I also always add ketchup to my beef stew . Crushed tomatoes as well , but without the ketchup , it’s just not flavorful enough .

BUT .... the real secret ingredient - the real umami bomb to add to your stew ....... Marmite !
Yes , that funky tasting British goop ! Add a teaspoon or two to your stew , and be prepared…

I don't know what to do about perpetually outraged, black people who automatically label all white people as racist, while being totally clueless of their own racism in making that assumption .

Yeah, go ahead and call me a troglodyte racist .

Because I've never, ever been hassled by the cops .
Because I've never, ever…

Pussy is, no doubt, the safest, and most universally acceptable term .

Cooter is a bit juvenile, but, there's a time and place for it. Cunt, though - that's rough ! There aren't too many situations where a woman is cool hearing that term from a man - though, again, there are ( rather infrequent ! ) times and places…

Not a new concept, at all . The Brits used small, shallow draft ships with a single, huge gun in WWI - they called them monitors.

The USN used similar landing craft conversions in WWII to provide gun support during amphibious landings, as well .

December 24th - so, a whole childhood of "combination" BD/Christmas presents , but also, a childhood of birthdays "celebrated" at awkward family holiday gatherings. Where adult beverages were consumed. And, in a prescient glimpse of Festivus, grievances were aired. No feats of strength, from what I recall, though .

Goo…

I did not know that ! Thanks for the info !

She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.

How about "Highway To Hell" ?

;-)

There's an AN-2 at the airport at Geneseo, NY. The plane may look like an overgrown SPAD, but it's pretty remarkable - it's got enough lift that throttled back, pointed into the wind, it will actually fly backwards !