Ok, you are right. We are savages. We still leave out the beans though which I appreciate.

When you fly back to the US from abroad it takes a few days for everything to stop tasting like plastic? So you like food that tastes of plastic? I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

Euro food is the best, even the simple things, its just better.

I certainly wouldn’t want to limit myself to “Euro” food exclusively. It’s good, but so is Mexican, Argentinian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese etc. I love how diverse food culture is.

Toad in the hole

My mom made these all the time when I was growing up, but she called them “Egg in a basket” 🥚 🧺. Sounds a lot nicer than “Toad in the hole”. 🐸 🕳️

I had grown up calling it that it would probably seem normal to me though.

We have something similar in the US, but we leave out the beans because we are not savages.

I would add “Tex Mex” among the list of good American food, along with “Chinese Food”.

By Chinese food of course I mean the food Chinese Americans and immigrants serve in the U.S. From what I understand it’s not really authentic Chinese food, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t tasty. I think it counts.

My mom dated a Englishman when I was a kid and he made us “Yorkshire Pudding” that shit was excellent.

The best 'Fish and Chips" are made at this little seaside rstaurant in Oregon and made with Salmon. They must have ran out of chips because I got French Fries instead. Was still excellent though.

Ba dum tiss!

Beating up the bully requires one to be capable of such when the bully may be larger and physically imposing and part of a group then not getting treated as the guilty party afterward

I was small for my age up until 10th grade. Bullies would look at how small I was and decide I was an easy target, so they would start in on me. One thing you have to realize is that bullies aren’t bullies because they are tough and good at fighting, they pick on the smallest, ‘weakest’ kids they can find- so being a great fighter isn’t nearly as important as being willing to fight back in the first place. The point isn’t to beat them up, it’s to make them think twice about picking on you. If there is a chance they will get hurt, even if they end up winning the fight, they will always just move on to the next victim who wont fight back.

Between 5th grade and 10th grade I got into 1 fight every year. A kid who didn’t know me would try to bully me, and I would defend myself. I never lost a fight, not because I was a badass or anything, but the teachers would break up the fights before it progressed too far. I would always get in trouble with the school, but never with my parents who taught me it was ok to defend myself (but not start fights). When word got around that about the fight, I wouldn’t get picked on the rest of the school year. When the next year rolled around it was either a new student, or I was the new student. Someone who didn’t know me basically who would try to bully me.

You just have to ask yourself- would you rather accept the bullying and allow it to continue, or risk getting beat up by fighting back and getting in trouble- but putting a stop to it.

an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.

Especially when a lot of the same type of people will throw a fit if an ‘immigrant’ doesn’t do everything they can to assimilate.

Now I’m starting to think that maybe Ray Cronise’s “potato diet” aka “Nutritarian diet” might not be so insane after all.

It certainly seemed to work for Penn Jillette and Kevin Smith. It’s extreme, but might work for certain people. I don’t know if I would have the discipline personally.

I’ve never done that myself, but after looking it up it doesn’t seem like it would be extremely difficult, but I’ve gotten used to making things from scratch though so ymmv.

I don’t want to hype it up too much, If I’m being honest the first slice of Pie I will get at thanksgiving is usually a cherry pie, and I’ll get Pumpkin if I left room for seconds. That being said it’s just not fall/ thanksgiving around here without at least one slice of the stuff. I like it but I imagine the brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg probably has as much to do with it as the pumpkin itself.

One thing I do know about baking them is that, unlike the ones you buy to make into Jack-O-Lanterns, you want to get a relatively small one- they actually grow varieties of pumpkin specifically for cooking with here, but I doubt that you could get one down there if y’all aren’t used to eating them. I think you would be fine just getting the smallest ones you can find. (2 Kilos or less preferably).

I’ll make you a deal, if you do it I will do it too, and post pictures of the result :)

If you do, make sure to retain the seeds and toast them. (It’s tradition, and they’re known to be a good source of magnesium, fiber, zinc, iron and a whole host of other nutrients and antioxidants.) Note that is the basic bitch recipe and you can do a lot of fun things with them. I like tossing them with Cajun seasoning as an example.

Anyways, my main point was more about the original topic.

Yeah, kind of got hung up on the food aspect. Sorry about that. (I love food).

I’m not even sure how I would possibly rate them? What am I even trying to rate them on? People’s attraction to both left me wondering if people were just lying about it (and perhaps sexual attraction more broadly) because it was beyond me comprehension that would could actually care for either.

I think it’s just hard for people like us to imagine what that is like. Much like how the thought crossed your mind that maybe people are lying about sexual attraction- I think the reverse is also true. I think most people when they hear the word ‘asexual’ think the person just means that they have a very low sex drive- not that they are totally and completely unable to feel sexual attraction.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around it myself. I knew I was a boobs and ass man long before I ever reached puberty. Sexual desire is such a integral part of my life that it would be no less confusing if you said you never got hungry or never felt pain.

I think Jesus was a myth, but if we are running the thought experiment that Jesus was real and he was pious because he was asexual- that seems a bit like cheating to me. The reason that people have such a hard time following all of Christianities silly sexual rules is because most people do have sexual desires. It’s like being impressed that someone who never feels hunger hasn’t eaten in 30 days or someone who never feels pain walking over hot coals. Technically they did the thing- but it’s not the same.

I don’t think so?

You’ve never tried it or you just aren’t sure if you liked it?

But I assume the same for the pie itself.

You never know, some things don’t sound like they would be good but then you try them anyway and it turns out to be fantastic. There are very few things I will not at least try once before deciding its not for me. Hell sometimes I’ll try a food I’ve already tried once before and didn’t like it, and occasionally I am pleasantly surprised

And if the option is for a smaller piece with whipped cream, that might be less bad than a full sized piece without cream.

I believe that is what GreenKnight23 was getting at. Most people know whether or not they like whipped cream. If you did like it and were ‘forced’ to try a slice of pumpkin pie- well at minimum you will get something you do like along with something you don’t like. If you don’t like whipped cream, then you wouldn’t want it on your pumpkin pie slice because then you could possibly be eating two things you didn’t like.

Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking?

Pumpkin Pie is one of those things that you just have to experience to know if you like it. If you do try it I highly recommend it with Whipped Cream. Chances are if you like whipped cream than you will like the combo.

I have no clue how to even compare whipped cream vs no whipped cream.

Do you like whipped cream?

My god ran to the store for some pineapple to put on this bad boy.

Whatever speed an objet may gain while entering orbit should be lost when exiting it, right ?

That is true from the frame of reference of the planet. From the frame of a 3rd distant object that you want to accelerate towards, it appears you have gained momentum.

So I guess it’s the cinetic energy of the planet that is actually fuelling the spacecraft, isn’t it ?

Yes, but the mechanism for ‘extracting’ the kinetic energy from the planet is by using ‘gravity’, hence the name, “Gravitational Slingshot”.

Why wouldn’t it? A gravity well is a gravity well. As long as you remain outside the event horizon it should work in the same way.

ITT, a bunch of people who simultaneously admit that they don’t really know for sure arguing with the people explaining it to them.

It’s ok to not know things. It’s okay to be confused. It’s much better to ask for clarification or do your own research than to tell people who do know that they are wrong.

Why are we like this?

I was going to say I am column A and B, but I don’t cry about it.

We ARE miracles, we ARE “The Universe experiencing itself” and we are insignificant on the cosmic scale. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive.