stupid first world problems you're dealing with

I would also like the recipe! Looks amazing.

  On 5/24/2012 at 3:00 AM, usagi said:

have you tried biryani, baph? there's many different kinds, but my mum learned to make this one particular kind (I think it's sindhi biryani, even she isn't sure) in student kitchens in Karachi. it's the bomb. my favourite food ever. you eat it with this yoghurt-based dressing and you basically orgasm with each bite.

 

 

it's actually the only thing I can cook, though it takes 3 fookin' hours(!) pm me if you'd like the recipe btw

I just PM'd the heck out of you.

I love biryani

that picture is making me all kinds of hungry

no rush, I need to learn how to not fuck up cooking first, lol. But THANK YOU.

  On 5/22/2012 at 11:40 AM, zkreso said:

Eggs that won't peel without breaking apart

hate that too. Did you try rinsing them with lots of cold water after you boiled them?

  On 5/24/2012 at 3:37 AM, usagi said:

it's on my home PC, will have it to y'all soon

post it up here! i'd loooooove to be able to make an authentic biryani!

Songs in my head keeping me awake.

awesome man, cheers!

i'm sitting here with a vest and underpants on, drinking beer. great combo but i want the super combo from adding a bowl of spaghetti to that. people in my house are a bit funny about me cooking at 1 am though.

balls.

I want to make biryani but I am at work

just had this conversation happen:

ex: i got turned down for this job i applied for

me: :(

ex: fuck you

also, tried to make pad thai but only had mai fun noodles lying around. so i tried it with that and its like. okay at best. but i forgot to add garlic, and it could just be so much better than it is.

plus i got a big old spotty grease burn because i didnt press the tofu well enough and one of em exploded from a grease/water thing and bloop! right on my arm.

  On 5/25/2012 at 2:03 AM, disparaissant said:

just had this conversation happen:

ex: i got turned down for this job i applied for

me: :(

ex: fuck you

she sounds like a dickhead

for reALz

i don't even know what's going on with her. it sucks. she's applied to a grand total of two jobs since she graduated and got neither and thinks the world is ending or something. idgi.

sweating my balls off in a stuffy office with no AC

i'm getting a beer and wine belly but i'll be damned if i'm going to stop drinking beer and wine.

  On 5/25/2012 at 4:36 PM, keltoi said:

i'm getting a beer and wine belly but i'll be damned if i'm going to stop drinking beer and wine.

this, a million times this. i never really had a gut, but i do now, and it makes me feel crazy self-conscious—even more than usual. i'm trying to drink less beer and more liquor/cocktails, but beer is so goddamned satisfying.

my work shirts are gaping when i sit down. i've always been slim also. i don't like having chub.

i'm cutting down on food instead. i often eat too much at lunchtime anyway... maybe try and have more sex too, like really ramp it up to twice a month.

I don't eat a ton, and I don't even really drink too much, but sitting at a desk all day and being in a constant low-level stressed state has contributed to some chub around the midsection and I basically am not going to get rid of it now that I've hit 30 unless I hit the lotto and can quit my job and get a personal trainer and/or become a sex worker.

do you mean that being at a low-level of stress doesn't burn enough calories compared to high-level stress or that low-level stress directly causes chub and high-level stress would lead to even more chub?

*swings chub in the club*

sounds solid taubs, stressed people are fidgety and move a lot

twirling thumbs, tapping feet and shit,

so EAT MORE and MOVE MORE

Chronic stress means increased cortisol production, which can lead to an increase in abdominal fat¹

I'm sure severe stress is worse. Severe stress is hardly ever good unless you're actually in short term fight-flight response mode.

But chronic low level stress and having to be sedentary for most of the week is pretty obviously a recipe for chub. I'm pretty fidgety at my desk but it hardly counteracts the fact that I'm sitting at a desk and dealing with "urgencies"

¹See, e.g., http://stress.about..../a/cortisol.htm; http://www.scienceda...01120072314.htm; http://www.webmd.com...fat-heart-risks. There are better papers on this somewhere.

grow some stress then.

what even is

whenever i trigger mah adrenal system properly after i eating,

i dont gain any fat, no matter how much i be macking (disclaimer, i'm 23)

its a beer child

nbd

it's a manatee's daugther,

no biggie, or wait, maybe it IS a biggie. a big, FAT, DEPRESSING, conflicted lesbian biggie.

what has this place come to?

PS. biggie = small pig ("babe") in my mother tongue/native language.