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RBWells

@ RBWells @lemmy.world

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  • What are your standards concerning house chores?

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  • To answer your question - your judgemental family is the problem, not your cleaning. I have my own (pretty loose) cleaning standards, they don't apply to others. If someone invites me to their house, it would have to be pretty dirty before I might say something, and even then more because I might be worried about them.

    We do kind of a lot of ongoing maintenance, run the Roomba twice a day and have help - we pay for every other week deep cleaning. But generally speaking yes there is cat hair and dust. We live in the world, the world is made of dirt.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • The worst Mexican food I've had was in San Antonio Texas, believe it or not.

    Where I live, if you find a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place it will be fantastic, I thought that rule held everywhere. Oh no. No, no, no.

    Remarkably bad food, so bad. Mole made with sweetened milk chocolate. American cheese in the enchiladas. Comically bad. Absolute shit food. And outside of that one horrible experience, overall very hit or miss. How? They literally WERE Mexico! I was expecting something so good. The only great food we got there was at a hipster breakfast place.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • It's funny because Tampa does bat way over its league in restaurants generally. We have amazing food here, all over. Why is "the" food that sandwich? It's good but def overrated.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • I agree on lobster because I think crab tastes better.

    Agree on truffles, I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.

    People here LOVED Dave's hot chicken. I went and really, it's fine, I'd eat it but wouldn't affirmatively choose it, if getting industrial fried chicken Popeyes and Publix are both better.

    And man do people love Cuban Sandwiches here. Again, I will eat them they are fine but mostly because the bread is so good. Would rather just have a roast pork on the bread, dressed, without the ham & salami, or even the cheese toast on Cuban Bread I think is so good. There is nothing magical about the 3 meat combo.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • Chilaquiles slap.

    Tacos al pastor, yum. Never thought I could like pineapple in savory food.

    Sopa Tarasca is heavenly.

    Simple bean burrito with refried pintos, shredded cheddar cheese, chopped onion & chipotle salsa is something I would eat for breakfast, lunch or supper.

    Respectfully disagree, I do rate it highly and think it belongs there. Even the simple stuff (if by mush you mean refried beans) is seasoned well and delicious. Tasty mush.

  • Meanwhile, in SW Florida [OC]

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  • Well not so common but at least a couple times a week I see the ones with four back tires, too wide for the road, on the road.

    Also those ridiculous cybertrucks.

  • What song(s) do you not sing along and just listen?

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  • His other songs feel better to sing IMO, Last of my Kind and If it Takes a Lifetime are both so satisfying to sing.

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • Brunch and Tea not breakfast, lunch and supper. Fucking love eating at 4 pm. What the heck? I still have to make supper for everyone else on weekdays but those 9pm meals are not my preference anymore, on weekends it's late breakfast and the teatime meal and that's it.

  • Meanwhile, in SW Florida [OC]

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  • I get so mad seeing these in the parking garage at work. Like, you drove that to park it at an office and then go up the elevator? WTF? And yes I'm in West Central FL and the arms race of ever bigger vehicles is insane.

    Though at least my neighborhood isn't just a bunch of those garage houses, it's older and varied and not many garage front houses. So many trucks though. Some are guys who need them for work, some are not.

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    Are comics more in demand than stories?

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  • Eh? Comics are stories. I love reading books, so much, and never found it fatiguing? By easier to draw, do you mean "a picture is worth a thousand words"? Like it's easier to convey meaning in pictures? Maybe, but I love long books, short stories and comics too.

    If you want a great story, here is one for your group

    https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-fiddler-of-bayou-teche/

  • Shallow

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  • Yeah as long as they can take it, they can dish it.

    My thoughts - I am not about to police anyone's desires, that's not my job. Be as picky as you want, it's a big world full of people, you will probably find someone. Just don't get mad if the woman you want finds you don't meet her standards. I've had guys turn me down for being tall, don't care, better to know that even if I think it's stupid, right?

    I think my daughters were pickier than the boys, honestly. Not about $$ at all but more picky in general. The boys did more like I did, and their dad, just sort of get around and see what sticks, you might be surprised who you find hottest and most attractive.

    I would be annoyed if a guy didn't like that I work and take care of my looks and health, too. My husband is funny, he says I have raised his standards. Me, I got what I wanted, sex every day and a guy who works and makes money, works out, he's not shredded at all but fit and padded, yes? He got what he wanted, I work and make money, shit at housekeeping but really good cook, I stay in shape and work out too. So some of what reads as picky can be more lifestyle matching. I would not be with a sedentary guy, certainly not at this point. I am older and not signing up for a 100% chance of taking physical care of some physically idle old man when he inevitably gets sick.

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  • I thought marriage benefited men? Maybe guys who like to get around don't want to be married, but they could marry a swinger, and still do that. Maybe they are loaded and want to keep it all?

    But for two regular people in a heterosexual marriage, in general, men benefit more from the arrangement. Meaning both people do benefit - economy of scale, split work, but generally speaking men gain more than women, the split isn't even in most cases.

    My real guess is that it's nostalgia for a situation they would not have even if they had not married. They misremember their youth.

    If they just mean legal marriage and taxes they have a point. That can be cheaper if you stay unmarried, it depends. We pay more married than we did unmarried because we each were single parents, and our earnings are close to the same amount.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • C and V are too close on the keyboard for CTRL-C to be copy & CTRL-V paste. I fuck this up at least a couple times a week.

  • Shallow

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  • Sure, but this is more just pointing out hypocrisy, the complaining is what I think they are getting at. He doesn't think his standards are unreasonable only that women having the same standards is unreasonable.

  • What are some of your stupidly easy sauces? (Emphasis on the "stupidly easy".)

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  • Mayo and dill pickle relish (or chopped dill pickles and pickled jalapenos) is the best tartar sauce IMO.

    Chipotle salsa - dump a can of chipotles en adobo into the food processor, press start, turn it off when they are smooth.

    Black bean sauce. Dump a can of black beans in a pot with some of the chipotle salsa, heat them together, hit with immersion blender and then whisk in some sour cream.

    If you have an abundance of basil (if you have a plant, you will have an abundance) pesto is easy.

    Slightly more work but so easy and so good, sheet pan salsa, put tomatillos and fresh hot peppers on a sheet pan and broil them until soft and a little blackened, slide the whole mess into the food processor, season with salt, a little olive oil and vinegar and either cumin seeds or cilantro (you don't need both), pulse until chopped up and combined.

    I find vegan gravy so good for the amount of work too. Make a dark roux of oil and flour, mix soy sauce into water until it looks like diet coke for the broth, add it slowly into the hot roux while whisking, season with pepper, salt if needed, rosemary is good as are mushrooms, miso, but it's plenty good on its own.

  • what should be the amount of work hours per week? is there a threshold where it starts to affect your life?

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  • I do more than 40 most weeks and don't burn out because I have help at home, take time to exercise, take my PTO.

    I read once "more than 4 hours a day of work is not conducive to spiritual development" and think they have a point. My ideal workday really would be 4 hours. Probably noon to 4 so that I could manage to be productive.

  • Miracle Whip is better than mayonnaise

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  • What are you putting it on?

    I hate it because it's sweet and mayonnaise really ought not be sweet. There is nothing I am using mayo in where I want to introduce sweetness. But maybe you are using it in something I am not.

    Do you like sweet pickles too? Now I am picturing the worst tuna salad possible, with miracle whip and sweet pickle relish. Ack.

  • [There Can Be Only One] What's your single favourite TV show?

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  • My husband, every time we are looking for something to watch on TV, says "why can't we find something like that one show? It was so good!". Scavenger's Reign? "YES, that one."

    For me, I think I agree with Star Trek TNG as the one if there must be one, , but damn, Scavengers Reign and also Preacher were perfect shows.

  • Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job?

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  • Little bits of money, sure. Surveys, selling stuff on eBay or Etsy or whatever. I never found it worthwhile, can make so much more money working at a job. Most I ever made was $200, twice. Once for designing logic for a quiz to determine hair porosity, once for an interview when some medical product I got failed.

    That is over the entire history of the Internet. Otherwise it's just been a dollar or two once in a while.