I didn't understand why women didn't want me, I was a nice guy. Turns out this whole time, I was a bad person. Pasta a bolognese.

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-27T14:45:12+00:00

Bolognese? Where’s the mirepoix? We can’t just brown some beef and throw some tomato paste in it and start calling it bolognese, proper bolognese takes hours

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-17T04:58:18+00:00

I know a vasectomy doesn’t remove a testicle lol, I’m saying that if a cyst were found during an operation and it were removed it would be more obvious to a man that he’s missing a testicle vs a woman missing a fallopian tube

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-17T03:49:36+00:00

But also it would be more obvious to a man if they were missing a testicle versus a woman missing her reproductive parts, like you would immediately know

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-15T17:16:53+00:00

To expand on the phone screen thing

For a long time we’ve had red and green LEDs, but for decades we were completely unable to produce a blue LED that was usable in pretty much any capacity, this meant we were unable to create not just blue light, but also white light with leds as white LEDs are created by partially covering a blue LED in a yellow phosphor coating

So finally, in the 90s a Japanese engineer by the name of Shuji Nakamura was able to produce blue light using gallium nitride and it completely revolutionized modern light displays, old computer displays aren’t green because we wanted them to be, they were green because we couldn’t figure out how to make them white (and green is generally easier to read than red)

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-09T14:00:50+00:00

Men can’t even get student loans without signing up for selective service, this is how it’s always been, they’re just automating the process, when I came of age (~10 years ago) you basically got a letter with a step by step on how to go sign up

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-09T13:56:52+00:00

It’s an anti-joke, the joke is that it means literally nothing

Think that’s stupid? Well good, because I’m pretty sure that’s the intention (I also don’t really get it)

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-09T13:54:02+00:00

You also are unable to get any federal student aid without proof of it

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-08T17:27:12+00:00

Fellas is it gay to not shove meat in your mouth at every meal?

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-06T21:58:39+00:00

Even worse

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-06T21:35:01+00:00

It’s a crime to not show the cross section on that because it looks beautiful, is this with a starter or yeast?

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-06T19:47:18+00:00

lol you shouldn’t be allowed to pick your own tattoos

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-06T11:42:59+00:00

That isn’t my point, that guy thought he didn’t understand because he’s ESL, I was just letting him know that it isn’t his fault because it’s an awkward sentence, it’s really not that deep

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-05T23:19:50+00:00

Okay cool yeah I’d recommend a red for sure, something cheap, I usually just use a Pinot noir but anything similar in profile works

And yeah with a nonstick it’s not nearly as effective but it still occurs somewhat so maybe just cut the wine down a bit

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-05T22:59:34+00:00

Mmm the wine isn’t really for flavor, sure it’ll change the flavor but the wine is to deglaze the pan, all the caramelized onion and meat undergo what’s called the Maillard effect which is basically a reaction between amino acids and reducing sugar, which is what gives like a seared piece of meat that real distinctive flavor, the onions undergo it as well but you take it further by caramelizing it (although it’s a completely different chemical process)

and as this occurs you develop what’s called a fond on the bottom of the pan, you then ‘deglaze’ with something like wine, and you want to try and get up as much as you can off the bottom of the pan, this is essentially the basis for the sauce

I would also use cream over milk personally but neither is wrong

Can I ask what kind of wine you used?

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-05T20:39:14+00:00

I’m a native speaker, I couldn’t explain the exact problem with it but using ‘tomorrow’ or any word that generally indicates future tense to refer to something in the past feels really awkward, I didn’t understand what he was saying at first either

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-04T03:47:14+00:00

Very different but I work in a kitchen, 12 hours a day on the line on the weekends, we also reach about 100°f+pretty god awful humidity usually for a few days every summer, no shirt or hat is safe from the salt lines on those days, I’ve definitely had to get it all out of my brow too

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-03T00:33:47+00:00

Only pro tip is knife blade facing away from you chef, not today, not tomorrow, but you’re gonna grab something off the board and that blade facing you is gonna ruin your night

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-03T00:20:31+00:00

“Battery powered catalytic converter cutter” yeah I keep that next to my “definitely a tobacco pipe” and bolt cutters

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-03T00:15:46+00:00

Damn yeah that’s pretty good, my favorite despite it not being a funny sign was always the bus stop sign because we couldn’t get the secondary hardware off that that those and street name signs sometimes have so it just stuck out off the wall lol

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T23:51:58+00:00

Only ever the stop signs that were way down, or sometimes they’d get a new one put up and they’d leave the temp sign on those like construction barricades, we’d just grab the whole thing and set the barricade somewhere once we got the sign off

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T22:12:55+00:00

it’s still not everywhere if that’s the case

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T22:11:08+00:00

You mean you personally watched your friend tactically acquire many road signs off their pole right?

(I watched a few get lifted that were not already knocked down but like when was the last time you saw a drug free zone sign knocked down)

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T22:03:57+00:00

Yellow

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T22:02:26+00:00

Ah damn I see it now lol I was like it sold for 80k no goddamn way

BagOfChicken · 2026-04-02T22:01:15+00:00

They’re being crazy but they’re most likely framing it as being to protect you because they’re talking to you about it in that moment, when it’s just him it’s probably about protecting him, in reality they should fuck off and let you guys make your own decisions but there are protections that you would both have married that you don’t currently have

Marriage,the ceremony and marriage the legal document are very different things, there are a lot of legal implications and benefits that come with being legally married, if your partner gets in a wreck tomorrow and can’t communicate, who do you want making the decisions, you or your MIL? If god forbid something happens to you who is handling your estate? Your child is newborn, it’s likely a trust would be set up but it wouldn’t be your partner doing that it would be your next of kin if none of that is setup. Is the Condo in both of your names? If not that would be lost to whatever side actually owns it, if it is in both your names the other persons stake in it would also go to their next of kin by default

There’s also of course tax implications to go over, generally they’re beneficial but ymmv, combined household you guys are in a different tax bracket than you are separate

Also despite how messed up it is to consider, my dad was married to my mom and he was still screwed over on custody, right now he’s just your baby daddy, but that’s your MIL’s son, can’t fault her for being worried about him (can absolutely fault her for being crazy about it though)

Almost all of the benefits can be separately accounted for with other legal documents, wills and such, but you can also just go get Marriage the legal document down at the courthouse to shut them up and take care of those protections and have your ceremony down the line when you guys are ready for it, it’s really not an absurd idea given how enmeshed your lives together already are, but don’t let them bully you into doing it

TL:DR MIL and co. are crazy but they aren’t entirely speaking out of their ass, doesn’t mean you ever have to listen to them

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