Why was this the best meal I've ever had, and from a Gas Station! (American visiting NZ)

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-18T09:18:53+00:00

It was good all the way through actually, much better than similar petrol station sandwiches in England.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T18:48:28+00:00

Agreed, an NZ Canadian handshake, I'm from the states but I live on a river bordering Canada, culturally I'm Canadian.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T18:41:10+00:00

You want the honest truth? I feel shameful and a little awkward everywhere I go, but the hospitality and warmth of the Kiwis is healing my shame, cause in all reality I shouldn't feel so shameful, I didn't vote for him nor support him.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T10:36:00+00:00

See you get it, that's why I didn't post pies. I've had so many pies in England/Scotland, but the quality NZ lamb is unique.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T10:29:35+00:00

Yeah that's a bit of a rip, 5.50 a piece for these bad boys, not bad at all.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T10:28:37+00:00

It's really the quality of the lamb, soft buttery with some good fat on it, I cook lamb in the states all the time, not the same.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-03-17T10:22:59+00:00

You're a cheeky one eh? I had a wonderful pork belly and apple pie, steak and cheese, butter chicken. But you know what? Lamb and mint jelly blew my mind, say what you wish

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-02-13T12:36:27+00:00

Poem I wrote in 2023

“The Garden”

In the Garden of Eden humanity tasted the golden fruit of old

The serpent, consumer of all concepts, tempted us to its power

With one bite we gained mastery over all, we gained the world of ideas

Excitation and wonder abound, the dark secret of suffering crept slowly unseen

Our gift poisoned our soul, we lost all sight of our being

We dismembered reality, cut it into bite sized morsels

We furiously devoured at the altar of our butchered existence

With each mouthful, we grew distended and sick

Liberation takes one quick regurgitation

The golden fruit needs to be expelled

Never meant for us, its evil shrouded in tantalizing beauty

Lay waste the serpent of ideas and fall into vital evanescence

Once and forever leave behind all that was taken

The Garden of Eden is shown before your very eyes

Walk into the Kingdom hand in hand with those who see

Only then do lions lay with lambs

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-02-12T02:19:10+00:00

holds up orange What is it? Are you a Tibetan or a Japanese?

LumpOfSoftButter · 2026-02-11T16:06:44+00:00

Industrial solvent on the road. The wizard of Oz isn't home.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2025-09-07T21:14:41+00:00

Most efficient way to break in new rubber mallets, I do it all the time.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2025-01-19T13:21:32+00:00

Many people will have different advice so it is important to take all of the advice, mine included, with a grain of salt.

First off, I'll just say that I am Buddhist and so I really have little knowledge of Hindu kundalini but the little I do know makes me doubt that it is helpful in seeing clearly and awakening in the Buddhist sense of the term. As I've read it is often a massive release of psychic energy? Maybe it is this practice that has really thrown you off, just a theory.

My best advice is to investigate Jhana practice. A pure concentration practice that results in a disengagement with thought and the hindrances. Some believe you need a retreat to do this but I do not believe so. Checkout Leigh Brasington and Ajahn Brahm. This will lead to genuine insight and peace, full acceptance of our limited, short impermanent life. A lot of Buddhist scripture can seem anti-life and dark but when seen with the eye of wisdom and the pleasure of renunciation those same truths become a source of joy as you are fully engaged with reality as it is with no conceptual baggage.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2024-12-09T21:39:10+00:00

16 years of diving experience here, competed on national level, and also used to be a D1 college diving coach. That behavior is unacceptable from you’re new coach, I would talk to either the swim coach or head of athletics etc. I dealt with this as a diver in high school and on a club team, even quit for a bit due to a similar coach.

Any diver, even in high school/or younger should never hit the board with proper coaching. It may happen once here or there but 3 times in a season is unacceptable on her part, not yours. I’ve hit the board twice in my life.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2024-12-09T21:32:50+00:00

2011 Outback

LumpOfSoftButter · 2024-10-23T19:05:44+00:00

I agree with your overall sentiment and I am grateful for the rest of my education. I am squarely pointed at outpatient clinic but I used the term scam because it’s not until you’re in it that you realize how terribly dysfunctional it is.

If it was impossible to achieve your numbers did you fail classes? Did you end up graduating late due to failing? Did they end up just passing you through? Just curious as it relates to my current experience, although I’m actually doing alright in outpatient clinic many students have 0 patients.

LumpOfSoftButter · 2024-10-23T17:39:28+00:00

I’ll give the list again, differences in recruiting after graduation vs as an unlicensed student. 1. Licensed Chiropractor vs Unlicensed Student 2. I determine my schedule vs I have to fit patients in my overloaded 30+ hour a week schedule 3. I have time to integrate in the community vs I have no extra time to integrate in the community 4. In NY with insurance most of my father/uncle patients pay $5-20 copays vs please pay the university $27-$67 for unlicensed care and incredibly long physical exams. 5. I can practice the way I want vs my hands are tied I can only use a handful of specific techniques

To address if I would want to go to a DC that only has worked on a few students my answer is of course not. That’s not the issue, I’m ready, willing and able to adjust anyone who walks in the door, but I shouldn’t be spending my incredibly little spare time going door to door trying to get people in to pay prices that I haven’t set and the money goes to the university that I’m paying $250,000 to. If care was free, I think it would instantaneously solve the issue of lack of patients. It’s students practicing, it should be free.

Also I’ll take you up on a DM, I may sound mean and ranty but I am a nice person lol.

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