I'm from Jersey (New). I go down the shore, and while down the shore I go to the beach. This is how it's always been and always will be (until the shore comes up to me because we've destroyed the environment)!
Agreed from New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to go with a friend whose family is all from Portugal, in Furadurao or however it's spelled, I dunno. But did Lisboa, Porto, stopped at the home of the oldest brothers in Portugal (at the time). Was fed much portwine at every home we stopped at, and ate bread with melted cheese in it that I've been chasing for the last 15 years since we were there.
I'm fortunate to be from Jersey for many reasons, but one of them is the huge Portuguese population we have and the cooking they brought with them.
I'm from the US and the only wine from the US I'd buy is from Cali. There are wineries all over, butost of the US really doesn't have a great climate for wining. Cali has some solid wines though.
I've told my wife that I'm going to strip clubs, because it's one of those bachelor party things that happen (been a while fortunately), and she doesn't bat an eye. I can go to a rave, I can go out to a bar, I can hang out with a group of guys and girls late, and nothing, because she knows I'm coming home. I'd be a little concerned my activities were (or had been, I'm getting oooold) gauged by "cheating opportunities." My wife trusts me implicitly, and it's because I communicate with her.
And grammar jokes aside, I try to do prep work ahead of time sometimes. Potatoes can be peeled and placed in a bowl of water in the fridge prior to cutting and mashing. I will chop up things like broccoli and carrots for stir fry. I make a gumbo where I take a pepper of each color, red green orange yellow, and dice them small, so like mini dice. I've gotten pretty good at it, but I'm no chef or anything, so it'll eat up fifteen minutes or so, so for the gumbo I dice my peppers, slice the green onions, put them all in a bowl in the fridge ahead of time. Extra points if it's during the workday.
My kids are getting older and we're getting to the point where we need to cook bigger. Even takeout has gotten to the point where we need more. Its unsustainable, they will have to fight each other.
Yeah, not even clicking on them works, that was my first test. I don't care though, I know what it's supposed to do, it's more about using a moving picture to get a feeling across, and so long as it works for all yous guys, I'm happy.
Yeah, I was agreeing with the person I responded to, and my comment related to the person they were responding to. Obviously this format can leave that a little unclear. Basically, two comments up from mine was this disingenuous argument that Netflix is trash, and that's just wrong, but it's an argument I see used about any number of things here on Lemmy, and to me, it dilutes the argument, because you're clearly coming from this place of bias right out of the gate.
I just think it's okay to say a product itself provides a good service, but that they're fucking it all up by injecting shit into it, to the point that, regardless of how quality the product may be, the injected shit is so repugnant that I would abandon this quality product for it.
I've sat in zoning board meetings where the board and public were equally clueless.