There are videos from these guys, the Townsends, including a 300 year old fried chicken recipe.
And over at English Heritage’s ‘The Victorian Way’ playlist, all sorts of Victorian Era recipes, like chocolate pudding, prepared by Mrs. Crocombe.
In case you’ve got interests beyond food, there are also lots of vids about getting dressed in the way back when. That’s a clickhole with a long way down.
Enjoy!
Spouse actually had some introductory Hindi classes in childhood and I figured why not, time to throw the heritage languages into the mix. So I look up the alphabet and there’s like a hundred fucking letters. Darn it to heck, Indian people, why you all have to complicate everything like this. Prayer sessions take all day, weddings take a week and even the tv takes three times as long to make room for all the camera whooshing. I just want to ask where the toilet is.
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
You ever get salty over something you know u have no right to be salty about and therefore u can’t talk about it without looking like a whiny bitch, so u just sit there marinating in ur own salt like some kind of human pickle
one of the things i think is really overlooked about youtube is the incredible plasticity of the niche things u can learn about on it. yea netflix/cable can give me all 4 seasons of arrested development but can they give me a 13 minute 29 second video on the rise and fall of the beanie baby market manufactured by its morally corrupt corporate overlord and then shower me with videos on related subjects below??? for free, none the less?? i think not
new game reblog this post with whatever youtube rabbit hole youre down right now. im learning about obscure corporate scandals
Tarantula care and feeding videos
defunct theme park rides/the history of various theme park rides
Centuries’ old recipes, prepared the traditional way by period-attired cooks
If you’re on the receiving end of that “No”? You don’t have to be happy about it. You can feel hurt or angry or whatever. But you still have to accept it.
You have the right to say no, even if you said yes in the past. You’re allowed to change your mind. You’re allowed to decide that today you want to set this boundary, regardless of whether you set it yesterday or not.
You have the right to set rules and boundaries in your own space. You decide who can and can’t be in your home. You decide who can call you, text you, talk to you online, and so on. You have the right to tell someone to leave you the hell alone, and to block their ass if they can’t respect that.
If someone tells you to stop talking to them? Stop talking to them! Don’t argue. Don’t whine about how it’s unfair. Don’t keep coming back to explain yourself, or to try to get the last word. Grow the hell up and get on with your life.
To put it as simply and clearly as I can, you don’t have a right to another person.
How much of this gay male backlash against women enjoying BL do you suppose is about male egos being bruised after they marched all up in here thinking we would worship the ground real gay men walk on and found out the hard way we judge them as individual people just the same.
today is national wine day and i’m seeing girls as young as 18 joke about being “future wine moms” with their besties and while this is cute and seems funny it also reminds me how normalized overconsumption of alcohol is in our society. it’s a tough thing to talk about because these convos sometimes lead to full out shaming of people who engage in this behaviour. on the other hand, the complete acceptance and normalization of this kind of behaviour is extremely harmful. we live in such a pro-alcohol society that alcohol consumption is even pitched as being “heart healthy” when antioxidant benefits of the grapes in wine don’t even come close to outweighing the destructive properties of alcohol. we have to learn how to discuss substance “vices” – because, let’s face it, drinking, smoking etc are literally always going to be apart of the human experience and will always be apart of our community and our lives – without promoting their absolute acceptance or absolute dissolution. the trend of aggressively shaming people into quitting cigarettes without addressing why specific demographics suffer certain addictions more than others is not beneficial in the grand scheme of limiting self-destructive habits.
we gotta approach a model where we can discuss appropriate limits for all substances without shaming people and using holier than thou rhetoric, but also not making such behaviour marketable and neutralizing its harm with cute memes etc.
AGAIN
can yall stop comparing alcohol to drugs??????????
no amount of cigarettes is good, a moderate amount of alcohol IS
i get your point is alcoholism vs drug addiction but you need to say it as. and stop this shit of comparing the actual objects, theyre not the fuckin same
1. alcohol is a drug
2. i wasn’t comparing alcohol to cigarettes in their effect, i was talkin about our culture of shaming poor people without recognizing why they use what they use
3. no amount of alcohol is good for ya. there’s no health benefit of the structural compound alcohol is comprised of. it is always harmful. any proposed benefit (for example in wine) comes from the antioxidants in the grapes/berries
One of the reasons alcohol is removed from the conversation about drugs is that having an honest conversation about alcohol would include acknowledging that it is more physically harmful, more addictive and far more likely to kill you through overdose than most criminalized drugs.
Alcohol is also what makes other drugs more dangerous because alcohol has dangerous or lethal interactions with over a dozen other drugs.
We need honest conversations about the wide diversity of effects and risks of drugs, the circumstances that create addiction, how we can help addicts without criminalizing them and how we can build a world where there is space for all the pleasure drugs can bring and care for the consequences.
And one of those conversations needs to be about the fact that our go-to party drug, alcohol, is actually pretty shit.
I’ve known a couple of people who’ve died from drugs. I’ve known a lot of people who have died or become incapacitated through societally-approved prolonged excessive alcohol use.
Alcohol being good for you is a thing invented by marketing to get you to buy their product.
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