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Ah, how I've missed having to disagree with you.

And agree with Olantern, pretty much.

Which is funny, because the darker incarnations of Batman have had no issues crippling people if necessary. That said, there is a distinction. Someone killing an attacker in self-defence comes down to them not being able to find a better solution, and it being preferable to the attacker killing the victim. It has to fall under acceptable losses.

But a criminal that has been arrested and 'neutralized'? If Batman had any interest in seeing that happen, he'd testify in court against the three or four of his enemies that aren't legally insane. With the rest actually being legally insane, it's a non-issue unless they move Gotham to Texas.

Not aerodynamic enough.

But you could combine your desire to gold with the desire to whack someone in the head and hit them in the head with a nine iron, hoping to strike hard enough to sever their head and send it flying across the fairway. In fact, I'd love to see a gameshow based around burying annoying people up to their necks, then taking whacks at the exposed heads with golf clubs. Winner is the one who manages to do sever the head of 'their' celebrity with the least strokes. There wouldn't be any prizes, though. Knocking the heads off of people like Paris Hilton or Richard Simmons should be considered a reward in its own right.

Can always smack someone over the head with an iPad that has a news site up. Potentially that might be the most efficient use of one.

Granted, compared to dwarves for example, they look pretty bad, but their combination of solid allround stats and the stuff they can get through Mutations make them out to be a lot of fun in the long run. Essentially, I'd spent the first half of my first games trying to injure or kill as many enemy players as possible (not nice, I know) while non-Dwarf players would try to play around me.

It helps that I prefer defense and runs with regard to American Football and can't stand the Joe Montana style passing game. No matter how much more effective decicated throwers and catchers might be. You'll see how helpful those are when I've broken all their bones.

That would totally explain the many even-tempered, fun and quite informative exchanges I've had with her. Oh wait...

Heh. Best Finn's ever sounded, only time Puck ever came off as Puck in a musical number. Well, the Kiss bit was okay, but Shout it out Loud isn't exactly one of my favourites.

Do you mean with regards to Batman or with regards to Morrisson in general? Cause I'll have you know that the original Marvel Boy mini rocks the ************* Casbah.

I had a long philosophical text typed up here, about how reality is subjective and all the stuff I usually say, but it all comes down to this:


They're in denial about being misogynists.

If you swing that way, sure.

It'd have to be you. You can't even decide on your sexual orientation, gender OR species after all.

Typical woman.

Two things in favour of this post:

I've never been a fan of garlic presses myself. You end up with too much of the oil (which carries most of the taste) in the bloody press rather than in the mash that comes out, IMO. Chopping (with a really sharp knife) is always better. This also goes for ginger (aimed at a friend of mine who isn't here, but likes to run his ginger through a garlic press when cooking).

**** teflon. Cast iron pans are where it's at. I inherited three from my grandmother, and they're the only ones I use anymore. No-stick pans may be handy, but the food just doesn't taste the same and things don't seem to brown as well.

Heh. Do you want to tell your girlfriend yourself, or should I?

But you're not the GOOD lord.

It was a rhetorical question. All of these guys, like most human beings, have in the past demonstrated the ability to be rather... rigid when the right buttons were pushed. While I realize this is all in good fun, I find it hilarious to point out one person's inflexibility of point of view when it's actually as common in that group as it is anywhere else in human society.

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me now, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

Who else is in your club again? Cause if you want to consider having an opinion a negative, you might need to redraft anyway. Not everyone's gifted with the ability to see everything as relative.

The best noodle to go with pasta is one you actually make yourself. I forgot what it was called, but there was a BBC series where a guy (a molecular cook by trade) went looking for the perfect version of dishes, including spaghetti bolognese. Now, one thing they did in that episode was actually look at different kinds of noodles under the microscope. Essentially, premade noodles are over-refined. Homemade ones actually come out with a microscopically rough surface that allows sauces to cling to it.

Shop around online for how to make various styles of pasta, I can't be arsed to give a rundown beyond telling you that you need wheat, semolina, an egg or two, salt (YES, SALT) and ideally a teensy bit of olive oil. Heap semolina into a bowl or onto a clean wooden board (I prefer the latter), make a dent in the middle, put the semolina into that dent, make a dent in the semolina then and break the egg into it and also add the olive oil. Slowly work the flour and semolina into the liquid contents, bit by bit. Keep kneading for about 15-20 minutes. Roll out and form into pasta of your choosing.

If you don't think you can handle anything fancy, get yourself a noodle maker to cut strands of dough into tagliatelle.

Once you've done the above a couple times, it'll come easy to you, and then you can really experiment. I like adding a paste of even parts pulped tomato and paprika to the dough. Tomato is how Italians make the red pasta anyway, so it's semi-legal. Green pasta uses spinach, and black pasta for when your Goth friends drop by is made using sepia in the dough.


As an added bonus, fresh pasta really only needs to see boiling water to be done. Unless you want to go for anything but al dente, which I wouldn't recommend cause it's grounds for pubic fogging.


I don't know about healthy, but if you use any dried noodles, I'd definitely go for these. Integrali as the Italians call them at least have a bit of taste to them, and a firmer consistency.


KHAAAAAAN!

*ahem*

No, no, and again no. The basic sauce bolognese or what-have you is not hard. You need onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes, wine and either ground beef or the right sausages (my favourite one is essentially the Italian version of a rough ground bratwurst, caraway and all, but there are many alternatives). Chop the vegetables into tiny bits, peel the tomatoes. Warm up a pan, put in some olive oil, throw in the vegetables for a minute or three before adding the meat. When the meat is to your liking, add the tomatoes and watch them melt. Mind you, there are a dozen variations on this recipe, but it's hardly rocket science.

While I generally prefer mine al'arrabiata, I can't stand not having meat in it and am thusly being a heathen about it.
Parmesan cheese. Is this always a given? I assumed so.


Not big on the Parmigiano with my tomato sauce, personally. It tastes like granny feet. If at all, I tend to use Grana Padano, even if it's considered the lesser of the two, as it doesn't taste offensive to me.