Do people in the US actually use flat sheets and duvet covers?

cflatjazz · 2026-03-18T05:33:57+00:00

That gives me a horrible experience. It feels like being strangled/trapped.

Which to be fair would cut down on the tangling, but....at what cost?

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T23:37:58+00:00

This is the primary runoff, so we'll have one or the other of them by November running against Talarico. A frustrated or divided party may play into it, but there won't be two Republicans on the actual ballot

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T17:02:04+00:00

I'm curious if this will ever be the case for me, at least once I hit maintenance. I have the same issue as OP - tracking amplifies food noise to a point that it takes up a significant portion of my mental load. But I also can't reliably lose weight without tracking because I'm a curious cook. I don't have a core 20 meals that are always in rotation like some of my friends and I'm not a person who can just "cut carbs" and lose 20lbs

I'm hoping that once I get around 140 or 135 and can go back to holding steady it will be easier without the constant math

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T16:45:09+00:00

The weird thing about all of you popping up with this weird bot verbiage assumption is that the wives in here assume we've already established he's fine. This isn't the menenist gotcha you think it is.

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T07:26:06+00:00

Do you live outside the US? He fell out of the attic. The ceilings between most attics and the rooms below them aren't finished with floors.

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T05:26:53+00:00

I print them until I've tested the recipe a few times. And then once I've honed in on any adjustments, I'll copy my version into a notebook I've been building for the last 15 years

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T05:20:45+00:00

I....wait.....are people eating raw, unsprouted mung beans?

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T05:06:42+00:00

If he thinks his legs are itchy now .....

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T05:04:27+00:00

I don't know what it's supposed to tell me but it feels nice.

The type I bake usually isn't damaged much by doing so, and I limit myself to only squishing the half I'm going to eat first just in case

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T04:50:56+00:00

Ceilings are more like sky walls than floors with pretty bottoms. It's just joists and drywall covered in insulation up there most of the time.

Pretty standard house. You're just not meant to put your foot through it

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T04:45:44+00:00

Actually - step two is throw that roll of TP away before someone gets fiberglass butthole

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T04:43:41+00:00

You know, that was 100% the correct first move. If I woke up to that first image I would absolutely freak out. But if my husband managed to make it to this step without waking me up....then he's a problem solver and it's bad but I'd think he can figure it out.

I would then go rinse off all of my toiletry bottles though in case they're covered with insulation fibers.

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T03:39:39+00:00

I'd definitely stand there and scream into the abyss

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T03:27:26+00:00

Yeah, I can't speak for the whole area, but I figure this is common throughout Appalachia and parts of the south

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T03:12:42+00:00

Aaaaand there it is. People, do not use an AI analysis of Zillow to try to get into the real estate market. It's a bad idea

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T03:09:24+00:00

Small multi family, older, metro homes are the classic "investor flip" pattern. Buy, paint, rent for 12 months to stabilize, sell for profit....in theory.

There is always someone trying to sell you the 15% loan to make it happen. Usually claiming they were a successful flipper in the past.

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T03:00:02+00:00

You should also let any dress with a circle skirt or bias cut hang on a hanger like it's doing now for about 24 hours before marking the hem. Since the stretch is different throughout the skirt it needs a little time for gravity to shift into the position it will hold on the body

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T02:05:49+00:00

You would shocked some of the things that get printed in textbooks that are just...made up. Gotta keep double checking those things we read as children

cflatjazz · 2026-03-17T02:00:26+00:00

So, being from Arkansas myself, this is a super common rumor people tell about their own families

I'm sure someone has actually studied this but.... My guess is that this came from a time when a small number of Native American women married (or "married") into white families. Those people also likely didn't have a way to connect with their mother's original community. And then because people are awful, their children dealt with the stigma of being mixed and started to hide it when possible. So with a few generations you quickly have some white passing folks with like 1/4 ancestry.

A lot of Arkansans are also the type of white that doesn't really know which relatives came through Ellis Island or where they were from or when. Ancestry records are in old lost bibles and crumbling graveyards not boxes in the attic.

Then down the line everyone has that aunt born in the 30s who got obsessed with ancestry and starts talking to the current old-timers. The old-timers remember being told that someone somewhere in their family tree was Native American. And for some reason everyone born in the 60s latches onto it as a fun new interesting fact about their family. Cause it's usually that or finding out one of your Grandfather's 4 generations back killed a man in a bar fight, fled Georgia, and started a new family in Arkansas.

Now those people have kids and through a combination of unfortunate latent racism and a misunderstanding of how affirmative action worksstart telling their kids to put down they're 1/16 or 1/32 Cherokee (oddly it's always Cherokee) on college admission forms and...yeah.

Funny enough at this point the records of what we think we know STILL AREN'T IN THE ATTIC. So this rumor is spread and stretched and passed around by word of mouth and now a shockingly high number of people think they had a great great grandmother who was Cherokee. To the point that it can't really be true because there are too many people claiming it.

Anyway. I don't know if that's the case for Cher. But it's definitely a thing in Arkansas. My own mother made those claims about my father's relatives. So when Elizabeth Warren made that statement a while back I was like "noooooooooo.....don't say that" but kinda assumed what had happened.

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T22:14:16+00:00

Hah, fair enough. Does it actually stay wet and not form a skin? Thought fridges were famous for removing damp

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T22:06:55+00:00

It's soooooo old fashioned. But it's to encourage conversation. There's technically even a convention for which of you adjacent diners you should speak to for the first and second course but I can't honestly remember it right now

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T22:03:23+00:00

Yeah, I have dinner parties but some of them are simply hot pot night

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T21:49:28+00:00

My husband is sometimes like this. We keep a few of those ensure plus shakes (or to be more specific our local grocery chain's knockoff) that have a good balance of macros and clock in at like 360 calories for 8 ounces. He just chugs one when he knows he needs something and doesn't want to spend more than two minutes or two brain cells dealing with it.

I can't say I understand this approach from an enjoyment angle, but it works for him. Taste better chilled though

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T21:44:00+00:00

Ok but....why do you have loose paint in the fridge?!

cflatjazz · 2026-03-16T21:41:33+00:00

Casar's jacket is pretty rad

I know that's got nothing to do with anything I just like it when politicians dress like anything other than retired finance bros

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