Posts made by Zipperface

Way back when I worked at an upscale Italian place, I was taught how make a white seafood lasagne that was done as a special. I was very proud to learn this one. The pasta was made in-house as was the Mornay sauce, a Béchamel sauce with Gruyère cheese added. The seafood was fresh (never frozen!) shrimp and scallops. Lots of fresh spinach to round it out and give it some color. Grated cheeses, of course. The result was sinfully rich. I tried this at home once and it worked just fine, but even so, damned expensive to do and rather labor intensive ;D Now tortellinis I won't do. Annoying things. You have to make at least 100 of them just to get 10 orders. I'd rather peal garlic. Which I also had to do as this place didn't believe in that pre-pealed shit. It was serious about its food. This is where I figured out why high end restaurants cost so much. The man-hours alone that went into allowing this place to be open for four and a half hours (five and a half on weekends) was phenomenal. To the guy who likes making sausage; well, I had to do that also. It's kinda gross. Also, when I was first set up to stuff the casings, my eventual reaction was, "Just how the fuck long ARE pig intestines???" Uh, natural casings, ya know

How ugly. What's he going for? The Nazi version of the Illustrated Man?

Reminds me of an old lyric: "It ain't the meat, it's the motion…." which most people associate with Maria Muldaur. It was actually written in 1951 and recorded by, erm, The Swallows   :laugh:

I might kinda have you beat. When I was in college, oh, yea back when, I roomed with my best friend and yet somehow managed to stalk him at the same time. Needless to say, it got kinda ugly. I wasn't exactly out at that point.

Ya know, in a weird way, reactivating my poor abandoned downloads is kinda fun. Then again, I really like updating everything on my computer, which can take up to hours, so….Oooh look! Buckleroos 2 is back! gotta go! :cheers:

To MrMazda: Thank you for your eminently reasonable advice. I actually had some hope there for a bit  But 'twas not to be. I kinda figured not simply because I have multiple machines. One runs windows 10 (a nice little XPS 13) and another is an older HP that I've got running 32-bit Mint. The drive didn't show up on any of them. (All my machines are gifts) This one is the one I like the most. It is a Dell Dimension E521 that probably started life out as an XP machine. I got it when it was running Vista and then, er (cough) somehow got it to run 7 Ultimate (cough, cough). It's done well, but I think it is probably slowly dieing. Still, your advice was worth pursuing, if nothing else, for me to explore a part of Windows that I had not considered. I LOATHE Windows! But you know, the main reason I haven't quite made the switch to Linux yet is that I can hack Windows to give me a right-click menu of copy/move TO FOLDER. I NEED this option!! It is how I organize my porn I would buy a new desktop (and I WAY prefer desktops; I can't fucking STAND track pads. They hate me. So do smart phones.) but I really, really need new glasses and I have a molar that is dieing also and, well, first things first. At any rate, thank you very, very much for your consideration. It was useful as an education if not as an actual fix. With any luck, you might have pointed out help to someone else  :cheers:

Oh, and as to a virus or a hacker, I tend to doubt this. The very first thing I did when I got my machine back was run an Avast scan and a Malwarebytes Antimalware scan and I have the pro version of the latter. Nothing. Hackers aren't going to mess with my machine just to fucking mess with it. That's so 1990's. I truly think that the machine just hiccuped in a spectacular fashion. I kinda saw it do something very weird for a split second at one point and at any rate, the machine is getting quite old. It is just that I've never seen a machine do anything this bizarre before and I've been taking apart and putting together the damn things since Windows 3.1 Just wondered if anyone had run across this type of oddity.

As to the gmail account, that just mystifies me. I go through all the right motions to recover the damn thing when at the end google tells me the account doesn't exist. It is just weird. Mind, I have so many other accounts from the time of google groups that I've lost count. so there's that.
Otherwise, I've found a nifty way to restart/replace my missing downloads. I don't quite need to do a full redownloads, I just need to redirect qBittorrent to a new spot which can easily be done with a right click. Who knew This will still take a long time, but it will be easier than I thought. Am going to have to get rid of my pics backup probably, but then I am looking to get another backup drive very soon.

While I find jockstraps immensely hot, I find singlets on wrestlers at least as hot. If not more so. Still, used to have a pic of Colt McCoy waiting for a snap and you could see the straps of his jock through his football pants. Drool.

The really stupid thing about this, is backing up stuff was what I bought the damn drive for.

Sad! Yep, we got our own insane person now.

If I just want to get drunk, a cheap red plonk will do it for me. 'Rumpole of the Bailey' taught me the fine word 'plonk'. Tho, he usually calls his reds 'clarets'. But, I find I truly prefer a fine beer, which I am much more likely to find comparatively affordable. A triple sour bock–devine. A double chocolate stout--heaven. IPA's from just about any source that has a clue--yummy. But, dear God, don't go ruining these things by making them too cold! Sure, by all means, nearly freeze yr fucking Bud, because that shit is so wretched, you need the cold to hide how horrible it is. I actually discovered this by accident in High School. It's a carbonated alcohol delivery system that is awful when not near freezing. It ain't exactly beer. Mind, America makes some of the finest beer in the world. Go find an Arrogant Bastard, one of the best beers in the world. Top 20. It's not even that expensive. You'll thank me, eventually And, no, I actually live in Austin where we know beer. Like Seattle. Denver..... Any number of places in this country where you can find excellent brew. Try 'em  :cheers:

excellent collection 

No idea where to put this, but here's the deal. I've an oldish machine and recently it sort of hiccuped, burped, farted, shat and pissed itself. All at once. It's amazing that the thing still works. I had to do a restore, but it fried not only my newish Logitech Ball mouse and caused my main gmail account to disappear (nope, no recovery seems possible), it fried my new 2 TB drive. No machine will recognize its presence now. And I realize that this all sounds unlikely, but there ya go. I've seen computer weirdness in my time, but this is brand new. At any rate, I had a LOT of torrent's almost all of them seeding on that now dead drive and I'm trying to figure out what to do about all these dead torrents. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, BTW, I have LOTS of other external drives that were not affected and yes, they were attached at the time. So was another mouse (I have multiple old machines that I play with) and it still works. The only thing I've figured out to to is to copy the now dead torrents from qBittorrent and try to recreate them on my newest external. In all, it is a mess. Not exactly expecting help, but it would be nice if someone had a clue about this weirdness.

Discipline4boys was not just one flick, it was a whole site. A number of vids from there. But, as best I can figure, even tho it seems to have come from Eastern Europe, they just simply went to far at some point and the authorities just shut it down. This stuff wasn't play. Still, a number of those vids are available here.

Hum, Belgium sounds like a good idea right about now. I live in Texas and we practically invented the concept of bad government. Yet even we did not anticipate just how bad it could get. And we even elected W. as governor. Welcome to the forums  :cheers:

Er 18. I was 26. The main problem being that I would come almost at his touch. It was a wee bit embarrassing.

I once had to watch some bi porn because it was all that was available at the store. At least there were 2 guys and one of them was Jeff Stryker, so this helped a lot :cheers:

This is tough. I'd say 'The Fly', the Cronenberg  version. This was the first film I saw with THX. It left me in a puddle of sweat. Then again, there's 'The Devil's Rejects'. Uh, this sucker is nasty. "I am the Devil!"

Hello, newbie. Me, I just found Cabaret on freeleach and am finding it difficult to watch. It hurts in so many odd ways now. The songs are beyond awesome, but the movie itself induces more pains than it used to.