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Post by moffkalast »

scotty79 wrote: post #344
rjmill wrote: post #152

When my then-gf/now-wife and I first moved in together, I got really mad at her because she kept "hiding" my stuff when I left it out for more than a day. I couldn't find anything! At some point, I yelled, "It's like you don't even want to see any of my things when I'm not using them!" Then I stopped for a second. For the first time in my life, it made sense. The whole point of putting things away is to hide them! No…

I have no idea why some people have this urge to hide all things. When I hide things I just forget that I have half of them almost immediately. Let alone remembering where I have them.

Well there are other benefits like dust and cat protection. Having transparent cabinet doors and drawers would make sense though.

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Post by rubicon33 »

psychomugs wrote: post #388
xyzelement wrote: post #19

I used to assume the religious people were missing something and missing out on the latest and greatest. Now I am seeing that often it's us the non-religious that have lost something of value and are trying to replace it with things that don't work as well.

"There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship mone…

Everyone is always quick to tell you why you need to be religious, and I don’t even disagree with most of the reasons.

What’s frustrating is nobody tells you how to reverse a life of agnosticism bordering on atheism, and suddenly be catholic,Buddhist,etc

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Post by SSLy »

fedeb95 wrote: post #297
muzani wrote: post #29

Pasta and sauce are not meant to be separate. Once you cook the pasta, drain it, and immediately toss with the sauce. This is part of the reason it was meant to be al dente, to absorb and deliver the flavor of the sauce better. Unlike rice, it's fine to "soak" pasta in the sauce; it expands when freshly cooked but not when cool. Also most sauce recipes are probably overcomplicated. Most need less than 5 ingredients.…

The following is well known by Italians, but apparently not the rest of the world so I'll post here. I'll use italian names whenever I don't know the english ones so you can search them and make a cool impression on friends. This is the base of any tomato based sauce: 1. Choose your soffritto base. Onion or garlic are fine, more exotic variations include scalogno or porro. 2. Choose your tomato. Canned, fresh, whatev…

All of those are true but >It may be hard to find proper olive oil outside of Italy I'm told.

Spanish and Greeks have nothing to be shy about here.

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Post by dgacmu »

jacknews wrote: post #40
muzani wrote: post #29

Pasta and sauce are not meant to be separate. Once you cook the pasta, drain it, and immediately toss with the sauce. This is part of the reason it was meant to be al dente, to absorb and deliver the flavor of the sauce better. Unlike rice, it's fine to "soak" pasta in the sauce; it expands when freshly cooked but not when cool. Also most sauce recipes are probably overcomplicated. Most need less than 5 ingredients.…

Also, you don't have to boil the pasta for the full 8 minutes or whatever, just the first couple of minutes, then let it sit, eg https://www.barilla.com/en-gb/passive-cooking

+1. I used to subscribe to "huge pot of boiling water" until Kenji studied it.

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boi...

I've switched to his method. It works really well. Doesn't take as long to boil, uses less gas, uses less water, uses less salt (b/c you waste less in the water). Now I just heat the water to boiling, throw in the pasta, let it come back to a boil, stir a bunch, turn off the heat, and put the lid on. Works every time.

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Post by roncesvalles »

Jommi wrote: post #204
ralmidani wrote: post #125

Putting off an annual checkup with a PCP (I’m 42, and the last PCP I had was a pediatrician). I had long suspected my cholesterol and triglycerides were high due to family history and my excessive love for cheese, and last week that suspicion was confirmed. I’m now more resolute than ever on lifestyle changes (exercise, less red meat, getting most of my calcium from 2% milk). On the bright side, I also got reassuranc…

FYI the above is american-focused healthcare language. There are no annual checkups in most other countries outside of certain age or risk groups. You might however get a health checkup from occupational healthcare sometimes! Just putting this a note here for non-american readers so they don't get confused.

My family doctor in Canada does an annual check-up (BMI, basic physical, blood and urine) that's covered by provincial healthcare. In addition, those over 50 get a colon cancer check every two years that used to be a full colonoscopy but now it's a new poop sample test.

I'm surprised other countries with free government healthcare don't do that. I would assume it's more economical to detect signs of serious issues early.

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Post by evilbob93 »

Tying my shoes: My knots would always come out, so i got into the habit of tying the loops together. A few years ago, in my mid 50's I realized that I was tying a granny not rather than a square not. I made the adjustment and have never tied my loops together again.

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Post by moffkalast »

asah wrote: post #420
rjmill wrote: post #152

When my then-gf/now-wife and I first moved in together, I got really mad at her because she kept "hiding" my stuff when I left it out for more than a day. I couldn't find anything! At some point, I yelled, "It's like you don't even want to see any of my things when I'm not using them!" Then I stopped for a second. For the first time in my life, it made sense. The whole point of putting things away is to hide them! No…

Our place has a ton of different storage locations... we solved it with a spreadsheet.

When you need a WMS for your place it may be an indicator that you have too much stuff.

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Post by bckr »

nlh wrote: post #224
thn-gap wrote: post #23

Not telling my friends that I love them. I was 28 the first time a friend told me "I love you" in a pure friendship way (and while sober), and without being a part of a special situation. I've also done it afterwards, and because I had never told my friend i love them, it made the message even stronger. It feels wrong that we don't do this more often.

This is truly wonderful. I do the same (even if it's sometimes just "love ya man").

The difference in feeling between “I love you”, “love you”, “love you guys”, “love ya”, “all my love”, “much love” is actually striking.

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Post by e40 »

rjmill wrote: post #152

When my then-gf/now-wife and I first moved in together, I got really mad at her because she kept "hiding" my stuff when I left it out for more than a day. I couldn't find anything! At some point, I yelled, "It's like you don't even want to see any of my things when I'm not using them!" Then I stopped for a second. For the first time in my life, it made sense. The whole point of putting things away is to hide them! No…

There are common areas and then there are zones where people park stuff. I've tried to get my SO to put stuff I leave in public areas in one of my zones, rather than putting it somewhere I will never find it.

It's also a battle because of the clutter, 10% of it is mine, and I never move their stuff.

The problem comes in when there's something that could reasonably be trash (usually a box that I might need to return something) gets tossed. :(

EDIT: change "private zones" to "public zones"

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Post by alainchabat »

veganjay wrote: post #347

Breathing through my mouth. I trained myself to breathe through my nose during the day. And at night, I put a little piece of tape on my mouth to make sure I breathe through my nose.

where is your tongue position?

The proper position should be on the roof of your mouth then you'll automatically breath with your nose.

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