Sometimes I give, sometimes I don’t, kinda depends if I have cash.

As a reasonably sized man, I also try to make eye contact and give a polite “Sorry I don’t have anything today.” For those who really need the help and are trying like hell to get it, I can’t imagine the insult to injury you must feel to not only not get help but also to be treated as though you are invisible. I like to at least let people who ask know that I can see them.

If you’re in a legitimately dangerous place or you feel you may be at risk in some way maybe don’t do this though.

“cryptic command like knowledge” which is mostly acquirable from 2 or 3 minutes reading the wiki.

Idk, I would probably just say it’s more flexible, but less discoverable.

Maybe it’s a glass of isopropyl.

Very succinctly so I don’t end up writing another wall, I generally agree with you on these points. Where we differ I think is that I feel context can add depth and richness (as in the Jester painting) but that the work itself should contain some INTRINSIC depth and richness.

The analog discussion I think we are having is “are placebos good medicine?”. Do you feel better after taking them? Sure. I suppose that makes it hard to say they are not medicine. At the same time, it’s the act of consuming them that gives them the effect, not anything to do with the content.

That sounds like a different kind of art altogether. The experiential kind of art where the point is the unspoken discussion between the artist and the audience, or just a commentary on the audience, is pretty cool. Marina Abramović is an icon of art in that category I would say.

Counter offer: that’s all expectation bias.

You read

War is hell. War in the deep of Russian winters is worse than hell. It is blind, cold, desperate chaos and you’re supposed to fight in this inferno while being able to tell friend from foe, but they all look the same, their blood looks the same in the snow and dirt beneath them.

then you conjure up the feeling with some art museum self-gaslighting. Maybe the art is the prompt?

Modern dance and modern art (including free form poetry etc) that try to leave rules/form/structure behind are, to me, rorschach content with accompanying flavor text that makes them smell faintly of the artists’ farts. This is to other forms of art what whiteclaws are to flavor.

I quite strongly doubt that any abstract or contemporary art in isolation gives any specific, repeatable feeling to anybody outside of maybe “chaos”. Its fine if you like it (I don’t obviously) but I think adding specific feelings that you wouldn’t get without the title is oversell and over-hype. It’s like establishing the canon for a book or story using the fanfiction for that story or just the authors opinion: if you didn’t actually write it in the main work, it doesn’t count (I see you J.K. Rowling, Brandon Sanderson, etc). Put the story IN THE STORY.

But then, this is all just one man’s polemic.

We don’t even SAY bollocks in the US.

1 man 1 jar

Oh wait…

And then we ban the rest of the ads! I like it. Write that down.

Groose

How bad could it be? Ethan Hawke succeeds in the movie even though he’s got no real genetic qualifications.

Two varieties of each from my garden yeah.

I also did 3 skewers of prime NY strip slightly off camera, but I wanted to see if persistent downvotes across posts in this community were strictly meat related. 🤷

Edit: Yep.

Kamado Joe Big Joe 3. It’s a beast.

On a kebab? Never even considered cheese. I just grabbed what was in the garden.

Yeah that would have been a nice addition.

Unfortunately no. I loaded up all the skewers and took them out and put them on the grill, then walked back inside and found my seasoning still on the counter where I left it.

Got so caught up in the prep I forgot it.

Nobody will ever agree on an adult to put in charge. Some will think brilliant, others will think moron.

Yeah it’s totally a mistake.

I bought some stupid hot sauces out of curiosity a few years ago (last dab kind of sauces, they are fairly hot but still edible) but was not prepared for the heat. I tried some milk and bread and whatever and it didn’t help clear my mouth. It was on my tongue and my lips and I wanted it OFF.

So having watched some of the “plutonium” hot sauce videos I put my obviously very big brain to work. In some of those videos, capsaicin crystals are dissolved in alcohol. I thought to myself, “alcohol dissolves capsaicin, my mouth is hot from capsaicin, I have an idea”. It was not a good idea.

I swished and swallowed a shot of vodka.

As you say, it really helped the spicy coat my ENTIRE mouth and top of my throat. If you have never had spicy pain in between your teeth and coating your entire gumline, it is really something else. 2/10 would not recommend.

In any event, a lesson was learned that day that I doubt I will forget.

I think the problem lies with calling things like the 1 chip challenge or “melt you wussy butthole” varieties of spicy challenges “food”.

I mean I guess you ingest them, but that’s kinda like calling magic mushrooms food or ipecac syrup food. They are things that you eat for a specific purpose that is not nourishment.

This variety is for the challenge of it, not the enjoyment of eating it.