied diet. Even Epicurus, who bestowed his name on epicureanism, counseled a very simple and moderate diet, but on the grounds of health, not morality.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 10 April 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
pEGGper, like a bird's egg!
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 April 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
I was listening to a Epicurus discussion on the wireless the other week. Was impressed that he was quite accurately imagining atoms and matter at a subatomic level and stuff.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
as the crow flies...
― kinder, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
lol
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 10 April 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
There's a chapter about black pepper in the book "Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine" (which is a fascinating, fun read). It specifically cites an American who, searching for an alternative supply of spices post revolution, discovered a secret source of pepper in Sumatra and became massively wealthy (one Jonathan Carnes, a Salem, MA captain who sailed there in 1795 and brought home 100,000 to 150,000 pounds of pepper that sold for 37 cents a pound and produced a 700 percent profit). There are stories about its preservative qualities; iirc they would fill every inch of the ship with pepper, including coffins, which not only kept the bodies intact but allowed them to ship back even more pepper. Found some more info here:
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/jonathan-carnes-corners-pepper-market-1795/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
i roast my black peppercorns like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWVthXiQILk
and usually combine it with non-roasted ground pepper in whatever i cook, tastes very good, you should try it
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 10 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
woo wooooooo black pepper! Duhduhduh duh duh
― brimstead, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
Cacio e Pepe and carbonara are what really made me “get” black pepper, and I had a crazy ceviche dish at a Mexican seafood restaurant in LA that featured it prominently - I never put it in Mexican food because it just doesn’t taste right but it was so unbelievably good and necessary in that dish that I still pause and think about it longingly.
― joygoat, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Pliny would have loved this place and would pick up his fair share of FPs
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
ukilxors would've dragged him for being a posho
― silby, Friday, 10 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
I mean
"Hail to thee, Nature, thou parent of all things! and do thou deign to show thy favour unto me, who, alone of all the citizens of Rome, have, in thy every department, thus made known thy praise."
is the 'I would like to point put I have been otm in this thread" of its time
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
xp exactly :)
your protest vote; vote for who you’d like I don’t care
― Mordy, Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
saturday night livezoom
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
otm x2
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
5G
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 April 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Yeah I don't remember any fuss about all the other Gs, isn't this just like extra razor blades?
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
Come on, are you telling me you don't want to watch the Benny Hill Show on your phone in 5d?
― calzino, Monday, 13 April 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I've kept to a three blade razor for over a decade. Whoever the G guys are will hate me as much as Giilette.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
I only just got my first smartphone 18 months ago. I got two g's! one for texting my mum and one for my ilx flagging app.
― calzino, Monday, 13 April 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
It is, as they say, a G thang.
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link