• 0 Posts
  • 36 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 24th, 2023

help-circle









  • This is going to sound unhelpful, but the trick is just don’t itch. You have to rewire the part of your brain saying that scratching is how you make it itch less, and convince yourself that it’s the opposite–noticing the itch and not touching it is how you’ll make it go away. It’s a bit like getting into an ice cold pool, feeling all your muscles tense up and your breathing gets tight, and telling yourself that staying in is how you’ll get used to it. Fake it til you make it, then your brain will start to believe you.




  • Get high quality Thai curry pastes and you’re 95% of the way to a delicious quick and easy meal. Heat it up with some coconut milk and add any veggies you can manage.

    Tteokbokki can be similar. Gochujang, veggie stock, sugar, gochugaru, rice cakes, mix and heat.

    Lots of Asian staple dishes are built around a super satisfying and flavorful sauce, which means you can add whatever you want to them and still have a tasty meal ready quickly.

    So stock up on flavors/bases you like, and then think about what inoffensive veg/carb/protein you could add.

    You’ve got many restrictions around what you’ll eat. That means it will be harder work to find staples. The alternative is to die, so put in the work, and you’ll be rewarded!


  • You chose a seemingly intentionally rude way to respond. There’s a whole lot of ways to decline something, and it’s just as easy to be polite as not. “Sorry, I don’t have time,” even just “sorry” and keep walking are great options. Or you can choose to make someone feel bad just for asking/needing help with something. Not sure why you’d choose to make a stranger feel bad, but I guess that’s up to you.

    And btw, the way you are responding to comments makes clear that, rather than genuinely asking this question, you are just looking for people to tell you it was ok to be rude.







  • I think that another risk you run by putting Gunn in this role after he found the only success in modern DC movies and series is pressure to become too Gunn-y. The same way that Marvel was so taken with Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok that they had him go even more Waititi on Love and Thunder, which clearly made it worse, and then tried to incorporate similar humor in other projects that fell flat. Sometimes playing to hard into a unique success just proves that it was either largely novelty-driven or that you just can’t recapture it.