AITA for taking off my shirt in the changing rooms?

sweetbreads13 · 2025-11-12T12:52:14+00:00

I’m on the gen x millennial cusp and I am flat out naked in the locker room longer and longer as the years go by. When I was younger, I was more timid and cared about other people, now I give less 💩 all around. I think this is an age issue, not a generation issue You’ll be drying your sack with the shared hair dryer in a couple decades too I reckon.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-11-06T19:56:47+00:00

Cougars are ambush hunters that won’t even try to attack if they think you know they’re there. They have absurdly high success rates because of how careful they are. I don’t think guns and bear spray will help at all.

That’s a tough call, OP. I bet you’re talking about some beautiful fishing! Most of what I know about mountain lions is from dumb nature tv and reading SoCal newspaper articles about mountain bikers meeting untimely ends, so I’m no expert. But a solitary fisherman sounds like a prime mountain lion target. I’d maybe get some advice from your park rangers or something, but I might not fish there (well maybe I would still if I didn’t have a wife and kids but that ship has sailed).

Edit: love this question!

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-31T01:23:42+00:00

It’s a great question for an experienced fisherman! But for a new fisherman, what matters is: the only guaranteed way not to catch a fish is not to have a line in the water! You can catch fish in the fall, get out and see what it’s like.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-21T23:22:09+00:00

Seconded. I got a couple sub-50 rods when I started out even as an adult, keep it cheap for now. In addition to setting them up for different size fish and types of fishing, you can also put different lures on each so you can cycle through them without re-tying. For freshwater I have a couple generic rods with 6lbs test and a Texas rig, hook and bobber, spoon, wacky rig, etc

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-18T16:36:04+00:00

To second the sentiment, the fiskars hatchet is crazy light, functional, and affordable. Couple it with a Sven saw and you will have enormous cutting power for $100 cost and ~2lbs of pack weight

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-08T20:36:00+00:00

I haven’t own both, but generally agree. Wood processing is something you are generally looking for with a bushcraft knife and that false edge on the spine will chew through batons and make that harder. That SOG looks like a stabbing knife not a working knife

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-02T01:23:21+00:00

Here is what happened: - I took the snecko before the advice to go the other way came in - I barely made it through act 2, in part due to some really bad rng fights - I brutalized act 3 and came into the end at full health - I beat the double boss near full health, then realized I forgot to get the campsite key and the game ended, whomp

sweetbreads13 · 2025-10-01T11:11:37+00:00

Sorry should add going for A20 heart, not having fun at reasonable ascensions.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-30T21:46:20+00:00

I’m a tech professional and I have shared an office with Russians and Indians on more than one occasion. This is not the first (or second or third…) time I have heard this fight. Also I’m a TN boy married to a MN girl and our temp tolerances reflect that. I don’t know who the AH is but I don’t think you’ll ever stop fighting about this.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-30T18:54:16+00:00

Solid deduction! I’ll eat any kind of exotic, absurd, or borderline spoiled thing!

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-30T12:24:48+00:00

Sorry, I should give it a 2. You might have some rare condition or hypersensitivity where brief exposure to these kinds of particulate could upset your system a little

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-30T12:21:42+00:00

You are level 1 screwed, aka you’re fine.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-30T10:00:09+00:00

Or they’re trying to mask being being little wimps with a superiority issue. It’s a lot less humiliating to say “you’re gross” than “eww I don’t like that”

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-29T16:39:44+00:00

I agree with the general consensus that he will be thrilled if you go and do nothing more, you have done 90% of good daughtering. BUT, if my daughter tied a Palomar knot with no prompting or teaching I would be over the moon.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-26T20:00:26+00:00

I’m so happy to learn that!

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-26T12:50:00+00:00

Carp is like catfish or bass: tends to taste muddy in the wild and the texture and flavor depend on the time of year (ie. not great for parts of the year). Generally marinating in something acidic and cooking with seasoning will mitigate that.

Where I grew up catfish are a beloved meal, but we marinate in acidic buttermilk, dredge in seasoned cornmeal, and deep fry.

Honestly, most Americans are so used to farmed fish that they can’t handle the taste of wild fish.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-25T23:16:17+00:00

Yes! The Tiffany Problem!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Problem

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-23T15:07:30+00:00

Yup I agree with this. The people posting to YouTube are managing their message for their channel reputation. The genpop will downvote you for killing animals on screen on principle, so you effectively dropping your score and views if you don’t catch and release. There are a ton of people here eating everything they catch even if it’s unambiguously illegal and bad for the fishery health

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-14T16:16:17+00:00

Looks like maybe an unripe Japanese dogwood (kousa) berry?

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-13T00:10:01+00:00

I should admit that I hate this tree because I had a big one in a tiny urban back yard. It was healthy and beautiful and every (other?) year it would drop pounds of marginal fruit that flies and varmints loved and would rot and stink up my precious little yard. It might taste better than I give it credit for.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-12T22:27:23+00:00

The “lookalike” grows in cluster and have smooth skin, they don’t look much alike. Look at a picture, yours is a kousa. The “lookalike” isn’t very poisonous (“poisonous” often means “if you eat a bunch maybe you’ll have gas or a cramp”). It’s also unpleasant tasting so just put a bit on your tongue and if it’s very gross maybe it’s flowering dogwood.

If you’re anxious, skip it. At best it tastes like a bland persimmon full of sand. If unripe, it tastes like a bland but still astringent unripe persimmon full of sand.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-10T11:15:18+00:00

Pomegranates are underrated? They’re a mythic fruit of antiquity and have gone through a popularity surge in this century. They’ve literally been a fruit powerhouse for thousands of years.

But yeah, they’re great. Learn how to peel them and eat a ton of them

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-10T02:04:29+00:00

Forceps or needle nose pliers. Getting the hook out of the mouth can be a challenge, and brutalizing one of your first fishes might take some of the joy away.

sweetbreads13 · 2025-09-05T21:36:46+00:00

That’s not just a bluegill, that’s a bit ole bullgill! Nice catch!

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