I realise this isn't an original thought but what is with the things we have to do all of the time. Once again I must make dinner. Every day. Relentless. Have a shower, brush my teeth, go to the toilet. Why can't we just do it once a week and be free to live our lives. Or once a year. Like sorting out road tax. Sorry I can't come to work today it's my toilet day. It seems insanity to me we have to brush clean a bit of our skeleton twice a day. None of the rest of it needs brushing. I don't want to make dinner. I have no inspiration. The Muse has deserted me. Can I just put two whole onions in the microwave for 20 minutes? Here you go, kids. Here's your hot onion. You have to peel it yourself - isn't that fun!
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@TheBreadmonkey Tried to make this point to an older friend the other day about how 'what we are having for dinner' has become a system bomb for our cognition and he completely misunderstood and made recipe suggestions.
Just remember to pierce the onions. Or they'll explode. Like allium grenades.
The holy hand grenade of Antioch was an onion
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Think it's having to do all that stuff that keeps me sane to be honest. If I didn't I would certainly just sit and rot!
You're not wrong, Josh. I didn't think about that. It's probably the only thing that keeps me moving forwards aswell. I take it back!
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Microwave yourself an onion. It's on me!
@TheBreadmonkey late to the party, but roast onions are delicious - wrap in foil, chuck in the oven at 180°C for 45 mins or so. Simple!
@TheBreadmonkey @bruce Tony Abbott approves of your dinner plans, and says you don’t even have to cook or peel the onion
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@TheBreadmonkey Only one of these can be gotten out of as a daily task, as far as I know, and that means setting aside several hours each weekend to do all the cooking then. (And also you have to be okay with potentially eating the same things for quite a while. Also you need a really big freezer.)
@TheBreadmonkey I feel this in my bones. The constant maintenance is exhausting
@TheBreadmonkey I cooked lasagna
Gabriel. You are a legend and an inspiration to us all.
@TheBreadmonkey going to the baths once a month, making it a whole spa day, get back all those hours doing the same monotonous shower routine. This is a win-win.
@TheBreadmonkey this is one of my favorite threads ever start to finish. 10/10 would read again.
@TheBreadmonkey as a person with crohn's that both fascinates and terrifies me.
@TheBreadmonkey for hundreds of millions of years, toothed vertebrates replaced thier teeth regularly all through their lives. And that's what most fish, and all non-avian reptiles still do today. Highly sensible. And (crown clade) birds don't even have teeth. Either approach solves the problem beautifully. But somewhere in our evolutionary tree, early mammals fucked it up, and now most mammals only get two sets of teeth, and that's it.
@TheBreadmonkey At least you are doing something. I can think of something worse than that we have to keep doing all our lives - waiting. You wait to see a doctor, wait to see a bank manager, you are on numerous waiting lists. often you just have to stand there not doing anything and you can't go anywhere because you will miss whatever it is you are waiting for. If we sum up all the time in our lives we spend on this, how long is it? It's long.
This quite accurately and painfully describes my last 6 years
I'll send you a copy of #TheTaoOfPooh and donate $12 to you if you read it! It's SO #UncarvedBlock and you may actually like it!
Done. I'm a sucker for being paid to read a book.
@TheBreadmonkey Ben, I don't know your circumstances but to me it feels like all my life too much time is wasted on waiting.
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If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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@TheBreadmonkey Thank you for reminding me of something one of my favorite authors penned, “Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth.
