I'm the smartest one in the room - the non-shop, non-business sub forum chat thread

Making it sounds like a lot of work and cleaning after. I just buy it. I don't have a food processor anyway.
 
I made it sound more difficult that it really was only due to it being the first time I ever did it. Again, I now just buy low sodium (can't go salt free, just can't...) peanuts, pour in, set to high and wait until it's done. Yeah you have to clean out the food processor but I just use a spatula to get almost all of it out and then into the top shelf of the dishwasher. As lazy as I am I still do it.

And this isn't even talking about holding your pinky finger out by dressing it up with some honey, cinnamon, or anything else. Chop up some peanuts to make it as chunky as you want. Stir in some dried fruit. Use your imagination. I have to limit the amount I make because I've looked down and tried to figure out at what point I started eating it with a spoon...
 
I tried the food processor thing a few times, and smoothies, too. I have come to the conclusion that food doesn't need to be over complicated, and I tend to keep it really simple now. If I were married, it might be different, but at this stage in my life, I cook a handful of meals that I can turn my brain off for. Basically, with a few occasional exceptions, I eat ground beef/tomato/onion/garlic stuff with Italian seasoning, and cheese omelets on non-meat days, sometimes with mixed greens. I was eating both with potato chips for a while, but have dialed that back and switched them for sweet potato home fries I make in coconut oil.
 
They're great! Coconut oil is a non inflammation causing oil, delicious, and sweet potatoes are low on the glycemic index while packing a ton of nutrients and energy. And also delicious.
 
I'll never be onboard with sweet potatoes / Yams. I know they are super healthy, but that flavor...

Yes, I have tried them numerous times with various seasonings and they never can rise above bleh for me. If my wife makes them, I will eat them, but I never ask for seconds! 😂
 
SharpBits said:
I'll never be onboard with sweet potatoes / Yams. I know they are super healthy, but that flavor...

Yes, I have tried them numerous times with various seasonings and they never can rise above bleh for me. If my wife makes them, I will eat them, but I never ask for seconds! 😂
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I used to say the same. And I would scoff hearing about how taste buds change. But I flat out went from hating them to I buy more sweet potato fries than regular.
 
Just now realizing as long as I've lived in the South and we deep fry EVERYTHING here, I've never heard of deep fried beets. I feel like that's saying something.

And yet right before I hit the post button I look it up in Google and I guess people do. Still never seen it done.
 
Anyone remember the scene where Captain America kicks his shield into the last Hydra boss?


For some reason, I had convinced my myself that I remembered that scene with him saying afterwards "How's that for fast!" But as you can see above, the transition from the one scene to the next is missing that iconic line of dialogue. I thought maybe the version of the movie I saw when rewatching that movie was an edit. So I rented it on YouTube to see if that version would have it. It didn't. So I took to the internet and looked up the transcript. But the line was missing even from the transcript. But I was as sure as anything that I had heard that line used, VERBATIM.

I called a couple friends, including my brother, and asked if they remembered the line, and nobody did. I started wondering if I was losing my mind. I decided to stop pursuing it, but once in a while I thought of it, and it kept bugging me, for months. Felt like some kind of whack Mandela effect going on.

Then one day I was rewatching one of my favorite shows, and got to this scene in an episode about halfway through the series:


I called my brother, and (perhaps more excitedly than I should admit 🤣 ) told him what I had found, and how it explained why I had been so sure that I knew the line, and even sorta why I had tranposed it onto cap, given the flying shield/plate confusion.

But the reason I am telling you all this is because, my brother and his wife gave me one of possibly the funniest presents I have ever received this past Christmas. Sadly I actually forgot it, and one of my cards at their house, but he ended up mailing it to me, and I just got it today, so I wanted to share it with you guys. It was his idea, and his wife did the painting. When I first opened it up, I laughed out loud and couldn't stop smiling. Maybe you will think it's silly. But I love it!

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David Mary said:
Anyone remember the scene where Captain America kicks his shield into the last Hydra boss?


For some reason, I had convinced my myself that I remembered that scene with him saying afterwards "How's that for fast!" But as you can see above, the transition from the one scene to the next is missing that iconic line of dialogue. I thought maybe the version of the movie I saw when rewatching that movie was an edit. So I rented it on YouTube to see if that version would have it. It didn't. So I took to the internet and looked up the transcript. But the line was missing even from the transcript. But I was as sure as anything that I had heard that line used, VERBATIM.

I called a couple friends, including my brother, and asked if they remembered the line, and nobody did. I started wondering if I was losing my mind. I decided to stop pursuing it, but once in a while I thought of it, and it kept bugging me, for months. Felt like some kind of whack Mandela effect going on.

Then one day I was rewatching one of my favorite shows, and got to this scene in an episode about halfway through the series:


I called my brother, and (perhaps more excitedly than I should admit 🤣 ) told him what I had found, and how it explained why I had been so sure that I knew the line, and even sorta why I had tranposed it onto cap, given the flying shield/plate confusion.

But the reason I am telling you all this is because, my brother and his wife gave me one of possibly the funniest presents I have ever received this past Christmas. Sadly I actually forgot it, and one of my cards at their house, but he ended up mailing it to me, and I just got it today, so I wanted to share it with you guys. It was his idea, and his wife did the painting. When I first opened it up, I laughed out loud and couldn't stop smiling. Maybe you will think it's silly. But I love it!

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Was that from Person of Interest?
 
Yeah there were some weird things and a few things I didn’t like. Definitely some scenes and lines of dialogue I wouldn’t post in this sub but overall I think they did a really smart job of tying everything together and crafting a relatively plausible narrative and ending on a hopeful and optimistic note (but I don’t like how Sameen committed a murder). Out of all hundred and twenty or however many episodes, I can only count on two fingers the number I actually disliked full stop.

And the one under the stock exchange has major chess references, beyond the obvious ones, if you look closely. Totally cool.
 
Well, I definitely did not know this.

 
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