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AlbertaEgger
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so I cured 3 bellies, 30lbs last week. Cold smoked on Sunday for 7 hours. We had a fam emergency and I have not had time to slice and vacuum seal. How long will it stay in the fudge. I loosely covered with plastic. I don't know when I will have a chance with all the running around with the kids, work, and H all day and night.
County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
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You are fine! It's cured and smoked. No worries and I hope all is well with your family! Enjoy the bacon!Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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You could freeze it whole with few negative impacts. Reality is most processors freeze slabs before slicing so you would just be matching that. Because your bacon has so much less water the impact on texture would be almost nil
Toronto, Canada
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They are cured so you'll be fine for a couple/few months in the fridge.
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Jeezus people
can we try to remember what curing is actually for?
you could throw this on your counter for a week and it would still be fine
when did people start thinking things become deadly after a few days in the fridge?
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Thanks guys. Was just questioning myself. My mind is not in the game.County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
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Hope it all works out OK, both the family and the bellies....
@Darby_Crenshaw - when someone else does the curing on machinery that was cleaned years ago, like most commercial bacon.Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad! -
Hey @Darby_Crenshaw, we all appreciate your knowledge. Some of your input is useful. Thanks for that. I imagine you have some amazing cooks. Care to share?Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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In Stike's defense, he is a ninja with technical meat manipulation. If you know what i mean. Also he has posted more than his share of cooks and charcuterie under other pseudonym(s).
I learned how to learn how to learn how to deal with meat in a large part from his posts. Being an unrepentant troll came naturally from that process.______________________________________________I love lamp.. -
Darby_Crenshaw said:Jeezus people
when did people start thinking things become deadly after a few days in the fridge?XL BGE, 22" Weber Red Head, Fiesta Gasser .... Peoria,AZ -
Skiddy, not sure what you mean
bgebrent: thanks for the suggestion. But nah bruh. Posted hundreds of cooks and pics over the years, with artfuly composed pics 'just so' and long detailed explanations of the process. Early adopter of a lot of the bandwagon stuff, enthusiastic helper, belabored sharing of perhaps too much detail or explanation, goer-to of a few fests, meeter of a number of old timer cool people
and i/we often ran into that old guy on the forum who was driving us crazy because he was tired of hearing the same stuff over and over despite the fact the he and *his* old guard had explained things a million times and posted their cooks a million times and they'd still encounter the same questions. Drove the dude crazy. Old man!
Fast forward fifteen years, i'm that guy
it's a conveyor belt, man. There is literally nothing new here. But that's ok. Some day you'll be the cranky old man say obscure sh!t you think everyone already knows because you heard it a thousand times and "dang these meddling kids!"
and i suppose it's now my turn to be the old man grousing about crap and who never posts a cook because, frankly, i don't care what bgebrent (or anyone else) thinks about my cooking ability (and neither should you). I have twenty thousand posts in the other forum if you really wanna learn how i made bacon ten years ago (after nature boy posted it a year before that, or what pepper mill i own (a magnum, ten years ago), or how i affixed my rutland (with high temp silicon, ten years ago, after [i think] photoegg or egginator did it), or any of a hundred other topics, or when i started pimping oil and napkin (after egginator again mentioned it), or if you wanna read my asking WessB to "post a cook, man" (because i was you then, and he was me, see?). [NB: wess is a cooler early forum member who got more grief than he should have, while giving more grief than he should have. Was good times, man. Good times...]
For clarity's sake: i mention twenty thousand posts NOT as any claim to legitimacy or fame or as a credential-girding footnote. I mention it as a shrug, a pathetic reference to the fact that this stuff just keeps rolling along. That sword cuts both ways, btw. For anyone thinking that 20k posts means they are vital or important, remeber that it's also a sign of not having anything better to do.
I'm not special. There are dudes here with way more time in country. And it doesn't mean they (or I)know more. It just is what it is.
But the reverse is true. Just because someone doesn't have a lot of posts doesn't give anyone the right to trot out the 'post a cook or shut up' line. Sorry.
Regardless, time moves on. it's a new crowd's forum. And that's fine. Don't go asking people for credentials.
i'm also now at the age when that guy next to me at the light is revving to go, and squeals the tires when the light turns green. Been there. Done that. And now it's his turn to be the tuff guy.
My grumpy reaction was at the end of a long day. Apologies
but at the root of it IS a frustration with the lack of intellectual curiosity and the apparent inability these days of folks to solve their own stuff. And it ain't THIS guy either. It ain't about his bacon question.
But part of me wonders how far we have gotten from our food that we don't understand the basics
[a correction: you couldn't simply throw he meat on the counter and it'd be 'fine'. You'd wanna hang it so it could dry fairly quicky on the surface. The wet counter-side would be bad for quality. The top side would dry, but the bottom would be wet and perhaps grow some bacteria. Tie it though, touching nothing but itself, and hang, and she'd form a quick pellicle and be safe to eat as long as you had the courage to let it hang in your basement. That's WHY we cured. No one cured pork originally because they liked ham. They ended up with ham because they had slaughtered a multi hundred pound animal and needed to store their meat. Same for all charcuterie.]
TL/DR: blah blah ramblings of a cranky old man. Mostly in jest, btw. But as we have not met, i do not get the benefit of the "i know this guy" default tone of voice afforded others. That's the way of the (or perhaps of any) forum
EDIT: tried fixing the phone spelling issues. Gave up after a half hour. Dang iPhones! When i was a kid your blackberry had actual buttons and a keyboard as big as a damn buick dashboard. Why, you kids and your fancy google glasses and your snapface with the talk-into-it automatic microphone spelling! I just may go down to the community room fot the intrduction to AOL class my senior center is having. It's also cinnamon applesauce night in the dining room. Need to get a good seat. They're showing Matlock on the big screen during dinner at 4:30.
EDIT2: unrelated topic for discussion; Meatloaf is pate'. You like meatloaf, and so whether you know it or not, you also like pate'. It's probably, being a red blooded american man, you just think the name sounds fey, and that french crap can (for we insular 'murican types) seem simultaneously intimidating and wimpy.[social media disclaimer: irony and sarcasm may be used in some or all of user's posts; emoticon usage is intended to indicate moderately jocular social interaction; the comments toward users, their usernames, and the real people (living or dead) that they refer to are not intended to be adversarial in nature; those replying to this user are entering into a tacit agreement that they are real-life or social-media acquaintances and/or have agreed to or tacitly agreed to perpetrate occasional good-natured ribbing between and among themselves and others] -
Darby I liked it back in the day when you would tell us how yo really felt!!!!
I'm only hungry when I'm awake!
Okeechobee FL. Winter
West Jefferson NC Summer
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Darby_Crenshaw said:Skiddy, not sure what you mean
bgebrent: thanks for the suggestion. But nah bruh. Posted hundreds of cooks and pics over the years, with artfuly composed pics 'just so' and long detailed explanations of the process. Early adopter of a lot of the bandwagon stuff, enthusiastic helper, belabored sharing of perhaps too much detail or explanation, goer-to of a few fests, meeter of a number of old timer cool people
and i/we often ran into that old guy on the forum who was driving us crazy because he was tired of hearing the same stuff over and over despite the fact the he and *his* old guard had explained things a million times and posted their cooks a million times and they'd still encounter the same questions. Drove the dude crazy. Old man!
cast forward fifteen years, i'm that guy
it's a conveyor belt, man. There is literally nothing new here. But that's ok. Some day you'll be the cranky old man say obscure sh!t you think everyone already knows because you heard it a thousand times and "dang these meddling kids!"
and i suppose it's now my turn to be the old man grousing about crap and who never posts a cook because, frankly, i don't care what bgebrent (or anyone else) thinks about my cooking ability (and neither should you). i have twenty thousand posts in the other forum if you really wanna learn how i made bacon ten years ago (after nature boy posted it a year before that, or what pepper mill i own (a magnum, ten years ago), or how i affixed my rutland (with high temp silicon, ten years ago, after [i think] photoegg or egginator did it), or any of a hundred other topics, or when i started pimping oil and napkin (after egginator again mentioned it), or if you wanna read my asking WessB to "post a cook, man" (because i was you then, and he was me, see?). [NB: wess is a cooler early forum member who got more grief than he should have, while giving more grief than he should have. Was good times, man. Good times...]
For clarity's sake: i mention twenty thiusand posts NOT as oany claim to legitimacy or fame or as a credential-girding footnote. I mention it as a shrug, a pathetic reference to the fact that this stuff just keeps rolling along. I'm not special. There are dudes here with way more time in country. And it doesn't mean they (or I)know more. It just is what it is.
But the reverse is true. Just because someone doesn't have a lot of posts doesn't give anyone the right to trot out the 'post a cook or shut up' line. Sorry.
Regardless, time moves on. it's a new crowd's forum. And that's fine. Don't go asking people for credentials.
i'm also now at the age when that guy next to me at the light is revving to go, and squeals the tires when the light turns green. Been there. Done that. And now it's his turn to be the tuff guy.
My grumpy reaction was at the end of a long day. Apologies
but at the root of it IS a frustration with the lack of intellectual curiosity and the apparent inability these days of folks to solve their own stuff. And it ain't THIS guy either. It ain't about his bacon question.
But part of me wonders how far we have gotten from our food that we don't understand the basics
[a correction: you couldn't simply throw he meat on the counter and it'd be 'fine'. You'd wanna hang it so it could dry fairly quicky on the surface. The wet counter-side would be bad for quality. Too would dry, bottom would be wet and perhaps grow some bacteria. Tie it though, touching nothing but itself, and hang, and she'd form a quick pellicle and be safe to eat as long as you had the courage to let it hang in your basement. That's WHY we cured. No one cured pork originally because they liked ham. They ended up with ham because they had slaughtered a multi hundred pound animal and needed to store their meat. ]
TL/DR: blah blah ramblings of a cranky old man. Mostly in jest, btw. But as we have not met, i do not get the benefit of the "i know this guy" default tone of voice afforded others. That's the way of the (or perhaps of any) forum
EDIT: tried fixing the phone spelling issues. Gave up after a half hour. Dang iPhones! When i was a kid your blackberry had actual buttons and a keyboard as big as a damn buick dashboard. Why, you kids and your fancy google glasses and your snapface with the talk-into-it automatic microphone spelling! I just may go down to the community room fot the intrduction to AOL class my senior center is having. It's also cinnamon applesauce night in the dining room. Need to get a good seat. They're showing Matlock on the big screen during dinner at 4:30.
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Fish, I was finding that no one liked the short answers. But apparently the detailed and long answers are too long.
i need to find the goldie locks post-length.
[never have, fwiw, found the right answer length. The people who SHOULD read the long detailed answers never do. And the people who appreciate the short answers usually understand the topic at hand to begin with. Those in the middle? They never weigh in]
nice duck boob btw. Wild? Fwiw, once a month MB tosses the fresh duck breast into the freezer as it approaches "sell by" date. Got five for three bucks each. Good stuff. Wife wants prosciutto. I better get onnit
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kids riding by on bikes all day. They don't think i hear them taunting me, but i do.
That ball comes in this yard, and they'll see. They'll see....
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Darby_Crenshaw said:Fish, I was finding that no one liked the short answers. But apparently the detailed and long answers are too long.
i need to find the goldie locks post-length.
[never have, fwiw, found the right answer length. The people who SHOULD read the long detailed answers never do. And the people who appreciate the short answers usually understand the topic at hand to begin with. Those in the middle? They never weigh in]
nice duck boob btw. Wild? Fwiw, once a month MB tosses the fresh duck breast into the freezer as it approaches "sell by" date. Got five for three bucks each. Good stuff. Wife wants prosciutto. I better get onnit
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Darby_Crenshaw said:Skiddy, not sure what you mean
bgebrent: thanks for the suggestion. But nah bruh. Posted hundreds of cooks and pics over the years, with artfuly composed pics 'just so' and long detailed explanations of the process. Early adopter of a lot of the bandwagon stuff, enthusiastic helper, belabored sharing of perhaps too much detail or explanation, goer-to of a few fests, meeter of a number of old timer cool people
and i/we often ran into that old guy on the forum who was driving us crazy because he was tired of hearing the same stuff over and over despite the fact the he and *his* old guard had explained things a million times and posted their cooks a million times and they'd still encounter the same questions. Drove the dude crazy. Old man!
Fast forward fifteen years, i'm that guy
it's a conveyor belt, man. There is literally nothing new here. But that's ok. Some day you'll be the cranky old man say obscure sh!t you think everyone already knows because you heard it a thousand times and "dang these meddling kids!"
and i suppose it's now my turn to be the old man grousing about crap and who never posts a cook because, frankly, i don't care what bgebrent (or anyone else) thinks about my cooking ability (and neither should you). I have twenty thousand posts in the other forum if you really wanna learn how i made bacon ten years ago (after nature boy posted it a year before that, or what pepper mill i own (a magnum, ten years ago), or how i affixed my rutland (with high temp silicon, ten years ago, after [i think] photoegg or egginator did it), or any of a hundred other topics, or when i started pimping oil and napkin (after egginator again mentioned it), or if you wanna read my asking WessB to "post a cook, man" (because i was you then, and he was me, see?). [NB: wess is a cooler early forum member who got more grief than he should have, while giving more grief than he should have. Was good times, man. Good times...]
For clarity's sake: i mention twenty thousand posts NOT as any claim to legitimacy or fame or as a credential-girding footnote. I mention it as a shrug, a pathetic reference to the fact that this stuff just keeps rolling along. That sword cuts both ways, btw. For anyone thinking that 20k posts means they are vital or important, remeber that it's also a sign of not having anything better to do.
I'm not special. There are dudes here with way more time in country. And it doesn't mean they (or I)know more. It just is what it is.
But the reverse is true. Just because someone doesn't have a lot of posts doesn't give anyone the right to trot out the 'post a cook or shut up' line. Sorry.
Regardless, time moves on. it's a new crowd's forum. And that's fine. Don't go asking people for credentials.
i'm also now at the age when that guy next to me at the light is revving to go, and squeals the tires when the light turns green. Been there. Done that. And now it's his turn to be the tuff guy.
My grumpy reaction was at the end of a long day. Apologies
but at the root of it IS a frustration with the lack of intellectual curiosity and the apparent inability these days of folks to solve their own stuff. And it ain't THIS guy either. It ain't about his bacon question.
But part of me wonders how far we have gotten from our food that we don't understand the basics
[a correction: you couldn't simply throw he meat on the counter and it'd be 'fine'. You'd wanna hang it so it could dry fairly quicky on the surface. The wet counter-side would be bad for quality. The top side would dry, but the bottom would be wet and perhaps grow some bacteria. Tie it though, touching nothing but itself, and hang, and she'd form a quick pellicle and be safe to eat as long as you had the courage to let it hang in your basement. That's WHY we cured. No one cured pork originally because they liked ham. They ended up with ham because they had slaughtered a multi hundred pound animal and needed to store their meat. Same for all charcuterie.]
TL/DR: blah blah ramblings of a cranky old man. Mostly in jest, btw. But as we have not met, i do not get the benefit of the "i know this guy" default tone of voice afforded others. That's the way of the (or perhaps of any) forum
EDIT: tried fixing the phone spelling issues. Gave up after a half hour. Dang iPhones! When i was a kid your blackberry had actual buttons and a keyboard as big as a damn buick dashboard. Why, you kids and your fancy google glasses and your snapface with the talk-into-it automatic microphone spelling! I just may go down to the community room fot the intrduction to AOL class my senior center is having. It's also cinnamon applesauce night in the dining room. Need to get a good seat. They're showing Matlock on the big screen during dinner at 4:30.
EDIT2: unrelated topic for discussion; Meatloaf is pate'. You like meatloaf, and so whether you know it or not, you also like pate'. It's probably, being a red blooded american man, you just think the name sounds fey, and that french crap can (for we insular 'murican types) seem simultaneously intimidating and wimpy.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
-Umberto Eco
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fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahaha
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well said, GATraveller
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Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahahafukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
fishlessman said:Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahaha
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
-Umberto Eco
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GATraveller said:fishlessman said:Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahahafukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
what's sadder is a bunch of people smiling and welcoming you and acting all friendly, while they are thinking something else entirely different.
lots of folks are nice on the outside, while quite the opposite on the inside.
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Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahaha
Wait, you're a YANKEE??
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Darby_Crenshaw said:what's sadder is a bunch of people smiling and welcoming you and acting all friendly, while they are thinking something else entirely different.
lots of folks are nice on the outside, while quite the opposite on the inside.
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I get it......but, from my experience, the problems we most need help with aren't outwardly visible.
I'm getting soft in my old age.
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Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahahaXL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas GrillKansas City, Mo. -
GATraveller said:I get it......but, from my experience, the problems we most need help with aren't outwardly visible.
I'm getting soft in my old age.
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buzd504 said:Darby_Crenshaw said:fish, re: " problem with saying too much is the boston language comes out as boston diatribe, belittling and angry, though its not the intent, it comes out that way down south and out to the west, not much can be done about this perception"
this is true. the other thing is something one can only learn by going to eggfests or meeting other people in person (or on the phone i suppose), and something i had to learn myself: the people here who 'know' each other can joke and be ironic or sarcastic, and everyone (who has met them) "gets it".
but if they haven't met you (or you them), you are automatically an ass, and belligerent, even when you are not really being that way.
i have given up trying to make sure people get that i'm joking or being a sarcastic yankee.
i had a girlfriend once that met my family for the first time on christmas eve, for dinner at my aunt's house. she was standing in line for the food (buffet kinda family thing) and my brother, who she just met, was right behind her. he said "hey, can you hurry up. Jessica (my previous girlfirend) never took this long" and started laughing
my girlfriend burst into tears.
i was trying to tell her "no, that's good. he was giving you grief. he LIKES you. he never talked to Jessica..."
the new england thing, no one gets unless they are yankees. we don't talk to you unless we like you. that's how you know. down south, it's the opposite. everyone is friendlier than hell. talk to you right away ...but i am pretty sure they don't like me. hahahaha
Wait, you're a YANKEE??
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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