George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
Damn. Any sides?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
Very true. I wish we could have peanut butter in my home, but my brood have allergies.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
Big pastry and meat pie fan myself. I used to attempt croissants and pastry dough in my youth but I feel it's not worth the effort when you can buy premade.
Sounds good to me. Steaks also sound good. The 和牛/wagyu beef most often sold as high end steak here doesn't quite do it for me. It's not bad but it tastes like an Alien's version of what a steak should taste like. That's heresy here to say aloud, but the best steak I've ever had (outside some tournedos de rossini) was in Alabama cooked on a grill at my friend's house.
I would totally eat. Green peas get a bad rap in Japan for some reason, but Farfelle, peas and canned tuna with some Italian parsley and garlic is a great dish as well.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
Sounds good! Any bread involved?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
Enchiladas sound amazing. So difficult to get good Mexican food here, although there appears to be a recent taco boom in Japan (they say メキシカンタコス/mekishikantakos to not be confused with タコ/tako or octopus) There's a place in Osaka that has a one-month wait to get in, but no taco is worth that amount of time for me. I'm biding my time for the interest to wane or Instagram to be glutted. And Oaxaca cheese! Couldn't find it for love or money in Kansai (possibly Tokyo?)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
27d ago
So in the spirit of small scale, what's for dinner tonight?
My wife was up tonight and made the following:
Regular onigiri with white rice
Pork-wrapped julienned carrots and green peppers with some sort of sour plum paste seasoned with salt and pepper. Sautéed so it was like a little roll of meat with vegetables inside
Some sort of kimchee vegetables that included celery sections. Was surprisingly good
miso soup (tofu, green onions, spinach)
tofu (kinugoshi or soft) in squares topped with thin sliced onions, sesame oil, and her family's soy sauce, which I'm told is noticeably different than that you can buy in stores
cucumber medallions and daikon radish and carrots pickled in some way
udon noodles topped with some meat and baby leaf lettuce seasoned in some way (I think the noodles were the main?)
I had all this with two very cold beers.
I imagine @Tretiak eating pizza topped in butter, how about the rest of you?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
28d ago
Some good ones here. Thanks for compiling these, as always.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
28d ago
do what they say they’re going to.
Humanity in general would be 100x better if everybody did what they said they were going to do. This comes down to almost every small thing. I had to learn this years ago, despite how obviously right it is.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
Very interesting. I watch it every year. There are to my mind some absolutely brilliantly constructed scenes. When Alex Kintner gets eaten, that whole set-up prior (the sounds of the beach radios disappear as the camera goes out to Alex's distance, returns when the camera is back on the beach, etc ) is so well done. The whole movie is so full of granular detail of this sort that when I hear people say they dislike it I wonder if either they're watching a different film or they are used to more, I don't know, motion or action. I love JAWS , almost as much as I love Close Encounters. The same things are happening in that film. The cuts, the shot setups, it's just so rich. If you didn't like the JAWS film characters you should definitely avoid reading the novel.
I'm not saying you're wrong to dislike these films, but to me they're both eminently rewatchable.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
Consistent high sodium intake over time will overwork your kidneys. At the same time your body needs salt to regulate fluid, among other things. It's an issue of degree. What you're referring to as Science here isn't a great mystery. The typical diet in the US is high in sodium, and sodium in most pre-prepared or restaurant foods is particularly high, which anyone who doesn't cook (and therefore doesn't realize how much salt is required to get the intense tastes in such foods) doesn't realize. Thus you have all sorts of warnings and caveats. But rotisserie chicken is good, go ahead and have it, just not every meal every day for years.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
29d ago
That's pretty amazing. I imagine any sleep specialist would be very interested in you. A sleep study would investigate how much you sleep but also your cognitive function after deprivation (despite how it may feel, in other words gauging your performance objectively with and without sleep). What stands out isn't necessarily your reduced hour need for sleep but your added ability to function without sleep for the extended periods you've mentioned here. Wild.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
30d ago
Have you ever had a polysomnography or any other investigation into your sleep issues?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
30d ago
Not to be a pedantic dick but Tirzepatide is technically a "dual" GIP / GLP-1 receptor agonist. In practice this means it reduces weight and HbA1c (average blood glucose lvl over time) more than semaglutide alone.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
30d ago
How did you dislocate your shoulder?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
WALL-E unless they need something fast-paced, which it isn't.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I remember refusing to show my sons Cars because of the frenetic pace of the editing. It seemed like a film designed to induce ADHD.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Could you expand on or give an example of one or two of the nonsensical rules? Japan also has a very intransigent bureaucracy regarding such things.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Japanese I like Roku. Otherwise a London Dry, currently the daily is Beefeater or Bombay Sapphire. I had a g and t at a very nice hotel recently and it was earthmoving but I suspect because they must have squeezed an entire lime into it. The Wilkinson's tonic is key Canada Dry works and Suntory has a tonic, but Wilkinson's is superior. I should look into those you mentioned.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
If I may address a statement you made rather than answer your question, you wrote:
rule of law (which I guess is now a pro-left position in 2026 or something)
This leapt out at me. Care to elaborate? If not, it's fine.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Mid fifties, drink almost every day, two probably. Meaning three. Gins and tonic this time of year. Wine whenever we get a bottle. Beers but beer goes to the gut for me. My wife suggests I limit my consumption more but when I did a month sober last fall her refrain was Just have a drink! as she found my sober self at dinner rather boring. I usually do a day or two dry each week just to spell the liver.
Known to exceed these limits on occasion as I run with degenerates.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I read Cotton Comes to Harlem about a year ago, lmk what you thought.
The heresy part is my lack of enthusiasm for wagyu. The marbling, which is what is supposed to make it so good, is what to me makes the texture oddly surreal.
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