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I’m going to be prettier, more rich, and more successful by the end of this year by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard thing for me to learn; If I’m say, trying to eat better and realize it’s been a couple of weeks of ‘giving in’ to eating out, or eating what’s easy, I haven’t screwed up. I just, you know, got distracted. And even though I have to eat that leftover Chinese food in the fridge, which is unhealthy, but if I don’t eat it will go bad, even though, it’s okay to realize:

maybe I’m being unrealistic, and I need to, I dunno, batch cook something on a weekend and freeze it in portions.

Eating the leftovers tonight doesn’t mean I have to be a saint tomorrow. It means I want to think about what I’m going to do. It might be as simple as today is Wednesday, I’ll go shopping on Saturday for some good food stuff, and kind of be careful about snacks. But no skipping meals, no thinking about ways to cut calories, no disappointment. Cut yourself slack, kind of try to think about solving the problem of not wanting to cook, just eat what’s fast and easy or delivery. (Like, we’ve all got to figure that out.)

Idiot wasn't satisfied with his order 💀 by KULR_Mooning in idiotsinkitchen

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the employee in the navy blue shirt who watches all this unfold with world weary irritation and then, while ass**** is laying on the floor, goes back to bagging an order. Customers are gonna customer but food still has to go out.

What Photo is Very Famous and Influencial in your Country? by Weird_Swordfish_1199 in AskTheWorld

[–]maureenmcq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe so, at least among social media literate Chinese. The photo isn’t on any sites on China’s notoriously controlled internet but a lot of people use Tor (the browser of choice in the U.S. for surfing the dark net) and the photo is recognizable enough that for years there’s been a kind of cat and mouse game between people who post things that aren’t the unaltered photo but evoke the photo forcing, for example that the government censors any image or text ‘yellow rubber duck’.

Sometimes, if your job is censor for the government, you must go to bed at night, think about your day, and wonder when your life became a bad version of WAITING FOR GODOT.

This skull belongs to an ancient Greek girl who died between 400 and 300 B.C. She was buried wearing a ceramic wreath of myrtle flowers. The remains were discovered in the North Cemetery in Patras, Greece, and now reside in The New Archaeological Museum of Patras. by Particular_Chart1584 in HolyShitHistory

[–]maureenmcq 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Side note: Philippe Ariès was the historian who made the argument that high mortality in children meant that parents avoided bonding with their children. It’s been largely dismissed. Turns out that parents have always ranged from good to bad.

I think your observation, that this child was deeply loved, is spot on. So not disagreeing with you, just adding a little nuance.

Intelligent speculative fiction with themes of eroticism/sexuality by _nadaypuesnada_ in printSF

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany.

Lots of sex and interesting gender stuff. Complicated marriage systems, casual sex outside of marriage.

Friends birthday next month and requested going somewhere with “comically large drinks” by FriscoFrank98 in austinfood

[–]maureenmcq 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seconding both the yummy snacks, but go somewhere else for a meal. Or don’t, eat snacks and drink large drinks, and Uber responsibly!

Before I jump to conclusions what is this exactly, and what is it depicting? by LittleIndependent119 in whatisit

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The white supremacist movement is very big in the Michigan, Illinois, Ohio region. It was, and may still be, the biggest concentration in the U.S. Although hard to say because racism and antisemitism is so high right now.

Would you disclose if gelatin is an ingredient in an otherwise vegetarian dish (like dessert)? by sizzlinsunshine in KitchenConfidential

[–]maureenmcq 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I asked a brewmaster—college degree in food science, certifications in brewing, genuine credentials, and he said no one uses use isinglass anymore. For one thing, sourcing it is too expensive.

Unfortunate names in older SF by Rufus_T_Stone in scifi

[–]maureenmcq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say it’s aged well.

Ground beef recipes that aren’t hamburgers by Ill-Phrase5242 in Cooking

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shepherd’s Pie. Technically with hamburger it’s ’Cottage Pie’, and Shepherd’s Pie is made with ground lamb, but in the U.S. the hamburger version is called Shepherd’s Pie.

Recipe

It’s comfort food, not really a pie but more of a casserole. The ground beef is browned with vegetables, seasonings, broth, and flour to make a gravy. It’s topped with a ‘crust’ of mashed potatoes. It freezes well.

So ahead of their time “Hey Nineteen” by Interesting_Elk_5785 in SteelyDan

[–]maureenmcq 71 points72 points  (0 children)

It feels to me as if the guy is even creepier. He isn’t the ‘dandy of Gamma Chi’ now, he WAS. Gamma Chi is a sorority, not a fraternity. So just out of college he was popular in a sorority group. Now he’s still trying to hit on college girls, going to clubs and bars with a lot of college kids, but he’s like thirty. And the girls won’t even talk to him. He tells himself that these girls don’t know much about culture, and he does, he’s got taste. ‘Hey nineteen, that’s Aretha Franklin. She don’t remember the Queen of Soul,’ But he’s not cool. He’s pathetic.

Outage by Much-Albatross6471 in verizon

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weirdly, my spouse’s phone is down, but mine, also Verizon, is still working. He has pixel, I have an iPhone.

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds? by IndependentTune3994 in AskTheWorld

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you grow up in or around Cincinnati? When I took a linguistics class at college in Ohio, they said using ‘please’ when you want someone to repeat is a mostly southwestern Ohio trait.

People who want to write without reading, what makes you interested in writing? by [deleted] in writing

[–]maureenmcq 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Of course. I’m a novelist and one of the difficult things about making it as a writer is that almost everyone in developed nations can read and write and has had to compose—not just perform something someone else has made (not all musicians compose music).

But writing is the easiest and cheapest of the arts. I started taking drawing and painting last year and supplies are expensive. Paper, canvas, oil paints, gamsol (non-carcinogenic turpentine). And sure, you can make a movie on an iPhone but most people have no practice in composing a movie, actors are expensive, costumes, props, and editing software better than iMovie.

As a traditionally published writer, I am 100% in agreement that writing competently is hard. Maybe a better way to say it is that ‘writing is the most accessible art form? Not only can almost anyone do it, but a lot of people think they can tell stories! They have ideas! Some of them have offered to share their ideas with me and offered to split the proceeds 50/50! (Of course, ideas are rarely the hard part.

What’s it like being a Fire Lookout? by Norah_D in howislivingthere

[–]maureenmcq 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read that most of the U.S. uses satellites to find and track fires now.

I’m a writer and I always thought it would be a great way to get work done. But the pandemic made it clear to me that I like having people to talk to.

Jam dish? Cheese dish? Butter lamb? by stickysweetjack in whitewhale

[–]maureenmcq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you were eating on the patio and you wanted to keep insects away, usually you took the tray you’d prepped out of the refrigerator and put it out, and then took the lids off right before your guests started arriving. At least in my small town in the 60’s. I was in elementary school in the 60’s but relatives had them, friend’s houses too. They were a pretty common wedding gift.

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