Someone like Trump doesn’t surprise me … there are many people in the world that are this dumb and obnoxious. They’re everywhere … he isn’t special.

What gets me is that America literally paved the way for him to gain the highest office in their country and the population still sits around complaining about it while doing as little or nothing about it all.

Days that the majority of America did anything meaningful to deal with Trump: 0

I do have a nicer board … a big thick one I use most often.

I use several boards for different things … one specifically for meat … one for just garlic and onions … another for fruits … and a general one for everything else.

It’s the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they’re cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don’t understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.

I’ve also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.

They’re melee weapons … lol

I’ve heard of that and I’ve seen that but I never do that.

I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.

Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We’d cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It’s just faster that way.

I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.

A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.

Jackie Chan can turn any living space into a dojo and weapons room.

But you’re right, I should watch a Jackie Chan movie, it’s been years.

It’s a survival mechanism.

We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.

Humans lived like that for thousands of years.

It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.

We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.

Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.

But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

I used to watch jeopardy on a daily basis in the late 90s, early 2000s. My wife’s mother loved watching the show every night and we even kept score with one another to make our own guesses. My wife’s mom was a really bright lady, well read and a great mind. She won in our group most nights.

I remember watching this episode and thought it was funny … I’ll have to search for it as well.

It might have originated there in the 80s but I live in northern Ontario in Canada and things tend to take a while to percolate through to our part of civilization.

lol … I know several young people who practically speak as if everything they say is a question.

Hello? … I went to the store? … in the car? … with my friends?

There was one funny episode of celebrity jeopardy where an actor responded to the answer with …

“The Eiffel Tower … what’s that?”

Everyone laughed but at the time, Alex Trebek had to wait for the judges to be able to accept that response. And the celebrity actor continued to respond in the same way for the rest of the show.

My condolences to you and your partner … and your power tools

My wife knows how to use, and has handled most of my tools, including power tools … she just doesn’t like any of them.

“So, I noticed the dog has a cavity … I think”

(an even better twist to this would be to realize that you don’t have a dog)

Most people (including myself) are cowardly and selfish. If we have the opportunity to avoid responsibilities, especially if no one is watching or if we can “get away with it” … chances are most people would. I’m not saying that all people are selfish … if they are being watched or there are witnesses, many people (I believe the majority) would do the right thing and take responsibility.

Which is why we need a world with checks and balances … we constantly need to watch one another and set to systems where everyone is literally on a stage of sorts. Especially when it comes to politicians and government … if we leave people to do things in the dark without anyone knowing, chances are very high that they will do terrible things.

I’m guessing this guy is still performing the demonstration tutorial that he started in 1999

There’s probably a lot of wannabe crypto bros in your area

Whenever conservatives argue or demand that something be changed because they want it to … you know that any change they make will only last as long as the money is flowing.

Before modern mass communications, most people didn’t know what anyone said next door let alone the next town. Outside news was filtered through newspapers, radio or just plain word of mouth or reading a book about info that was often years old.

Most people said things to people next to them or who they met in town that day.

It wasn’t until about 30 years ago that we started getting to the point of knowing exactly what people were saying everywhere all over the world in real time.

Just use the Millennium Falcon to fly the ring to Mordor