I whipped up a spice cake this morning on the fly from some failed mousse. Mum loved it.
I am very proud of myself, but realized that I did not actually measure out the liquid, so I can’t turn it into a recipe…
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The Anna cooking instinct
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It would have been better if I hadn’t failed the mousse 
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Dear bros and gods of the grill, I must confess that I greatly stretched the definition of “steak” to fulfill the “everyone eats the same thing at dinner” rule we have going on in the house.
Mrs had a piedmontese filet mignon, I had a grassfed sirloin. My kiddo, a non-steak eater, has recently declared that bison is their favorite meat.
I had no bison steaks.
I DID have ground bison.
My kid had a “bison chopped steak”…
A hamburger. My kid had a bunless bison hamburger.
…but they ate it. I have sinned against the bros, but that is still a dad win.
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I confess that I really struggle to understand how there are so many people on a top-tier lifting forum that absolutely do not participate in any lifting discussion, but fervently spew their political beliefs all over PWI. I treat that place like a train wreck, where I pass by and do my best to avert my gaze before burning my retinas (or brain cells) out. Yes, I’m sort of flaming people in flame-free, but yikes.
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I use 93/7 beef for my burgers and call them “steak” burgers for the kiddo, otherwise he doesn’t like them.
Anyhoo, good job on the improvisation.
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It’s amazing the games we play. My kid pretty much won’t eat beef, but bison is tops. I won’t argue it: gives me a chance to buy more of it.
My niece went through a chicken rut. We called EVERYTHING chicken so she would eat it.
And thanks! I was a proud papa. And now I got a bunch of leftover bison to throw into my omelets.
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I swore off of posting there nearly 2 years ago now - I participated in one thread that started in bodybuilding that got moved there, but besides that fluke I haven’t posted or even looked at it since I discovered that you could mute whole forums.
Some days I feel like I should swear off of “off topic” too because it gets that way. Currently, all threads there pertaining to relationship advice are the worst places to get any sort of relationship advice, and they’re not even entertaining to look at like the good trainwreck threads are.
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The relationship threads are like asking about an oil change on a 1978 Dodge Charger on a forum populated entirely blind Amish farmers that have had a car described to them once in sign language.
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I do OK staying away, probably post every 2-3 months, but find myself reading those threads just weeping for humanity a lot more often than I should. Mental weakness, methinks.
Well this is just unadulterated pure gold. Both for accuracy and wit.
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I just can’t do it online anymore, haha. It’s why I quit facebook like 5 years ago - half my friends were military and the other half were from my liberal hometown and it was just bullshit from both sides, all the time. Now, with things what they are, I feel like I can’t even say anything to anyone in real life without them vomiting their political opinions all over me.
I was at a diner a few days ago, and walked my kid to the bathroom, some guy asks if I’m going in because I’m waiting outside and I tell him no, I’m just walking my kid to the bathroom, and he commends me for my good parenting (low bar much?), tells me his mom never let him go anywhere out of sight as a kid, and before I know it he’s telling me how the school board is controlling how we raise our kids now. I had to just cut the conversation off mid-sentence when my kid came out and say “have a good one”, and he was still trying to talk after me when I walked away. Part of me also wanted to tell him that when I was growing up my mom put me in a stroller outside in the Bronx while my brother and sister ran around the town with their friends, but that’d just open up a whole other avenue of conversation.
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I think we’ve talked about this before buy my situation is the mirror of yours - college friends vs ultra-conservative hometown and family. Equally wrong, equally positive they’re right. I’ve slowly whittled FB down to funny animal stuff and music/sports news so it’s not too bad but I still get sucked in way more than I’d like. I think people like the dude you’re talking about just need to hear someone agree with their views so they regurgitate them to anyone that’ll listen.
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I’ve gotten into several too many conversations that start off innocuously enough, and end in me backing away cautiously while the guy vehemently explains something along the lines of “And that’s why they got satelites!!!”
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This is why I am so amazingly talented at killing conversations. When someone asks how I’m doing, I reply “I am well”, and do not offer to ask them the same. I never ask someone how THEY are doing: I say “Hello”.
People overshare WAY too much, and, quite frankly, I’m not interested. I barely care how I am doing…
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I gotta admit, there have been a couple of times when I see a big red stop sign like “Have you seen those helicopters lately?” And I hit the gas with “Which ones?”. 
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I confess I took an extended break (may have been >1 yr) from TNation because of how disappointed I was in myself vis a vis my behavior on PWI.
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You no joke took that break on my birthday and it was like the worst present ever.
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Did you know birds aren’t real? They’re all drones sent by Big Brother…
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When I was little, the only veggie I’d eat was Chinese water spinach, so everything was some relative of Chinese water spinach.
Luckily for my parents , there are a near infinite number of names for various family members @dt79 so they never ran out
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I think I’ve gone back to delete nearly all the posts I’ve made in PWI shortly after I’ve made them unless they were obvious jokes.
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