How do you guys prepare it? If broccoli is a side, I roast with evoo salt and pepper. In a pasta dish it gets blanched and just kinda takes on the flavor of the dish. I’ll steam it if we’re making Chinese food, and then toss it in the fish soy myrin concoction.
Ugh, never could try it. Maybe I need to be in a situation where I’m lost in the woods and it’s the only food left, I’ll try to remember that next time.
Do you like bands that you need to acquire the ability to read their names on event posters?
I’m into hardcore and metalcore mainly. I started listening as a kid a bit ironically: it was loud, offensive sounding, and I was an idiot who sometimes sought attention. Fast forward and I really fell in love with it. I like screaming, although not all screaming. But Josh Scogin and Keith Buckley kinda opened the doors for me, and they were two of the best for sure.
That’s a good one. The Italian butter is most definitely an acquired taste for me as well. I think you can toss many alcohols in general here, but this one for sure stands out.
Being able to chew your food is for the poors.
French for me. Although I remember learning “pan d’or” was more like a French toast, but I dunno. So when I saw pandoro for the first time this Monday I’m ShopRite, it clicked for me the same way it did for you.
That being said, I’m from Jersey and was raised in traditional Italian American fashion, and neither pannetone nor pandoro were ever part of our family’s traditions. My grandma focused more on mountains of dinner; dessert was just an afterthought.
Right. We’re all just old kids.
Best I can do is necklace of fireball.
Yeah, they’re kinda getting a double whammy, and I’m interested in seeing the breakdown. People are definitely drinking much less these days, gen z are not big drinkers in comparison with how millennials were. And I also have no doubt the economy is playing its role as well.
I’ll just say, as a guy, I absolutely had pairs of boxer briefs I’d wear when I was going out as a younger man. I even still have some, but I’m married with two kids, and so they’re for when I’m staying in now.
But that being said, just because I wore them didn’t mean I was hooking up with someone. And that could be her choice or my choice, it’s gotta be a mutual thing. So at the most it indicates a potential intent. But I had times I wore my shit and chose not to for one reason or another at the end of the night. And probably ten times more the choice was made for me.
You’re metering it to one punch balloon every couple minutes! And when you wake up, you have another. It’s self-regulating.
I would like to say I’m 10+ years out from the days I’d drive down to Bristol PA and pick up two or three 20 pound tanks from some random fire safety place. Definitely abusable, and easily so. We’d pound a 5h energy and Gatorade after and you’re right as rain, which is not good, needs to be harder to feel fine after.
Yeah, I think the suggestion that insurance companies wouldn’t cover them is crazy. It will be significantly more expensive for them to cover widespread illness than vaccines. Everything is money to them. Shit, there could be incontrovertible proof vaccines cause autism, and insurance companies would say hey, it’s cheaper than measles, you must do it or we won’t cover you.
We should do a fun run to raise money for victims of corrugated cardboard abuse.
My favorite are British English, who can’t stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.
This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that’s coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they’ve just abused.
Yeah, it’s just a common thing generationally to pine for the days of olde, and for my generation it was apparently playing outside and then early internet, and OP was there for the YouTube heyday, and I can probably commiserate with them, but by the same token I’m like, well, YouTube ruined my favorite medium, whatever that was.
It extends into everything. Music, my favorite band’s earlier records were better, the new kids in the scene have ruined it, etc. etc. Nostalgia is a real bitch, unfortunately, and we’re all just stuck on Mr. Bones wild ride with no way off it.
I think part of it is experience. You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it. You were there for it, and it now just feels old. But I always tell people who never watched The Wire or Breaking Bad that I’m jealous that they get to experience then for the first time. There are only so many greats out there, and you experience them, and you reflect on everything else you experience in that light now.
That’s all not to say that there won’t be some great shit you’ll experience again. You’ve just experienced so much great shit already that this new great shit has a higher bar. It’s your first love. The first time you ate apple pie ice cream. The first time you heard a song that just touched you. Everything else gets measured up against it, and at 15, for the first time, shit seemed better, but only by comparison.
Getting old is a ride OP. The biggest hill on the rollercoaster is always the first one, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy the corkscrew or that sharp turn later on. I’m sitting here at Kalahari with my kids, and I go down slides on my own and they don’t hit the same, but going down ones with my kid all of a sudden puts a new spice on an old recipe.
I have friends who continue to chase the dragon, and that works for them. Do what you wanna do, don’t feel like you need to stick in the same circles and routines you used to. And if your medium isn’t entertaining to you anymore, just put it down. I don’t play games the way I used to, and that’s okay. I pick back up here and there, the same way I pick up my guitar, and the same way I’m thinking about strapping on the skates to play hockey again. And I’ve positioned myself in a way that I can do these things too, if I want. And if I don’t, I don’t.
Love ya OP. Go out there and have fun, that’s what I always say when anyone asks just about anything.
“Go away, I’m batin’!”
Bergen County, NJ, likes to put Rs in where they don’t belong, and orifice is absolutely a way I’ve heard people say office. And swiping an article is odd to me, but I’ve written zero articles so I don’t know.
Yeah, this seems to me like talk to text. Punctuation usually shit, and orifice office is just an accent problem.
I definitely remember Enter Shikari. I feel like I still am in into the offshoot of their genre, bands like Dwellings, Ben Quad, Hail the Sun, just guitar heavy, melodic, progressive stuff. They’re all kind of offshoots of emo while also being post hardcore in the vein of DGD and that whole swancore movement. And Hail the Sun don’t really deserve to be lumped in, Donovan is a crazy talented musician and has certainly pioneered the genre on his own.