Some, here and there. Not really heavy sobbing or anything, because there’s no real connection.
I think the two heaviest were Kurt Vonnegut and Kris Kristofferson. Both have been influential on me as a person and a writer.
But the suddenness of Robin Williams and Chester Bennington made both hard in a different way.
You think vance would be better? Or anyone else down the line? The entire line of succession is stacked deep with turds. They might be green or brown instead of orange, but they’re still going to stink.
So killing Trump does nothing useful. At most, it might, might shift power structures within the GOP that could result in a better candidate next election, assuming we’re allowed to have one.
I dunno, it’s hard to pick a single actor because they don’t all do equivalent roles.
I think it fair to say that Edward Norton is damn high on my list though. He does take on a wide range of roles, and I’ve yet to see anything where he didn’t just own the role he was in, even if the rest of the movie wasn’t as good. But he also doesn’t take on roles in shitty movies either. I can’t think of any where the movie wasn’t at least well made, even if it wasn’t super successful.
I’m in the same place with Samuel L Jackson for similar reasons, though sometimes he does jump into bad-ish movies that are only watchable because he’s in it. Like, snakes on plane? If he wasn’t in it, no way would it be as fun as it is. But he’s kinda stealth despite his reputation. People know he can act, but then he pulls out something like black snake moan and everyone is all “damn, I forgot he could do that”. He seems like he enjoys taking on lighter roles just for the fun of acting, and then he finds something meaty he can sink his teeth into and goes beast mode. But I can’t think of any performances he’s done that weren’t worth watching, even the shitty commercials lol
Not much tbh.
My mom is probably the dumbest story.
See, she was a hippie back when that meant something. But after she married and settled down, she didn’t smoke weed for a long time.
I got old enough to know some people, despite not being able to smoke it myself, and she wanted some to kinda relive the old days post-divorce. So I got her a quarter.
Welllll, she decided to roll herself up a fat fucking joint. Nice, right! We’re talking a joint of the best hydro in three counties. She then proceeded to smoke the entire fucking thing. It was as thick as a pencil.
She’s giggling, and then laughing at everything.
And then it really hits. She crawls to her bed saying “I don’t know what to do-hoo-hoo-hoo” because she is so fucking greened out that the whole world is spinning every time she breathes and her rocking chair moves because of it.
She’s laying on the bed eventually, and has to keep one foot on the floor because if she doesn’t, the world is going to speed up and fly away. So she keeps hitting the brakes with that foot.
There’s about an hour of that, mixed in with moans and me trying to keep her calm because every time she makes the mistake of moving, she panics. She didn’t want to fly away into space.
I actually called the guy I got it from and asked if he put something in that shit. I’d been around stoners and had never seen anything like that. He asked some questions and eventually started laughing himself because nobody smokes that much of weed that potent and doesn’t get their face melted. He explained that one toke would have been plenty, even for regular smokers.
But, yeah, it took her about five hours to get back to the point she could just pass out and sleep for twelve hours.
How the fuck was I supposed to know it was some kind of crazy shit, or that she would react like that?
Now, when she’s being twatish, I just ask her if she wants to fly off into space, and she gets all pissed off and splutters
In reality, nothing, that isn’t my vibe.
But, when messing around with my wife? I’ll tell a simple joke. Then I’ll exaggerate the fuck out of it. Then I’ll do a personalized version of it ala walking dad. Then I’ll wait fifteen or twenty minutes and do it again. And again until she’s almost ready to punch me.
Then I’ll wait a day, and start a normal conversation, go with it and then segue right into the joke again. Then go through the whole cycle until she’s ready to scream. Then stop and say I’m done. Only I’m not, and she knows I’m not after over a decade together. She knows it’s going to come back, and she’s waiting for it, only I’ll wait longer, until she thinks I’ve forgotten and drop it out of nowhere in the middle of something else, sometimes while there’s people around that I know have never heard the joke, and now she’s glaring at me, but trying not to laugh while everyone else is laughing because it’s new to them.
Eventually she accepts the absurdity of it all and gets that it’s all about committing to the bit.
But the reason it works is that she can never tell which joke it’s going to be. It isn’t every joke, every day.
Like, why didn’t the toilet paper cross the road?
Because it was stuck in the crack.
Simple, silly joke. Fucking hilarious though, it’s utter genius joke construction (and I wish I had been the one to create it). But when you start exaggerating the way you tell it, doing the whole “do ya get it?” shtick, then switching over to "it got stuck in the crack Coral! Only with Coral replaced by her name, it starts building into this absurd snowball that grows with every repetition until it’s bigger and more ridiculous than a simple bit like that can do on its own.
It’s shorthand for “I love you enough to look like a jackass for days or weeks just to give you a laugh”, and it’s utterly annoying, it’s groan inducing and sometimes “Jesus fucking Christ, South, how many times are you going to do this?!”. But it always pays off in the end because once the ride is over, and the theater of the absurd plays out, all it takes is starting the joke, and she’s laughing, and happy. That’s because she knows damn good and well I wouldn’t put the effort into it for just anyone. She knows it’s going to build a shared joy in a way just telling a joke can’t.
But it still annoys her during the process, which just makes it funnier.
Document everything. And avoid the hell out of her. It’s impossible to predict how turning anyone down can go, so the safest course of action is to not turn her down, but to never go near her again
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So, pretend I’m saying whatever it takes to end the conversation here, because I tried to undo starting it.
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I think part of the problem is that it’s hit or miss whether or not it’s spelled/spoken with ñ or n, in advertising and labels. Here in the US anyway.
What’s funny is that the ñ spelling and pronunciation has bled over into native spanish speakers. My friend’s husband is from Nicaragua, and his entire family pronounces it ñ. One of my neighbors though, from Guadalajara originally, it’s n only.
I’d also say that habanero is ñ friendly. It looks like it should be pronounced habañero, unlike a fairly similar word, Enero. It’s easier to say habañero than eñero as well. The a leading into the n does that for some reason I can’t figure out.
However! Pero and perro blows people’s minds. While I don’t hear it with native speakers, damn near everyone else I’ve run into pronounces them the same. I do, and I know better, because I can’t make my tongue work right.
If that isn’t a copy pasta, it should be!
All I know is that some motherfuckers fuck their own motherfucking mothers.
It’s important to note that if you don’t already have a computer, ordering one without an os installed is a problem.
So some people gotta have something, if only to download and install their distro of choice. So, even a bad distro is better than nothing occasionally
I’m passingly fond of cunt nugget, but I can’t pretend anything is as fun as motherfucker.
Motherfucker doesn’t fuck around. It goes right up, spits in the eye of your enemy and makes it clear you are there to fuck with them, and they gonna find out.
Bonus points if you step to your high voice, or do a whisper growl.
Well, I grew up on Knight rider and Dukes of Hazzard, so I’m definitely a fan of car stunts.
But the f&f series often relies on way too much bullshit and CGI instead of showcasing what cars can actually do. Since the dialogue and plots are ham fisted, I don’t actually watch the movies any more, unless they’re on where I don’t have a choice. That’s how I’ve seen what I have.
Eh, none of them to that degree. There’s really nothing that’s ever been on TV that I can’t be patient with, and I can’t binge watch much of anything.
However, Metalocalype and The Venture Bros, I can watch more of at once than anything else, even animated media that I technically like more. Which seems weird on the surface, but the reason is that I don’t have to watch every second of those two to enjoy every second of the episodes. Particularly on rewatches, though it was the case when they were new anyway.
If you want to talk about the other shows that are almost bingeable for me, but I need to be able to sustain watching, that’s Samurai Jack and Primal. Both of them take animated storytelling and turn it into a form of art that transcends a single genre. Brilliant scripts, and the art styles were and are compelling in a way nothing I had seen before matched.
Part of the barrier is just attention span. Since I had to give up stimulants of any kind, including caffeine and nicotine, I’m reminded of why school could be so damn hard when I was a kid. Not the most severe expression of attention issues, but enough that after a few episodes, I need a break from being locked in fully.
The other part is just being old and not wanting to sit in one place and get stiff and sore.
Well, in a post covid world, you aren’t the first person to have this problem. People that could taste and smell fully temporarily or permanently lost some degree of one or both senses.
And recipes are the answer. The handful of people I know that have dealt with it have managed to still make good food that way. And there’s professional cooks that have allergies but still cook things like shellfish that way, and do just fine. The reason it works is that a well crafted recipe doesn’t need tasting or smelling. Not all recipes are well crafted, but most of the ones you find at places like America’s test kitchen, serious eats, or other sources that actively test and adjust their recipes are. Those two resources are going to get to what you need long enough to find other sources that you can trust to have tested things.
Now, there are still going to be problems. Some cooking directions rely on smell. The biggest one is garlic. Almost every single pan cooked recipe is going to tell you to add it and stir “until fragrant”. But, again, there’s a simple solution. Counting. Garlic will become at least mildly fragrant in a pan at a five count. After a ten count, it’s mostly gone and the garlic starts becoming bitter. So, as long as you don’t count absurdly slow, keep it between 5 and 8, and then add the next ingredients in the instructions of the recipe (it’ll usually be a liquid or a larger amount of meats and/or veggies).
Now, that only really applies to pan cooking. Garlic in other techniques doesn’t need that much attention.
However, you can even bypass the “until fragrant” via bypassing the pan cook entirely. Roast your garlic ahead of time. There’s instructions on how to do it online, and it’s very forgiving. So you just add roasted garlic in with any seasonings, and you’ll get a nice result. Won’t be exactly the same, but it’s foolproof because it eliminates what can go wrong in the pan.
Another big one is the “to taste” instruction. That’s almost always going to be with salt and pepper. When it’s something else, you really end up needing a taster to help because it’s unusual, and there’s not much info out there on how at adapt each and every herb or spice.
But, people have worked out a kind of baseline https://www.thespruceeats.com/cooking-with-salt-1807478. You shouldn’t skip those kinds of salt additions, ever. That’s because they contribute more than taste. They contribute to the cooking process. The best example of that is when cooking meat or large pieces of vegetables via roasting. See, the Maillard reaction happens better and more evenly when the ingredients are salted before cooking.
So you can always add the rough amounts from that page and the handy little illustration it has until you memorize or write them down.
When you do that, you don’t need to add anything “to taste” because the pain eating can do that better than you to begin with. Most of the time, the instruction “salt to taste” is towards the end, so all you’re getting is flavor enhancement.
If you want to add some then, or the instruction is earlier in the recipe, you can usually add a half teaspoon to any recipe that doesn’t already have salt or a heavily salty ingredient like soy sauce. Some folks will be fine if you add an entire teaspoon, as long as the recipe feeds at least 4 people.
Pepper though, that’s a bit tougher. It’s an ingredient that benefits a dish at any point in the cooking process, doesn’t change that process, but does change the flavor depending on when it’s added. So you definitely want to add some at the point in the process the recipe says. Generally, a half teaspoon is going to be enough that eaters can adjust at the table and it won’t be too much for anyone not chemically sensitive to piperazine. If you know the people well enough, you can adjust to their preferences when a “pepper to taste” is included.
Most people, in a dish serving 4 are going to tolerate a full teaspoon, but it likely will dominate the dish more than is ideal overall. Tolerating isn’t the same as liking, after all. So, as long as you don’t dump more than that in, it’s not going to ruin anything.
Another little trick for pepper, if you have control of your kitchen, is to keep two containers. One, you set aside for a year, the other you replace regularly. The old one is going to be milder, so it can work well for giving some pepper taste, without overwhelming things. Now, I don’t prefer that method since it’s easy enough to just reduce amounts. But one of the people I know that lost part of their taste to covid swears that is e reliable.
His explanation is that it gives enough pepper taste that he can make mistakes, and not have the end result be hot. A lot of the piperazine fades when you have preground pepper to begin with. The longer it sits, the closer it gets to the bare minimum it’ll ever have.
Like I said, I don’t advocate for that, because adjusting is easier, but that’s me.
Thank you!
Much appreciated :)
I would never have thought it making that, but now I want to.
You say it’s ATK mostly meatless, is their recipe specifically a gallete, or something similar?
Flip a coin between cinnamon and plasma
Well, it was most likely the indirect drop in core temperature, or a change in your nervous system’s detection of temperature difference.
When you warm up the skin, all the little capillaries open up at the surface. It isn’t only at the source of the heat. So your body now radiates its heat through the skin, dropping core temp slightly.
A decrease in core temp is known to be part of the normal sleep cycle. This is one of the reasons a hot shower can contribute to faster, better sleep when taken an hour or so ahead of the intended bedtime.
However, another part of the sleep cycle, or rather how our bodies work leading up to sleep, is that when external temperatures feel cooler, the adaptations our bodies make promote sleep, and improve sleep. It’s why a common bit of advice is to keep the sleeping area cool. But, if you trick your body into feeling a different gap in external and internal temperature, it often serves the same purpose. Our skin isn’t that great at determining direct temperature, as in “the air is 70 degrees”. What it is good at it “the air feels 30 degrees warmer than me”. So it can be fooled sometimes.
Add in the comfort of cuddling, with the full stomach pulling blood towards the stomach, and you’ve got a nap bomb.
There’s been some good research into this, and if you look up thermoregulation and sleep, skin warming and sleep, as well as general information about the sleep cycle, you’ll run into at least articles reporting the studies. Most of the studies are paywalled, but if you’re sufficiently motivated, there’s ways around that.
But, by all means, do the control experiment. I would predict that you’ll get a slower result than with your boyfriend, but not a ton slower. Assuming you make sure to eat the same meal, or very similar, anyway.
Just remember that it isn’t 1:1. The air temp may be different by a few degrees, you may have had more or less sleep beforehand, time of day can make it vary. Clothing, textures of bed linens, etc. The boyfriend isn’t the only factor involved. So don’t expect a perfect result where the exact degree of reduction in time-to-sleep (aka sleep latency) is the exact same, or wildly different. You might not even be able to measure the difference since you didn’t actually measure the time precisely the first time. You’ll be relying on your perceived time to sleep unless you have the ability to read and record brain waves. Even watches and such with sensors aren’t precise in detecting sleep. They get close, but only to degree.