Poor lobsters 
Might be one thing if they were killed humanely!
Might be one thing if they were killed humanely!
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The Anchorage, Part 3
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I know, one of the restaurants we used to go to had a tank in the front window where you could watch them, but the thought of watching them swimming around, and then they get dropped into a large pot of boiling water. Runs shivers through me, but if I put blinders on, and don't think about it, they are absolutely delicious.
Mythocentric
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I have a friend called Steve who is a fisherman on Luce Bay, Scotland who catches lobster as part of his living. I've been out on the boat with him a few times and seen them alive and kicking fresh from the sea, and believe me, you tend to think twice before you reach into that lobster pot to remove them, especially when they are facing you with claws at the ready. He stores them in an old swimming pool until the buyer picks them up, usually, four times a year and the creaks, clicks and scrapes you hear from a couple of hundred of them must be one of the eeriest sounds ever, especially on a quiet night! Mind you, there's nothing tastes better that fresh-caught lobster. The most humane way to dispatch them, like crab, is via a long needle under the shell between the eyes which kills them instantly. Dropping them live into boiling water is just barbaric!
You're probably correct on the restaurant chefs' methods for dispatching them now-a-days, but decades ago, dropping them live into the boiling water was the method they used. I don't like it any better than you, but gosh I loved eating them.
There was one restaurant we used to go to all the way out on Long Island where you could get a window seat, and watch the boats coming in with the daily catch.
There was one restaurant we used to go to all the way out on Long Island where you could get a window seat, and watch the boats coming in with the daily catch.
quietrob
Extraordinary
Still sound awful. A long needle right between eyes? At least it's quick. I've got it! We can drop them in a vat of boiling butter, thereby saving a step of dipping your lobster in the butter. There's no nice way I think of terminating an animal for our consumption. The closest one I heard of is the Japanese would give a cow beer while keeping it's feet from touching the ground. The cow would be drunk and the meat super tender. I heard they stopped doing it. The worst way is pate-de-foie-gras. I can't describe how they are made.
I do remember my big sister told me that McDonald's chicken nuggets were made from baby chicks. It took me years to realize that she was just teasing me but I was young and very naive and believed anything she said. Good thing I like that girl. Grrrrr.
@Terre Do you use your work computer for 3D art or surfing? For those that think it's wrong, I know that different departments of the same facility can have different rules. One section didn't care what they did with their computers as long as the work was done. I could go 30 feet to the next division and they would allow only intranet usage. I lost count of how many sweet young things would rub up against me, smile and ask me for internet access. My answer was always the same. Just have your boss tell me it's okay and they got it. One job I worked said as soon as we met our repair quota for the day, we could surf the net for anything but p*rn. All we had to do was man the phones and provide customer service.
Terre
Renowned
The only times I've used my work computer for anything not related to work were several times when we had a power outage at home and I dropped a quick post into the Complaint Thread over at Daz to let people know why my hubby wasn't present so the ones who actually were our friends wouldn't get worried. I don't have time for surfing and since my work computers are actually the servers for the store's registers I've never considered it a good idea to use either one for personal stuff anyway. Right now the computers have an external hardware firewall that is set to only allow certain sites for work through. The new manager wants to get that changed so we can access the store's emails and research things online and since the office FINALLY has a lock on the door which is an auto-lock upon closing it's secure enough to do that safely as long as the managers make sure they don't just let someone into the office and leave them by themselves.
My previous boss let his kids do their school work on my computer back when we only had one computer and I had to have TruNo clean out malware several times because of that. The system for card payments meant that Windows firewall had to be disabled. To no surprise there was a time during this period when my poor compy was so dead that TruNo had to send a tech over from Lubbock to shut it down and boot it in safe mode and then run ESET. Then Malware bites. All that experience taught him was that when we got upgraded to two servers was that my main work one should not be used for personal use. People still ignored his "No internet this computer" note (including his kids). I came in one day and went to access our suppliers website and got something that had FB and Twitter and several other links right in the middle of my screen. IEs history showed that someone had gone to EBay to look a parts for a specific kind of car. When I called TruNo to see what the problem was the poor machine had both a browser hijacker and a trojan from that one visit.
End result of all of this is my home computer has it's security set to paranoid and even when we get the work computer set to where surfing is possible again it'll be limited to work related stuff both because of time and because of malware considerations. Especially since part of it will be email access. I've never had an email bomb affect any computer due to my handling of email and I intend to keep it that way.
My previous boss let his kids do their school work on my computer back when we only had one computer and I had to have TruNo clean out malware several times because of that. The system for card payments meant that Windows firewall had to be disabled. To no surprise there was a time during this period when my poor compy was so dead that TruNo had to send a tech over from Lubbock to shut it down and boot it in safe mode and then run ESET. Then Malware bites. All that experience taught him was that when we got upgraded to two servers was that my main work one should not be used for personal use. People still ignored his "No internet this computer" note (including his kids). I came in one day and went to access our suppliers website and got something that had FB and Twitter and several other links right in the middle of my screen. IEs history showed that someone had gone to EBay to look a parts for a specific kind of car. When I called TruNo to see what the problem was the poor machine had both a browser hijacker and a trojan from that one visit.
End result of all of this is my home computer has it's security set to paranoid and even when we get the work computer set to where surfing is possible again it'll be limited to work related stuff both because of time and because of malware considerations. Especially since part of it will be email access. I've never had an email bomb affect any computer due to my handling of email and I intend to keep it that way.
quietrob
Extraordinary
Computer security set to paranoid! I have to use that one.
When I worked IT, I learned one of the often given complaints was "computer slow or sluggish." I was told directly that we make no judgement on what they do with the computer. Our job is just to fix it. Yet I found people breaking down and confessing as I removed Browser Hijacks, trojans, malware (Actual viruses were pretty rare) and tons of cached porn websites that apparently popped when they were surfing.
Client : That fix is taking a long time.
Me: I suppose. This is a good time for a coffee break.
Client : Yeah! (Disappears and returns with coffee) Still working on it?
Me : Yep.
Client : What was wrong with it.
Me : It takes a bit to clean up a dirty computer.
Client : Dirty?
Me : The browser has been around and picked up a few things.
Client : I only use it for work!
Me : I'm sure that you do.
Client : I did sign up for a class.
Me : (I stop and slowly turn my head.) A class. I'm sure there is nothing wrong from that. (I pick up my pad and write down the number of malwares found so far.)
Client : What are you writing?
Me : Just justifying my time so they know why it took so long.
Client : You have to do that?
Me : Yep. Did you get the class you signed up for?
Client : Uh...no. Look, I also bought tickets online.
Me : Tickets? (Nodding and recording the amount of malware again) I see.
Client : It was just tickets, online shopping and poker!
Me : No chats?
Client : I forgot the chats! I wasn't hiding it, I forgot the chats!
Me : May I use your phone? (I thought I'd get the next client if they were nearby)
Client : Phone!? Why? Just over some shopping, poker and tickets.
Me : And Chats.
Client : but...but...
Me : Sign zee paper please. (Deliberate German Accent)
Client : What? No! I have rights!
Me : Pardon?
Client : It was just a few porn sites. I was bored! I didn't signup for anything.
Me : I believe you. Would you sign this?
Client : <Doesn't look at the paper. > No! I'm...I'm...
Me : I'll have my supervisor call you then.
Client literally runs away broken and sobbing.
Sigh! It's the little things y'know?
Terre
Renowned
*snicker*
The vast majority of the malware my work computer got was from the boss letting his 4 kids do their research for their HS classes on the store's server. The computer that ran the registers and I used for pricing was also their homework station. Once TruNo even found MySpace on it. No idea which kid did that.
On the other hand every time I've had to take my home computer in for work it has been completely clean. Not one small scrap of malware on it. I intend to keep it that way.
The vast majority of the malware my work computer got was from the boss letting his 4 kids do their research for their HS classes on the store's server. The computer that ran the registers and I used for pricing was also their homework station. Once TruNo even found MySpace on it. No idea which kid did that.
On the other hand every time I've had to take my home computer in for work it has been completely clean. Not one small scrap of malware on it. I intend to keep it that way.
Terre
Renowned
People just several hundred miles SE of here have WAY to much water while we lost water yesterday afternoon. Neither my hubby nor me can find an after hours number to call. Hopefully someone called the police and they got hold of someone. The store is only a half mile from my home so it may not have water wither depending on where the problem is.
Terre
Renowned
Nope. I'm are a little to far north for that. Might get some rain depending on which way the winds go.
Water back on.
The story I've heard was that a minor repair was being done and as they were finishing that things exploded. That explains why we had half pressure for several hours and then none at all.
Water back on.
The story I've heard was that a minor repair was being done and as they were finishing that things exploded. That explains why we had half pressure for several hours and then none at all.
Terre
Renowned
The store has finalized a deal to purchase a liquor license. It'll probably be October before everything is in place.
Good part: The people who like getting their beer and groceries in one place can go back to doing that at my work place. They haven't been able to since April of 2004. We will also be back to having the widest package selection in town.
Bad part: We'll be back to arguing with college kids who refuse to believe that New Mexico law requires EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has been in contact with the alcohol MUST be 21 and have proof of their age. They keep having underage friends help them bring the stuff to the register believing that only the person paying has to be 21. That happened once with out of state tourists once too. The lady had her 20 year old brother in law carry the basket with a few groceries and a bottle of wine up to the register.
The totally insane situation was the time a man wanted to use his teen age daughters paycheck to pay for their groceries despite there being alcohol in the batch. That was a true WTF moment for me as he had to know that underage sales are illegal.
Good part: The people who like getting their beer and groceries in one place can go back to doing that at my work place. They haven't been able to since April of 2004. We will also be back to having the widest package selection in town.
Bad part: We'll be back to arguing with college kids who refuse to believe that New Mexico law requires EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has been in contact with the alcohol MUST be 21 and have proof of their age. They keep having underage friends help them bring the stuff to the register believing that only the person paying has to be 21. That happened once with out of state tourists once too. The lady had her 20 year old brother in law carry the basket with a few groceries and a bottle of wine up to the register.
The totally insane situation was the time a man wanted to use his teen age daughters paycheck to pay for their groceries despite there being alcohol in the batch. That was a true WTF moment for me as he had to know that underage sales are illegal.
We've always had to show proof of age in stores selling alcoholic beverages here in NY, so I can't imagine anyone trying to get away with something like that Terre. Your store is probably going to have there hands full, more than they have up until now, once it's implemented.
Terre
Renowned
We'll be back to the situation we had two owners back. I know what to expect and will make sure that the other managers do. I'm literally the only employee left who was selling booze at this store back then. We have a couple of people who worked here then but they are in other departments.
quietrob
Extraordinary
How do you know if they have had contact with the alcohol? Just being with the person wouldn't do it. By that logic anyone who enters the store has contact with the booze.
The other situation where someone sends their kids, even a 17 or 20 depending upon your local laws, to buy their luxury items? Ya, no way.
On the other hand, I do remember being young and having a friend that would buy us something like "Barrel of Wine" before we took off to something called the drive-in movie. For many, not all, but for many it's a typical teenage thing. Things were a little calmer back in the day. I know one grocer that did sell kids their mother's cigarettes. The kids were perhaps 11 or 12 and I'm quite sure they all knew each other. It was a small suburb where everyone knew each other.
The other situation where someone sends their kids, even a 17 or 20 depending upon your local laws, to buy their luxury items? Ya, no way.
On the other hand, I do remember being young and having a friend that would buy us something like "Barrel of Wine" before we took off to something called the drive-in movie. For many, not all, but for many it's a typical teenage thing. Things were a little calmer back in the day. I know one grocer that did sell kids their mother's cigarettes. The kids were perhaps 11 or 12 and I'm quite sure they all knew each other. It was a small suburb where everyone knew each other.
