I'm too old for this shit

It's the prices being a joke even after the discount that's absurd.

I'm almost always an earl grey drinker. For that, Harney & sons is pretty much my favorite, with Taylor's being almost the same for my preferences, depending on which is fresher. The key difference that makes Harney better is the bergamot rather than the tea itself. It's just a tad more aromatic and that matters a lot. However, if it isn't fresh, Taylor's matches the flavor profile very closely for me.

Choice organics is a close third place. The tea is just a tad less aromatic, and the bergamot is flatter. Still miles better than the stuff at the grocery store, even if you ignore freshness.

For breakfast teas, the only other hot tea I really drink, it's Taylor's mostly. I have some Harney's on the shelf, but I like how the Taylor's tastes with lemon better, and that's how I like breakfast teas.

Iced tea, it's tetley's or GTFO if I have a choice. My wife is kinda swinging around to that now that she's drinking southern style iced tea. She's a Lipton's fan, but tetley holds up better at the strength we make iced tea. Lipton gets bitter in an unpleasant way with the strength we brew at. Tetley also holds up better sweetened to the degree that southern style iced tea tends to have. I make mine way less sweet than anybody I know, but it's still sweeter than my wife or her family ever did it.

Kinda funny. Hot tea, I barely add sugar, just a level teaspoon for a double cup. Coffee I go a little higher, but not much; a heaping teaspoon. But iced tea? It would work out to about 4 teaspoons per cup the way it's usually made around here, with mine being a tad under 3. You grow up with that thick, strong, syrupy tea, and iced just doesn't work without high sugar levels lol. Hell, I know some folks that add 3 cups of sugar to a gallon of tea and that's just barely sweet enough for them.

Hence, we don't have iced tea often because damn, you can't drink like that regularly. It's a rare treat.

But I'm an earl grey guy for the most part now. And I've tried something like twenty brands? I used to have a file with my notes in it, but deleted it by accident. I never drank hot tea until my wife moved in before we got married. She's a tea drinker all day, but isn't picky. I tried her bigelow stuff and was meh about it. Then I had some at her mom's house during a visit I yankee land that was Taylor's, and the experience was totally different.

When we got home, I used some savings to order a bunch of brands, and tried them all over a few weeks, taking notes and all that crazy crap. It just blew my mind that there was that much difference in brands, even knowing that it could be somewhat different in iced tea.

But, yeah, I found a few favourites and stick with them. One sugar, splash of milk and that's my earl grey. One sugar, splash of lemon for English and Irish breakfast teas.

My homie, you can be an ally the same way us cishetero folks can. You just support trans folks however and whenever you can. How you choose to self label is 100% independent of that, even when that self label is no label at all.

Just don't use the pronoun labeling at all, you'll be fine. I don't think I've run across anything where you're required to have it. There might be, but I haven't run across it.

Your self, your sense of identity is just as valid as anyone else's.

You should check out the comics. Incredible character and stories

Man, if they screw up one of the coolest characters, I'm gonna be pissed

This is why my plan to put wings and a rocket on a cow actually made sense!

Take that, you luddite aspca goons! That cow would have revolutionized human travel!

I think I'm a little hyped tbh. Not a lot, I don't really get hyped for movies often, nor to a high degree unless it's something that's a real passion. But this is based on my favorite Hellboy story, so I'm a little hyped lol

However, I hope they don't cheese the accents. Holy hell, nobody ever does Appalachian accents right

I mean, they aren't the worst canned collards. Which isn't saying much. Hell, I'd even go as far as to say they're the best canned collards, which still isn't saying much.

Collards just don't can well. You can't even home can them and expect anything worth a damn. Most greens are like that tbh. It's one of those things where you're better off just not having them if you can't get them fresh. I think the only green I've found tolerable canned is spinach, and that still took a shit ton of vinegar to tolerate.

For real, fresh collards are the food of the gods. Braised with a little apple cider vinegar, a bit of bacon grease, and your choice of stock. Takes a couple of hours to get exactly right, but if you want more chew, you can go less time. More if your want the texture closer to canned.

This is gonna piss people off maybe.

But I look at this picture and think that there's a hell of a lot less police than civilians there. The way we tend to accept authority, even when it is vile, without even considering the possibility of using numbers to just overwhelm and deny the bullshit is depressing.

I mean, I've had texans make stuff that looked just like that and then proclaim themselves chili gods.

Texas seems to think they own chili, btw. Kinda silly that this brand hasn't been boycotted like hell.

The only places there that haven't changed are the tiny game subs, to my limited willingness to use the site. I have checked the niche subs I used to moderate, and all but one is swamped with bullshit. Even that one has changed some. The only ones of those unchanged are the ones I had set to private ages before spez threw his little hissy-fit. The ones that were public are either dead, botted, or just unchecked insanity with bad moderation. Spam everywhere.

Man, you be illin'

A quote from my grandmother, married to a career navy officer that was also a competitive shooter in and out of service.

"No, I don't go shooting. The ear muffs mess up my hair, and I can't abide the banging."

Which turned into a family joke for multiple obvious reasons.

Fuck that noise, grow it out and rock a skullet like a beast

I'm trying to involve imagine the taste, and can't quite manage it. We don't eat pizza often nowadays, but ima have to try a single bite like this the next time we do.

I think it'll be horrible, where the good things about a Reese's cup get drowned out by the cheese and sauce, and the wonderful acidity of the sauce is drowned by the high sugar content and heaviness of the peanutbutter fudge.

I've had too many weird combinations defy my predictions to totally poopoo the idea, but I can't get my brain to combine those flavors in a pleasant way.

Yup, it's kinda the inverse of the usual shtick for the comic, where he attacks people doing things "he" thinks are socially unacceptable.

That are mine? Only one, and only decaf. Caffeine messes with my anxiety/ptsd

That is cold!

Yeah, if I could tolerate thc, I wouldn't mind the occasional toke myself. But almost every time I've tried anything with thc in it, it has been anywhere from bad to horrible. Only times I've ever managed a pleasant high was with my cousin helping me along, and there were still bad moments here and there. So it isn't something I can relax with, sadly.

I have discovered that CBD doesn't do it, so I've gotten lucky in that regard, and I pick up a little when I can afford it for pain relief. It isn't a total relief, but it helps more than any of the pills I ever had prescribed.

Never been a drinker with any regularity, and I hate being drunk lol. It's a silly thing, but my wife actually remembers every time I've had more than a single finger of bourbon or scotch. And in the almost twelve years we've been married, it hasn't hit double digits.

That's me, Mr fucking sober buddy lol. I've done more designated driver runs and trip sitting than I can recall, but I'm not a user of even the light drugs now that I quit tobacco.