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Others I have:

Honey mustard on everything, I especially like to dip my pizza crust in it.

The fried crispy onions I buy and eat like potato chips, they also make fried red peppers and dried jalapenos.

I hate lays chips but sometimes, that's what's left in those small chip bags variety packs. I put hot sauce in it and shake it up!

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You saved it so you can read it later right?

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So UHC came to my job to pitch their plans for the employer health insurance. They wanted something like $1400/mo and I guess enough people complained because a new email just came up for $1000/mo.

For family plans

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I got some stuff to get off my chest, but I don't know where to put it. It's about family issues.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

Private schools provide a guaranteed immaculate environment for your children, siblings, nieces or nephews

Whether it would help develop kids skills via programs, or help kids grow in a safe and secure place

Plus, benefits of being a paid guardian also means your worries and thoughts are taken into consideration

It provides more and better things than anything a public school could give

  1. A trip to New York from Eskişehir
  2. Junior Programmers Club
  3. Permanent seat in Juniors Athletics Tourneys
  4. Background checks for every family and children
  5. Well Trained Teachers that promote individual growth
  6. Facilities for a Gym, an internet cafe, foreign language classes, student ran clubs and programs overseen by teachers

I don't think I could handle sending anyone junior me into a less than guaranteed quality of public school when private schools are this much better

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Where would you start looking? Facebook? University? School? Maybe a library? I got no clue

I'm Turkish so whatever I want to find will be even more niche or difficult.. hah...

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So over thanksgiving my brother-in-law was talking about how he's currently going through the training to become a cop (being fast tracked for reason below) and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I'm firmly in the ACAB camp. On the other hand, if somebody is going to be hired a cop, he seems like the kind of person that would do the least harm.

Frist off, he is an MP in the army and has been for several years so he already has more and better training/dicipline than most cops out there. He has actual training in conflict deescalation and proper restraint methods that don't kill people. Unlike most cops he actually has real firearm training so he can be trusted not to shoot at falling acorns or blow an infants head off in an altercation. He has actual medical training, which most cops aren't required to have.

Outside of training he also does seem like a decent guy. He's not an agressive macho shitbag like most cops and he does what he can to help people. He does strike me as leaning slightly conservative but he also lives in a rural area of a red state so that's to be expected. I don't think he's a trump supporter but if he is then he's smart enough to keep his mouth completely shut about it even after the election (which trump supporters usually aren't).

So I'm kind of torn on this one. On one hand, our current policing system is rotten to the core and he's someone looking to be a part of that. On the other hand, even though the current system needs to be burned down and rebuilt, we do need some form of police force and he seems like someone who would do the least harm in that roll.

So yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I would be interested to hear what y'all think though. Have any other lemmings experienced similar or have family members who are cops?

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That's why I usually go to Starbucks, coffee and lots of people, do a day's work in hours and give myself a treat at the same time.

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I dunno what else to add. Everything sucks

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Ok maybe they didnt steal my heart but they definitely stole my admiration! So here is my story of what happened and the snowball that came so fucking close to being the coolest thing a person will ever do in their lifetime.

The event was the Buffalo Bills vs San Francisco 49ers NFL game that aired on NBC this past Sunday night. Anyone who saw the game will agree it was one of the best displays of the world's finest athletes of their sport battling an unforgiving opponent known as Lake Effect Snow.

We are talking about a game between some of the best, if not the greatest, players of their generation and position who could barely keep their feet under them taking off from the snap. The finest route runners, sprint from the snap at a jogging pace, run in one straight direction, stomp their feet on the ground like anticlockwise breaks, and just turn around to try and catch the ball. Lol I digress but you get the point. It was a snowy wintery shitshow for anyone not raised by Bills Mafia.

Which brings us to the snowball. Now I know the snowball throw was undeniably the outcome of drunken luck but I don't care. The snowball throw was so beautiful that whoever is the thrower was either sent by God or the snowball was thrown by God themself.

Just put yourself in this mystery Tom Brady's shoes. The known knowns to any Bills game is that the tailgating isnt on a flex schedule. It starts at 9am regardless if kickoff time is 1pm or 8:15pm like it was on this day. At kickoff you are already piss drunk, sitting in the corner end zone seats, waiting for an excuse to throw some snow in the air.

Much to their dismay, the 49ers march down the field looking ready to score. The Bills D puts up a nice 3rd down stop and force the field goal. Reason to cheer. The mad snowballer begins warming his pitching arm.

As the snowman marksman packs his snowy ammunition, the 9ers line up for the kick. The moment escalates, the crowd chants their taunts, the ball is snapped!

Its at that moment the future walk on NFL Super Bowl MVP, cocks his arm, waits... waits... the ball is kicked and the Snowball is released.

Time fucking freezes. Finish this out as if you are the thrower:

You see only your snowball at first. Prolly with one eye closed and your buddy clenching your jacket with thrill as he and the surrounding fans watch as the snowball they watched you throw, CLEARS THE FUCKING BACK NET.

"No fucking way" starts getting murmured as people start to see the snowball's path to greatness.

You follow the line of the ball, as it approaches the goal posts your line of sight SEES THE FUCKING KICKED FOOTBALL CLOSING IN ON THE GOAL POSTS FROM THE OTHER SIDE!

CLOSER!

CLOSER!

ITS GUNA FUCKING HIT THE BA-awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe

All kidding aside I want to genuinely meet the person who let it fly. That is not a short throw. That is not a still wind. That snow ball moved too little to be a lucky throw. It was launched as hard as someone could throw it, at the football being kicked from 40ish yards away, AND NARROWLY MISSED! Fuck I'd be telling all my grandkids I could throw a snowball over them mountains if I were the mad snowthrower.

Lol my glass slippers:

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submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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I haven't read any scientific journal or publication not because of the sheer volume or complexity of the content within but rather the extremely formal and scientific language of the content that makes them feel soulless and more like a punishment to the person reading them. I would really like it if someone could recommend a paper, preferably in the field in science and pertaining to an easy topic, where the author has some sense of humour and is able to retain my attention span all the way till the end.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Grogon@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

Hey.

My wife needs a surgery that will be on the 10th January next year.

It can't wait longer, it might be cancer but not 100% cancer, could be myom or just cells (skin?) that started growing but they aren't sure.

I will try to make this short: it has to be removed and they aren't sure if they need to remove the uterus and now comes the problem

I don't want kids and if I do, only in 3-5 years ( she as well) but if they have to remove it completly, which they only know on the day the surgery is we can't anymore.

We talked today and said it wouldn't change much if kids now or in 4 years, but tbh I am not even sure and she isn't either if we want kids at all. It's frustrating cause it seems like we might have time if the surgery goes as planned and the uterus doesn't need to be removed at all.

It's not even a guarantee if we would try now anyways, most likely not cause of stress (maybe cancer, maybe not) on her side, my side, and general it's not easy to get pregnant.

I had cancer myself 12 years ago and not even sure if I can have kids myself, if my sperm is "good enough". I have some frozen, but that is it...

Any life suggestions? Trying to make kids on the fly now seems like a dumb idea but will we regret it if she can't have kids again?!

Sorry for bad english. And sorry for writing so "wild" I just can't get my thoughts straight. I am confused.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

I'm a bit lost here, to be fair. I went full no contact with my family back when I was 16. Took a hike, even across countries. So, apparently what happened, was my ex brother in law not keeping his mouth shut and sharing my number with my family. I still can't make heads or tails of it. But now my dad wants to be real chummy and friendy with me? Fuck that, honestly. I'm not super mad at him, more at the rest of my family, but it seriously hurts right now. What am I supposed to do? I'm at a loss here. Haven't really talked to the person for over 21 years.

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