Not trying to pick a fight here.

I’m genuinely curious how TikTok has changed society. I don’t use it, but then nor does my teenage daughter. I get that it is/was popular, and changed the way people consume some kinds of content, but I don’t see that it changed society in any fundamental way.

Oui!

Alabama 3. I saw them lots of times in little pub venues and playing non-main stages at festivals in the mid to late 90’s.

Blew my mind when I went to live in the US in 1999, put the TV on, and one of their tracks turned out to be the opening theme tune to this relatively new show called The Sopranos.

Saw a thing about the world’s most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.

I was furious with my wife in a dream recently and it did take a couple of hours for me to be alright with her the next morning.

Autostart and lane assist are turned off in my car.

Commodore Pet 4016

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Then a Commodore 64. Loved that machine.

“Listin, his name is Listin. His sister? Listelle. What? His parents? Sigh. Listanathon and Listhana. His dog? Rufus, now can we move along, please?”

I’d stand on street corners telling everyone who passed by that one day people would be putting pineapple on pizzas.

Shoes on. I didn’t splash out on these handmade hobnail boots just to leave them at the door.

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Flip side of the question: I don’t want to see multiverse/alternate universe/alternate timelines. At best they cheapen the stakes, at worst they remove them entirely. Oh noes, Wolverine has died but no matter we have a gazillion spare Wolverines, we’ll just use one of them. Oh noes, Earth #2471893 might be destroyed but no matter there’s an infinite number of other Earths. Etc.

Baby hippo.

Can confirm, hedge porn was a thing in Scotland too.

As for sex education, our chemistry teacher once showed us how to put a condom on a banana. That was about it.

Well, strangling animals, golf and masturbating.

Is your brain wearing a shell suit as it does that?

Yeah, you could easily just stir the spinach through immediately before serving the rice. I might try that next time. Like I say, always tweaking!

Za’tar Salmon And Spinach Rice

• Make a thick dressing from mix a tbsp of sumac, 2 of za’tar, and 1 of olive oil.
• Season skin on salmon fillets with a little S&P (bearing in mind za’tar also has a little salt in it) then spread the dressing over the salmon. Not too thick, you don’t want a crust, but you do want the salmon covered.
• Bake the salmon in a 180’C oven for, maybe, 10 minutes and check it for doneness. It’ll vary depending on the fillets you have.

I like to serve this with a West African spinach rice.

• Toast some cashews and set aside.
• Gently fry some onion and garlic then add some washed rice, crushed vermicelli, a little curry powder (an African blend if you can find it, or a Jamaican blend if you can’t), and continue to gently fry until the rice is starting to get a little toasty and the curry powder fragrant.
• Add twice as much chicken stock as you had rice, bring to a simmer, cover, and set it as low as it’ll go.
• After 10 minutes, most of the liquid will have been absorbed. Take the lid off the pan and quickly cover the rice with chopped spinach then recover the pan, turn off the heat and leave it for 5 minutes.
• Mix the now-wilted spinach in with the rice, fluff it up and serve with the toasted cashews on the top and a good wedge of lemon per person since both rice and salmon love a good hit of lemon juice.

Bit of both. Generally what happens is that I come across a reference to a dish that makes me want to try it, then look up a bunch of recipes to get an understanding of how to make it, mix and match from the recipes I’ve found, then write up what I did. But I could probably buy the ingredients and cook at least half of these dishes from memory.

I also maintain a spreadsheet of what I cook every day which helps me not repeat dishes too often (e.g. I can tell you that it’s only been 21 days since I last cooked the Za’tar Salmon and Spinach Rice someone else asked about in another comment, so I’ll probably give it at least a month before I cook it again.

I also score (and get the wife and kids to score) each meal when I first cook it (to my satisfaction - sometimes it takes a couple of goes to tweak it). The ones I listed here are all ones which worked out ok and which I enjoyed. The kids inevitably score veg-based meals low but I mostly ignore them!

You hope his wife is significantly younger than 15?