The totally off-topic thread

[JohnK]

What is simple? Maybe when I was 12?

We have everything and we are still not happy. We are pressed for time. We are under tremendous pressure and stress.

My grand parents and even parents had nothing. They were happy.

 

[Denali]

Sydney airport: Turbulence leaves passengers injured, ambulances dispatched

Air China "turbulence on landing"... doesnt that mean a hard landing?

 

[amaroo]

We have everything and we are still not happy. We are pressed for time. We are under tremendous pressure and stress.

My grand parents and even parents had nothing. They were happy.

Keep an eye out for those Blue Birds...

[video=youtube;Z26BvHOD_sg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg[/video]

 

[Flying mermaid]

It is *really* nice to log in to online banking and see $0.00 on a mortgage and $0.00 on a business loan.

We settled on our former investment property/first home today. Now to juggle some money around, and pay down the mortgage and maybe pay off my new car. Or should I head online and book the next family holiday instead???

Family holiday .

 

[anat0l]

Quick culinary poll: If you have to peel a vegetable or fruit like a potato, carrot, apple, parsnip or the like, do you use:

• A peeling tool (i.e. fruit and vegetable peeler)
• Small knife (e.g. about the size of a paring or butter knife)
• Large knife or cleaver (e.g. chef's knife or Chinese cleaver)

We have a fruit and vegetable peeler and I use this to peel, but I notice lots of my Caucasian friends tend to use a small knife. Of course those that know what they are doing make it look easy, but I have no idea how to smoothly peel something with a small knife.

 

[JessicaTam]

Quick culinary poll: If you have to peel a vegetable or fruit like a potato, carrot, apple, parsnip or the like, do you use:

• A peeling tool (i.e. fruit and vegetable peeler)
• Small knife (e.g. about the size of a paring or butter knife)
• Large knife or cleaver (e.g. chef's knife or Chinese cleaver)

We have a fruit and vegetable peeler and I use this to peel, but I notice lots of my Caucasian friends tend to use a small knife. Of course those that know what they are doing make it look easy, but I have no idea how to smoothly peel something with a small knife.

Definitely a veggie peeler.

 

[Foreigner]

Quick culinary poll: If you have to peel a vegetable or fruit like a potato, carrot, apple, parsnip or the like, do you use:

• A peeling tool (i.e. fruit and vegetable peeler)
• Small knife (e.g. about the size of a paring or butter knife)
• Large knife or cleaver (e.g. chef's knife or Chinese cleaver)

We have a fruit and vegetable peeler and I use this to peel, but I notice lots of my Caucasian friends tend to use a small knife. Of course those that know what they are doing make it look easy, but I have no idea how to smoothly peel something with a small knife.

Don't peel the apple... (kidding)

 

[Denali]

Veggie peeler.

 

[Bindibuys]

veggie peeler

 

[Pushka]

Veggie peeler.

 

[Major]

Veggie peeler. If I used a knife I would end up with half a potato.

 

[blackcat20]

Quick culinary poll: If you have to peel a vegetable or fruit like a potato, carrot, apple, parsnip or the like, do you use:

• A peeling tool (i.e. fruit and vegetable peeler)
• Small knife (e.g. about the size of a paring or butter knife)
• Large knife or cleaver (e.g. chef's knife or Chinese cleaver)

We have a fruit and vegetable peeler and I use this to peel, but I notice lots of my Caucasian friends tend to use a small knife. Of course those that know what they are doing make it look easy, but I have no idea how to smoothly peel something with a small knife.

veggie peeler; I'm quite fond of my fingers and would like to keep them.

 

[Pushka]

Oh joy. Lawyers are happy in SA. The Govt is suing the builders of the new RAH (third most expensive building in the world) because of compliance failures. The Builders are suing the Govt because the reason they won't open the Hospital is because of the failure of the new Govt computer based patient record system. So a kind of defamation counter claim.

The Old RAH is barely being maintained. Running out of supplies (first hand experience) and poor maintenance because it was supposed to have been closed by now.

The tax payers? Paying for the lot.

 

[Steady]

I don't think I have ever seen a carrot peeler, plenty of general veggie/fruit peelers

Peeler for me, mostly a knife for my wife.

 

[JohnK]

I don't think I have ever seen a carrot peeler, plenty of general veggie/fruit peelers

Peeler for me, mostly a knife for my wife.

No such thing as a carrot peeler? We only use a veggie peeler to peel carrots. For everything else we use a knife.

 

[Quickstatus]

Isn't it better not to peel?

 

[JohnK]

Isn't it better not to peel?

Potatoes? Don't like skin. Same goes for orange. Mandarin. Kiwi Fruit. Onion.

 

[Quickstatus]

Yes and other fruits like durians.

 

[whatmeworry]

Watching the gardening show on CH 31, one guest claimed the peel of the Lemon is more nutritious then what is inside.

 

[love_the_life]

Hardly ever peel potatoes or carrots (just give them a bit of a scrub), MrL_t_L doesn't like sweet potato or pumpkin so we don't have them often but usually use a knife for the former and a vegie peeler for the sweet potato. Fruit that is peeled is usually done so by a small knife but use a cook's knife for chopping.