Judging from the bulk of the comments to my last post, it would appear that I have hit upon the brand new toilet paper roll debate of our times.

Let your voice be heard: which way do you peel a carrot?

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Shamefully, I was well into my thirties before I realised that you're supposed to move a vegetable peeler back and forth over a carrot, not straight down over and over. Because it's, you know, sharpened on both sides ( Read more... )

Spotted, less than an hour ago, in the below-freezing snowy Portland afternoon:

A guy wearing bike shorts, jacket and a helmet. Hauling ass down Couch Street. On a unicycle.

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Potenitally spottable on Sixth Street: one very surprised Q following his progress from the upper back of the 105 bus

So, remember yesterday, when I threw a tantrum over not being able to buy a reasonably-priced netbook and a used copy of The Water Babies dvdI went back to the dvd shop today just in case, and THERE THE WANKING THING WAS right back on the shelf ( Read more... )

Huh. I appear to have made, without my knowledge or contrivance, a post with absolutely no content whatsoever. I didn't think LJ would let you do that...I must have hit a button somewhere or something ( Read more... )

I am probably the last person on the planet to discover that if you ask, fast food restaurants will give you your french fries WITHOUT the metric fuckton of salt they usually bury the poor things in ( Read more... )

just saw a friend's yoda-related post on my f'list, and while i was trying (badly) to formulate a comment in yoda's famous back-asswards speech pattern, something hit me...

yoda-speak is really just a parsing of yorkshire phrasing, with the repeated fragment that bookends certain sentences removed from the sentence's beginning:

EXHIBIT A: ( Read more... )