As someone else said: Pierogi!

Gnocchi is pasta made with potatoes.

Not pasta but I’ve put potatoes and rosemary and swiss cheese on a pizza and it was amazing.

Little cubes of sweet potato in cold pasta salad is good too.

I think you are more right, but I would not, like, mix spaghetti into mashed potatoes.

The pilot on Farscape, and the Martians on Sesame Street.

Environmental pollution. All the different sorts of environmental pollution.

Very lightly buzzed feels good. Can think normally, would not drive but it is a pleasant feeling.

Drunk to me feels annoying, and I feel stupid. That is also how pot feels to me. I don’t feel out of control, no. Just dumbed-down.

So my limit is 2 drinks, I don’t over-drink because I have learned that one more does not make it better.

If you live in a state that allows single men to foster and adopt, that is one possibility.

And yes I’m sure paid surrogates can work with single guys. There are agencies for those.

Good luck to you.

Same. Experience is why the pay gets better and getting experience does suck, but all those mistakes and problems pay off in knowledge and judgement.

I think the Bruderhof people are the most authentic Christians in the modern world. They are communist (live in community without personal property) and are a cult of Christ.

This was true for me as a woman as well. Like when I was younger I was middle good looking, maybe average, but as I got older I moved up because so many people got fat or let go. Like just by maintaining I got relatively better looking compared to peers.

And I can confirm, good looking and fit guys my age are not common but so hot!

Emotional regulation. Better pay, if you have been able to work consistently. Kids older, easier to deal with. Happier, and can make better decisions because we are not so hotheaded.

I love the city chickens. Bok bok!

How old? I am rapidly nearing 60 and have considerably less pain than when younger because the migraines have nearly vanished and I do yoga instead of running. No chronic pain yet.

Perhaps having negative expectations helped as well, I was sure by now I’d have osteoporosis from early eating disorder, pain in joints from years of ballet, none of these shoes have dropped yet. I do feel weaker than my 40s which were my peak but not weaker than my 30s. And so, so much less pain with fewer migraines.

My favorite are the Kushiel trilogy, anything by Ian McDonald, almost anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky or Michael Carey. Though it’s difficult to pick.

Currently reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.

I’m small of bust, but therefore don’t bra often (except at work) so occasionally get a look, I am neither flattered nor offended. I work on my body but boobs are just luck or money, not an accomplishment.

Woah there. I agree with part of this but so much is more a “use it or lose it” situation. I’m almost 60, husband a couple years older, we still fuck every day and I get off at least once a day still. I do think it’s muted a bit, slightly less intense usually but way more multiples, so it kind of works out.

Did gain weight at menopause that stuck - sort of gamed that by starting out underweight so I’m still not fat, but agree wholeheartedly it doesn’t fall right off like it did, part of that I think is my worry that if I lose it my bones will suffer, so I don’t want to diet. Still in good shape just smack in the middle of healthy BMI when I was aiming for the bottom of it.

Teeth are STUPID, we should not get the final set so young.

Everything takes so, so long to heal now.

My mom said the worst thing about getting old was that you could not make plans. She planned to come up here to see Tab Benoit with a group of friends but by the day of the show two of them had died.

I drink literally everything on ice right now because

But also do like whiskey better diluted, I can taste it better when it’s not so strong. Stretched out I can enjoy it.

I agree. I like it (the spelling often shows the history of the word, relationships between words) but for an allegedly phonetic system it’s nonsense. Not sure it’s worse than French, but Spanish is so phonetic I can read aloud stuff I don’t even understand!

I learned to read as I was learning to talk, more like a language than a skill - kids learning in school are taught phonics, and I would despair if that was how I was taught.

Once. Really? The word Wonss is spelled Once?

Not such fancy equipment. I used to make it in a lunchbox cooler with our very hard tap water; that eventually cracked but I have been rocking one of these for a decade now.

https://www.clearlyfrozen.com/

All you need is directional freezing. My ice comes out crystal clear in big ol’ blocks like that.

To be fair - I would charge $5 a tray too. It takes a day & a half and space in my freezer. But it is an easy, cheap, and fun hobby

My kids once bought me a whole wheel of it for Christmas, lol.

It is so good with non- sweet Semillon wine, and (oddly specific I know) I really like it on a baked purple sweet potato, with olive oil and pumpkin seeds.

Same. I kept trying stronger antiperspirant, thinking the sweat was the stink but it turned out it was the combination of antiperspirant and sweat that smelled bad. Deodorant without antiperspirant works so much better for me.

I don’t wear antiperspirant, just deodorant, so haven’t tried it. But my guess is that it’s the only thing that dissolves the waxy stuff that is holding the stains on the pits without dissolving the fabric. If acids don’t work, sometimes a base will.

She didn’t smell like ammonia so the scent must come out in the wash.