RBWells
@RBWells@lemmy.world
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 day ago:
I drink literally everything on ice right now because Image
But also do like whiskey better diluted, I can taste it better when it’s not so strong. Stretched out I can enjoy it.
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 1 day ago:
I agree. I like it (the spelling often shows the history of the word, relationships between words) but for an allegedly phonetic system it’s nonsense. Not sure it’s worse than French, but Spanish is so phonetic I can read aloud stuff I don’t even understand!
I learned to read as I was learning to talk, more like a language than a skill - kids learning in school are taught phonics, and I would despair if that was how I was taught.
Once. Really? The word Wonss is spelled Once?
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 2 days ago:
Not such fancy equipment. I used to make it in a lunchbox cooler with our very hard tap water; that eventually cracked but I have been rocking one of these for a decade now.
All you need is directional freezing. My ice comes out crystal clear in big ol’ blocks like that.
To be fair - I would charge $5 a tray too. It takes a day & a half and space in my freezer. But it is an easy, cheap, and fun hobby
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 2 days ago:
Same. I kept trying stronger antiperspirant, thinking the sweat was the stink but it turned out it was the combination of antiperspirant and sweat that stink. Deodorant without antiperspirant works so much better for me.
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 2 days ago:
I don’t wear antiperspirant, just deodorant, so haven’t tried it. But my guess is that it’s the only thing that dissolves the waxy stuff that is holding the stains on the pits without dissolving the fabric. If acids don’t work, sometimes a base will.
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 2 days ago:
I work out in sleeveless tops.
Had a friend who swore by ammonia for armpit stains on shirts, maybe try that?
- Comment on How come Rugby never caught on in the states? I played in college and it's basically like football without pads. Isn't it? 4 days ago:
I don’t know! It’s so much more fun to watch. Games are shorter, action, the silly scrimmage. It seems perfectly geared to our short attention span.
- Comment on You'll regret it 4 days ago:
I used to have less deep sleep and more than once, woke up, walked to the bathroom, sat on the toilet but was not completely convinced I was awake and not dreaming so could not pee. I was just so exhausted I didn’t know if I was asleep or awake!
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 5 days ago:
Wait, so these are noodles fried, boiled, and then fried again?
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 5 days ago:
We live in a hot climate and all my kids loved to eat frozen corn, frozen. I could never cook it because if I bought a bag they would raid it.
- Comment on Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all? 5 days ago:
Generally speaking, products labeled for curly hair are gentle (because curly hair is often delicate) and designed to help reduce frizz and help with definition.
So it won’t make straight hair curly, no. It will help curly hair look “curlier” because less frizz and better separation of the curls makes it look curlier, but it doesn’t literally tighten them, may even relax them very slightly.
So they are for people with curly hair, to improve the look and/or health of curly hair.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I have a trans son, and he had to literally come out to me, because my conception of womanhood is so broad that simply dressing like a fashion-averse 40 year old lesbian did not even register with me as anything boyish. I have other kids (when you have a lot of them you are more likely to get some of everything) who are gay so I just figured he was a butch girl.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 5 days ago:
I mean, it says the temperature it has to reach. So hotter will get it there faster. I don’t generally buy frozen pizzas but when I do it’s for a party so inevitably I end up with a bunch of boxes that say to cook at different temperatures. I heat the oven to 425, put them all in and remove as they finish (I have 2 ovens and 5 oven racks)
I do agree they should advise a temperature, you are right. But maybe more people are like me and disregard it?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I tell my husband he sees with the eyes of love. Of course what he sees is better than what I see, but I still think I’m closer to objective about my looks. So while I absolutely appreciate his perception of my looks, no I don’t trust it.
- Comment on Have you eat a purple potato? 1 week ago:
They have a kind of cool story too, were developed as a replacement crop for tobacco farmers in North Carolina. So easy to propagate. Just let one sprout then put it in a big container of dirt (easier to find them if you grow in a container) and if you get too many don’t sell them, I think they are still under patent.
- Comment on Have you eat a purple potato? 1 week ago:
I grow them! Stokes Purple. They are the best because they are not as gluey as other types of sweet potato. They even grow in our hot summer weather.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 1 week ago:
You always talk about your experience dating and it is crazy to me, I live in a different world. How you are attracting so many incompatible people, it’s so strange. I would be a bad fit for probably 80% of guys my age (like most people, probably)but only the 20% who do sort of fit ever responded to me in any way, or we figured out fast that it wouldn’t work. And when I was younger, I’m sure it was less than that 20%!
How are you somehow only attracting people who are not attracted to you? Surely your 20% exists, and it seems like the odds of finding one would be pretty good. Like basically - if you just keep the cat picture up, why is it not cat ladies responding?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I gave up snacking or grazing, don’t think it’s healthy.
But yeah I see people doing this too, though fewer than I used to.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 1 week ago:
Ha! Yes, my husband works out heavy, I am small of bust, and yep he is more stacked than I am.
We think it’s funny though and small boobs is his preference, nice for me.
He does say though that if he could go back in time he would tell his younger middle aged self not to bulk, just focus on strength. Having put on the weight, he cannot seem to lose it and now wants to be leaner as he gets older. It’s not practical to maintain that much muscle mass, and if you try to ramp down you usually end up fat not smaller.
- Comment on One more request for !Tampa 1 week ago:
Perfect, thank you!
- Comment on I am el french 1 week ago:
- Comment on I am el french 1 week ago:
CrawSahnt is hor I would transliterate the American pronunciation. With the emphasis on the second syllable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, sex should not hurt. Does it hurt when you put in a tampon?
A couple of things to think about. One, yes the skin can be too tight, that can ease with time. Two, if you are not warmed up and turned on, you won’t have a good time. Lube does not substitute for arousal, arousal makes room and slip, lube only makes slip. Three, penetrative sex has always felt good not bad to me but only started feeling Really Good after I’d had kids and wasn’t so tight structurally.
Maybe for now do things that don’t involve penetration, and talk to your GYN - you should do that before having sex anyway, to discuss birth control, etc.
- Comment on I am el french 1 week ago:
El fronsch!
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- Comment on Fuckem do you 1 week ago:
Title sounds like Yoda. Fuck them, do you?
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 1 week ago:
As others have said, it’s a backlash against the pill mills, we have overcorrected.
I get migraines occasionally, and have Imitrex shots for them. I love that drug because it is not at all druggy - it leaves me clear headed with no migraine, there is a nauseating unpleasant rush when administered, then it’s just like walking back in time, headache fades to nothing.
But a handful of times (like literally 6 times in 30 years) I get status migraine. Imitrex does not avail me, 4 days no food no water I will puke even a spoonful of water.
I used to be able to go to the doctor and get some shots with some opiate and fenergan. They would do one, I would still be puking and crying, they would come back every 20 minutes or so and do another until I was so far away from the pain it wasn’t bothering me. Then I could sleep and it worked every time, even though it did not work by killing the pain immediately (painkillers don’t work for migraine) the high plus sleep always worked. Maybe $50 -$100 total cost.
But the last two times I got this, the doctor couldn’t do that, it was outlawed. They sent me to the emergency room. Cold IV in a cold room, some advil stuff that doesn’t work, then send me home still hurting, can’t sleep, headache 2 more days but I don’t die from dehydration. $1,600 for a worse result.
I understand why they say the opiates don’t work for migraine, they don’t directly kill the pain. But the previous protocol worked, and with electronic health records, can they not tell this is a very infrequent event for me? I don’t even like downers. I just want the headache to break and that was the only protocol that ever worked.
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
Huh. I have always liked guys my age, whatever that age is, and always for some reason have been pursued only by guys my age or younger (defining “my age” as a few years in either direction). Will need to see if that holds, but I didn’t expect it to still be true at this age so maybe.
Looks wise yeah I think more younger guys look better but OMG when I see a fit guy my age, that strikes me much more.
- Comment on Don't be rude 2 weeks ago:
Caw! caw! Crows before bros!
- Comment on Apple that makes eunuchs 2 weeks ago:
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