cold pizza is the most exciting thing to look forward to after having hot pizza
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I mean, itād mean I can stop going to Gelbooru and Danbooru for dirty pictures.
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I trust Pornhub to manage Tumblr far more than any conglomerate ever will
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Not so much for me, but for my six-year-old kid. He canāt stand cold, soggy pizza. Sticking a slice of cold pizza in the toaster oven crisps it up nicely for him.
Given that, outside of breakfast foods, the only things he eats are fruit, pizza, and chicken nuggets (either McDonaldās or Wegmanās dinosaur nuggets, nothing else) and they have to be crispy, I do what I can to try to get him to eat somethingā¦
I have major issues with both these golf videos from Mark Rober and Smarter Every Day.
The rocket golf club episode started good. I liked the design and manufacturing. But they REALLY fucked up the actual experiment. The video is framed as āhow far could you hit a ball with a rocket powered club?ā and the answer they come up with is āpast those treesā. Really? Is that the best you could do? How about putting the current record for human golf driving on screen, testing your contraption, finding the ball and then fucking measure the god damned distance to give us the answer.
And this second video asked another question, which was again not answered! They didnāt measure the speed of the ball with either a speed gun, nor by measuring the distance the ball traveled and counting frames of time to work out the speed manually (like the Slow Mo Guys do often in their videos). So we are told āshoots hundreds of miles per hourā but that isnāt precise, nor is it compared to normal human golf swings. And then they donāt build a gun fast enough to actually destroy a modern gold ball without pre-damaging it, so they canāt even show how much stronger balls have gotten since the old type of balls they actually manage to destroy.
All we are left with is sub-Slow Mo Guys footage and bro-chemistry that is mostly based on screaming and saying ādudeā.
Low marks for both videos.
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Iāll admit, I mostly enjoyed it because I like watching people build strange things and do strange things with them, above the purely scientific content of either. Youāre absolutely right, though, and thatās an absolutely fair criticism.
I wonder if you could find some other kids who arenāt picky, or who come from different cultures with different food. Send your kid to their houses for dinner, see what happens. Could work, could be a disaster, who knows! It will be fun, though.
The thing about my kid is that he wonāt even try new foods for the most part. Heād rather go hungry. Iām hoping heāll eventually outgrow it.
Iām also limited in how much I can try to do to get him to try new foods given how he lives 500 miles away with his mom after the separation/divorce (Iād rather not get into the details as to how that came about ā itās a very touchy subject for me). So Iām mostly limited to monthly weekend visits to try to do anything with him.
It was extra bad when he had his tonsils removed a couple weeks ago and could only eat soft foods until he healed up. The only non-ice cream soft foods he was willing to eat were syrup soaked breakfast foods like pancakes, waffles, and French toast. Other than that, it was tough. No pasta (including mac and cheese), no applesauce, no pudding, no popsicles, nothing else.
Iām continually fascinated by how picky eaters all tend to gravitate to the exact same foods. Chicken fingers, cheerios, breakfast items you mentioned, french fries.
What are picky eaters like in other places where they donāt have those foods? What do picky eaters eat inā¦ China. Plain rice and noodles only? I have no idea.
Is it the foodās fault? Are there places where picky eaters donāt exist because the food they eat is different?
I have seen lots of people talking about strategies for ways to combat it in children, but I have no idea which ones work or are bullshit. As with all parenting advice who the hell knows.
I have anecdotally noticed that social pressure and environmental changes are very effective at getting adults to stop being picky eaters. People move to NYC and start eating more foods because they have more access and exposure. People put into social situations end up having to eat different foods, and then get used to them. Adults also canāt deal with hunger like a child will.
My brother was super picky until he was a counselor at summer camp and then went to college. Those kind of situations made it hard to eat chicken fingers and fries for every meal. I wasnāt picky, but I wasnāt a fan of Indian food for example. But everyone kept going to eat it, so I kept going also. Eventually my brain decided to start liking it.
I have tried to keep trying a few things until I start liking them. It worked with about half of the things I didnāt like as a kid. But the other half I still donāt like: seafood, beer, licorice.
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Stories are my girlfriend was super picky as a kid (Like, Chicken Fingers and Fries with catsup every meal picky) until she just kindaā¦ grew out of it. I think in some cases itās a way for the kid to exert some control over their world, but that just might be the pop psych in me.
Same. There are some things I still donāt like despite trying them several times and several different varieties. I didnāt even like lobster at the fancy restaurant when everyone else was all excited and gobbling it up.
However, there are also things I found I disliked originally because I tried a low quality version of them. For example, when I was a kid I grew a dislike of hamburgers from eating fast food. I started liking them again when I had high quality real burgers.
I didnāt like scallops, but then I had scallops at a fancy restaurant, which were amazing.
I didnāt like tuna because that garbage in a can smells so bad and makes me want to barf. But tuna is my favorite sushi/sashimi, except I try to minimize it because of environmental concerns like overfishing and such.
It also works in the opposite direction. There are foods I like a lot, but I come across low quality examples that are just gross. Iāve always loved peanut butter, but I canāt stand certain cheapo brands of peanut butter that are just no good.
This is largely how it worked for me. Though, I wasnāt too bad as a kid because my parents were really into taking vacations to places with interesting food despite us living in the-middle-of-nowhere-Illinoisā¢.
Only thing Iāve still not managed to train myself to eat has been thick sliced/whole tomatoes. Something about the texture just breaks my brain. Thin and on a sandwich is pretty solid, though.
The low-quality food issue was a big barrier for my wife. She grew up in a pretty poor family. Likeā¦ Grains of rice poor. She was super picky for a really long time, until we started dating and having her over for dinner. It was a slow but steady process of exposing her to new foods.
The human record is dumb. Itās like a mile and a half, on airport runway. Itās a test of your setup, not anything about the person.
What? Someone hit a golf ball a mile and a half??? I thought like, 300-400 yards was long.
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This says 657 yards. Nowhere near 1.5 miles, which would be 2640 yards.
I mean the record for the ball in the air, not the total distance with bounces and rolls. If there isnāt such a record, at least get some data from professional tournaments about the normal distance a pro can hit it. Even if you only measure air time, so you donāt have to find the ball, only see when it hits the floor, you could still have some data and comparison.