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Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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spit on my clit posted:

gently caress every single person that doesnt like soup

its boiled water and any tasty poo poo you have lying around. oh look some fuckin fungus in my bathroom, throw that in, maybe sprinkle in some oregano and potatoes, and hey if you feel like it put some chuck roast in there. why stop there? chop up those onions, pour in beef broth, now you got a stew. and stew is a kind of soup.

I feel like your soup/stew delineation is a little odd. Does the beef broth make it stew or the onions or somehow both?

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Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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spit on my clit posted:

its not the beef broth that makes it a stew, but the mixture of beggies and veef in the broth.

I stand by my previous statement. It is thickness not ingredients. You are a very confused young man.


Tiggum posted:

So this soup is actually a stew?

Also this is a good soup. You should make it to learn the error of your ways.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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doverhog posted:

Shifting goal posts. Whenever someone says a thing is not an artistic masterpiece, I always say, name an artistic masterpiece. Please do so now.

The third Matrix movie.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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doverhog posted:


You do realize the world now is not the same at all as it was in the past? I really can't tell if you are being ironic with your last few postings, well done.

"Yeah and these drat kids being raised with no morals will be the downfall of us all." said literally everyone in history

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Turtlicious posted:

You're giving me unprompted medical advice, i think it's fair to ask you where you're getting your info from.

You're the one giving unprompted medical advice you jackass.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Tubgoat posted:

crotchspawn

People who say this are more annoying and insufferable than a crying child and I would rather be in a restaurant with a baby than a person who talks like this.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Tiggum posted:

There are two ways to earn money. Either you produce a thing that people want and they give you money for it, which is fine, or you own stuff and you charge people to use it, which is not. The idea of "rich people" and "poor people" is basically meaningless. Anyone who has more than you is rich, anyone who has less is poor. Really there are just people who work for a living and people who exploit those who work for a living.

So my canoe rental business is morally wrong? drat. Guess I am scum.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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christmas boots posted:

Naw this is a shallot



That's a red onion not a shallot.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Aramek posted:

Overall I hate nature and wish I could pave all of it. Like I know we need farms and stuff but I just see grass and I get pissed.

Apparently having parks and green spaces make people feel less anxious when living in a city but, gently caress you for having anxiety.

I've been doing yard work all week and I'm mad.

Yards and nature are not the same thing. Hating yard work means you hate the false idea we have of what our outdoor spaces should look like.

My PHUO is that yards made from invasives grasses require way to much maintenance and resources and should be heavily discourage in favor of utilizing native grass and flowers that can make a wonderful low maintenance place for your family and wildlife. Also xeriscaping is bullshit unless you actually live in a desert. Yards made of gravel are bullshit.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Who Is Paul Blart posted:

Honestly all holidays but New Years suck, they are forced fun and deviate from the routine. Just go to work assholes

An out of balance work/social schedule does not make you a devoted employee. It just leads to stress and poor mental health. Maybe you should consider an option beyond working or forced fun. Take time for yourself.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Jerry Cotton posted:

Lol I just googled it and 65 miles per hour IS (slightly above) the top legal speed. Somehow we still manage to drive around and even overtake other cars! Amazing!

What are you talking about? There are lots of roads with speed limits above 65. I was just legally driving 80mph. You have bad opinions and are objectively wrong.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Jerry Cotton posted:

Not around here there aren't.

The point is limiting top speed to 65 miles per hour is demonstrably fine, not that there aren't places where it's legal to drive faster than that at the ATM moment.

So your statement that it's illegal was wrong and lowering the limit to 65mph and putting governors on vehicles wouldnt actually improve road safety.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

almonds aren't great but at least they are better than walnuts and pecans. Might as well eat a candle imho.

You can't go wrong with peanuts, but cashews are far superior and don't bother saying they aren't a nut, they're in the mixed nut can so they're a nut. Brazil nuts are great too for a change of pace.

Fresh pecans from a good tree are fantastic. That poo poo you're eating in the grocery store is wildly inferior and probably an old product.

Everyone should have a fruit tree or nut tree. Fresh produce is superior and not hard to grown in small quantities.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

"he's just playing"

that is not a valid excuse for you being too lazy to train him to not behave like a wild animal, stop it.

Or when someone says this while encouraging my dogs to misbehave. They are rescues that are pretty well behaved, but they still have things to learn and giving them treats and praising negative behavior is not helping. My parents are the worst for this and my dogs know they can get away with it when we are at their house.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Gripweed posted:

That "7 ate 9!" joke bugs me, because it feels like an intentional misdirection. Like when anybody starts questioning 7 somebody will immediately make that joke, which makes me think that joke was created to distract people from the fact that 7 is a genuinely hosed up number.

The truth is that six is afraid of seven because seven is a registered six-offender.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Piss Meridian posted:

Yup, better burn more coal

Most dams have nothing to do with generating power.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Tiggum posted:

Why would you label it "strawberries and cream" if it's just strawberry? That's just dumb.

What do you think icecream is made of? Its strawberries and cream.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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bad posts ahead!!! posted:

what if you alter them so they read “i pump penis”

That and adding sinister mustaches actually earns you an additional vote.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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wizzardstaff posted:

Big blocks of text are easy to skip past. The real unforgivable sin is recipe blogs with multimedia ads and popups that are hell to navigate on a phone.

Especially when they do the thing where you try to bypass all the junk by putting the browser in text reader mode, and the ingredients list is formatted in a way that doesn't show up there.

If its something you'll be referencing again look for the print button that often cleans up all that bullshit.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Manager Hoyden posted:

Texas is in the top ten and also in the bottom ten. When it's good it's got some of the best culture, food, music, etc but when it's bad it's really bad. Like a big Tennessee.

As a Texan I completely agree. I love this state. But also hate this state.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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JollyBoyJohn posted:

I'm convinced if this happens we are going to see the biggest wave of mental health issues in modern society

I don't know. The one we have right now from a plague causing people to isolate, lose their job, not be with dying loved ones, and not be able to effectively seek in person help seems worse.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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JollyBoyJohn posted:

Shout out to all the engineers and academics itt that love their job so much they dont know what 5pm means to us normal under appreciated overworked underpaid plebs

You seem to be missing the point that WFH isn't the solution to this for everyone.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Manager Hoyden posted:

Lol I still can't understand anyone's aversion to pet rats. Except maybe the giant balls they are in fact pretty unsettling but it's not like they are scary. Just giant in a way that isn't great.

Rats are cool but I absolutely hate the feeling of their little claws as they climb over me. Ferrets hamsters and all the rest included.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Shibawanko posted:

but even if you want an adventure theres stuff thats good. robinson crusoe, gulliver's travels, even something like jules verne or tolkien, anything but shiny print paperbacks about spaceships

its not even about snobbery for me, its just inferior even as entertainment

Just because a book is older doesn't add to its value. Those are good. But also there's good stuff thats modern. Books should be judged at the individual level by how you feel when reading them.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Henchman of Santa posted:

He wasn’t really a dumb puppet either. His whole yokel act was an affectation.

Definitely. Look at his family and upbringing. He's been on the inside team from the start and his image was carefully manufactured just like so many other politicians and elite.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Both Bushes were carpetbaggers aggressively trying to be texan and they both suck so much rear end

Also so much this.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Gaius Marius posted:

Why don't they just build more schools?

They do. But a new permanent school takes longer to put up than a portable building. Then ours got turned in to the art classrooms and music rooms because nobody loves them.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Captain Monkey posted:

I also don’t know how to hitch a cart to a horse. Time moves on, technology improves, and the gear shift is a distracting additional task for little to no gain in 95% of driving cases.

I can ride a horse and drive stick and you're absolutely correct. People who complain about that are just looking for something to complain about.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

Scramble egg with a bit of browning and in solid chunks is a lot better than the wet mush people think is the "correct" way to scrabble a egg.

Is that because the texture is better for putting ketchup on them dry rear end eggs?

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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3D Megadoodoo posted:

The insistence that food shouldn't be "dry" is a weird-rear end WASP affectation.

You're gonna need to explain that further.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Elissimpark posted:

Also, shopping late night in SE Asia, where you realise the shop is the front room of the owners house and grandpa is watching stories and there's a kid doing homework in the back corner.

Had a fantastic meal in Mexico that was served on a family's backporch. They ran the local convenience store out of the front room. The husband met us and spoke with us for a while and said that they ran an unofficial restaurant that was basically pay to eat meals with the family. It was awesome and various local guys would come by for lunches during the week so we met some really nice locals.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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JollyBoyJohn posted:

i read the first book by chance when I was 11 (i went to the local library a lot) and it was alright but I didn't really think anything of it and its mystifying to me that there are theme parks and 8 movies

This was me with game of thrones. Read the book and thought it was pretty poorly written. Powered through a couple more years later when a friend brought them up. Can't believe that's who got chosen for a big HBO special and don't know why people think he's a good writer.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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So where can I buy this fantastic teapot?

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Powered Descent posted:

I say this as a Starfleet-uniform-owning lifelong Trekkie.

It's really sad when people try and become a mod by slipping their qualifications in to random posts.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Manager Hoyden posted:

Gritty is their property, designed in a boardroom, approved by very rich executives, complete with a deck pitching the concept as representing the "gritty" nature of philadelphia

That's why it's funny to use him to promote anti-establishment ideals. Plus he looks good with a molotov cocktail in his hands which I'm sure didn't come up in the focus groups.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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mind the walrus posted:

I imagine the pendulum shifted to "relatively harmless" once anti-vaxxers gained political footholds and started bringing Measles back. Suddenly "lol I'm a Taurus" seems like small potatoes.

What of I told you that there's a lot of overlap in these groups?

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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mind the walrus posted:

I'd say "Hating on the astrology still seems like small potatoes and at worst symptomatic of a general problem in functioning."

Well here's some more unpopular opinions for this thread.

Healing crystals, herbal medicine, homeopathy, and all other alternative medicines are bullshit and the people pushing them are bad and it's OK to dislike the people pushing these things.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Platystemon posted:

Salt > sugar on grapefruit

But really, pummelos are what grapefruits aspire to be, and they’re sweet enough to need nothing.

Agreed. It's a crying shame that the most common grapefruit is such trash when there are so many good varieties that don't need to be covered in something to be edible.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

Look at how many self-proclaimed socialists were mocking the people who died during the Texas power outage, simply because they had the audacity to live in a red state.

Everytime there's a disaster in the south like flooding, hurricanes or fires it brings out the "They all deserve it for living there" crowd. These people never stop to think that a lot of the people worst affected are the poor communities including poor black communities still dealing with the legacy of being stuck in the south.

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

Pre-agrarian humans seemed pretty dope socially. Tight knit family bonds, everyone working together, no such thing as sexism.

This is just more crappy mystical native myth. There's plenty wrong now but putting these societies on a pedestal is just another way of ignoring the truth of it.

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Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

I dunno, I've seen some legit sources talking about how hunter-gatherer tribes would've functioned, and it seems to favour these ideas. Nomadic familial groups travelling together, communal child rearing, and leadership being in the form of "the older and wiser" regardless of gender.

Would you care to share these sources? Because we've been fighting each other since before we were homo sapiens. Sure crowding a bunch of people together makes many of our negatives and positives more pronounced but we didn't just live like peaceful wood elves before agriculture.

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