"I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction."
Solidarity fist bump. My own experience was somewhat different, but there is the common ground of learning communication skills on a lag, and learning from a niche community of lovely weirdos
Oooh, give me some of the words on your words list. I have one of my own, and accordingly, will share a random selection of recent entries: "that"; "nuisance";"apotheosis"; "knobbly"; "vehement"; "perfidious"; "befitting"; "timid"; "verisimilitude"; "knack".
When the UK switched to using plastic for the denominations of money that come as notes (£5, £10, £20, £50), people who use cocaine found that the new, plastic notes had a tendency to cut or scratch their nose. Because the £5 notes were the first ones to be switched to plastic, and they have Winston Churchill on them, apparently this phenomenon was termed "being Winstoned". E.g. "careful with that, you don't want to be Winstoned".
I have no other point to make, I just think that this is hilarious.
I appreciate that your title makes it clear that this is an old article. Certainly it's still relevant, but going into the article with knowledge of its age calibrates my mindset
I'm not saying that leeks are onions (though they are alliums, i.e. of the same family). To me, whilst they do taste quite different to onions, there is still a flavour that I would describe as onion-y
Related: Daniel Gritzer of Serious Eats explored different ways to mince garlic, finding that some methods significantly increased garlic's pungency/strength (and also that long cooking methods negate much of this difference)
I'm curious about how far your onion dislike goes. For example, I recently cooked lohiketto, a Finnish salmon soup. It feels like a rare meal that doesn't use onions (it's basically leek, carrot, potatoes, cream, salmon and dill), but the leek sort of fills the role that onions usually would, albeit more delicately.
I think that Linus becoming less of an abusive asshole over the years has been a positive development, but I wouldn't mind the return of the old for this event
This is not the kind of person that the meme is poking at, but my late best friend was one of the best people I have known, and I talk shit about him all the time. It feels like being honest about his depth and complexity is a part of how I honour him; I'm firmly of the belief that if you have to lie about something in order to love it, then your love is shallow and false.
Damn, I didn't know this, thanks for sharing. I am not American, and I was pretty young when Hurricane Katrina happened, so context like this is new to me. More reasons to hate Bush
There are probably games or other media that you love that the average Stardew Valley fan wouldn't click with. You're not missing out, you've just got other stuff you enjoy.
I don't deny that you may have dodged a bullet, but I feel like the staff of a psych ward hooking up with patients is hella fucked up. Even if both people are adults, I think consent in that context is pretty dubious.
I am enjoying saying "Log back in to continue your Oral B brushing experience" in my best "customer-service/salesperson ad lady" voice. Like the kind of tone that's so soullessly saccharine that it gives AI vibes
I think the science comes in showing that it does actually work. Like, this is so simple of an idea that I would be skeptical of if it would work if I had had the idea by myself. I'm glad that I live in a world where, if I had thought of this and wondered "is this a good idea, or am I just being dumb for thinking something so simple could work?", I am able to go online and find information and guides on this and other diy filters
They may not have been the ones who first thought of it, but the first people to publish research that shows that taping 4 air filters together with a fan works decently compared to other, non-DIY filters (where "worked decently" means does a good enough job that it's worth doing if you want a filter but can't/won't buy or build a more complex filtering system, even if it isn't as good as "proper" filtering systems)
(Tangent: I'm reminded of the "Cox-Zucker machine", a random maths thing that Cox and Zucker made together because when Cox and Zucker met at university, they realised that their names, when combined in the traditional, alphabetical order, sounded "delightfully obscene". )
Solidarity fist bump. My own experience was somewhat different, but there is the common ground of learning communication skills on a lag, and learning from a niche community of lovely weirdos