Well yeah, how else would he get around?

Vegetarian for over 20 years. Most of my chili is “leftovers chili”. It’s about the flavor more than the ingredients. I suppose it’s more of a chili flavored goulash technically.

Usually starting with black beans, chick peas, tomatoes, peppers and chili spices. Then whatever leftovers I don’t want to eat get chopped up and added. My favorite leftover is old French fries because they never reheat right anyway. Also a great way to use up produce that is going bad but not yet unsafe to eat.

Got an apology via ‘Missed Connections’ but we had met on CL dating so she knew I would probably see it.

Also saw one for my ex (different girl).

I lived downtown Seattle in the 90s, close enough we just walked to Sit and Spin with our laundry. Best way to do laundry ever.

Also they were reasonably priced since they made most of their money off the cafe (which had really good food).

I’ll have some of those memories for life.

I miss Sit and Spin in downtown Seattle. Cafe in the front, bar and event venue in the back and laundry on the side.

I thought those camps were already built? Like back in the Bush era. They called them secure unused railway facilities IIRC, but if you look at them from a different perspective… They look like concentration camps at the end of rail lines, out in the middle of nowhere.

I feel exactly the same way! I was a huge book nerd in the 80s and Frank Herbert was some core sci-fi exposure for me.

I’ll never not like Waterworld

Controlled breathing

Most of the emulators get the sounds wrong. I still have my original 2600 and a TV to run it on. Someday it’ll make it back out of storage.

My last drive from Washington to Mississippi was almost non-stop (3 drivers). Still took almost 3 days.

I’ve driven across the country about 5 times now. You ain’t safely doing that in 3 days.

Angle grinder and a buffing pad with a heavy dose of Sex Wax

Get rid of stops for small shit like expired tabs or dim taillights so traffic cops can focus on unsafe driving. John Oliver did a pretty good piece on this recently.

https://youtu.be/E8ygQ2wEwJw?si=Hse7NbqRhwlQEEa8

No, “86 the chef special” means 'kitchen is out of chef special.

Yes, your task is to remove it from the menu.

But you aren’t 86ing it.

You’re marking it as 86’d because the quantity is below minimum threshold (usually zero).

Same meaning in my experience. The patron is kicked out. 86’d is the past tense. ‘they have been 86’d’

You no longer have any of that product, ingredient, or in this case customer.

I bit my tongue, thanks

It looks like a piece of EGO brand lawn equipment (which I also like the look of).

It fascinates us as well. The diversity is pretty insane when you stop to think about it. And every different place has their own things that everyone else thinks is strange.

Gatekeeping?

Man I’m just here providing some insight to a culture that other people aren’t exposed to on a daily basis. I literally get paid to get people excited about mowers. You’re the one rolling up being a dick for no reason.

All of the products exist for reasons. Features have reasons. If everyone just sat on their mower and went full send then there wouldn’t be multiple speed settings in the first place.

If you wanna vanilla out the experience for yourself, you should very much do as you please. But don’t try to play off that any of my information was incorrect just because your mowing is basic.

If you think mowing is just riding on the mower then you probably haven’t had to tend property that many of these mowers were designed for. You also have to deal with a trailer full of cuttings, and run a string trimmer.

Considering I sell hundreds of mowers a year, rebuild and repair them, and sell the accessories… I can say that I talk to many people who would agree with everything I said.

Sure, some of my customers are like you. They don’t care what their property looks like. They do the bare minimum to keep from getting fines from the city. But that’s not the culture where I’m at.