Instant Pot whole roast chicken is perfect at about 15 minutes for a 3 pounder, a few more if it’s bigger.

I’ve been doing the stock thing with the instant pot for the last couple of months - one of the easiest and cheapest meals in the world is the whole chicken in the instant pot; after the carcass is field stripped; I toss the remnants in the IP, cover it with water, whatever vegetables/scraps I have around (carrot…

Dolly Parton, national treasure.

I’m aware. I nearly didn’t make it to high school graduation because of that thing. Still, it was a car, which I guess is better than not-a-car. Maybe.

in high school (early 90s) I had a beat-to-hell $500 ‘80 Monza with a trunk, an automatic, and an Iron Duke. meh. It was a car that (never) got me where I wanted to go. Learned to wrench though - had no other choice.

The iM with the manual isn’t bad at all (once I found one; five or six Toyota dealers in the metro, only one stick on any of the lots)- I’ve been driving the ‘16 for a while (it’s definitely a step up from the bog-standard Corolla sedans I’ve had as rentals recently). I like it and plan on keeping it rolling for the…

we had that one before the last one.

We had these on a federal installation I used to work on; mostly for ferrying VIPs and (more often) boxes of documents and office supplies from one side of the post to the other. Oh, how we hooned the hell out of the one that was assigned to our branch; it was a ton of fun to toss around corners and empty parking…

friend of a friend got this one going around my local metro last night. Nice read:

that’s fair. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of us X-ers to have much of an effect except keep the wheels from falling off until the millennials become a reliable voting block.

exactly - the sexism is baked right in. The don’t put that on stuff marketed primarily to young men, do they?

don’t forget to work “decadent” or “decadence” in there. Or does that only go with Chocolate-based snacks? I always hated the concept that anything even slightly pleasurable (especially when it’s wedged into some sort of 100 calorie lifestyle pack) is marketed as “decadent”.

“blinding white”? You just know that his were sagging, stained beige, and threadbare.

I used to listen to Prairie Home Companion when I encountered it, but I find myself actively seeking out Thile’s “Live From Here” - the music is amazing, and the humor, I think works a little better - still hokey, but way less specifically Midwest old-timey.

works for me (I had a ‘06 Pontiac Vibe that I loved); just enough guts to make the “slow car, fast” axiom apply, and enough room to haul my bass and guitar rigs around to band gigs and rack a couple of bikes on the back. And, as you say, pretty well equipped for the price point.

my ‘16 scion IM is pretty spry with the six speed manual. Wouldn’t mind a few more horses though.

might have to go grab some cheap American lager and try this for kicks. Wouldn’t pollute my usual local craft brews for an experiment like this, but what the hell....

And Sheeran’s income from those billions of plays tallies out to about .0073 cents.

Having grown up in Pennsylvania, I’m used to the weird draconian alcohol laws (went to college 20 miles from the MD border - many a run on Sunday when things went dry Saturday night).

right in the childhood. Tastee Freez! I haven’t seen one in decades.