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Happy New Year! I'm making a good rear end cake, some cabbage cooked with bacon and onions, plus some homemade egg rolls. It's gonna be an ok day.
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I had a real physical reaction to this. A full body rage. For a palate cleanser, here is my good rear end cake. 
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Jan 1, 2021 17:57
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Maybe they just wanted to make sure they had a full side cabinet to clean daily as well as something to bash their toes into all the time.
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Jan 1, 2021 18:09
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Samadhi posted:There was a cafe in my town that shut down this year after 20+ years of operation, but the owners are working on getting all of their recipes out in cookbook form. It was by far the singularly best breakfast restaurant in a town lousy with great cafes, so they will be missed. However, I just got their newsletter today and they shared their recipe for their creamy potato soup: That is basically my potato and corn chowder recipe, but I use bacon fat instead of butter, no carrots or cream cheese, and I add frozen corn kernels. I usually try to use cream when I have it, but milk works in a pinch. It's SB's favorite soup that I make.
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Jan 2, 2021 00:34
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My mother-in-law has the pasta attachment and she's been trying to foist it on me for years. I've never taken her up on it but I may do. She said it didn't work for her, but I think it might be user error. She's not extra competent in the kitchen beyond the basics and the things she's gotten good at over the years.
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Jan 2, 2021 02:54
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I've been pondering this for a while now. Do you think we'll ever get back to a pre-pandemic state or are we just stuck now with this anxiety of the person next to you being a plague vector going on in perpetuity? I'm coming out of this with a poo poo ton of trust issues. I don't believe that the majority of people can be trusted to do the right thing without being forced. Trust no one.
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Jan 2, 2021 19:06
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Timby posted:I'm home, relaxing in my recliner and breathing fresh air. Wonderful news!
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Jan 3, 2021 19:29
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FizFashizzle posted:we're all going to dilala land You can miss me with that. My GI tract did a full shut down after my surgery. It's just now getting back to normal and it's been a couple of months. Hard pass on the starts with a d for me.
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Jan 4, 2021 04:08
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Freaquency posted:Yeah, I just put the jar in a bigger vessel and pour boiling water from the kettle around it. Yep, that's what I do. I go through a lot of honey with my bread making so it doesn't usually sit long enough to crystallize, but sometimes it does and this is the method I use.
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Jan 4, 2021 05:52
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Skwirl posted:Given the number of people who want to go to Disneyland and not wear a mask i think there's some real potential for growth here. I should probably strike while the iron's hot, no? But no, these are 10000% unofficial and I think Disney will probably shut this down. But maybe not? There are tons of those princess parties where you can pay to have Disney princesses show up at your kid's birthday party so who knows. I think it's a bit double standard-y though, that they make us TAs jump through hoops and stick to very strict rules (we're not allowed to show pics of Disney parks in the rain because they want us to never imply that it rains at Disney) but these people can have Mickey preside over your funeral. Lord.
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Jan 4, 2021 15:36
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And I'll never understand why people who hate Disney constantly feel the need to tell everyone how much they hate Disney so here we are.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:00
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Bird in a Blender posted:We’ve talked about similar things in the past. I’m overreacting a little bit too because she also did help me find ways to fix the issue I was having. So I know it’s coming from a good place, I think it’s just how she says things sometimes that grate me the wrong way. I also have a tendency to not take criticism all that well. If you can do some counseling either via zoom or in person, I highly recommend it. It's hard when you think you're communicating in one way and your partner hears it another way. I found it extremely helpful to have a neutral third party help me see things from a different perspective.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:01
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God, your life sucks.
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Jan 5, 2021 13:14
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I will come back and Disney effort post later.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:13
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Hi it's me, your resident Disney dumbass. I was out running errands all day so I didn't have time to come here and drop them Disney truth bombs for you. It's pretty common knowledge that I am drinking that Disney Kool-Aid. I get that it's not for everyone but for some reason, people who hate it love to tell you why they hate and pretty often. Some people think that not liking Disney parks somehow makes them more enlightened than me, a dumbass pleb, and you know what, that's fine. I have often said that I don't trust people who don't like Disney. Disney Parks have been a part of my life since I was 5 years old Epcot Center was the newest thing. I cannot describe to you why I love it, but I just do. Always have and always will. It's the one place where I can truly be happy. Yes it's expensive, yes it's capitalism, yes it's crowded, but it makes me loving happy. I love the music and the ambience and the magic and goddamn it, I love Mickey Mouse. I just do. I love talking about Disney, I love planning trips for my clients. Being a travel agent has truly been my dream job. 2020 is the first year since 2012 that I have not gone to Disney at least once and that's made me pretty sad. seiferguy posted:You can still get medical exemptions to skip lines! My cousin has diabetes, and has used that to skip lines before, even for rides like Thunder Mountain. You do actually have to show them paperwork, though. Samadhi posted:Rich people were hiring people with medical conditions/who were disabled for their trips IIRC and it caused the crackdown So in regards to the disabilities card thing that Disney does, anyone can get it and Disney cannot require you to show paperwork that you need it, at least not anymore. HIPAA and all that. But it's not any more convenient than a FastPass so there's no real reason for anyone who doesn't need it to use it. What you do with it is you get a little card, you take it to the cast member at the entrance of the queue, they give you a return time. You go do something else until that time. You can shop or eat or do a different ride or whatever, and when your return time is valid, you get to go to the front of the FP queue. It's really so that you don't have to wait in the line. You can only have one return time at a time so it's not like you could hit up 5 rides, get 5 return times all at once and then just knock a bunch of poo poo out at one time. It just doesn't work like that. Now, if you have a guest in your party that uses a wheelchair or ECV, you can use that to get fast tracked to the front but that's only at the attractions where the chair or ECV won't fit through the queue area. If your chair or ECV fits in the queue, you wait in line just like everyone else. And some rides do require you to be able to transfer from your chair to the ride vehicle yourself so that's something to keep in mind if you're traveling with someone who has physical limitations. But Samadhi is right in that Disney had to crackdown because people were hiring "disabled" people to get them front of the line access via the old system. loving gross. Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:The problem is that there are too many goddamn people. Hey, totally agree my dude. I hate going when Disney is crowded. Don't know how to fix that though. It seems like Disney is trying to maybe price some people out, but I don't know what their endgame in that is, if there is one at all. seiferguy posted:If you're going to Disney, you've already committed to spending a lot of money so what's a little bit more to buy fast pass? Its totally worth it. FastPasses don't cost extra. Anyone can use them, that's why they don't work, in my opinion. Universal does have a paid Express Pass option which I have used and since it's a premium, not everyone will buy it, therefore it's more effective. There are lots of theories about how FastPass makes lines longer which you can look up if you want. That said, most of the time when I hear people say that they hate Disney, I ask them what they hated about it. Generally it's something about expense, or it was too hot, or it was too crowded, or it took too long to get anywhere. Then when they tell me they stayed offsite at a Comfort Suites instead of a Disney property, or they went in the middle of summer and didn't plan any FastPasses, or they went at Christmas (absolute busiest time of the year) and didn't plan any FastPasses, it makes so much sense why they hate it. There is a way to do Disney parks right and if you don't do them in a certain way, you're not going to have a good time. There is a level of pre-planning that needs to be done and some people don't like that. And that's fair. Maybe a Disney parks vacation isn't for you if you're one of those people and if so, you know, just don't go to Disney. But don't tell people how awful it is because you didn't put in the bare amount of effort to make it a good trip. So yeah, that's my Disney effort post. If you want more questions answered, you know where to find me.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:35
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Grittybeard posted:Does Disney have a bad track record with employee safety or is that just a theme parks in general don't give a crap thing? I have no idea. A friend of a friend used to be a cast member and I never heard him say anything about safety being poor. I do know that some of the cast members are unionized so I guess something has to be going on.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:44
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shirts and skins posted:I want to see the Disney tunnels Everyone wants to see the Utilidors. There are some backstage tours you can do that take you down there. But truly, they're just concrete hallways. The parts you get to see won't have Cinderella walking around topless or anything.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:57
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Skwirl posted:You're doing a terrible job of changing my opinion of Disneyland. Utilidors are only at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Disneyland in California is on solid ground.
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Jan 6, 2021 01:06
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October used to be a great slow time to go, but over the years Disney has offered free dining to drum up business and it worked a little too well. With Food & Wine and the Halloween parties, October tends to be one of the more crowded months. Now that Food & Wine and the parties extend into September, I've found that the week after Labor Day is a better time to go, crowd-wise. September, October, and even early November are still brutally hot. We went something like Nov 12 and it was still in the 90s. I prefer mid-December or January for the best weather. Skwirl posted:Where do I go in Disneyland to see a topless Cinderella? I'm sure there's somewhere in Hollywood you can find that. Intruder posted:Do all the Gastons whip rear end or is it just that one guy I've met him a few times and he's always fun. Here I was joking around with him. 
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Jan 6, 2021 01:19
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fartknocker posted:When is the slowest time of the year now nowadays? I live in Florida and for a good decade we were going 3-5 times a year but I’ve only been like twice since 2008, and for whatever reason I remember it being said that the first weeks of December were the least crowded time. I know that was one of our regular trips every year because the weather was likely to be mildly better (Compared to South Florida, mind you) and not a billion and humid. Covid has hosed everything right up, but these days there's no real slow time at Disney. You can find times when it's not as busy, but there's never a time when it's like dead. The beginning of Dec is a pretty good time to go, as is the week after Labor Day. There's a good sweet spot in January too if you can time it between the marathons and cheer tournaments. But a good rule of thumb is that if school's out, Disney is packed.
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Jan 6, 2021 01:49
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:I've gone there three times in the last 10 years, and I think each time Fast Pass has gotten harder and harder to use and I cannot imagine waiting in line 50+ minutes in the heat for any ride, no matter how good it may be. It used to be pretty easy to book your Fast Pass events the day before you went or often even a few hours before, but now it's like you gotta do that poo poo weeks ahead of time which is ridiculous. My last visit was Dec 2019. It wasn't super crowded that week but it wasn't dead either. Galaxy's Edge hasn't done much to alleviate the crowds. It's a small area with only two rides so it's not going to take much traffic from other areas, especially when Rise of the Resistance requires you to join a boarding group before you even get in the park so it's not like it's a people eater holding a bunch of folks in the queue. There is no standby for the ride so if you don't have a boarding group, you don't ride.
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Jan 6, 2021 02:04
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fartknocker posted:Heh, it's funny cause historically, those are three of the times of year we regularly went as well, plus intentionally going while school wasn't out. The only busy time we regularly went was the end of May because that's when my birthday is, but back in the day it was also when MGM had Star Wars Weekends. I still have a shirt from 2007 with Mickey in an X-wing pilot uniform, which became pretty funny after Disney bought the franchise years later. Star Wars Weekends were awesome. I hope they bring them back some day now that they have a whole land.
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Jan 6, 2021 02:13
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LeeMajors posted:As much as I nothing Disney and other theme parks, I can't wait to get my daughter down there in a couple years. Hit me up when you do. It's my favorite thing to send littles to Disney for the first time.
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Jan 6, 2021 02:20
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I've only been over to the ESPN WWoS one time with a friend who was picking up a race packet when she was running a 5k. I stayed in the car and saw the parking lot and that's enough. I have no wish to see more.
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Jan 6, 2021 02:29
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Silly Burrito posted:yeah that seems to happen more and more You get older but they stay the same age alright alright alright
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Jan 6, 2021 15:38
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Quick unrelated question: What do you call those outdoor holiday decorations that are inflated? SB calls them blow up dolls and....that's just not what these are.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:26
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FizFashizzle posted:Addie palate cleanser She's losing her puppy face.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:55
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Intruder posted:lmao Mitch just turned on Trump My favorite thing this year so far.
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Jan 6, 2021 19:47
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I am so angry watching these assholes just mill about in Statuary Hall. We took our kids to DC in 2017 and I had to petition like 6 months before our trip so that we could visit the Capitol Building and get a guide and background checks on us and these loving assholes are just walking around in there like they're on a school field trip because their feelings are hurt. This is ri-goddamn-diculous.
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Jan 6, 2021 20:34
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It's about loving time. poo poo.
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Jan 6, 2021 21:11
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Ehud posted:what a worthless idiot gently caress YOUUUUU
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Jan 6, 2021 22:22
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C-Euro posted:Trump needs to be escorted from the White House, like, tonight. Yes please.
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Jan 6, 2021 22:32
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a neat cape posted:https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1346927158384414725 He be stokin' Stokin to the east Stokin to the west Stokin to the bootlicker that he loves the best
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Jan 7, 2021 00:54
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Silly Burrito posted:The audio is making it sound like Cory Booker is farting up a storm. My bowels are in upheaval today so you know I get it.
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Jan 7, 2021 02:47
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Joey Freshwater posted:Do all of these people need to make speeches? I don't know but I wish they'd stop.
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Jan 7, 2021 03:41
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General Dog posted:Last night we got a Drawful prompt that said “Hate Stare” and I bitched that it wasn’t a real expression, but drat if Mitt didn’t nail it Oh Hate Stare is real. I'm a mom. I use it often.
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Jan 7, 2021 03:44
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FizFashizzle posted:you know, I'm going to be honest. I was wrong. This is the thought process of the hopeful and optimistic. I'm way too beat down to believe that there will be any consequences for Trump or his minions. They're loving teflon.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:01
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What if, and hear me out, we just sedated Trump for the next two weeks? Just put something in his hamberders and let him sleep it off.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:04
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420_Power_Rangers posted:I worked 12 to 9 yesterday and had to go directly from there to the animal hospital where i had to put down one of my dogs, so i had absolutely no idea any of this was happening until this morning. What a way to start my day I'm sorry about your dog. 
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