Gor Question

OK, Trout, I happen to have a texture for toast... and I bet I have a transfer/mod set of silks somewhere ... so i'll make the cheesy sandwich silk outfit if you'll PROMISE to post a picture of your kajiru self in Da Sexie Avie thread!

* Grabs a nadu anim for him and ...hmmm ... tosses her inventory looking for a thigh brand tattoo*

Ladda - Take a trip to House Iaomai. When you arrive, ask one of the House kajirae (slave girls) in the market area for information on joining the region's panther tribe. They'll guide you to whomever is available to answer any of your questions. The Wa Ngao Talunas are considered part of Iaomai and are active with many of the events there (and vice a versa), but are independent from the ways of the Free Women. They might be a group to consider joining.

Ta Sar-Dar Gor!

and thus why geeky boys might be attracted to the books or the role playing. Imagine if you could just TOUCH the pretty girl at school and she'd really like you!

What have I gotten myself into? ok. Keep in mind that the forums are PG, so as long as I'm covered, I'll do it. Usually I have to lose a bet to humiliate myself.

I don't think I'll ever eat a grilled cheese sandwich again.

Don't let this one bad experience sour you on one of the finest foods known to humankind.

Oh no - it was the idea that you might not have meant what you implied. Sitting there waiting . .. watching, holes being poked . .. gazing . .. slipping of the sandwich onto a figure .. .. aaaah - waiting for that?

Oh, and yes, I started laughing when I read your reply

/me never liked grilled cheese anyway.
*Wonders what you would do with Pastrami on a bagel*

Well there's always onion rings and doughnuts as well.

Nonsense. Men are much better cooks than women on average! Cooking is a man's job.
It's about man against the elements, defeating nature to ensure your survival. You stick to your needle-point, girls.

/me sticks her needle in Conan's eye. Make me a steak, Sonny Jim. With Onion Rings.

Oh I see... excuse me while I rip up my BA in Culinary Arts and my resume from the past 10 years.

That's not a pastrami.

I don't take orders from the likes of you, Woman. Darn my socks while I celebrate with the time-honoured tradition of combining meat with fire.

If you are lucky I may make you my famous creamed taragon field-mushrooms though.

Oryx; Cooking is something you learn by doing, not in the classroom. My mother-in-law also has a BA in something simillar (Home Economics or something). My beef Wellington is way better than hers. It's about getting stuck in with your hands. Cooking is like carpentry or tracking a bison across the tundra. I'll happily let you clean up after me when I'm done though

Well, in my case, it's about bread, cheese and a little butter in a frying pan, so "man against the elements" seems a little overly-dramatic. Tell you what, though, I appreciate the support. As for doing vs. classroom learning, though, she mentioned a resume with ten years experience, which I'm guessing includes a fair amount of "doing". For the record, I don't know how to track a bison across the tundra. I didn't even know there were bison in the tundra. Hell, I'm not sure where the tundra actually is.

Oryx - if I had a BA in Culinary Arts, I would have called it Le sandwich grillé de fromage and it would have been much more impressive, but, I have no such credentials.

Hah - Les sous-vêtements grillés de sandwich de fromage. Wait.. is that even right? hmm. /me can't speak French.

Oh, and I forgot to mention my smoked trout paté

I fish and shoot game, and go forageing for berries and mushrooms etc; so food is definitely about man against the elements for me. Obviously I don't subsist entirely on this kind of food - that's impractical in this day and age - although if I were prepared to devote a bit more time I could easily supply all of my meat needs with rabbit alone.

Nothing better than a big fat rabbit. Roast the saddle if it's a young one, stew it if it's a bit older.

OK, if we all go to SLCC next year, Conan and Oryx can do an Iron Chef night, and we'll declare them both winners. Oh, and Trout can make sandwiches too.

Screw off, Conan.

[Edit: Sorry Strife]

Ah, but in a world where physical strength is the prime virtue this would be true. The fact is the average woman is physically weaker than the average man, so in a world where physical strength is valued above social and intellectual abilities woman are dealt the short straw. Were there to be a nuclear holocaust tomorrow, resulting in the breakdown of law and order and a return to a world of primitive savagery inwhich the strong were freed to prey on the weak, any surviving women would inevitably become mere property. Gor represents a primitive world where laws are made by the strong for their own benefit - much like Lovecraft and Howard's creations (infinitely superior writers to Norman, by the way).

I stand by my statement that cooking is an art that is learned through experimentation, not an academic skill to be taught. All I said was that your BA does not in itself make you a better cook than someone without a BA in said subject.

I never said it did either. But you might argue that your degree in whatever it is you have your degree in might make you a little more well-rounded in general eduational requirements, and therefore more capable of making informed judgements re: your subject of expertise. You think a stay-at-home mom who teaches herself law has a better understanding of it just because she taught it to herself?

Of course cooking is a hands-on learning process, and a degree does not a professional make. But you dare to compare me to someone who got a degree in Home Economics?

You know what? This is lame. Later.

ibtl

conan, you'll have people thinking all barbarians are trolls next. i hate post-modernism.

I don't have a degree in Home Economics, so the distinction is lost on me. Perhaps you can explain the difference then. Is that the bit you took offence at? Really?

Essentially, you have chosen to take offence because you assumed that I believe a degree in Home Economics to be somehow worthless - clearly that is because you believe it to be.

I was going to give this a pass, a topic on Gor that doesn't implode is rare, but because of this little fracas I will have to close it.

People have different learning styles and thus there are different teaching styles. No single style works well for everyone; at least not one that anyone has found yet. If cooking is anything like programming then training is important; without doing extensive research the untrained will not know the best way to achieve desired results. Training provides foundation but it also can put blinders on the trainee.

Koyaanisqatsi.