Watermelon and muskmelon are both good and way easier to find good than people are making it sound. Honeydew can be good but is much more often bland and tasteless.
The following rant concerns subjects of stalking and workplace harassment. Wheeee.
So a few years back, there was a coworker of mine who was pretty clearly interested in me, towards whom I did not return the interest. What I think happened was, she got me going about a bunch of my nerdy crap, and interpreted that as me Paying Attention To Her, when in fact I'd chat about my D&D characters to a garbage can for a few hours if it's aperture reminded me of a human face displaying interest. I tried to be direct about turning her down, but leaned hard on the "no workplace romance" angle as my polite excuse. She was coming from a bad divorce, and facing pretty intense pressure from her family and religious community to find a new replacement father for her kid ASAP, and I worried that a harder rejection would have a more catastrophic impact to her self-esteem than getting turned down by my goofy ass merited.
She backed off for a while, but gradually over the following months escalated back to a pretty overt courtship attempt, which culminated in her scheduling a vacation "coincidentally" at the same time and place that I was. She even wrangled a reservation at the same hotel, which she'd overheard me talking about to multiple colleagues, because I am in the habit of choosing between weird little hole-in-the-wall hotels based on which ones have the most compelling "THIS PLACE IS TOTALLY HAUNTED FOR REAL" stories in the yelp reviews.
She did all this presumably in the hopes that we could meet up, go to museums and restaurants and tourist shit together, and I'd discover I was in love with her all along, I guess? In retrospect, there was a non-zero chance of it working. That was an especially lonely time for me, and I could imagine past-me going "Ahhh, fuck it", risking my career, and enduring someone I wasn't attracted to at all just to relax the social pressure and scratch my physical intimacy itch. Which would be such a shitty thing to do, ahhhh, I hate that the possibility exists inside of me!
But then I found a room share a mile closer to the event, cancelled my hotel, and didn't emerge from the Washington State Convention Center for four days except to sleep, because PAX.
Anyway, even though I dodged actually interacting much on that trip, aside from sharing a table for a very awkward bowl of airport clam chowder, it was still weird as hell. So after I got back I had a chat with HR, and some of her duties got adjusted so that we were no longer working on the same projects. Not long after that, she left the company.
Well, I guess she managed to leave without burning too many other bridges, because now my company and her current company are partnering up on some stuff, and she's going to be hanging around my office on a regular basis. My boss knows what's up and has my back, as does his boss, as does the entire HR department, and the managers of the teams she's working with. But that's still way more people than I'd ever want knowing my business like this, without being sheltered behind a ridiculous internet pseudonym. So I don't think there's going to be any dangerous or job-threatening nastiness arising from all this, but I am going to be hella uncomfortable for the next couple months.
So in conclusion, I ask you, Love Thread, why am I apparently so irresistible to creepy as hell women?
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On the other hand, as far as positive Love Thread news goes, further information emerged about No-Call No-Show Girl from last week, and everything is totally cool. Like, we're not going to try again, but her reason for panicking and failing to keep that appointment is 100% legit, and also not my fault at all. So that's a huge relief.
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We don't stop at people though. That dog is is dude. My car is a dude. That trash can I just tripped over is a dude. "Like, really dude? Who put you here? I don't blame you, little dude, we're cool, but that other dude? That dude who put you here? He's like, a bad dude, dude. For real."
You can also go the full Philly and just use "jawn"*
*Your mileage will vary wildly outside of Philadelphia.
Also, what's up, love thread? Just hit a year since I met the boyfriend, and Grey Ghost gets to come visit and judge next month. Good times all around!
@Cos I'm going to need to try every single cheesesteak place
For science
Every time I think about being more active on Facebook or trying to make my Facebook look good or anything like that, I realize what I really want to do is delete it.
But NOT having a social media presence makes you untrustworthy!
In closing, fuck it.
Trust me, my social media presence isn't helping that.
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I'd be really interested in someone grabbing one of those and taking it to a lab to see just how deadly it ended up being,
I dunno how the melon in Singapore is
but back in the States melon is usually bad because it's been refrigerated and shipped cross country.
Fresh melon is pretty nice.
I haven't had any other melons.
Hi5 melon is gross and like eating weird wet sand.
Pro Melon Strats
Kanji Tatsumi approved!
We've salted watermelons forever, but someone once told me that they cut apples into slices, and salt those.
Salted apples? Weird!
You're wanna salt the granny smith apples.
Das where it's at
Looks like the wrong thread
Looks like non-Brits outing themselves in the secret British thread (although tbh, the Brits have been pretty quiet up in here of late)
So Sinn Fein is the political wing of the IRA, and they are pretty controversial.
Do you.... do you make meth?
Brainleach is the one who knocks.
Oh, I hope he wins
I want Labour over the Tories
He just won't. I mean, if I'm wrong cool. But I doubt it.
She backed off for a while, but gradually over the following months escalated back to a pretty overt courtship attempt, which culminated in her scheduling a vacation "coincidentally" at the same time and place that I was. She even wrangled a reservation at the same hotel, which she'd overheard me talking about to multiple colleagues, because I am in the habit of choosing between weird little hole-in-the-wall hotels based on which ones have the most compelling "THIS PLACE IS TOTALLY HAUNTED FOR REAL" stories in the yelp reviews.
She did all this presumably in the hopes that we could meet up, go to museums and restaurants and tourist shit together, and I'd discover I was in love with her all along, I guess? In retrospect, there was a non-zero chance of it working. That was an especially lonely time for me, and I could imagine past-me going "Ahhh, fuck it", risking my career, and enduring someone I wasn't attracted to at all just to relax the social pressure and scratch my physical intimacy itch. Which would be such a shitty thing to do, ahhhh, I hate that the possibility exists inside of me!
But then I found a room share a mile closer to the event, cancelled my hotel, and didn't emerge from the Washington State Convention Center for four days except to sleep, because PAX.
Anyway, even though I dodged actually interacting much on that trip, aside from sharing a table for a very awkward bowl of airport clam chowder, it was still weird as hell. So after I got back I had a chat with HR, and some of her duties got adjusted so that we were no longer working on the same projects. Not long after that, she left the company.
Well, I guess she managed to leave without burning too many other bridges, because now my company and her current company are partnering up on some stuff, and she's going to be hanging around my office on a regular basis. My boss knows what's up and has my back, as does his boss, as does the entire HR department, and the managers of the teams she's working with. But that's still way more people than I'd ever want knowing my business like this, without being sheltered behind a ridiculous internet pseudonym. So I don't think there's going to be any dangerous or job-threatening nastiness arising from all this, but I am going to be hella uncomfortable for the next couple months.
So in conclusion, I ask you, Love Thread, why am I apparently so irresistible to creepy as hell women?
I didn't talk to her about my feelings, but I don't think it's a good idea any more
@Cos I'm going to need to try every single cheesesteak place
For science
if you are every faced with a slightly underripe watermelon, sprinkle some salt on it before you eat it -> eat it -> thank me later
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Yo my boss does this and it...
Like, look, I'm no Andrew Zimmern but I will eat any food once. And I'm very open minded! I like lots of weird stuff! But this was just not good.
E: I mean it was edible but there was no enjoyment.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Oh my god why would you salt Granny Smiths they are perfect as-is. The best apple. The only apple I buy. I fucking love Granny Smith apples.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
DAMN IT, MARIE
IT'S A MINERAL
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Eat at Arby's.