Happy birthday to Lambchop’s dad! 
Sounds like he’s going to have a great New Year.
Sorry for the loss of his girlfriend. But it’s wonderful that he had a good companion at this age.
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My belated condolences and sympathy. I hope you find comfort in your low key celebration.
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This was clean a hour ago . Reminds me of when I used to surf . Caught inside . You duck paddle underneath a wave . When coming to the surface you look up and another wave . Again you do it until you reach to the outside of the swell . Snowblower took a dive . Broken belt . I fixed it . That was amazing. I’m paddling back out for another wave to ride . Cheers. 
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I’m glad I never signed up over there.
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So close, and yet so far.
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I’m on Amazon looking at fat separators as a gift to my daughter. She got an instant pot as a wedding gift and now she and her husband are making broth every time they have chicken, which is about weekly.
I’m a compulsive reviewer of 1-star reviews because I think that’s where I’ll get the most information.
But sometimes you just gotta shake your head. People seem to think there’s something magic about a “fat separator” in that the device itself (rather than the properties of the fluids) somehow causes the fat to separate from the watery part.
This kind of review (below), or others claiming that separator didn’t work because it failed to make the oil rise to the top of the liquid:
- I tried to use it as directed. The fat is supposed to stay on top and juice on bottom come out the spout. It was completely opposite.
is, amazingly, fairly common.
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Never underestimate the general public’s stupidity.
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I guess not.
Then there was the lady who was angry that it wouldn’t separate the fat out of her gravy after she’d mixed the corn starch into the drippings and brought it to a boil to thicken.
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Did you know that there’s a big demand on freelancer platforms for Amazon reviews? They really do. Hence many major freelancer platforms have banned such gigs, or even messaging about such work. Still there are such “services”. What the writer does is, he buys the item, writes a review, and gets the money refunded by the seller, with his writing fee. 
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I had wondered about that. I see some reviews on Amazon that have a flag indicating that the reviewer got the product for free to test it out. They claim the reviews are still supposed to be the person’s honest opinion, but I’d think they might be at least subconsciously swayed by the thought that if they gave low-ranking reviews, they won’t be getting much more free stuff to test.
Edit - “The Vine” free product reviews is the one I see a lot. Apparently it’s an Amazon program. Reading a bit more about it, Amazon claims the program only selects people who have already given a lot of high-quality, fact-based reviews.
I wish there were a laugh emoji on this site sometimes…
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I like this one
But there’s this one too
I meant as a quick click instead of the knife and fork, which is just a generic… I don’t even know. A “like?”
Oh.
That’s a very limited thing that Vine Reviews I think. However those paid reviews are a popular business on the internet. There are even “services” that would make Amazon reviews for a fee. Sellers only have to buy the package, and get the number of reviews required.
Internet is surely changing every thing we would consider honest, in to a business. Lol.
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Now I’m curious how you were able to post just that. Usually, you need more text body in the reply - at least I get that msg when I want to be brief.
I get that message sometimes too. I know just an emoticon is not enough.
(Also @shrinkrap)
The easiest way is to use hidden text. Text between L/R arrows (e.g., < blahblah>) becomes invisible (here I put a space before the first “b” but if I remove the space it becomes invisible). The only rule for what is inside the carets seems to be that the first thing must be a letter character. In practice, it’s easiest to just hold down the same key until the admonishment fades, like < mmmmmmmmm>
The general rule in Discourse is 20 characters minimum, but that is configurable. I just did a quick test with 1 character and the red text popped up telling me the minimum is 2 here. So most answers other than a simple “no” will pass.
Check out my next post.
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