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I just wanted to take this opportunity to share some facts about lactose intolerance. Because if you have it and you’re looking for ways to deal, you need to know that vegans will absolutely lie to you and they’re one of the few groups I see talking about it

- Lactose intolerance is not a dairy allergy. You can, should, and hopefully will continue consuming dairy with lactose. You actually NEED lactose to fight lactose intolerance. If you cut it out of your diet completely then your sensitivity will increase. This is the big one that vegans will lie to you about. One actually tried to convince me that lactose was killing my body. No, it’s not a dairy allergy.

- This one is probably fairly obvious but you don’t need to stop drinking cow’s milk to avoid lactose in your milk. Lactose free milk is a thing and there’s lactaid pills you can take.

- Lactose intolerance isn’t “because you’re not a baby cow” like vegans like to say. It’s because your body doesn’t produce enough lactase and can’t digest lactose. It’s extremely common in people of colour with upwards of 90% of Asian people having it. It’s less common in northern Europeans which might go a ways towards explaining why white vegans as a whole know very little about it and seem to mistake it for a dairy allergy.

- Lactose is found in non dairy foods like some breads, processed meats, cereals, chips, medications, etc. And certain dairy products have higher or lower concentrations. Butter has a stupid low amount for example. And everyone’s tolerance is different.

- The average LT person can have 12 grams of lactose per sitting. You’ll likely be able to have more if it’s consumed with a large meal.

- Eat yoghurt!!! Yes, DAIRY yoghurt! The bacteria in it produce lactase. It will help.

doomhamster

Another reason why the difference between lactose intolerance and “dairy allergy” is important: because dairy, or rather milk protein allergy IS a thing and it is VERY DANGEROUS.

A lactose intolerant person who consumes regular dairy products is going to have an upset stomach, which could entail anything from “farting a bit worse than usual” to “stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting”.

A person with milk protein allergy may go into anaphylactic shock. Even a small amount of lactose could literally kill them.

(This is also, apart from common fucking decency, why if you work in a café or something and someone asks for soy milk, you give them their damn soy milk. Do not play roulette with someone else’s life and health.)

avari20

Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then.

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together.

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing.

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already.

Here’s her list of kitchen basics.

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic.

Make your own pasta–gluten free.

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section.

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days.

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling.

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that.

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this.

ok2befat

jelff-deactivated20190504

god, if only I saw this 6 months ago. I was living on ~50 US dollars per month, alone in my own apartment, so it covered not only food but basic house keeping stuff like toilet paper. I had to figure this out on my own, and I survived, but having this blog may save someone’s life - literally

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Jack is awesome.

thetrashiestoftrash

So none of those links work anymore. Oh, they go to the main website, but the specific pages are gone. Jack explains in a blog post here that the BBC actually run that website, and they have removed the overwhelming majority of recipes in what she calls The Great British Takeoff.

But since she still has all her recipes, she’s posting them to her personal blog. Because you know who can’t afford to buy cookbooks? Folks trying to feed themselves on 10 pounds a week, as she once was.

So if you want the recipes, you won’t find jack on agirlcalledjack.com. You’ll find her, her recipes, and her angry response to the BBC at cookingonabootstrap.com.

#save for later

roxoah

spooder

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tchaikovskaya

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“Anne Bonny and Mary Read were pirates, as renowned for their ruthlessness as for their gender, and during their short careers challenged the sailors’ adage that a woman’s presence on shipboard invites bad luck.”

Sculpture by Erik Christianson.

thecreach

I’m not entirely sure that the statue really needed to have a tit out.

luckykrys-deactivated20140128

How dare women try to have nipples.

4rfvbgt56yhn-deactivated2014040

Actually I’ve seen this before and I can tell you— it’s because these women were bad ass pirates and when they killed someone they’d expose one or both breasts so that when their victim died, (s)he knew that they were killed by a woman.

koresoteirass

ACTUALLY Anne Bonny purposely wore loose fitting clothes and displayed her breasts openly at all times during battle - mainly because men were distracted by them, and she took pleasure in killing said men while they were too busy staring at her breasts. Mary Read dressed mainly as a man (after posing as her deceased brother, Mark, for the entirety of her childhood) and both ladies cross-dressed from time to time, hopping between ships. They were known as the ‘fierce hell cats’ due to their ferocious tempers, and were key elements to Captain ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham’s crew - they were the only two known female pirates in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. IN FACT, when the ship was captured by the British Navy, Anne and Mary were the ONLY TWO pirates who fought while the males of the crew hid - they were all tried to be hung as pirates but Bonny and Read were both pregnant and were pardoned.

Calico Jack was a lover to Bonny, and as he was to be hung, Bonny’s final words to him were, “Had you fought like a man, you need not be hung like a dog.” Bonny and Read were possibly two of the most badass fucking pirates and they were FEMALE. The more you know.

jennytrout

And on top of all that, exposed breasts have a long and storied history of symbolism in art. They mean all sorts of things. The sculptor may have chosen to expose her left breast specifically to denote her courage–her heart is exposed–or to evoke comparison to Amazon warriors, who cut off their right breasts.

Titties are complex in art.

ilikelookingatnakedmen

Fascinating!

seelcudoom

From the sounds of it they proved rather the idea women were bad luck on a ship cus if they boarded yours you were shit out of luck

brawltogethernow

*turns off the light*

my cat, who can still see perfectly, watching as I bump into a table: Ah, she has toggled the switch that controls whether she is stupid.

m4ge-deactivated20210331

a quick step by step guide on what to do if you come back to your apartment and find yourself locked out because your front door is frozen shut

kick the bottom of the door for 10 minutes

text your landlord

remember your landlord is on vacation and also in her mid 50′s so it takes about 36 hours to receive a response

briefly wonder why the fuck you moved the canada

remember that college tuition is significantly cheaper here than in the united states

look up and notice your cat is at the window, staring at you. he paws at the window lightly and meows. it’s devastating. his eyes are so big and imploring. decide that you have to get inside your apartment at all costs. not even god himself can stop you from feeding your cat his chicken wet food dinner. frida kahlo herself could descend from the heavens and ask “hey you wanna bang?” and you’d say “hell yeah but first let me open this door so i can feed my cat his dinner”

remember there is a starbucks 3 blocks down the street from you

enter. the barista gives you a weird look for entering a starbucks at 7pm on a tuesday

order a venti cup of hot water. you order in french because the barista just said “bonjour” instead of “bonjour, hi.” you have a strong american accent. you hit the r in merci a little too hard to compensate. you embarrass yourself.

exit the starbucks clutching the massive cup of hot water in your hands. it’s burning your fingers.

return. methodically pour the starbucks cup of water all over the the door frame. it begins moving a little but still wont open

back up

ensure your doc martens are properly gripping the sheet of ice covering the ground. many people have told you to stop wearing doc martens in the winter, despite your protests that theyre actually the ideal winter boot. also, you’re a lesbian and punk’s not dead

release a pterodactyl screech and sprint towards the door, slamming the full force of your pathetically tiny 5′2″ 110lb body into it

you dont know any of your neighbors so you dont care about maintaining your pride anyways

the door swings open

run up the stairs

open the actual door to your apartment and yell MOMMY’S HOME MY LITTLE BITCHASS BABY BOY DONT WORRY at your cat

cat flings his body to the ground and starts purring like he does every time you come home

write tumblr post

homoslovenc

this has a better plot than 90% of action movies

awesome-picz

Wholesome Cat Posts That Will Hopefully Make Your Day.

pr1nceshawn

Why You Should Always Wear Your Helmet.

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PSA: never put stickers on your helmets (unless you have checked with the manufacturer) because the adhesive can weaken the structure!

crazy-pages

One day my health teacher in middle school just like … didn’t show up for class. And so of course we were all “oh if he doesn’t show up in fifteen minutes we’re legally allowed to leave”, giggling about it and all the bullshit. He did eventually show up, ten minutes into the class time. He looked haggard as fuck, sweating all over, hair messed up, beaten to hell and back. We stared at him and were about to ask what in the world happened to him when he stopped in front of his desk and smacked his bicycle helmet down on it.

His helmet had this odd discolored patch on it. Like, white against white, but … weird? It’s then that I realized his helmet didn’t have a discolored patch, it had a patch missing. A big chunk of his helmet had just been shaved away, the curve of the helmet gone and sanded flat by whatever it had been scraped against. And running through that patch, from one side of the helmet to the other, was this big crack, like the whole helmet had split like an eggshell.

Our teacher took a couple deep panting breaths and then told our class: “And this,” he took another deep breath, “is why you always wear your helmet”.

And that’s the story of how an entire class of middle school students took helmet-wearing very seriously for the rest of their lives.

madqueensarah

My sister was doing a charity cycle, and on the last day there was awful rain. Going down a steep hill her brakes failed. I got a selfie from her missing her front teeth and she had a black eye. Before I can even lose my mind about her injuries, my dad sent me a picture of her shattered cycle helmet, the tattered ruins of her Alice in Wonderland costume and the scuffs on the shirt and cycle leggings she’d been wearing under it.

The helmet prevented her skull/face from taking serious damage and the long sleeves/leggings meant she got grazes on her limbs instead of needing skin grafts. Honestly - safety first.

leela365

The VERY FIRST BIKE RIDE OF HIS LIFE, my four year old lost control of his bike, panicked and forgot how to use the break and flipped over his handlebars and went head first into the curb. He got up like it was nothing, got back on his bike and finished the bike ride.

No bruises, no cuts or scrapes and just a couple tears for fears.

His helmet has a HUGE dint in it. Nothing punctured through. Structural integrity is still fine. All the paw patrol characters are still there. That 12$ saved us a trip to the emergency room.

dinosaurrainbowstarfish

Hey PSA! YOU MUST GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOUR HELMET LOOKS LIKE THOSE ABOVE! Helmets prevent you from dying but you could STILL BE CONCUSSED or have internal injuries! And always replace a helmet after a fall where you hit your head! Even if it doesn’t look dented, the padding inside can still be damaged enough that it’s much safer to get a new one!

guitarbeard

Wizard who got tired of fighting and casts fucked up unethical spells like “super brain hemorrhage” to end them faster

blackkkabutops

One time I did “Summon Water” inside a guys lungs and the GM allowed it because he had been playing for years and never seen anyone do that

indyexploits

Me “I can raise the temperature of a space by 5 degrees (Fahrenheit) per success” DM “Okay.” Me “And that’s 6 successes, so 30 degrees…” DM “Okay…” Me “And ‘inside the human body’ is a space, right?” DM “…I don’t like where this is going.” Me “So I’m going to raise the temperature inside his body 30 degrees.” DM “Yeah, so he’s dead now. He was fine, and then went through all the stages of heat stroke in half a second before his body went ‘No thank you’ and just shut off to stop it from being so hot. Good job.”

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#dnd

rocktheholygrail

#ICONIC

thalia-ambrose

Megamind is the definition of punk rock

catchymemes

#need to save #save for later #reminder

roxoah

Another commission for Starry. Huang Yu is such a gorgeous mermaid T_T I’m enjoying these pieces so much

roxoah

These merfolk commissions I’m working on inspired me to draw Atsuji as one.. Mr. extra coming through ✨

vladtheunfollower

trashboat

great graphic, very helpful for selecting apples in regard to baking, but one amendment should be considered:

a red delicious isn’t an apple it’s a wet clump of bitter sand

cannedviennasnausage

red delicious is what floral foam probably tastes like if it were edible

#save for later

catchymemes

the-headless-vulcan

Capitalism will put the bill on your grave and harass your grieving family until they pay

theludicrousrival

One of my cousins passed away unexpectedly at the age of 35, and had been paying back a loan from the bank. About two weeks after his death, my great aunt received a statement from the bank (his mail was being delivered to her house) about a late payment. She called the bank and explained the situation and the only thing a manager could say was “Well, that’s unfortunate. We can arrange so payments will resume in 30 days, that should be enough time to have already paid for the other arrangements.”

On top of the unexpected $10,000 funeral, cremation and burial bill, my aunt had to finish paying my uncle’s $5,000 loan. She’s a disabled retiree, on a fixed income, and could barely afford to pay for her insulin for diabetes. She nearly lost her home of more than 40 years. Fuck the system.

lawful-evil-novelist

She didn’t need to pay. When people die, their debts are not their family’s responsibility.

In fact, it is outright illegal to try and collect those debts from a person who didn’t cosign the loan and isn’t executing the will.

Who is responsible for paying off the debts of your deceased relatives?

Here’s a link to the detail on that one.

eudoxiav

Banks count on people not knowing that last comment so that they can still get money

niniblack

They really do.

My great-grandmother had her identity stolen before she died at the age of 93, and thousands of charges were racked up on credit cards in her name. After she passed away, they called my mother to try and collect. My mom laughed at them, and told them: “She’s dead, good luck collecting.” The credit card asked my mother, “Don’t you want to clear your grandmother’s debts? Don’t you want to clear her good name?” My mom laughed at them again. “No,” she said. “Because a 90 year old wasn’t watching porn with those credit cards, and her name is fine. Don’t give credit cards to old women likely to pass away soon. This is on you.”

Which is how I learned as a young child to always question collection agents, and to never pay off debts that aren’t your own. They often can’t even collect that money from the estate, if there is one, depending on how you write your will and what kind of account the money was kept in.

nephrastar

DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.

If a loved one of yours dies and bill collectors (credit cards, loans, etc etc) start calling you off the hook and request that you pay off their debts, tell them in no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves.

The reason being is that the moment you give them a single penny, that debt is now on YOU because you’ve now agreed to pay it off.

Do not agree to pay off their debt. Do not pass go, do not give them $200.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Boosting this to let people know that if any of these greedy little dog-fuckers start harassing them to pay off a relatives debt the correct thing to do is just tell them to piss off and not pay them a single thing

And that there is NOTHING they can do if you do this

jadelyn

Never, ever, EVER pay so much as a single cent on a debt owed by someone who’s passed away. You make even a single payment and that’s considered you accepting responsibility for the debt, and they can then legally expect you to repay the whole thing.

They’re like vampires - they can’t collect unless you let them in. Don’t invite them in.

#important #information #save for later

roxoah

I can finally post this! my piece for triforcetarot on twitter . This project was a lot of fun, and everyone did such amazing work

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