quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I don't understand what I've done wrong.
Well according to what BM is saying, it should be specifically modern stuff you can't live without. For reference, see his reply earlier regarding music. But, like, pots and pans dude, people have had them for as long as they've had music.
Also, it's supposed to be things you can't live without and by your own admission you've been living without them for nearly two years and still not been suitably bothered to do anything about it...
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I fantasise, fucking FANTASISE about the day I can walk around Ikea buying bloody pepper pots
Thank God for that - I thought I was some kind of anorak.
I've wanted a pepper mill for ages - actually wanted one rather than it just occuring to me once, so I could get proper pepper, like the water in an Italian restaurant grinds over your dinner, not that rubbish dust you can buy from the supermarket.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: But benway surely what you're saying is that you need the bag but none of the stuff you actually use the bag to transport? Doesn't that defeat the point of having the bag in the first place? Or is that kind of the point you're making?
What I'm saying, jerkwad, is that I now have so many little electronic things to carry around with me that I need a manbag.
Yeah, right, but, unless all those little electronic thingsyou carry around are also essentials without which you cannot life a normal life, then the manbag itself is reduntant since its only purpose would be to carry electronic devices which you don't actually need.
You see what I mean m8 I'm not trying to be a dick I just don't think you're thinking laterally enough here, y'know?
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I think what NWOD was saying was that he wanted new-fangled kitchen-based culinary technology rather than the types of pots and pans that have been around for aeons. He wants non-stick, teflon coated, aga-friendly, hob and microwave and dishwasher safe pots. The pots he wants are not just pots, they're crafted by outer mongolian iron mongery pots. They're posh pots. They're celebrity chef endorsed pots. They're the mother and fucking daddy of the pot world. They are Pots Of Greatness. Not, like any old pots.
I have an electric pepper mill. Sometimes I make it grind for nothing, because just watching it do that makes my nipples tingle.
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Ok so what part of that constitutes Things Which Are Essential For Your Life?
I dont' see how you can say you can't live without something which you don't have, and haven't had for 2 years. You'd be dead, or insane, right?
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: I have an electric pepper mill. Sometimes I make it grind for nothing, because just watching it do that makes my nipples tingle.
So I should get one then?
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: I have an electric pepper mill. Sometimes I make it grind for nothing, because just watching it do that makes my nipples tingle.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: I was thinking more of things you can't do without, not necessarily new inventions, that you didn't need a few years ago, say. Or things you use today that you would never have visualised yourself needing. Surprises. After all that is the thread title.
Ringo, I said "not necessarily new inventions", you bumbaclaht. Do you see?
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Well, whether they are essential or not is irrelevant to the fact that I carry them around, and therefore need a bag to put them in. In fact, their continual presence regardless of any real decisions re: their measurable usefuless is in itself indicative of '21st century living' - it's not do I need these things, but rather I need something to carry all these things in.
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I'll let Benway off, as he at least owns the things he consideres life essentials. NWoD on the other hand has some explaining to do.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Also, it's supposed to be things you can't live without and by your own admission you've been living without them for nearly two years and still not been suitably bothered to do anything about it...
Ok, then allow me to explain it to you in detail so that you can understand. I do not own these items and I yearn for them. I yearn for them as often as I cook at home. That's practically every day. I yearn them as much as I yearn a large kitchen filled with modern day gadgetry. I own a dishwasher, for instance, which takes the sting off having to worry about any repercussions of serious grub - The charred black rim of any kind of baked food is a good example. But! I can't plug it in! These things, these things that I crave are something I have experience of over a large period of my life and I miss them. Here's the clincher: I feel like they are a necessity to my well-being. So I've covered the most important things. a) not necessarily modern technology b) surprising c) essential (to my well-being)
I can understand this might be a mystery to you, but can't you realise that over the course of ten years I feel this is something I have to have. The last thing item I bought (a ladle) got melted by one of my other housemates, so I can't trust an expensive saucepan to stay intact. If you have all that fancy gadgetry and only make beans on toast with it, then fine but stop trying to harsh my domestic boner!
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Oh right, yeah, I get you now. I know the kind of thing you mean. I once yearned for 2 years, waking up in cold sweats in the middle of the night panicking about how my life will never be complete without this one thing. This one thing which doesn't cost a lot of money, which I could easily purchase with just a couple of months of saving at the very most. Yeah, I know what it's like to yearn endlessly for something, yet not just go out and buy it. That makes perfect sense.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Oh right, yeah, I get you now. I know the kind of thing you mean. I once yearned for 2 years, waking up in cold sweats in the middle of the night panicking about how my life will never be complete without this one thing. This one thing which doesn't cost a lot of money, which I could easily purchase with just a couple of months of saving at the very most. Yeah, I know what it's like to yearn endlessly for something, yet not just go out and buy it. That makes perfect sense.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: This one thing which doesn't cost a lot of money.
Pfft. Shows what you know. Wanting hardcore cooking equipment is never 'just one thing', and it's also massively expensive. I suppose it doesn't really register, if your mum has done all your cooking, every single day of your entire life, but a good set of cooking kit is more than just a case of buying a frying pan for £3 from Morrisons. I mean, even if you're at a point when you can justify spending £50 on a Global chopping knife that's just one knife. You've still got quite a long way to go before your desire is sated, and it's a long, long way from being cheap as a hobby.
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My Jamie Oliver hob and oven safe stewpot cost £89.99. I only know that because I just googled it. I probably shouldn't have looked it up; it ewas a present. I feel a bit guilty for doing that now.
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I feel a bit sorry for Ringo. To think a set of furry dice is easily obtainable as something as rewarding as having your own kitchen, to prepare, cook and serve food in just highlights his failure to grasp how suffocating an unhappy environment can be. What can you not grasp Ringo? What part is it you cannot comprehend? The thing I describe is a material object that makes no sense to own right now but on a superficial level would provide me with some inner joy. What shall I do with my dishwasher? I was brought up in a house with one and hate living in a place without one. I own one but can't plumb it in. Should I smash up the landlords kitchen tops to fit it in? Is that the sort of mindless destruction you anticipate to prove something is essential? jesus fucking christ. Do I punch someone in the face for burning the bottom of my Anthony Warrel Thompson milk pan? Do I fillet the eyelids from someone for melting the handle? Or (crazy suggestion) do you just not buy something until a time when it would be more suitable and crave that one thing instead?
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herbs gave me a box of rusted / broken kitchen utensils as a gift when I moved out of her spare room. In that box was one knife that could still be used. Had a blade of about four inches. That's the only knife I've used in cooking for the last three years. If she ever finds out what a quality knife it is, she'll be gutted that she threw it out.
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since then we got a nicer dicer, but that's 'no dice' in a cramped bedroom situation like mine.
Man, what will I do when I can't bitch about vermin and bedsits? I'll have to have some kind of accident so I've got some difficulties to overcome.
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quote:Originally posted by Lickapaw#2: So I should get one then?
No-one's nipples are precisely the same (as proved by the nipple sizing fest) so I feel unable at this stage to guarantee that an electric pepper mill would bring you the amount of pleasure it brings me.
I also feel that if you haven't already got a pepper mill, you're aiming too high in the pepper mill stakes for a first purchase. Going from no pepper mill to an electric pepper mill is a bit like deciding to leave the whole 'having first ever sex with a boy' thing and going right into an orgy of four, mixed gender people and maybe a horse.
See, you should start with something like this, preferably stolen in stooodent fashion from your local greasy spoon:
Note, this is a shaker, not a mill, so you are starting quite small.
Move up to something like this:
This is perhaps the sort of shaker you would think of buying if you'd just moved into your first flat, and felt like expressing your independence and new found maturity through the purchase of culinary equipment. Many people do this, it is nothing to be ashamed about.
Next, you might move on to something a little more modern, a bit edgy. You have friends fround for food these days. You want to look good. Those old shakers are just not cutting the mustard. Or, to the point, shaking the flakes in a trendy enough way. So you get these:
And then somewhere along the line, because you're in your own home and indpedendent and shizz, and because people know you have friends round for food and you're you, and you're a little bit quirky, you get these:
or
Because some people can be wankers.
Then, as you get into the swing of this making food lark, and as yet get experimental and you collect more recipe books and you keep reading the words 'freshly ground pepper', you start to get a need for a grinder. You've got a shaker. Your pepper is substandard. It might be pepper, but it's not freshly ground pepper. It's just pepper. Jamie Oliver would mock your pepper. You feel ashamed. So you get your first mill.
Something like this:
Classic. Nice. And oh, isn't freshly ground pepper so much nicer! Oh, oh, yes it is. You're transported into a new world of delight. You don't think things could get any better.
Then.
Then.
Then.
You get the electric pepper grinder. This is what makes your nipples tingle.
Louche
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That's the most effort I've put into a post in two years and it's about fucking pepper mills. It really is all over for me, isn't it?
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