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Pretty sure I have a dry socket..... ugh....

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night class 6-9..got out at 7:30

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I put a good friend on grill duty last night. (think 300+ lb Boston boy) He and I both like our meat rare, which is why I trust him. Everyone else ordered theirs incinerated/ruined.

It might of got up 15F here yesterday.

I work at a restaurant and people who order a 30$ Filet Mignon and get it WELL DONE.. im just disgusted by it... I always bring the person like A1 or Heinz 57 sauce..

The last time i had a steak it was at The Bristol down at the power and light district in Kansas City and i got that bitch RARE!

/rant

Hope you got a nice tip

I expoed a lot of food at the restaurant I worked at and received untold orders for burnt steaks; considering the restaurant made at least 10 bucks a pop on steaks I just laughed at the dumb bastards

No steak that is aged and cooked extremely perfectly should ever need sauce.

I would disagree with your sentence, but agree with your sentiment. Obviously a well made french pan sauce compliments a steak wonderfully. By no means a necessity, but yummy nonetheless.

As for pepper, one of my fav's is steak au poivre, which is basically the fond, some cream, some booze, and pepper. That shit is good. If you ever have to use your broiler (err upside grill) it is a nice addition as there should be goodies left in the pan.

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Obviously "sauce" as that comes in a shitty bottle from the megamart can blow me.

Very few exceptions in my house and they are all core sauces, not some mix of shit.

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No steak that is aged and cooked extremely perfectly should ever need sauce.

Nope; I rather like mine rolled in cracked pepper and a pat of truffle butter on top, though...mmm...

Curious where you buy your truffles. Everywhere I try here they are redickufuckingly expensive. I am out of the ones I picked up in Europe and your comment made me want a refill. Jerk.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

No steak that is aged and cooked extremely perfectly should ever need sauce.

Nope; I rather like mine rolled in cracked pepper and a pat of truffle butter on top, though...mmm...

Curious where you buy your truffles. Everywhere I try here they are redickufuckingly expensive. I am out of the ones I picked up in Europe and your comment made me want a refill. Jerk.

I don't buy truffles, silly. There's a couple of restaurants in Houston that serve dry aged Prime steak with pats of truffle butter on top. Last one I had was from Brennan's and I almost came right there at the dinner table

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No steak that is aged and cooked extremely perfectly should ever need sauce.

Nope; I rather like mine rolled in cracked pepper and a pat of truffle butter on top, though...mmm...

Curious where you buy your truffles. Everywhere I try here they are redickufuckingly expensive. I am out of the ones I picked up in Europe and your comment made me want a refill. Jerk.

I don't buy truffles, silly. There's a couple of restaurants in Houston that serve dry aged Prime steak with pats of truffle butter on top. Last one I had was from Brennan's and I almost came right there at the dinner table

Crap. Was hoping you had a hookup. I do need a truffle slicer though

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Well I checked in with someone who knows someone who says that said restaurants import their truffles directly from European farmers

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A 1998 study in the Lancet medical journal claiming a link between vaccines and autism was retracted last year for being scientifically unsound. But a new investigation claims the study wasn't just wrong—it was also an "elaborate fraud."

The background: In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, then a licensed surgeon and researcher, published a paper in the highly-regarded British medical journal Lancet. The paper, written with 12 co-authors, alleged a connection between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, autism, and inflammatory bowel disease; despite the fact that no other doctors were able to reproduce the finding, the alleged connection received widespread media attention, and more or less helped kickstart the anti-vaccination craze later championed by actress Jenny McCarthy (pictured) and various other nincompoops.

Since then, Wakefield's been stricken from the United Kingdom's medical rolls and Lancet has retracted the study. And now, in a several-part investigation by reporter Brian Deer in the medical journal BMJ, Wakefield is being accused of fraud—that is, a deliberate attempt to mislead people, and just plain old "being wrong." From CNN:

The series of articles launched Wednesday are investigative journalism, not results of a clinical study. The writer, Brian Deer, said Wakefield "chiseled" the data before him, "falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a picture, which was the picture he was contracted to find by lawyers hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare."

According to BMJ, Wakefield received more than 435,000 pounds ($674,000) from the lawyers. Godlee said the study shows that of the 12 cases Wakefield examined in his paper, five showed developmental problems before receiving the MMR vaccine and three never had autism.

"It's always hard to explain fraud and where it affects people to lie in science," Godlee said. "But it does seem a financial motive was underlying this, both in terms of payments by lawyers and through legal aid grants that he received but also through financial schemes that he hoped would benefit him through diagnostic and other tests for autism and MMR-related issues."

Now STFU and vaccinate your fucking children already

I loved the House clip when the hippy vegan mom wouldn't vaccinate her kid because it was all a money making scam etc etc. House mentioned the organic baby coffin money making scam was a much better.

I <3 House.

If I were a doctor, I would be him. I would then just have the job to match my god complex.

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Those who follow the super-yacht scene know that these giant floating mansions have grown to incorporate all manner of amenities: helipads, bowling alleys, swimming pools, garages... anything and everything you might expect in a land-locked residence, only set out to sea. But this... this is something else altogether.

Called The Streets of Monaco, this design is modeled after a section of Monte Carlo – in more ways that one. The headline feature is an on-board karting track modeled after the famous grand prix circuit. But that's hardly the extent of it. As you can see, the design bridges the gap from naval architecture to actual architecture and on to city planning.

Instead of decks, it has buildings. Instead of a swim platform, a freakin' beach. It's also got submarines, helicopters, waterfalls, movie theater, spa and more, plus sleeping accommodations for 16 guests and the 70 crew it would require to keep this puppy going. All packed into 155 meters, length overall. (That's not a typo. We don't mean 155 feet. We mean 155 meters, equivalent to 508 feet.) That's about half the size of a modern super-tanker, cruise ship or Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. For better or worse – seaworthy or not – the design stays on paper for the time being.

If it's not Wally, it's not for me.

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Twas a two BJ week!! what a way to start the new year.

<--jealous.

Me too. It's been WAY to look since the last blowie.

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I didn't even ask for the second one, she came on to me.

that is a good life. I will say my wife is more of a hound than me.

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Mark is at CES right now, and I am again stuck here. I am so fucking sick of not being able to travel. Good news is, I have already begun the process to fix that.

Aaron, if you want to go next year I'll make a pact and split a room with ya. I've been wishin' and hopin' and dreaming to go to CES for years.

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Oh my goodness I'm soooo mad right now. Just spend all this time getting my music all organized. Was adding a bunch of songs to my ipod and went to grab some chicken noodle soup. Walked by and caught my foot on the cord and it fell approximately 4 feet and landed upside down on my tile floor. Now its messed up windows won't find it and itsmake a wierd noise :(

OH TEH NOES.

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You guys aren't old enough. That looks like a method to deal with fucking nose hair.

I literally laughed so hard.

That has to be less painful than pulling a nose hair.

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You guys aren't old enough. That looks like a method to deal with fucking nose hair.

Plucking seems the less painful method out of the two.

You haven't plucked nose hair then.

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Turkey bacon wrapped, BBQ shrimp.

Not real Bacon?

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Turkey bacon wrapped, BBQ shrimp.

That looks disgusting. I do not like shrimp though.

I thought you were going to ask where on the Turkey the bacon comes from? That is the only part that confuses me. Fat isn't bad for you, sugar is. Real bacon is teh yummy.

I think at times that we have the same parents yet somehow I got dropped off in over north Mpls when they exited incorrectly going home....

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One of the tires on the Jeep is losing air, very very slowly, only started to do it after I aired down when going off-road. Took it to the tire shop, they couldn't find any leaks. Any ideas as to what it can be ? Bad valve ? Small puncture ? Cracked rim ?

find a bucket and dunk it, or pour bubble blowing juice on it. Find the leak pretty quick that way.

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I'm only keeping it for the weekend though as a joke. I hate facial hair.

I hate shaving, but had to see a customer and a full beard on me doesn't look so professional in particular when its just coming in

< hates shaving too. I've been trimming mine for couple of months now and I don't feel a need to shave at all. Short and no skin irritation.

im a year deep without shave or trim. After the grandmothers funeral I just said eff shaving.

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corn chips in a blender = fun to watch

huh?

Put the vitamix into thermal shutdown last week. Something about ice cubes, ground veal, ground pork, and ground fat that it didn't like.

teh suck!

I almost purchased a food service vitamix on a whim at the restaurant supply store. Only one speed though and the timer thing looked like it would piss me off.

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Made porterhouse veal steaks last night as well. A little overdone at only rare, but with the w pregnant I didn't want to scare her. Plus at 15F the grill needed more time to preheat if I wanted a finish and still raw in the inside.

I've never had a veal steak like that. When having veal can you cook it less and still get out as much flavor from the bone/fat or is it more deicate so you cook it less than regular steak?

I like my porterhouse usually just above rare. At shitty restaurant I order rare but at home I'll cook my porterhouse/tbone a bit more to get some of the char/bone flavor.

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I put a good friend on grill duty last night. (think 300+ lb Boston boy) He and I both like our meat rare, which is why I trust him. Everyone else ordered theirs incinerated/ruined.

It might of got up 15F here yesterday.

I work at a restaurant and people who order a 30$ Filet Mignon and get it WELL DONE.. im just disgusted by it... I always bring the person like A1 or Heinz 57 sauce..

The last time i had a steak it was at The Bristol down at the power and light district in Kansas City and i got that bitch RARE!

/rant

I always get fillet blue.

But agreed on the assholes getting over cooked meat.