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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.

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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!

@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

@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.)

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is it keto?

@TheBreadmonkey I feel this in my bones. The constant maintenance is exhausting

@TheBreadmonkey I cooked lasagna

@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.

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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.

@TheBreadmonkey audiobooks make all of these things less of a drag for me. Another thing you could do is to install a series of proximity lasers connected to poison dart guns in your bathroom. This will make teeth brushing both challenging and exciting. Not only that, you will learn to bend like Catherine Zeta Jones in that movie where she's a cat burglar (which really is a weird thing to call that type of burglar, is it because they knock things off surfaces as a calling card?).

@TheBreadmonkey There’s a reason that most fiction was written about people who had servants to do that sort of thing for them. Or kids who have parents to do that sort of thing for them. Or wild animals who don’t have to file tax returns. Except maybe in Wind In The Willows, there seems to be some sort of state apparatus there and the role of the animals in it is unclear. Certainly they can be locked up for traffic offences.

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Now Im wondering how palatable a hot microwave onion would be. Maybe it would come out like when you roast garlic in the oven you can just squish the pulp out of the peel? maybe it would steam in its skin?

Fuck, now Im a try it. Will report later.

Anyways - dude. Buy a slow cooker. Make one big-pot-o-stuff Saturday, and another on Sunday then alternate between the two for the rest of the week.

@TheBreadmonkey Sisyphus "Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."