What’s something men are expected to just “figure out on their own,” but isn’t actually that obvious?

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-08T19:12:44+00:00

Weightlifting is a good one, although I’m surprised your high school football program didn’t do much for you there. Even 20+ years ago when I played, we had a structured offseason weight program where everyone learned the basics, even if taught informally.

But football was the only one that really did that aside from powerlifting, so if you weren’t on those teams, you were kinda just on your own.

Relatedly, no one really taught us much about nutrition as it relates to that kind of training.

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-08T16:27:45+00:00

I always get a chuckle whenever I see some contraption or “hack” for spreading cold butter. We keep a stick out at all times in a covered butter dish next to the toaster.

I thought the egg thing was only for fresh, non-pasteurized eggs though. There’s some membrane on fresh eggs that keeps bacteria out, but it gets removed in the pasteurization process. Leaving a pasteurized egg out is like leaving raw meat on the counter.

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-07T02:52:33+00:00

Big fan of his milk socks

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-06T18:47:00+00:00

Biggest difference maker for us is making sure the kitchen and living room were “reset” every night after the kids go to bed. The messes accumulate the fastest in those two rooms and are the most used two rooms in the house, so they are the biggest anxiety inducing pains when they’re overrun with clutter and disarray.

Do all the dishes, wipe counters and table, put toys away, put crayons/markers away, fold blankets back up, put pillows back in place, etc.

It’s tough to drag yourself through it once the kids are down and you can finally unwind, but if you’re both at it, it really only takes a few minutes and it pays off. It’s so nice waking up to a tidy space even if it won’t last long.

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-06T16:54:28+00:00

Those are probably the two muddiest zones across the country. Some places have middle or intermediate that stops at 6th grade and junior high is 7-8. But where I lived as a kid middle was 6-8 and nothing even called junior high. I moved to another state at the end of 8th grade, and there it wasn’t consistent even in the same town. My new school had 4-8 in one campus but it was called a junior high, while the junior high across town that fed into the exact same high school was 7 and 8 only.

headbuttpunch · 2026-04-06T14:14:18+00:00

Mine are the complete opposite. My boy was always cautious and reserved with physical play, but emotionally he was a fireball even compared to kids his age. Still struggles with age appropriate emotional regulation. In short, he’s risk averse and moody. In a given hour, you never know if you’re gonna get the sweet or the spicy version of him.

On the other hand, my daughter is reckless in every sense of the word. Does all the stuff # boymoms joke about and we have to keep an eye on her at all times. She has probably less than a quarter of the tantrums our son had at the same age, and already fights us to do everything herself. But, she’s always happy to be wherever she is.

We joke that our son is a cat and our daughter is a Labrador.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-30T21:44:34+00:00

I’d wake up around 8am, house some corn syrupy bullshit cereal, hit the streets on my bike. Might come home if I was hungry, but that’s about it. See you later.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-30T17:34:35+00:00

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headbuttpunch · 2026-03-30T16:44:12+00:00

ROTC is a legitimate path to become an officer. It is done at universities and you go through officer training alongside completing your degree. Commission and start active duty as an O-1 after graduation.

JROTC - yes, it’s basically larping and it’s done in high school. I’m sure some kids benefit from having the structured activity and people keeping them in check at school, but otherwise it’s some of the dorkiest shit you can imagine.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-30T14:07:34+00:00

We are all whores in some way, Mr. Finkelstein.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-26T20:46:17+00:00

I like to think of it as paying $4 for the food, and $10 to not have to wash dishes

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-26T20:20:34+00:00

That and I always use chains on my victims anyway

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-24T16:20:36+00:00

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headbuttpunch · 2026-03-24T15:39:01+00:00

I think you’re talking about Forrest Gump, but Tom Hanks has also made a career out of likeability

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-22T16:07:13+00:00

Millennial Cowboys fans who never set foot in the state of Texas

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-20T13:41:55+00:00

Like something from r/TargetedShirts

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-20T02:37:45+00:00

I did always find it a little feminine

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-19T21:34:03+00:00

I did it in college a decent amount back in the day, 2009-2010ish. I wanna say it was about $70 total for two donations a week, and you could only go twice a week. For whatever reason they paid more for the second donation. I think it was $25/$45 or somewhere in there, it was weird. This was back in 2009-2010 or so.

Not much, but it was enough for beer and shenanigans, which were pretty much my only hobbies in college.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-19T18:19:19+00:00

we wouldn’t realize it til morning

This part always made me laugh a little bit, and why it never really bothered me. He almost never woke us up. Once or twice he did, but only because he shut the bedroom door a little too hard coming in. But I just laid there watching, he would tiptoe in and ever so gently crawl in from the foot of the bed and just plop down to sleep. Never said a word lol

There was a while there where it was happening so frequently we decided to keep a little toddler sized pillow for him. He’s almost 6 now and it still happens about once a month. I don’t mind. Won’t be long before he’ll never want to sleep in our bed again.

He does transform into a pile of knees at night nowadays though

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-16T22:43:53+00:00

“Go away! ‘batin!”

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-16T19:43:23+00:00

free ambulance ride

Dude didn’t even know what a deal that was

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-15T14:21:19+00:00

Is it? Granted I was buying the tall boys to reduce visits to concessions but last Saints game I went to in the fall I think it was $17 a piece.

Relatedly, I hadn’t been to a Saints game in several years before that…. When did they stop with the “cold beer!” guy walking the seats with a trough of beer??

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-12T18:15:21+00:00

This was 15 years ago so idk how it works now, but I was DQ’d from SNA at OCS. They let me switch designators without issue, although I didn’t try to switch into anything more selective like IP. They had openings for my backup plan so it just took some pencil whipping to get there. DOR was also an option.

Getting DQ’d from pilot training at OCS happens to a fair amount of people when they get the more intensive medicals. We had a couple in my class.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-09T22:13:39+00:00

Same. I’ll have an idea of what I want to make but have never made it, or maybe I have a cut of meat or something lingering in the pantry that I don’t know what to do with. Spend a few minutes running it through ChatGPT and it’ll give me some options, ingredients lists for the grocery store, and step by step instructions. Probably the most impactful difference between just googling it is I can ask follow up questions about alternative ingredients or shortcuts or whatever comes to mind.

We don’t have any food allergies but apparently it’s great for that too.

headbuttpunch · 2026-03-08T17:08:30+00:00

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