Robert G wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:17 am New bagel place across the street is having a soft opening today. Lunch problem solved.

We have a great bagel place nearby, that also sells the day-olds cheap. Good for taking home an making sandwiches.

I still had to stand in line and wait 15 minutes for my day-old bagels, because:
- They're a Vegan Jewish deli, which raises all kinds of questions at the counter: "Your corned beef is vegan? What is it?" "Okay, your lox is vegan? What is it?" "Your turkey and eggs are vegan?..." They need a sign that just says "Soy! It's all variations on soy products!"

- Sandwich places in Portland seem to suffer from the 20-something sandwich board employee that assembles sandwiches like they're putting together a fucking Patek Phillipe watch. It's a sandwich, not a 10-course prix-fixe of tweezer-assembled piles of finicky deconstructed shit.

Hardtimes is funny maybe 1 out of 1000 times someone posts something from there and it drives me insane how people with otherwise good taste post their trash. I get it. Yep. Local bands sure aren't popular. Yep. Ian Mackaye or Henry Rollins or Steve Albini sure do have opinions on stuff. Yep. Some genres aren't popular.
Now fuck entirely off, please.

Geiginni wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:03 pm- Sandwich places in Portland seem to suffer from the 20-something sandwich board employee that assembles sandwiches like they're putting together a fucking Patek Phillipe watch. It's a sandwich, not a 10-course prix-fixe of tweezer-assembled piles of finicky deconstructed shit.

There's a vegetarian lunch place in my city where they always work reeeeally slow. Like I can stand at the counter for 1 minute before the guy takes my order because he's wrapping up some cake or something. Bro there's a customer here you can do that later. There are like 5 seats in that joint and they are located in the high-end business quarter. I wonder if the manager is a child of the mafia or something. The food is great but I don't get how it works.

Your sandwich guy might just have a bit of OCD though. I know I get caught up in stupid things like taking 10 minispoonfuls of some substance, then removing two minispoons, adding one again etc. Or maybe it's a typical habit of beginner employees.

kokorodoko wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:28 pm Your sandwich guy might just have a bit of OCD though. I know I get caught up in stupid things like taking 10 minispoonfuls of some substance, then removing two minispoons, adding one again etc..

Oh, no doubt. I'm a super finicky sandwich maker at home. I would be terrible in foodservice making pizzas. I worked at a BIg Mikes in Minneapolis years ago (similar to Jimmy Johns). There was no fucking around there. Even as an OCD spaz it would only take about 45 seconds to make a sandwich - as any lunch place ought to be.

The worst sandwich offense out here is still the Iraqi food cart that advertised a "genuine Chicago dog" and then delivered a Nathans with grilled peppers and onions on a wonder-bread bun.

Public libraries are so wholesome. The only time you actually have to pay your delay fees is when they are above a certain amount, and when they're less you have to insist to be able to pay them at all.

I read a thinkpiece the other day from an immigrant who described her library as a "second living room".

I don't know it's just so rare to be in places that aren't organized around trying to take your money, or around demands like "if you're here do xyz otherwise get out" type of things. It's in the atmosphere even if not stated outright. Places you'd want to be in for other reasons than some specific purpose.

Books are pretty cool too.

Corvallis, Oregon and surrounds are a microcosm of the USA.

You know that moment when you throw a punch* and you know it's landing flush before it's even connected? Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to freeze that instant and just wander around in it?

* See also: Striking a ball right on the sweet spot.

If there is one thing I have learned from the past 15 years, it's that resistance and skepticism is cheap. It's become so hard for me to judge the value of any information at all, because of a commonplace attitude that insitutions and authorities are always lying or there is always some hidden interest at play (never concretely stated so as to be made intelligible of course), meaning you can't really trust anything. I've come to realize that information has had a kind of unreality for me. Mostly incapable of really engaging with sources because of the immediate distrust, and the volume of information, everything I know I've been getting second hand, following other people's discussions, going with whoever seems most persuasive.

I'm having to strenuously recondition myself with this.

they call me the Threadkiller

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:55 am

jirbling rake wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:20 pm Irrationally irritated by nitwits in 2022 CE saying to use milk crates or liquor boxes to move records.

Stop polluting the internet with your bad advice!

My mom stores her LPs in equivalents of those. What's wrong with it?

How to store them could have its own thread. Your mom's record storage choices won't be critiqued here today. Moms can do what they want.

The posts brought up before were about people who are moving records. Putting them into boxes, putting those boxes in a truck, sending it a distance away to be moved into a new place. Boxes of records needing protection from the helpful friends, professional movers, temp gym rat college students making summer bucks who will be carrying the boxes filled with unhealthy obsessions. Milk crates can't be closed the way a box can. They can't protect records from careless movers, bad weather, spilling out if tipped over, the way a box can. Liquor boxes are probably ok. Don't most places breakdown the cardboard for recycling these days? Finding enough would be another issue.

It also sounds like a non-answer. Someone wants to buy new boxes to move their records. The poster may have their own reasons to have already dismissed crates as an option. Telling them to use crates is not helpful to the original poster. It is also to unhelpful to me, the reader of that exchange.