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Youve spent time with Ike?

I worked as a temp in an injection molding plant, taking finished pieces out of the molds. The odor of melting plastic hung in the air and you had to pull the pieces out of the molds as fast as you could, while they were still too hot to handle. The ridge formed by the plastic leaking into the crack between the two halves of the mold was called the "flash" and had to be manually trimmed from each piece with an exacto knife. First thing in the morning they either assigned you to the line or trimming flash and you did that job for 8 solid hours. I lasted a week.

I don't have a favorite, but I have a serious hankering to see what this guy is like: https://rentmen.eu/Ikenasti

It is very common in today's world for people not to consume dairy products. Vegans for example. They seem to thrive without dairy. So it isn't true that dairy is a necessary part of the diet.

No, a low bodyfat like that for an extended period wouldn't be healthful. 7% is probably the lowest you could go on a sustained basis. That wouldn't be sustainable for an average person, but somebody who is used to strict dietary discipline wouldn't have a hard time with it.

Very solid, conventional mainstream nutritional advice. Not the only view however.

almond milk

I don't see anywhere in my original post having said that he said dairy products lacked nutritional value. What he says, basically, is that if you are trying to achieve a very low bodyfat level, e.g. 5 -6% or less, dairy isn't a good food choice. This is nutritional advice for competitive bodybuilders, not the general population.

Growing up we drank regular pasteurized milk, not homogenized. Now I don't drink milk. My Coach says that dairy calories go straight to your waist. Not sure I agree, but it's no burden not drinking milk.

I'm an open book, more or less - what you see is what you get. I don't think people make incorrect assumptions about me.

I enjoy eating in courses, but sometimes, especially in ethnic restaurants, it just doesn't happen.

They didn't drink much. My father would have a beer from time to time. When they went out to dinner, my mother would nurse a single cocktail through the entire meal. There wasn't an explicit policy about alcohol. When we were little kids, my father would let us have sips of beer, but we just thought it tasted foul.

People aren't actually that offended. This is just one of those kvetching threads where people get to unload about life's little annoyances. It would be great material for a standup comic. A Buddhist would confirm that life is, indeed, suffering. I seem to recall a thread a few months ago where you were unloading about having been served your main course and your salad all at once at lunch. Another of life's little annoyances for which there's no solution except to roll with the punches.

If you go to a performance of the San Francisco Opera, the audience will belie the notion that opera is a gay thing. Plenty of gays, yes, but I would say more straight than gay.

I usually answer "just about anything," which is more or less true.

Again, what is the context? If you are sizing each other up as potential sexual partners on social media, for example, it's a fair question. If you're passing the time of day with somebody while you're waiting for the bus, it's invasive.

In the 70s it became OK to ask anybody anything about themselves. Those days are long past. I've returned to the conversational guidelines I learned growing up -- there is a host of things that are nobody's business and it is impolite to ask/talk about them: personal finances: how much do you make....., how much did you pay....; intimate details of family life; religion; things like brushes with the law, lawsuits, etc. invasive questions about somebody's health; etc. etc.

Context is everything. In the right context, that is perfectly appropriate. On a hookup app, I would think it was appropriate.

There's a certain kind of question that people ask who want to short-circuit the organic process of getting acquainted where they want to know what your motivation is - like "Why do you like that," or "Why do you do that," - those sort of pseudo-therapy questions. I really hate them.

"Take a rain check" refers to when an outdoor event, such as a sports event, is postposed due to rain.

I worried a lot about what I was going to do when I was older because I only liked girlie drinks like bacardis and daiquiris. I shouldn't have worried. As I matured I learned to like beer, scotch and gin and shots of tequila and schnapps. I used to flinch when my younger brother would order a whisky sour before dinner. It was a habit he learned from my mother and never outgrew.

My mom helping me dress in the morning. I was maybe 3 or 4 yo. After my older brothers left for school and my father left for work she would help me dress - she chose my clothes and helped me get into them and tied my shoes for me. It was always a relaxed, quiet time.

I don't budget - I just make it a point to always have enough cash on hand for a 2-3 hour booking.

I like to knit. For years I've intended to learn Bargello - a particular kind of needlepoint - but haven't gotten around to it. I also like manicures and pedicures.

I'm happy to look older because I've aged well. I have a little pouch of lower ab fat that I don't like, but getting my bodyfat into single digits takes care of it.