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by mbg721 3y ago
Stuart Ashen (ashens) has a YouTube channel that ventures into trying expired packaged food. In practice, it appears that sugary things do not keep indefinitely, though that might be because the packaging isn't designed to last decade
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by mbg721 3y ago
Indeed, travel writing is an entire genre. But I also get the gp's point, that especially with cooking it's easy to overcomplicate things while ignoring how the inventors actually worked.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Any longer than 2:40, and the needle might jump the track on the 45.
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by mbg721 3y ago
If my experience with a toddler is accurate, the mother duck will say "Quack quack quack quack!", and 457 of the ducks will come back. 1...2...
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by mbg721 3y ago
Um, yeah, okay, there is a crazy dude who was engaged in violent asshole behavior. I don't see how it's helpful to get all outraged and apply Nazi labels.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Such as kids with genetic diseases? Doctors encourage eugenic abortions all the time.
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by mbg721 3y ago
In any meaningful sense?? Yeah, there are some edgy attention-seekers, but no, there are no longer real threatening Nazis.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Having lived through the 90s, I can say it wasn't that unsafe.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I really hope this is a bit of hyperbole...12 pints is a LOT.
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by mbg721 3y ago
While that's true, anyone with a cat can tell you that their house instantly becomes a farmhouse, and they age years at a time on the spot as a result of said feline. The context is kind of a given.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The Spanish dubs of the Simpsons have a similarly good reputation.
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by mbg721 3y ago
"The cat" is folksy/chummy in a similar way to "the wife".
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by mbg721 3y ago
That's the verbal equivalent of the Indian head-tilt, right?
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by mbg721 3y ago
A side effect of that cramming is that word order doesn't affect meaning as much as in e.g. English, which makes poetry and wordplay different.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I always thought of Asian food as being relatively quick to prepare--a stir-fry can be done in the half-hour it takes to cook a pot of rice. It really does depend on the dish.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I live in a flyover state and have never had that sort of thing happen...I actually assumed the opposite, that socially/politically liberal areas would be less accustomed to seeing two-parent households and would be wealthy enough to h
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by mbg721 3y ago
Another side of that is not having such obnoxiously specialized careers that every job change means having to move to a different state.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The thing that struck me about having kids is that no individual task is all that hard, but there are a lot of them and you have to be available at all times. It can wear you down like any other on-call situation.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The five-and-a-quarter ones didn't store very well, at least not in my parents' basement. I was bummed out when my astronomy program wouldn't load.
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by mbg721 3y ago
There's a common joke (at least it was in my high school) that Thoreau's "lives of quiet desperation" were mainly about digestive distress from the bean-based diet at Walden.
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by mbg721 3y ago
This initially took me down a road of silly mysticism, like thinking about a fly with a gazillion images in its eyes, but even humans don't always perceive time exactly the same way. Who hasn't had a meeting that felt like it wou
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by mbg721 3y ago
Not in Ontario, but I helped sort canned goods for a charity a few times, and they were compelled by law to be much more strict with "best by" dates and dented cans than I would be at home. I assume that approach is pretty common
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by mbg721 3y ago
Pete Rose didn't have the same good fortune...
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by mbg721 3y ago
Even 16 kids doesn't sound like much of a nuisance. I guess the main objection would be to the cars dropping them off/picking them up, but that's only twice a day, and presumably some of the kids share the same parents.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Or that your body makes more blood in a relatively short time. It's pretty harmless for the donors, except for the recipients' use-case being creepy and batshit-insane.
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by mbg721 3y ago
It's good to do that when you're prepared for it, but it's exhausting having political screeds permeate every discussion. I miss when it was a faux-pas to bring up matters of religion and politics.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Life can be delish, with a sunny disposish!
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by mbg721 3y ago
I should have expected Simpson's Paradox here. Nevertheless, I think the possibility of witch-hunting is high.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Years ago, Games magazine had a contest for the cleverest Burma Shave style slogan, and the winner was: To be a king Is not so fine. You cannot make A throne recline. (La-z-boy)
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by mbg721 3y ago
As many of us learned from DARE, along with what the various names for drugs were and where one might find them.

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