I was a teen in the ‘80s and I never heard the origin of “Joy Division”, just knew the band. DJs on the radio (or on MTV) back then never discussed bands’ names or what they meant, so it wasn’t easy to know about that stuff. I also never knew what “Dead Kennedys” meant although that’s pretty obvious if you just think about it. Hell, I never knew Freddie Mercury was gay despite the band name “Queen”.
I also thought Boy George was a woman, but everybody did.
I don’t really understand how cats even can get this large. I’ve kept a number of cats and always just fed them dry food in big bowls or auto-feed dispensers where they could eat as much as they wanted whenever they wanted it, and they always stayed a normal weight.
So you’re saying hotdog pizzas aren’t really pizza?
Peche (peach-flavored lambic) and framboise (raspberry-flavored) are awesome, too. As expensive as wine but at least it has the same alcohol content as wine.
Romans were food snobs too, though. One common insult was “chickpea-eater” because roasted chickpeas were poor people food. Thing is, roasted chickpeas are fucking delicious - I really wish fresh chickpeas in the pod were easier to find (in the US).
I’ll stick to my mammoth steaks, thanks very much.
Not since the 17th century.
My mom was born during the Great Depression and re-uses ziplock bags. On the other hand, she insists on brand-name everything instead of generics or store brands, so it’s not purely about frugality.
1847 called, they want their dick pic back.
Tis a sin to spill thine seed on the ground
Can’t spank it with nail holes in your hands. Jesus’ real sacrifice.
I drive a 2001 which is in that sweet spot of being too new for a cassette deck and too old for an aux port. Fortunately, the stereo was built to connect to a 6-CD changer in the trunk and I was able to install an adapter that fools the CD player into thinking my phone is the 6-CD changer in the trunk.
You just need to use a USB C->aux rather than an aux->aux.
And make sure it’s not a cheap adapter so you get a reasonable volume out of it.
They also didn’t add an extra layer of compression between the player and your ears - because they had a fucking headphone jack and wires that could transmit audio data without compression.
We can get decent bread at bakeries in the US (sometimes), but it’s not like having a process that is fine-tuned to your personal tastes, and even at these places what you buy can be a couple of days old. There’s nothing like fresh bread that has just barely cooled off enough to eat.
We have LiDL here, too, and although their bread is just heated-up frozen dough it’s still pretty good. Better than anything prepackaged, that’s for sure.
My schedule is levain in the afternoon, stretch-and-fold after dinner, bulk ferment to around midnight, proofing in the banettons until around 4 AM, then into the fridge for most of the next day and I bake after dinner. It’s that 4 AM alarm that I’m managing to completely ignore lately. An extra hour or two of fermenting isn’t fatal, but it does reduce the height of the finished loaf a bit.
No, it’s not difficult or really time-consuming at all, but it does tie me to the house for a couple of nights in a row whenever I make it, and I have shit to do. I’ve also started sleeping through my alarms so I’ve developed a tendency to over-ferment a little bit.
The Birdcage is definitely a romcom. Two for one, in fact!
I recommend not getting into baking your own sourdough. I started during COVID because we couldn’t get bread or even yeast at the store, just 50-pound bags of bread flour online. Now I’m stuck doing the whole process every fucking week because the bread is just so much better than anything you can get at the store.
I imagine he’s worn the fuck out ridiculing Melon Husk’s bullshit.
I always claimed in job interviews to be good at debugging, but there are no certifications for debugging and there’s really no way for an interviewer to verify such a claim. So even though it is an incredibly important skill, companies just do not look for it. There is also the hilariously misguided belief that good coders do not produce bugs so there’s no need for debugging.