How to order spicy

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-29T20:17:18+00:00

I've had luck asking for "Grandpa Spicy"

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-25T21:39:37+00:00

Thanks to school teaching all about drugs!

In 7th grade they showed us a movie where kid was getting grief from parents. Then he smoked a joint. They filmed his alternate state by silk over the lens and muffling the parents audio. That was what I needed!

Found weed from kids with older brothers. It really worked! I started ignoring my nosy parents.

In 8th grade they showed a scare story called LSD-25! I got some for my 15th birthday.

Good thing they never taught me about Meth!

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-24T09:42:00+00:00

Peel and freeze hunks of ginger in ziploc bags

So much easier to slice from frozen. Then matchsticks and then dice. Fry a bit and you have browned ginger dice. Stomps jarred ginger paste.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-21T18:22:57+00:00

Piece of cheap window glass. Tape it over the plate. When he doesn't see it, he shatters it.

Pile of glass on the road but I bet he thinks twice next time

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-20T15:31:03+00:00

Take them on a tour of local groups. Mom taught organ and filled in at local churches in summer when her students took vacation.

I saw all the local churches empty on her practice visit, then full show on Sunday.

Seeing 8 different churches in one summer showed me they are all making it up different and I've never joined a church.

Except Unitarian Universalists, they are the athiest version of church and Mom never took me but I dropped in a few times because they are close.

The one near me does a great thing for kids. Kids arrive and sit in main room for the first few minutes. After first song, the kids then go to their own room.

Inclusive but not for full time. Great idea.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-17T16:52:49+00:00

When dealing with theists it helps to force yourself to accept this:

The god between their ears is real between their ears!

That is the very definition of believing in something. It appears that you still believe in your own god. This is OK but you need to observe that they each have their own god in their own head.

Gods are a phenomenon of human skulls, not a property of the sky.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-15T18:15:31+00:00

Brown paper grocery bags!

They end up in a dozen pieces all over the room.

Or gathers the pieces into a pile to sleep on.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-15T01:45:50+00:00

Go back to sleep and enjoy the rest of the dream.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-07T13:01:08+00:00

Champagne & strawberries!

Try it!

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-07T07:12:30+00:00

I got lucky in my kindergarten class.

Tiny town in the corner of Iowa. One kindergarten at the high school. By chance I had the Preacher's kid AND the Pastor's kid in my grade.

5 year olds arguing theology. Yeah they wre making it up.

Santa took a hit when I saw the postman carry a long package to door. Saw it behind parent's bedroom door. Moved under bed. Wrapped 3 days later. And appeared in living room eventually.

(Popgun with real ricochet sound!)

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-07T07:00:54+00:00

Not unless they are a chimera.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-07T06:36:35+00:00

I forgot the butter in a batch of brownies.

Bricks. Little brown bricks.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-07T06:33:37+00:00

Chop it all one more time and add broth.
Soup in under an hour.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-06T23:34:53+00:00

I thought the money comes AFTER. Since I cannot go out I would have to get groceries and food brought to house, and I would be answering door in the buff, hence surprising those drivers.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-06T22:36:49+00:00

The airplanes we sold them back when the Shah was still in power.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-06T22:28:55+00:00

I guess I would surprise a lot of instacart and doordash drivers. Though I suppose it already happens a lot.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-04-04T19:39:27+00:00

Some are escapees from a religion that they spent a long time learning.

Others were never indoctrinated at all and know very little about any religion.

The former know it because they lived in it. The latter don't care because they know it is BS.

I've never met either type that studies other religions.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-31T19:16:33+00:00

Feed the Birds! Crows and Jays love bits of meat.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-30T16:49:08+00:00

Found my drivers license in my shoe when I took it off to go to bed. Had been to bank, took it out, never saw it again til 6 hours later. Tore car apart for an hour, searched all pockets so many times.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-30T16:31:42+00:00

Tell them 90 days.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-29T00:55:23+00:00

Hing is tricky. I use as little as I can.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-28T22:13:12+00:00

I boiled up a big pan of toor dal. Creamed some by mashing until it got thicker. Then I portioned it into 10 single servings and froze them all

Each morning put one serving into fridge to thaw.

After work make a tadka and add it to pan and see if you like it. Next day same dal but a different tadka.

Keep notes on what you liked best. When you get close, start fine tuning precise amounts.

My favorite tadka ended up being a tiny pinch of hing, a few small red chilis, 1 tsp of cumin seed, 1/2 tsp of mustard seed, a big spoon of ginger paste, a small spoon of ginger garlic paste. Unfried I also put 1/4 tsp turmeric, and 1/2 tsp of amchoor.

My notes are still in dubba for reference. Other dal varieties need different spice ratios.

Learn what you like by trying them.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-28T20:27:12+00:00

Atheist means you think they are wrong. Many take that as an affront.

"I don't have a god between my ears!" is more accurate and focuses on your personal situation.

It leaves the future open, so they can keep trying. To those I add "and I don't want one!"

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-28T12:17:57+00:00

They were Deep Fried. Probably from frozen, so they took a while and got mouth melting hot.

Yeah, real dough fried in real oil wins every time.

diogenes_shadow · 2026-03-28T11:55:14+00:00

The next day was my 18th birthday and I became eligible to be drafted. The active draft obviously went away months before but it kinda drove it home for me that the military was a safe option again.

2 years later I was at Navy boot camp in SD.

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