I realize that going to a bar on St. Patrick’s Day is probably a terrible idea but I will admit I am tempted this year. St. Patrick’s Day was the first casualty of holidays ruined by the pandemic and I am ready to finally celebrate it in full again. I normally don’t mind just eating and drinking at home on holidays…

Surprised there is no mention of BJ’s. Out here in the land of no Walmart or Sam’s Club (NYC area) BJ’s and Costco are the two choices. While I’m personally team Costco because of the way they treat their employees, I totally get why some people do BJ’s instead based on location (the Costco can be a trek for some…

How many of these cardiovascular health indicators are actually worth going to a doctor over versus just changing your lifestyle? I would argue a lot of people who just don’t ever exercise and lead a very sedentary lifestyle would fail the stairs test, but that doesn’t mean they have a medical condition other than not…

I was thinking of this as more of a rural vs. urban thing than plain socioeconomic per se. All else being equal (let’s say they’re both middle class and both drink too much), a rural person is still going to be more likely to DUI than an urban person just due to lack of alternatives.

There’s obviously still a mark-up but whether the room service prices are a justifiable convenience fee or truly stratospheric depends on the hotel. Fiance and I were in Spain this summer and ordered room service one night because we wanted to eat earlier than typical Spanish dinner time (very early wake-up the…

Do splits typically have a whole day just for arms? The corresponding part of the arms (tricep/anterior delt and bicep/posterior delt) are worked on chest/back day both in the compound moves and in the accessories, in most splits I’ve seen. Even for a bodybuilder a whole day just for arms seems excessive.

Not sure I would put banded squats and banded kickbacks or donkey kicks in the same category? The band in a squat isn’t adding resistance to a plane of motion that corresponds to where the resistance is in a weighted squat, so I get why that doesn’t make sense. The banded kickbacks I think of more as equivalent to the…

“If you spend a considerable chunk of minutes each day changing your hair’s texture or growth pattern, consider the corresponding salon option, whether it’s a perm or a relaxing treatment.”

Yeah it’s weird that they compare it to being bored at the doctor’s office as a child and then mention “unstructured playtime”. Because generally “unstructured playtime” would still include access to whatever the kid liked to use to entertain themselves (maybe not screens depending on parental limits but definitely…

I’ve only recently started using a dishwasher (never had one growing up) and I’m still not fully convinced they’re actually a useful appliance. We have a good one and there is still always at least one cup or bowl that comes out dirty and needs to be hand washed. So even if I saved some hand washing, it takes time to…

Unless you are actually using the “sanitize” setting (which maybe you are, but most people don’t), the dishwasher is not actually sanitizing anything. That’s a common misconception. Even so, there’s nothing unsanitary about just hand washing dishes.

At what point does it become not even worth it to run the dishwasher versus just washing by hand, though? By the time you “diligently rinse” to the level you describe, you could just spent an extra 10 seconds per dish and finish getting off that last bit of “minimum grease, near liquid or no bigger than salt/pepper…

I mean the article specifically says that the absentee owners are the problem. If the article doesn’t apply to you (and specifically says that it doesn’t) I don’t really see what’s to be offended about.

I know those plant-based egg substitutes are made from mung bean. So mixing mung bean sprouts with actual egg also kind of makes sense.

My biggest issue with a Slack outage is that Slack basically doubles as a source of notes for me. For example, my coworker will send me the path on our system to a file I need, and then I’ll refer back to that message when I need to work with that file again. For the function of contacting my coworkers email works OK…

I thought they changed the labeling laws to close that loophole? The only time that the sugar in something like maple syrup doesn’t have to be listed as “added” is if it’s literally just a bottle of pure maple syrup. But something like Honey Nut Cheerios would have nearly all the sugar listed as being “added”.

Covid closings/quarantines are also still a possible threat, though admittedly there isn’t a ton you can do about these. Since you obviously aren’t supposed to be exposing the kid to others if there is a risk they might have a contagious illness. Similar to weather related closings in that they’re unpredictable in…

There’s also definitely just a genetic component to it. I’m a once a year dentist person and also often skip the nighttime brushing. I’ve made it to 30 with only one cavity my whole life. Some people are just lucky.

I’ve always thought the stereotype was just that the British have crooked teeth due to less orthodontic work (as they reserve it for the rare cases of medical necessity rather than cosmetic purposes). Not that they necessarily have less healthy teeth (gum issues, cavities/tooth decay, etc).

That said generally agree on most of the other terms. I saw a recipe on Instagram recently for “healthy” Nutella that was still made of a ton of oil and sugar. Like I can see specific reasons to make your own Nutella (like wanting to avoid palm oil for environmental reasons), but swapping maple syrup for normal sugar…