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I missed it!

My faith in the internet is restored!

Judas priest.

Obviously, chickens are absurd. But this rooster? He's quickly gone to plaid.

So, when weather is bad, he comes on the porch in a big-ass crate.

It used to be he would kick up a fuss, get all whiny and sometimes even peck.

But this spoiled rotten bird now ruuuns to the porch as soon as the door is open, stands right in front of the crate growling and whining. Since my crippled ass can't pick him up there, I have to remind him to move to the ramp where I can get him.

Normally, this leads to him tuk-tuking, buck-bucking, and throwing in the occasional whine while his feet try to speed him across the distance to the crate (and the treats inside). It's endearing.

Well, tonight was wet. And so was he. He was droopy and drippy and ridiculous.

But this is the first time in months that he's actually gotten wet. So he'd forgotten the power of the TOWEL!

I scoop him up, expecting his usual fuss at being swaddled. See, the terry cloth holds onto feathers weird, so it's kinda like a gentle noogie as best as I can tell.

But tonight, he gave a single whine, then realized he was less wet, more warm, and being snuggled up against a human with a furnace for a body. He immediately melts while I dry him, pet him, and croon gentle words about how silly he is.

When I put him in the crate finally, he almost falls over because he's just that relaxed. But he saw his dish of treats, started tuk-tuking and picking things up and putting them down.

Anyway. Chickens.

Why am I fully erect?

Beeeeelzebub has a devil put aside for meeeeee!

Damn, what has you so aggressive here? The other comment wasn't venomous. Hell, it wasn't even a little snarky.

Something going on you want/need to vent about? Legit asking, I've had days where I got shitty to people that weren't doing anything, and having a quick vent would have helped.

I'm picking up what you're putting down. It's a solid palette for you

I am so disappointed in lemmy. Not a single masturbation joke in the comments

Mildly?

My mental health homie, full on coma inducing exhaustion wouldn't be unusual (well, it's hyperbolic but you get the point).

There is very little more taxing than the kind of intensive wringer that a serious therapy session can be. Even less challenging sessions can leave people numb, wiped, or otherwise just burnt out.

If you're doing the work, therapy will at some point be stressful. At the very least, needing nap or a cuddle is totally normal

Okay, now I gotta try this

A few ways you do it.

First is for bigger cukes only, really. You cut it in half first. Seems like it isn't answering what you actually asked, but there is an upper limit to how big a slice can get before it's too big. So once a cuke is much bigger than maybe an inch and a half (a little under 4 cm) wide, cut it in half first.

Second is to sacrifice a slice length wise. Take your knife, cut a ribbon off of one side,and you'll have a flat part thru not only reduces/prevents rolling slices, it also makes the job easier. It's a little less pretty maybe, but effective.

Third is to slice at an angle. The rounds then fall over before they can roll. It's also visually appealing, if maybe not better than standard slices.

Fourth, use a barrier. Some damp paper towels (or cloth ones) placed on the edge of your cutting board will stop the slices from going past. Yeah, you can use dry ones, but they tend to move easier, so paper towels will blow away (and cloth ones get knocked away by errant elbows.) But any barrier will do tbh. A long handled spoon, your honing rod, whatever.

Fifth, use a jig. I'm not aware of any brands, but there's veggie cutting jigs with even slice sizes. They have the side benefit of holding things like carrots, cukes, or zucchini and keeping the slices in place. Haven't used one in ages, so I'd have to go searching for a link, and you can do that just as easily; but if you can't find anything, holla back and I'll see what I can find. But you can make your own with a little ingenuity and access to a band saw or even the right hand tools, but the plastic ones are cheaper and lighter.

Sixth is using a damp towel on your cutting surface. I wouldn't do it, but if you pay attention to what you're doing, you won't fuck up the towel and it does work. Has to be damp though, something about that makes the skin grab better than on a dry one.

Seventh is using your hands and speed. If you're feeding the cuke along with the ol' claw finger technique, and slicing/chopping fast, they don't get a chance to roll.

As an alternative to that, the eighth I'm aware of is to partially slice through on your first pass, then come back and finish. The slices don't roll. Won't work on more fibrous veggies, but stuff like cukes or zucchini will stay in place just fine. Takes longer though.

Tbh though, I've always had more trouble with carrots, even with very thin knives that don't wedge much. Which, that helps too, btw. If you pick up a cheap Kiwi nakiri (kiwi is a cheap brand of stamped steel knives, but they rock for some jobs better than the fanciest and most expensive knives. Try one with onions and you'll see what I mean for sure), you'll have way less wedging, so there's less force applied along the side of the slice, meaning they don't roll as much.

Shit, you could probably just push the end of the cuke/zucchini against something weighty as you slice and as long as you don't push hard, it would at least reduce the force the slices would roll with, meaning they wouldn't go far.

Sharp knives also reduce the problem because they go through with less force, leading to less motion as the slices part from the body of the veg.

Legit though, doesn't matter what you do, you'll have some escapees with thick slices. Cukes are much rounder than most similar shaped veggies, and often have smoother skin. So they roll easier than most. Like I said, I had more trouble with carrots, until I got my techniques down and knives that let me do the job smoothly. A decent knife with a thin profile, kept sharp and used appropriately to the design of the knife tends to apply the force in a way that slices fall laterally rather than roll. Plus, if you slice conservatively, the force you're applying across the veg doesn't have enough energy to get the slice moving much. That's easier with a well maintained knife.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwE1jHNEww

This is an adaptive system, but the jig they have on it is the first example I found.

Ngl, there's a certain joy in seeing the really bad ones and being relieved they're not on me lol.

It does depend on how you define a continent, and whether you're talking colloquially or in a specific formal system.

Then again, I suck at Spanish and never get a chance to use what little I have, so I'm going off of what I've been told by native Spanish speakers from the Americas.

There's space for critique, but it has to be tempered heavily by the fact that ink is personal. And it really needs to be by invitation only because of that, imo.

I always hated the tattoo subs on reddit because someone would just be showing their new skin art with joy, and folks treated it like either an afternoon at a gallery, or a dogpile. Sometimes both lol

Yeah, I tend to favor color on any phoenix graphic too.

But when you have something this cool, color isn't really vital, just a nicety.

Besides, what matters with tattoos is that the person they're on likes them, period. Doesn't matter if it's janky as fuck, if the person is happy, I'm happy for them. Since this one is not janky, I can be happy for you without that filter :)

I'm sorry, but no. Didn't need a sequel

I dig what they're doing, but whoever was mixing for the performance has the sax way too forward for my ears. To the point that with the volume up enough to really hear the piano, the sax is painful.

And, yeah, I'm not a huge fan of horns in general, but still.

I have seen worse, but not many, and only from things like car crashes.

Mind you, I didn't do anything with radiography professionally, but I did see a lot over the years anyway. Part of that is looking at crazy xrays online though, so it's still a really nasty one.

Fuck, I can't even call that broken. It's shattered, demolished.

Ngl, this is the best meme this c/ has ever had