People will think you’re Mormon

My aunt was raised by her grandfather and called him Grandy. Everyone has called him that since.

and hurts no one.

That depends entirely on what he’s juggling and how skilled he is.

You old enough for this one?

These ones were much better. I still don’t understand the physics of how wiggling the handlebars back and forth made them go forward, but it felt like magic at the time. Much less finger pinching and no Charlie horsing your groin trying to crab walk with wheels under your butt like the other ones.

https://youtu.be/4JjxZ3FU44c

Yes, I was referring to the phenomenon where us old people (Millennials) perpetually think that the 70s were 30 years ago, then have a small existential crisis when we realize.

“That songs not from 30 years ago, clearly they were talking about Bowie…oh… oh no…”

We can, but I suspect we don’t because the disclosure requirements would hurt sales. Without massive public education campaigns to convince people that it’s not as stupid as letting kids play with Xray machines every time they went to the shoe store up until the 1970s, people will be unsure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

Since ionizing radiation from medical procedures, nuclear weapons and reactors is a known cause of cancer [ www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation ], it would be quite a project to get the entire US public to believe that exposing your food to the process is different than exposing your body to it.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/irradiation-and-food-safety-faq

Irradiated foods can be recognized by the presence of the international symbol for irradiation on the packaging along with the words “Treated with Radiation,” or “Treated by Irradiation.”

It’s always the grossest old men who are like “I just don’t want to imagine two men fucking, It grosses me out.” Like buddy… do you think I want to imagine your fat saggy self sweating and grunting away, regardless of partner choice? No, no I do not. So I don’t. It’s not that hard.

I keep trying to use my convection toaster oven as an air fryer, because goddamnit an air fryer is just a small convection oven and so is this!

It never turns out well and then I say, see? Air fryers are stupid.

I suspect the 10x larger fan on an actual air fryer makes a difference, but I’m not willing to give up the counter space to try.

I’m in California too. Every year I forget it’s Cinco and think “Damn, Mexicans are feeling super patriotic! There’s two meter Mexican flags attached to half the vehicles on the road today! Oh… it is the 5th of May isn’t it…” Not one this year.

😂 fixed

New life goal!

Tomatoes and peppers are fruits.

Checkmate

Onion is a root vegetable.

About a century, actually. Marketing began in the US after WWII WWI when we suddenly had the ability to create more products than people needed. People needed to be convinced to buy shit they didn’t need, and thus marketing was invented.

The first notable marketing campaign was cigarettes for ladies in 1929. Cigarette companies were missing a whole section of consumers because women weren’t supposed to smoke, especially in public. A group of beautiful young models were hired to smoke cigarettes at a big important parade that was going to get lots of coverage in the newspaper. A reporter was paid to “report” on their “carefree” and “liberated” manner as they smoked “torches of freedom” out at the festivities. Equality, feminism, yay!

Associating male virility with vehicle choice was next. Both were brain children of Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who was very interested in his uncle’s ideas about people’s actions being influenced by their subconscious mind, before it was popular in America.

This is a four hour documentary about the social manipulation of the last century, including the above, getting young progressives to vote for Regan in the 80s and much more. Century of the Self (BBC 2002)

Orange blossoms. Everything “Orange blossom” scented just smells like perfumey oranges, nothing like actual orange blossoms. You can only smell them on the tree, this time of year.

Egg, peanut butter, frozen peas, chopped up deli meats, thin sliced cabbage, sriracha or gochujang.