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9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 7 replies · +21 points

That Sam Irby wedding article! You guys I'm getting married next week and I related to that very hard. We were once like "oh it's cool we'll have a low key wedding and not do all that traditional stuff it will be great!" ha...ahahahahahah sob.

Someone please tell me about how you wanted to elope but ended up with a big, family midwestern wedding and everyone was fine at the end of it! Some of the memories are even great! And you only rarely think about how much money you would have if you had instead invested the cost of the wedding. Please?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Recovering From I ... · 0 replies · +63 points

I briefly dated a guy in high school who recommended this book to me! Being a 16-year-old, I read the title and thought "no thanks I would rather have advice on how to date anyone I want" (I read a lot of Cosmo magazine in those days for precisely that reason, which gives a different kind of terrible romantic advice) and dismissed it out of hand.

In retrospect, it seems pretty weird that this guy I was casually dating would recommend me a book about not dating? What was your end game, dude? Although now that I think about it, after one of the high school dances he wanted to walk around and discuss our dream weddings.

I had very liberal parents but grew up in a very conservative region of my midwest state so I just sort of feel like I narrowly dodged some of these ideas. Not that they didn't get used against me socially in weird kind of judgement, but I was adorably naive of most of that at the time.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 11 replies · +90 points

It is bewildering to me how common it seems to be for folks from my parents generation to suggest people just continually contact/hang out at companies until they hire you. Did it ever actually work that way? Were labor shortages once so extreme that managers were like "shit, any warm body will do, someone go grab that kid who has been annoying us every day."
**Asking as a Millennial who graduated during the Great Recession

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +54 points

Yeah that also jumped out at me.

Arabic! One of the most widely spoken languages. Just terrorist code, all Arabic speakers are terrorists, you know.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 7 replies · +31 points

I *might* be an eng grad student rather than an English one, so it is pretty literal, but tell me this isn't apt: "Something you initially undertook preparations for because it sounded appealing and (ful)filling, but which you are now only seeing through due to financial constraints and an empty sense of obligation"

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 14 replies · +67 points

I like to put cayenne pepper or sriracha in mine.

Once, during a hectic period in my second year of grad school, I accidentally put cinnamon on my mac and cheese instead of the cayenne. I ate it anyway, even though it was very sad, because I had no money or time with which to rectify the error. Cinnamon on kraft mac and cheese has now become a metaphor of sorts with friends for what grad school does to your life.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Would Do If A... · 0 replies · +12 points

My first baking experience, as like, a 9-year-old:
1) Made cinnamon muffins from children's recipe book I got for birthday.
2) Ate like 3 of them? I was v. unsupervised as a child.
3) When I slowed down the muffin binge, took a closer look at the last half-muffin and was like, hmm what did I put in that would be little flecks in the muffin?
4) The flecks all have legs.
5) Scream.
6) At some point I screamed to my mom, and she was went and looked at the flour bag and was like "oh yeah that happens sometimes it's just weevils, you're fine" all nonchalant to my HORROR.
7) Insist on inspecting the flour after the fact whenever my mom cooks anything for the rest of my childhood.
8) Do not bake ever again personally until an adult.

I still inspect the flour every time I bake, although my fiance and I keep flour in a sealed glass container and this has never happened to me since. There are so many things I'm learning from this thread I need to be way more vigilant about inspecting though D:

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +15 points

This! It's a lot of work to bring an official legal challenge and it can make an already exhausting job even more shitty (because now the boss hates you - even if they don't retaliate by firing you).

The places where I've seen this kind of stuff go down, most of the employees knew it was wrong and illegal. It wasn't a *knowledge* gap. They just didn't have the resources to feel like they were able to do anything about it. Being right wouldn't have bought groceries while a case worked it's way through the legal system.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +16 points

No! I definitely don't condone lying about food and those hosts sound terrible! I'm just saying the use of "kosher" *might* not be an indicator of their horribleness (and it's not like we need any additional info beyond "lying about food" to judge them).

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 3 replies · +32 points

I did not see this, but I have a lot of Muslim friends who ask hosts to buy meat labeled "Kosher" because it's more readily available than "Halal", and the practices are similar. Muslims are typically allowed to eat meat prepared by Christians or Jews so long as it is slaughtered in a particular way, and if I recall correctly Kosher rules require the same form of slaughter. So that writer might have gotten the idea there - e.g. the in-law trying to be helpful says they can buy steak marked "kosher" for the dinner party, which is available at most grocery stores (rather than going to a halal butcher/grocery store).

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