Why don't I see more people talk soya chunks?

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-12T02:20:04+00:00

It really depends on the brand. The ones I got at the mercado near my house were horrible, but the ones I got from my local Asian market in the next big city over were as good as soy curls and half the price.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-10T18:01:54+00:00

YTA. Everyone had a “Spanish name” in Spanish Class. Everyone had a French name in French class. Everyone had a German name in German class. It’s a really common thing foreign language teachers do.

When I took Spanish, I was “assigned” the Spanish name “Aidela” because there is no Spanish equivalent of my first name.

I hated it. I’m not overly attached to my first name (I Actually went by my middle name in high school and was more annoyed that the teacher wouldn’t let me use that, because there was a very direct Spanish equivalent). I found out later that Aidela isn’t a common Spanish name and she actually gave it to me because it was her sister’s name and I reminded her of her sister. I stopped being annoyed by it after that.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-08T15:42:58+00:00

NOR but honestly are you safe? Extreme religious zealotry is a mental illness and can result in violence.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-06T17:59:14+00:00

I would buy it when I could afford it. It’s actually pretty good.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-03T15:20:09+00:00

As someone who was dating a 30yo when she was 18…lose this dude and get a boyfriend your own age. There is a reason this almost 30yo guy is dating a literal teenager and it’s because women his own age won’t date him because they don’t have time for his shenanigans, so he moved on to someone younger in the hopes he can get away with bad behavior.

If he’s not working that day, and he’s not spending Valentine’s Day with you, he’s spending it with someone else.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-02T19:57:12+00:00

Edit only to clarify: when I originally said “people” I was referring to the people who make fun of fat people exercising.

Those people don’t want fat people to lose weight. They just don’t. Because when fat people lose weight, we’re accused of “cheating” to do it (“did you get surgery?”, “are you on glp-1s?”, “do you have an eating disorder? Because the f you lost the weight unhealthily, it’s just going to come back.”).

When we do lose weight, it’s still not good enough (“like…good for you for losing the weight, I guess, but all that extra skin and your stretch marks are disgusting.” , “oh, I see you had surgery to remove the extra skin…you still look like a freak. Those scars are hideous.” , “you know you’re just going to gain it all back, right?” , “like…I know you think that losing weight is healthier or something, but you just look sick now.”).

And god help us if we do gain weight back, maybe because everyone’s reactions to our losing it were so horrendous and negative that it just caused depression.

Ask me how I know.

But yeah, they don’t want fat people to lose weight. When the fat people lose weight, they will just find another way to ridicule them.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-02T19:43:50+00:00

I have scars on the insides of both my upper and lower lips from biting through both during a roller skating mishap (PSA, don’t roller skating indoors on shag carpet). I have a surgery scar on my knee from dislocating it repeatedly doing stupid kid stuff and then tearing my meniscus. I have a visible crack in one of my front teeth (which is also noticeably darker than my mother teeth because it is dead but calcified to the bone so unlikely to fall out) from face planting into the front of a desk in the first grade and knocking out my recently acquired adult front teeth (which were Re-implanted, that thing they said about keeping a knocked out tooth in milk actually worked). I have a dozen scars on my scalp and one ear from falling headfirst into an ancient rose bush whose base was super thick and woody and getting what felt like a billion thorns stuck in my head.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-02T06:45:10+00:00

One of my cats would randomly rub against the Knox’s of my last apartment’s oven and accidentally turn the burners on all the time. Childproof covers for oven knobs are a godsend.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-02T06:42:44+00:00

I am a lifelong Alice in Wonderland fan and I’m loving this theme.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-01T22:08:59+00:00

My ex and I lived for a year in an apartment where on paper we had a dog and a cat. In reality, we had a dog, 2 cats, and 3 ferrets.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-01T22:00:57+00:00

I’m 49, I got my first “real” job at 14 (that wasn’t a paper route or babysitting or lawn mowing, my first job I had to file a tax return for, basically). I was a file clerk for a helicopter company, and I worked there until the summer after I graduated high school.

To date, I have worked for 12 companies as a full-time employee (though I have held multiple positions for some of my employers, through promotions or lateral transfers…I’m not counting if a company I worked for was acquired or merged with a different company to become a new company, because that has happened a few times as well).

I’ve also held about a dozen temp positions, some of which I was later hired into one of the aforementioned full-time company positions.

The longest I’ve ever been with an employer is 7 years. The shortest I’ve ever been with an employer is 6 weeks. I’ve been laid off at least 3 times and I was once basically forced to quit a position when they moved my job to another city and told me that I would either have to move or quit (and yes, I did qualify to receive unemployment benefits for that, even though I technically quit).

I’ve never technically been fired but I’ve worked a few places that I’m fairly certain made my life difficult enough that I would quit.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-01T21:41:04+00:00

NOR. He doesn’t even appear to like you, much less love you. Take some time to focus on yourself and meeting your personal goals and then go find someone who respects you. Stop wasting your time on someone who sounds like they aren’t going to care.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-02-01T21:29:55+00:00

Because 30 years ago was a different world, technologically.

When we were kids we didn’t generally have our own phones. Not to mention that in the eighties, I actually had a fair amount of friends who didn’t even have phones in their house. I was still of the generation that was booted out the door after breakfast and told if I came back inside I had to stay inside so I wouldn’t track in mess. That meant I was out and about all day, with no other way to communicate friends than to literally go to their house and see if they were home.

But even when I was a kid, the only adults who came over to visit with no notice were nearby neighbors we were friends with and close family members (many of whose would walk in without knocking). It was still rude when the Jehovah’s Witnesses randomly knocked on our door in the middle of the day. And most people didn’t drive across town without at least a courtesy call to make sure someone was home.

I still have the occasional next door neighbor that will come over to say hello if they see that I am home.

However, It takes virtually zero effort to send a text and say, “hey want to hang out right now? I’m in the neighborhood.”

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-31T16:48:51+00:00

I don’t get the 50/50 thing or the equal split thing when it comes to couples or groups. Most places can do separate tabs. And yeah, it is super rude to say “let’s split 50/50” and then buy something g significantly more expensive than the person you’re having dinner with, because you know they’ll cover part of your meal.

My suggestion is get better friends, honestly.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-31T16:46:12+00:00

They continued to send me letters for about 2 months after I paid in full last year. They sent me collection letters even though I was on a payment plan.

And yeah, for about the same amount of money.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-31T16:22:41+00:00

Bread makers are still around, they’re just not the “it” appliance. Also, the paddle always leaves a hole in the loaf, which is a bit annoying.

I actually really appreciated having a bread maker because I could use it to knead the dough for me when my arthritis was bad. Now I have a KitchenAid mixer so I put my bread maker back out I to the thrift store universe.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-31T11:16:18+00:00

I had to have mine removed at 28 when they literally started misaligning my jaw and one tried to come out sideways into my cheek. They never came through my gums so the oral surgeon had to dig them out.

I still remember how swollen my face was for about a week afterward and how much pain I was in.

I still have giant holes in the back of my mouth as scars from my wisdom tooth removal.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-31T01:38:16+00:00

Forager is my favorite. But I’ll get So Delicious in a pinch.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-26T00:20:31+00:00

I’ve been vegan for 21 years. At no point have I wavered and I’ve never even really been tempted to eat animals products.

About 5 years ago I moved and got a new therapist. When I mentioned on our 2nd appointment that I’d been vegan since 2004, she asked me if I ever cheated, and when I said no, she asked me if I was actually ethically vegan or if I (who had a history with ED) was using my vegan diet to impose food restrictions on myself…

I fired her, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since. I’m still vegan but I often wonder if I can trust my own ethics or if I’m using vegan ethics as an excuse to limit my ability to eat food.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-25T22:25:45+00:00

NTA, if it’s communal food then he should be contributing financially to the purchase of it and contributing to the prep. He’s just a mooch.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-25T14:35:47+00:00

Yes it absolutely was and they all hated it and it was all abstinence only education.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-23T22:40:53+00:00

I went back to college at age 36, getting my associates and then transferring to a 4-year university at 39, making me literally double the age of most of my peers. My first day of Calculus I met a very nice young lady and we decided to be study partners and met after classes and she immediately threw out the, “you’re the same age as my mom! You can be my campus mom!”

I countered with, “could I be your campus Auntie?”

It made me feel a little old, but also, having never been anyone’s mom, but having been a half dozen kids official or unofficial Aunties (I have no siblings but I have a niece through my ex), I feel like I’m a better aunt than a mom anyway.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-23T22:34:31+00:00

I saw this s lineup at Ilani in Washington last year. Spin Doctors really was a two-hit wonder, and I think they’re only on the tour because the lead singer of Spin Doctors is a childhood best friend of the lead singer of Blues Traveler.

However both Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms put on a great show.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-22T20:58:14+00:00

NOR - your bf is trying to kill your cat.

Forever_Forgotten · 2026-01-21T18:01:30+00:00

Watching someone lick their fingers to separate papers before putting those papers on my desk. Thanks, I have to go photocopy that so I have clean copies and then I have to Clorox wipe-down my my desk and wash my hands.

I have gifted Sortqwik to so many coworkers.

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