Prymaxe Vintage sucks, but let's talk about food too! :)

[fcknoise]

i bought my big box graphic fuzz from a dude who just showed it in a padded envelope which resulted in a slider getting knocked off. shipped it without box or anything. Never want to buy stuff from non-ILFers nowadays

[resincum]

i bought my big box graphic fuzz from a dude who just showed it in a padded envelope which resulted in a slider getting knocked off. shipped it without box or anything. Never want to buy stuff from non-ILFers nowadays

now that's fucking stupid.. the first (only?) time I received pedals in padded envelopes was from ss/bs brian and I figured he was just that confident in his builds

[backwardsvoyager]

i think most postal systems store envelopes differently to boxes in some cases, unless the box is tiny it usually gets a bunch of other shit stacked on top of it whilst envelopes/satchels get put in baskets a lot of the time, i've had way less handling damage to those on average so i often send pedals in satchels but will use 3+ layers of proper packing materials, padding around switches etc. YMMV but it's worked better for me.
When I bought my hexe revolver new it showed up in a box with a gash large enough for the pedal to fit through...
On the other hand once i had a dude ship a mint, box-less Boss DC-2 in a paper envelope with no padding whatsoever...
It's the thoroughness in packing that matters. Prymaxe deal in enormous volume and evidently don't care to put any effort in to it.

Pro Tip: Padded envelopes are for bags of guitar picks...not $300 electronics.

why on earth would you need padding in your envelope if it's just got guitar picks in it

[HighDeaf1080p]

Hahaha. So they don't get snapped in two or torn from the envelope by the sorting machine that sorts non-padded ones.

Padded envelopes don't go thru the sorting machine.

[oldangelmidnight]

my typical $400-$600 a week pedal expenditures for the rest of all time

[D.o.S.]

Yep, they straight up lie about same day shipping.

I'm ashamed to admit I bought a LOT of pedals from them...until they sent me a used Meet Maude. Yes, the item is on sale...but I did not order their "demo" Meet Maude for $280...I bought a $300 NEW one for 15% off. That little bit of adhesive residue on the bottom side, where 4 rubber feet had been installed was enough to cost them my typical $400-$600 a week pedal expenditures for the rest of all time. Bad for them, good for all the other pedal retailers.

Oh, and yea, screw that padded envelope bullshit too.

I love those little round yellow tomatoes...umm...grape tomatoes or some shit. They are so yummy and don't give me heartburn. Woot!

I mean you can just not buy from them in the future, right? esp. if you've looked through this thread and seen what some of their builder/dealer relationships are like.

[HighDeaf1080p]

Future and past. I stopped buying from them the day I received my used Meet Maude so my problem is solved. I have no angst. And along with not buying from them, I can add to threads like this to help others not end up with used junk like I did.

(I love my used Meet Maude with an almost unhealthy lust, even if I did pay new price minus 15% for it *giggle*.)

[HighDeaf1080p]

Tonight its going to be Ragu alla Bolognese, using ground veal, and pinot grigio. *drool* I had the deli lady slice the prosciutto 1/4" thick, so I can now cut it into a fine dice and have little cubes of it floating around in there around the pasta...mmm, gonna be so good.

[Iommic Pope]

That sounds rad.

Last week we got Indian, and I chucked in some chocolate naan bread for desert.
We got a heap, so the next night, for dessert, I zapped it up and put some vanilla ice cream on it, dusted it all with cinnamon and glazed that bitch with runny Nutella.
Fucking hit.

Gonna get up and make Nutella and banana pancakes.

[AngryGoldfish]

I've become vegetarian and my cooking skills have expanded and grown a lot. I feel you have to work that little bit harder when you can't just add chicken and/or cheese to a recipe to improve it. Some of the dishes I'm making: fennel and melon slaw, chickpea curry, cucumber and rice salad, carrot/apple/coriander soup, vegetarian burgers with sweet potato fries, tofu/mushroom/sugar snaps stir fry, mixed bean salad, black bean/sweetcorn/mint salad, stuffed jacket sweet potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, tofu/mushroom/miso broth. Feels good not to be eating meat. I've also cut back dramatically on my dairy consumption, but I've found it a little too challenging right now to completely go vegan.

[HighDeaf1080p]

Yea, no doubt humans are meant to have a lot less meat in our diet than we do, because our meat used to run away and fight back. Three times a month is more in line for us than three times a day.

[AngryGoldfish]

Yea, no doubt humans are meant to have a lot less meat in our diet than we do, because our meat used to run away and fight back. Three times a month is more in line for us than three times a day.

I think we're one of the only species to continue to drink milk after being weened. I know humans are far more advanced in many ways than your average animal, but it's still just pure fat and is only beneficial or necessary for infants. What would be more humane and healthy would be to milk the cow (or other animal) whenever the carve that was born naturally had finished drinking milk and the cow was still lactating. We'd milk the cow, make some delicious cheese and enjoy it as a treat. We eat milk with our cereal, we eat eggs for lunch, we eat chicken for dinner, we eat cheese and crackers for late night snack. That's far too much.

[backwardsvoyager]

I've become vegetarian and my cooking skills have expanded and grown a lot. I feel you have to work that little bit harder when you can't just add chicken and/or cheese to a recipe to improve it. Some of the dishes I'm making: fennel and melon slaw, chickpea curry, cucumber and rice salad, carrot/apple/coriander soup, vegetarian burgers with sweet potato fries, tofu/mushroom/sugar snaps stir fry, mixed bean salad, black bean/sweetcorn/mint salad, stuffed jacket sweet potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, tofu/mushroom/miso broth. Feels good not to be eating meat. I've also cut back dramatically on my dairy consumption, but I've found it a little too challenging right now to completely go vegan.

yussssss, that all sounds awesome. i don't eat meat and i love cooking, it is more challenging but in a fun way. it's soooo cheap too if you do the legwork, meat makes up an enormous portion of meal costs usually (i'm on a student diet and eat pretty well, spend half as much as a room-mate that just eats fried beef mince and cereal ).
i usually cook large batches of pasta sauce or curry and alternate between different types of pasta/noodle/rice for variety because it saves a lot of time and money. just adding as many vegetables and stuff as possible into whatever generally makes everything interesting and healthy and filling enough (and dousing everything with dry wine), i also like doing stuff like combining different types of mushrooms (rehydrated shiitake for rubbery texture and diced button for soft texture etc, does wonders for pasta sauce).
tonight was sushi, made a simple paste for filling by mixing tuna, spring onion, salt/pepper and kewpie. tamari instead of normal soy sauce. ridiculously cheap and simple.

[AngryGoldfish]

yussssss, that all sounds awesome. i don't eat meat and i love cooking, it is more challenging but in a fun way. it's soooo cheap too if you do the legwork, meat makes up an enormous portion of meal costs usually (i'm on a student diet and eat pretty well, spend half as much as a room-mate that just eats fried beef mince and cereal ).
i usually cook large batches of pasta sauce or curry and alternate between different types of pasta/noodle/rice for variety because it saves a lot of time and money. just adding as many vegetables and stuff as possible into whatever generally makes everything interesting and healthy and filling enough (and dousing everything with dry wine), i also like doing stuff like combining different types of mushrooms (rehydrated shiitake for rubbery texture and diced button for soft texture etc, does wonders for pasta sauce).
tonight was sushi, made a simple paste for filling by mixing tuna, spring onion, salt/pepper and kewpie. tamari instead of normal soy sauce. ridiculously cheap and simple.

I don't feel in any way less full without meat or fish. I don't feel any more tired. In fact, if I had to be make a comment on my energy levels or health, I'd say it's improved. I can't attribute the vegetarianism to my weight loss as I also cut out some refined sugars from my diet at the same time. I think I eat the same amount of calories, but it's more nutritious and filling. I see food differently now. If something is calorie-dense but nutritious, filling, and makes me feel better about life (dates, dark chocolate, almonds, etc.) I eat it. I could lose more weight if I cut back on those things, but I want to be healthy and feel satisfied. I love to eat too much to stop. They're just great to snack on throughout the day. For me, grazing makes more sense than having 2-3 large meals per day. I'd rather one medium size breakfast (couple of bananas and some oats with almond milk maybe), one large dinner (chickpea curry maybe), and then graze all evening on fruit, nuts, good chocolate, seeds, etc.

I'd love to try cooking with other types of mushrooms. My supermarkets always just have the bog standard stuff. I might have to find a market and pay a little extra.

I think if I were to ever break my vegetarian lifestyle, it would be for exotic sushi. Go to a proper Japanese restaurant and appreciate something once a year as a treat.

[backwardsvoyager]

+1 on the grazing thing, i used to have pretty bad eating problems (over-eating then fasting for considerable periods to compensate) and it feels so much nicer just grazing on nutritious stuff all day (some days i eschew meals for just having a salad sandwich every couple of hours).

i'm technically pescetarian; i'll always eat seafood because i love it and in most cases it's healthier and more ethical to farm than dairy and eggs, but it's usually too expensive for me so i just use tuna as a staple.

proper sushi is amazing, and can be pretty hard to find. i still don't quite understand why you can get tuna cooked in a tin for chump change but if you want it raw you're paying astronomical prices. raw tuna is beautiful.