Puce

Puce

I was just watching (well, listening to while doing work) Nigella on Youtube, and she said something about using beetroots for a puce-colored dressing. I hadn't really been paying attention to what she was saying before that, but I totally did a double take. How were bright red beets going to turn into a muddy green muck color? And why would you want to "anoint" your griddled halloumi with brownish-green puree?

So I Wikipedia'd "puce". And I realized that I had wrongly interpreted the color "puce" for my entire life.

Puce (often misspelled as "puse", "peuse" or "peuce") is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources. Puce is a shade of red.

Puce
(via Wikipedia)

Why in the world did I think it was green?

Probably because it looks like "puke". Which goes to show that you shouldn't rely on your instincts to define  English words. If I had it my way, I'd name the color of puce "chartreuse" and vice-versa. Chartreuse is an awesome name but an awful color.

Chartreuse (traditional)
(via Wikipedia)

Cereal marshmallows

Cereal marshmallows

Why do people like cereal marshmallows?

I love marshmallows (the homemade kind as well as the ungodly, naturally impossible jet-puffed kind). If they had marshmallows at the movie theater, I'd probably plow through a bag before the opening credits had finished. And now that I've gotten that idea in my head, that's probably what I'm going to be sneaking into the movie the next time I go.

So I'm not biased against marshmallows. I just don't understand cereal marshmallows. They're just... dried up pieces of unicorn poop. They're sweet, but they don't have the satisfaction of being airy and chewy. They're just sugar nuggets. Multicolored sugar nuggets.

And this goes for dehydrated things in your cereal in general. I used to eat Special K Red Berries, until I realized I could add REAL strawberries into my cereal.

Anyway, this is a company. Go ahead, click on it. Yes, a company that sells ONLY BAGS OF CEREAL MARSHMALLOWS.

(via Geekologie)

This looks disgusting.

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

I will let this speak for itself.



Never mind, who am I kidding. I'm going to talk about it.

I will be the first to admit that I totally drink Justin Timberlake Kool-Aid. JT has a new movie? Going to see that ish this week. He came out with a clothing line? If I were a nevernude I'd wear those jeans in the shower. He's on SNL? Why watch SNL otherwise? He doesn't have plans for a new album? My heart dies.

Like, let's be honest. I didn't click on this link because of "FreeSol". I clicked on it because it said Justin Timberlake. Duh.

BUT WHY IS HE RAPPING. JT has the most whiteboy voice ever. That's why his weird falsetto has gotten him laid for the past decade. Badass, he is. Hood, he is not. Please, just sing.

Also, just want to get it out there: WHY ARE THEY AUTOTUNING HIS RAPPING. Isn't autotune supposed to keep you in tune? THERE IS NO TUNE WHEN YOU RAP. It's rhythmic talking. Get it straight.

GOOD EATS IS ENDING

GOOD EATS IS ENDING

Apparently there are only two episodes left. WHYYYYYYYYYYY.

I mean I know the reason why. It's been somewhere around 250 episodes, and he's done 14 seasons. I KNOW. But it still hurts my heart.

(via Food Network)

At least the episodes that are left are an hour long, so I can pretend that there are actually four more episodes. But that's like telling yourself that if you cut your slice of cake into four parts, you'll have four cakes, the rationale for which really doesn't make me feel that much better.

August 3rd

August 3rd

Is "National Grab Some Nuts Day." As in the food. But really, we all know what they were thinking.

Tails

Tails

Are there bones in tails?

You think I'm joking, but I'm totally serious. It took me forever to figure out FOR SURE (at least, for sure enough for me) if dogs had bones in their tails. Google really failed me yesterday. How?

1. I Googled "dog bones." That was obviously a bad search. Next.

2. I Googled "dog x-ray." Apparently a lot of people like to have their computer wallpapers set as the x-ray of a dog. Weird? Just me? Definitely not. Computer wallpaper sites are not definitive sources, though, so my question still stands.

3. "Dog skeletal system." Much more helpful, but then I started questioning whether the tail bones in the pictures were really cartilage, because 1. people sometimes draw skeletons with attached cartilage and it looks like bone even if it's not, 2. x-rays can show cartilage, and 3. dog tails just don't feel bony.

4. "Broken dog tail." Because in my mind, right, if your dog can have a broken tail, that means that there are bones in there to break! Genius! Except that the only hits I got were hits from Yahoo answers asking "My dog is wagging weird and its tail is bent and it's sad. Is its tail broken?" and that is obviously not a good source to be looking at.

5. Wikipedia. ALL THEY TELL ME IS THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF TAILS. Straight tails, bushy tails, droopy tails. I got more information about bones in HUMAN tails on Wikipedia than information about dog tails. PLUS Wikipedia brings up how to dock a dog's tail, which makes me even more confused because how do you dock a tail if there are bones in it?

So what did I learn? I learned that pig tails have bones.

(via Nose to Tail at Home)

So, I mean, if even tiny curly PIG tails have bones, that means dogs HAVE to have bones in their tails. Right?

Good enough for me. I'm going to bed.

Tongues

Tongues

Is this really necessary.



(via Sneaker News)

I know these are old, but WHAT. WHY.

Can you imagine walking with these on? Sneaker tongues are usually held in by your shoelaces, right? So what do these do? Flap in the wind? There are many question marks in this paragraph, indicating ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE ABOUT THESE SHOES.