Thanks!
Due to a case of cerebral flatulence, I was looking at the top of the sub for a drop-down, not a sticky. Anyway…

5. Post only images. No gifs, videos or articles.

Looks like I’m busted!

I was told by the smoothie eaters that it’s too tangy and not sweet enough and they prefer vanilla regular yogurt to greek yogurt.

They don’t know what they’re talking about. Taste-wise, Greek yogurt is just thicker than regular yogurt, and plain yogurt simply doesn’t have the sweeteners and flavors added.

You can easily modify that yourself by adding sweetener of choice and whatever flavoring you like, such as vanilla extract. Just do it to taste and you’ll be fine for smoothies.

Highlights for me:

• Grandpa Nutmeg hovering next to a tree, not actually sitting on a branch
• In something of a fratboy move, Grandpa has decided to shave the left side of his moustache off, altho keeping the right
• Grandpa’s new eye in the edit intrigues me. Seems like I’ve seen that look before in the Egyptian section of the local art museum.

Some nice Basquiat vibes there!

Side note: another example of Gallagher more and more seeming to disregard his model sheets for the characters.

I mean Iggy, here. He looks like sort of a bigger, redneck version of the character. Or maybe it’s just his stunt double and they goofed up the take.

Really cool to see Caspar Milquetoast utilised as some grist for the mill. (and Magritte of course)

The Timid Soul is super-dated in some ways, but I think speaks rather eternally to the neurotic in all of us.

Waaaaiiitaaminute…!

So who’s saying “snort snort” exactly (the birds, concealed), or is it a sound effect?

In my desktop Chrome, it does say “not secure” next to the link, so possibly the website is being auto-rejected by your browser for safety reasons.

So then, I’ll just upload one of the three pics and copy-paste some text:

Through the years living in Japan, I heard many non-Japanese friends complain of staring in public. One such incident inspired this, a book cover for a fictional book called Why Do Japanese People Stare At Foreigners? by fictional author Masao Suzuki (coincidentally the ex-president of department store Matsuzakaya shares the same name).

The idea is simple, print out this cover and wrap it around a suitable book. Then once you get stared at in public to the point of discomfort, take out the book and start reading with the cover facing the starer. The person is then made aware of the situation in the most Japanese of ways, through non-confrontation.

I’ve actually seen photos of this technique used on Japanese trains, where it’s evidently super-common for people to stare at foreigners for minutes on end without an ounce of self-awareness.

Couldn’t find any photos of such via quick search, but did find this: http://reykjavik.jp/tsb/

Some guy very kindly created a cover for people to print out and slip over whatever books they’re reading. XD

The act of looking changes the reality.

You’re a big help.

Well then, everything and nothing makes sense with and without Heathcliff.

It’s the unifying theory behind quantum mechanics and general relativity, they just didn’t know where to look!

I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I’d researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn’t realise that it required power, meaning I couldn’t just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn’t have been a requirement as it already had power.

I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

What would be some commonly unused features?

Actually the last three before this made little sense without Heathcliff. Unless you believe in magic puppets, I guess.

That’s meaningless without an example, and just dodges the point of what I’m saying.

A “real meal” could be almost anything. Last night for example I was in the mood for french fries. So I spiralised a large potato, soaked it in two cold water baths (IYKYK), pressed, drained, brushed with oil, then spent about three 10min intervals air-frying and carefully turning & separating, repeat. Finally seasoning them and enjoying them.

Guess how much more effort that took than doing the loaded mac & cheese?

Not true.
As with loaded ramen, it takes very little effort to make this kind of meal.

Yeah, it might seem complicated for a first-timer, but if you simply experiment a couple times, you’ll hit on a personalised, tasty hot snack that you can pretty much make in your sleep.

@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world

My cousin loves this shit and idk how. It’s so fucking gross.

@teamevil@lemmy.world

Oh my fucking God…they are like shitty Cheeto soup

If you make it as-is then yeah, I’m sure it’s pretty mediocre, but similar to ramen, if you use some simple food hacks, then this stuff is friggin’ delicious. Here’s some tips:

• First of all if it’s soupy, then you’ve added WAY too much water. It’s not supposed to be like that.
• Second, it’s generally a bad idea to microwave or pour boiling water in to mixes like this because: 1) the stuff usually doesn’t cook very well, and 2) whatever’s in the container will usually leech in to the food. This probably isn’t too bad for this Cheeto’s stuff (cup is made with cardboard and maybe plastic / wax coating), but is dreadful for the instant ramen mixes, which usually use styrofoam.
• So, it’s best to start with some veggies in a pot before adding the ingredients. Stuff like onions, thinly-sliced cabbage, maybe a tomato make a huge difference. Since you’re already likely a spice-head if you’re trying this out, add some extra red pepper flakes and maybe some curry powder, too. After that all cooks for a while, THEN add the noodles. Could throw an egg in there, too.
• Cook until noodles are soft, drain any excess water if necessary, then stir in the flavoring and some extra grated parm or similar.
• What you get is a deliciously spicy alt to mac & cheese which features thinner, tastier noodles and all kind of extra flavors. Perfect cold weather snack IMO.

@hOrni@lemmy.world

Thank you for these thoughts & interesting perspective. :-)

Maybe your experience was like mine in class. It just wasn’t the right format for me, and I needed to find a different way to unlock the door.