I was an awkward nerd growing up but I also embraced the bullying and would add it to my own self-deprecating arsenal.  I don’t think everyone is so keen on being critical of themselves but it’s just about the best thing to disarm a bully if it’s a tool your comfortable with.

With recognition that everyone’s on their own journey of personal growth, bullies are often if not always burying inner insecurities which triggers them to act out this way and often sociopathic, without empathy for how others may receive their actions; that said, removal of self from such situations is as I’ve found…

I actually do double layer cheesecloth over my turkey while it’s in the oven until the last hour and a half, so the legs and breast don’t dry out, and it holds the basting liquid against the skin much better than letting it all roll off. The last hour or hour and a half, I pull the cheesecloth off and the skin browns…

PA Dutch here, gramma’s stuffing was homemade croutons with onion, celery, sage, pepper, and the diced/mashed gibblets (the meat from the neck and liver, heart, and other organs).  No sausage or eggs here, either.

Hello follow westchesterite - NJ born and raised and current Westchester resident and it has always been stuffing to me and was never cooked inside the bird.

I just accept that people have different names for the same thing, and often they don’t accurately describe what they are.

Ever since this article, I stopped putting my water bottle and ipad in the magazine holder. Also when traveling during the colder months, I put my jacket and hoodie into my suitcase so they’re not sitting in the plastic bin of germ.

now THIS is great plan!!

Tell me you didn’t RTFA without actually telling me...

There might me some happy wood involved, but there often may not be.

Wavy/Ruffled chips would be even better

If your use is all web/browser, then a chromebook is even better.

I don’t buy an overpowered laptop because I need it “right now”. I buy it because it’s got the latest hardware, and will (hopefully) last longer than buying the bare minimum spec machine.

Apple has perfected the art of turning want into need, of turning spending more into value. 

100% agreed. Macs are overpriced, overpowered and quite unnecessary for 95% of the population, but for some reason people insist on spending $1000+ on a laptop to make their amazon purchases and send email. Such a waste of money. Although....the same could be said for our phones....so i’m guilty there. I just can’t…

Just work through the societal guilt and enjoy the bliss of not doing anything for a few hours. Old people have figured this out a long time ago.

I am glad to see this is a thing and not just me. The stress they refer to I feel as guilt for what I perceive as “wasting time” when I have so much I could or should be doing. I have to be severely sick to do “nothing” and even then I have to tell myself that healing is not wasting time (but it still feels like it).

Don’t forget the elk liver. Best one I ever had was fried up on a camp stove about 3 hours after we packed out the elk. It was amazingly tender, moist, and flavorful. 

Hunting is boring, peaceful, frustrating, physically taxing, and sedentary all at once, and for some reason I want to do it again next year.