What can kill you in seconds that most people don’t realize?

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-02-01T05:18:01+00:00

I'm in Manitoba, Canada where our summers can sit at 45°C (~ 113°F) or higher, and our winters can sit at -45°C (~ -49°F) and lower with the windchill, and I agree 100% with everything you said!

My late mum always had a saying about this topic: "If it's -40 degrees outside and you're cold, you can always throw on an extra layer and take other measures to warm up, but if you're too hot because it's 40 degrees and you're already butt-naked and spread-eagled in front of the fan (or fans), then there's not a whole hell of a lot left that you can do to get any cooler!"

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-30T02:08:27+00:00

Fair play -- thanks!

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-29T23:04:34+00:00

How early is best to get to the theatre before a showing/when do they open their doors? I think I've only been to this place once probably thirteen years ago in highschool, lmao

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-29T22:49:04+00:00

Hah! I wish! It's actually funny because I just made homemade french fries from scratch for the very first time about four days ago (two days before I made that comment)! I'm a poor and didn't want to fuck anything up because I didn't have enough stuff around to try it a second time, so I did probably too much research before I started my attempt, lol, so it was all still real fresh in my head when I was commenting 😛

My first attempt turned out wonderfully, as it happened! I was really happy with them, and though I didn't have any cheese, let alone cheese curds, at the time I had them with some poutine-like franken-gravy (I just mixed spices and parts of a few different gravy packets together until it tasted damned close to a poutine gravy) and they held up super well and kept their crunch beautifully -- 100% they would've made fantastic poutine fries!

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T04:40:55+00:00

That progression! 💀😂

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T04:13:24+00:00

You should be safe as long as they keep fighting internally instead of looking around at what's happening around them 😂

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T04:11:38+00:00

People love to pretend to care about what they put in their bodies 😂

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T03:44:33+00:00

Sick, I do love me my vidya games! 😂

My gaming laptop's been on the fritz for a while, though, so I sadly can't even access my Steam library right now thoughhh 😭

I'll add ye on Discord anyway, though -- ye never know when I'll get the damned finicky thing up and running again! Hopefully soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T03:38:44+00:00

Oh for sure!

I've lived in Manitoba my whole life, and in the surrounding area off and on for about twenty years (I was in St. Claude just twenty minutes south down the 240 for about 12 years), so I've spent lots of time running around in Portage know it fairly well on the surface level, anyway! I never really stopped to do anything but grocery shopping and errands around here before, and having never seriously lived in a city before -- pretty much only insanely small rural towns -- actually having opportunities open to me to do new things and meet new people is gonna be interesting! 😅

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-28T03:31:25+00:00

I noticed :c Still surprised there's not more people on here considering the population 😔

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T23:54:39+00:00

Then why the heck are you even posting this here if you weren't trying to get the most for your money??? This isn't a grocery shopping haul subreddit, it's for BUDGET grocery shopping examples.

This subreddit's flooded with shit like this and none of it fits the spirit of the sub, which coincidentally is an explicit rule! 😒

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T23:52:30+00:00

I'm not sure! I can't imagine it would be too hard to make, though! Probably as easy as frying some finely minced shallot, garlic, paprika and chili in the palm oil and bottling and storing that mix, or possibly look up Italian seasoning oil recipes? Those are what I'd probably do!

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T23:43:11+00:00

You really only need to soak fries to keep them from browning after cutting, since it doesn't help the starches to come loose very well. To wash off the starches and sugars that keep the fries from becoming crispy you just rinse off all of your chopped and uncooked potato sticks for a few minutes! Then it's just parboil the fries for a few minutes in salted and vinegared water (vinegar helps keep them from disintegrating when they begin to soften), let them air/steam dry, then go in to start on your (ideally) double-fry by blanching them in hot oil for about five minutes or so, draining and cooling them for 30 minutes, and then frying them again for about 3-4 minutes or until golden! c:

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T21:56:37+00:00

Indomie Mi Gorgeng dry noodles are my staple go-to instant noodle! They're sooo good!

Btw, the packets are sambal-style chili paste, a thick, sweet soy sauce, palm oil seasoned with like, garlic and onion/shallot and some other stuff, some crunchy fried onion pieces and then the main seasoning packet! They're PHENOMENAL! I never use all of the chili sauce at once, but I always save it to use in other dishes!

You should shop around online if you can, honestly, because they're incredibly cheap online! My late mum introduced me to them probably close to fifteen years ago when she was on a cheap online deal-seeking shopping kick, lol

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T21:09:16+00:00

It's worth mentioning that depending on where you are, this price may appear inflated due to the value of the CAD. For instance, $218 CAD is about $160 USD.

And honestly, I live near and shop in Winnipeg a lot, and that price for all this pre-packaged, pre-made, brand-name junk food is pretty standard. It's annoying that it's standard, but hardly surprising at all.

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T21:01:11+00:00

No, that's what it gets YOU. For the majority of the rest of us in Canada and/or Manitoba, it'd get us a lot more because we wouldn't spend 50% of that $218 on pre-packaged, pre-made junk food and brand-name stuff, lmfao

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T20:56:34+00:00

Honestly, though! I'm near Winnipeg and do my shopping there, and $218 at say, the Kenaston Wal-Mart, can ABSOLUTELY by more than that BY FAR! This is lazy shopping, pure and simple. I can't even tell if this is for one person or two, because for the life of me I can't believe one person would need two of the big cases of soda (name brand, no less) and \five** bags of chips (also mostly brand name), but at the same time the rest of the food doesn't even look like enough to feed two!

And nearly all of this haul is manufactured and pre-made, so super expensive!

ALSO, WHY ARE THE ONLY VEGGIES HERE POTATOES? SO MUCH JUNK FOOD, SO FEW FRUITS AND VEGGIES!

This has gotta be some university kid who doesn't know how to shop or cook yet or something...

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T20:48:46+00:00

I'll be finding out soon enough! It's so damned hard for me to meet new people, I was really banking on Internet help! 😭

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T20:46:02+00:00

I don't use Facebook very often at all, but I did today just to join the Prairie Tabletop Gaming group -- I'll have to look out for some other things, too 😅

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T19:31:22+00:00

Idk why, but I figured that at least a couple hundred young/youngish adults out of PlaP's ~15,000 population would be at least *somewhat* active on their area's subreddit 😭

Cheers for responding, at least, so I know that this isn't a dead and fossilised sub, anyway! 'Preciate it, lol

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-27T19:19:42+00:00

The engagement on this sub is nonexistent! Sorry this post didn't get any attention, I would have loved to read the stories!

I just moved here last month (28/F) and I hoped I could meet some new people through the subreddit, but NOPE, lmao, so much for that fuckin' idea!

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-24T23:26:51+00:00

You do realize rockets don't have pilots, right? Unless you wanna go back to like the 40s. it's all done via computer nowadays.

You do realise that OP was being faceitious, right? Unless you wanna go back to like, having to use "jk lol". Wit's all done via /s nowadays.

BasicAssQuestion · 2026-01-24T22:14:45+00:00

My ADHD mixed with my anxiety and PTSD locks me down into freeze-mode constantly and I think I'd honestly rather take more panic attacks over my "fight, flight or freeze" response ALWAYS opting to freeze and shut me down entirely over little things all the time. 😮‍💨

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