ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on We're going backwards 6 days ago:
At least your getting good gas mileage.
Lol I get about 16-18 mpg. 6-cylinder engines ain’t fuel efficient even when they’re jammed into a go-kart. For bonus points, the damned thing takes 93 octane.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 week ago:
I wish I could do that but I drive a roadster. Absolutely no fucking way to stretch out comfortably.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 week ago:
I would love for the Japanese capsule hotels to become a thing here in the US. I’ve always hated paying $150 or whatever for a full room (or suite) during a road trip late at night when all I do is crash out on the bed and then get up and drive first thing the next morning.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 week ago:
I stayed at one AirBnB where the owner had replaced all the kitchen counters with untreated butcher block. The instructions basically said “don’t use the kitchen”. For bonus points, my parents got the one bedroom and I had to sleep in the kids’ room … on the bottom bunk with the actual kid’s sheets because there weren’t any other sheets in the house. I just felt sorry for the kid.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 1 week ago:
I had a friend in the '90s who moved into a duplex and found that the previous tenant had cut into the separating wall and tied a splitter into the neighbor’s cable line. So he had free cable until the day the cable went out and he called the cable company to complain.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 week ago:
Monty Python used to be my favorite comedy group. Now it’s the Cleveland Browns.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 2 weeks ago:
My dad’s doctor told him he needed to eat more protein, and he was like “ChickenLady, what can I eat to get more protein? High-protein Boost?” No dad, fucking meat … you can eat more meat. The thing is he loved meat, but it never occurred to him that he got protein from meat. And he was a biology professor!
My favorite thing was my mother at one point thinking she needed to eliminate her intake of fats, carbohydrates and protein because they’re all bad for you. Fortunately she does like kale …
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater’s part since they couldn’t do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 2 weeks ago:
It’s more like chicken garlic.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 2 weeks ago:
10 cloves garlic
Fuckin’ righteous
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 weeks ago:
Horseshoe crabs have nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is essentially a kind of eye, covered with photoreceptors. Not sure of the relevance of this horseshoe crab fact, it’s just fucking interesting.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 weeks ago:
Squirrels have eyes on the sides of their heads and they’re pretty fucking good and climbing and jumping. Next theory …
- Comment on Piano man 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. “Making love to his tonic and gin”, something absolutely nobody ever says (it’s “gin and tonic”). “Talking to Davy who’s still in the navy” is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it’s all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is (“man, what are you doin’ here?”).
Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 4 weeks ago:
When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes
I’m not sure, but I know halberds were involved.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 4 weeks ago:
They got rid of the exploding roads, though. Or so they say.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 4 weeks ago:
I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was “Operation Iraqi Liberation” until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 4 weeks ago:
HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 5 weeks ago:
I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT.
- Comment on where the cuties 1 month ago:
Or gravy!
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 month ago:
When I first started cooking I used to burn the rice all the time and I had to throw it all away. Then one day I had dinner at a Persian restaurant and they brought me some of the charred rice (called “tahdig”) as a special treat. It was a real eye-opener (tongue-opener?) because that shit is incredibly delicious. They regretted serving it to me because I started begging for it every time I went, which is apparently a rather rude thing to do.
Korean dol sat bibim bap is similar. It’s a dish served in a massively hot stone bowl with the rice on the bottom, and the longer you let it sit there before mixing everything together, the more the rice chars and the better it tastes. It’s almost crazy how much charred rice is not a thing in world cuisines when it’s actually incredibly delicious.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 1 month ago:
I’m a Cognitive Developmental Transportation Engineer … aka school bus driver.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 month ago:
There’s a trade school near me that is fucking free. They have a huge endowment and that pays for everything, even room and board for the on-campus students. They still have to advertise and meanwhile kids go $300K into debt to get a degree in English Lit. I’m all for a classic Liberal Arts education but god damn.
- Comment on mercy merci 1 month ago:
My mom taught me growing up to deal with spiders like this. She proudly told me how her dad had taught her to do it. Now she’s nearly 90 and when she sees a spider she’s like KILL THAT FUCKIN THING!!!*
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
My local Acme carried red bananas for a while. They are fucking delicious, taste more like a banana custard than a regular yellow banana. They’re also a bit smaller so less of a commitment to carbo-loading when you peel one. I wouldn’t mind at all if they became the new standard banana, even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 month ago:
“Jimmy Page wrote Stairway to Heaven when he was 23, but I learned to play it at 18.”
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
You had me until “unless”.
- Comment on What was I thinking? 1 month ago:
I shave my head. I have to shave it every two or three days or I look like a mangy old dog. I wait until just before I go to bed to shave it, at which point I’m too tired and I tell myself I’ll do it in the morning before work, which of course I never do. So I end up shaving it once every three weeks, and spend most of the time looking like a mangy old dog.
I eventually hit upon the strategy of shaving a small patch somewhere on my head before I go to bed, which forces me to do the rest of the job in the morning before work. Except that I usually forget I did that and often go to work looking like a mangy old dog that somebody tried to shave before giving up. Fortunately I’m a school bus driver so I only scare children.
- Comment on American public transit 1 month ago:
I used to bike to work when I lived in Louisiana. It was fortunate that my office was a block from the YMCA, so I could shower and change after my ride in. The downside was that the Y was the hangout of the fat old white men who worked at the courthouse and like to lounge around naked on the couches in the locker room, laughing and making jokes about sending black men to Angola prison for decades for crimes they probably didn’t commit (these were judges, prosecutors and public defenders talking about this shit).
- Comment on American public transit 1 month ago:
I had a few years where I rode the train from a stop a mile from my house to a station literally in the basement of the building I worked in. A 55 minute ride where I could read peacefully or nap, absolute heaven. I didn’t even like moving to WFH because I missed the restaurants in the city.