I feel better. I’m losing weight. I’m cooking with more creativity and enthusiasm than I have in years. I feel more energetic. I’m eating healthy whole foods. I’m not craving desserts or extra snacks because the break from sugar and excess fat fills me up for hours. I no longer fear becoming diabetic. When I take…

Considering that 10,000 years of agriculture had humans consuming wheat products every day just to survive, the idea that a gene for gluten intolerance was passed on is interesting, since you’d think the people with it would have died at a young age and not reproduced.

We’re about to get an In-N-Out here. Multiple news outlets throughout the year have said it could open before New Year’s. I live like 130 miles away from a city with a Del Taco, KFC, and Five Guys, 200+ miles away from a Popeye’s, and 300+ miles away from this awesome place that makes malai chicken pizzas, with like…

She’s 80 years old, which means she is not a boomer.

yep - and don’t under sell the value to older folks. I work with some mid 20's folks who we found out have no knowledge about how lending, collateral, credit scores, debt collection, etc - all those really basic financial structures work. Several of us tactfully talked them through some basics in a non-judgmental…

Hehe. In the meantime it looks like my comment to that Xangelix person was dismissed. I reposted it just because I don’t take kindly to being shushed.

Lighten up. People have all kinds of little rituals that make them feel better. Rally caps at baseball games, crossing their fingers for luck, and even praying to St. Anthony to find something. Doesn’t mean they aren’t grateful to the person who actually made the wished for thing happen.

Ah. My mistake. It’s too late for me to edit, so feel free to just dismiss it :D

It is, thanks. Chariotoflove deserves credit for bringing it back, so if you want to edit/redact so you’re not too closely affiliated with a mouthy, opinionated mofo like me, I fully understand. Edit window should be 15 minutes from when you first hit “publish.” 

I have never copy/pasted a comment before. I hope that it’s legible:

Thanks! My craven, thinly-veiled ruse worked ;-)

“Jan doesn’t know who her guardian angel is. “I’d love to know because it means so much to me,” she said.”

It may not be possible to dismiss a comment that’s been starred? I starred yours so that it can appear if that’s the case.

He’s a chickenshit who can’t take criticism that’s as ugly as his comment is. I’m surprised yours didn’t get dismissed like mine did: https://thetakeout.com/1840008034

“I prayed that I’d recover my lost wedding ring my dead husband gave me” is not analogous to “thoughts and prayers” after a fucking mass shooting you ignoramus.  

What a dick thing to say. Do you also also kick people in the crotch for wishing you luck or push people into a fountain after the coin they tossed in with their wish?

I feel like this is willfully missing the point. I don’t think I’ve ever read an article where the coffee example wasn’t meant to be exactly that, an example. It’s “hey, look at the sort of silly expenditures we forget about every day, you have this constant passive stream flowing out of your bank account,” not “You…

Counter-point: The company that brought us the Prius (and the textbook definitions of “reliable cars”) is now under attack for not following Musk and the Lemmings off the cliff? News Flash: Toyota is based in a country with ZERO petroleum reserves. Nobody has a greater incentive to cut carbon and reduce oil usage than…

I’ve tried scrubbing grills and my many cast-iron pans with multiple methods and never been so happy as when I bought a chainmail scrubber. It is the fastest, easiest, most effective, and least wasteful method.