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Things I have gained from somethingawful: Goons With Spoons improved my cooking skills and encouraged me to be creative and try new dishes. I wouldn't call myself "a foodie" (ugh) but now I really enjoy the act of preparing, sharing, and eating food and take pride and confidence in my cooking ability. I've worked several side jobs in restaurants, and if I hadn't learned what I did from Goons With Spoons I would probably have spent that whole time washing dishes. It's not a culinary degree, but knowing your poo poo in a kitchen will secure that job and the respect of your coworkers. How to lift weights. I think in high school we did one month in gym class (which was once a week) in the weight room. I got nothing out of that. YLLS taught me how to lift safely and build an efficient weekly workout routine. Once I knew what I was doing, I was shocked at how much progress and how much healthier I felt going to the gym 2x a week for 40 mins. The biggest thing is my sense of humor and all the laughs and stories from years of posting on this dead gay forum. It doesn't sound as impressive as the first two, but I think this is where SA shaped my life the most. I've been here for about half my life at this point. It's one of the only things I have consistently read and contributed to over that time. Other online communities have come and gone, but SA is the only place where I always feel at home. It always felt (and still does) that no matter what you want to talk about, there's a thread for it somewhere on SA. And I'll always feel at home in that thread, even if I never posted there before. Oh also PHIZ has enabled my craving for bad music that none of my IRL friends will like when they hear it, and I think I now have a terminal case of Weird Person Musical Taste. The ambient/drone thread in particular is guilty of this crime. But on the other hand, I don't think I ever would have really gotten into stoner/doom/sludge metal without following that forum, and I have made many work friends from sharing those genres on the work radio. TCC has given me a good knowledge base of several drugs I thought about doing at one time, and am now glad I never did. Like maybe if I never came to SA I would have bought some research chem Chinese Internet Dust and lost my job/partner or maybe even be dead???? edit: TCC also taught me how to clean my glass pipe, which I have also had since I was a teenager and newborn goon. Got some real potent and disgusting iso hash out of that thing after not cleaning it for like 5 years... WITCHCRAFT has a new favorite as of 05:12 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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