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Absolutely. Got it for Xmas one year, played until there was a god awful fuck scene that was…really something, and unexpected. Like, ok, I get that there are people that this is their only sexual outlet but can you fucking warn a guy?

It really reminded me of an updated Perfect Dark (360 version), which was…just stupid.

Late 80s early 90s I got into the database for our menus & recipes and changed ‘hot dog’ to ‘tibe steak smothered in underwear’ and then promptly forgot about it until one day months later with the storeroom clerk he was printing the monthly menus and inventory, lol and behold I laughed my ass off. He never even noticed because we just printed and filed the paperwork.

I also point around in areas that were ‘resteicted’ I found the ‘star wars’ game, and I would play it for hours on the midnight shift. Nothing like the old green screen games.

Insert Willem Dafoe meme Im something of a hacker myself

Ambien can be crazy though, my mother used to go out and eat an entire cake (or cook something and eat it all) in the middle of the night. More anecdotes than can be counted.

As an alternative (because, being her child I would probably do the same and would rather not) I made mini brownies with 3MG THC and threw them in the freezer …30 seconds in the microwave and in an hour I’m sound asleep.

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!

So, the garlic was there because we bought a 3L tin of olive oil, we would get loads of bread from school and drank wine

We were culinary students, so the wine was ‘necessary’ and since we had to make a choice about spending money we spent it on olive oil, garlic and wine.

A solid career investment, if you will.

Student at university shared the 2br. house with 4 other dudes, in Poughkeepsie NY in the mid 90s, 2 who lived there originally had the bedrooms, me and one guy got the dining room we dividend with furniture, milk crates & curtains… everyone had a good time in the living room hearing me and one of my dates fucking…like the entire crew and their friends lined up like judges at a field sporting event

The bathroom was always wet… every surface

the boiler would often shut down, freezing us…most of the time on the weekends when we couldn’t get it running again

prostitutes would walk up to our door

the oil pipe to the boiler leaked outside

2 dogs & a snake as well, nothing in the fridge except garlic and weed (how my friend paid for his college tuition)

A mix of digital comic, animated & live action series, all set in the same season, intermixing the storylines, all in the same format (online/stream).

Bring the best of all 3 together.

Fuck up everybody’s world.

The only secret French chefs have (and they will deny this) is that they love Ketchup

I get it!

Now to really boil your noodle I used to work with a lot of (French) chefs who when they wrote out recipes for magazines and such (pre internet) they DGAF if it was accurate or not… “if zey screw eet up, zey sink it is zere fault”

So you’re basically telling chefs to research and write out for you all the variables?

Baking is a science, cooking is an art.

Every recipe handed down through generations has notes, changes, etc…that’s what makes it beautiful.

I am lucky to have my grandmother’s cook book with 3x5 index cards hand written, with the date and whom the recipe is from…but I don’t use lard in her Ginger Bread recipe from 1932.

There is no exact science you’re looking for, the garlic grown here won’t be the same as the garlic grown there, your experience won’t be the same as someone who has cooked for years saying ‘fuck it, throw that in there and let’s see what happens’.

…lol, amateur hour

laughs in whale-song

I thought 18€ for 2 ham & cheese croissants & coffee in the Netherlands was excessive until I paid for (my son and my lunch) 80$ for 2 burritos & 2 beers at SeaTac…fucking insanity.

They have sucked out all the joy of the beer at whatever time your bodyclock says.

exactly, no logic only excuses to grab more and more

Pretty sure they gave them a choice to face up or face down. Some chose to look at the sky one last time before the blade fell…might have been a better view than a basket with dried…and not so dried blood on it.

Hope it helps!

https://www.workaway.info/en/hostlist

HERE IT IS!

Also…I’ve tried to find the link and will keep looking, but there is a website that links you to people for ‘volunteer work’.

Think: farmers that need seasonal help with sheep shearing, etc, people who need pets sitting…things like that

you get housing and food, 5hrs day/5days a week max. Very safe, was recommended by a woman visiting our town who originally was from Oregon but is now in Ireland (she also recommend a place for work our son is now at).

I would say about 20k for the whole move…that’s just a ballpark, and that includes 1 year fam of 4 living without income (rent, etc) because for the first year you cannot make an income on the local economy. I actually needed this year because I was so burned out.

If you can work at home there are nomad visas for the taking… Ireland has a very good program but housing is expensive (there are some work/housing available).

This also wasn’t our first foray out of the US, I left when I was 18, came back for school, etc and then out again with a good offer where I met my partner. Moved back and when we tried to leave again the recession hit and had to hunker down until the timing was right.

Once you are out of the US your money goes further…IMO it has 'more value’s than in the US.

Banks in the US really don’t want to give you your money. Keep a US phone # (I think Google phone has one which doesn’t kill you in charges) so you can contact them (when and if you transfer money).

You should take a trip first to set up some groundwork, find a trusted lawyer (we have two, one is our accountant, who’s also a lawyer, and another who is our immigration lawyer). They will go over all your paperwork for housing rentals, they should know people who can get your health insurance set up -you probably will need private health care +repatriation insurance until you are a permanent resident. Cost is around €50/per person per month, paid monthly (for us).

Downsize as much as possible, do not put ‘artwork’ on you customs for for import as they will hold up the works. )paperwork, personal clothing, household goods, etc. vague and mundane.

Your first year RENT a place in a town you choose, you will know in that year if that’s where you want to be or not. Our experience was we got a place for summer (3months) then checked out all the towns along the coast and kept coming back to where we settled, so we found a place for a year there, then COVID… then found the place we are in the process of buying.

Walkable city, good infrastructure to travel by bus/train, 2 airports 1hr away in opposite directions. We don’t drive anymore & bike everywhere, and live 500M from the Mediterranean Sea.

So yeah… being by the water is absolutely worth any issues we encountered.

Embrace the differences.

Where we moved there are no shops open Sunday and it is soooooo refreshing NOT to have every whim available 24/7.