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RBWells

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    Ever since I quit drinking three years ago, I've gotten a good night's sleep a handful of times

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  • Opposite for me. I try to always fall asleep sober, going to bed drunk gives me interrupted sleep. Fall asleep faster, sure. But always wake up in the night. Sober, I sometimes have trouble falling asleep but once asleep generally sleep until morning.

    More than one a day is pretty unhealthy, could you just time a small nightcap right, and drink less not none?

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  • That's our cats. They can get through the door without you even seeing them do it. The dogs just sit and look at the open door unless we tell them to go through.

    Once my cat ran out the door and back in, with a lizard in her mouth, before I could close it or yell for her. Most efficient hunt I have ever witnessed.

  • [QUESTION] Vegetarian / vegan recipe that tastes "ocean-y"?

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  • Seaweed is the way to go. As others have noted, miso soup with kombucha is good, seaweed salad, maybe tofu wrapped in seaweed, nori snacks (I like the wasabi ones).

    Think of the tentacles shape, too. Maybe make a dense shallow cake and cut it into tentacles shape before frosting it? I don't think it all has to taste of the sea to be thematic.

  • What is your idea of a 'perfect life'?

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  • 4 hours of work 5 days a week. 5 weeks off per year.

    Enough money to not worry about money.

    A short run in the morning, short weightlifting after work, yoga in the evening. Two non consecutive rest days with just stretching and walking. To feel good enough to do that so I can keep feeling good enough to do that.

    Going out on one weekend night to do something, staying in the other nights.

    Pet cats, and maybe one dog.

    Traveling somewhere every year.

    And having enough money also to get the house in the shape we want.

    Basically I want a well funded partial retirement.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Our library did a "big book club" thing where they made infinite e-reader copies available, and I thought hmm, I'll give it a try and wow I did like it. Later my penultimate kid read it, not knowing I had, and recommended it as one of the best books she'd ever read.

    It was fantastical and strange, I can imagine not liking it but wow I sure did, and so did my kid.

    Life of Pi is the one people seem to like that I hate. I want my 2 hours back, feel it was wasted.

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    How do you feel about porn ?

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  • I read the first part, it's great. Sarah is a good friend, lol.

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    How do you feel about porn ?

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  • Some written stuff I love, erotica, stories. Video no, I've not found much I like at all.

  • The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt

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  • I don't think you can get THAT rich without ripping off someone. Like, if I started a business and it was raking in the cash in some actual not harmful way, I would pay myself a healthy salary but raise everyone's pay, why would I need more than I need? Nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody.

    The guy who said he doesn't fear the cops anymore, I don't feel that. But I do agree money insulates you from a lot of stresses.

    I still think it's akin to hoarding. Billionaires are like those people in the houses they can't move around in because they can't stop accumulating.

  • Ladies, would you advise buying half a size smaller than your usual one for high heeled sandals?

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  • My feet are narrow so I do this sometimes, to get a better fit in width, so they 'stick' and don't just slide out the front. If your feet are wide don't do it. And yes there is more tolerance in sandals.

  • How do you raise siblings in a way that they don't hate each other?

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  • Mine fought like banshees when they were young but are so close and friendly as adults. I didn't do anything to make any of it happen as far as I can tell. I never understood why they fought so much, and they are so funny and love each other so much now.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Maybe some enjoy flammable? My lunatic ex took an old Christmas tree out to the backyard and set fire to it because he wanted to see how fast they burn. He nearly did burn down the house, that was a BIG fire, very tall fire. But if you have a big enough space, or broke it down to burn more slowly and reasonably? Fuel.

  • How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number

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  • Seems bad for circulation too.

  • How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number

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    1. Occasionally 9. I can't imagine sleeping in a bra, that seems dreadfully uncomfortable.

  • It should be spelled "consomb," not "consume".

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  • I want bomb to rhyme with womb. Boom!

  • Suffering is not rule

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  • Injury, sure. The pain is there to help you so you don't make things worse. Pain in my extremities doesn't bother me enough to take anything. Headache I find disabling, though. Headache can fuck off, the pain is not helping anything. I was so very relieved when I found the injectable sumatriptan, no dopy feeling no up no down just takes away the migraine after a very unpleasant rush.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • We get a real one from our neighbor, he does yardwork & sod most of the year but at Christmas he gets some trees to sell from some guy he knows in N Carolina and they are always amazing all of them. Yes it costs a lot, we have a large family who come for Christmas and it's nice, I categorize the expense as entertaining.

    When I was poor, I would just make a "tree" each year out of something. One year the coat rack, one year on the wall in construction paper, one year I found a inflatable one like a beach ball, one year my ex cut the top off a bush & hedged it into a cone - that went on for almost 20 years, always something different. My kids didn't mind at all, nobody ever said "you need a tree" only "cool". You don't need a tree. Don't feel obligated at all.

    At work I have a wee artificial one.

  • Corporal punishment in my school is brutal

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  • They did here in school when I was going, but not my kids, they were appalled when I told them we used to get hit with the "board of education" for alleged discipline, and yes it was for shit like being late.

    I am so sorry. Keep your head down and get through.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • Same here. I wash my pans with soap if they need it, dry them well and hang them up. Occasionally will rub a little oil in once they are all the way dry. Have been going for about 30 years, most of them. I did have to train my husband, he was soaking them overnight and that does mess with the seasoning. Now he either cleans immediately and dries it or throws it in the oven dirty to do later.

    IME they are nearly indestructible and you don't need to be so careful. The cast iron is my daily driver and I am not a gentle fussy cook. Just don't soak them in hot soapy water for hours.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • For me, cast iron are by far my most used pans. You know how flannel starts out sort of awful but gets better and better as it gets older? That's cast iron. Starts out sticky PITA but over time becomes satisfying satiny nonstick surface. I've always used them a lot so that's how my cooking style evolved.

    We also have one steel pan we call the Stick pan, sometimes you want food to stick so you can deglaze. My kids use it for potsticker dumplings, and they like it also because it's lighter, cast iron is heavy. And of course a rice and pasta pot, those are steel.

    I don't buy "nonstick" pans, they don't last and I'm not convinced they are safe.