Eat fries first, main dish later, always. Good reason though: usually the main dish holds heat much longer than fries do, and it probably won't get as gross as fries do.
Cold fries are tasteless and soggy. A warm burger is still good.
I meticulously eat all the whites off my fried eggs then shove the intact yolk into my mouth. Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate and fried eggs are best hot. I have converted my husband. Everyone else seems to think it's weird.
YES. My friend recommended I do this years ago and I genuinely thought he was fucking with me; that on the first bite he'd wet himself laughing and say "gotcha". Turns out he was right, the skin is high in fibre and a perfect tart complement to the sweetness of the fruit.
Fully invested in the no lawn movement, I've been slowly replacing my grass with "no-mow" fine fescue grasses that fall over when they grow long instead of standing up straight. They grow slowly and are meant to not be mowed most of the summer season, just a couple times in the spring and cut down low in the fall.
Between that and using shredded leaves as mulch in my flower beds or lasagna mulching to create a new flower bed, my neighbors definitely think I'm a bit off.
I got some crocus bulbs to plant in my lawn that I'm hoping work out. We have been adding clover seeds to bare spots, too, and we have a lot of wild strawberries (which I never get to eat because the birds get them first). I don't care at all for perfectly manicured lawns. I don't think my neighbours mind, though, since none of them have perfect lawns, either.
I never understood the obsession people have with mowning lawn. I find higher lawn to look better, greener. It's way less common to mow in europe where we have grass similar to what you are describing that don't need to be mowned.
And the fact that people can call the police for that and that home owner association can require you to do it is even weirder.
I once tried not mowing my lawn for a few months for the same reasons, and I ended up with a notice from the city, citing a municipal law that my grass and herbs can't be taller than 30cm, and that I would receive a fine at the next offence.
Note that there is no lawn police in my city, and this is the result of a neighbour's complaint.
The kind of grass I'm growing doesn't get that high except a couple weeks in the spring when it's going to seed. The rest of the time falls over and lays down, looking like a wind-swept meadow, so the overall height is no more than around 15cm. High enough that you couldn't see my shoes, but it looks relatively well-kept.
Here's some pictures of this kind of grass. It has some limitations on what kind of conditions it grows well in, but there are several different similar species that gives options.
There are also options to replace grass with other low ground cover plants like clover or thyme. And also definitely, you should work to change your local ordinances on pawn maintenance to be more eco-friendly.
According to my husband and all my friends, the weirdest thing about me is my name for a sandwich.
Apparently, everyone else calls it a 'grilled cheese'. I have always called it by it's proper name, a 'toasted cheese'.
If you make it in a panini press, then it is a grilled cheese. But if you make a sandwich by buttering each side and toasting it in a pan on the stove until the cheese melts, then it is a toasted cheese. But every time I say 'toasted cheese', people look at me as though I have grown another head.
Did you grow up in a different region than your husband? Based on my mother and grandmother, I'd bet that 'Toasted Cheese' was prevalent in the southwest US in the mid-1900s. Both terms sound right to me.
No, we grew up in the same region of the same state and haven't moved from there. Most of our friends are native to the region as well. I have no idea why I call it something different, it is the term I have used all my life. Even my sister calls it a 'grilled cheese'!
My wife also says "toasted cheese". Well, her and her children. Only people I've ever known to call it that.
Do you have any other unusual turns of phrase? She's full of them. The one that drives me up a wall is where I'd say, "right side in", she says, "right side to".
I still have what many people call my commonwealth influence and so I have a lot of names for things that people don't understand. Chips instead of french fries, shrimp (prawn) on the barbie, etc. Some friends asked if I wanted to see the Barbie movie and I jokingly asked if they'd serve shrimp instead of popcorn, and their utter confusion sent the message clear they didn't get it. Yup, I'm the weird one :(
That said, by now my vocabulary is somewhat hybridized.
Related to this, one of the weirdest things I do is how I like many of my foods. People are weirded out because I like... my toast to be soft... my ice cream to be half melted... my steak to be mooing (back when I active partook in that; I don't really anymore)... my tootsie pops to be eaten in one bite... my cereal poured after my milk... my pizza with pineapple on it... my milk with ice in it... etc.
I also like my ice cream to be soup lol! Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple. The rest are odd, but at least you know what you like!
But, you don’t “toast” anything in a pan. Toasting is done in an oven/broiler type fashion (counter-top work essentially the same way), often with a grill either horizontally or vertically involved. I guess if you want to get technical about a pan-done cheese sandwich, it would be a pan-fried-cheese? Like pan fried vegetables?
When recipes call for you to cook an item in a pan without first adding oil, they say to toast it to indicate that you are applying dry heat to it. For example, most Indian recipes call for toasting whole spices in a dry pan before grinding. That is also why you can toast marshmallows over an open flame.
When I'm alone I'll wear a full suit, because dressing up makes me feel nice, but I lack the courage to go full "retro men's fashion enthusiast" and dress up like it's 1939
Have a look at Darcy Clothing! They produce clothes styles from c.1600s to 1950s.
There's some nice stuff there for both men and women. Comfortable and stylish, imo.
Example: https://www.darcyclothing.com/apps/bundles/bundle/24247
Man, acquiring the pieces isn't even the hurdle I'm trying to cross right now. It's straight up a matter of confidence. Like. People will see. And they'll ask stuff like 'what's the occasion' x.x
I'm a chronic joint-popper. Fingers, toes, neck, and back are all pretty standard fare for most people. But a lot of people get weirded out when I pop my shoulders, elbows, ankles, knees, or hips. Sometimes I can make something around my sternum pop, but usually only after waking up from a long sleep.
I regularly pop my knees, ankles and jaw. I'm pretry sure if I could figure out how to pop my shoulders and elbiws they'd also start getting popped regularly
Edit: I should mention, don't hurt yourself trying anything in this comment. If you feel like you're about to break/pull/sprain something, stop.
Try this for the shoulder. Sit in your chair with your feet on the floor, about shoulder-width apart. Place your right hand on your right knee, fingers pointing toward your left knee and thumb pointing toward your torso. Now, try to pivot your elbow laterally "inward", as if you're keeping the same height from the ground but trying to rotate it around toward the area above the space between your knees. It won't actually move far because your hand is staying planted on your knee, but push just ever do slightly "past" where the rotation stops, and you should get a satisfying pop.
That's how I do it, at least.
The hips are the most satisfying, though, in my opinion. Nearly the same position as before: sitting down, feet planted on the floor, but with a slightly wider stance. Go full manspread for this. Keep the toes pointed slightly inward, or straight ahead. Hand on knee, and mostly using your thigh muscles (with slight force from your hand), gently pull your knee toward the other knee, while keeping both feet squarely planted in place. Keep your knee at the same height, you don't want to rotate vertically at all, only horizontally. Basically just need to make sure your feet and tailbone never move from their spots.
If done right, you should get a loud, deep pop that feels absolutely amazing. I wish I could make a diagram, because I doubt any of this makes any sense.
My wife lives in another county and is only around on the weekends.
She is a huge turtle nut and has several stuffed turtle toys on the bed. I'm in finance journalism and sometimes talk to the turtles about convertible bond transactions and other boring stuff.
It helps me work through things. Probably headed for an institution in the future.
All 3 of the stuffed animals that don't leave my bed all have their own distinct voice and personalities. I sometimes have conversations with them (just not out loud).
Gavin, my stuffed turtle pillow has the personality of a chill middle aged man who's proud of his son since he's been with me since I was maybe 4-5 and has dealt with a lot of my bullshit. He loves when I rub his shell.
Jake, my polar bear I got from a hospital when I was maybe 12, is a pretty happy and optimistic man with a voice that is a little high pitched and scratchy. He loves wearing his little bandana I fashion around him like a neckerchief and his little when it's spring or summer.
Laura, my stuffed brown rabbit I got maybe a year and a half ago, is a female with a voice like Tsumugi from Danganronpa V3. She's Jake's slightly older sister. I like to cuddle her because she's the softest of all 3 and because she's the easiest to cuddle with. She's my little dress up bunny, despite the fact she only has one outfit. It took some time, but she eventually got used to her outfit.
Edit:
Nobody probably thought this, but I totally looked this over and my autistic brain totally thought the part about Gavin made it sound like my actual dad isn't proud of me, which is false.
Also, I don't know anyone else in their mid-20s who does this.
Oh my husband and I do this too! We have Roberto, a lazy penguin who only gets active when it's cold. Fluffy, a pink alicorn who loves running. Roberto sleeps with me and Fluffy with my husband. Then we also have Dolly, a sheep pillow plushie who speaks with a nasal voice. Lisa, a ladybird who keeps watch over us while we sleep, and also makes sure Fluffy goes to bed in time. And about 5 more who have smaller roles.
There is weirdly enough another user in this thread who holds conversation with stuffed turtles. They are his wife's and he talks with them about his job as a finance journalist.
I, uh... I shave hair like 5 cm around my bumhole. Paired with a bidet, you wouldn't guess how much easier it made it to wipe. I used to use 30-50 squares of toilet paper per wiping session, today I can manage with just 10
It is a lot. I'm a pretty hairy dude who stopped bothering with even trimming my ass hairs once I got a bidet attachment a few years back. 5 is usually enough, sometimes 7. Like 1% of shits require more than that. The other guy is either using way too much tp or he's buying single-ply for some ungodly reason.
Careful, hair there is for a reason...think of how two slices of baloney stick together. Bonus thought: if you do this and work in a hot/humid environment cornstarch will be your best friend.
As someone cursed with bum hair, I want to do this. I just cringe at the idea of a shaving cut on my rusty sheriff badge. Did it once and the growback was deeply uncomfortable too.
I bought a Meridian body trimmer a few months back and still haven't raised the courage to use it on intimate areas as it's intended for, ptsd after nicks from my other shaver.
One day I saw advertised these birdhouses with little accordion-like appendages, the same kind most air conditioners have that allow them to fit into windows, and I bought several of these, one per window. On the side facing the outdoors, birds find a little hole and can venture inside, as is typical of a birdhouse. On the side facing the inside of my home, the same birdhouses have tiny windows, like those one-way viewers hotel doors have, that allow anyone to see into the birdhouses, as well as the secretly built option to open it like a door, either while no bird is inside (makes cleaning them easy) or, if someone for some reason felt devious (I wouldn't, and would never give anyone the key to said birdhouse doors), while a bird was in there, which would force it to honor the will of the owner of the home with all the said birdhouses (again, I would never use this feature, unless maybe a bird was injured or something and needed help).
Alright, with all that said... while I have no plans to ditch any of the birdhouses, I will admit I've received complaints that the combination of a few dozen birdhouses in unison is noisy in the morning, like you wake up at six in the morning and it sounds like the birdie house of commons. People say such bird hospitality is unbecoming of an inn attendant. Is it though? Is it? That said, this is usually when the noise cancellers aren't working.
There is a huge increase if you don't mark the windows with some kind of visibility method. In my case, these are in the useless parts of the window, so it was easy for me to simply add tiny ornamental wind socks without anyone asking what I was going for in making those windows difficult to use (you know, aside from it being taken up by a birdhouse).
I run molecular structure optimization calculations for fun. i.e draw molecule in jmol, export atomic coordinates to nwchem or ocra, run optimization and freq job, open output file to visualize optimized molecule structure and orbitals rinse repeat.
When I feel very bored, I go to the Wikipedia page of a movie that I do not intend to watch anytime soon and just read the entire plot write-up, as well as the "Critical Response" subsection.
That's OK. I want to get into comic books, but their information density is that of foam. I start to read and get bored. But I love the stories, so I just find a synopsis on Wikipedia or some other site and read it in prose.
So, there was a period of time in my life where I drove 25 miles to work for 8-9 hours and then a further 55 miles to go to a full 8 hours of school.
I had about 30-45 minutes of spare time between work and school so I would often take a nap in the back of my hatchback because I never got much sleep at night. It was fall and got surprisingly cold for the time of season. I wanted to take a nap but it was SUPER bright out and I didn't have a blanket in my car yet so I didn't want to take off my jacket to cover my eyes with.
My slightly sleep deprived brain decided that instead of using my jacket as a blanket to sleep under and also cover my eyes that I would put my head under the giant bag of rice I had picked up at the store.
It was the best, most relaxing, most refreshing nap i had ever had. Tried it again to see if it was a fluke and nope, apparently I really like a lot of formable weight on my noggin.
Pretty much anything that is heavy and malleable. We have a weighted blanket that I sometimes use but it's not really heavy enough for my liking sometimes. The cat food/dog food didn't always work because sometimes the bag is semi-permeable and you can smell the food.
In order of preference it is probably soil (loam or aquarium), Rice, and then sand.
I brush my teeth in bed and swallow the toothpaste at the end. According to the chemical fact sheet swallowing my toothpaste is well within osha defined limits for sodium flouride, and people who live in places with naturally more fluoridated water than where I am are exposed for far more than I am. so I really don't think there is any health concern. I have been doing it for a decade now and I have no symptoms of over exposure. I find it greatly helps me fall asleep if I don't have to get out of bed to brush.
It skips a trip to the bathroom, no more "Oh, I forgot to brush teeth when already in bed". Weirdly enough I think it makes sense and is convenient but I personally won't do it because of the swallowing part.
For anyone curious, toothpaste has 1,000 to 1,500 ppm fluoride and tap water typically has ~1 ppm or less. Assuming OP swallowed a pea sized quantity of toothpaste (which is the reccommended amount for brushing) the amount of fluoride in that toothpaste would be about equivalent to drinking a cup of tap water.
I have little dance moves that I like to use when walking around the office. Little turn on heel here, stand on tiptoe there, round the corner in a fluid motion, balance on one leg, little jump, etc.
It's not that obvious if you look at me at first glance and I make sure to keep the really visible moves for when I'm alone. But it's something I'm doing (un)consciously most of the time. I guess I just like being light-footed :)
I have little dance moves that I like to use when walking around the office. Little turn on heel here, stand on tiptoe there, round the corner in a fluid motion, balance on one leg, little jump, etc.
You might enjoy the 1996 Japanese film Shall We Dance?. The protagonist is taking ballroom dancing lessons in secret but when walking around the office subtle dance-inspired moves creep in. :-)
If it really bothers you, every time you realise you did this, delete the previous word before the F and retype it, maybe even a few times, while paying attention to every movement. Slowing down helps too.
Mine is ctrl+shift+s, because it saves an incremental version. This way, if the client says "Actually I preferred the bassline an hour ago, can we go back?" I can say "sure, no problem!".
It also protects in case the file is corrupted. I know so many people who just save over the same file and it always amazes me.
This is wild I picked up this quirk like 4 years ago, F key even. I code so a lot of the times I'm already ending something with a semicolon, but then the line gets an extra temporary F just to be sure
I warm wrapped cheese (cheese sticks, baby bells) in my pocket before eating. If I'm feeling fancy or rushed I'll plop it into a cup of hot water. I feel a microwave would be too inconsistent, with cold spots and melted spots; I want the cheese to be uniformly soft.
I stick the bottom of my earlobe into my ear. It's just a nervous tick I have had my whole life. But I've also noticed recently that I really like how cool my earlobe feels and maybe that's part of the reason I do it.
Whenever I fart and I'm alone, I'll audibly follow it up with a hearty "Mmmhmm". I don't know why I do it, but it only happens if I'm alone. It's involuntary at this point.
Same. I'm starting to think that talking to ourselves (while alone) is more common than society would have us believe. It's hard to know what other people do when they're alone, tho
Yeah, the common phrase that "talking to yourself is the first sign of madness" has been drummed into many of us... of course if you're experiencing auditory halucinations and replying to them, that's bad. But it's actually perfectly fine to talk to yourself out loud.
I also recommend tomato, onion and peanut butter (the sweetener-free version, a yank offered me a foul sweetened version of peanut butter and I now specify the one made exclusively of peanuts)
And cheese-and-honey is a not unusual school lunch sandwich option here in Australia. But then, so is cheese and vegemite.
When I mention that I want to try bikepacking/biketouring and mention my bucketlist route around europe (each EU country and capital string together). Peple look at me like I am ready for madhouse room.
I'll one-up you, and I hope nobody I know reads this. I work from home as a web dev. I have ADHD. I sometimes work deep into the night because I procrastinate all day. I'll be working with one hand and stroking it rock hard with another, with no real horniness or need to cum for hours. It's just like a fidgeting thing. I'm looking at code, sleep deprived out of my mind, and somehow rock hard. I don't get it, but I'm too stressed to care.
I also (very likely) have ADHD and used to do this when doing homework for school. I think it has something to do with keeping dopamine levels up to a neurotypical level, in order to be able to focus.
It's more like what I don't do: I don't establish habits when interacting with other people. For example I don't go buy coffee at the same place every day. Even if there is a place I like and I'm passing next to it every day I will mix it up a bit. Not go some days or change the order. The only reason is for the people in the store not to notice that I have a habit. I think they would think it's weird. And it's not like I have some social phobia. I make friends and interact with people normally. It's just this one thing: a fear that a shopkeeper will say "the same as always?". No, you don't know what I want. You don't know me at all!
If I have just about any kind of bread, I have an irresistible urge to dip it in liquid. Specifically, chocolate milk, apple juice, or certain types of soup. Peanut butter sandwiches too, but not in soup lol. Well, maybe?
It started in kindergarten. Every morning I'd eat breakfast at school: chocolate milk, cereal, and a biscuit. Chocolate milk goes in the cereal, eat cereal, then dip the biscuit in the milk in the bowl. This continued through fifth grade. I was pretty anti-social to begin with, but this weird quirk scared away any would-be friend who tried to sit with me. Heh.
Never grew out of it though. Now I just do it when nobody's looking. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I need at least 3 pillows for sleeping comfortably. Doesn't matter if I even actually touch them, but I do need them just in case. One primary chonky one, and 2 slimmer ones to adjust height and etc.
So apparently my girlfriend thinks it's weird my family keeps a knife in the toilet. You know, just in case it doesn't flush down. I thought everybody did this.
I always read out loud. Always. And I do most of my readings while walking. So I imagine hearing me waking around taking to myself make other people think 'wtf?'.
I say something unique to myself (like the date or something I'm working on today) when I lock the door, so that I can think back to that moment later in the day and remember that I locked the door. Otherwise I start worrying about if I locked the door or not.