(Part 3) Best products from r/AdviceAnimals

It's possible to buy a knife with a good blade and a good handle, you know. The Victorinox above is like getting a Ford Mustang GT350. It's perfectly capable, but it's not going to compare to Porsche Turbo, Ferrari, or Lambo as far as desirability. The same goes for a plastic phone. But some people want a phone that feels good in the hand and solid and more than just plastic.

So yea, that Victorinox will work. It cuts things and does a good job at it (aka serviceable). But as far as having a NICE knife that does all that, plus feels good in the hand and looks look, then you need to look elsewhere.

Here are two perfectly good knives that have equally sharp blades and are used by professional chefs out there:

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RFLI/
  
• http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009ZK08
  
  At a minimum, if i were to buy the Victorinox knife over again, i would have bought the wood handle version.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-8-Inch-Chefs-Rosewood-Handle/dp/B0019WZEUE
  

So, all white people in America have the same culture? A culture that values education and politeness? What about the deep south, where, let's be honest, higher education is not overly stressed? Or how about the differences between a person from New York and a person from Idaho?

"White" is a homogenized term that refers to skin color only. The culture you speak of is "American".

I'll also just point out that Africa is not a uniformly shitty hellhole, and the parts that ARE hellholes are like that largely due to outside influences. I'd also point you toward places like Egypt, with cities like Alexandria that were the once the center of knowledge and learning in antiquity. If you're interested in learning why certain cultures seem to be underdeveloped while others thrive technologically, you should read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. There's also a movie version on Netflix.

Anyway, let's get down to brass tacks. When I see a "black cultural event", I see a group of people with common interests and common troubles who come together to support one another. The fact that they feel the need to do this tells us more about the environment they exist in than it does about their culture. If I were in another country - one that did not support or welcome me as an American - I would probably find other Americans or like-minded people to hang around.

During the time of slavery, the ONLY people that would support black people was other black people. They formed a culture that meshed (mainly southern) American elements with their African heritage. Because they had no real support from the outside, they had to support themselves from within, and that leads to a very strong cultural identity - one that still exists. And a big reason that it still exists is because, by and large, they are still not completely welcomed or accepted.

Now, when I hear a white American complaining about black events, I think of a child who has always gotten his way, who throws a tantrum when someone else gets to do something that he can't. Largely because he, and people like him, created a NEED for those sorts of things in the first place. Black people wouldn't feel the need to form these groups and events if the larger population accepted them the same way they accepted other cultures. And regardless of what you, personally, may feel or believe, there is still a very large group in America that sees blacks as foreign and thuggish. It's a foolish thing to think, and is clearly untrue.

And it's this "why do they get an event, I want an event!" mentality that makes anyone who wants to form a "white culture" event or group seem like a spoiled brat who wants something solely because someone else has it.

You should check out an Aeropress before making your decision. Those are super simple to use, they make great coffee, and they're easier to clean than a French press. Also, if you use a French press with finely ground coffee you'll get sludge in the bottom of every cup, which is pretty gross. To really make good French press coffee requires a decent burr grinder that will set you back at least another $100.

Amazon link if you want to check it out

But I have all sorts of coffee making equipment (French Press, Drip machine, multiple pour-over cones, a Chemex, a vacuum pot...) and the Aeropress is seriously great. It makes great coffee and is probably the fastest of all the methods.

Absolutely. The final step with any sous vide cooking (of meat anyways) is to take the fully cooked steak/chicken/whatever out of the bag and then sear it. For a steak I generally use a cast iron pan with olive oil just below the smoke point. You cook it just long enough to get nice browning on both sides and all the way around the edge. Obviously this differs a bit for fish. I'd give it 30-45 seconds in a broiler on high. Chicken is a bit different as well because you might have some fat that you want to render out. Experimentation is half the fun.

There are other options as well. You can sear the meat on a grill, though I wouldn't bother with charcoal. Why heat up all that charcoal just for 30 seconds of cook time? Propane works great there. I just got a [Searzall] (https://www.amazon.com/Searzall-Torch-Attachment-Small-Stainless/dp/B00L2P0KNO) for Christmas that I'm excited to try out.

Check out On Becoming Babywise it really helped my wife and I. I have some friends who read it after I recommended it and they've had great results. Other friends didn't follow the book and they struggle with getting their kids go to sleep and stay asleep. A baby who gets restful sleep is a happy baby.

He wrote a great book for young adults about his experiences called "Flying to the Moon"


Got me interested in space travel as a kid, and I have been pretty invested in it ever since. If you have a kid in your life who loves science, I can't recommend it enough, he is a very engaging writer, no matter your age.

Hey, I love popcorn, it's awesome. Maybe you love it too? Got a stove? If you do, get yoself one of these - http://www.amazon.com/Wabash-Valley-Farms-25008-Whirley-Pop/dp/B00004SU35

If you put it on medium high (electric stove), put in the oil and add three kernels, wait for them to pop then dump the rest of the kernels in, you will have popcorn that pops nearly all of the kernels. The Orville Redenbacher kernels pop the best IMO (I was buying bulk from sprouts, but they weren't popping as well). Also, get this - http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Medal-Prod-Flavacol-Seasoning/dp/B004W8LT10. You now can make movie theater style popcorn in less than five minutes.


Enjoy!

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This brand is awesome and cheap from Amazon. I like the strawberry personally. I have only mixed with water and it tasted good. Pretty low calorie as well.

If anyone actually wants a useful ice tray then check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007U256D2?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links

I bought one when I had a one freezer for four people who all bought our own food so that I didn't have to lay it flat. You can set it at up to something like a 45 degree angle (I've put it at a 90 degree angle and had great success) and it won't spill. One of the most simple yet useful kitchen additions I've purchased. And it's just an ice cube tray...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00286KM8E/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1395556472&sr=8-2

Order some tea, and make it yourself.

Six of those small bags in ~2cups of almost boiling water until It's real dark. Put a little warm water in a gallon container and fully dissolve about 2 cups of sugar in it. Fill the container about halfway or more with ice and cold water. Stir your tea in. Fill the rest of the container with ice.

It's best over crushed ice so you can easily eat it as you go along.

That's the brand we use, and the recipe/method I use.
Pure cane sugar you won't need as much of. (1 1/2 cups).
Regular general use sugar isn't as sweet.

It is sweet, I warn you. You can always steep more tea, and add more water if it's too much.

Cheers

This is a great deal and a great condom and it's Amazon prime

Check out Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." It does a great job of offering counterpoints to false ideas people have and express in mainstream news outlets and on Reddit.

I think modern economics, at least in the US, is a bastardized system of what a free market should be and is instead, corporatism. In a pure free market, economic progress should look like a sine wave with peaks and troughs. Some good times and some bad times but with a slightly upward trend for growth.

The problem in the US is that politicians don't want there to be a trough during their term because it gets in the way of their only goal: to be re-elected. So, elected officials provide subsidies to certain industries to prop them up until the next election. Through these subsidies, government picks winners and losers instead of the free market.

Over time, leaders from government and leaders from corporations switch back and forth, through bigger campaign donations or bigger subsidies. This is why you see people from Goldman Sachs or Monsanto getting jobs with the Federal Reserve or Department of Agriculture, and vice versa.

To answer your question, enough time has gone by that the biggest players in the private industry are given government allowances that make it impossible for out-of-favor firms to compete.

Paul's policies break this up. If the Department of Education is gone, then local school districts may choose who supplies their school lunches, leaving the big supplier who has donated millions to the DOE officials without their guaranteed contract.

Also, reverting to the gold standard would be really tough for our economy due to it's size, though not impossible.

Hopefully there are others in this thread more knowledgable than myself who can chime in.

Here's a link to the pillow I have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MGLOX40/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Also lol @ getting murdered in my sleep. The place I work is a huge gated tech campus where a bunch of companies rent office space. It has a private gym, two cafeterias, hundreds of security cameras, and a small army of guards patrolling the grounds 24/7. It's perfectly safe for a mid-afternoon nap.

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Japanese wash cloth. It's like one of those scrunchie wash things, but with a much denser weave and shaped like a short scarf. Ball it up to scrub under the arms, then grab an end in each hand to scrub the back. You will not look back.

Here's an example

http://www.amazon.com/Salux-Nylon-Japanese-Beauty-Cloth/dp/B000CSDDDG/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1397230001&sr=1-2&keywords=japanese+wash+cloth

http://www.amazon.com/Salux-Nylon-Japanese-Beauty-Cloth/dp/B000CSDDDG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1343903785&sr=8-2&keywords=korean+towel

Use one of these. It's made of the same kind of stuff as a loofah, and you can ball it up into something that looks like a loofah and it'll work the exact same way.

Then you can unfurl it to clean every part of it, and as a bonus you can use it to scrub your back.

Edit: I searched for "korean towel" because mine is Korean. You can find them at Korean supermarkets, if those are more convenient for you.

We ended up getting a bib like the one below. Ours had snaps so it can go flat or make a pocket. It's a god among bibs.

Bumkins Waterproof Super Bib, Blue Owl https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V5WDWI/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_y4Sdvb1DGEV4B
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V5WDWI/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_y4Sdvb1DGEV4B

Exactly, that's the point I was going with as well and people are so heavy-set on defending their purchases. Not everyone is perfect, it's best to realize when you've done something wrong or when you've made a poor purchase, it happens.

You can get some amazing knives for under $100, which is why I recommend not getting Cutco as they tend to be around that price.

E.g.
Knife 1
Knife 2

Knife 3
Knife 4

My friend, if you enjoy semen you are so very welcome.

I don't know how much you need, but they are on amazon for $11 for a 24 pack:
http://www.amazon.com/Lifestyles-Skyn-Polyisoprene-Condoms-24-count/dp/B004TTXA7I/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1375165160&sr=1-1&keywords=lifestyles+skyn

and target has them for $6 for a 12:
http://www.target.com/p/lifestyles-skyn-condoms-12-count/-/A-13358787

I'm in WA so I don't know if that's why they are cheaper at my stores, but I swear I've never paid more than about $11 for a box of them. Still cheaper than a baby though, trust me.

suggested reading: The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild. women tend to be held responsible for far more labor than men in today's society. it's worth a quick google search, if anything. don't be so quick to judge "housewives," particularly after not having experienced such a situation :)

My favorite by far! I like it just as much as regular chocolate milk!

http://www.amazon.com/Six-Star-Nutrition-Protein-Chocolate/dp/B002UNEGBE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411032849&sr=8-1&keywords=six+star+protein

As for the phobia of driving into water and not being able to get the seat belt off you should buy one of these. They are very easy to use, cheap, and simply place it in your glove compartment. They even come with one that comes on a key chain. Solve your phobia, save money from tickets, and give you the responsibility to help break your habit.

Edit: Here's the key chain one

I don't understand why anyone would drink that shit. Get good beans, get an aeropress, get a metal filter for it for when all the paper ones that come along with the aeropress run out. Takes like two minutes of your actual time (including putting coffee in the grinder, pressing the button to grind, boiling the water, and pressing the coffee), and gives you a great cup of coffee that has the body of french press coffee without the acidity.

That's where it starts to get pretty tricky. I assume that you've read Guns, Germs, and Steel, wherein the domestication of plants and animals is talked about, and reminds me of the very point that you're raising.

I'm not sure. Would the corn propagate without our intervention? There are seedless plants that wouldn't, for example. But I'm not sure, I don't have a great answer here.

Consider the native American Three Sisters method, where they specifically use systems of natural occurrence for the benefit of the crops.

Bro, it's time to up your game: Get a Searzall. It's a torch attachment that gives your food all of the searing heat, none of the gas fumes, and it runs off standard gas blowtorches. Fantastic for adding browning to anything cooked in a wet environment. Or just getting that toast just right.

I used to dry hump my S.O. until I came to the realization that I shouldn't. Why did I stop? Learned about what sexual harassment is and learned about the second shift.

You should check out "The Second Shift" by Arlie Hochschild. It's a page-turner/concept burner. Hochschild found that because of our (U.S.) traditional ideas about gender roles women are still working hard in the home. Obviously, women have entered the labor force. They work a shift a day outside of the home and then they come home and work a second shift. This second shift includes taking care of children, husbands, pets, and the home. She found that this caretaking adds up to about a months worth of time for every year. At the same time the majority of husbands identify their role as breadwinner and dissociate their identity from caretaker. These husbands do contribute but not to the extent of their S.O.

There is a "stalled revolution" in the home and in society at large. We are still a patriarchal society. We still do not have economic practices that would help support women that have a second shift such as, free high-quality childcare, reasonable amounts of sick time, vacation time, maternity leave that includes fathers, and so on.

she also found that there is a third shift that women have, which is the emotional investments and worries which some men don't experience because of their powerful position.

I had to change my role in the home once I realized how hard women have it.

tl;dr Women work a second shift at home and I understand your frustration. I'm a dude, btw.

I have a pdf version if you would like it.

hes right. i looked this up recently. as long as the person splooging is healthy, the cum is actually good for you.

here's a cookbook that strictly uses semen in it's recipes:
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1376251132&sr=8-2&keywords=semenology

>>What tangible evidence would that be exactly?

Me repeatedly telling you I don't care to talk about it anymore.

Alright Mr. Fair Shake At All Sides I will give you 4 books you should read. You say you are well versed, prove it. If you have read counter points to your beliefs, go ahead and list them for me. Otherwise you should read these 4 books:

Atheist Material:

Dawkins - The God Delusion

Harris - End of Faith

Actual Scholar Material:

Friedman - Who Wrote The Bible?

Ehrman - Misquoting Jesus

Actually Ehrman has many books, but I don't want to overload you.

Until you actually READ the counter material, you won't get anywhere.

Mistranslated and completely rewritten in many instances. Misquoting Jesus is an excellent book on the topic.

It would go perfect with this.

I'd recommend getting a multitool or something that looks like you got it at a hardware store. Or if you're serious about having something to break your windows in an emergency, maybe something designed for that purpose like this or this.

You can get one of those seatbelt cutters for emergencies to put in your car.

http://www.amazon.com/Seatbelt-Breaker-Emergency-Escape-Tool/dp/B002AMAXNA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376531312&sr=8-1&keywords=seatbelt+cutter

Might give you some peace of mind.

>really fine granulated popcorn salt

Flavacol

(You can thank me later)

Um... okay, how do I put this...
do you have any extrabiblical sources for that?

And I mean archaeology, not tradition. (This means Science, not Dogma)

EDIT: Here are a few books which might help you understand the question.

So yeah this is a thing

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041

Please look into a sociological term known as "The Second Shift", also a book written by Arlie Hochschild.

If anyone is interested in making movie style popcorn at home these ingredients make a very close match.

• Paragon Coconut Popcorn Popping Oil coconut oil with beta cartone for color
  
  
  
• Wabash Farms Butter Flavored Popcorn Topping. Buy a spray bottle for even distribution
  
  
  
• Flavacol
  
  
  
• Paragon brand corn which pops up very fluffy with minimal dud kernals.

Most theaters use coconut oil and Flavocol.

http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Medal-Prod-Flavacol-Seasoning/dp/B004W8LT10

Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes

It was a recipe from here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041 ?

Just gonna leave this here.

I think 95% of politics is having an understanding of economics. And 95% of Americans do not understand basic economics. Therefore, there is about a 95% chance that we're going to continue electing morons.

That awkward moment when she uses This cookbook