Advice Post! [NOT 23/10/23]

23/10/23 brightersideoflife 36
The Dude drinks a white Russian
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Hi, friends! Tonight’s NOT is the usual open thread, plus ask for advice if there’s anything percolating in your brains.

Debatable for me, not sure I have brains most days.

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  1. Suggestions for getting cigarette smell out of old wood furniture? It’s not heavy, smelly clothes were stored in the furniture, it wasn’t smoked around.

    • For musty smells in furniture the best luck I’ve had is lightly spraying with diluted vinegar and then leaving out in the sunlight on a windy day. Fall is a good time for this. It may work well for smoke too. The more days you can repeat this, the better.

      I realize this is hard to manage with heavy furniture that has to be lugged up and down stairs.

      • Yeah best I can do in the current set up is near a window and a good fan. But still would probably help since it’s not a heavy smoke smell.

        • I’d wash it with soap & water (i use the Lemon scent Mr Clean, but you can use *whatever* you like best!), until the water *isn’t* the brown-y yellow color, let it dry, and *then* do the vinegar.

          That should get *all* of it out, since the “stinky” parts of smoke smell are water-soluble😉

          Had to wash *lots* of stuff that came from the trailer-house i grew up in, over the years–soap & water works best to knock it down, then you don’t have to use as much of the specialized stuff later.

          • We go through a lot of lemon-scented Mr Clean here in the old farm house.  It’s good stuff, but I think my wife is hot for that bald-headed POS.

    • Stuff the open space with loosely wadded newspaper. Close it and leave it for a few days. Throw the papers out, and lightly spray the inside with vodka and leave it open to dry out. If at all possible, put the item outside in sunlight, but inside will work. Repeat if needed!

  2. I’m on day 4 of 5 days of a pre-skin cancer cream.  It makes any potential skin cancer area turn red, blister, itch, burn, & turn you into a leper looking person.  Right now I am at guy left in a blizzard for a few days level in my face.  Should be a fun week.

      • Definitely won’t need a costume if it keeps going like I suspect!

    • I’m sorry you’re in such discomfort from this, but also I googled it and it’s super cool that it is a potential treatment option for folks.

      Are you able to layer a good spf 50 over it since you’re more sun-sensitive right now?

      • I chose now because we are in fog & permadrizzle mode here & if the sun is out, I’m in a hat & long sleeves.  I’m sure sunscreen would be good but way better to just not get any exposure.  Plus, I look better in the dark right now! 

    • That sounds uncomfortable. ☹️

  3. I’m making Spam musubi for the first time. Anyone have advice? I’ve got the sushi rice cooking right now.

    • Some people put shoyu & sugar on the spam while frying it but I just do light salt shoyu.  Definitely use lots of furakake under the musubi when you assemble them.  My sushi mold is perfect for making 2 at a time.  I also keep a little bowl of water to wet the edges of the nori when I roll them.

      • Many thanks. And my apologies if Freddy was too insensitive. I’m sorry to hear you’re in discomfort and pain.

        • All good, I definitely had the same thoughts.

  4. I’d appreciate a good debate but unless said topic is handed to me I’m afraid I don’t really have a point to make.

      • That’s much harder to quantify, it is like apples & oranges.  I’ve done both but my rock climbing was with a very experienced climber, good rope harness & very little risk.  Now guys that don’t use ropes & free climb El Cap kind of faces are insane & scare me more than most waves.  That said, having 20 swimming pools worth of water chasing you over a sharp, cavernous reef is way more dangerous in the variables.  You are probably more likely to get rescued if you fuck up rock climbing than surfing.

        • Plus mountain goats kill less climbers than sharks kill surfers.

        • Yeah I picked it because I felt like it was so hard to quantify and myo wanted a good debate! 😁

  5. That header image gets me wondering — who unironically drinks White Russians?

    • I used to drink Black Russians to end my nights at a club back in my clubbing days but haven’t had one in 20+ years.  White Russians? Not so much.

    • Until this sentence I just thought a white Russian was a boozy milkshake.

    • *timidly raises hand*

      I love milk. That’s my excuse.

      • Possible second debate topic–

        White Russians, or Colorado Bulldogs?

         

        And of we *really* want to have a food fight–Orange cheddar cheese or white, and *WHY*

        • Isn’t orange cheddar just colored white cheddar?

          (looks it up)

          Wikipedia says it’s coloring like annatto, beet juice, or paprika. But it makes some kind of reference to what you get from high quality milk from grass fed cows. I doubt I’ve ever had the really good stuff.

          • No, @BlueDogCollar, orange isn’t just colored white cheese, it’s the *better* cheese!😉😁

            The *best* cheeses, like Cotswold, or Red Leicester, Red Dragon, and Longhorn Colby?

            *ALL* Orange (or at least yellow😉) cheeses!😁😁😁

  6. Speaking of orange cheeses. What do you guys think of ramen with a slice of American cheese on top? It’s been a trend for years and I always gave it major side eye. For science, but mostly because I didn’t have any other ingredients on hand, I made it last night. It was fucking gross. The cheese melts in the hot soup but then it cools and glues to your teeth as you chew the noodles.

      • No! Noooooo!  Nooooooooooo!

      • Lol even that food blogger opted not to use cheese (as did a person in the comment section).

    • I tried cheese in ramen a couple times, but yeah… it’s really not worth it. It does come in handy to tone down super spicy ramen (Buldak, for instance), but I was still “meh” about it.

    • One of my former roommates did that *all* the time, when she ate *beef* ramen. (It *had* to be the beef, and it was her “at home” drunk-food😉)

      I never tried it, because I’m a weirdo who only ever eats *chicken* Ramen, and couldn’t get my brain past the *idea*, although I always figured the *flavors* WOULD work well!😉

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