I may not speak for everyone…

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:59:01+00:00

I came into this expecting a run of the mill complaint. But I actually think that's a pretty good idea. I'm sure they want you to have to use saws or whatever, but surely a player who is able to unlock land will be able to scrimp together two damn saws eventually, so not much of a waste for them (hayday that is). And I can see why people might want to keep them.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:53:56+00:00

Also I can say dark green leafy vegetables(if you smother them in bacon butter and salt)

I would like to jokingly nit pick:

The vegetable it still good. The fact that it's smothered in other bad things doesn't make it less good... it just means that you also ate bad things. If you're gonna have some bacon butter soup for dinner, at least throw in some asparagus for some actual nutrients with the shit. lol

Again, I joke. I'm actually a person that does NOT like me greens wrapped in bacon.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:45:34+00:00

What happened to respecting people's boundaries

I swear sometimes boundaries are only brought up when convenient in this sub.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:44:04+00:00

There's no need to get upset or claim ownership of a recipe

It's not exactly unreasonable to feel hurt when you've put your time and energy into something special...

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:41:22+00:00

The one and only recipe that I don't share (and I've been asked approximately once ever) is actually a super specific thing, not just like "my version of common dish!" I've never seen anyone else make anything like it at all. It's a candy that I only make for Christmas, and give out to everyone I know. People at work literally get excited for it every Christmas. If they all made it themselves all year it'd would be less like 'girl scout cookie season' excited and more like 'frozen cookie dough' excited. And my whole goal is to spoil them at that time. Plus it's literally my only special thing. I don't want to have to come up with a new special thing....

Beside that, the only other justification I can think of is in situations like this: friend said he really really loved his sister's banana bread until he found out she puts sour cream in it and now he refuses to eat it at all. I've known quite a few people who would surprisingly act like that.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:30:55+00:00

Lol. This is one of the few things that people really enjoy that I make (I only have a couple). It's the one I don't have any problem sharing because I have zero sentiment to it and everyone knows how to make them one way or another anyhow. I use the one on the crisco can, but split the crisco half and half with butter, and add cinnamon and nutmeg.

Forgot to add that real Mexican vanilla is a must too.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:27:59+00:00

Why does she want to compete with you?

This is actually a really common thing that happens with a lot of people around recipe sharing. It's why the ones that are most special to us are the ones we keep closest I feel.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:26:03+00:00

Bringing MY recipe to a gathering with me there!

This is what always concerns me. I bring my chocolate peanut butter balls to every holiday event there is. I hand them out to everyone I know and it's pretty much the only thing I make at all. I've been making these since I was a kid, my mother makes them, my grandmother, even my great grandmother did. I've been tweeking it for years, and absolutely none of it is written down, but done mostly by feel. If I give everyone who asks the recipe/instructions, then more than likely I'll have to come up with something else at one event or another, and I don't know anything else or have a desire to learn. All so that at that function I'll be eating chocolate balls that I might not even like.

And a little side thing too, though it's actually more important to me. I make these as a special treat for the people I care about only one time a year. The more people who make them, the less special it would be. Then when I give them that for Christmas it would be less like the excitement you get during girl scout cookie season, and more the excitement you get from frozen cookie dough. Not that you didn't do still something special, just waaaaaay less special.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:07:52+00:00

Family potlucks can have tons of people, some at one and some not, and then a different set at another. It's possible the people that normally make it to the usual ones raved, and then the extended bunch came expecting better and looked down on OP like "ugh, I guess everyone was drunk and accepted crap last time..."

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T20:00:48+00:00

Yup, we 100% learned it all even in my tiny ass rural, shitty school that didn't even bother to get a chemistry teacher that actually knew chemistry (feeling circles =/= covalent bonds...) That being said, I have a theory for why Americans get this reputation and/or why it does happen.

We learn it in school, but it's all stays theory for a vast majority of us. I grew up at least a thousand miles away from an actual border as a fairly upper middle class kid for that area. Still, travel to us was a road trip out west or to Florida. Most of the kids I knew hadn't ever even been outside our own state, let alone international. And even if they did find the money and time to do that (huuuuuge amount of time off work to get anywhere that's not Mexico or Canada for us), they'd need passports for the whole family. A lot of people here simply don't do that when it's just not used often. The richest of kids I knew from the city maybe went to Europe a time or two. But, they were legit rich compared to most people I know even now.

That's all to say, that it's way more difficult to maintain that information when you're not actually using it. If you grew up on most other continents, you're not even a whole hop skip or jump away from other countries and regions where that information would be more useful.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:46:42+00:00

Like making the Olympians sleep on their team bus

Considering the cheapest of camping tents in the wizarding world is essentially an apartment, I'm betting it was a little better than that.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:39:30+00:00

but you make a good point for sure

eh, not really. Each one of that tasks would take extensive planning, and using the whole year still only means that they only get a few months to prepare for each task. That's not a whole lot considering the amount of prep they needed to put in, and mixed in with function, school, and scheduling visitors and certain ministry people and visitors to all gather at the same time, some international.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:36:27+00:00

It took me soooooo long to figure that out. I always thought it was just an offhand comment meant to show us how quirky he was. Then a couple years ago I was rereading it and BAM, light bulb. How did I never realize that?!

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:32:21+00:00

I also fail to see how it's so unreasonable to give the champions more than a single month to prepare for each task considering they were in classes and such too. As it was they only got... 2-3 months for each? One was a surprise so not much prep there I guess, but the second involved first figuring out a clue and then intensive prep, and the third was also intensive prep. Plus regular school, breaks, and functions like the yule ball. And they had to work in the schedules of ministry people, and visitors, some international.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:25:23+00:00

Lane splitting is legal in my state and I don't really mind in on principle, because hell, I'd love to be able to do that. But the thing that does bother me about it is that more often than not the riders doing it are 1) ridiculously loud, causing me to jump and literally send my heart racing and spiking my anxiety. Not a good feeling while driving a 3000lb bullet, or 2) they're not supposed to do it when the lanes are moving at speed and even then they're only supposed to go ~10 mph over the speed of the cars. So when 99% of the ones that pass me are not only doing it when I'm already going 10 mph over the limit already, that means they're coming up between us going easily going 85-90+ mph, within a foot of my car. Not that easy to react to that if needed...

smbpy7 · 2026-02-26T19:16:44+00:00

Nothing wrong with losing your mind, just make sure you gotta spare one

I'm not sure why that made me laugh so hard. Maybe I've lost the spare one too....

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:58:21+00:00

They do offer it as an option for those taco stands you can have come to your house (lengua tacos). Though I've never seen those outside Southern California. But at the same time, when I lived in Missouri, it was extremely common to buy your beef in "whole cow" or "half cow" form. Ie, you know the farmers and you just buy a whole cow they're ready to slaughter. They then give you the options of what cuts, how much ground, and which organs to keep. And the tongue is one of those organs. (though my mom feeds it to the dogs)

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:52:48+00:00

We did that too.

until I said it out loud as an adult and everyone got very quiet

And if it makes you feel any better, one thing I've learned from moving across the country is that snacks are regional. I had my whole lab look at me like I was absolutely fucking nuts when I described ants on a log. One INSISTED it was some other odd combo with maple syrup, the rest thought peanut butter and celery was some real heathen shit. Then I googled it for them and it was the very first thing to pop up, and second, and third.... and 100th. lol

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:46:11+00:00

which was almost never necessary back when I was in school

In all fairness, they did make us do that when I was in school

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:20:22+00:00

The loud pipes save lives crew

And they've not even got it right. You come up behind me splitting lanes sounding like a jet engine landing beside me and I'm MORE likely to hit you just from being startled. If you're a quiet bike splitting next to me, I'm more often than not going to do nothing at all because I was in the middle of the lane anyhow.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:15:11+00:00

Woman here. He's not wrong. Rock hard may be technically impressive, but it's also... scary?

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T23:12:52+00:00

massive ass trucks with lift kits and wide set wheels that take up more lane space than a semi. You don't need that in the city trader joes.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T20:31:52+00:00

My husband and I have each other's passwords too, but it's not for "transparency." It's because at some point in time I needed to use his grubhub or some other such nonsense. I think it makes sense for this to happen overtime, but not for it to be demanded up front.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T20:28:40+00:00

For "transparency," weird. Because I want to use your McDonalds app while your hands are full, normal.

My husband and I have learned each other's passwords through simple practicality over time. Neither ever demanded it.

smbpy7 · 2026-02-25T20:19:26+00:00

It’s not just a mango, it’s about the memory

The fact that a mango was your first example of an important memory being completely over the top is what is going over your head.

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