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I was on vacation in Florida with the family and popped into a beach burger place. I hadn't planned for it but saw it was a challenge they had, it cost $30 but if you could eat it in 20 minutes you got a $30 gift card for another meal and your name on the wall.

They gave me credit for beating it but to be honest I would say I was five seconds late, I had a tiny bit left to swallow. It was also SUPER hot temperature-wise when I got it, and I love boiling coffee but it was a barrier. Even as I finished the chili cheese fries at the very end of 20 minutes, they were extremely hot.

We got the gift card and fed most of the family with it a couple of days later. The place closed during COVID though so I can't do it again. I'm no pro, but I've tried seven eating challenges and only failed one, and on my failure I was very hungover.

I like tall burgers. I've eaten one with two pounds of beef (8 quarter pounders, almost a kilo) with cheese on each patty, a pound of bacon, a whole tomato, and a bunch of onion and lettuce, all on a standard size bun. It also came with two kilos of chili cheese fries. 10/10, would eat again.

I don't have anything against the German communities but my vocabulary has some gaps. Also even when I understand all of the words I often don't understand the context because of German memes referencing other German memes. Sometimes German politics are hostile also. I've lived there, that isn't new.

Mostly I generally only get on Lemmy to relax as I'm preparing for sleep. At that time of day I don't want to look up words I don't know. And I don't want to read things that even understanding all of the words, I don't understand. I'll likely never move back to Europe, I'd rather spend my time on more useful languages in the global and my regional realities. Spanish. Chinese, Japanese, maybe even Korean. I know some French, Dutch, Norwegian, Korean. German is my strongest 2nd language but I don't expect to use it, or French or Norwegian anytime soon.

If I piss into a sinkhole in the woods, does a bear give a shit?

I have been self employed for almost 20 years. I pay a far higher tax rate than billionaires and I haven't been able to afford to go to the dentist even once in that time.

I would not argue against being paid in gold. I would accept even a mere three or four pounds for my annual compensation in the current labor market.

Warum nicht?

Oh yeah Gouda, Parmesan, feta... I said less cheesy, not completely cheeseless.

I watched Star Trek in the 80s and 90s. Not since. I used Linux in the 10s. I still put it on other people's PCs, but not mine.

I speak some but I still block all of the German communities.

eating cheese is worth risking intense gas pain and explosive shits

That was how I lived the last decade or so until it put me in the hospital. I take it a little more seriously now.

This was my motto for life, but now I'm lactose intolerant. Life is less... cheesy now :(

She burned through something like a billion and a half dollars if I remember right. She gave a shitload to rich celebrity endorsements.

Me, over 50 💀

My speech is deep. My beard is neck.

Nope, been working twelve hour days. But thank you for the pic. That's some bullshit.

Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn't speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎

What was the shirt?

My elementary school childhood home, the fuse box was over the bathtub. And although they didn't completely make it a shower, it did have a removable shower head on a hose mounted down low so you could use it to rinse your hair etc. You had to be really careful where you sprayed it though.