U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

has anyone asked how we’re lighting our cigarettes without a gas stove yet

― mh,

Reminds me of that moment when a pickled Kevin Bacon tries lighting a cigarette on an unconnected electric stove in Diner.

xxp

What is your point? You were very clear that you absolutely can't live without a gas stove and can't conceive of how anyone else could.

some serious underestimation of the utility of an electric range (repost, I know)

hell yeah benihana up in this bitch pic.twitter.com/nWwt471dJO

— phil (@warmfourloko) April 27, 2020

Many xps

People have all sorts of skill sets. There are also some people who absolutely suck at reading social queues or having empathy for people who live fractionally different lives from their own.

I just use a magnifying glass and sunshine for everything.

Takes a while, especially on cloudy days, but I retain my moral integrity. Namaste.

social queues? this is the US thread, not the UK one

xxp

and yet I see you insulting and talking down at people on here on a daily basis

cold dead hands lmao

Yeah, my dad was telling me on Christmas about how they were going to do this, and I was like "ugh, just wait until the fucking foodies hear about it." He was like "come on, Republican foodies can't be a very powerful contingent." I had to break it to him that even among our liberal friends, people who love to cook will shit bricks about gas vs electric stoves.

Hate to see what this thread will do when they ban Foreman grills

Moodles, anyone who has met me IRL can tell you that I am sweet as pie, but that my internet persona is one of an unhinged, condescending asshole. It's true, I own up to it, and I am sorry you were the brunt of it in this conversation. With that, I'm going to pull an LJ and not post on ILE for a while.

Full disclosure, I use a propane water heater because that's the hookup my house came with, but our stove is electric. I've only ever had electric appliances before this and there is a constant lurking dread that one day that shit will malfunction and blow me to smithereens.

how's it going lads

Can I just briefly note how lovely it is that the US politics thread is currently wrapped up in an argument about which kind of stove is superior vs. where the US politics thread is at this point in time in the alternate universe where the midterms went very differently? Like this is maybe the first time in six years that I haven't had full-body anxiety while reading through one of these.

I'm sure you are a very nice person, why not attempt to bring your internet persona closer to that? Here's a suggestion: remind yourself that "the good life" can take many different forms and that people who do things marginally different than you may be ok too.

xxp

Maybe we can resolve any lingering tensions by all agreeing that the HGTV guys who are secretly paid propane pimps are choads.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/climate/climate-propane-influence-campaign.html

Can I just briefly note how lovely it is that the US politics thread is currently wrapped up in an argument about which kind of stove is superior vs. where the US politics thread is at this point in time in the alternate universe where the midterms went very differently? Like this is maybe the first time in six years that I haven't had full-body anxiety while reading through one of these.

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), T

Seconding -- without the anxiety. Nine out of ten times this thread served as antidote.

fwiw imo tabes shouldn't leave, his aestheticist approach is good, i disagree with him on this issue but recognise that for certain types of cooking that i don't really do he might have a point, everyone basically shd chill

that said i am going to continue staying out of politics threads unless they turn into cookery threads which this one has gratifyingly done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ6QViPfmXA

Xpost cosign. Please stick around tabes

You guys are all talking about stovetops when we should be talking about Biden's cache of purloined classified docs. #impeachBiden #notjustTrump #hunterbiden

apparently there's a 2nd batch of papers!

found in a pumpkin iirc

At the risk of extending this stupid argument even further, the road to decarbonization means that we will have to as individuals make some sacrifices or changes to our lifestyle. I’m sure even table understands that.

in 50 years, the average high temp will be 115 degrees, nobody will be able to leave the house without astronaut suits, the unemployment rate will be 45% because AI will do everything, no UBI, and we'll be suffering under the Morgan Wallen administration.

our sacrifice will be dying earlier than planned

Wow y’all. This is hardcore shit.

imo the government should require kitchens in rentals and new construction to have real exhaust hoods over stoves that actually vent to the outdoors

I say this as someone who has an electric stove but managed to set off every smoke detector in the house last week

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie

propane

Don’t tread on Florida, and don’t mess with gas stoves! pic.twitter.com/FNETzpuANe

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 12, 2023

>imo the government should require kitchens in rentals and new construction to have real exhaust hoods over stoves that actually vent to the outdoors

here in Ontario that is the case. upgraded the kitchen in the basement and they had to do this for the new range. and since the vent is in close proximity to the pipes, now the pipes will freeze as soon as it goes below -5 if i don't plug up the outer vent with rags.

sounds exhausting

hood fans are so good allow you to cook very hot without filling your house with smoke this is the way forward let the national healing beginning

in commercial kitchens the hood fans are so powerful it creates a slight breeze whisking away offending onion chopping fumes and so forth that arent even near the stove

gas is king but induction is pretty nice even better in some ways like they come to temp extremely fast but not all pans work on them and you lose the open flame so you cant say roast a tortilla on there, electric is brutal obvs

“National sales tax,” Joe Biden says, sarcastically, of House Republican plans. “Go home and tell your moms. They’re going to be really excited about that. Come on!”

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) January 12, 2023

i had a hood fan in new york that just blew back into the room if you turned it on while cooking it would blow into your face lol par for the course

you know, I never thought of calling them that. I've translated from the Spanish, where it's a cognate ("extractor").

i like that thats nice initiate the extractor por favor

February thread title: “Go home and tell your moms”

I came to drop bombs

I got more stoves than the Bible's got psalms

now we’re cooking with gas!!!!

All Gas No Steaks

would probably be more effective, climate change–wise

A novel about ventilation systems = fan fiction

there are now 5 different GOP freshmen reps from NY calling for Santos to resign, in addition to non-congressmen like the Nassau County GOP, etc

he won't leave until he is forced to, but seems notable

they shd let him stay its funny

it's tough for santos because i'm not sure he can make the leap to newsmax without saying something really funny or stupid during this critical time. we know him a chronic liar, but he needs something extra in order to stand out in a crowded field

xp!!

that's probably his angle -- he knows that the longer he stays, the more chances the funniness has to bloom