Wisk detergent specializes in grease. Though now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I saw Wisk.

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I just looked, it seems they discontinued it and replaced with Persil, I don't know if Persil is the same.

Listening is different and takes some adjustment. You need to keep pumping words into your ears until the pathways form, if you want to make that adjustment. It took me more than 3, that's for sure.

For a while I would lose focus or get sleepy, and don't remember much at all from the first few audiobooks I listened to. I relistened to some of them and it was almost like a new book, but I listen to so many more books now than I would ever have time to read. I listen when driving to places I know, but if I am following new directions I can't really focus on the book, so don't listen at those times. I listened to the entire Malazan Book of the Fallen, a notoriously large, complex, and layered series, and am actually surprised by how much I got out of it.

I didn't even want to get into audiobooks, I was against them, but I had a 3 free month trial, got the books and ignored them for years until I finally wanted to read one of them and didn't want to buy it since I already owned it. Now I listen to so many.

Also, get a library card and find out what apps they use, you can borrow audiobooks right to your phone, it is awesome.

Better than the other way around.

Understanding a foreign language and forming sentences in one are very different. OP understands well enough if he can form sentences that aren't perfectly spelled but still get the point across. His experience with hearing English is different than the way King writes it, which is true for everyone, because King writes really bad modern American dialogue.

I like to give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to regional and generational differences, because he does craft a good story despite the truly awkward spoken words, and when I read The Dark Tower I actually found the dialogue pleasant when it was in the Fantasy worlds, and right back to terrible when it came to our world.

He's obviously not typing in his first language, no need to be a jerk about it, the intent is clear, and I agree with him. King's modern American dialogue is awful, which is why his fantasy prose surprised me.

Blizzo! That's cute.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a weird book where practically nothing happens, then you can't stop thinking about it. It has very strong character work.

The sequel, A Close and Common Orbit has a more plot based structure, which is why I like it better, but still has really great character work. The series is called Wayfarers, there are two more.

She also has an unconnected book called To Be Taught, If Fortunate, about space exploration.

I don't think anyone assembles better titles. These are fairly short and don't focus on violence.

I was wondering where you were going with your analogy, thinking "well, the water wouldn't be electrified while you were drinking it!"

Logan was great, I don't think I'll ever watch it again.

Ditto for The Mist.

You WILL hit your mark, or the bat'leth comes out!

It insists upon itself.

Movies about movie making, or anything similar like putting on a theater show, or where a writer is the protagonist, are generally shit. It's narcissistic and usually cringe.

Once upon time in Hollywood is not great, but it has enough of Tarantino's strengths to make it okay for a single watch, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

Birdman made me so angry when it started and had a pretentious subtitle, I immediately knew the ads were misleading. I'm still mad I paid to see that in the theater, and take joy in Keaton thinking he won but having to sit back down. Whoever edited that trailer should be in prison.

Nah, that was the Crazy 88, but there weren't really 88 of them.

>I Am Legend. Wtf was that ending?

Test screening audience approved. Can't have a movie without the hero saving the day and getting the girl.

Get a rice cooker, follow instructions, be happy with good rice every time.

I listened to the audiobooks, and I started with Circe. Circe is amazing, with one of the best narrations I've ever heard. Achilles is a pale shadow of Circe with a narration nowhere near the level of mastery of Perdita Weeks' performance, and yes that's a huge factor, I know, but that's how I experience most books and it has to be part of the equation.

Aside from the performance, I am just more attracted to mythological stories about gods than heroes, and I assume Miller's writing improved, since Circe came later.

I know audiobooks aren't for everybody, I used to be against them, too, but this one is so great I think everyone should try listening to it.

Pretty sure Peter Benchley did this decades ago.

Third Rock from the Sun has the greatest meta moment in all of television.

John Lithgow and his family, actually alien scouts sent to Earth to prepare for an invasion, await the arrival of their leader, who for some reason is coming in through an airport. A drunk approaches them and they shoo him away, not recognizing him as the leader because they have human bodies as disguises, but when they realize it is him they salute and ask him how his trip was.

The leader, William Shatner, says the trip was awful and they sent him to the wrong airport in NJ, then on the trip to Ohio he saw a man on the wing of the plane, and John Lithgow yells "SAME THING HAPPENED TO MEEEE!!!"

Shatner starred in the original 1960 Twilight Zone episode about a man seeing a gremlin tearing his plane's engine apart, and that episode was remade with John Lithgow in that role for the Twilight Zone movie in the 80s.

I loved this when it aired, I still love it.

Great, now we all want layered cake. I hope you're happy.

Bad enough non-rock bands have been added, but now almost NO rock bands? What a joke.

Co-lin-fuc-king-rob-in-son.

Doritos are full of MSG, but the people who swear Chinese food makes them sick could down a whole bag of Doritos and never notice.

They did a test where they gave a room full of people a free meal, then afterward told them that people in the left half of the room had MSG in their food and the other half didn't, and a bunch of people started complaining about feeling sick. Everyone got the exact same food, no MSG.

I now buy all of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books without reading anything beyond his name on it and the title. Guns of the Dawn was not what I thought it would be, and it may be my favorite book by him.

I recommend it very often, and I also suggest the audiobook, it was a very good performance.

I also bought John Dies at the End without knowing anything about it other than the catchy title and cover, and the author pushing it hard on Cracked dot com. Loved it, and it wasn't just a surprise, it redefined what I think books can be.

We put a cabinet over the sink where there was none before, so the recessed bulb in that space was replaced with an under cabinet strip light. There is an extra outlet up there and an extra outlet where the microwave will go above the stove, so I can add more later.