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RBWells

@ RBWells @lemmy.world

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  • Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?

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  • No tengo una plancha.

    I have never had an iron, just wear knits mostly, natural fabrics. If absolutely necessary, will steam them, but only a couple times a year.

    My mom didn't iron much but she did have the board and the iron. Some of my coworkers do iron their stuff.

  • Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today?

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  • My mom talked about staying up late to hear the black radio station because everything on the radio was so boring. She ran away from home to see Elvis!

    You live in a different world, with streaming, you can listen to so much music. I can remember before that - we at least had community radio with volunteer DJs who played different stuff but top 40 radio literally played about 40 songs on repeat.

    I suppose your grandkids will also consider whatever you think shocking music to be boring too

  • Can you change your body temperature at will?

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  • I can cool right down by being still, when it's hot.

    Can't do the inverse though, when it's cold I'm just cold.

  • What are your favourite jokes and puns?

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  • I went to a zoo, it sucked and had only one exhibit.

    It was a shitzu

    And

    Why didn't the skeleton go to the party?

    He had no body to go with!

  • For those who tried to enter the dating pool, how did it go?

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  • This was my experience as well, everyone had calmed down and just staying in shape put me in the better looking bucket. Duck to swan thing, I didn't get to feel that when I was young so it was kinda nice.

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • I mean, they could take the same approach they are with immigration and not give due process, right? Since they are arguing it's not a human right? Just "deport" them to a prison somewhere they aren't from?

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • Oh I had a friend who was a cheerleader, she stayed with her high school boyfriend, he had a bad health crisis, recovered but she then rethought her life and became an artist, sort of dropped out of participation in anything that didn't really make her happy. Has done fine, too, not starving or anything, they are still together, or were last I saw her.

  • TIL there are four major blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Mosquitoes love to drink O blood, they think it's delicious.

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  • I dunno, I can sit by my husband and not get bitten, they don't like me much so unless there is no other choice they leave me alone. I think they like people who are warmer and emit more carbon. It doesn't seem like blood type is a strong factor.

  • What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?

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  • Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.

    So glad I don't have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.

  • Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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  • I thought I'd hate working from home, it wasn't too bad. Then they made us hybrid, I thought oh no, worst of both worlds, it wasn't that bad either. I went back to the office full time because I don't have a home office and wanted to reclaim that space.

    It's pretty much the same job but teams meetings suck even more than in person meetings, and training new people too, worse.

    What I do not like is a commute. I live about one mile from work so don't even have to drive most days, if it was farther the calculation would be different.

    My family loved me working from home because I did more of the cooking and housework, it kind of intensifies that inequality I think.

    So I think personally I didn't get much benefit from working from home but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, if I had to I would.

  • Grapefruit Redbull

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  • I would be shocked if grapefruit flavored red bull contains any part of grapefruit the fruit.

  • The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance

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  • Watch his Tiny Desk Concert on NPR, it's amazing. Arena shows are just arena shows, the music gets a little lost in all the rest of what's going on.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • I just had what I think is such an American fry up for breakfast:

    Tater tots, soft scrambled eggs, refried beans, sliced avocado and onion, sharp cheddar, and chipotle salsa.

    Cuban sandwich is American - the bread is Cuban (I asked several people from Cuba) and while we have made some foods worse (fast food Chinese) some are better too - there is great Italian American food, certainly, and fusion stuff that is amazing. And fried chicken can be so good. I think we are aquisitive as fuck, both the language (we will take your word and make it part of English) and with foods. For better and worse.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • I really do not like homework for little kids, they are in school 8 hours, that's time for a study hall and recess, they aren't going to forget how to read overnight, and don't have enough free time as it stands now. So much of what little kids need is time to develop, not just academic instruction.

    From 12 yo or so, sure, but school should be fewer hours then, like college, classes for lecture and questions, and work done outside class. 2 of mine had high schools that worked like that, with a long study hall period because school district mandates on campus time, and those two were the most successful in college, and so far also in career.

  • Did you all know these things can be pickled???

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  • Fermented pickled radish is glorious. Just a salt brine, and time. I put a tight lid and shake daily until they are done, a weight or airlock works too.

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    More specifically, in case you want to try it. About 4% salt brine, loosen the lid most of the time, tighten to shake it. They will get sour. When they taste the way you want them to, refrigerate them. I always store them in the refrigerator after making them, because of the loosey-goosey process I use but start with clean jar (dishwasher or boil it) and don't reach in until you are pretty sure they are done, have never lost a batch to mold. I think it's like tepache, radishes must have a good strong bacteria/yeast balance so they take over quick enough. Good with fennel seeds or dill or mustard seeds.

  • 25 years of marriage

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  • My husband's comment was "that's silly. the whole point of marriage is to grow old together."

  • Give me pernil or give me death

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  • I have always cooked rice in a pot (family from Louisiana, they literally grow rice there) but when I met my husband he was so mystified by dry rice, he'd been using microwave bags of rice.

    I rinse long grain rice, and brown rice, but soak short grain sticky rice, and for some dishes, saute dry rice in butter or olive oil before cooking it. One of my kids used to cook it like pasta in a lot of water then drain it, I don't think this is a one right way situation.

    Puerto Rican food is delicious for sure. My DIL says it's "saucy not spicy".

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it's never going to be some "you can eat off the floors" situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shoes are kept in the bedroom so that's where I put them on/take them off. So in general it's the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge area that are shoes on spaces, but I am not generally tracking gravel into the house. Y'all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?

    The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn't bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.

    In other people's houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor's sake.

    ETA: I asked my husband and he said "up north people take their shoes off at the door in a mudroom and put on house shoes or socks because they have wall to wall carpeting and it gets filthy so fast." I don't have a mudroom just a front door.

  • What lyric has stood the test of time for you?

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  • Hayes Carll sings, in his American Dream song - "Nothing changes, even when it wants to" and that struck me pretty hard.

    Older-

    Emmylou Harris the whole Red Dirt Girl song, my goodness but particularly "she loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixin up a '49 Indian. He told her "little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again." Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come."

    @FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world my kids absolutely LOVE that Vincent song. It's so good, straight through.

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Blues Run the Game

    music.youtube.com /watch
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    Request for c/curlyhair

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    Work lunch

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    Cheese!