This got a chuckle out of me man, thanks.

I find the point being looking at toxic traits and seeing what the normal version of that is. In example: Men showing emotion being viewed as weak, and other men bullying or belittling those that do. Obviously you’re not going to pursue being more emotional, but you can be there for young boys that are in your life and tell them it’s okay to experience these things. Teach proper coping mechanisms, or learn them yourself if you need to. Another example would be wardrobe. My dad was huge on black being some sort of gateway to god knows wtf he thought. Also thought dudes wearing nail polish was absolutely unacceptable. Am I going to go around trying to force myself to wear those things now? Nah, not my style, but if my kids want to wear certain colors or paint their nails I’ll make damn sure they done feel immasculated because of those choices. Idk it’s weird to me to paint things definitively as ‘healthy masculinity’ and more of a ‘these behaviors obviously aren’t normal’. Healthy masculinity would be just returning to being a normal, feeling, caring human being. Maybe my view is skewed or something, idk. Happy to hear what others think.

Aka ‘pointy stick’

I’ll have to try marinating them, thanks for the info! Same on the feet, didn’t think about broth cooking them, assumed they would be BBQ like wings. Sounds good.

Of everything here this has me laughing. I can’t even imagine what you do to the toilets you frequent, holy shit.

Idk, tomatoes overall I can’t get behind. There was ONE time I enjoyed eating a tomato. They were huge, and served as a single slice with salt and bleu cheese. The tomato itself was actually flavorful and sweet. I feel like tomatoes in the south are just gross and flavorless, and when in the context of a burger add nothing but sogginess.

Never heard of this but now I’m intrigued? What is the flavor / texture like??

I mean, even within beer there’s a huge variation in flavors.

Liver is still a fave of mine but there’s next to nowhere that serves it restaurant-wise and no idea where I’d be able to pick it up locally to try cooking it myself. I’m not even sure what seasoning would be good on it as well if I were to get a hold of it.

I had a friend turn me on to chicken hearts when I was heavy into grilling and love introducing people to them. Super easy to grill too. Season, skewer, throw them on, done. Chicken feet though??? Idk, hard for me to get behind knowing they’ve been treading through dirt their whole lives, or worse.

I got hired by a small start up a couple years back and was basically responsible for an entire platform from top to bottom. High stress? Oh you bet your ass! But god damn having full control and building out huge solutions that customers were using and giving exuberant feedback on were highs I have yet to achieve in other settings. I suffer from imposter syndrome constantly and being in that space helped reassure me I did in fact know what I was doing and was actually pretty damn good at it. The startup failed, which of course sucked, but in the end it was for the better.

They were big with the rollerblade community as it was a way to grind rails without rollerblades. I was in the skater / rollerblade clique in my HS and they were relatively popular. Since I had the coordination of a 2 legged cow I went for heelys. I was cool in my own mind at least…

This timeline is fucked and I’m done with it.

Recently made a super profitable cocaine mix called ‘Slimy Dick’ and I have laughed every time and order comes in via text. ‘Yo dawg I’m looking for x1 Slimy Dick.’

That effect is called ‘Tropic Thunder’ which is a reference to RDJs role in the movie by the same name.

I get there’s a bit of biterness here, but speaking as an older millennial this was my experience as well. Feminism created a weird gap of women becoming strong and independent, but with some meant ‘im not going to do traditional fem, but expect you to do traditional man’ with no compromise. I ended up finding a wonderful woman and we both split everything, but it took me 20 years.

Honestly, I get it’s a green text, but this is pretty easily explained. First off: dating is fucking expensive, and unfortunately standard gender roles means the dude foots the bill most of the time. Yes times are changing, but that’s still pretty standard. Pair that with the fact that dudes usually have to make the first move (again, old gender standards) and the fact that social media adds another layer of risk of being ridiculed or making someone viral because they were ‘crimge’ or ‘gave the girl the ick’ and it’s a pretty stacked deck. Hell, point one is such a strong weigh in that it’s enough to explain all of it. People are more broke than ever, and if dating by default involves going out, well guess that date isn’t going to happen.

I feel like mods should be protected like ‘right to repair’. I know that seems a bit extreme but seriously, these people devote their time to create insane content, more often than not for free. I played Oblivion for hundreds of hours just because there were sooooo many mods for it. ARK is another example.

Maintain. Profits. Jesus fucking Christ it will never end.

Main girl fairy from Fern Gully. There’s a ton of others but can’t be bothered to look them up, really REALLY tired.