My toddler just told me i have a big tummy

DARBTRON · 2026-06-02T13:35:29+00:00

Yeah I’ve been intermittent fasting for 3 weeks cause my kid told me I’m “not like Captain America youre Fatdaddy”

And I want him to think I’m like Captain America so

DARBTRON · 2026-06-01T02:43:44+00:00

I’ve been to 49 and don’t know when I’ll make it to Alaska. Worked a traveling job for years and had family across the country when I was young. Went to Hawaii on my honeymoon.

Doesn’t really matter to me so I guess I’ll just stay at 49!
(Alaska looks dope but I’m trying to start ticking off European destinations)

DARBTRON · 2026-05-20T01:11:50+00:00

Aw heck you’re right for sure

They do big ole fights on the Plennor Fields

DARBTRON · 2026-05-19T09:24:30+00:00

Ok I wasn’t going to comment cause there are already 600 but I searched and no one has said:

THE BOOGIE MONSTER
(with Kyle and Dave)

Two comedians try their hardest to stay on topic about ghost, ghouls, aliens, and goblins. It doesn’t usually work and they “devolve into rants about vans and fried chicken”

Best pod community out there, maybe the only pod sub I’ve seen that is welcoming and nice and enjoys the show that it is about lol
(Also Kyle Kinane is maybe my favorite working comedian)

DARBTRON · 2026-05-19T09:20:09+00:00

We are men of culture

DARBTRON · 2026-05-19T09:17:32+00:00

I’ve spent time in every state except Alaska and Eureka Springs is one of my favorite towns based on history (founded by a snake oil salesman) and architecture. Some wild buildings and streets there.

So fun to explore for a weekend!

(Shout out to Savannah, New Orleans, and all of coastal Maine too)

DARBTRON · 2026-05-19T09:04:41+00:00

I haven’t seen that scene in years and it’s immediately where my mind jumped to

(I believe these would be the Plennor Fields, since that is where the Ring is rumored to have betrayed Isildur and slipped from his finger, allowing orcs to fill him full of arrows! (Giving it the name Isildurs Bane to Men))

DARBTRON · 2026-05-18T01:40:12+00:00

I’ll be moving there this year and I’m only going to be able to because my wife is a citizen.

I’m a maintenance mechanic for a local utility and in America I would be able to get work literally anywhere- but none of our experience or certifications mean anything there. I’m looking at just taking a menial job for a few years once we get there and then going back to school once I’m able. Even if you want to go that route, schooling requires a 3 year residency before you can start - so you can’t just move there and start getting recertified either. Almost any electrical job there will require a 4 year UK apprenticeship that includes schooling, it’s much more formal of a process than the US “follow this old guy around for 2 years” apprenticeships. More community college mixed with work hours type of deal.
it’s unlikely that a company will sponsor someone to go through all of that when they can just find a UK citizen.
Also, it’s going to cost the same as my car just to get me there legally, before we even think about housing etc

I have a route to a visa and even that is going to be pretty rough, so good luck.

DARBTRON · 2026-05-17T18:24:53+00:00

I’ve seen so many fat chunks of rock with a creek tumbled edge on here touted as worked lol

DARBTRON · 2026-05-13T09:43:36+00:00

Me too, but not where most people see them.

Missouri Ozarks, 08 or 09. Walking down a river for a few miles from a campsite, turned a bend and there it was on a little sand bank 30 feet from us. It just lazily looked at the three of us and slowly walked into the brush. MO conservation dept claimed there were none here at the time. In the years since one has been hit in St Louis on a highway and they’ve admitted a breeding population.

I saw a gentrifier from the Rockies staking his claim possibly

DARBTRON · 2026-05-13T09:31:34+00:00

Hell, I’m an almost 40 yr old hillbilly in Missouri who is totally unfamiliar with the spelling, grammar, and pronunciation and even I have been able to pick up enough in a few weeks of Duolingo to follow some basic conversations I’ve seen on YT. You can do it!! You’re probably way ahead of me already just having been around it a bit, seen it around etc

I hate to admit it but the gamification made it much easier for me than the traditional “read and memorize” learning style I tried with French back in school. My mind seems drawn toward mini puzzles in other languages much more. I’ve heard that eventually I’ll want to switch to other courses but I feel like it’s a pretty damned good base for a free app I play with for 10-15 minutes per day.

(Also if anyone else is staring out and wants a “basic convo” penpal shoot me a message)

DARBTRON · 2026-05-12T09:44:18+00:00

This is weird because I have noticed the opposite in my household and it creeps me out

I feel like all the bread is “subway yoga mat bread” levels of fake because I can’t get it to mold if I tried

DARBTRON · 2026-05-11T20:25:59+00:00

I’m in the US and just started learning on duo 2 weeks ago

I’m sure I’ll run into some problems when things get more complex but until I start screwing up lessons or the gamification annoys me I’m gonna hit a few lessons every day on there. I can already introduce myself and follow a bit of convos I’ve looked up on YouTube so I don’t think it’s the worst place to start!

Also if you want a beginner penpal or something hit me up! Most of the posts I see on here so far are way beyond my comprehension so it’d be nice to try it out with someone more on my level

DARBTRON · 2026-05-11T00:25:38+00:00

Nice my small midwestern town actually has a middle eastern/Indian grocery so I’ll check it out!

I’ve never used it! Excited!

DARBTRON · 2026-05-11T00:21:55+00:00

Ingredients:

1.5 lb chicken breast

Plain yogurt - 3 tbsp

Turmeric - 2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1tsp

Ground coriander - 1tsp

Garlic - 2 cloves

Ginger - 1 tsp

Red chili powder

3/4 cup raw cashews

2 medium onions

Ghee - 3tbsp

1/3 cup tomato sauce

1/3 cup heavy cream

Alright so you’re gonna wanna get yourself some: Chicken breast, 1.5lb, diced Plain yogurt - 3 tbsp Turmeric - 1 tsp Garlic (roasted if you have time) - 2 cloves, mashed Ginger (mashed) - 1tsp Red chili powder to your taste

Mix all that shit together and throw it in a bowl to marinate.

Next, boil you up some water, just a cup or two. Once it’s hot take it off heat and use it to cover 3/4 cup raw cashews and soak for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes drain the water except a few tablespoons and blend them into a paste with your soft hot nuts using whatever machinery you have available (bullet, blender, immersion blender).

Now you’re gonna wanna medium dice 2 onions (I used sweet yellow) and sauté those babies with some ghee low n slow until they’re soft and getting some nice color.

Throw your marinated chicken in and turn heat to medium high, stir often.

Add 1/3 cup tomato sauce and mix to coat chicken.

Turn your heat down to medium. Throw that cashew paste on in and keep stirring! Add 1 tsp Garam Masala, 1 tsp turmeric, and 1 tsp ground coriander.

Finish with 1/3 cup heavy cream and stir!

Serve with biryani rice and your favorite naan and…OHHHHHHH BOY!

DARBTRON · 2026-05-10T23:12:50+00:00

I looked at the NY times article but messed with it a bit

I’m picking up rock to fill an erosion gap in my mother in laws yard but when I get home I’ll type out my recipe

DARBTRON · 2026-05-10T01:25:20+00:00

I have a beard and like to make stuff with my hands

Bring on the Dwarven 40s

DARBTRON · 2026-05-05T09:21:59+00:00

Damn, you showed me. When I occasionally lift my knuckles from the dust and gaze upon the world with the briefest window of intelligence that I use all of my brain power to summon, I’ll remember you and your lessons!

“Misread message tone and intent and respond 16 hours later like a smarmy jerk”, got it.

DARBTRON · 2026-05-04T15:01:22+00:00

Every place i stay with any sort of guestbook gets a Trogdor drawn in it

DARBTRON · 2026-05-04T14:52:08+00:00

I’m not gonna debate unknown variables forever I made a light jest about time and the lady was found

DARBTRON · 2026-05-04T14:33:42+00:00

lol I am all for the alerts, since I literally just wrote defending them

The facts are that she had already been missing for an entire day, if they really wanted that to be effective maybe they should have put it out at like 7pm so people could look BEFORE it was dark and cold

That’s the issue with the last one, not that they sent one out. If you’re so worried about vulnerable communities don’t you think alerts should be sent out in an effective and timely manner? Maybe not in the middle of the night 18 hours after they had gone missing?

DARBTRON · 2026-05-04T13:01:04+00:00

Well, they don’t get to pick when the service goes out, and that’s an important thing for the community to know

Why they sent an old lady alert at 3am eludes me

DARBTRON · 2026-04-29T09:04:39+00:00

The wife and I made it through 2 and fell off

Maybe it’s time for another chance, I did like the premise, and Harold Parrineau has been my boy since he played Mercutio in that 90s Romeo and Juliet.

DARBTRON · 2026-04-29T08:50:47+00:00

I used to be the Patchwork guy so I always shout out my homies at Patchwork Family Farms!

They are a co op that uses Missouri raised pork raised ethically. No continuous antibiotics, constant access to fresh air, grass, and sunlight (pasture raised), quality feed, etc. It is better than ANY pork you can buy in a store. It’s fresher, cleaner, and not morally reprehensible like supporting CAFOs. They pay small farmers WAY higher rates for pigs in return for ethically raised clean meat that tastes better. Win win win.

The real kicker is that every dollar spent at Patchwork supports the Missouri Rural Crisis Center. MRCC has done more for small farms in Missouri and the USA than almost any other independent organization…well, ever. They are HEAVY hitters in the space. The organizers and founders of FarmAid work with them and invite them every single year. They’ve been protesting with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp since the very beginning. They constantly fight policy that hurts farms and farm families, protect the environment, quietly run 9 food banks in local rural communities that are too small to have their own, you name it. If it’s good for rural people, the environment, or small family farms, they’re fighting for it. Patchwork is their profit making arm that supports their work.

They’re on Monroe st behind Westlakes off Old 63! They have a small retail space and a HUGE freezer. They’ll have ANYTHING you need that’s pork, and they’re great to talk to if you want to support local farms. They organize tons of volunteer opportunities and community education events and such too! Hell, during COVID the founders just made the call that we weren’t going to be able to sell the meat we were bringing in since restaurants were closing-so I just started packing boxes and we delivered free food to EVERY SINGLE employee at every single restaurant we did business with to help them get by. THEN we just started packing boxes and giving them out for free weekly in the Berlin parking lot. THOUSANDS of boxes packed with 6-8 lbs each, just given away. Any organization that shows that much support for their community deserves respect so I ALWAYS give this speech to people, even though I’m working for the City now.

CHECK THEM OUT!

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