[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

You should discuss it with your other comrades in your chapter, imo. Individually first or as a meeting motion if you want a vote on it

To me, this seems like a fun topic in something more like a reading group or mixer rather than a general meeting topic, but that's just me

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Anywhere with a table. Use a couple lengths and layers of toilet paper laid out on a surface, aim head angle downwards so you don't miss the splash zone, clean up is easy, flush.

    As for why, I don't like ruining an orgasm by stopping the wank too soon or by focusing on not making a mess, nor do I want to be jerking off in a bathroom. That's much less pleasant than a reclining armchair in a room I don't shit in.

    southsamurai's method is good too so as long as you don't live in a regularly humid climate possibly, with not much evaporation going on? It's dry AF here so I wouldn't know.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Man, I'm so lucky to have grown up with a very open minded approach to sexuality. Made me willing and able to have a lot of solid discussions with other guys about things like this without it being weird.

    But really, a towel. Just use a towel. Set yourself up comfortably, drape a towel where the jizz will mostly land on it and your hand, or just the towel if you do it more upright rather than reclined.

    Have fun, wipe yourself down, and Bob's your uncle. Just make sure you do your laundry regularly, and the hamper has plenty of air flow. The spooj will dry out fairly quick, as long as the towel isn't too tightly crumpled, and there's enough air flow that as the towel wicks the water away, it can evaporate. No smell, no lingering dampness come laundry time, and it'll remove any that gets on you or surfaces well enough that using a wet wipe or surface cleaner is just thoroughness rather than actually removing anything.

    Basically, it's a giant cum sock.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Last week, we made our annual batch of cherry preserve. We make a 3:1 fruit to sugar version, which keeps for a year in the basement fridge. And we just had the last jar open from the old run.

    There was a special offer on cherries in a supermarket nearby (3.90€/kg), so we bought about six kilogram and a liter of cherry juice. Of the whole batch, only one cherry was bad. I've seen way worse.

    Way smaller operation than one I've once seen on YT. As in "Usually we make 200 jars a year, but this year, we are making 500 to have giveaways for our daughters wedding" (or something like that). That was farmhouse turned factory operation level.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Haven't done it in a while tbh, but jams are epic and are easy to do right. Then I made a Chutney and... Well, good chutneys are much harder to come by locally so, it was mostly chutneys afterwards!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    I'm a guy and I make small batch jam experiments. My son also makes jam. I have a friend who is into homebrewing and making jam. There are dozens of us!

    Made mango, and peach+ginger last year. Last Winter, made a batch of bitter marmalade, with Seville oranges and grapefruit. Going to start an apricot+crystallized ginger soon.

    That raspberry looks great!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I grew up with a raspberry patch in the backyard, and still make jelly every year (my colon doesn't enjoy the seeds, hence jelly over jam).

    I was also gifted a large bag of wild plums this week. They're not very good for eating (small and mostly pits, very different from domesticated plums) that I will probably make some sort of preserves from!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Not jam, but I have a pear tree in my yard. I chop them up & boil them in a sugar syrup for a few hours & then put them in mason jars, so I have diced pears for a few weeks in the fall. They're tasty, although if I'm honest, not quite as good as the canned pears you'd get in a store. But there's a certain fun factor to pretending I'm living off the land.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Strawberry forever. Probably because it was a childhood comfort staple.

    Mango is also great when you can buy them by the caseload in peak season.

    Also tomato jam! It’s not the usual thing you’d spread on a piece of toast by itself, but as an addition to something like a grilled cheese sandwich it’s absolutely delicious. Like ketchup got all dressed up for a fancy night out.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I also make jam, and I also get my supplies from pick-your-own places! I currently have a bag of strawberries and a bag of blueberries that I've picked in my freezer waiting to be converted.
    Over the years I've done those two, along with plum, raspberry, pawpaw, cranberry, blackberry, pomegranate, and mixed berry. I've tried and failed at grape, but that was mainly because I didn't boil it down enough to actually become a jam.
    My favorite I think was the pomegranate, though that was so much work I'll probably never do it again.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Whom are you asking? The name of the community is Ask Men, but you can't literally ask the collective. Because Men aren't a collective mind. If you narrowed it down to specific questions about specific men in specific situations, I bet that the answers would be more apparent.

    Put another way, I wonder how much your idea of what it's like to be and function as a man in the world matches my experience of it. I'm just one man who never claimed we are more logical than women. How would I hold others accountable? How would I change them? (Trying to change others always works out so well, after all.)

    Just as a for-instance, the whole "locker room talk" thing— what am I supposed to do about it? In day-to-day life, most boors aren't cartoon villains, like a certain famous leader. But, in my experience, the cartoonish ones get that way because they want to have sex. And they get it. They commodify women and sex because they somehow can get all the women and sex that they want. That's success by their standards; they feel that they have something that women want. If everybody is getting what they want, why would those men listen to anything that I have to say about it? Furthermore, there's no benefit besides the satisfaction of doing the right thing. The outcome is that I would get pushed out of the social scene by the men and women, because, well, those men do have what the women want, be it popularity, wealth, height, confidence, et cetera.

    As for banding together to go after the elites, how is that a gendered thing?

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