Nothing wrong with that :)

A lot of my family shoot at some degree of regularity or another. I’ve got a cousin that flat out won’t shoot handguns, of any caliber. Says it isn’t worth the hassle, he just wants a relaxed shooting session, and that means a rifle to him. Just hunkered down and no need to deal with grip, stance, etc.

Me, it’s shotguns I’m not into. To me, they’re only for when you need a shotgun in specific, and I’ll only practice enough to hit what I intend to, never for the fun of it. But some folks love the skill set and practice.

That nose needs gentle pets all the time

I dig that. Expressive, but still open for the viewer to find their own path through the image.

Eh, you can’t rely on votes made, unfortunately. Too many people use it to disagree for it to be a sign of an opinion being deemed not unpopular, or vice versa.

Fwiw, I agree that this is currently unpopular, though I disagree with it and my vote was up.

My disagreement is in the colloquial usage of idiot vs a stricter usage. Old school, idiot was a term to indicate functional intelligence, or rather the lack thereof. Now, it has come to mean someone either making poor choices via bad thinking, or someone that’s ignoring any thought at all

Musk -definitely- fits the looser usage. Not specifically because of twitter, it is reflected in all his business decisions of the last decade. Twitter, he isn’t making decisions, he’s following someone else’s plan, and that’s the decision he made.

I don’t think his actual iq is relevant tbh. You can be a genius (and he isn’t) and still fail to use that. He makes poor use of what brains he does have, which makes him an idiot overall.

Yup, and likely not the recent past, say ten years plus

Was it mom’s?

Bug boy. That’s what Booth called Hodgins (spelling?) right up to the end of the show. The same thing he called him at the beginning when swinging his fbi dick and trying to intimidate people. He was constantly trying to pull top dog shit on Sweets.

Bones herself went from a fairly believable scientist with friendships and an understanding of people to being either the absent minded professor that’s behind the times, or (as some people have phrased it), an autistic savant with no ability to understand basic human interaction.

Angela stayed pretty consistent though. So did Cam.

Fucking Bones.

When it was spread out week by week, over multiple seasons, it was easier to miss how horrible the writing was.

They turned every character into a one dimensional caricature about midway through the run. And, when you watch it binge style, you realize that Booth was a major asshole. Just shitty to any of the other men, despite claiming to be friends.

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That was beautiful :)

I mean, a six day temp ban for being a dick? That’s what mods are supposed to do, keep assholes from assholing more than the bare minimum. And that’s coming from an asshole that has, and probably will again, been banned temp and permanent for being an asshole.

Like, once you start calling names, you’re off topic, and disrupting the community. You don’t need a warning, you don’t need the rules explained, because you didn’t care in the first place. If you had, you would have just blocked whatever asshole you were insulting and moved on.

I get it, sometimes you just gotta slap back. It’s a human thing.

But when you do, you need a cool down time. A week is just about right for most people to chill the fuck out and get over it. Some take less, some take longer, but a week is just about right.

It’s one of those things where if you’re being a dick, you take your lumps and that’s that. You don’t go whining about the moderation.

A mod lets shit slide like that ends up up with entire threads of bullshit to deal with, and all the other users that decided to jump in are now also fucking up the community spreading the drama. So, yeah, you got a temp ban. You should have. If it had been permanent, you’d have something to complain about on a first offense, though imo, it would be justified as well since we’re all supposed to be grown ass adults that shouldn’t need to be told to play nice. But complaining about it would be justified too.

Now, if the other person was also being an asshole and didn’t get a temp ban, that’s bullshit.

You know, I agree, especially about Alton not being the cause as much as it is the viewers looking for am excuse to feel holier-than-thou about something.

You’re dead right that people took his work way too far and assumed that because he was breaking things down into the underlying food science and methodology that the exact preparations he used were default the best, period.

He wasn’t prone to that himself, though he did go hard against myths.

He’s a terrific food educator. One of the best in television history imo. But you’re also dead right about the entertainment side screwing things up. His on screen persona, combined with the structure of good eats as a show made it too easy for food snobs to glom onto the wrong parts

Man, I would love a place like that.

I haven’t had access to good, fresh strawberries since I heard about it, but even grocery store ones were yummy. Maybe not the best thing ever, I would prefer a strawberry shortcake pretty much every time. But it’s essentially the same flavors (excepting the sour cream); the textures are what makes it a new experience.

This is the recipe I used.

It worked really well, maybe fifteen, twenty minutes of work total. I kept things kinda medium chunky. Used a potato masher for maybe ten mashes. Tried it both warm and chilled. The taste was more strawberry forward warm, but it was overall better chilled since the sauce hits the tongue different. It kinda rolls across, deploying the strawberry in layers with the sour cream more. Made for better mouth feel and general taste, at the expense of that vibrant strawberry kick.

Nice catch, thanks :)

Man, people miss out on so much good eating because of preconceptions and gatekeeping.

Berries go with almost anything. And yeah, technically strawberries aren’t berries. But the point is that pretty much every berry is a blend of acidic tartness, sweetness, and complex flavors. There’s no world in which berries make something bad.

Any fruit has the potential to go with any standard food. Meats, pastas, breads, even veggies. It’s a matter of balancing the specific fruit with the other ingredients.

That’s why pineapple on pizza works. Tangy, sweet, and with that hard to describe tropical fruitiness. It brings out the sweetness of a good tomato sauce while cutting through the fattiness of toppings and any oils.

Pork chops and applesauce baby, it’s a classic for reason. Pork stuffed with apples; and other things, orange chicken or duck, blackberry glazed venison roast (seriously, you want to try it), apricot beef (or lamb), curried goat with prunes (or apricot, or peaches even), roasted brussels sprouts with apples and cranberries.

It’s all about the balancing with other things.

The Polish strawberry pasta? It’s balanced out with sour cream that mutes the sweetness some, and works as a bridge with the pasta.

I know I’m talking into a void here, what with this being a meme, but I’m always so amazed that people will dismiss a food combination without trying it, or sometimes without even trying to imagine the possibilities.

Gods, the first time I saw the documentary about her was in an intro psych class. I broke the fuck down in class, just ugly sobbing.

Which may not seem like a big thing, but me breaking down in public is very rare. Three times in my adult life, and one of those was being told about a friend’s suicide death. The other was when my dog at the time died unexpectedly.

Like, I didn’t know genie. No personal connection, and it was long before the class, so it was history. But the hell that girl went through was just too fucking much. I’m tearing up remembering it tbh.

I don’t believe in evil as some kind of external thing, but if it did exist, her parents would be the definition of it.

Pretty much exactly that.

Queer went from slur to in-group descriptor that was still an external slur, to an accepted term for everyone to use.

Fwiw though, in the more recent usage, queer includes gay, but isn’t only gay. Which is yet another example of how language can shift. There was a period where it was only applied to gay, bisexual, and lesbian as a blanket term. A really short period, but still.

As far back as the 90s, I was hearing queer as an in-group term of affection, kinda like queen was/is. I didn’t really catch when it expanded to include folks not on the orientation binary scale, and other non cishetero groupings, but it was much faster because I’ve never been away from LGBTQ+ communities for long. Only time I haven’t been active in rights advocacy to some degree was from about 2005 to 2012 when I was doing a ton of physical therapy and other recovery. When I started getting back into the local and regional groups, it was established firmly.

I don’t imagine “jap” would take much longer since it was never the hard core slur to begin with. There are other terms that are and were much preferred by the serious hate bigots (as opposed to the casual ones or the ones that are bigots out of ignorance). So I would think a few years I’d reclamation efforts would get the job done as long as Japanese people wanted it to happen. A decade is usually enough for an in-group to lay claim to a slang term for diapers themselves.

Most definitely.

I tend to say it’s one of those movies you really want to watch once.

Oh. My. God. Benny, look at that beard! It’s so big!

He looks like one of those imperialist side pieces

But, you know, who understands those rus gals

They only talk to him because he looks like a total madman, okay

I mean his beard

It’s just so big

I can’t believe it’s so epic

It’s like, out there

I mean, it’s massive

Look, he’s just so . . . russian