all 83 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 71 points 11 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    My kind of intoxication... (☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 62 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    I am 35. I will absolutely regret this.

  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
  • [–] [S] 70 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    At 50 you regret reading the words "2 beers"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (7 children)

    I'm nearly 50, is something gonna change next year?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm not quite 50 myself (also next year) but at this age it's close enough. It could get worse, it could get better, but right now it's hard to enjoy a couple of beers knowing how shitty you feel the next day.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    Life starts ... at 30

    ... to deteriorate ...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Absolutely fair. Used to out put partying and sprain my ankle at 23 and get up the next day like nothing happened. by 35 that would take 2 days to get better. in my med 40's i had to start strengthening exercises because i couldn't stay off it long enough for it to recover on it's own.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I wrecked my neck sleeping wrong once. Had to go get meds because it wasn't getting immediately better the next day (nor the next two after). That's the part about getting older that sucks. "Surprise your next hurts!"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I was at work late no one else there, sitting on the floor, emptying out a file cabinet. Sneezed and put my back out 9/10. No phone near-by, no people. Took me 30 minutes to get into a chair, then another 10 to work up to standing.

    Left my bag there, just took my wallet/phone/keys and carefully wobbled out to the car, set the heated seats to kill and waited for the pain to subside enough to drive home.

    My late 30's early 40's were the hardest. Since then i've been working on fixing the weak muscles f'ing up my ankles and letting my existing back damage get the best of me. I still get fucked just as hard by an injury, but i've gotten better at staying active and not getting injured

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You just unlocked another memory. Doing some bleach cleanup of a wall that had animals in it (painted cinder block behind framing). 2 sections out of 6 completed, I threw my back out. I continued to finish the clean up in agony because I was so mad about the problem at hand. I need to focus more on my upper body and back (I run a lot, but that does close to nothing for core support).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You're not a true beer connisuer unless you wake up positively shaking with excitement about having your next beer.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I drink two beers in the morning, I drink two beers at night, I drink two beers in the afternoon, and then I feel alright!

    I drink two beers in times of peace, and two in times of war; I drink two beers before I drink two beers, and then I drink two more!

    My friends say I have a drinking problem. A drinking problem! What drinking problem? I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The only acceptable substitution is 30-40 olives

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Depends on the target and the social setting, and your tolerance.

    At the bar? Hell no, we're gonna get sloppy and tell jokes and laugh at each other.

    At home, after a rough day at work, playing a board game, watching a show, 2 is just enough to imperceptibly lighten the dark clouds without impairing your cognition enough to fuck up the situation.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ahhhh, that's where I went wrong, I was drinking 8 bourbons.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 67 points 11 months ago (19 children)

    When I need to eat but don't want to put in any effort: half a cup of rice, half a cup of lentils, two cups stock (I use veggie stock, but you can use chicken, beef, etc.) Season with whatever you have in your spice drawer that looks good. Bring the water to a boil then lower the heat to low and let it simmer covered for 20-ish minutes. It's bland but filling, lentils provide protein, it's ready in less time than it would take to get delivery, and you don't have to watch it. Rice and lentils will keep in your cabinet forever. You can get stock paste or boullion that keeps a long time too.

    You can still have two beers, but now you're not drinking on an empty stomach.

  • source
  • hideshow 19 child comments
  • [–] 61 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    Your "no effort" meal, sounds like a lot of effort to me.

    My low effort meal is "open packet, put ready meal in oven or microwave"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    This is low effort and cheap and relatively healthy compared to those microwave dinners though, a big bag of rice and lentils doesn't cost much and is shelf stable for a year easily

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Massively cheaper and almost certainly better for you, yes - but arguably not as low effort as "beep beep beep, ping".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I prep this by mixing dry lentils and dry rice in a box with a measuring cup on it.

    Compared to oven ready meals it's just the extra step of using the cup to add from the box once and from the tap twice. And you don't even have to wait for the oven to heat up.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    This is literally the same amount of effort.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I do appreciate that the listed recipe is "relatively quick and simple", but I'm not convinced by "literally the same effort".

    If it was, then why would anyone buy the millions of frozen/boxed/packeted "just put it in the oven for 30 minutes" or "just put it in the microwave for 2 minutes" meals? They're not buying them for the high-quality taste, surely?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    You know, I keep wondering this, because it genuinely is a similar amount of work. It's just putting two dry and one wet thing in a pot. It takes me maybe 3 minutes. You don't even have to do the 'bring to a boil, then turn the heat down' bit the other person described. Just turn on medium heat and leave it be. I'd probably take longer reading the package instructions and following them correctly on something ready made.

    That said, I've gotten ready made meals for lunch when my work only had a microwave and no real kitchen.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Can I suggest putting some frozen kale or spinach in it as well? For extra veggies and taste. We basically cook that every week and I love it. Granted, I put a tad more effort into it (stir fry onion and garlic and tomato paste before I add rice, lentils, greens and broth) but it's basically the same.

    Also try adding soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke. Just a drop but it does wonders. Yeast flakes are also great.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I put rice and lentils in a rice cooker, then eat with peanuts and aioli. Add microwaved frozen soy beans / corn if I'm feeling fancy. 5 minutes preparation, 20 minutes of wait.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's NO effort? When I'm going no effort, it's a PB&J, and even that can take some motivation. Three ingredients is already pushing the envelope, but at least there's no heat involved.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    my no effort is a 10 minute (including bringing water to boil) pasta recipe that's been handed down from my grandfather. i made it for my wife when i was wooing her because i couldn't think of anything fancy to make, and it was, her words, best red sauce she'd ever had. gave me insight into (1) how good a cook my grandfather and mother were, and (2) how bad hers were.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I prep this by mixing dry lentils and dry rice in a box with a measuring cup on it.

    Pour mix from cup into pan once, pour water from cup into pan twice, add bouillon cube/stock. Turn stove on medium-low. Wait (take a shower or other 10-15 min activity, or experiment with additional spices into pan). Add veggies like frozen peas or spinach or corn, if feeling fancy. Turn off stove. Eat.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    400-600 calories. Decent nutrition and plenty of hydration. Dinner of champions.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A banana and a big handful of peanuts is a meal.

    Add a porter or a stout and it's a 3 course dinner.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater's part since they couldn't do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago*

    Drei bier ist auch ein schnitzel und dann hast du nichts getrunken.

    Three beers are also a schnitzel and then you drank nothing.

    I don't speak German, but this phrase spoke to me.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    They are called "glazen bokes" here, glass sandwiches.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    When i was in my 20s people always asked me how I stayed so skinny. "Have you tried being poor and being an alcoholic?"

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    A trick as old as sumer

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I think I've tried this one before.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This works for lunch, too.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Three hams will surely fill him.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, then get out of bed to pee like 4 times

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    As long as they're not very bitter, 2 isn't too bad. Bitter ales like IPAs give me a headache

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    Maybe in mediveal times when it was still mostly carbs except germs can't survive inside as much anymore.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Mine is rice cakes and seltzer. Fall asleep before hungry comes back.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yes person.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    instructions unclear. am on roof of local diner and cops are yelling at me now.

  • source