Randomisity Redux

[Wally]

blake and kristen are here

it is worth repeating that last night i hung out with blake and kristin

they are awesome.

On a related note, I just spent a few days with Dom, a few hours with Peet the barman (who served us wicked awesome beers of his own choice, garnished with insults) and a few memorable minutes with a not-quite-sober Hugo (who told us some fascinating facts from his biography - it's not every day that you meet a kangaroo that gave birth to itself after being impregnated by Andy Warhol. At least not one who used to play in Pink Floyd, anyway.) I think I managed to set a few things straight in Dom's head about the correct definition of the words "waffle" and "pancake", too, while learning something about the concept of "flapjacks" and discovering the unrestricted edibility of beans and lentils and the relative edibility of spinach myself. So yeah, that was not so bad.

Now I'm home I'm going to use my new found knowledge about pancakes, and put it into practice whilst insulting myself in the style of Peet the barman. I expect the same from you when you express your new found understanding that beans and lentils are edible. And for those of you collecting unsuprising revelations about LPTJers: Alex is wicked awesome.

[Anne the Man]

I think I looked in on the trivia thread recently, but I want a shiny new BOOK that I can keep on my shelf and go "look, friends visiting my house, my internetz forum is so cool someone wrote a BOOK about it, I'm in a BOOK!" and then watch as they leave my house in disgust at my geekness. It'd be great! L0lz.

[Ashley]

it's not the end of the world if I quit my job

[Wally]

Alex, did I leave my toothbrush and toothpaste at your house?

[jebreject]

ashley, yes it is, and dom, yes you did

[Wally]

Thought so.

[diesel_powered]

I think I looked in on the trivia thread recently, but I want a shiny new BOOK that I can keep on my shelf and go "look, friends visiting my house, my internetz forum is so cool someone wrote a BOOK about it, I'm in a BOOK!" and then watch as they leave my house in disgust at my geekness. It'd be great! L0lz.

Good Lord. I hate to think of what would be on my page in the Encyclopædia Jakartica.

[alex]

dom, yes you did

This seems like a good guess. I haven't noticed it myself - not in my room, I'm pretty sure, but perhaps in the bathroom? I can check when I get back, though I have no clue what your (as opposed to my roomates' or one of their boyfriends') toothbrush and paste look like, so I won't be able to tell for certain.

You did leave a lighter and a package of cigarette papers (possibly empty), that much I can tell.

Also, good to see you got back alright, loss of toothbrush notwithstanding. Also, I am eating flapjacks right now, while insulting myself.

[Anne the Man]

I think I looked in on the trivia thread recently, but I want a shiny new BOOK that I can keep on my shelf and go "look, friends visiting my house, my internetz forum is so cool someone wrote a BOOK about it, I'm in a BOOK!" and then watch as they leave my house in disgust at my geekness. It'd be great! L0lz.

Good Lord. I hate to think of what would be on my page in the Encyclopedia Jakartica.

In my dream the one about me was really nice, so yours'd probably be alright. At least you're not Murk, sho'nuff or the Waff.

[jebreject]

Things Dom left at my house after visiting:

rolling papers
three or four packages of various spices
a travel toothbrush
tobacco, everywhere

there's probably more

[difficult]

dom, yes you did

Also, I am eating flapjacks right now, while insulting myself.

I have a great image of you doing this, intermittently pointing your fork at yourself.

It's a little like Taxi Driver.

[edison]

Does one eat flapjacks with a fork though?

[elpollodiablo]

What the hell else are you going to eat em with?

[edison]

your bare fingers?

[coldforge]

Too buttery, possibly syrupy.

[Anne the Man]

Whaat that's the only way to eat them! I was going to make some tonight but it involves too much cleaning/cooking. I am vicariously enjoying your flapjacks through cyberspace.

[edison]

I don't know, the only time I had flapjacks (supermarket ones, so possibly not all that great, they were indeed a bit buttery, but not much more than other stuff I usually eat without forks and knives

[jebreject]

do you people even have/use maple syrup?

[edison]

Yeah. Certainly not half as much as in North America, but I do believe that's fairly easily available. Do flapjacks necessarily involve maple syrup, or what?

[elpollodiablo]

I would not eat a fucking pancake from the supermarket

[edison]

But flapjacks are not pancakes! Hmm, right?

[coldforge]

I have always been a firm proponent of the savory pancake (which in hereparts is roughly synonymous with flapjack). But I know that I am in the minority on that one. So maple syrup can safely be said to be assumed, if not necessary.

[alex]

Hahaha, look, this is turning into another discussion about the correct definition of flapjacks!

I'm on Dom's side (because a) he's the only one of you who ever brought me flapjacks, and b) he is wicked awesome), which means that I deny any kind of relation between flapjacks and pancakes, other than the fact that they both taste great. If anything, I would describe them as a softer and better version of a cereal bar. They are not too buttery or syrupy to be eaten with fingers.

[Anne the Man]

Savoury pancakes are alright, but generally I have them done with spinach/feta-type filling, tomato sauce and cheese on top, and then put in the oven. I dunno about having them the way I would sweet. I prefer lemon and brown sugar to maple syrup mostly. Maybe I should go to the great French crepe place tomorrow. Whaiii is good food so expensive! There's an a-mazing bakery I wanted to go to today but tiny slices only about the size of a cupcake cost about $4, and all the good stuff was around $6-7. $6 for a ficelle, I ASK YOU.

[Wally]

Yeah. Certainly not half as much as in North America, but I do believe that's fairly easily available. Do flapjacks necessarily involve maple syrup, or what?

I use golden syrup or treacle, golden syrup on the ones that alex is eating. And I eat them with my fingers, unless I've covered them in custard.