DanteGabriel

The first vegan recipe to become part of my regular dinner rotation (I do most of the cooking in my house), red lentil dal: https://www.noracooks.com/red-lentil-dahl/ Very easy, simple ingredients, completely satisfying. We like a lot of carrots, peas, and spinach in ours, eat it over brown rice. Even my son, who would have tacos and burgers every night if he could, enjoys it.

Probably, her list of monstrous lies is unending. I hear she also lied about having read Finnegan's Wake.

I don't see how you could possibly care about the UK press hoodwinking a veteran in order to spread lies about his trainee, and exacerbate that veteran's PTSD, when Meghan Markle has lied about (checks notes) talking to her husband's dead mother at her grave.

That's exactly what a dragon's minion would say.

Heh, this thread was pretty dead until HoI couldn't resist the siren call of irrational hatred against Meghan Markle. But he'll keep up his shabby insistence that EVERYONE ELSE is obsessed with Markle and he's the lone voice of sense and reason.

The royal family, of course!

I don't know if he swore an oath to honor his dad or his grandma above all others, but he definitely swore an oath, as an adult, of his own volition, to support his wife above all. I made that oath and I take it very seriously. I think a Real Man lives by his oaths, even if a bunch of right wing chuds with brittle definitions of masculinity don't like his wife.

Indeed, who were Harry's positive role models? His molester uncle? His cold, clumsily philandering dad? I don't find him particularly admirable but he's done a better job than most escaping that fishbowl of inbred molester protectors.

I was, of course, laying it on pretty thick in my description of him, to get exactly this reaction. The degree to which Meghan Markle unhinges you is both comical and a little worrying. It's like how Andrew Tate's incel followers talk about... all other women.

Here, I can suggest an excellent positive male role model. He was suffered the tragic loss of his mother when he was young. He served in the military, chose to leave his family's business and make his own way, married a strong woman of color, is a devoted father, and does a ton of charity work. I speak, of course, of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

Look, just a few bad apples:

Why is she dressed like a Green Beret for fucking traffic stops?

Vin Scully. An iconic and unforgettable voice. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34338705/vin-scully-iconic-former-los-angeles-dodgers-broadcaster-dies-age-94

We are harvesting black raspberries and the first strawberries right now. I always dreamed of having our own strawberries as a kid. This is our third try growing them and the first crop of real, juicy, sweet fruit. This is pretty awesome.

Hello gardeners! Mrs Gabriel and I have been busting our asses this planting season. We built two raised 8' by 3' beds, where we've planted herbs, lettuce, beans, and strawberries. Then we set up a separate 24' by 24' plot (quartered with paths through the middle and along the edge) and put up a 4 foot wire fence around it. In there, we've planted tomatoes, peppers, basil, garlic and probably some other stuff because the Fedco catalog is like a candy store to Mrs Gabriel. We also planted a couple of sunflowers by our back porch, which were growing like gangbusters until the fucking rabbits ate the leaves off them. This may be war. If only rabbits ate bittersweet.

Sorry I'm a week behind the discussion and I only clicked on this thread because I thought it had to do with The Last Airbender (the cartoon, which Dante Jr is currently obsessed with). I had actually just forgotten about the existence of this franchise. But hey, I found something I agree with HoI about. The visuals for Avatar were... fine. They made for suitable spectacle. But the story was crap. I am so tired of these Broken White Guy Out-Natives the Natives movies. I'm glad to see so many "Dances with" jokes. The Last Samurai is another example.

Have gay priests marched in pride parades? I must have missed a papal bull or two. I'd assume that any priestly vestments at a pride parade were kinky cosplay. This is just sloppy whataboutism. And I don't think doctors are marching in pride parades in scrubs or labcoats?

It's a woody vine, yeah. And not without aesthetic appeal, especially when it has berries. My mother-in-law used to make wreaths out of it. But it's really aggressive climbing and winding around everything. Our bittersweet is so well established that it's killed a couple of small trees in our yard and new shoots are climbing around the old shoots. We are usually unable to get the whole root out of the ground, so expecting grow-back in the years to come. Sometimes I think there's just a whole network of bittersweet roots under our land. We have at least cut down the major growths threatening our lilacs and black raspberry (untangling and removing vines from around spiky raspberry canes is... not fun). I had never heard of creeping Charlie. It actually seems like kind of an interesting plant but I can sympathize with your frustration. Good luck in your endeavors!

I have fond childhood memories of honeysuckle, but I certainly understand the problems it poses. Did you plant snap peas?

Hello, fellow gardeners. Mrs. Gabriel and I spent a few hours today uprooting bittersweet from around our property. Some of it clinging to fences, some of it threatening the black raspberry patch in our front yard. It is endemic to the property. We're going after it before it seeds or flowers. We know we'll never fully eradicate it because it's just so deeply established and the more senior root clusters are so deeply anchored we'd need a backhoe to get them. Since we moved here we've been trying to name our house/land. The previous house was Dragonfly Dell because of the amazing dragonfly swarming behavior we'd occasionally see in the sky above our heads in late summer afternoons, and the house sat on a small ridge overlooking a beautiful little dell. So we decided today that this house will be named Bittersweet Farm. We hates the bittersweet, preciousss. Kill it with fire!

"The beatings and cover-ups will continue until our reputation is improved."

Holy Ghost of Unsent Replies, Batman! Please ignore the empty un-deletable quote box. So has anyone else seen the "Master Class" episodes? Watching PBS in America, my DVR recorded "remix" episodes of the previous season (with Nadiya) where Paul and Mary bake the things they'd had the contestants bake. They splice in footage of the original challenge and then they show the masters work. The second one was pretty riveting. Paul made baguettes and Mary replicated that (sorry I don't remember the name) hellishly complicated dessert with the French and Swiss meringues filled with fruit and cream and decorated with fondant violets. What a contrast to see them make one simple, perfect thing that's trickier than expected, and then put together something so complicated and daunting.

Mrs. Gabriel and I can't help but call him "The Male Judge" ever since a contestant referred to him that way a year or two ago. And "Paul Hollywood" sounds like a made-up name... I'm gobsmacked (did I use that right?) that there's such a long delay between British airings and American. It's also funny that PBS only seems to acknowledge three seasons of it in their listings. I appreciate the consideration re: spoiler tags, but I won't get bent out of shape if people don't use them. I was rooting for Nadiya a few weeks in advance too. And I really liked Tamal because his recipes were so creative and interesting. The nice thing about this show is that I've never seen someone I dislike and root against. For drinking games, you have to have "a good bake" and "good layers." Maybe two drinks if Mary calls something "scrummy."

I absolutely agree with you about American cooking shows, though I still cannot resist Top Chef. In general American reality TV shows tend to cast assholes, self-promoters, and narcissists who can supply drama and conflict. Which is why I'm such a fan of the humble, nice people they tend to cast on GBBO. I genuinely feel happy for someone like Nadiya when they win, or even just get a nice comment from Mary or a handshake from The Male Judge. I'll try to find episodes online, but please don't feel like you can't discuss episodes just because I'm around. If I want to avoid spoilers I'll just avoid the thread. I've successfully avoided spoilers so far, even though the results have been public for months.

Mrs. Gabriel and I are big fans. For the record, we find the American version with Nia Vardalos nigh unwatchable, especially with the douchey male judge's gross innuendoes to Mary, who is a goddamn world treasure. Are you Brits already getting a new season? The previous season (with Nadiya and Tamal) just aired a few weeks ago here. Lucky bastards.