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lemmy.world

Bio-Dome is pretty fun. And you get to see an early appearance of Tenacious D.

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anarchristreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Also jamming out to Voodoo Glow Skulls in a fuckin busted ass geo or whatever is a real mood. They certainly made trouble in that bubble.

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tbh the extent of my Pauly Shore knowledge is that episode of Futurama where Fry thinks he and his former gf think they've been frozen again and it's a post-apocalyptic year 4000, but it turns out that's just what LA is like

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sh.itjust.works

Haven't thought about voodoo glow skulls in a minute. BRB, gonna go see if band geek mafia holds up.

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sh.itjust.works

Album still slaps. Same few tracks worth skipping like love letter, but gonna keep it in summer rotation.

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anarchristreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

You listen to their 2021 album? I had no idea they were still active. It's pretty good!

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After the nuclear apocalypse the only things left will be the roaches, Twinkies, and any band which has ever signed with Epitaph records.

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TheFriarreply
lemm.ee

You guys ever watch the old tenacious d show on home box office

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I still get the rocket sauce song stuck in my head. Ice cream trucks just started up around me so I'm singing it every day.

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The only thing I know about Biodome is from Weird Al.

"Cause I had my tray table up, and my seatback in the full upright position!"

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Noted, but I ain't putting any money in that prick Stephen Baldwin's pocket. Also, if you happen through Tucson, go check out Biosphere 2 in Oracle, AZ which inspired this film. Science, bitch!

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Hmm.. It lost me at "Pauly Shore", but got me back at "Tenacious D".. This is a puzzler 🤔

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lemmy.world

Dude wipes are the most toxic masculine bullshit product I’ve ever seen. Honestly who the fuck buys that shit except the most fragile male ego in the universe

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sh.itjust.works

I liked the answer that I once saw here: "Real men do whatever the fuck they want." No one cares about this kind of judgmental assholery.

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Yes, Real Men™️ fall for toxic masculinity marketing tactics. Real Men™️! Also, just your average mindless consumer regardless of gender but Real Men™️, too! Especially, Real Men™️!

Be Real Men™️

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Neatoreply
ttrpg.network

Agreed. Stop flushing wipes, none of them are "flushable". If it doesn't dissolve from light manipulation when wet, it's not flushable.

Bidet. Just get one. They're like $30 and take 10min to install. Clean buttholes forever.

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lemm.ee

I’m sitting on a fine $700 one right now and it’s heaven. My real office.

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Neatoreply
ttrpg.network

I can't even imagine what features $700 can buty you in a bidet.

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lemm.ee

Guess I was wrong about price.. it’s $850 but it’s the Toto S550e. Bought it two years ago and haven’t regretted it at all. I’m actually going to have an electrician come out to install plugs in the other bathrooms to put bidets in all of them.

The one I have now also sprays the front area for the ladies to I can’t comment on that but might be why it’s so expensive.

The seat heats, the water is warm that sprays, auto open… pretty much all you need. I will say that as a dude on the taller side (6’ 2”), I really have to scoot my ass forward quite a bit so I’d probably find something else for my next bidet.

TOTO SW3056#01 S550E Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat with Cleansing Warm, Nightlight, Auto Open and Close Lid, Instantaneous Water Heating, and EWATER+

https://a.co/d/8Xao9AX

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Ah man, you've got a Cadillac.

I had me an old Panasonic model at my old apartment that wasn't as nice but goddamn if you set that MF to the strongest setting 🫨🫨. The thing would clean your ass, rectum and colon lol.

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Ah that's a lot more features then even the nice hotel in Korea had. The instant heat and all the automatic stuff is probably why it's so expensive.

The second nozzle for vulvas is standard on even cheap models.

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thorbotreply
lemmy.world

Bidets are great if you’re at home but if you travel you need something

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I've tried to get them to install one at work, but they keep slapping that one down.

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lemmy.world

You really don't. Toilet paper does the job for 90+% of people, at least in the US.

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And 90+% of the United States population walks around with shit on their ass. It's gross.

To be fair, a moistened wad or two of toilet paper works just as well as "flushable" wipes.

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Gerudoreply
lemm.ee

If it gets men to take care of themselves....I'm for it.

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akakunaireply
lemmy.ca

I know a guy that said he doesn't wash around his ass when he showers because "that's gay as hell". I don't even wanna know what kind of biome he's got flourishing down there.

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Sounds like the kind of guy that comes out of the closet in their 80's.

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Soupreply
lemmy.world

Turns out there are a lot of those people. They’re probably doing fine.

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lemmy.world

I buy them because they smell like mint. I prefer them over normal wet wipes. I didn't think this was such a passionate issue for people.

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I buy the product, the comment attacks people who buy the product. I'm quite literally the target group. "For some reason"

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Yeah same, I got ones that smell like Shea butter, they're pretty nice. I mean if the store had other ones branded differently with the same wipes I would just buy those lol. I feel like the only ones triggered by the imagery are ironically the guys who are insecure in their masculinity and feel threatened by a literal moist toilette.

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Not to go political but have you paid any attention to the number of supporters of the king of fragile male egos, their king? It's a huuuge market segment.

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Anything other than a bidet, bonus points for charging more for having more 'masculine' advertising

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downpunxxreply
fedia.io

when you have large hands and a large asshole that takes large messy shits, you need a larger than normal ass wipe. dude wipes is the largest asswipe on the market. no cap.

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I’m a caregiver for a man who needs coaching through the entire bathroom hygiene process and I can say that in my professional opinion, Dude Wipes are terrible. They pull apart just getting them out of the package (see below), let alone when someone with dexterity issues tries to clean their butthole with them. He ended up with a poop covered hand after pulling the bits of pulled apart dude wipe out from his butt.

They are the largest “flushable” wipes, but are smaller than a normal baby wipe. Flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed anyway, they’re terrible for every type of sewage system.

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Festerreply
lemm.ee

Fine, but now big gals with same need to buy “dude wipes.” Just call it heavy duty, or industrial strength.

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They're larger than regular wipes, and the chemicals are less irritating. Compare to cottonelle wipes which make my down there burn, and the choice is easy. These days I prefer crocodile wipes though.

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thorbotreply
lemmy.world

So then call them “XL wipes” and put a line about sensitive skin

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Legreply
lemmy.world

Pass that along to their branding coordinators. No one here can do shit about what products are named.

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I’m just pointing out how stupid it is, you can contact their branding people all you want on my behalf!

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lemmy.world

Liquid Death? It's just fucking water. There's already water in your house you don't need a fucking can with a threatening name for it.

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2ugly2livereply
lemmy.world

I heard the branding was to help recovering alcoholics, so they don't feel like they're "missing out," and won't stand out so much with a scary can instead of a water bottle/glass. So they can still crack a cold one with the boys and such.

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I'd believe this with how much I see Steve-O drinking it on his YouTube channel. The dude made a point to drive a whole ass vending machine of Liquid Death across the country to his new home lol. At his previous home in California, it was apparently up against the coping of the half pipe in his backyard so you could do trick off of it.

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sh.itjust.works

eh I find their tall boys of sparking water have made it so I hardly drink alcohol at all now.

It's worth $1.57 to fool my brain, and certainly cheaper than the same amount of beer.

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I had heard that's the point, to a degree, or at least to help people with a drinking problem not feel ostracized while out with friends.

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otacon239reply
feddit.de

Okay, but their teas are actually pretty darn good and not loaded with sugar. I agree about the water though.

(Although, aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable compared to plastic, so is probably a better alternative to bottled water)

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Hate to break it to you, the inside of cans are still lined with plastic. Still marginally better than plastic bottles though.

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Baguettereply
lemm.ee

If you have a local filtered water supplier you can bring a large reusable container and refill water from there. That way you still get the filtered water taste but cut out shipping

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Socsareply
sh.itjust.works

My local filtered water supplier is the fucking city I pay taxes to and it's just fine. I don't understand why so many people are afraid of tap water. I can download fifty fucking years of water testing data. I can get my home water tested for free every year. And you still have these assholes out here who drink nothing but plastic bottled water because it's $5 per case from Aldi. That shit should have at least $5 of taxes added to it which go straight to the municipal supply.

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Nothing wrong with tap, it's the best choice if your city has proper mechanisms to ensure tap water quality. Unfortunately not all cities invested in good infrastructure. Theres still a couple of US cities with either bad pipes or local water pollution

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I'm not afraid of tap water but, in the city I live in, it tastes like pool water and I find that highly unpleasant.

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I've heard of kids who have been too corrupted by drink marketing to drink water drinking liquid death. If it gets demographics who wouldn't otherwise drink water to drink water I can't get upset about it

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Dudewitbowreply
lemmy.zip

while i am a proponent that different brands of water is different and there is a difference in taste, ill never defend overpriced water.

like you arent going to give me a bottle of arrowhead water.

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lemmy.world

I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven't been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that's not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don't fucking know I just want a burger.

It's not that deep.

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lemmy.world

Why ask if I am something only to then claim I am that very thing? You really have problems, guy.

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lemm.ee

Oi I'm not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That'd be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.

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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

I'd never heard of Dude Wipes, and I don't get the point of them at all. I'd probably buy Gendered Butthole Wipes, though, I love the name!

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lemmy.world

Lol at the idea of gendered buttholes... like a dude burning down a California town celebrating his butthole's gender reveal.

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I mentioned Dude Wipes to my wife, and she said that they were popular with the young teens she works with. Apparently they're not for your butthole specifically, but just general cleanliness wherever.

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I remember reading somewhere that men's buttholes are tougher than women's and therefore more resilient to anal sex. It was in a thread though where feminists were complaining about anal sex being degrading and potentially injurious for women, so take it with a grain of salt.

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lemmy.world

A few years ago my friend's father passed away. My friend's mother continued to live in the house for another year or so. She never worked and had to eventually sell the house and downsize.

My friend had referred to her mother as a hoarder before. I've seen the reality TV shows about hoarders. But you don't really understand just how bad the problem is until you spend several days helping your friend clean out their childhood home for sale, filling up several dumpster bags worth of... Stuff. Apparently the mother has always had some mental health problems and a shopping addiction, but spending over a year alone in that house drove her off the deep end.

We could have opened an entire new Harbor Freight store. There were clothes in sizes I didn't know existed. My wife casually found a pistol just shoved in a random box. It was madness.

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My MIL once brought a trash bag full of clothes for my wife, from friend who didn't want them. Most of them were brand new with tags still on them. We thought it was strange, but they mostly fit and we didn't think too much about it. Next visit she brings two more big garbage bags of new clothes, and one of the bags had dirt (like actual earth/dirt) on the outside. It turned out that the friend was a shopaholic and had been stashing the bags of clothes under the house so her husband didn't see, but she was running out of room, and was trying to make space.

We stopped taking the clothes. It felt like taking advantage of someone's mental illness. Never met the lady, but seemed sad.

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infosec.pub

I grew up in this kind of house. My spouse retrained me. I didn’t know that it was weird for your living space to smell like urine.

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I enjoyed the movie Driveways that in part is about cleaning out a hoarder's house. Plus it's got Brian Dennehy in it, it's his last movie before he died.

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Pro-tip: if you choose to wipe your ass with babywipes/gendered moist towellets.... Don't flush them.

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Hoboreply
lemmy.world

Just to reiterate, even the ones that claim to be "flushable" DO NOT FLUSH THEM. It's a damn lie and I don't know how they keep getting away with it.

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It feels like a part of that deregulation politicians keep going on about. Deregulation ruined the airlines and now they're ruining our buttholes... when is enough enough?

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ltxrtquqreply
lemmy.ml

What? But they're flushable*, it says so right on the package.

* if your municipality allows it. No municipality does.

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Lizreply
midwest.social

We really gotta regulate the use of that word.

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Regulate? Sounds socialist and anti capitalist. Better just let them keep doing what they want for the sake of The Economy (r)

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Hoboreply
lemmy.world

Can you just put "flushable" on anything and get away with it? For instance if I made a "flushable" pillow case could I be held legally liable for anything?

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It says flushable, which is true. It doesn't say what happens to it after it's flushed, and it doesn't say it's a good idea.

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From the same blithering idiots who regurgitate "everything is edible once, huh yuk!" every time inedible mushrooms are mentioned.

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MeDuViNoXreply
sh.itjust.works

Let the poop dry on your butthole and then brush it off like your ancestors did for millennia.

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they raped and murdered too. I'd like to think we made at least some progress in the last couple of millenia.

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lemm.ee

I was given that exact red quesadilla maker for a work anniversary. I used it to make quesadillas, ngl.

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My family had one just like that and we used it for family meals ~ once a week, and it still works today like 15 years later. I think it's neat!

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Quesadilla makers are fucking dope that's the only thing I truly disagree with

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Reading this on my Apple Watch, while riding my Hoverboard, watching Bio-Dome in the background, and eating a wet-ass Arby's sandwich I smashed into a quesadilla in my Quesadilla Maker... I can't wait until it rockets through my intestines so I can use my Dude Wipes! 😎

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Eating wet asses and smashing Dillas and cleaning up with wipes after? That’s quite the sex party you got going on there.

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lemmy.world

It used to feel gay when my finger would punch through the butt wipe and enter my anus. Thankfully I don't have to feel that way when I'm using Dude Wipes.

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It's not gay if it's through the hole in the Dude Wipe

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Lupus108reply
feddit.de

My former roommate had gastrointestinal issues and used wet wipes because they were less irritating to his skin. But he just bought regular wet wipes not this gendered nonsense.

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Epherareply
lemmy.ml

I see you're also from Germany, so I understand your roommate not knowing this is an option, but bidets are cheaper and do a better job cleaning.

Like, I bought a dumb travel bidet a while ago and even that's a solid upgrade from scrubbing with toilet paper.

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Yeah, he had one of those, but he used it in addition to. I don't know the exacts of his condition, but he was using the bidet irregularly but the wet wipes all the time.

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sh.itjust.works

The veterans I know say wipes are a god-send on deployment. Dude Wipes are particularly big, which is great for a wipe-down when you don't have access to a shower.

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lemmy.world

Ah, if they are bigger then that makes alot of sense. They should print that on the box, in bigger letters.

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Someone else posted a comparison that shows that they are slightly bigger than a normal flushable wipe but a lot smaller than a normal baby wipe. If you need the size just buy the one with the baby on it.

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Num10ckreply
lemmy.world

the big selling point i saw is that they are designed to be flushable. not sure if thats actually a good idea for your plumbing.

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Theyre camping wipes, when you dont have access to a shower, theyll do in a pinch.

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I don't get the hate for Arby's. The brisket sandwich and their sauce are good as fuck. Maybe it would have made a difference back when they first started and were like 5x more expensive than the competition (their signature sandwich was $0.69 when the next most expensive fast food was $0.10) 🤔

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thirteenereply
lemmy.world

I have a standing theory that people that hate Arby's used too much horsey sauce, or gets older dry meat repeatedly. I don't love the place, but they don't deserve that much hate.

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the_doktorreply
lemmy.zip
  1. Go to Arby's

  2. Get their roast beef sandwich

  3. Stop by the grocery store

  4. Get REAL horseradish sauce

  5. Go home or wherever, put the real horseradish sauce on your roast beef sandwiches, enjoy.

Arby sauce and their "horsey" sauce are garbage. Their actual foods are mostly fine.

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lemmy.ca

Is it wrong that I think the Arby's sauce is kinda good?

It's not something you can really buy as a condiment, but it's good.

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Thanks!

With this info, maybe I can make my own beef & cheddar. Cook up don't shaved beef, get some onion rolls for the bun, and use queso style cheese, plus some of this mystery BBQ sauce and it should be pretty close.

There's not many Arby's near me, so if I really want Arby's, I basically have to make my own.

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eviltoast.org

I had Arby's one time, and it was terrible. I would go to literally any other fast food chain over Arby's.

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I had an ex who was so excited to take me to Arby's for the first time. It was gross. I held my tongue as she went on about how much she loved their horsy sauce and cheese stuff, but it was nasty. She had terrible taste in food.

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Zorsithreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The curly fries are good if you can get them hot and, y'know, cooked all the way through. Arby's is very consistently disappointing as an experience.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Well, I don't go there for two reasons -

  • Their vegan options don't seem that interesting.
  • They don't seem to have a presence in the continent I'm on.
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If you're not willing to travel to another continent to get your food are you a Real Vegan?

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the_doktorreply
lemmy.zip

vegan

What part of "WE HAVE THE MEATS" do you not understand? /s

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It was more supposed to be a joke about the second reason being much more significant.

Edit: I think this was the first time I missed a black on white sarcasm flag. Oh well, it's early in the morning, and there's a first for everything.

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nomousreply
lemmy.world

Yeah I fuck with Arbys, that sauce is dope and the Jamocha shake is pretty good too.

I have a thing for bad gas station food too though so I might not be the best judge.

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Zorsithreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I dunno, some gas stations have good shit. Had a pre-packed Italian sub from a Loves truckstop that blew most sandwich chains out of the water. Loves is kinda cheating as far as "gas station food" goes tho.

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nomousreply
lemmy.world

Chicken strips are exactly what I was thinking! We have a "Chesters Chicken" attached to some of the gas stations here that have these big battered potato slices, they're almost a meal by themselves!

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Zorsithreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Ive heard of Krispy Krunchy chicken in a shell gas station before, i dont remember it being very good tho.

There's a chain called Huey Magoos that is pretty good. Zaxbys is great too but the nearest one is like, a 2 hour drive from me

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Something we agree on.

Arby's is great! I need some beef and cheddar all up in here.

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lemmy.world

It's not top notch, but depending on what you get they have some gems. The buffalo chicken sandwich is super simple and good.

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No, it's not top notch. Is anyone else?

Does McDonald's or burger king make the best burgers? No! Not even close.

You buy that shit because it's there, not because it's good. It's just there and not something you hate. Good enough for Tuesday night I guess.

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It's all just salty processed meat block. It's absolute shit compared to the real thing. It's like they are advertising fancy German brats and then serve you a hotdog.

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Jumping on the "don't use flushable wipes" bandwagon. Seriously, they can screw your home's plumbing up.

For anyone doubting this is even possible for a product that is mass-marketed and available everywhere, look back a little over a decade. For a hot minute we had scrubs and soaps that had tiny little plastic beads in suspension to provide some grit. All those microbeads got flushed down the drain and wound up who knows where. That is until it was made illegal.

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lemmy.world

Actually have and use that quesadilla press. Works well enough and saves a little time over doing it on the stove

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thirteenereply
lemmy.world

Was gifted it for Xmas, felt hard to clean, the leg broke immediately and temperature was uneven. Glad you liked yours

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Raireply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

This image makes me want one. Two sides at a time?! Sick.

Also I love my Apple Watch. It’s sweet for seeing my heart rate go up to 185 after my first 1v99 PUBG win (before bots, thank you very much)

Fuck dude wipes though, that’s a ridiculous concept. Just get a fucking bidet and stop hating your anus (not you, person I’m replying to, but everyone reading this comment. Including you, if you don’t already have one!)

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Legreply
lemmy.world

I have dude wipes and a bidet. Fite me.

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reddthat.com

Fuck dude wipes though, that’s a ridiculous concept. Just get a fucking bidet and stop hating your anus

I just use baby wipes, they're cheaper and not gendered, plus I already needed them for my kids. Haven't taken the plunge on a bidet yet

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Totally fair, I used baby wipes and just threw them away before my bidet. Bought a cheap cold water only bidet and it changed my life! It’s especially good for periods and cleaning for butt stuff. And horrid shits.

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No, but neither are my kids' diapers. The way I see it is there are far worse things I could do to the environment and far more impactful changes I can make on my life for the environment than consuming 3-4 packs of baby wipes a year. I'm sure I'll convert to a bidet sometime but right now I've got bigger fish to fry

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Something I've seriously considered is how you can just add a hose and nozzle "bum gun" to your existing toilet water supply valve and you just need to affix a little mount for it on the wall. Hardware stores have kits for this that aren't particularly expensive.

It's definitely much cheaper than a whole porcelain piece of furniture or one of those fancy seats that probably wants access to your Wi-Fi and an account subscription. XD

I noticed my in-laws had these things while we were house sitting for them, and dared to try it out. Weird at first, but(t) AMAZING.

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the_doktorreply
lemmy.zip

Just get a fucking bidet

So I walk around all day with swamp ass. Pass, will continue to use regular, actually flushable TP.

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Same reason I never shower after sweating. Why would I add more water. Study it out, sheeple!

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Clean with bidet, dry with tp. Also uses less tp

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lemmy.world

The hoverboards are for kids as far as I can tell. Childhood just isn't the same without some way to bust your face open. Parks got nerfed by a well-meaning child safety crusade that fixed nothing and ruined playgrounds; because the problem wasn't that the playgrounds are dangerous - the problem was that kids are stupid and clumsy so sometimes shit happens and a kid will die tragically. It's literally unavailable, that's what makes it an accident.

Some of these kinds of things - especially "as seen in tv" stuff advertised by fumblebums - are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled. But if they market it for disabled people then they'll sell less of them and the price will go up, and because we live in America hell, the disabled didn't make nearly enough to survive as is. So they market it to everybody with an over-the-top ad instead. Remember the Snuggy? Literally designed for people in wheelchairs and with mobility issues.

The rest is just brand awareness bullshit and market expansion. Seriously, man-wipes exist because they'd hit market saturation and are trying to squeeze out a profit increase by targeting a different demographic. Because in capitalism, the line MUST go up. Brand awareness is just a way of saying "Hey! Pay attention to me, I'm Diet Coke! Don't forget! Are you thirsty now? Pick me!" And the quest part? Both stupid trucks work because people are dumb.

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Some of these kinds of things [...] are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled.

After I learned this, I immediately felt bad for poking fun at these kinds of products. Normalizing their use by the non-disabled, and depicting the products likewise on TV, makes it that much more acceptable to the intended audience. If this wasn't the case, it might sting a bit as a gift for someone that really needs it. And then there's the economy of scale effect you mention; nobody would get a Snuggy if they cost $100 each.

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lemmy.world

Awe... I like Arby's. Their curly fries are easily on my top 10 best fastfood fries.

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lemmy.ml

I've had Arby's 5 times. In a wide variety of locations across the States while visiting friends or family. It's delicious, which is why it took me 5 times getting food poisoning to stop eating at Arby's.

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lemmy.ca

The local Arby's here has roaches and it's well-known. People still go there all the time and the drivethru is always busy.

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Smoogsreply
lemmy.world

Sad fact: if one place in your neighbourhood has roaches you all got roaches.

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They sell them frozen in a bag now. So you don't have to eat something that came out of an Arby's kitchen.

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lemmy.world

The quesadilla maker's pretty useful. Skillets only cook food on one side at a time, you know.

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midwest.social

Mine has been sitting in the back of my cupboard for at least a decade. This post just remindied me to donate the thing to Goodwill. There once was a time when I would eat a quesadilla on a regular basis. At this point in life I can't justify having a whole appliance for making only one type of dish.

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Yeah, it's only useful if you have the room for it and actually use it.

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Moneoreply
lemmy.world

: |

What a waste just to save a couple mins.

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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

I know, why do people have ovens when they could just cook everything in a fire pit? Lazy assholes!

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lemmy.world

Hey. I like my smart watch. I enjoy tracking my biometrics and being able to leave my phone, but still be able to listen to music, calls, texting, etc.

That said, I was also the kid who rocked a calculator watch in the 90’s, and I always wanted Dick Tracy’s watch.

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My biometric data is E2EE encrypted and only accessible by me.

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Jesusreply
lemmy.world

If you chose to share that that data, or store that in the cloud, it’s E2EE / AES-256. Apple can’t decrypt it.

If Apple didn’t do this for the Health app, they’d be running foul of a lot of new and decades old laws about biometric / health data.

Also, there is little fact that Apple literally has no marketing segmentation products that utilize medical cohorts like this. They’re trying to sell an overpriced watch, accessories, and subscription services, not targeted ads.

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Yes exactly. Like yes it’s certainly possible they’re not doing what they say they are but it would be a high risk low reward situation to do so.

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Raireply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I trust them a lot more than I trust an advertising company

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I’ve got two choices if I want a smartphone I don’t want to fuck around with. I chose the better of the two, when it comes to privacy.

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lemmy.world

Can anyone explain why people hate Arby's?

I know they're pricy... but never understood why there's so much hate for the restaurant.

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I hate them because the last four times I ate there, I had diarrhea for days, all different locations. The last time I ate there, it all came out 12 minutes later. So yeah, four for four is enough to establish that their "food" is just toxic.

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lemmy.ml

As I replied to someone else. I'm Canadian, but have friends and family in the States. I've had Arby's 5x, and it's delish....which is why it took getting food poisoning from Arby's all over the damn country 5 whole ass times to stop eating there.

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shottymcbreply
lemm.ee

Might just be the insane amount of sodium in the meal. Arby's is salty af. Too much salt can cause diarrhea cause your body wants to reach equilibrium and dumps water into your gut to make it isotonic.

The American physique is prepared for this salt assault by being chronically under hydrated.

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Yeah, could be, for 2 or 3 of the instances. There was a few times I was ill for over a week though, which is definitely food poisoning.

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lemmy.world

Brah... Tim Horton's is amazing. Thank you for giving us that restaurant.

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AstralPathreply
lemmy.ca

Tim Horton's certainly can hit the spot but the quality has been on a steady decline for about 15 years now. Their menu used to be very simple; coffee and assorted café style drinks, bakery treats, and soup and sandwich. All very simple, yet effective as the ingredients were of reasonable quality and the coffee was consistently good.

Nowadays the diversification of the menu has gotten so extreme that they can barely do any single thing right. Coffee is often burnt as machines are calibrated too hot, machines not properly rinsed after cleaning resulting in an oil slick of soap and chemicals floating in your coffer (personal experience), donuts and breads are often stale or poorly made... For years their breakfast menu's egg was not egg at all. "Cheese and onion egg-like product" was what was on the box. Only recently have they moved to using real egg which has had a massively positive effect on the breakfast menu's quality.

Tim's can be good. In Canada, its often that its not. I live in a town of ~50,000. This town has more Tim Horton's than Ottawa with over 1M people. Tim's has a cult-like following around here. Not sure why after the years of mediocrity.

Glad you like it though. I'd love to try your Tim's to see if there is much of a difference.

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lemmy.world

Damn I was not aware. I discovered Tim Horton's in 2018 and it was far better than Dunkin' Donuts, still is. If it was better than what it is now.. I'd probably be overly obese by now.

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lemmy.ml

Idk, it's owned by Burger King now, which is why we're starting to get them here in the UK. So it's not a Canadian owned business anymore. And the coffee quality dropped basically over night after they bought it. The doughnuts are still that particular kinda trash that is exceptionally delicious. Surprisingly, the coffee at Tim's in the UK is somehow even worse than back in Canada. Some of their food is really good, but it really depends on who makes it....which I guess is the same for any franchise.

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AstralPathreply
lemmy.ca

The rumour I heard is that McDonalds snaked Tim's coffee supplier so a massive shift in quality occurred that they haven't seemed to recover from

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To be fair (in judgement on my part), last time I had a roast beef sandwich was in 2018, I've only bought their reubens since then.

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Wet ass sandwiches, as written in the ad. I don't like Arby's because the bread on their sandwiches is typically stale and is always served cold. Something about roast beef being wet is generally off-putting and most of their sandwiches are roast beef. I think that Arby's being the only mainstream fast food deli has something to do with my low opinion. Hamburgers have some idiosyncrasies as well: cold cheese, lettuce is gross and wilted, different condiment defaults, ground beef is cheap and garbage tier food in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is that every fast food chain is burgers so the specific bad experiences of one chain are contrasted against the other chains. Jack in the box has greaseball burgers that have the consistency of slop, but, because they can be contrasted against Burger King, which has gimmicky food, nasty defaults, and burgers that are assembled sloppily with accoutrement splattered everywhere and cohesiveness scoring firmly in trash tier, they get a pass. I would argue that all fast food is trash food, but the illusion of choice keeps the whole house of ass-flavored cards standing. You can pick a cohesive slop (JITB) or an non-cohesive slapped together proper burger (BK). The flaws of one are mistakenly compared to the defacto standard of the competition when they should be compared to the real standard of actual good food. Arby's doesn't have competition in its space so that defacto standard doesn't exist, leading people to compare it to delis that aren't garbage tier food. There is a competition mismatch and Arby's ends up competing against food outside of its tier, revealing it to be garbage tier. Further discussion is encouraged.

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lemmy.world

I don't care about hoverboards, but a great side effect of their mass production is that you can get a pretty decent brushless motor now for very cheap. I also saw a video about a hack you can do to make it run better at higher RPMs. You can get one of those hoverboard motors for like $30 on ebay and pair it with a $25 ODrive clone from aliexpress. Its good for probably 10 nm of torque at 36v 10a.

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lemmy.world

I see a hoverboard at my apartment dumpsters practically once a week. I rip them open for the battery pack, its always a stack of 18650s. I guess i should start collecting the motors too?

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a stack of 18650s

(you probably already know) but this is common in a lot of battery packs. Batteries for power tools are good sources for the 18650s too. I never checked but I saw someone open a Tesla car battery and they look like a bunch of 18650s inside too.

I refurbish my power tool batteries instead of buying new ones because it is so easy.

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lemmy.world

I would probably hate wet sandwiches too. Glad my Arby's near me doesn't have wet sandwiches. It sucks that even with all the work franchises do to try and make sure each location is as similar as possible, some people just get unlucky that the one they live close to sucks.

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We struck gold with our nearby Popeyes. One of my favorites. So good id eat one of their biscuits without something to drink

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Thanks now i want a beef and cheddar I reslly miss arby's

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Yeah but when’s the last time they had Bio Dome at the store? What they got at the store be more like:

  • Something with Jamie Foxx on the front
  • A Fast N Furious movie
  • Some cartoon dinosaur thing
  • A shiny foil copy of Blade or Blade 2
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They are like tissues, slightly moist with ass liquid sourced from only the top export quality butts in China.

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I have Dude Wipes in my car but that's just because I thought they smelled good and they were on sale at Kroger. I have a very dirty and dusty job and some days I gotta wipe the gruel off after a shift.

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Arby's can be pretty good if you get stuff other than their regular roast beef. I like their reubens, gyros, and jamocha shakes.

That said, they're definitely not as good as they used to be. I miss their sliced roast chicken sandwiches, both the normal one that came with tomato and shredded lettuce and mayo, but more particularly the "triple cheese and bacon" roast chicken sandwich that they had like 20 years ago with sliced swiss, cheddar sauce, and parmesan spread.

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Honestly, what I wouldn't do for a smartwatch that could continually monitor my blood sugar. But you're absolutely right. I want that shit going straight to my doctor. No middle men. Fully encrypted. Legally binding.

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feddit.cl

I don't buy Apple products, fuck them.

I would buy xiaomi or something, and medical data is heavily protected by law and hardly of use to advertisers and propaggandists.

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Just use gadgetbridge with some huawei watch (they don't have vendor pair)

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lemmy.world

The apple watch one is stupid, almost everyone I've talked to that owns an apple watch bought it because it's one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath:

  • blood oxygen level
  • heart rate monitoring and notifications
  • irregular rhythm notifications (like atrial fibrillation)
  • can capture an ECG in combination with monitor alert/notifs or any time you want
  • fall detection

I could go on and on. The apple watch was a GAME CHANGER for my elderly grandmother as well as my own damn self as heart problems run in my family history.

but go ahead, apple bad and thus anything apple is also terrible and anyone that owns one is an asshole

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it’s one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath

...and sharing that to Apple, your mobile provider, the government, your health care provider, and every huge business who wants to know everything about you against every single bit of privacy we as human beings should have by default. Apple is an evil corporation (and so is Google, and Amazon, and Microsoft, and tons of others) and the less information you give them, the better. If you want to monitor your health, find a device that YOU control and does not give the information to anyone you do not approve of. (And Apple will say they don't, but it's been shown in the past that this is a huge lie for so many other things they swear to keep private.)

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