My parents also enabled my picky eating habits. I am not an asshole about it, but I do genuinely regret that I only eat a small number of foods. I’m almost 30 and I still don’t eat any vegetables (other than pickles, I suppose.) I feel that I could be healthier and more energetic if I ate better, but my palate hasn’t…

The best is the poor chef running after them trying to offer them delicious duck. I suspect kids who prefer nuggets will decline a duck, unless perhaps in nugget form . . . which is . . . not correct and bad.

Bacon is like a woman. It looks good, smells good, tastes good, and will slowly kill a man.

They do. My wife has a couple friends that say - “my kid won’t eat anything but..” My answer is - send them over here, they’ll eat or go hungry. My mom didn’t put up with that shit. We ate what she made the family for dinner, there were no special orders. Dumb ass lazy parenting is what it is.

Yeah, I don’t get how parents enable this. You have to start early giving kids a variety of food and not caving when they won’t eat. If they don’t eat dinner once or twice as a result, oh well; you can bet after that they will eat no matter what it is. My 5, 4 and 2 year olds eat just about everything. Brocolli,…

I went to a convention banquet and sat at a table where grown adults in their 30s complained about the salad lunch (it was pretty good and they separated a lot of it into sections so you could just take out the things you didn’t like) then ordered a pizza to their room and left the banquet to eat it.

Just refuse to feed the horrible little mutant. They can eat what’s made or starve, just like I had to when I was raised. Why doesn’t anybody do that anymore?

But I have to admit, that kid is really articulate.

My son has a friend like this. He has dinner with us once in a while. The other day I made roasted smashed potatoes...baby potatoes boiled, then smashed with the palm of your hand, seasoned with olive oil, s and p, then roasted in a hot oven till the outsides are crisp and the insides are creamy. They’re fucking…

He was on an old episode of wife swap. Another gem of his: “Bacon. Is GOOD for me.” You could probably just search that catchphrase and find him.

I’m not a parent, but at an age where the vast majority of our friends and family members are. I wish you the best, but I’ve lost count of the number of parents who swore their kids would soon appreciate escargot and sweetbreads only to quickly cave to grilled cheese, fries and a severe allergy to anything green. So…

Who was this kid, and where can i watch him be horrible?

My aunt totally enabled my cousins’ picky eating habits and now they are food assholes with the blandest tastes imaginable.

This. My aunt has raised two of her boys that way, and it’s both sad and infuriating. Whenever we have get togethers, she will get into the kitchen, WHILE YOU’RE FUCKING COOKING DINNER to make her kids powdered mac and cheese and chicken nuggets. The stupid thing is that she’s a health nut and leans vaguely anti-vacc,…

“Dip” to me implies cheese or sour cream (optionally + flavorings, in either).

Few things are more annoying than whiny little turds who won’t eat anything other than nuggets. Maybe the parents that enable them...

Yup, I definitely think this is a neurophysiological crash after a flood of feel-good chemicals, in a majority of cases at least. I notice this sort of crash is especially likely after really intense sex, especially when there’s some sort of BDSM stuff involved. To me that suggests that it’s related to things like…

If you convince people that sexuality creates belonging or love instead of good ol’ fashioned pleasure, then you’re going to wind up with sad people who use sex to fix their problems. Most people are still gonna have the same problems after they’re done fucking.

It’s pretty common for people to feel a bit down after all sorts of enjoyable, intense experiences. Hell, people tend to have a “con hangover” after attending sci fi conventions, and I think many people are familiar with the feeling of being a bit down after a vacation. It doesn’t seem all that surprising that sex…