<![CDATA[My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife.]]>My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. I assume it’s just their pride that’s traumatised, because they didn’t think of being this efficient themselves, and them an expert.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/454385d3-c9e1-4536-afb9-64a670383d69/my-friend-the-gourmet-cook-gets-a-thousand-yard-stare-when-they-see-me-chopping-certain-ingredients-with-a-scissors-instead-of-a-knife.RSS for NodeWed, 19 Aug 2026 14:27:45 GMTTue, 18 Aug 2026 16:45:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:23:00 GMT]]>@toooobeeee @CiaraNi @MThaastrup kun tåber rydder op. Genier behersker kaos.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/Eg0nJN/statuses/117120498414698357https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/Eg0nJN/statuses/117120498414698357Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:23:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:10:36 GMT]]>@CiaraNi
Det bekræfter min overbevisning, at dem der holder orden er bare for dovne til at lede efter tingene!
@Eg0nJN @MThaastrup

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/toooobeeee/statuses/117120449697088276https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/toooobeeee/statuses/117120449697088276Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:10:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:41:19 GMT]]>@CiaraNi Mushrooms got so much easier for me to cook with and eat when I realized I could just stick some in a jar and go at them with kitchen scissors.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/jendefer/statuses/117119154892218018https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/jendefer/statuses/117119154892218018Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:41:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:01:18 GMT]]>@kcoyle Those are the rules we're avoiding by using Author First Name - much less thinking required!

@Infrapink

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118525672684296https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118525672684296Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:01:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:51:03 GMT]]>@Infrapink @CiaraNi There are library rules for all of those languages - deep, detailed, discussed rules. E.g. Icelandic authors are alphabetized by their first names as they have no family name. The harder languages are the ideographic - e.g. Chinese. The filing rules for those are specific to each language or language group.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kcoyle/statuses/117118485335779571https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kcoyle/statuses/117118485335779571Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:51:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:17:55 GMT]]>@CiaraNi I think I used to follow someone on Twitt*r with that name. An American writer, IIRC.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/arratoon/statuses/117118355071692377https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/arratoon/statuses/117118355071692377Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:17:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:08:08 GMT]]>@arratoon Haha - nice. Screwy decimal indeed. I shall be borrowing that!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118316642237807https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118316642237807Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:08:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:06:53 GMT]]>@Infrapink Ah! Delighted to learn it's not just me. I like avoiding exactly those kind of questions, having to work out where, say, the Icelandic authors are, etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118311701404620https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117118311701404620Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:06:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:17:20 GMT]]>@CiaraNi That is screwy decimal!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/arratoon/statuses/117118116881072440https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/arratoon/statuses/117118116881072440Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:17:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:13:17 GMT]]>@CiaraNi Oh, cool, I thought I was the only person who does that.

How would the librarian alphabetise books by Icelandic, Ethiopian, or Arabian authors? How about Tibetans and Indonesians who don't hvae surnames at all?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/Infrapink/statuses/117118100899540419https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/Infrapink/statuses/117118100899540419Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:13:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:50:27 GMT]]>@CiaraNi Agreed!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117118011175609774https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117118011175609774Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:50:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:42:24 GMT]]>@datenhalde And I bet her pizza slices are excellently cut too. Good for her. Trailblazing in the kitchen.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117979472324255https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117979472324255Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:42:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:54 GMT]]>@fgraver I'm after the same thing. Worldwide literature, worldwide fiction, by authors diverse in age and genre and gender - books as a window, not a mirror.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117973619475376https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117973619475376Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:48 GMT]]>@CiaraNi

Haha, my wife cuts pizza with a pair of scissors, and everybody* hates her for that!

*me

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nrw.social/users/datenhalde/statuses/117117973198901132https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nrw.social/users/datenhalde/statuses/117117973198901132Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:36:46 GMT]]>@CiaraNi I tend to blend all 3… (Don’t tell anyone).

I think my reading needs are simple, though. What I want is for literature to give me some insight into the lives of people unlike myself, preferably in settings I don’t recognise.

That’s why I tend to avoid middle-aged, white men writing «samtidsliteratur».

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117957330234151https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117957330234151Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:36:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:35:34 GMT]]>@coolcalmcollected So many ingredients that are so much easier to chop this way!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117952614710630https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117952614710630Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:35:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:33:45 GMT]]>@CiaraNi

the day it occurred to me to use scissors for cutting up food was the best day of my life

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/ap/users/117061401957052748/statuses/117117945481552444https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/ap/users/117061401957052748/statuses/117117945481552444Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:33:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:33:27 GMT]]>@fgraver

"If there’s a mystery of any sort and a protagonist attempting to solve said mystery, it’s crime."

That's a great example of the kind of genre-categorising I've never been good at. Even when I'm browsing the library online, I dont have an instinct for Thriller contra Mystery contra Crime.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117944332130073https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117944332130073Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:33:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:31:06 GMT]]>@fgraver Agreed.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117935070121494https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117935070121494Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:31:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:30:04 GMT]]>@nieuemma I only joined the Fediverse in 2022, but that's still long enough and enough reply threads ago for me to know that I will not be sharing a list of Ingredients I Chop With Scissors Instead of A Knife with the Fediverse 🙂

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117930986415845https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117930986415845Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:30:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:29:31 GMT]]>@CiaraNi I definitely agree about Pratchett’s Discworld novels. And that’s a prime example of why I refuse to listen to the gate keepers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117928810004437https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117928810004437Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:29:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:27:40 GMT]]>@CiaraNi Also, I think my genres are very easy to sort. I look at the following things in this order:

If a novel has elements of non-existant technology, is set in the future, or has magic or other fantastical elements, it’s SF&F (Margaret Atwood, I’m looking at you!).

If there’s a mystery of any sort and a protagonist attempting to solve said mystery, it’s crime.

Anything else is other fiction.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117921570379877https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/117117921570379877Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:27:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:26:02 GMT]]>@CiaraNi what do you cut with scissors? I'm curious what ingredients you find it more efficient for

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.de/users/nieuemma/statuses/117117915126768641https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.de/users/nieuemma/statuses/117117915126768641Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:26:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:25:35 GMT]]>@fgraver This is why wondering 'Is literary fiction a separate category?' is annoying, frustrating and entertaining, all at the same time. And unanswerable. I can't define LitFic, but I know it when I read it. And I also know that Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are not regarded as LitFic and I think they should be. The wisdom and insight and social advocacy in among all the laugh-aloud lines - a Nobel Prize-worth of literature in his body of work.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117913372416833https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/CiaraNi/statuses/117117913372416833Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:25:35 GMT