it's almost as if what is "masculine behavior" is completely arbitrary and entirely defined by insecurity.
this youtuber whomst is not terrible did a lovely video on this a couple weeks back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK7hl21YcsE
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
Its probably ok to drink coffee whatever way or not
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
...unless it's just before an arm wrestling contest in a rural bar
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
where the real coffee goes down
No even then we drink coffee then too its really ok
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
for example it's ok with fish skin
https://convivialsupper.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/practicalamericancookery_coffee2hall1856.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 22 November 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.29753788.4701/raf,750x1000,075,t,oatmeal_heather.jpg
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
i wish i would have seen that before knowing the fish/coffee connection! it's a cool print!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
T/S: US coffee snobbery vs. UK tea snobbery
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
In line with my stance itt i refuse to take sides there
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Worked with a Mormon woman who told me how her non-Mormon dad once asked her before a day on the ranch for a thermos of black coffee with "a level spoonful of sugar" added to it.
She thought he said "eleven spoonfuls of sugar," and boy, she wonders sometimes if his reaction to that was why she joined the church.
― pplains, Monday, 22 November 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
I read that some of the popularity of vodka/akvavit in the northern climes stems from the fact that it doesn't freeze solid, unlike tea & coffee... when you're out working in the woods
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 November 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/twin-peaks-fish-percolator-premium-cotton-pete-cooper-coffee-truman-tee-coffee-duong-ngoc-son.jpg
― nickn, Monday, 22 November 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
Obligatory "lol hueg."
― nickn, Monday, 22 November 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
is that huge? i guess it depends on the stylesheet. but i never have any quibbles about posting the huegs
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 November 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Bigger than it needs to be to get the image across. I think ILX compresses really big images.
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
When the guy offered to sell me some fishscale I wasn't expecting burned coffee
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Anyway, TIL that isinglass was used to clear coffee (I knew it was used to clear beer) and maybe that had something to do with Lynch putting a fish in the percolator in Twin Peaks?
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
TIL I learned that isinglass is a fish byproduct when I vaguely thought it was sheets of mica
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
ok quick searching indicates that I am not the first person to be confused by this, because the terms are pretty muddled already
Anyway the only time it occurs in my headspace is in Oklahoma!, where the surrey with the fringe on top has isinglass curtains
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
The Vice article is balderdash, but it is somewhat interesting that the founder feels the need to frame his business as a 21st century tech startup, when in fact it sounds like a specialty tea mail order company, which is fairly 19th century. And the dude is cynically honest when he admits that's how you drum up investors.
Pre-pandemic, Haagen Daz had a bunch of posters up in the downtown San Francisco BART station about how they were really a 'startup', even though it was founded in 1960
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
I feel like in orbit is otm in the “real men in upper midwest” etc like coffee black but those people have adapted and changed what coffee means, like a standard coffee then was convenience store, work coffee pot, diner, etcyou hand my dad even like a starbucks black coffee (ignoring the over-roasted whatever) they’re like whoa wtfI feel like “real” even meaning chain coffee was just a burst beyond standard american coffee overall and some just grimaced and said “this is man coffee now” and others just switched to drinking monster or w/e
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:27 (two years ago) link
on the other hand I would mainline the shittiest work drip coffee for some years. something with a pouch you put in the coffee maker instead of the filter/grounds. finally, they upgraded.. to a folger’s pouch. my last days being regularly in the office I joined aero press club *shrug*
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, November 22, 2021 4:47 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
So it occurred to me that wrt actual cowboys it probably wasn't totally arbitrary or defined by insecurity, but was actually a necessity of the trail, i.e you literally couldn't have milk (or many other comforts/luxuries) so you had to be "tough" in the sense of being able to live without them and endure difficult conditions. But most American masculinity is like 3-5 steps removed from being an actual cowboy by now. P sure the air conditioning in that new Ram TRX works just fine, and the milk at the gas mart is free with the coffee.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link
most actual cowboys were latino or black
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:35 (two years ago) link
spanish and mexican vaqueros were the original cowboys. norte americanos just copied their methods.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:40 (two years ago) link
double post
― mh, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
makes me sick to my stomach tbh
haters will say it's* fakehttps://t.co/6zw1eCC6koit: dog balls— Kevin H Jingle Bell 🔔🔔🔔 (@KevinHBell) December 29, 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
The clunking problemThere was a problem, however. The original Neuticles were made of a hard plastic-like material. Customers complained their dogs made a “clunking” sound when they walked or sat down. “That was an issue that we endured for three years until some genius, God bless him wherever he was, invented solid silicone,” Miller says.
There was a problem, however. The original Neuticles were made of a hard plastic-like material. Customers complained their dogs made a “clunking” sound when they walked or sat down. “That was an issue that we endured for three years until some genius, God bless him wherever he was, invented solid silicone,” Miller says.
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
DJP 1973-2021Cause of death: involuntarily ejecting lungs through mouth do to sudden, uncontrollable guffawing
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
*due
don't mind me, just correcting typos from the afterlife
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
fucking hell
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
taking your poor dog's troublemakers away and replacing them clanking balls of plastic - that is just hideous
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
When I asked for my lab to have big ol meaty clackers I didn't mean actual clackers.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61r6NGTTBvL._AC_SX425_.jpg
imagine going round to someone's house and asking what that clunking noise is and them replying "oh that's just my dog's ersatz testicles"
― soref, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
There is a human version of this, for those that have lost balls to cancer.
― nickn, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Miller went ahead and had Buck neutered, though he hated putting the puppy through the surgery. Afterward, Buck went to clean himself. “He loved to do that. The slurping noise that was so freaking obnoxious,” Miller says, mimicking a slurping hound sound. He’s convinced Buck noticed something was missing, and the dog looked back up at his master. “He was telling me, ‘They’re gone. What happened?’”
what happened? i am confused
― the hard ones, the clackers (DJP), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/692/586/2e0.gif
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
imagine going round to someone's house and asking what that clunking noise is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-2SRBxBI8
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 December 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
wha happen?!imagining the fred willard dog riffing about his clackers every time he sits down
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
😬
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLLjfdIVQAIOuGW?format=jpg&name=small
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
Is that a glowing hot horseshoe on your jeans or are you just happy to buy everyday staples, trusted Filson standards?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Everyday staples, how do they work?
― nickn, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
can I admit here that I like the Duluth Trading Company ads
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
well, you are in the right geographic region
― mh, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
i buy two nice workwear things and become saturated with 15 dipshit dude brand identities
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
I miss the workwear/big&tall clothing store that used to be here. Now it's all hipster shops that have flannel shirts and axe sharpening services
― mh, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
I wound up buying two things from Taylor Stitch last year and they were good (a flannel and a sweater), would buy from them again.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
try not to let their recently acquired fashionability ruin intrinsically good and useful things for you. fashions pass on to other things, but intrinsic value won't.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:28 (two years ago) link