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• paws4thot commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
  Also Greg @ #58 One of the other groups I'm on has a running in-joke about putting the Christmas sprouts on in August (you may get away with September if you use a pressure cooker)....
• Dave_the_Proc commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
  A quick jump onto the Pratchett bandwagon: For dark, I don't think he's ever been blacker than NIGHT WATCH -- but probably diffficult to start here as there's a lot of back story to many of the characters contained in previous novels featuring the Watch. On another tangent: I often think that medical staff have a tougher time than police in processing the horrors they deal with. Partly because they have less on-the-job time when they can decompress with colleagues, and partly because the general public don't usually see how soul suckingly horrific their job can be (it's relatively easy...
• Jocelyn Ireson-Paine commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
  They have now discovered that some people have a protein sequence in their DNA that makes many green veggies taste horrible. Maybe 1 in 20 in the US. So all those kids told to suck it up and eat their veggies were in essence being punished and forced to eat crap. But we're always being told that veggies are good for us. The 5-a-day rule and all that. So the kids may have felt as though they were being punished, but they weren't really, nor were they being forced to eat crap. By the way, is it odd that a...
• jeffrey.eric.fisher commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
  This will surely explode some heads: There is a pub near where I work. One of their side dishes is Brussels Sprouts. By default it comes with bacon. I order it without bacon!!!! This appears to put the staff on tilt slightly, as they then usually ask me if I want it vegan or vegetarian... along with my hamburger. But really they just don't need the bacon, and the place puts in way too much making it a bit gross (bowl of bacon bits with sprouts)....
• paws4thot commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
  "Bacon bits" or pancetta? They're two completely different things....