Yeah, our last house had an electric stove and vented into the kitchen. I had to roast out on the deck :-(

I’m not sure they’d dig him up for you, even if you did all of that.

But, me too.

The oil runs out in another 30 or 40; things are going to fall apart pretty quickly after that, when we won’t be able to get enough food in to maintain cities.

I was scanning, and thought you said we’d be battling nuclear mutants for the last bottle of Tabasco.

I don’t know which version is more probable.

I was going to make a joke about brick moths, but it seems pointless, now.

PEWESAS

Maybe someone thought capitalization in English was just a master of style. Based on a lot of stuff I see online, I can believe that would be a take-away.

German’s capitalization rules are regular, but I don’t know them. I learned German entirely through immersion; by the time I left the country, I had one person say that I didn’t sound like a foreigner, but rather like someone from some other vague state. However, my attempts at writing it have been variously described by native German speakers as “funny,” “odd,” “peculiar,” and occasionally “hilarious.”

I did once attempt to take proper German classes after I got back to the States to try and fix my gaps. Do you know how intensely horrible it is to try to take language classes in which you’re fluent but can’t write? If you start at level 1, half the class is mind numbingly dull, because it’s all vocabulary and pronunciation. If you start any higher, you struggle with basic written rules you should have learned earlier. Worst is that there are a ton of classes designed for people who can read and write but need conversational practice, but almost none for the other direction. So I find myself in this odd state where I can read and write basic French - because I studied it in college for three years - yet I can’t understand or be understood conversationally. Yet I can hold a conversation in German, but I’m lucky if the reader can understand what I’ve written.

How did I get here? Oh, right: capitalization rules. Except these are just different font sizes mixed together, not even capitalization mistakes. Hmmm indeed.

Oh, man, I’d love to have a picture of myself as a kid, like that. That’d command an over-the-fireplace respect.

Oh, 25 years old, or something? I’ve looked at replacing it with something newer and easier to clean, with electric controls instead of dials, but they’re enormously more expensive and the basic manual dial versions are still available, and cheaper.

I mean, there’s not much to a gas stove. I’ve taken mine completely apart because the peizo starter fried itself. You don’t need more than physical dials to control gas flow, like a water faucet, and a peizo starter. Making them more complex is really silly. Even my in-laws stupid giant, expensive Viking has manual dials and peizo starters, although they only have to turn the dials on and the starters go automatically until they detect that the gas is burning. I have to press my dials to trigger the starter. Even in the Viking, the gas control is still just a valve; as long as there’s gas pressure in the lines, you can manually start it with a match with no electricity. Their’s is about 10 years old.

Funny, though: our fireplaces are reversed. Our gas fireplace is peizo started; their’s you have to manually light with a lighter.

Eben so! Danke!

Thank you! Yes, Pumuckl! I don’t know why I remembered Meister Eder as a little girl.

And he’s a kobold; that’s why my search failed.

Nope, not personally. I mean, I have had hoods that just vent into the kitchen, but never on a gas stove; only on cheap electric ones.

I believe they exist, but IME gas stove installation code says it has to vent outside, because of the gas fumes. With electric stoves, installers can get away with just venting into the kitchen, so if something burns you get your smoke alarm.

I roast coffee beans, and I do it by placing a cookie tray on my stove, and put the roaster on that. It is a major PITA, but if I do a dark roast it produces smoke - like real, dark, something’s-burning smoke - and if I don’t have it under the vent it sets the smoke detectors off every time. But under the vent, it just sucks it all out and jets it outside.

This is the first house I’ve owned that has a gas stove, but my in-law’s place has a big Viking in it with, like, 10 burners; it’s a monster, and the hood on that looks like it came from a restaurant. Their’s vents outside, too.

I have no doubt there are places in the US where gas is cheap and even trailer homes have gas stoves and no outside venting, and maybe older homes. I dunno. But every gas stove I’ve personally seen in the US in the past decade has vented outside.

While I love the thought, what makes Portal the best game is GLaDOS, and the story. Solving the problems quickly took back seat to the GLaDOS interactions and story; I don’t think I’d enjoy a dungeon crawler version of Portal nearly as much without her, and the story.

It’s a big part of why I don’t like MMORGS and combat royals, where it just feels like random characters sprinting everywhere in their own little worlds and no cohesive story. I get why many people do like it, and it’s obvious why studios love the format - they’re just low cost money printers. To each their own!

Mine works when the power is out. The only electrical part is the starter.

Also, I can heat my house (well, keep the temps above freezing) with my gas fireplace. I just have to manually click the pezioh electric starter.

OTOH, when the power is out, I can’t run my stove vent hood, which vents outside and is why I don’t worry much about “particulate matter.” Never seen a non-externally-vented gas stove; I thought they were against code in the US, but whatever. The fireplace is entirely enclosed and sealed, and vented outside; heat circulation is via a fan that runs air around the heat box - which also doesn’t run with power out, making it less efficient. But it still beats having the pipes freeze.

Danke :-)

where I don’t feel like I have some big commitment if I go in.

This is so important for me, these days. I used to be able to drop an entire weekend in Destiny, to the dismay of my wife; now I’m more selective about how many of the hours of my life I spend unproductively moving pixels around on a screen.

Factorio is my current weakness. So easy to get into; so easy to lose entire days to. I’m really happy with the Space Age upgrade, because it’s self-limiting. EE except for Vulcanis, the other planets are a lot harder to make progress on, and without that constant dopamine fix I only go in one a week for a couple of hours now.

Verdammt - es gab mal einen kinder Show daß war um einen Frauline (live) und ein angeregte Pixie mit hohen Stimme. Es lauftet etwar in den 1980/90 zeitraum? Ich sahe es nur eins oder zweimal, und kann es jetzt nicht finden.

Ja, ja; Detsche ist mir Fremdesprache, und ich habe es ins mehr als 30 jahre nicht gesprochen (und schreiben-lernen habe ich nie). Ich weiß, das es schrechlich ist. Ich brauche keine Witziges Kommentar.

No.

I’ve saved this under “Why our ‘intelligent’ designer was an incompetent amateur.”

In US demographic surveys, they make a distinction between “White, non-hispanic” and “White.”

There’s little difference except whether cops can shoot you and get away with it, or not.

God, they’re even more adorable than their parents! Not all young bird species can claim that.

Now I have to find fledgling WFS pictures.

Dang it. Saw Whet wins again.

Although, I did come across this impressive defensive posture!

But at least it’s not this face, that only a mother could love (unknown species)