written by Jesus on punchcards
I just want to say thank you for that line, it’s beautiful. I’m absolutely going to steal it.
written by Jesus on punchcards
I just want to say thank you for that line, it’s beautiful. I’m absolutely going to steal it.
I never knew laundry could be so threatening.
A lot of women don’t want to sit on the toilet seat, for fear they’ll get dirty or “catch something”, so they hover and proceed to pee all over the toilet seat. Also men’s toilets usually don’t get exposed to menstrual blood and products. I can absolutely believe women’s toilets are way more disgusting than men’s.
Underwater hockey is also a thing
You’re heteroflexible?
This seems to imply that death is the only way we’ll ever escape that pile of clean laundry you have yet to put away.
Congrats on coming out and being your true self, that was a very brave thing to do.
Your mother, like many parents, had hopes and dreams about who you would become as a person. She’s now being faced with the prospect that those hopes and dreams are dead, that the person she thought you would become is gone. She’s going to need to grieve and from what you’ve written here it seems that process has started. Shock, denial, bargaining, some level of acceptance. I expect anger and depression might show up at some point. It doesn’t necessarily happen in sequence and can cycle too. She’s going to need some time to process, but what’s positive is she’s not outright rejecting who you are, there’s room for her to grow.
My parents weren’t hostile when I came out as gay, but I heard similar things - it’s just a phase. Are you sure? Was it something we did? Where did we go wrong? What will your life become? Over time they came to accept it and told my extended family (including my very religious Pentecostal grandmother). Everyone is now very welcoming of my wife and my parents are delighted to be grandparents to our kids. I know it’s not the same, but there is hope for things to get better, just keep being authentically you.
I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I’m inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.
There was a Starbucks trend where they added olive oil to their coffees and it was giving customers the mega liqui-shits. Does that count?
Coffee mixology is also becoming a thing now. I imagine some crazy combos have or might come out of that.
Is it him tweeting or someone posing as him?
This bittern erasure will not stand! Not only are they also mostly neck:
They’re also fucking hilarious:
It’s not about money, it’s about power and control.
This is not terribly unusual for a municipal referendum vote on Paris. The SUV vote had just under 6% turnout, the electric scooter vote had about 7.5%.
I’ve saved a few recipes over time, here are my favourites:
For legs/drumsticks: https://natashaskitchen.com/baked-chicken-legs-with-garlic-and-dijon/
If I don’t have time to marinade overnight: https://www.modernhoney.com/the-best-chicken-marinade-recipe/
Easy crowd pleaser: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/perfectly-grilled-chicken-breasts.html
If you have tahini lying around: https://www.thechunkychef.com/tahini-marinated-chicken-buddha-bowl/
Fajitas: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/chicken-fajitas.html
I have a couple of tips to improve on pretty much any marinade recipe:
Lemon/lime juice: Omit if you’re marinating for more than 1h and replace instead with zest. The acid will cook the meat and the exterior will be drier.
Brine: I usually wet brine before in a water+ salt mixture (1 Tbsp kosher salt/1 cup water, NOT table salt) for 1h for chicken breast, 2h for thighs/legs, then marinade. If you do this, don’t add salt to your marinade. Do not do this if your marinade recipe calls for soy sauce or anything equally salty.
Also if you want to try fried chicken without deep frying I suggest brining some skin on thighs/legs then trying the following recipe: https://www.thespruceeats.com/southern-oven-fried-chicken-3058647
It’s not exactly healthier but it is pretty tasty. It’s even better of you can use ghee instead of butter but that might be harder to get your hands on.
I think the fundamental difference between that experiment and the “suicide capsules” vs the death penalty is that in the *former the people going into it are doing so willingly. I imagine people undergoing the same procedure involuntarily will probably resist, hold their breath, panic, do whatever they can to sabotage the process, etc. The reason this method is rarely used to euthanise pets is precisely because of this - the animals get stressed (as many often do at the vet where they need to be for the procedure) panic, react, and it takes way longer than it should as a result.
Edit: edited for clarity
Relevant Simpsons episode: https://youtu.be/DX08tDXPnz0?feature=shared
I don’t know about the physics part, but the picture is taken from this video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/9IZ410VrikQ?feature=shared
I highly recommend this channel, they have a bunch of funny videos with animal facts.
I think I might be able to answer this one from my perspective. I was born in a Portuguese speaking country, so on paper my mother tongue should be Portuguese (which it sort of still is). But we moved when I was a kid and I lived in multiple countries, so I went to international schools for most of my life. English then became my mother tongue over time and it is dominant over Portuguese. I now work in an organisation where English is the main working language, but I live in France, so I acquired a third language, just not quite at native level. Here are some of the interesting things I’ve observed:
There are some messier issues around identity that I won’t get into because those aren’t limited just to language, but the above are things that have stood out to me over the years.
It’s probably too early to tell just how many people will be impacted and if those impacted will connect the dots to Trump and his cabinet’s actions. But I’ll ask as a precaution - is there a lethal dose for schadenfreude? My gut tells me we may experience quite a bit of it and I don’t want to overdose.
Honestly, I’m ok with where The Owl House ended. It would have been better to have a longer season, but I’m ok with where it ended, I got the closure I needed. There are however other animation shows I’m pissed ended way too soon:
These were all great shows that deserved better than what they got.