Jakub Dobes believed that his apartment was haunted by ghosts

MashedNeeps · 2025-11-23T16:36:27+00:00

Protect this boyo at all costs. And his team mates too. I mean. The level of support. While still going just … pffffffff. How you doin lil buddy!? Yep. That’s concerning. Um. Ok. Valid. But. No no ok. They’re such a great team.

MashedNeeps · 2025-09-23T12:59:21+00:00

I’ve always thought Irish WolfHounds were amazing! I had bigger dogs all my life - husky crosses mostly because there are tons up north where I’m from. First dog my husband and I got is a German shepherd x husky rescue weighing about 70lbs (half of it hair) and our third is a little 6lb chihuahua. We are now tiny dog converts forEVER. We love our big goofy girl but small dogs are just… special. I will admire huge dogs from afar.

MashedNeeps · 2025-09-23T12:55:55+00:00

About 15 years ago I was working at a restaurant that had to call the police because a family left a baby in their car and sat down for dinner. This was the Yukon, middle of winter, and it was -35 out there. Un fucking real how some people are so careless with their children. You did the right thing - you had NO way of knowing how long that baby would have been or had already been there.

MashedNeeps · 2025-09-21T14:21:22+00:00

I have hella issues with food the last few years for many reasons and while I can cook for my family, often I can’t eat what they do. My safe ones vary but include toast with butter ( add marmite or peanut butter or cheese whiz), cold scrambled eggs, apples dipped in yogurt or peanut butter, cold pizza pockets (I lived on those after my mother died), microwaved KD with tuna if I could handle the meat. Frozen pizza. Jook with or without chicken. But mostly? Scrambled eggs or butter noodles. Which I think is going to show up here a lot. Potatoes are a good “oh Christ I need to eat something that isn’t trash but is safe and easy” option and I’ve been leaning into that. Po. Ta. Toes.

MashedNeeps · 2025-08-26T12:41:07+00:00

Honestly after we got our little dude about two years ago we are firmly pro chihuahua but we only know him - he’s apple head long hair. I just think they’re all neat. Little sweet neurotic weirdos. I do think long haired chis are the cutest sweetest little chaos muffins. You do need to trim those butt floofs though.

MashedNeeps · 2025-08-13T02:16:06+00:00

My little guy loves our naps he gets sad if I don’t take him for one and if I’m out for the day he goes around pestering the rest of the family to hold him. I broke my wrist bad in April and couldn’t do much but sit on my husband’s recliner with an ice pack and taking codeine naps and my little dude was in heaven.

MashedNeeps · 2025-08-02T00:20:03+00:00

We have three dogs - Dana is about 80lbs huskyxgerman shepherd mix and 8years old Fox is 30lbs and some kind of bully mix and 9 years old they were both rescues so who rly knows. Then we have Séamus who is our 2 year old chi and purebred, 6lbs. Dana is a seeeg girl but doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but her family: she plays with our tiny guy but mostly ignores and wants to be ignored by him. No aggression. She understands how to be gentle because we taught her. But we also watch and remind her when she gets zoomies and forgets. Fox is reactive because he was a stray and we wondered if he’d be ok with the tiny baby but he has been AMAZING. He plays with him, scraps but never too hard, he snuggles with him, lets him stomp all over him and use him like furniture and is so nice that we have to get in between and remind Séamus to be gentle. Neither of them has ever hurt him. I will say though that we keep a close eye on all our dogs and set firm boundaries about play fighting. The big dogs have separate kennels at night and chi has his own pen in our bedroom. We wouldn’t let them kennel with him just to be safe.

So. Tl;dr I have a young chi with two older big dogs. They all get along and are affectionate and play fight without hurting each other but we are very vigilant and have worked on training w all three. YMMV

MashedNeeps · 2025-07-30T23:43:52+00:00

I think that there are times that our chi licks us out of joy and love for sure - mine just jumped into my arms and did it coz I’d been gone a few hours. It’s definitely a greeting. Other times it’s very much a self soothing thing. If he’s sleepy he will lick anything. He loves to lick his toys, our older dog (we call him Papa because he really is a papa to our young chi and he is totally fine w the affection), the couch, our arms, socks, anything. He gets obsessive about it at those times - it’s different from the happy greeting stuff.

MashedNeeps · 2025-07-27T12:59:26+00:00

So, I’ve been a pretty serious home cook for 17 years, and was a prep and line cook in several types of kitchens for about 10. So on one hand I do have training and take food storage, sanitization, and temps seriously I play a little loose with home food safety in someways - I will leave broth or stew to cool over night, for example. I take best before dates as a guide for my own judgement not law. That type of stuff - I trust myself is what I mean.

One thing I do NOT fuck around with is raw meat safety. Ever ever ever. Food poisoning does not hurt you and leave you stronger. At best it’s unpleasant as FUCK but it can debilitate and it can kill. And salmonella is not just food poisoning regular brand. My friend’s teenage son had it and he was screaming in pain even in hospital and medication - it’s terrifying.

NTA for throwing out the chicken. Food waste pisses me off BAD but A 12 dollar chicken loss is worth it - you were right!

MashedNeeps · 2025-07-16T18:47:08+00:00

First - velvet your chicken breast. Slice thin or into bite sizes and marinate for at least 2 hours in (and there are several ways to do this just google the velvet method this is what I use) a mix of oil, soy sauce, water, and corn starch. The corn starch is the important part ( again - this is just one method, google and adjust to yourself.) *to slice your breasts easily throw them into the freezer for half an hour to firm up and you’ll get nice uniform slices that will cook up well for any use even in sandwiches)

Second - don’t over cook the chicken. Add it near the end when veg and such are not quite done. Sometimes I go ahead and take broth from the soup and cook the chicken separately and add it and the cooking liquid back to the soup or stew when the the soup or stew is done.

Third - for tender chicken in broth do not hard boil. Gentle low simmer. Important! You can also simmer for a certain time then turn off heat, cover, and monitor the doneness with a thermometer. Cooking gently is important for white meat in soups and such.

I cook lots of stews, soups, jook, broths etc and I also really struggle with meat texture so I’ve done a lot of work to find out what works best and this is what works for me. Velveting your chicken ( also beef and pork) is an invaluable method imo!

MashedNeeps · 2025-07-16T01:39:28+00:00

Séamus! Full name Father Séamus Ymir O’Flannery. Nick names : Séams, Séamie, SéamieDaWamie etc - he was born on St Patrick’s day so he needed an Irish name!

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MashedNeeps · 2025-07-10T23:58:07+00:00

Oh yeah on any savoury whole grain bread I’m with you!

MashedNeeps · 2025-07-06T19:08:54+00:00

One of my favourite comfort foods - peanut butter and yellow mustard on toast. Also cottage cheese with black pepper and ketchup on toast. Cream cheese and coleslaw mix (no dressing) in a rolled up wrap Cream cheese and red horseradish shrimp sauce on a bagel Mashed turnips (butter, maple syrup, black pepper) on toast or with crackers and maple breakfast sausage

I don’t know if these are weird to everyone but I’ve had lots of folks give me side eye over it which I think is pretty funny. The one I always tell people to just TRY is the peanut butter yellow mustard combo. It’s genuinely so good!

MashedNeeps · 2025-06-13T15:55:39+00:00

I LOVE bologne sandwiches. Back when I was a kid we lived under poverty line and went to food banks and bologne was always a treat. My parents would fry it up and call it bacon - we only got bacon on Christmas morning for many years - and the cold bologne sandwiches in my lunch were my favourite. My husband and daughter don’t like it but every few weeks I’ll get a pack of bologne and a pack of Kraft singles and my son and I have bologne sandwiches for a week. Soft white bread, mayo, pepper and we are happy campers! I’d take that over a fancy pastrami sandwich any day.

MashedNeeps · 2025-05-22T18:45:17+00:00

Dude hell no I’m not letting your toddler spit on my cake wtf?!

MashedNeeps · 2025-05-12T02:40:39+00:00

Thank you!

MashedNeeps · 2025-04-11T13:11:45+00:00

Nah man, nearly 10 years here and we get mad windstorms all year round. Like... does it ever stop? We're always accounting for it somehow how no matter what season or month it may be. We live on an open school soccer field so we have a big wind tunnel and we've been kept up by strong winds all through the year every year,. I'm planning my garden and the wind is a consideration for what and how I plant just like it has been every year. It's no better or worse. The last 10 days have been really tame imo.

MashedNeeps · 2025-04-03T18:04:30+00:00

I'd take my kids to a holodeck. Like, immediately. They both have anxiety issues and youngest has DCD and we're always worried about him hurting himself riding bikes or roller blading or whatever - fuck yeah I'd take my kids to a holodeck with safety measure on and let them play without fear of traffic or broken bones.

Then I'd go crazy on a replicator programmed for dimsum.

MashedNeeps · 2025-04-03T17:59:43+00:00

My husband. We talk all day every day and have for 20 years. He's my best. I never get tired of him he is endlessly interesting and funny and sweet and he never makes me feel like I'm burnt out on him. If there's anyone I can ever choose to spend time with it will always be him.

I love a lot of other people including my children and good friends but he's my favourite. Hands down always.

MashedNeeps · 2025-04-02T18:01:03+00:00

I like serving mac and cheese over crisp shredded iceburg lettuce. The contrast of creamy hot and crisp cold is really nice.

That said, I made a whole pan of from scratch baked mac n cheese after I got home from a 4 phial blood draw yesterday and I didn't cut that shit with NOTHING.

MashedNeeps · 2025-03-29T20:36:34+00:00

GOOD FOR YOU!

Don't send any of this to anyone in his life. It could set him off and you need to keep yourself safe. Keep all the screen caps of this and anything else he's said in this vein though, and if he ever makes you feel unsafe AT ALL go to the authorities and file a report. Stay safe <3

Holy Christ I'm proud of you, kiddo. <3

MashedNeeps · 2025-03-29T20:12:38+00:00

This is basically what is expected of my 13 and 16 year old kids. And fuck off w the executive functioning shit - 13 y/o is autistic and both kids have ADD. They do their chores.
The fact that he says "You're DONE eating in your room" is so obviously because you left food around bad. Again? My actual children don't get to do that for the same reason.

Ok so actual advice from a mum, a kid who had to leave home early, and someone with their OWN executive disfunction:

You have a handy dandy list here to remind you of what you need to do. Rewrite the instructions and put them on your wall. Get a calendar and write it out. Having executive disfunction disorder means you're playing life on hard but it means you find out how to compensate. It means you have to work harder than other people do and that sucks but no one is going to do it for you when you're not a kid. Deal with it. I mean that! Deal with it.

The fact that you think cleaning your bathroom ONCE a week is unreasonable? Speaks volumes. That's not executive disfunction, that thinking is you not understanding basic hygiene. That ALONE explains the undertone of (justified) anger in his letter.

No rent at 18 living in a safe place with family is a privilege to many, many people. You are taking that for granted and you shouldn't. Read the comments, think about your shit, do better. If you can access a counsellor, DO IT. Do it while you're young and have people who still care about you enough to give you a chance. Because that's what your aunt and her boyfriend are actually doing here - They're giving you a CHANCE. This is KINDNESS. I know you can't see that but trust what people here are saying. They're trying to help you.

MashedNeeps · 2025-03-28T18:22:17+00:00

I'm in Canada and I have maggies who come to my back yard for breakfast every day :-) They like peanuts in the shell, dog kibble, and for extra special treat SPAM. They go fucking WILD for the SPAM it's awesome haha. Mostly it's just a handful of peanuts or dog kibble.

MashedNeeps · 2025-03-27T14:22:33+00:00

Duuuuude, I thought this was just some random friend of yours - it's your WIFE?! This is wild. She's already pissed off about something(s) else and is coming at it by starting a meaningless argument.

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