Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.
Peeling vegetables is such a waste of food, nearly all vitamins and minerals are stored in the skin.
I peel carrots to give the peels to my dog because it is her favorite.
I peel pumpkins/squash that aren’t roasted, and potatoes if they will be fried (very different texture and they are unhealthy anyway), what other vegetables do people peel normally? I am coming up blank.
I save my peels in a bag in the freezer and when it’s full I make vegetable stock with it.
Don’t do potato peels but everything from broccoli stalks to mushroom stems work really good.
Sometimes if there aren’t enough onion parts I add an onion.
Then I freeze it it ice cube trays and then store them in an airtight container
You peel broccoli stalks and mushroom stems?
Not just peels but any veggie trimmings
I had a friend insist carrots must be peeled, and that the peels are inedible.
D&D is not as good as it is popular. It’s a very idiosyncratic game that’s mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it’s a general purpose tool.
Clearly people can have fun with it, and that’s what really matters. I’m still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.
Putting your license plate stickers all over the plate rather than where it’s supposed to go should get your vehicle impounded. No one thinks you are clever for making your license plate look like it has a taskbar, Kevin.
It annoys the hell out of me and for the love of god I have never been able to understand why that thing in particular bothers me so much.
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.
Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It wasn’t until some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.
If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.
You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don’t like bananas.
I’m the opposite, except for banana cake, can eat that all day every day. But banana flavour sweets, milk/milkshake etc. you can keep, tastes disgusting to me, even a hint of it in a milkshake ruins it.
There should be more mature games.
I don’t mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.
Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that’s getting murky too lately.
I personally love the story of spec ops the line, in the end you’re not exactly a villain but you certainly dont feel like a hero
A great example of this is Halo.
The Flood is a horrible body horror parasite that transforms your body and invades and consumes your mind, your thoughts and your memories. It’s corruption based on revenge of the Precursors for the Forerunner’s war against them out of petty anger. The original trilogy shows this off well, and acts like a horror game when you’re getting swarmed from all angles by them.
343 era games are like “bad guys are robots, Flood too scary and gorey we removed them.” All for that lower Teen rating just to sell more copies to a broader audience. They remove the bloodiness and the gore. Hell, you could make a lake of Covenant and human blood in CE. Now you might get a couple splashes of blood to not tip that ESRB scale.
Pathetically watered down in many other aspects, but this was one that always bothered me.
343 have no idea what the fuck they are doing and never have
Press a to fuck this wench
Press b to kill this wench
Press x to do both
Press y to do both in the opposite order
Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it’s (internationally) used for.
The use of ‘literally’ as hyperbole is fine.
The sentences “I laughed so much I died” and “I laughed so much I literally died” mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu’Re DeAd?
English language pedantry hot take? As long as a reader can understand, spelling a word the way it is pronounced is more correct than spelling it the way a dictionary spells it. The word only ended up in the dictionary spelled some way in the first place because some people were already spelling it that way. But it doesn’t mean their choice was correct then and forever. Let language evolve.
I like this one, yet I mildly disagree. In my opinion, being that English spelling is already a complete disaster, standardized orthography is important in order for the widest range of persons to maintain comprehension.
However, I do believe that correcting people’s spoken English is ridiculous, especially if it’s their mother tongue. Language evolves, not everyone is meant to sound like some asshole from Cambridge.
In my experience, my French relatives are even worse for this, correcting their young children to always say oui instead of ouias, or asking us to say fais attention ! (written form) instead of fais gaffe ! (Informal, how people talk in familiar settings) when in the presence of their child. Nah bro I’m not going to pretend to be bourgeois just so you can feel superior.
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In this case, how far do we go through? Do we basically eliminate the letter ‘c’? Do we re-add thorn and eth? So many possibilities, but I doubt we will ever see it come to fruition in our lifetimes. There are too many people who are obsessed with tradition in the world.
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The saving grace with French is that when you read a word, you can (almost always) divine its pronunciation immediately. I’m not saying a reform isn’t in order, as not pronouncing half the letters in a word seems kinda stupid, but in my opinion English is several orders of magnitude worse. My spouse, who practically learned English through me while we lived in an Anglophone country for almost a decade and is quite fluent, still can’t spell worth a shit.
And even us native speakers have to guess the correct pronunciation of words we haven’t heard before, which is insane. When l was young I was a voracious reader, but having never heard many of the more uncommon words spoken before, I often internalised the wrong way of saying them.
Fuck it, I’m on board. Let’s gut this thing and start fresh.
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in line with your take: artificial orange is the best artificial fruit flavor . strawberry i can Stand but orange candy is the only non-chocolate kind of candy i actually enjoy
real orange is pretty sour/bitter, thats why they oversweeten it.
People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.
Why the fuck it’s it ‘on the one hand…. On the other hand….’ It should just be ‘on one hand… on the other’
Sometimes a game being a little unbalanced can make it more fun.
Jank and weird voice acting just adds charm
Truth. The end stage of Half Life 2 is my example of this. It’s not especially difficult, but grabbing a jackbooted thug with the enhanced gravity gun and throwing them at another jackbooted thug is damn good entertainment.
Sometimes you just want to sit down and feel like a god damned hero.
When something is taped, of possible, the piece of tape should have one corner folded over a little bit to make it easy to remove the tape.
This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
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when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
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If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
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the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
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the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
Magnetic strips give me the heebie jeebies. I like a nice solid block instead.
I don’t have the kitchen space for a block.
What sort of psycho puts them blades up? That’s crazy.
Ones who have it right into front their cutting board and want to grab the knife in the grip they’re going to use it in.
Obviously, you do you. From Google image search it seems like the world is fairly evenly split between up and down, and although I think handle up is more sane, and a little bit safer, there’s no right answer. But I grab knives off my rack in a single motion, ready to chop.
Most people’s hands can easily rotate thumb up or thumb down, so I don’t see how the direction of the handle makes much difference. If you’re used to one, it would definitely feel clunky to swap, I know I’d find grabbing a downward facing handle a bit akward.
In my experience, most people for some reason. Honestly I usually get push back on this, I’m not used to people agreeing with me. There’s usually at least one person for example that tries to claim it’s safer for the knife since if it falls the tip is more protected when up.
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