I appreciate the effort so thank you. That’s not the one I saw but the idea is very similar.

The one I saw was much larger and involved ladders but this definitely gets the idea across.

Edit: just watched that video through. Can’t sleep here and that’s pushing me into “get up for snack” territory. Looks delicious.

I saw a video a while back about a charity in India and they had this custom… Structure within a building I suppose you’d call it… Where the sikh folks were cooking up an absolutely gargantuan amount of food. Huge fire had to be lit underneath it. The food pit looked around five meters / 15ft across.

The amounts of everything that went in are somewhat similar to what you’re reading in that recipe.

I’m trying to figure out a way to dig it out of the internet because it was a fascinating watch. If I manage it I’ll be back. Maybe someone else has seen the video I’m describing and will know where to look.

I know you’re taking the piss but the point of it is really to take a moment to look more closely at what’s around.

I saw a great Japanese movie recently called Perfect Days. The lead in it is a toilet cleaner in Tokyo leading a very simple life but he revels in the beauty in all he sees.

It honestly changed my worldview a little. Can’t recommend the movie enough.

The segfault at the end was perfection.

We’ve had one Poland, yes…

Where it should say Russia.

They still have those where I live I think. Chocolate shavings on top?

Sold. Just picked it up for €1.49. Thanks for the tip and the link.

At 7 years of age I was collecting the grass coming out of my neighbours lawnmower. I was tossing it in the air at my dog who was having great fun jumping into the air catching it.

Cue my neighbour running over my foot with his lawnmower. I didn’t feel much pain as it shredded straight through my runner and skin.

I was rushed to hospital and somehow they saved my toe. It took about five years for me to regain feeling in it.

This picture from that set really got me.

In my youth I used to have to “make weight” for fights so you naturally start doing the numbers with food about 6-8 weeks out and you become used to gaining and losing weight and have an understanding of the discomfort that’s involved. You also become good at eyeballing people for their weight class.

That man in the picture on the phone was a chonk (not being offensive here, he was a big lad). He looks over 90KG to me and a lot of it is muscle (edit: that’s 200lbs in freedom units). His biceps and triceps are big. He’s a strong man.

The man holding the picture of his former self has been starved. Your body uses fat stores for energy, but it needs more than just energy. You need vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids.

If you’re using it in any way, your body will generally hold onto muscle unless there’s a shortfall in essential amino acids and at that point it looks at your muscles as reserves.

That is what happened here. He was given so little food that all his fat reserves were used and so little nutrition that his body ate it’s muscle to survive.

I loved reading every paragraph of this.

Also the lost sales of those systems after this is all over. Nobody will ever buy air defence kit from Russia again.

The lad near the end looks fairly toasted.

Absolutely the same. I love that episode. That and the roller skating one are probably my two favourites. Currently on season 6 of a rewatch.

Un peut du buerre.

Oh well that was the kind of goodness I needed to end my day. Now seems like an opportune moment for bed. o/

You need to politically hang by your heels in Milan for this.

Well that’s a new one for me but entirely visceral. :)

TL;DR I think most people are full of goodness.

In this instance that’s definitely the case that it’s shitty behaviour IMO but in general I still hold dear to my view that most people are good and it’s my default position on new people I meet, with some bad vibe exceptions, until proven otherwise.

It’s like the old Mr Rogers quote about looking for the helpers. I see (and try my best to also do and am so lucky to be married to someone the same) so much good in this world.

A few for me:

• Death of my father.
• Getting married. Hitting 20 years in August. Hopefully many more to come.
• Realising I didn’t enjoy the business course I was on in college, burning the two years already spent and moving to computer science which I loved every minute of.
• Having kids. They bring me so much joy.
• Leaving a well paid job that I didn’t really enjoy and starting my own business.
• Travel. It’s so important to experience different cultures and viewpoints.
• edit: Finding a sport that I loved. I wasn’t a sporty kid but decided to start trying different things in my 20s.

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