Old man takes
oldmantakes.bsky.social
Old man takes
@oldmantakes.bsky.social
Old man takes, good-natured curmudgeonly nonsense, baseball, weird music, TTRPGs, making various soups, 40-something existential abyss staring.
He/Him
Drink and chewable don't exactly inspire confidence in this particular foodstuff
February 10, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Between stable flies, black flies, and horse flies, the UP is maybe the worst place for bugs I've ever been.
February 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
I really want to hear the mice's song with Asspoester as the main lyric.
February 9, 2024 at 6:54 PM
The counterpoint to this is that the decision to plant only male trees is a leftover from CCC policy in the 30s that planted male trees for the specific reason of making less cleanup work, and now we all get bukakked by tree pollen 3 months a year. Also, if the cities need to hire more people, good?
February 9, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Our morning safety meeting had 3 minutes of job rundown and safety discussion and about 8 minutes of various complaints about Taylor Swift. I have machines to go fix; can I just do that without your guys' teenager-ass sexism?
February 9, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I have never been so sure the Pistons were going to trade the farm for a guy and so relieved that they didn't. The last thing the Pistons need is a volume shooter who only scores 19 a game.
February 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
There's a zillion recipes out there, but I started with the stripped down version. It probably would be good with a tbsp of sugar in the sauce, or add more soy sauce, maybe a couple dashes of worchestire sauce?
February 8, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I garnished with some of the scallions and topped it with sautéed shrimp.
February 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Stir to combine. Add pasta in skillet you made the sauce in, toss to coat, adding some of the pasta water as you go to make the sauce to desired thickness, and add a few shakes of chili flakes. It's butter based so you'll need to add at least 1/4 cup to emulsify the sauce and make it not greasy.
February 8, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I used 1/2 package spaghetti cooked according to package instructions, but reserved 1/2 cup starch water
Sauce:
3tbsp butter
1tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1tbsp fish sauce
8 cloves minced garlic
3 chopped scallions

Melt butter, cook garlic on low heat for a minute, add everything else
February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I think it's the other way around, honestly. The evangelicals are the useful idiots. There aren't 6 SBC members on the Supreme Court, but there are 6 old-school Catholics.
February 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I grew up frothing-at-the-mouth Baptist, with all the evangelical bugbears inherent to evangelicalism, and I can't understand how Catholics and evangelicals get along. I was raised to think Catholics were drunk idolators not to be trusted. I feel like that distrust can be leveraged, but isn't.
February 8, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Batista seems like a lovely and good dude in real life, but is 100% not believable as a good guy in wrestling. I'm not sure how he pulls it off.
February 8, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Huey Lewis famously has a huge penis, and also scored a 1600 on his SAT.
February 8, 2024 at 1:22 PM
This is true, and I agree. However, the world is covered in a fine patina of various poops, and if you think about it too long, you'll drive yourself to distraction.
February 8, 2024 at 1:16 PM