exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1137125112824586240

V. Illych L. posted:

what thhe

V. Illych L. posted:

what thhe

Pirate Radar posted:

Hey Reddit, I was hoping to get some advice about a problem I've been having with my SO.

First off, we are both 22 (M & F), finishing our last year of college. We've been together almost 6 months, and I really do adore her, aside from this one kind of weird behavioral trait. We have very similar interests, share many mutual friends, and get along on a day-to-day basis quite well.

The problem is that every few weeks, she gets it into her head that I don't appreciate her enough. I'll think everything is going well, and then out of the blue, she'll accuse me of taking her for granted. I really don't think this is the case, as I go out of my way to compliment her and say "I love you" almost every day.

Anyways, when this happens, she'll demand that we do this "couple-building activity" where she pretends she is dead. She'll light some candles, play "Amazing Grace" (the song they played at my grandfather's funeral a few years back), lay in bed, and cover herself with a sheet. Then I am supposed to kneel down and say some "last words" to her. She gets pissed if I don't cry, sometimes withholding sex as punishment.

I've always known that she has some self-esteem issues, but this seems a little much. I've tried talking to her about it, but she just gets defensive and says that this activity is necessary for me to grow emotionally and our relationship to grow stronger. I really don't know what to do. I don't want to lose her, but I can't keep mourning her death every few weeks.

So tell me Reddit, does this sound like normal behavior? How can I show her that I appreciate her without doing this activity?

tl;dr: My girlfriend doesn't think that I appreciate her enough, so every few weeks she makes us do a couple-building activity where she pretends to be dead while I give her eulogy.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1132695139233742853?s=19

Pirate Radar posted:

Hey Reddit, I was hoping to get some advice about a problem I've been having with my SO.

First off, we are both 22 (M & F), finishing our last year of college. We've been together almost 6 months, and I really do adore her, aside from this one kind of weird behavioral trait. We have very similar interests, share many mutual friends, and get along on a day-to-day basis quite well.

The problem is that every few weeks, she gets it into her head that I don't appreciate her enough. I'll think everything is going well, and then out of the blue, she'll accuse me of taking her for granted. I really don't think this is the case, as I go out of my way to compliment her and say "I love you" almost every day.

Anyways, when this happens, she'll demand that we do this "couple-building activity" where she pretends she is dead. She'll light some candles, play "Amazing Grace" (the song they played at my grandfather's funeral a few years back), lay in bed, and cover herself with a sheet. Then I am supposed to kneel down and say some "last words" to her. She gets pissed if I don't cry, sometimes withholding sex as punishment.

I've always known that she has some self-esteem issues, but this seems a little much. I've tried talking to her about it, but she just gets defensive and says that this activity is necessary for me to grow emotionally and our relationship to grow stronger. I really don't know what to do. I don't want to lose her, but I can't keep mourning her death every few weeks.

So tell me Reddit, does this sound like normal behavior? How can I show her that I appreciate her without doing this activity?

tl;dr: My girlfriend doesn't think that I appreciate her enough, so every few weeks she makes us do a couple-building activity where she pretends to be dead while I give her eulogy.

Pirate Radar posted:

tl;dr: My girlfriend doesn't think that I appreciate her enough, so every few weeks she makes us do a couple-building activity where she pretends to be dead while I give her eulogy.

Berke Negri posted:

did you finish the incest show yet

Berke Negri posted:

did you finish the incest show yet

Furnaceface posted:

Australian politics is not a show.

nankeen posted:

in forty years, that guy and their kids and their grandkids and everyone else in the extended family will still be trapped in an endless cycle of semi-frequent fake funerals for grandma and then all their children will have grown up thinking it's normal and it will become a family tradition

Berke Negri posted:

don't know what that is but i'm guessing it is all bad things on screen

Berke Negri posted:

don't know what that is but i'm guessing it is all bad things on screen

Majorian posted:

Imagine for a moment if Randler cloned himself and then formed a fraternal order...

Sinnlos posted:

Sinnlos posted:

Martha Stewart Undying posted:

All the anime fans I know these days are minorities and women

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1137125112824586240

quote:

Sit down at a family-style Mexican restaurant in southeastern Virginia, and chances are you will be served a mysterious white sauce unknown in Mexico.

The dipping sauce has no name except “white sauce,” or “salsa blanca,” and it was, by all accounts, invented in Hampton Roads.

It comes free with your basket of tortilla chips, alongside standard tomato salsa, and it is so popular that old-school Mexican American restaurants can live or die by the quality of their version.

“If we walk into a Mexican restaurant and they don’t serve white sauce, we turn around and leave,” says Lee Tolliver, a reporter at The Pilot and a Hampton Roads native.

quote:

Manuel Vasquez serves the white sauce at his restaurant, Costa del Sol, in Windsor. He also served it when he ran a location of local Mexican chain Plaza Azteca in Suffolk. But he’d never encountered it before moving here from New York 15 years ago.

“We can say this is originally from Virginia. Other states don’t have it,” Vasquez says. “Where it came from? Who started making it? A lot of people, including Mexican people, have that question, too. But we make it. We have to have it, because the people come in and ask for white sauce. They need it.”

quote:

In the 1970s in Norfolk, when you went out for Mexican food, you went to El Toro. The restaurant was open in the '60s and became a phenomenon in the '70s, when it was taken over by Willie Jenkins, a large-framed man with dyed red hair and a personality described by former employees as both gruff and generous.

“He didn’t really take any guff. He had a harsh attitude,” says Sharon Mason Barish, who “pretty much grew up at El Toro” when her mother worked there in the 1970s.

quote:

Early on, says Smith-Clifton, no one working at the restaurant actually came from Mexico, but it was the only Mexican food many here knew. The restaurant became famous for its enchilada and red sauces, and its simple take on nachos — just white cheese and jalapenos melted over halved taco shells.

But, especially, El Toro became famous for its white sauce.

quote:

Smith-Clifton believes the sauce predates Jenkins’ time there, to the bar’s original owners. But Barish said Jenkins called it an old family recipe, and kept it like a state secret.

“My mother worked there seven days a week,” Barish says. “They never divulged the recipe to her.”

Barish eventually got the recipe from a family member who worked there. The secret ingredient turned out to be plain-old Miracle Whip salad dressing, mixed with milk, cumin, oregano and crushed red peppers.

“The Miracle Whip came in big jugs,” Smith-Clifton says. “We made up spices in bags like newspapers used to come in when it was raining. We made the spices up, then layered in the spices — that whole bag went into them jugs — then we just stirred and stirred. Then the white sauce had to sit for at least 48 hours. You could eat it right off, but then it wasn’t as spicy as it needed to be.”

Sinnlos posted:

Owlbert is still around. No big drama in his life as of late, save for the 2 year old eagle in the same territory.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

Furnaceface posted:

If the Raptors win do they get out of having to do a White House visit?