Bwahaha I feel exactly opposite this. Dry, elegant white is usually good, and not sweet red wine can be so good (not Grenache or Syrah but Cabernet, Nebbiolo, Merlot)

Sweet wine makes me want to gag!

Tequila Ocho Blanco, the clear one. Is amazing.

I do like smokey flavors in drinks but the tequilas blancas are not smokey, they have a vaguely vegetal flavor. Also for any tequila : Try with some agave & lime & water or soda water, make a tequila-ade and see if you like it better as an ingredient. I don’t love it straight, too strong but love love love it in a cocktail.

This is a personal question, different people have different taste. And it changes over time too. I can’t like anything that is tooth-shattering sweet but can appreciate bitter flavor now.

My answer to this is always a Negroni. I cannot apprehend it, and I like cocktails. The Negroni is a cup of bitter sugar syrup and I cannot taste whatever it is that people like in it. It’s like someone drank Campari and said “not sweet enough” what the heck?

Tequila, scotch, bourbon, all those I drink “lengthened” with some soda water to appreciate them and can taste the delicious flavors once they are diluted. Gin is good with tonic & lime. But the very strong, oversweet stirred drinks I don’t enjoy and Negroni is the most beloved of them.

This happened here. I wanted one of our AP guys for the accounting department, it would have been a promotion for him but the AP manager wouldn’t let him go. He quit and got an accounting position at a place closer to his house, so good for him but I’m still kinda mad about it.

Yeah but academic instruction for 10 hours a day would be wildly unreasonable. If there was a lot more free time built in, sure. Usually there is aftercare here, they have homework time then just play.

The hours are kind of crazy to accommodate the busing. Elementary and high school start really early, middle school does run 9-4.

I only literally quit once, it was because the men in the same position were paid more than me, but I got the more difficult/busy shifts. Basically I was paid less for doing more, because I was a woman.

The other times I left jobs were layoff (company bought out by another) maternity, and once fired as I was shit at that job, it was also a shit job for me, very bad fit so that’s ok.

I know “it depends” is a wishy washy answer, but really it depends. I fucking love outrageously spicy food - scared my now husband when he took me to a Thai place by ordering papaya salad authentically spicy, it’s been a dozen years and he still brings it up, like he tried it & it gave him PTSD. It was so good though, and I was so happy they did not pull any punches.

If it’s a first date, I wouldn’t like to drink, so maybe pizza? I think what makes a place good for a date is when all the food is for the table, not each of you separately. If the guy was loaded and wanting to go someplace pricy, there are very fancy restaurants here that serve that way, but pizza I like, most people like, and it is not usually a drinking food IMO, it’s better with water or soda. And you share it.

If a foodie guy, I’d ask for Ethiopian food. Those meals are also served on one big injera for the table and wow so delicious and also not a drinking sort of meal.

I don’t like changing the clocks around and do (since I can’t change my work schedule or when yoga class is) like DST better. Like most office jobs, where I work nobody notices if you come in early but if you stay later they think you are doing more than you actually are.

But if we have to change them, it is at least this year on the best day it could possibly be, we get one more hour of Halloween.

And school should start at 9am either way. That whole argument about kids waiting in the dark, because of DST, is because school starts at like 0730, what the fuck? Let the kids sleep until 7 at least.

I was on Reddit a long time, it wasn’t always huge. Usenet forums before that. I like following topics, not people, and like hosting communities built around topics but would hate to have “followers” of myself personally, that sounds hellish. So never used Facebook, etc, and don’t even love Mastodon, really.

But apparently this is a minority view?

I enjoy being a woman, able bodied, relatively smart.

But honestly, I guess I’d roll the dice & take what I get.

Sometimes I think the only literally fair system is if everyone has to be everyone eventually. Be all the people you hate, all the people you look down on or ignore.

I wear leggings and they don’t “push up my butt” though some are just a little bit smoothing? What I DO in leggings (work out) does push up my butt some, I suppose.

The midwife who delivered my kids in the 90’s was a lesbian mom, and one of my friends at school (in the 1980s) had a lesbian mom. One (friend) because her mom decided after getting married she was not into men after all, the midwife, she just had a turkey-baster insemination from a friend, was never straight. If I personally knew 2 it can’t have been so vanishingly rare.

Not really relevant to this whole rant but it’s not like the 1980s were the 1600s.

I dislike sweet cornbread too, will put a pinch or half spoonful of sugar, no more. More likely to put cheese or jalapenos or something like that.

Kettle corn popcorn is ok though. Not my favorite (nutritional yeast, chili powder, salt is my favorite) but the sweet and salty kettle corn is good.

Dijon or spicy, even the packet of mustard from the Chinese restaurant works. Have never tried yellow mustard in there, I don’t buy it as it’s more sour than I like for sandwiches.

You remind me I want to try fermenting some mustard seeds.

Pressure cooked is ok. Put broccoli in steamer basket, over an inch of water. Low pressure, zero minutes, quick release. So as soon as it reaches pressure, vent it.

That doesn’t sound too bad, I put some mustard in mac n cheese when I make it, nobody has ever complained, I think it’s a common addition.

I’ve come around on a lot of things, even if I don’t like 'em, can wrap my mind around them, but sugar on grits is an abomination.

Other than that, I think the only right answer when someone makes you food is “thank you”. If you try it and don’t like it don’t eat it, that’s fine. Just acknowledge the effort the person made to feed you. “EEW” is never appropriate. Even if they give you sugared grits. “Thanks, I’ll pass on those, I don’t like sugar on grits but please, enjoy. When I cook I’ll make them savory so you can try them that way.”

Dries out your mouth & makes your breath stink. And leads to snoring and sleep apnea, which leads to bad sleep, it’s a vicious cycle. One of the unexpected gains I got from yoga is a clearer nose to breathe through, I always felt like it was slightly blocked or small but the breathing exercises do open the airway and I guess tone up the muscles in there.

Oh my God you are right - I had no idea because I had an account when I lived in a poor area and it was just people organizing to help repair each other’s houses, occasional lost pet alert and stuff like that, nice.

We moved to a more gentrified area and I shit you not, it was “there is a black man in the street” what the actual fuck, that’s your neighbor, bitch!

Now we are in a neighborhood in the middle and I tried again, holy crap no. What a mess. Unholy mix of racist rants, political rants, religious rants, people asking for money and people complaining about their health.

New front porch, ours is rapidly deteriorating.

Most of the most frustrating things I want are home renovations. I wish we could do them & get more years with them, but it’s way out of reach at the moment.