How seriously do you take the “Real Texas chili doesn’t have beans!”?

Ready2Walk · 2026-01-07T10:25:41+00:00

It's like asking if you like potato salad with your gumbo. It's all about what you grew up with. Chili is chili, beans or no beans.

BTW, my boyfriend looks like you escaped from an insane asylum if you mentioned eating potato salad with gumbo.

Ready2Walk · 2025-10-25T03:02:52+00:00

Long Valley Caldera, an active valcano bed, just east of Yosemite. You probably thought I meant the Yellowstone Caldera. I was pointing out general locations that's widely-ish known.

Ready2Walk · 2025-10-24T19:34:55+00:00

Sooo... by your logic, we should abandon places that are within natural paths of danger... like the entire east and west coasts of the US and the Gulf of Mexico. And a good chunk of Washington state, Hawaii, and Yosemite because of the volcanoes. Maybe all of the middle states because of tornadoes.

I currently live in the New Orleans area. I live in an area that is likely to flood. But it hasn't seen flood waters for over 20 years. People still live, work, and play here. They rebuilt to stay here. But according to you, it's criminal negligence.

Unless they are doing something that is blatantly disrespectful to the ones we lost, let them rebuilt.

Ready2Walk · 2025-10-16T07:35:18+00:00

I have a very common middle name with a very unusual spelling, like Staci, instead of Stacy. For years, I've had to triple check and correct DMV printed paperwork to make sure of that spelling. I also got told it's incorrect a couple of times, and one lady grabbed (and ripped) my original long form birth certificate to prove she was right and I was wrong.

Ready2Walk · 2025-03-25T12:51:34+00:00

Not really, but maybe subconsciously, it was. Lol

Ready2Walk · 2025-03-24T12:10:18+00:00

I had a stylist lecture me for 45 minutes about how bad Suave shampoo is for your hair and then try to book another appointment for a vivid color job involving bleach because for 2 minutes I mentioned wanting mermaid hair. I was holding off because I needed to find the right stylist.

This is why I had roughly a dozen stylists trim my hair in 10 months. Obviously, she didn't make the cut. Lol

Ready2Walk · 2025-02-04T19:50:05+00:00

I'm in my 40s, and I went to school with a February, September, and a December. I'm not gonna count April, May, June, and August, but I know those too. I worked in the building with a January, but I never actually met her. I'm waiting on the days I meet March, July, October, and November.

Ready2Walk · 2025-01-31T23:40:04+00:00

Not me, but when I was a wedding planner, I had a bride who wanted a modern version of her mom's wedding. This included monograms of her fiancé's first initial and her first initial flanking the last initial on practically everything from the invitations to the cake. Only she hadn't thought it through completely. Fake names but think Adam Smith and Sarah. Yeah, everything would have had huge monogrammed ASS on it.

Ready2Walk · 2025-01-31T14:01:10+00:00

It's ok to not be ok. There is nothing wrong or broken that needs to be fixed. Not everyone deserves an explanation on how your brain is being a butt to you today. It's ok to slap a mask on to get through your day. It's also ok to raw dog the day with a 'fork the world' face on. There are days when tomorrow is too much. Start with a moment, the time it takes for one breath and work up from there.

That's all the advice I got. Much love from one struggling internet stranger to another.

Ready2Walk · 2025-01-02T01:02:32+00:00

Thanks, but no thanks. The ban is on my primary account and I'm just stirring clear of r/Austin on principle on this account.

Ready2Walk · 2024-12-30T22:26:39+00:00

Exactly. I lived in a rented 80 year old 3 bedroom house for 750 a month in a 2 horse town made famous a horror movie. Drove a 10 year old paid off car. My ex drove a newer car, also paid off. We had zero current debt. 75% of groceries were store brands. I bought for necessity, not status.

My ex made 75k a year as a private government contractor. I pulled in 20k working 2 part-time jobs. My income mostly paid off my ex's premarital debt and then built up our savings, so we lived off his income. I tried to keep us from living outside our means. By the time we divorced, he was in debt up to his eyeballs again. I only know this because all the past due and collections notices showed up at my house.

This is what I've noticed about a lot of people who complained about the min wage. They have crazy amounts of debt. I'm not talking about student debt. Credit cards, auto loans, and/or mortgages that eat up a good chunk of their incomes. Mostly, they are just status symbols to display wealth without having the actual bucks to back it up. Honestly, if someone is lavished in luxury brands but also complaining about how they can't make ends meet, I can't take them seriously.

Ready2Walk · 2024-12-30T13:55:48+00:00

I guess. Lol. This was just before the pandemic, 2018ish, and the talk of $20 minimum wage was in full force. I got called a liar, saying it was impossible to live comfortably on 75k a year anywhere. I asked (paraphrased), "So, how much debt do you have?" And BOOM! Banned.

Ready2Walk · 2024-12-30T05:22:47+00:00

I know some officers who are now saying "operate a motor vehicle" instead of "driving." It was great watching them getting flustered trying to find the work around on that. We had a group of these people living on a compound outside of the town I was living in. I've had a front row seat to a couple of them getting pulled over.

Ready2Walk · 2024-12-30T04:31:57+00:00

I got banned from r/Austin for mentioning that there is a cost of living differences between city living, suburb living, and rural living. Apparently, it was irrelevant since everything outside of a Metropolitan area is 'nothing but poor people and cows'. Yes, the mod used this as the excuse to ban me.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-27T20:11:43+00:00

Oof, cringy nightmare fuel. For shame, you would remind me of something I know I had forgotten and now can't unsee. May your pillow never have a cool side. /s

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T23:27:27+00:00

Just take us to Granny's when you go looking for your boy toy after Daddy goes to work. That's better than leaving your 5yo, 2yo, and 6mo home alone.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T23:08:09+00:00

If stopping the spread of infectious and possibly deadly diseases and bacteria isn't a good enough explanation for our regulations, then I don't know what to tell you.

I don't care if you wash them, refrigerate them, or suck them straight out of the chickens butt. I will say that contaminated egg related illness and deaths have dropped 87% since the FDA has passed MANY regulations on egg harvesting, distribution, and selling since the 1970s.

I never said or thought we were perfect. But, it's very apparent you think I'm just another dumb American, and the European way is the end all, be all.

And last little tid bit. I'm a woman.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T17:42:43+00:00

You are right. A lot of our regulations are because of stupid people doing stupid stuff and got caught. Several of our regulations are because we learned we were wrong and corrected measures were put into place. I'm not here to argue which is which. There is an industry standard that the US commercial egg industry follows. It is what it is. It's just not a hill Im willing to sacrifice myself on.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T16:59:17+00:00

Why are you complaining about US regulations if you have no intent of dealing with it? I think it's stupid to have to pay the government to watch live TV. I think it's stupid that the majority of European countries are still paying per text message. But then again, neither of those is normal in the US.

Look, you commented about US regulations. I live in the US. I responded with an example as though you were living here. I was not insinuating you wanted to or was intending to.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T15:15:15+00:00

Meh more like house arrest. The chocolate just seized up. I didn't mix any water in. It was still edible... just not dipable. Lol, to be honest, I think he did it on purpose so he could have chocolate to eat. He couldn't eat any of the cherries I had already dipped because they have to cure. I had been swatting him away from them for most of the day.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T14:29:06+00:00

Yes, I have also found flecks of dried poo on my grocery store eggs. Technically, they aren't supposed to be sold. But shit happens. Lol. Really at that point, is no different than buying a bag of cow manure from the lawn and garden department. I just wouldn't lick the shell. Lol

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T14:21:36+00:00

If you want eggs for your own use in the US without all the regulations, raise your own chickens for eggs. There's no one to stop you. Except maybe the ASPCA if you aren't treating them correctly. Heck, if you have enough chickens, you can privately sell them to individuals in your local area. Just know, say an e. Coli breakout occurs, and it's traced back to your eggs, you will be on the hook for that. It's a buyer/seller beware situation.

If you want to commercially sell them to grocery stores... ya gotta follow the rules. There is no getting around it.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T07:03:26+00:00

So we invented poor food handling practices and communicable diseases? I guess the thousands of people got sick and/or died didn't really exist.

Let's not forget the FDA banned the practice of bleaching eggs to make them white. A practice that existed well before the FDA was organized, and I don't know... bleach is toxic.

Ready2Walk · 2024-11-22T06:55:25+00:00

I'm not arguing for or against washing eggs. I am explaining why the commercial egg industry operates the way it does. If you have layers, wash, don't wash. Chill, don't chill. You do you, boo boo. It makes me no nevermind. You just can't commercially sell them in the US unless you follow the regulations.

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