That’s exactly the brand I am using. Vile.
I think I might’ve grabbed the wrong stuff. These don’t even have lidocaine in them 
just camphor, menthol, and methyl salicyate… AKA WINTERGREEN. Ding ding ding we found the culprit.
Guess I’m heading back to the CVS. Lordt. Root-beered up the bed for nada. #FML
Oh geez, maybe I didn’t word my post very clearly. I was actually defending you; I was taken aback by the brouhaha that your original post caused because it certainly didn’t offend me in any way. I enjoy your posts and hope you stick around!
Anyway, back to the food!
Me too!
You can have my guy-liner when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Hell, I’m still of a mind to punch another couple of holes in my ears. Maybe even get that weird geometry tattoo I’ve wanted since I was 17.
Preach, sister. In high school, we had two drama teachers, one who insisted on foundation a good three shades darker than your skin tone. Huge PITA, and everyone looked kinda like an oompa-loompa.
But that was preferable to the other one, who decided for that year’s Chilcren’s Theater production, we didn’t need foundation at all, just some eye liner. That all got changed after the first dress rehearsal under actual lights. Suddenly, you couldn’t see our expressions, because all our faces were totally blown out. Cue scramble to redo everyone’s makeup, with (finally) appropriate foundation colors.
I wasn’t offended by you in any way. Quite coincidental that, after I gushed to you how nice everyone is, I got that load o’ crap. No biggie, I deal with that on the daily. Just wasn’t expecting it here. U good!
Gosh, that takes me back. We used to be able to get pancake foundation from Max Factor. One of the few I could get that actually matched my skin tone!
Nice of you to say, Barney. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts very much.You’ve lived an interesting life in places I couldn’t picture. Might buy a pair of Klipsch Fortes when I get home from fishing this next week. Love the music, bud. I want those AR amps; solid state poetry.
And I’m hoping that 2nd drama teacher wasn’t around long. C’mon…onstage with NO makeup?
I did stage makeup for our plays in high school bsck in the mid-70s, and while the cast looked way overdone with the pancake makeup under fluorescent lights in the classrooms we used for prep, once under the stage lights, their complexions looked more normal.
I used to do Ger to Eng legal translations. With just a dictionary and a grammar book. No Internet Tubes to help me. No software. And certainly no AI. It was excruciating. And the pay was not much above minimum wage. I started refusing assignments. Then I forgot all my German. But the deal really is, it’s not normal German. It’s Lawyer German. A completely different animal. I actually wonder — almost — how they handle it these days. Well, maybe not. 
Uganda was the only place that was different before I came to Canada.
Those ARC amps are tube; poetry indeed! Wish I could afford their latest designs.
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You must really like that one 
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[cooking show [competition] prepare meal in vacation rental]
That’s why I always take 2 favorite knives, a cutting board, a whisk, and a tall-sided skillet type pan to vacation rentals.
Except last summer my wife convinced me not to (because we were flying and were not checking bags). The VRBO in VT had those cheap party-color-painted Cuisinart knives. I actually drew one across my forearm (without breaking skin) while complaining to my wife about how dull they were.
She’s like, “stop complaining, we’re only here 3 days until we head to ME”. I answered, “Yeah but I’m making chili tonight, so you just volunteered to dice the onions & chilis and mince the garlic”.
Scrounging further around the kitchen I found a never-used honing steel with some really aggressive grooves that got the knives into pretty fair working order.
Then there was that corporate team-building chili competition event in a barn in Texas with VRBO-level equipment.
A lot of them have wintergreen in them which can remind one of rootbeer.
Similar. I was fluent and pretty literate at one time, but didn’t get to use it much, so I forgot a lot of it over the years. Then needed to start translating DE chemistry/polymer related patents being cited against my patent applications, so what I “re-learned” was mostly tech rather than having any daily application.
Nearer the end of my career, though, the machine translation service offered by the European patent office had gotten pretty decent.
As long as everyone remembers to write their legal documents in their own native language, the translation/interpretation falls on other shoulders.
I translated a few T&Cs and work contracts until I flat out refused to translate anything that might have serious consequences if not done right, i.e. legal and medical stuff.
I’m a much happier person.
Yup.
