The Whine thread.

[aadarshinah]

on ff.net, maybe, but facebook is a gem for data mining. You notice how, with the latest google upgrade, not only does it guess what you're looking for by spelling, as it did before, but by subject matter similar to what you searched before. Amazon knows the type of products you like to by even before you log in. It's not just SEO - search engine optimization - it's specalized retailing to a degree that wasn't imaginable at the start of the internet bubble. Facebook ads aren't just entirely random. Advertisors spend too much searching what people in my socio-economic age group like, and have tonnes of ways now to figure that out, a lot better than the old fashioned Q&A sheets.

Which should make me sad, 'cause that probably means a lot of people in my socio-economic group need rehab clinics. And not just in my socio-economic group... but the people I'm friended to must click on these links on their own pages, or else the ads would have disappeared already from pages like mine...

This is what I get for friending people I knew in high school.

[Silverbullet]

Ah, back to stale Bread. I believe it is spelled Mouldy rather than Moldy. At least that was the way I learned it. Might have changed since then.

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[Yashida]

About the bread, why don't you invest in a good bread-baking machine?

It's not difficult to use: you basically just put in the required ingredients, choose your program and press start.

I have one and now bake my bread myself. If you calculate it, it's really worth it: a bread here is about 2 € in the shops or at the bakery, when taking in account the flower, use of electricity, other ingredients and such, baking my own bread costs me about 0,75 € per loaf.

So it's cheaper, plus even without any conservants and such I can keep it up to 5 days (though it usually only lasts us no more than 3 days before we've eaten it all) and I just keep it wrapped in a clean kitchen towel on the bread board or in a paper bag.
Another advantage is that you have these different baking forms, so you can either make a large bread, a small one or a mini one, all according to your needs.

[Alelou]

If you want a bread-making machine, try asking for one at freecycle.org first. People are always deciding they're not using theirs anymore. At the thrift shop they used to come in regularly.

Heck, if you lived nearby I'd give you mine. I just don't use it anymore. I prefer the five-minutes-a-day method, although personally I suspect the electricity required costs more than any money I'm saving on bread.

[enterprikayak]

My boss just gave me hers as our 11 year old oster just died and she never uses hers.

[WarpGirl]

My mom has a machine, I can't lift it. Guys girl in a wheelchair here, I'm not a strong girl. I can't even lift my neice. But thanks for the advice. SB I can't spell. I can't I accept it.

[Silverbullet]

Wg, didn't mean you but our Alelou. SHE CAN spell

[WarpGirl]

[aadarshinah]

Play the invalid card and get people to make you bread. Aren't people like supposed to trip over themselves to help in these types of situations?

[Alelou]

SB, mould is a chiefly British spelling of mold.

[aadarshinah]

but it is ten times cooler. Like colour, centre, and theatre.

[WarpGirl]

Play the invalid card and get people to make you bread. Aren't people like supposed to trip over themselves to help in these types of situations?

OK the "invalid card" only gets played when people who actually fall for such a pathetic stunt to begin with are being mean as well as annoying and stupid. So no, I rarely play the "invalid card" with my family. And it wouldn't solve the problem of the bread going bad before I use it all.

It occurs to me that I might sound too harsh. But you see for a person in my situation it's very difficult to deal with having the "invalid card" most people like me wish they didn't have it. And when "normal people" say oh just use the disabled thing it makes us a little annoyed. It's like saying use the: race, gender, age, religion... thing! Are there times when you have to use things like that to your advantage? Sure. But it's not something to just toss out there.

[aadarshinah]

I didn't intend for the comment to be taken the wrong way. I meant for it to be taken in the same way I take my brother's "do you mind making me popcorn, I don't want to disturb the cat, she's asleep" card, by which I mean....

Well, I don't kow how to discribe it. A way to lure the unspecting into making bread when you're having a real bad day, or such. idk. just not in a mean way.

[WarpGirl]

I know, really I do. It's just... Unless you're a member of the "club" it's hard for people to understand the outlook on life you develop when you have never known anything but your disability. The truth is you don't "feel different." You know you are, but you don't understand how it works for other people anymore than they understand you. So for me and many disabled people it isn't a card you play it's your life, your self.

That said, yes I have played it before. But usually to people who tell me I'm not "disabled." Because they're idiots.

[aadarshinah]

Well, there are all sorts of other cards that can be played. Comfy cats, for instance, and the amazingly long distance to the store. If you try, anything is possible.

Honestly, though, either freeze the bread (which I personally hate, 'cause I think it makes the bread taste funny), see if it's possible to by smaller loaves, or give away excess bread to neighbours/people who stop by/birds before it goes bad, so at least someone gets some use out of it.

And now my brother's watching gladiator. Loud. Too many historical inacuracies to forgive him, no matter how comfortable the cat is spralled out on him while he's watching it. yelling must now ensue.