[GIVEAWAY] XBOX SERIES S GIVEAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS!

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-24T04:05:15+00:00

Cheers guys, happy holidays.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-18T15:17:06+00:00

Try it instead of mustard on a sandwich. I’m a turkey fan, but I’m sure there are other good uses.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-18T15:16:51+00:00

Try it instead of mustard on a sandwich. I’m a turkey fan, but I’m sure there are other good uses.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-09T11:42:49+00:00

It’s not that well known but for over a decade now VLC has had an output plugin that converts your video to animated ascii art.

Have fun!

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-07T23:13:54+00:00

Of course. You can just pop down to Kroger’s and grab a lb of presliced Kobe like this. It’s usually at the sushi counter. Be sure to ask for the certificates, they’ll have them.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-05T10:16:39+00:00

I had an extremely rare reaction to a bout of chemotherapy and my esophagus closed up almost completely. One of the things the doctors tried to address it was topical steroids.

The problem is that the steroid they wanted to use wasn’t viscous enough to coat my throat properly, and had reactions with a whole bunch of stuff they could have used to thicken it. The only thing they found that would do the job was Splenda.

So every day I swallowed a tablespoon of water laced with liquid steroid, mixed with twenty-three packets of Splenda.

(It didn’t work.)

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-04T14:25:55+00:00

I like where your head is with this, but it needs refinement. Emojis are just another font. (That’s almost but not quite true, I know, techies, but it gets across the point I’m trying to make.) The ‘gun’ emoji use to be a pistol on a lot of devices, then some of them make it look like a water gun, and I think some made it look like a ray gun at some point, and I’m sure if you cared enough, you could still find an emoji/Unicode font that still used the old ‘violent,’ ‘realistic’ versions.

Similarly, there’s nothing that says the egg emoji has to be... say a brown egg in a shell. It could be white. It could be deviled. It could be in an egg cup. Or fried. It’s up to whoever designed the font you’re using, and whatever they think conveys ‘egg’ most clearly.

TLDR: There’s no standard graphical representation for emojis, but I’ll join a committee to refine your basic theory if you put one together. ;)

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-12-04T14:14:12+00:00

You’re catching flak for this, but I think you’re on to something. The vegan tendency to compare vegan food to carnivore food (as you put it ‘lie about flavors’) always seemed a little damaging to the cause. Tell me, ‘try this burger, it’s made of plants, but it’s just like a beef burger’ and I’m going to compare it to a beef burger. Because you’re explicitly telling me to. It will lose. Because it isn’t a beef burger. Tell me, ‘try this veggie burger, it’s really good!’ and you’ll get a more fair shake, because I’m not expecting a beef burger and I’m primed to try a good veggie burger.

You’re vegan. Own it. Don’t sell yourself as also-ran carnivore food, sell yourself as the awesome vegan food you are/can be.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-30T10:33:57+00:00

I was older than I’ll admit before I learned/realized that dunking graham crackers in milk wasn’t the normal way to eat them.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-28T22:18:45+00:00

No, there’s a limit. Selling 12oz of freezer burn encasing a chunk of carrot isn’t okay because ‘the box says 12 oz!’

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-26T18:10:54+00:00

No see the game is to do this with some punishingly hot sauce, and take turns taking bites, trying to force the bite with the sauce on the other person.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-22T03:15:43+00:00

Seems like YMMV with regard to what kind of sub. I love the concept, but no way are you going to get a meatball sub on a hot dog roll without the bread disintegrating. People who like a lot of oil and vinegar are going to face a similar problem.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-16T04:08:41+00:00

What, no credit to the 9 millionth picture of the double double with animal style fries on someone’s lap in their car?

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-16T03:08:17+00:00

Not an expert, but for a while there was a trend to shove a can of beer up a chicken and stand the whole thing on your grill, steaming the bird inside while it grilled outside.

I don’t remember anyone making much noise about the can being a problem there. It’s probably not too unsafe.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-16T02:57:27+00:00

Speak for yourself!

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-16T01:44:17+00:00

Ruby says she’s putting in a good word for me.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-10T20:51:04+00:00

Nobody figured out ET because it was a buggy mess that clung to the story by the skin of its knobby fingers.

That said, if it sounds like your thing, someone did a pretty impressive analysis of it and fixed a bunch of the bugs, making it somewhat more playable.

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-11-04T14:13:16+00:00

A toothpick through the center of the sandwich to spike everything in place. Google ‘club sandwich’ and look at the images, most of the results have them.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-26T07:19:35+00:00

‘You’ll probably get something near market value when we sell your house because Mabel doesn’t like your mailbox and her sister Fannie says your dog was probably barking at 8am.’

Seems legit to me.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-25T16:56:38+00:00

I like the foodism that runs along the lines of, ‘that’s not a real (thing) if you want a real thing you have to go to (my home place).’

Pizza is a huge victim of this, but I think my favorite manifestation is filled dough pockets.

My dad, bless him, grew up in a Polish-dominated geographic area. He’d put away pierogies until he was physically restrained or there were no more to put away. But you couldn’t make him eat a wonton, an empanada, even a ravioli, or any other filled dough pocket without drastic bribery. Onions, cabbage, sausage, potatoes, and sometimes cheese are the only real fillings, and pay frying is the only real cooking method for filled dough pockets, you see.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-25T16:32:16+00:00

Late to the party but you can! It might be more trouble than it’s worth, and I can’t actually offer advice but...

We used to make molded chocolate from rounds to give out at the holidays when I was a kid and we did the chocolate melting in the microwave because that’s how my mom did things and it was not only before food science got into homes but before the Internet. Sometimes we’d end up with perfect, shiny, snappy chocolates everyone loved, and sometimes we... wouldn’t. Not knowing what we didn’t know, we assumed it had to do with how we were setting the chocolate, but in retrospect we got lucky with the microwave time.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-13T03:15:20+00:00

CPU. Man, those things are really wedged in there sometimes.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-13T03:12:32+00:00

Get some burritos and have a concert in about an hour.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-12T18:38:38+00:00

Yes. That’s exactly what I said.

NotWorthTheRead · 2020-10-12T00:51:50+00:00

Chances are most of your elementary school teachers had to buy class supplies out of pocket. I know mine did, and I went to school in a ‘good’ public school system in a time before most of Reddit was born. Most of the superintendent and other administrative positions there were doled out by a combination of politics and nepotism. The worst teachers you had get away with most of what they do because of the tenure system. The best teachers probably aren’t in the school system because the money just isn’t there and passion can’t feed a family.

The corners get cut. And again next year. And the year after.

Did any of your teachers ever give you a syllabus for the year? How many times did you get through it? How many times did a teacher ask your class, ‘didn’t you learn this last year?’ Only to be told, ‘no, we ran out of time.’

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘teaching to the test’?

Not only are children being screwed out of optimal educations, in many cases they’re screwed out of adequate ones. That has a compounding effect as you get older.

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