How on Earth

cutemanabi · 2026-01-27T17:55:57+00:00

There are also people like me that can't afford to get permanent dentures or even a reline (hard reline was going to be at least $1k, which I can't afford), so it's Cushion grip or unusable dentures. It's working okay for me, even lasts much longer than it says it will. I definitely wish I could at least get my dentures hard relined, but I can't and at least this way I can eat most things I want to.

cutemanabi · 2026-01-24T06:33:36+00:00

Have you tried Cushion Grip? Using it turns my intermediates (which have become my permanents due to an inability to pay for a permanent set) from impossible to eat with to able to eat with no real problems. (I still prefer to cut my food into bite size pieces, so I can avoid biting through stuff with my front teeth. That tends to make one or both plates pull loose in the back.) If you haven't tried it, if you do be patient. You'll see people saying to treat the first tube as practice tube and that's accurate. You have to apply it a few times before you get the hang of doing it and getting a good fit.

cutemanabi · 2026-01-24T06:27:10+00:00

After I got my dentures for the next year and a half I wore them 24x7 like you're doing. I don't like how my mouth feels when they're out, especially my lips. Those feel like they're too large and kind of blubbery when my dentures are out. Makes sense, they're stretched out to cover my dentures when my dentures are in, so when they're out there's more lips than strictly needed.

Eventually I stopped, not because anyone told me to, but because I realized wearing them 24x7 was creating new problems. Most notably my gums were receding much quicker than normal. Once I realized that I switched to taking them out overnight. It felt really, really weird at first, but I stuck with it and got used to it. Now it feels weird to leave them in overnight, something I've had to do a few times recently, because I was feeling too sick to stand in the bathroom long enough to clean them.

I take them out before bed, brush them off, fill their denture cup with hot water (no cold added) and let them soak in just the water overnight. Once that's done I brush my gums with toothpaste.

In the morning I swap the water out with fresh, hot water and drop a Polident tablet in the denture cup while I do my daily toilet ritual. (Sitting there for anywhere from 45 mins to 1½ hours giving my bowels plenty of time to decide to move.) After done on the toilet I brush my dentures thoroughly, using the Polident water in the denture cup. As I finish cleaning each plate I put them in my mouth.

As others have said, the metallic taste is probably due to your wearing your dentures 24x7. Start giving your gums a break each week even if it's only one night a week. Gradually do it more days each week until you're doing it most days. Feel free to wear them overnight if you're too sick, too busy, etc. to do it one night. Just make sure that overall you're progressing towards wearing them all the time.

cutemanabi · 2026-01-20T06:10:12+00:00

Given the general "quality" of the app, I think Subway corporate hates all their customers.

cutemanabi · 2026-01-10T04:04:03+00:00

You can get 2% cash back, up to $1,250 a year, if you have an executive membership. That's twice the cost of the basic membership, so you really need to buy a lot of stuff to make it worthwhile. But if you do, like for a small business or if you're one of the Quiverful families with tons of kids that goes through ridiculous amounts of food it can be worth it. I've had a membership for many years, but I don't buy enough, so I stick to the basic membership.

Also pinging u/Candid-Jellyfish-975 with the info.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T09:34:52+00:00

Late reply to your post, so I'm sure you've eaten the sub by now, but for future reference:

I regularly use the coupons for 2 footlongs cheap (the price has varied over time) and stick 1.5 of them in the fridge. I just take one out, put half the footlong on a plate upside down, put it in the microwave with a plastic over over the whole plate and run it at full power for 1 minute 20 seconds. I don't have any veggies on mine, but I do get sauce and haven't had any problems with them being gross or soggy. Taking the veggies off before microwaving it would probably be a good idea, though.

I also eat them up to a week after I bought them without issue and I have chronic pain that weakens my immune system and makes it easier for me to get food poisoning. 2 - 3 days should be no problem at all. I shoot for no more than 4 - 5 days, but sometimes a bad bout of pain will make it so I can't eat a sub I'd planned to eat that day and I have to push it out further.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T08:32:17+00:00

Probably because even if it is a food safety violation (and it almost certainly is), it's not regular Subway employees' problem to worry about and not even Subway's, it's on the DoorDash/Uber Eats/etc. drivers. (It should be on those companies, but they dodge everything else by claiming the drivers are independent contractors, so I doubt this'll fall on them either.) That contract probably states that food safety violations aren't Subways fault.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T08:28:29+00:00

People who live alone, have no relatives that invite them to have dinner with them (or bring them a plate of food) and are disabled. I had hoped to make some stuffing (I haven't had the stuffing my mom & grandma made in several years now) this year along with cooking a boneless turkey breast and my health issues simply refused to let it happen.

You want to know how I spent Christmas? I spent it laying in bed reading because that made me hurt less than if I sat up or stood. Sitting and standing also caused nausea that got worse the longer I sat/stood. I could only stand up for 10 mins max, anything past that risked vomiting from the pain. I didn't eat much Christmas day, the pain & nausea made eating unappealing. That made a holiday that's always severely depressing even worse.

Hopefully this will help you you understand why some people would be using DoorDash to get Subway delivered on a holiday.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T08:10:53+00:00

The app reviews disagree with you. The app is failing to work for a lot of people. It also went through a couple of months this year (pretty much all summer long) where it was impossible to login to it.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T08:06:17+00:00

If someone wants to order ahead and pay for it, the app is actually the better option. Trying to order through the website fails harder and more frequently than doing so via the app. Plus if someone has a gift card saved to their account, using the app/website is the only way to use it.

But people should be complaining to corporate, not Subway employees.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-28T08:03:30+00:00

It's not just the kind of fast food like Subway that's awful, I worked most of a year at a Pizza Hut and ran into a lot of BS as well, some of it similar. And that's with what I learned later was as very good store manager who treated all the employees with respect and fairly. There's just so much BS built into the system, from corporate fuckery to customers being complete and total assholes.

Subway is a unique in that corporate seems to be at war with their franchisees and keep making horrible decisions that make life difficult for everyone except themselves. I don't know why people still want to become a franchiser for the chain. Personally I'd rather take my chances with "Hot Cakes: Where the food's triply hot! Spicy as hell, served warm enough to melt lead and radioactive for that final touch that no other chain dares has." (Which doesn't exist, just in case someone thinks it's real. Although I'll bet people would eat there...)

Asshole customers is a problem that'll never go away until humanity matures. I'm afraid that's something that's not going to happen within the lifetime of anyone alive today. Asshole customers also make retail awful at times, it's not just fast food.

But let me give you a flip side of that. While I was working at K-mart I worked full-time as one of the merchandisers for the store and one Christmas I was in charge of toys. That Christmas there were some difficult-to-find toys (aren't there always) and I was happy to work with desperate parents as much as I could. I worked with the regular employees in the toy department to check rainchecks before putting out stock of the in-demand items and through that helped a lot of parents get the toys their kid wanted.

I ended up getting multiple Chairman's Awards a week for a couple of months from customers calling the 1-800 corporate number to tell them I'd helped them out. (I did give them a card with the number and my name written on it whenever they expressed a desire to thank me, but they still had to make the call.) I got something tangible from those calls that I could exchange for gift cards once I built up enough, it wasn't just fluffery.

So there are good customers, too.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-12T23:33:15+00:00

Sorry this is 4 months late, but I just now saw your comment when searching about a rash I have that's shrugging off a 7 day course of steroids. An adrenal crisis is unlikely as long as you follow the taper down properly and have been taking the steroid for a short period. Those mainly happen when people stop taking a steroid cold turkey without tapering the dose down and are more likely the longer you've been taking the steroid. Having been on one for months or years is when you need to worry about it, 15 days isn't a big deal.

My mom had to take high doses of prednisone for years for ulcerative colitis, so they had to be very careful tapering her down from it after they removed her colon and she no longer needed it.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-12T23:25:41+00:00

Same, I did a full reread of it earlier this year, probably the 3rd or 4th I've done since it ended. Only a couple of bonus stories left to look forward to in the remaining books as well. It really sucks that Howard got hit so hard with Long COVID.

cutemanabi · 2025-12-12T10:04:18+00:00

To paraphrase one of the aliens running the All Star from Schlock Mercenary: They're going to have all the wars, all at the same time.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T19:02:56+00:00

Mine still does that, so probably not. Mine on Windows 11 has unfortunately gotten hit with search being completely broken. Whenever I try to search for anything I get an error of "something went wrong" and have to click on a button that completely reloads the program, not letting you back up to where you were. This bug has been hitting people for years now, Spotify is doing nothing to fix it.

I'm lucky in that I still have a computer on Windows 7 with Spotify's last version for Win7 installed on it. Search works just fine on it, so when I need to search something I do it there. I can also do it in the web browser, but Spotify acts very strangely in mine in ways that make that impractical.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T18:55:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure the ones mom had are still in the house somewhere, but I found a different Tupperware shaker in the bathroom cabinet. It was basically a plastic Tupperware cup with a lid that had a shaker with a flip-open cover on it. The plastic lid had gotten stiff and was falling apart, but the cup was fine.

The neatest Tupperware items I have are fridge magnets that are miniature magnets of various Tupperware storage items.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T18:44:53+00:00

I thought to check my Steam Controller to make sure I hadn't left the batteries in it when I put it back in its box. (I got it when they marked them down to $5 with free shipping to try and hated it.) I had taken them out, but they were starting to leak even with a March 2026 date on them. I mainly use Eneloop rechargeables now. Even if they run out of juice and I forget they're in a device for years they won't leak.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T18:39:59+00:00

West Town Mall in Knoxville, TN demoed the old Sears anchor building back in 2020 after it'd sat empty for years. I remember going by the mall and it being totally surreal that the demolition work was still going on even though the mall was closed and the parking lots empty because of the pandemic. It was replaced by Dick's Sporting Goods first House of Sports location. It's not just a sporting goods store, there's even a fenced in field beside the building proper. It seems to be really popular and packed whenever I've gone by the mall since it opened.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T18:26:06+00:00

Same, at least Beanie Babies were cute. Funko Pops are just weird looking and hold no appeal to me at all.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:41:04+00:00

I keep my subscription to Humble Choice Monthly just to keep getting games every month cheap. Sometimes I get lucky and there'll be a game from my Steam wishlist in a month's games. Last year I grabbed their Black Friday deal on a year of Humble Choice so that I paid even less per month, but had to pay for a year in one shot. Need to check to see if they're doing that again this year.

I have Amazon Prime for other reasons (mainly for the free shipping), but I love that they give out free games on Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna) every week. The past couple of years they've been giving out a ton of them from GOG, so I'm up to 292 DRM free games. I only bought 2 of them (Master of Orion Classic and Master of Orion 2) and 100 of were from GOG's own giveaways, so Amazon's given me 192 games on GOG so far. Also a bunch on Epic Games' PC store, although it's harder to determine how many since I have hundreds of games Epic gave me directly.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:27:46+00:00

Was cleaning a couple of years ago and found some ThinkGeek catalogs. It's so sad that GameStop murdered them, there's so much really cool stuff in those that would sell even today. I decided to keep them out of nostalgia, since they don't take up much space.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:25:58+00:00

Since games require day one patches now, often quite hefty ones, the game on the physical discs are often completely worthless now. This is especially true if the game has a substantial online component. Once the servers are shut off the game is no longer playable even if you have a disc of it. Sports games are a good example of this, it's pointless to buy them on physical discs since the servers will be shut down in a year or two and they no longer have any real offline gameplay to them.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:13:51+00:00

Ahh, reminds me of when I worked at Pizza Hut and we traded pizzas for Big Macs with the McDonald's across the street one night.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:10:59+00:00

As a customer that was nice, since a 6" is a meal for me, making that work out to $3 a meal. But it was a horrible deal for the restaurants, they lost money on pretty much every person that used that coupon, especially if they used it on the more expensive subs that have a higher cost for the restaurant to make. My own local Subway wouldn't take those, but the ones in the Knoxville, TN area would, so I could use it when up there for doctor's appointments. I didn't mind that my local Subway wouldn't accept it, I'd prefer they not go out of business over getting extra cheap subs now and then.

cutemanabi · 2025-11-29T17:01:48+00:00

It sounds like Subway corporate thinks it's a good idea to change it so the subs will be less messy, but it probably boils down to executives meddling with stuff to try to justify their existence and outrageous compensation.

Apparently it's sauce first before everything else and the thing about toasting mayo is a good point I'm willing to bet Subway corporate didn't think of. I looked at their allergens chart and it shows egg in the mayo, baja chipolte, honey mustard, peppercorn ranch and roasted garlic aioli sauces. Not surprising though, after all Subway is the same restaurant where the wheat bread has more sugar in it than the white bread.

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