21 October 2109

[highlandvalley]

(via Chez Mitsu‎さんはTwitterを使っています: 「海と砂浜のレアチーズケーキ https://t.co/TL9L9kVR1K」 / Twitter)

[loerilaye]

This person's prior work history includes a stint at Magrathea.

[orcboxer]

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he's legally untouchable he's ethically unfuckable. You don't like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

[loerilaye]

Qualified immunity only goes in one direction. 🛑

[aichu-dechu]

[s-n-arly]

Apparently my favorite picture books as a child were written by queer authors.  This brings me joy.

[loerilaye]

I cannot blame the books of my formative years for making me a queer fellow. I only have them to thank for never making me feel the need to question my queerédness.

[1anonyymous1]

“are u okay?” no i need more money

[loerilaye]

Look at this, Republican clean sweep the election – there hasn't been a unanimous Electoral vote since George Washington in 1787!

[secondbeatsongs]

do you ever see something so terrifying that you just…have to buy it?

[secondbeatsongs]

honest-to-god, this smells like a pumpkin spice latte

it smells sweet

why does it smell sweet

[secondbeatsongs]

this smells…horrifying

it smells like something that should not be consumed by humans. it smells like a jack-o-lantern that’s rotted after four days on the front porch

and it tastes…it tastes…

so, there are good ways to make something pumpkin-flavored, around this time of year. pumpkin spice is fine in a latte or dessert, but for pasta or soup, you go savory - onion, garlic, salt and pepper, and you’ve got yourself a decent meal!

but this…

I don’t know if I can finish eating this. I was barely able to start eating it, because the smell is so nauseating, putting it in my mouth feels wrong.

it’s salty, but also horribly sweet, and tastes strongly of cinnamon and nutmeg. when you take a bite, at first it tastes like nothing - but a few chews in, you can feel the awful sticky-sweet spice residue taking up residence in your mouth.

I hate this!

what malicious focus group told nissin that this was a good idea? how many people tried this product and thought it was good enough to put on shelves?

why does it have sugar, brown sugar, and sucralose in it? wasn’t one enough, you sick bastards?

-100/10. worst thing I’ve eaten this year. and that’s saying something, because I eat a lot of garbage.

[secondbeatsongs]

no. no way.

fuck everything about this

if they wanted it to be a dessert, why did they make it salty! why did they add a small amount of onion and garlic, and turmeric, and paprika!

a dessert ramen, I could have handled! but this was a normal ramen, with sugar and artificial sweetener added!

what the fuck

[secondbeatsongs]

let no one say I never make sacrifices for my art

[secondbeatsongs]

so, the worst part of this

the absolute worst part

is that the whipped cream actually improves the taste and texture significantly

is it good now? absolutely not

but is it borderline edible?

…fuck. I hate this. this is the darkest day of my life.

[secondbeatsongs]

to clarify something: this does actually have pumpkin in it!

a few people were suggesting that it was just noodles with the spice mix, but no! it’s got powdered pumpkin listed in the ingredients!

also, I was wrong before - not only does it have sugar, brown sugar, and sucralose, but it’s also got lactose and corn syrup solids! so that’s five different sweeteners! what the fuck, nissin!

[secondbeatsongs]

and to everyone saying, “you probably just don’t like things that are sweet and salty at the same time!” like. no.

I dip fries in milkshakes! I love chocolate-covered bacon! I put salt on my ice cream, and sugar in my tomato sauce (sometimes), and I love things like caramelized onions, and meatloaf with a brown sugar sauce!

but this ramen was a crime! and even as a sweet/salty combo it sucked, because the sweetness was so cloying, so suffocating that it drowned out almost everything else. and that’s really saying something, because this had 960mg of sodium in it!

you could put a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg in pumpkin soup and have it taste great! you could sprinkle some salt on a pumpkin spice latte and have a good time! but this ramen was not a good sweet/salty combo - it was, instead, an atrocity.

also @aikenarrows - if you actually end up making this with hot coffee, please let me know how it tastes. because that’s a fascinating idea, but there’s no way I’m buying another one of these to try it myself

[loerilaye]

[wickedsick]

today we post everett true

[thebibliosphere]

Hey Joy! I’m not sure if you have an inhaler but I saw you mention asthma and I just wanted to let you know that ventolin (blue iirc?) contains traces of milk but the red one doesn’t! Someone w MCAS just told me and I wanted to make sure you knew because it sure explained a lot for me

... siiiiigh. Is this why my inhaler didn’t fecking work? Good grief. Thanks for the heads up. Time to talk to pulmonology. again.

[ubertumbleweed]

For both @thebibliosphere and anyone else: metered dose inhalers are lactose free — or at least they all used to be in North America.

In the USA, ALL dry powder inhalers except the Turbuhaler have lactose. That means any dry powder rescue inhaler.

The lactose is a small amount but definitely enough that people with severe milk allergies can be effected by proteins contaminating the lactose.

[foxnphoenix-deactivated20210721]

Now I know why nothing works

[loerilaye]

Not to impugn anyone who's already spoken, but make sure your medical team -- even if that phrase literally only means "the medical professional or pharmacist I'm seeing right this minute and then never again" -- knows ALL your allergies and intolerances, not just to medications specifically but also to foods and environmental factors. Even if that information ultimately proves irrelevant; the one time it proves to be Highly Relevant will be a doozy.

Particularly at the pharmacy -- these guys get doctorates as a specialist to know how to protect you on a subject now too numerous and advanced for your MD or DO to keep track of. "Lactose Intolerant" or "Egg Allergy" or even just "I don't like gluten, I don't know why, maybe it's dietary maybe it's celiac disease maybe it's I just don't like gluten reason be damned" will be a red flag that gets passed on to the pharmacist(s)-in-charge who MUST verify every prescription before it gets handed out (and in some states, they have to be the ones to actually hand you the medication, whether or not you have a long and storied relationship with them, if it's any sort of medication they don't know you've had before (and in some states, even if you have had it before but you are late for a scheduled refill or your prescription has expired)) and (returning from that article-sized sidebar) that will be prominently displayed as part of your prescription so the pharmacist can pull from their vast internal knowledge or a public database like drugs.com and then talk to you about any possible problems and get in touch with the prescriber if anything prevents them from dispensing the medication to you or anything prevents you from accepting the medication (seriously, no one's time is wasted if you don't get the medication after all that. You know what's a waste of time? Filling out paperwork you [the pharmacist] could have avoided by following up on these sorts of things instead of letting an adverse event happen and then the state board is like "hmm, been awhile since we checked out this joint".).

(Completely superfluous tangent -- I remember when the pharmacy I worked at as a tech was getting a remodel-in-place, the State was there like every week for an inspection and a full inventory of our controlled substances, cause I guess that sort of thing has a way of going missing during a remodel. Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure how the interior remodel was accomplished, we weren't a 24-hour shop and they weren't working but a bit past the counter while we were open, but to be past the counter there HAD to be a licensed pharmacist present as per state law... Maybe someone from an agency got paid bank to overnight at our joint while the big work went on? Anyway.)

Right, this was about med allergies and intolerances.

Just make sure all that information is always available and double-checked. Even if it's a doctor/pharmacist you see regularly. Even as we move towards a universal medical profile standard so no one medical office is responsible for your profile at that one place but everyone is operating off the same singular patient information database so there's no excuse for any of them to not know you are severely lactose intolerant or straight-up allergic to milk, bring it up every time. Even if it's something rare or unsubstantiated that family or friends harass you over for "making things difficult", bring it up every time.

[we-are-the-reckless-youthhhh]

[explanatorypower-deactivated201]

i dont understand this at all and america scares the fuck out of me

[free-market-pluralist-deactivat]

This is the america they don’t want you to see

[robloxgf-deactivated20190515]

i love america

[dalaisa-katili-deactivated20170]

This is what you call Waffle House at 2 am when the bars close and everyone is drunk and hungry

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

*group of people having fun* this site: wtf this is so scary

[wilfulwayfarer-deactivated20220]

People having safe fun at a waffle house is scary for most Tumblr bloggers, reports say.

[inkandcayenne]

Some context for those not familiar with Waffle House Culture: 

Waffle House is one of the few chains in America that’s open 24/7/365, and where you can get both breakfast and lunch/dinner options at any time (I have had so many Breakfast Cheeseburgers at Waffle Houses). The food is really good, and people eat there at all times of the day or night, but it’s particularly popular as a late-night post-drinking spot because it’s all that’s open and it’s the kind of food that tastes especially good when you’re hammered.

Part of Waffle House Protocol is that all the servers and cooks greet every single customer as they come through the door. It sounds lame, but I’ve never been to a Waffle House where that greeting didn’t feel completely heartfelt. My mom is a health nut who could barely find anything on the menu she was willing to eat and yet she describes the Christmas Day lunch we had there one year as one of the nicest meals she’s ever had because everyone was so warm and welcoming. That sense of camaraderie gets turned up to 11, of course, at 2 a.m. when everyone’s shitfaced.

The jukeboxes have Waffle-House-themed songs on them (once you have heard “Raisins in my Toast” you will be earwormed forever) and there is an arcane system of hash brown ordering: scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and/or capped. The hot sauce bottles say “Casa de Waffle.” 

Once, in Oxford (UK), my husband and I walked past a kebab van very late one night and he said “why do I smell Waffle House”

The location of most Waffle Houses means there’s some… classism that tends to get tied up with Anti-Waffle House Discourse, which is probably lending itself, in part, to this being such a fraught topic. (I’m looking at a map and apparently I was born and raised right in the middle of the Peak Waffle House Density Zone)

It is, in the words of chef Anthony Bourdain, “indeed marvelous— an irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless of race, creed, color or degree of inebriation is welcomed.”

[postmarxed]

We’re not even gonna mention FEMA’s Waffle House Index where they determine how bad a natural disaster is by calling the local Waffle House to see if they’re open?

[darringtonshorthalt]

that last bit isn’t a joke

[dancinbutterfly]

When Corona first hit, you knew it was bad because Waffle House shut down COMPLETELY.

And you can tell it’s still bad because they’ve put Ceiling High Plastic Dividers between every booth and blocked off all but like 2 tables at the counter and after a certain point at night? It’s carry-out only. Period. No exceptions.

Anyone who wants to tell you we are fine? I will post pictures of Waffle House not being fully functional 24/7 and go “no we’re not.”

Because this is a place that stays open with no power and boil water advisories. Ok? When every Waffle House in the country is back to normal - and I mean 💯 normal - only then will we be “through this” and not a moment before.

[loerilaye]

The one near the highway here took the opportunity to close up shop completely months ago, taking the opportunity for a promised major overhaul, with their signage vowing a triumphant return at an unknown date. 9 months later, no work has begun.

The much more urbane (i.e., not located immediately off the highway) location in town continues to operate with the aforementioned restrictions.

Life is not normal and things are Not OK.

[himbo-ted]

Why am i wheezing at this

[what-even-is-thiss]

Keanu Reeves is like that one straight dude in your psychology class that handles you coming out better than literally everyone you know for no understandable reason even though he knows nothing about anything

[loerilaye]

Knowing nothing about anything is a good way to be surprised about nothing: You just assume That's The Way The World Works^tm.

I've been endeavoring to know nothing my whole life.

[constant-diablerie]

forget your zodiac, tell me how the gävle goat was damaged in the year you were born

[scholar-hect]

Burned halfway into December.

[eksterllently-weird]

Gävle goat - Wikipedia

[wizardpotions]

2002- survived

[thestuffedalligator]

Burned down on Christmas Day

[curliestofcrowns]

Built by the southerners, burned down on December 23

[jegs2]

‘87, unknown

[penguin-perversion]

1976 - hit by a car

[lostinhistory]

Collapsed

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

1980 - 24 December  Fire

[vegacoyote]

1981- Survived. (I was born in an auspicious goat-year.)

[proserpine-in-phases]

Also 1981. A good year for the goat

[thegayseance]

1999 ‐ set on fire within hours of being up

[mijomii]

96- survived. Yay for the goat!

[loerilaye]

13 December, burned in an apparently nondescript way.

[wheresmybubble]

Just be here with me now.

Books - http://debbietung.com/books

[loerilaye]

@otterish ❤

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[loerilaye]

@otterish

[myvintagevogue]

Harper’s Bazaar Sept 1949, photo by Lillian Bassman

[loerilaye]

Who designed those seats? They're so uncomfortable, she'd rather sit on her right leg with only half her ass in contact with the ergonomic nightmare than to evenly distribute the chair's misery across her frame.

[myvintagevogue]

Forstmann Woolens 1963

[loerilaye]

Oh, that's not a costume.

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Hello welcome my ADHD themed gameshow, "So you were holding it literally moments ago but now it's gone" the where YOU look for whatever you were just holding while going increasingly mad

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

I'm just trying to get the mood right

[firetinasty]

Reblog if you didn't notice the missing words

[lijanaa]

Beautiful metal tree art….

[loerilaye]

I think it's brass? It looks pretty soft, as far as wire goes. I'd love to have it on my apartment, but one of my cats would definitely chew on it. @otterish