simple tasks that you perform in the bottom first percentile

  On 10/12/2011 at 3:34 PM, viscosity said:

names also. It hardly processes when I meet people to actually remember their name when they introduce themselves. I can recognise familiar faces, but it takes me a good few weeks untill it entirely sinks in. my memory in general blows, so maybe that's the root issue

hmm ... That bothers me too but I just gave up trying to remember everyone's name. If I'm forced to admit it I just say 'sorry but I don't remember you name'. It should be enough for people, if not fuck them you know? Plus, memory is a super strange thing, it has a life of it's own. Why do I have to write very specific and detailed notes of instructions I get at work (otherwise I forget them as soon as the conversation ends) but I remember lyrics, songs, and the most useless trivia from years and years ago?

It's not your memory that is wrong it's something else.

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:12 AM, Glunk said:

i usually crack eggs with the back of a knife. it helps

I do this as well. Nothing else seems to work. Eggs are a bastard to crack.

  On 10/12/2011 at 11:46 AM, LUDD said:

I have never been able to remember which is East and West. I don't have to think about North and South - North is obviously at the top of the map and south at the bottom. But I just can't seem to finalise the synaptic connection that would stop me having to say "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" every time I try and describe whether something is East or West of somewhere... Actually, having siad that I can say with confidence that Newcastle, for instance, is North East or Manchester is North West as those things are commited to memory but for everything else it's Never Eat Shredded Wheat.

This. My sense of direction is totally for shit. Tell me to turn a couple of different ways while driving even in my own neighborhood and I'm completely lost. I learn how to get places completely on routine. Occasionally I can picture the layout of an area in my head if I've been there enough times, but usually it's a struggle.

Back to eggs: I cannot for the life of me flip an omelet. Every single time I get one side going really nice, and then go to try to flip it, completely fail, then go into an egg rage and turn the omelet into half-assed scrambled eggs.

EML

  On 10/12/2011 at 4:52 PM, patternoverlap said:

 

Back to eggs: I cannot for the life of me flip an omelet. Every single time I get one side going really nice, and then go to try to flip it, completely fail, then go into an egg rage and turn the omelet into half-assed scrambled eggs.

 

EML

why d'you want to flip your omelette? i just cook one side, put cheese or whatever on half of it, then fold the other half to cover and make a semi-circle... done. you don't need to flip a fried egg for it to be cooked. unless you like really well done eggs?

  On 10/12/2011 at 4:52 PM, patternoverlap said:

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:12 AM, Glunk said:

i usually crack eggs with the back of a knife. it helps

 

you guys talking about like when you crush garlic with the back of a knife? put the egg under the knife and then smash your fist down on it?

  On 10/12/2011 at 5:05 PM, keltoi said:

  On 10/12/2011 at 4:52 PM, patternoverlap said:

 

Back to eggs: I cannot for the life of me flip an omelet. Every single time I get one side going really nice, and then go to try to flip it, completely fail, then go into an egg rage and turn the omelet into half-assed scrambled eggs.

 

EML

 

why d'you want to flip your omelette? i just cook one side, put cheese or whatever on half of it, then fold the other half to cover and make a semi-circle... done. you don't need to flip a fried egg for it to be cooked. unless you like really well done eggs?

I suppose I could go for the folded omelette. I just want to be able to make a flat omelette.

edit: looking at some recipes online, it looks like there are many different methods for making flat omelettes. I'll do some experimenting.

  On 10/12/2011 at 5:39 PM, Fred McGriff said:

  On 10/12/2011 at 4:52 PM, patternoverlap said:

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:12 AM, Glunk said:

i usually crack eggs with the back of a knife. it helps

 

 

you guys talking about like when you crush garlic with the back of a knife? put the egg under the knife and then smash your fist down on it?

hold egg in palm, bring back of knife down on the mid point of the egg with a medium chopping motion, place thumbs on either side of the crack and pull apart over bowl or pan.

edit: tried this one and it works really well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaiBhWDKTNw&feature=related

^ interesting.

i like this one...

[youtubehd]LKBuhsBVyBc[/youtubehd]

happens to me all the time

this thread has taught me that keltoi is a real egg jedi.

eggdi

+1 for directions -- I'm a shit ass dumb fuck ass

patternoverlap's method is too slow and you get your hands wet with egg juice which is not cool.

love those one minute videos teaching you how to do simple cooking stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1s75okIUqE

Mind = Blown

if I have to carry coffee anywhere, it's going on my shirt or pants. everytime.

even though I don't like to cook, I don't usually have a problem cracking eggs.

i don't seem to get lost in duvet covers anymore but i struggle getting it all aligned and good, it seems to take forever, shaking the duvet doesn't necessarily do good things.. i have to hold on to parts and pull other parts, for hours

misalinged duvet corners be fucking up my quality of life too :(

also: pouring from a coffee- or tea-pot with a nozzle/indentation at the top. i always get the flow-rate wrong, which leads to massive spillage or a frustratingly slow drip.

i was told (by a professional) not to use the inside-out method that i've used my whole life. just shove it in.. it does make that part of the process quicker but doesn't help with alignment.

duvet covers should have small-profile zippers, yo, like lite weight sleeping bags.

i hope you patented that before posting

just wack the egg on the corner of something then pule it apart at the crack u formed

Oh yeah. Masturbating. Terrible at it.

  On 10/13/2011 at 5:17 AM, usagi said:

  On 10/13/2011 at 1:15 AM, sup said:

just wack the egg on the corner of something then pule it apart at the crack u formed

 

I tried this--played Pule, held an egg against the speaker and the shell just dissolved!

  On 10/13/2011 at 8:02 AM, modey said:

  On 10/13/2011 at 5:17 AM, usagi said:

  On 10/13/2011 at 1:15 AM, sup said:

just wack the egg on the corner of something then pule it apart at the crack u formed

 

I tried this--played Pule, held an egg against the speaker and the shell just dissolved!

Zole!

Pule pule pule pule

whats with all these friggin percentages all over the place

its seriously getting ridiculous

percentage this percentage that

i mean come ON

Every time I've done my job on the toilet I pull my underware up too high, making me look like a retarded person.

  On 10/12/2011 at 6:25 PM, jules said:

this thread has taught me that keltoi is a real egg jedi.

an EGGSPERT!

but i still can't make consistently good soft boiled eggs! i make some perfect then do the same thing the next time and they're either over or under cooked.