tanarill | The Question Game

Depends on the castle. There are some really nice ones with, yanno, floors and such. Then there are the ruined ones with no floors.

Fantasy castles are dumb, real still-livable castles are great, the ruined castles are nice because of their history, it's like the crumbled lava flats in the mojave desert. They remind you of stuffs gone by, stuffs that only the land remembers.

All the hotsprings over here either close off because the waters are "dangerous" or charge a buttload for even looking at the water. Do you know where I can get a mudbath without paying $500?

Israel. Dead sea mud is free. The problem is the cost associated with getting there . . .

Sorry, not helpful.

Which is worse, ignorance or apathy?

Hmm. Intriguing idea but Dead Sea mud does involve the getting-there expense. That and Dead Sea mud isn't hot spring mud. Volcano mud! Best mudbaths there are. I refuse to live in a siesmologically active region and not take advantage of it.

Apathy is worse. Ignorance can be cured with knowledge. In apathy the knowledge has already been acquired and the conscious decision to ignore it was made.

Why is it metallic brake pads went out of production? Now there's just organic, semi-organic, and ceramic. Ceramic is great, has saved my life more than once but organic brake pads lead to referring to mountinous regions as "the land of your brakes are on fire".

I . . . don't actually know. I can ask Tracie the Brake Lady tomorrow. I'm sure she will know, she's been doing this job longer than I have been alive. Off the top of my head, I'm going to guess "cost."

Why is it that when I tried to DDR today I got dizzy fast and remained dizzy through my entire shower?

Maybe you started DDRing too fast. Or you didn't have enough water or sugar in your system. Or it was stupid hot outside. Any number of reasons works.

If you had to pick... spicy or sweet?

I'm going with low sugar. Seeing as my total consumption for the past twenty-four hours at that point had been a handful of blueberries.

Spicy. Don't get me wrong, I like sweet, but sweet gets boring after a while, whereas there are dozens of different spicies. Thai spicy and Indian spicy and BBQ spicy and Mexican spicy, just to start.

How rare should Beef be?

Yeah, that would do it.

Beef's "correct" temperature depends on who you ask. 160F to kill E. coli. 140F to kill evil food poisoning. Realistically, 135F is a good "rare" temp, 140F for med-rare, 145F for medium, 150F for well done. 180F for stew meat. 140-150F is a good all-purpose temp for things like stir fry or pasta sauce or stuffs. But technically if you have the garlic for it you could just eat beef raw. It's called steak tartare.

Personally, when going for rare I check for feel and blood flow more than temp. when the blood flows a certain way and it has the right give it's good.

How rare do you like beef to be?

Still mooing, unless it's chaulnt or briscit.

How about you?

Eh, depends on the cut. I like my steaks just warmed on the inside, cooked just enough to get a great Maillard going on the surface. Hamburgers I like in the med-rare area but ground beef for other purposes I prefer in the 140-150F range. I really despise beef cooked to above 150F because up there it loses all moisture and gets all tough and kinda tasteless and pointless.

What about chicken? Grilled, fried, baked, broiled, braised, or souped?

What a question to ask a Jew. Souped, of course. As in "chicken soup and matzah balls." My mother also does very good rice crispy chicken, though that tends to be a bit dry. Poultry often is, though.

Which animal would you absolutely never eat, no matter how much you were paid?

Eh, poultry is less dry if you know what you're doing. It needs just a little bit of the fat left on it which then melts into things and keeps it not-dry. Like turkey. Basting sucks but if you shove about a stick of butter up under the skin on the breast you can keep almost the entire bird from being dry.

Tarantula, I think. Just because I can't stand picking them up. Other than that if it won't kill me I'll usually eat it.

This is a weird and blasphemous question. Is longpork kosher?

It's okay, I'm not a Black Hatter. No, longpork is not Kosher.

Out of curiosity, why did you want to know?

Morbid curiosity. With extra morbid, I guess. No real reason.

Why is it there are no good movies anymore?

It's your taste in movies. I like happy fluffy funny ones, and the market produces things like shrek and Stardust for me. Whereas you probably like The Ring and the original Creature from the Black Lagoon, and I don't think the market makes bad B-movies anymore . . .

What kind of movies do you like?

In general I like intelligently done movies. For instance I liked Shrek but felt Shrek 3 tried too hard. I am fond of the old movies like the original The Blob, Bela Lugosi's work, and the original Creature from the Black Lagoon. I prefer my movie to have a story in it or at least some history behind it but in addition it also has to be well made.

Which in this day and age usually means WWII movies, well-made historicals, and modern-day Chinese and Thai films. Japanese film is a whole nother animal and one that I tend to not like as much if only for the sheer amount of anime influence in it.

...but then sometimes you're just in the mood to watch Bruce Willis blow up a helicoptor using a car.

And hey, the market makes bad B movies all the time. Peter Jackson was the New Zealand king of bad B movies before LOTR. And the Baldwins come out with new movies every month, all of them low budget bad B movies.

Have you ever seen a Chinese soap opera?

See, I have learned a Thing.

Does Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon count as a Chinese soap?

(Hah! Answered the question with a question!)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a mediocre Chinese film. Its main redeeming quality in the eyes of the masses is the awesome stunts. Feh, if I wanted awesome stunts I'd pick up any Thai film there is.

So you've never seen a real Chinese soap opera?

Not that I know of, then, no.

Why is it important?

No, not really important. Just that after seeing one and going "wow, cool!" you find american film kinda lacking.

Why does boredom remove the ideas necessary to combat boredom?

I don't know, but it's not a new problem. St. Augustine in the fifth century wrote and entire rant on the problem.

Do the Chinese have Sitcoms?

They probably do. I just don't watch them.

So how long do you think this question game will go on? Neither of us seems to letting up.

My goal was to hit 69 comments, which we passed a while back. So honestly, until one of us forgets to post to this thread. I once played a question game on a forum that died at somewhere over 500 pages . . . good times.

Do you know any form of martial arts?

Nope. Google-fu is not a recognized martial art. The fighting techniques I know are not martial arts, they are born of the streets. Like switchblade knife-fighting. And I'm learning the whip.

What about you. Do you know any fighting styles?

Some. When I was a likkle munchkin (2nd grade) I took karate for two years. More recently, I took Tang Soo Do for a semester. I also know a few hold breaks, limb breaks, and judo throws. Really simple stuff, but effective. You probably know more useful things, though.

Is trying to fit a family tree for the Norse gods/giants on one peice of paper a futile task?

Depends. Is firing a rifle "useful"? Especially since I don't know handguns.

Not as futile as the incestuous Greek gods but yes. Unless you have a giant piece of paper then the theological family tree is kinda wtf.

Why is it people who walk into my store believe they can let their kids run wild and it's okay? Do I look like a babysitter?

(ha ha, double question)

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