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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by willlma »

I'm surprised no one is talking about the possible connection between his diet and his several strokes. Although I love the idea of quitting my desk job, leaving the city, and running a farm, this individual sounds and looks quite unhealthy and I wouldn't be surprised if

> two pieces of fish, an onion, an egg, baked beans and biscuits

every single day is a contributing factor. I'm all about simplifying life, but think we should remember that eating a varied diet is fairly important to well-being.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by p1mrx »

float4 wrote: post #490
p1mrx wrote: post #367

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I was basically doing that in tech: working for food and a place to be. It was like living in a VM. After 2020 and 14 months of isolation, I'm retiring. Need to find a real place.

I'm about to start working (in tech) soon, and I know the exact same thing will happen to me. Just don't know what to do instead.

It wasn't really so bad pre-COVID. I guess my only advice is, try to save enough money to leave, in case you think of something better to do.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by top_kekeroni_m8 »

federiconafria wrote: post #392
prawn wrote: post #176

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You could easily tweak this to be similar to something I grew up with, from Slovenia: https://www.tasteatlas.com/manestra Maybe cook longer and blend some of it to thicken it up. Ours typically had pork and Polish sausage added, plus this type of pasta: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ditalini&safe=off&source=lnm... It's similar to what Italians would know of as Pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) but obviously varies…

The funny thing is that we call that minestra in Italy. I keep being pleasantly surprised by how food is just different shades when you move from country to country...

That's just a weird Croatian name - it's mostly called minestra everywhere.. :)

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Post by scubbo »

marmot777 wrote: post #756
scubbo wrote: post #17

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(In the interests of educating, not of "dunking") I suspect you mean ascetic? The difference is explained [here]( https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aesthetic-vs-a... ). (Of course, it's also possible that that was just an autocorrection failure)

Yes, I meant ascetic. Lol. Not aesthetic. Thanks for catching that.

No worries, thank you for taking the comment in the (constructive) spirit in which it was intended!

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by graderjs »

asiachick wrote: post #600
graderjs wrote: post #466

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No need to surrender your beliefs to some egghead who's not imaginative enough to see the world with wonder. Who cares about someone else's logic that is too narrow to contain the wonder of the universe. No need to pander to their inability to believe. They sit on their high horse telling other people they are crazy, then the grouse sits above them and they drop dead. Good story. The end.

Those kinds of beliefs are what lead to anti-vaxers, belief in homeopathy, astrology, etc... It has nothing to do with good or bad imagination. An egghead can imagine Star Wars or Lord of the Rings but that doesn't mean they aren't imaginative when someone tells them a grouse predicted a death as though they actually believed it.

It's interesting you see it like that. I bet there's a story there! :p :) xx

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Post by graderjs »

randompwd wrote: post #624
graderjs wrote: post #466

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No need to surrender your beliefs to some egghead who's not imaginative enough to see the world with wonder. Who cares about someone else's logic that is too narrow to contain the wonder of the universe. No need to pander to their inability to believe. They sit on their high horse telling other people they are crazy, then the grouse sits above them and they drop dead. Good story. The end.

This isn't an English creative writing class hangout space. It's a space dedicated to intellectual curiosity. Quite ironic you hoisted yourself on a high horse to write that comment.

I feel you about that. :p Well, what can I say? I thought it was the right thing to do at the time :P ;) xx;p

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Post by graderjs »

graderjs wrote: post #777
randompwd wrote: post #624

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This isn't an English creative writing class hangout space. It's a space dedicated to intellectual curiosity. Quite ironic you hoisted yourself on a high horse to write that comment.

I feel you about that. :p Well, what can I say? I thought it was the right thing to do at the time :P ;) xx;p

i'll make this space whatever i want. no one tells me what kind of space this is. i decide what space this is for me. you don't define what "this space is" for me or anyone else, I decide I make this place what I choose it to be for myself, and so does everyone else. seems you have a problem with that.

you dont think stories are interesting intellectually? they're the most effective way to convey meaning.

how intellectually curious is it to assume that you know everything, can dismiss all hidden connections and have contempt for the beliefs of others? that's not great, you're defending your contempt of someone's belief in the context of a story about their relatives passing. and now you try to define what this space is, and I suppose you live by that, do you? the irony is you don't even live by what you say it is.

you, dude, were already up on that high horse before i got up here to address you.

you want me to address you from the ground? yeah, i get that's where you'd like to see people...you just wnat to say your peice and have everyone silent... but if i see you push someone, i push back and now you don't like that, that's a big irony: you're the one up on the high horse. that's the irony, you don't like it if someone comes up there to address you. Ok for you, but not others? if you can't take it bro, don't dish it out yeah.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by graderjs »

graderjs wrote: post #776
asiachick wrote: post #600

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Those kinds of beliefs are what lead to anti-vaxers, belief in homeopathy, astrology, etc... It has nothing to do with good or bad imagination. An egghead can imagine Star Wars or Lord of the Rings but that doesn't mean they aren't imaginative when someone tells them a grouse predicted a death as though they actually believed it.

It's interesting you see it like that. I bet there's a story there! :p :) xx

I guess I'm just more open minded about those things. I think you can do that, as well as treat science with respect (I have a chemistry degree after all). I just think it's good not to think the sum of what we have in science is everything that is.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by graderjs »

graderjs wrote: post #779
graderjs wrote: post #776

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It's interesting you see it like that. I bet there's a story there! :p :) xx

I guess I'm just more open minded about those things. I think you can do that, as well as treat science with respect (I have a chemistry degree after all). I just think it's good not to think the sum of what we have in science is everything that is.

well it does mean they're not imaginative, in a certain way. but it doesn't mean they're not imaginative in other ways.

when I read your comment I was like, "wow coming to the defense of calling other people crazy and not seeing the universe with wonder." yeah, only what you know, or what you're told, can happen, nothing outside of that. all vaccines are safe. only conventional medicine works. there's nothing we don't understand. a little arrogant much? extraordinary conservatism leads to extraordinary ignorance. i believe in astrology, and i love it. i reckon homeopathy definitely works. i don't want to get vaccinated. i'm guessing you enjoy hating on people who don't share your opinions, and you're sure their stupider and you're smarter, but you can't admit that, because it's about "facts". thanks "asiachick"

"those kinds of beliefs", "those kinds of people", "those countries", sounds pretty high-horse judgemental and discriminatory. but also hypocritical. here's how i see it coming across...so beliefs like your mother really cares about you and doesn't resent you? beliefs like praying at the temple is going to help you? and grandma is not supid for doing so? beliefs like what dragged our ancestors out of the incomprehensible universe and gave them a bit of reassurance? oh, now we have a couple "facts" a bit of science, just throw all that away? Because we've become so sure? Beliefs like indigenous people have a spiritaul connection to a piece of land? who cares, log the fuck out of it. beliefs like that scrap of sweater you carry around form when you were a kid is somehow special or lucky for you? beliefs like your worthless life has any meaning beside being a collection of atoms? Oh, yes, science, please account me and sum up my worth and give meaning to my life? without beliefs "like those" we're rootless. maybe you hate that part of your humanness, but you can't "science" your way outta that. you'll face to face it, or be perpetually uncomfortable in your skin and in the thousands of years of human culture that died before you to bring you the privilege of where you are now.

but we can't add it up, and measure it, so chuck it all away right? i'm glad you have solved the riddle of truth in the universe. what's it like being god and knowing everything absolutely? please enlighten me in your infinite wisdom and rid my life of uncomfortable uncertainty and pesky ambiguity and unknowns, actually, nope, i'm comfortable in all that, and i think i prefer a mystery. plus, i could never understand anything significant. my feeble human mind is just not up to the task of grokking reality. i can just tell you what i see.

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