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Yarosara Ruil
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.11.05 00:27:50 -
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Ibrahim Tash-Murkon wrote:I am beginning to suspect that this thread has nothing to do with weather at all.
I know right? Here I am, trying my hardest not to bite my tongue and trigger everyone into an hissy-fit, and what do they do?
They don't even talk about the weather. Typical.
I'll have you know that the weather in Black Rise is very pleasant during my planetside trips. |
Jade Blackwind
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
673
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Posted - 2015.11.05 00:46:30 -
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Ibrahim Tash-Murkon wrote:I am beginning to suspect that this thread has nothing to do with weather at all. In space, weather is other people.
Like:
"On Tuesday: FW roaming gangs in groups of 3 to 10. Some Goonswarm in the north and east, but mostly fair to the south. Slightly Marmitey around trade hub gates. On Wednesday: heavy CODE. precipitation, be careful while driving." |
Claudia Osyn
Minmatar Confederate Ushra'Khan
1563
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Posted - 2015.11.05 00:46:31 -
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The leafy bits of the plants are falling off where I'm at. Perfect time to make leaf skirts and dance around fires....
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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Claudia Osyn
Minmatar Confederate Ushra'Khan
1563
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Posted - 2015.11.05 00:47:23 -
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*Double post disregard*
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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Neph
Operation Meatshield Plexodus
176
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Posted - 2015.11.05 00:50:07 -
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Okay, so what is weather actually like? I've basically lived my whole life on stations and ships--I mean, I watch holoreels, I've vacationed planetside, I've been in rain and sun and snow, and I did spend a semester on Pator during my concentration although I was hardly outside. What is it like when there's clouds outside your window all week? When it's been snowing for months? How strong can storms get? What do animals do in weather? What does thunder really feel like? I've revered the Winds all my life but I've never known what Caldari wind is like. Does weather feel spiritual? Does the character of the air change? Does it smell?
Our peoples have stared extinction in the eye; but we have spat in that eye and stood to fight with valor and undying loyalty to our culture and our kin. Our struggle is as one, so let us struggle together.
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Deitra Vess
Hounds of War. Hashashin Cartel
727
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Posted - 2015.11.05 01:03:48 -
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Claudia Osyn wrote:The leafy bits of the plants are falling off where I'm at. Perfect time to make leaf skirts and dance around fires.... But are they the right kind of leaves?
Neph wrote:Okay, so what is weather actually like? I've basically lived my whole life on stations and ships--I mean, I watch holoreels, I've vacationed planetside, I've been in rain and sun and snow, and I did spend a semester on Pator during my concentration although I was hardly outside. What is it like when there's clouds outside your window all week? When it's been snowing for months? How strong can storms get? What do animals do in weather? What does thunder really feel like? I've revered the Winds all my life but I've never known what Caldari wind is like. Does weather feel spiritual? Does the character of the air change? Does it smell? You would have to experience it for yourself, it IS amazing though. Especially the rain. The station biodomes don't do it justice... The feeling of sunlight is great too.
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
832
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Posted - 2015.11.05 01:30:04 -
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When I titled the thread as 'Talk about the weather', I was using it as an euphemism for small/empty/nonsense talk, as in talks about things nobody else actually cares about.
No, I don't think the Federation popular misconception about 'skirts of dried leaves' is serious enough to warrant a serious discussion about its implication. Yes, it's serious(ly annoying) enough to warrant a bowl of soup to the face.
The missus won't stop teasing me about the ridiculous skirts but that's a story for another time. (It ends with the leaves being burnt and us roasting potatoes over the fire, if anyone wonders)
Speaking about actual weather...I only have vivid memories of six kinds of weathers: the intense dust storms of my childhood, literal firestorms, literal rains of fire and brimstone, hurricanes strong enough to shift entire outposts along the equator and plasma storms.
That last one actually cost me a clone.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1572
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Posted - 2015.11.05 08:11:33 -
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Claudia Osyn wrote:The leafy bits of the plants are falling off where I'm at. Perfect time to make leaf skirts and dance around fires....
Sure, until they fall off the skirts. Skip the skirts and just dance. |
Leopold Caine
Stillwater Corporation
617
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Posted - 2015.11.05 08:23:42 -
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At least this hasn't devolved into one of those culinary threads by now.
Albeit, I suppose it's sane to expect a recipe for escargots au vin blanc by page four.
- Leopold Caine, Domination Malakim
Angels are never far...
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
833
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Posted - 2015.11.05 08:29:15 -
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Leopold Caine wrote:At least this hasn't devolved into one of those culinary threads by now.
Albeit, I suppose it's sane to expect a recipe for escargots au vin blanc by page four.
Please don't give anyone any ideas about the darn snails.
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Skyweir Kinnison
Coreli Corporation Mercenary Coalition
121
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Posted - 2015.11.05 09:32:49 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote: (Apologies for the delay, Mr. Kinnison.)
Not a problem, captain. Just let me know when your schedule permits. I'm on a business trip at present, and my sister tells me that the Frenzy is getting into its early days with somewhat of a bang - a metre of snow in one night fell on Coldhammer a week ago and was then blown up into great rolling drifts at the foot of the mountains. It'll be gone again in a week.
Neph wrote: Okay, so what is weather actually like? I've basically lived my whole life on stations and ships--I mean, I watch holoreels, I've vacationed planetside, I've been in rain and sun and snow, and I did spend a semester on Pator during my concentration although I was hardly outside. What is it like when there's clouds outside your window all week? When it's been snowing for months? How strong can storms get? What do animals do in weather? What does thunder really feel like? I've revered the Winds all my life but I've never walked the Kaalakiota peaks or felt the arctic air moving in. Does weather feel spiritual? Does the character of the air change? Does it smell?
I grew up in extreme weather. Octanneve V has a long orbit (just over 14 earth standard years) and the seasons are immense in grandeur and scale. We're just entering what many planets call the autumn, rendering or fall. We call it the Frenzy, because the thirty odd months it lasts are characterised by astonishing winds, rapid changes of temperature and booming thunderstorms, often with crushing hail and sheet lightning. One day can be brilliant cool sunshine with skies clearer than it's possible to imagine. The next, hell opens up it's maw and threatens to overwhelm you. It's completely exhilarating and I can recommend a visit if you want to see real weather.
Of course, this means the harvest really needs to be in by the onset, so the last months of summer are tiresomely hard work. Thus the Frenzy is traditionally a time for relaxation and family, especially for our Minmatar employees, and we hold a long series of festivals. Hammerfest is our continent-wide celebration centred on Coldhammer, but most villages have their own rituals from home. Serenity (the long season most call winter) is when the work of the Estates turns to fishing and sea-craft as it's much too cold for agriculture (most of the plains are under snow) and the produce of summer is bottled or preserved and readied for export. As the name suggests, its a very quiet, peaceful time of blue ice and profound silence, as the weather settles into a temperature equilibrium.
To those born and raised there, weather seems very spiritual. The Minmatar understand it so much better, and it is a wonderment to listen to their tales of the spirits and legends, especially warm and safe in the pungent dark, the faces of friends lit only by a family hearth fire, with the outside walls being rattled by the raging winds and the echoing cannon-fire of thunder among the black, looming peaks.
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Claudia Osyn
Minmatar Confederate Ushra'Khan
1569
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Posted - 2015.11.05 19:01:43 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Leopold Caine wrote:At least this hasn't devolved into one of those culinary threads by now.
Albeit, I suppose it's sane to expect a recipe for escargots au vin blanc by page four. Please don't give anyone any ideas about the darn snails.
ESCARGOTS +Ç LA BOURGUIGNONNE
YIELD: Makes 4 first-course servings ACTIVE TIME:25 min TOTAL TIME:30 min
INGREDIENTS 1 small garlic clove 3/8 teaspoon table salt 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 teaspoons finely minced shallot 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dry white wine 12 to 16 snails* (from a 7- to 8-oz can) About 2 cups kosher salt (for stabilizing snail shells) Special equipment: 12 to 16 sterilized escargot shells
*Accompaniment: Gallente bread
PREPARATION: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450-¦F.Using a heavy knife, mince and mash garlic to a paste with 1/8 teaspoon table salt.Beat together butter, shallot, garlic paste, parsley, remaining 1/4 teaspoon table salt, and pepper in a small bowl with an electric mixer until combined well. Beat in wine until combined well.Divide half of garlic butter among snail shells. Stuff 1 snail into each shell and top snails with remaining butter. Spread kosher salt in a shallow baking dish and nestle shells, butter sides up, in salt.Bake snails until butter is melted and sizzling, 4 to 6 minutes. Serve immediately.
Cooks' notes:
-+ The escargots can be prepared, but not baked, up to 30 minutes ahead and kept at room temperature until ready to bake. -+ If you don't have an escargot serving dish, serve the snails on a bed of kosher salt (to stabilize shells) on a platter.
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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Neph
Operation Meatshield Plexodus
179
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Posted - 2015.11.05 19:09:21 -
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Maybe my palate is limited by my dependence on soju and surplus Navy rations, but I can't fathom how an entire race convinced themselves that snails are anything but desperation food.
Our peoples have stared extinction in the eye; but we have spat in that eye and stood to fight with valor and undying loyalty to our culture and our kin. Our struggle is as one, so let us struggle together.
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Claudia Osyn
Minmatar Confederate Ushra'Khan
1569
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Posted - 2015.11.05 19:15:35 -
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Neph wrote:Maybe my palate is limited by my dependence on soju and surplus Navy rations, but I can't fathom how an entire race convinced themselves that snails are anything but desperation food. We perpetuate the myth that snails are a delicious food so we can watch the tourists snack on them. Most of us don't actually eat the things...... that's just gross.
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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Skyweir Kinnison
Coreli Corporation Mercenary Coalition
121
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Posted - 2015.11.05 20:21:33 -
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Claudia Osyn wrote:Neph wrote:Maybe my palate is limited by my dependence on soju and surplus Navy rations, but I can't fathom how an entire race convinced themselves that snails are anything but desperation food. We perpetuate the myth that snails are a delicious food so we can watch the tourists snack on them. Most of us don't actually eat the things...... that's just gross.
Nonsense. They are delicious and we eat vast quantities of them.
The amusement derived from tourists is largely from watching them try to use snail tongs and taking bets on how far the unfortunate snail will get accidentally pinged.
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Pieter Tuulinen
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Multicultural F1 Brigade
5754
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Posted - 2015.11.05 21:07:58 -
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I ate snails when I was at University on Caille during my recent leave of absence. They came in a little covered dish, soaked in garlic butter, along with a dazzling array of implements.
My fellow students watched me raptly as I considered the dish, finally electing to crush the shell on a sideplate and extract the mollusc before dipping it in garlic butter and consuming it whole. Apparently I fulfilled some sort of ethnic stereotype by choosing that solution.
Incidentally, I'm not at all sure that snails DO taste nice. I think the garlic butter and herbs taste nice. I once won a bet by claiming I could eat five pages of a quarterly report if they were soaked in sufficient garlic butter.
"Caldari Prime burns, those left behind are choking on the dust and ash that fills the air, and you demand our surrender? Is this a joke? You have only hardened our resolve. Every drop of blood you have taken from us will be repaid -- with interest."
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Yarosara Ruil
Caldari State
52
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Posted - 2015.11.05 22:00:05 -
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Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. |
Deitra Vess
Khushakor Clan Matari Safari
727
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Posted - 2015.11.05 22:15:11 -
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Yarosara Ruil wrote:Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something?
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Yarosara Ruil
Caldari State
54
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Posted - 2015.11.05 22:46:00 -
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Deitra Vess wrote:Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something?
Finding mutual common grounds of understanding, even between mortal enemies, is only natural. I'm not so blinded by rage to ignore this fact, and neither should you.
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Deitra Vess
Khushakor Clan Matari Safari
727
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Posted - 2015.11.05 22:58:00 -
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Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Finding mutual common grounds of understanding, even between mortal enemies, is only natural. I'm not so blinded by rage to ignore this fact, and neither should you.
That's true, I will just correct you a little though. You aren't my mortal enemy nor is Kim. As I have said in the past I could care less about your fight or fighting you. If I do its for money to pay for my actual fight or because I don't like you. Surprisingly you don't see me in either of your areas of operations, do you? I know where they are of course. But I haven't really any reason to bother. |
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
838
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Posted - 2015.11.06 03:44:17 -
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I was told to suck on the snails.
I responded by slowly pushing the snails away from me with a fork.
Claudia, I do not use ounces or inches or any of the 'Imperial Units'. Please convert to grams.
Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~ EVERGREEN ~ Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~Evergreen ~ Family
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Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1780
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:05:58 -
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Deitra Vess wrote:Yarosara Ruil wrote:Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something? But ... they're good ...
. . . .
(They taste a little like mushrooms.) |
Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
838
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:15:33 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Deitra Vess wrote:Yarosara Ruil wrote:Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something? But ... they're good ... . . . . (They taste a little like mushrooms.)
No comment.
Still won't put it in my mouth.
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Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1780
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:32:25 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Aria Jenneth wrote:Deitra Vess wrote:Yarosara Ruil wrote:Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something? But ... they're good ... . . . . (They taste a little like mushrooms.) Doesn't suit my palate. Still won't put it in my mouth. If you won't put it in your mouth, how can you know?
They're not even very hard to get out of the shell. Cooking sort of loosens and shrinks the coiled bit that's back in the shell, so all you really have to do is get a hold of the foot and pull it right out the front. It comes out easy.
(I'm not even sure I was doing it right, but it worked okay.) |
Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
839
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:40:24 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Aria Jenneth wrote:Deitra Vess wrote:Yarosara Ruil wrote:Only a savage would eat a mollusc as slimey and disgusting as a snail on purpose, specially when better food sources available. Then again, Gallente culinary has always been strange and alien to more practical minds.
It is absolutely revolting. Is it sad I'm a little concerned because I agree with you on something? But ... they're good ... . . . . (They taste a little like mushrooms.) Doesn't suit my palate. Still won't put it in my mouth. If you won't put it in your mouth, how can you know? They're not even very hard to get out of the shell. Cooking sort of loosens and shrinks the coiled bit that's back in the shell, so all you really have to do is get a hold of the foot and pull it right out the front. It comes out easy. (I'm not even sure I was doing it right, but it worked okay.)
I tasted it once. The texture is revolting. I won't put it in my mouth again.
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Deitra Vess
Khushakor Clan Matari Safari
727
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:48:04 -
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I'm not a huge fan of mushrooms, and the thought of it is just......ugh ... |
Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
839
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Posted - 2015.11.06 04:52:03 -
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Once someone tried to feed me a burger.
With snails in it.
Very well-hidden snails.
We aren't friends anymore.
Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~ EVERGREEN ~ Evergreen ~ Evergreen ~Evergreen ~ Family
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Deitra Vess
Khushakor Clan Matari Safari
727
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Posted - 2015.11.06 05:04:15 -
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Noooo! Why the f***..... Just NOO! EEWWW!!!!! |
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1780
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Posted - 2015.11.06 05:09:20 -
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... I guess I don't have all that much to say to visceral revulsion.
Maybe it's better to stick with:
* slices of dead animal
* microorganism byproducts, liquid or solid
* ground, otherwise undesired bits of dead animal in a sheath of intestine
* poultry ovulations
* cow lactation
* rotted cow lactation, liquid, solid, or semisolid
* water that something has drunk before at least once
... as those are all much more normal and not disturbing at all.
Edit:
Concentrated microorganism byproducts often go really well on shredded vegetable matter. With a little oil. |
Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
839
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Posted - 2015.11.06 05:42:29 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:... I guess I don't have all that much to say to visceral revulsion.
Maybe it's better to stick with:
* slices of dead animal
* microorganism byproducts, liquid or solid
* ground, otherwise undesired bits of dead animal in a sheath of intestine
* poultry ovulations
* cow lactation
* rotted cow lactation, liquid, solid, or semisolid
* water that something has drunk before at least once
... as those are all much more normal and not disturbing at all.
Edit:
Concentrated microorganism byproducts often go really well on shredded vegetable matter. With a little oil.
Further edit:
My home region's kind of deeply into pickling things, sometimes with ground-up sea creatures as an ingredient....
I reserve the right to voraciously devour rotted cow lactation and yet refuse to consume a bowl of snails.
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