Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on great entertainment 6 hours ago:
Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.
- Comment on Anon takes a crap 2 days ago:
See, this is why normal people have a poop knife in the bathroom
- Comment on The World Hates Jacks 3 days ago:
Thanks chatGPT!
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 3 days ago:
Both of your examples fared incredibly poorly under external pressure and collapsed. Which is pretty much what happens with every poorly aligned group of people.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 3 days ago:
Oh, Dutch people use unsalted, and often the cheapest butter on their bread. And the majority use margerine
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 days ago:
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
It is! Hagelslag on bread is very much a Dutch traditional food.
Bread, apply butter, pour chocolate sprinkles on. Eat.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 days ago:
But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 days ago:
Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.
We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it “Chinese food”, or the “Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant” nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 days ago:
Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, (…) pannekoek.
We’re great at snacks, that’s absolutely true.
But we share speculaas with Belgium and Germany, and spekkoek is Indonesian. Advocaat is… Probably an acquired taste, I’ve never seen anyone under 60 drink it
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 days ago:
I’m Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don’t (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it’s the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.
Behold the Dutch breakfast
Now behold the Dutch lunch
No, that’s not a joke or a mistake. That’s real.
Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.
Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it’s just peas and potato.
As a little break from food talk, here’s a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes
A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That’s it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch “treat”.
Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn’t suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.
We hate food, and it’s a genetic problem we still haven’t managed to break.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 days ago:
I honestly enjoy mushy peas. Not from a box, but fresh made.
- Comment on cool cool cool 4 days ago:
I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.
- Comment on Being Difficult 5 days ago:
I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can’t explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.
- Comment on No fear! 5 days ago:
I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don’t remember).
My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken.
It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There’s no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.
- Comment on Also no singing preachers 🥀 1 week ago:
The protestant church as an institution isn’t exactly destitute either. It’s just not in gold.
- Comment on Also no singing preachers 🥀 1 week ago:
Protestants when they walk into a Catholic church and remember the first two commandments (or just the first, depending on who/when/where). Or the sermon on the mount. Or the part where Jesus says to sell your possessiona. Or the parable of the poor widow. And probably a dozen other places that I can’t recall off the top of my head.
They didn’t randomly decide they didn’t like gold, they do have a few reasons for it.
- Comment on I am darkness incarnate 1 week ago:
Also make brain go quiet after a day of thinking for a living, make back not hurt, make sports more fun and make moving around easier. Also makes partners very happy, though ymmv on that last one.
And if none of those, burn more calories, so you can eat more tasty things.
- Comment on I am darkness incarnate 1 week ago:
But lift heavy circle make brain go quiet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Despite OPs copout, I absolutely said that. Why not?
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 1 week ago:
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Sure, like how my parents bought “me” a computer when I was 4. Before windows 3.11 was a thing.
- Comment on Triangle 2 weeks ago:
Oh the problem wasn’t with the radio, she didn’t know how it worked.
- Comment on Triangle 2 weeks ago:
It indeed does not
- Comment on Petition update | Petitions to continue *Starfleet Academy* break 30,000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
30k is practically nothing, looks like they were right to cancel it.
- Comment on f da h8ers 2 weeks ago:
I found my first mosquito sting of the year this morning. Hurray…
- Comment on Structural Engineers 2 weeks ago:
Reminds of Kipling’s Hymn of Breaking Strain
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s not TSAs direct job, so they don’t care.
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 2 weeks ago:
Can’t blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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- Comment on who said satire is dead 2 weeks ago:
That was certainly… A thing.
- Comment on it's literally zero 2 weeks ago:
That sounds extremely uncomfortable. Poor ladies.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 weeks ago:
Correct. I didn’t reply to the binary search post.
