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Shaving is the worst though.

Which is why I only shave once or twice a month.

Yeah I've gone bearded and trimming once again week is a pleasure compared

i always use a beard trimmer and have constant short stubble because i hate wet shaving so much.

but then you always stumble out of the house (or perhaps stubble out of the house!!!) looking like don johnson or george michael. or steve bannon.

I'm stumble out like first two stumble in like last

Love good food as much as the next person... But the daily yearning/basic need for food, needed to just keep going, always catches up with me. It's so vexing. And I hate that we aren't able to temporarily postphone that need. Even just for a little while. Give me day, at least, before the trembling starts good god.

Shaving same thing but way less annoying. I've p much given up, resorted to trimming too.

"Postphone"

Shaving is a pain but get some good oil and a safety razor and a medium good-priced boar brush and you're off to the races, free of the Gillette/Bic hegemony. Bob's your uncle!

quite a few chunky people, me included, need to lose weight entirely because of a lifetime of consciously unhealthy food choices. Body positivity aside, there's a certain kind of middle age fatness that comes from overindulgence and complacency.

Shaving idk a scruffy stubble or beard is not frowned upon these days. Might be called a hipster behind my back but life's too short etc. /care

Food: we need it. And I hate that we need it, so many times per day. There's an element of self destruction and/or neglect in this, I reckon, but it's doing my head in.

Xp

People who adopt double-barrelled surnames are twats

Food is one of the great joys in life and our culture is fucking weird to only present it through lenses like "fuel" "health" "junk" "guilty pleasure" "exotic", etc.

I like food fine, but I agree with those who wish we were freer from its tyranny. Or those who wish we needed it less, or wish we needed it less often (however you choose to put it). I'd like it to be more of a choice.

Some days I want to linger over a well-conceived and well-executed meal with a lover or with some friends. On other days, I end up eating a frozen burrito standing over the sink, just to get my stomach to shut up for a while so I can get back to the thing I was doing (reading, playing the guitar, masturbating, working, or whatever).

Relatedly: I will happily cook for others, but I rarely cook for myself. It needs to be a labor of love.

If my wife says she wants a sandwich, I will make two carefully layered sandwiches, with thoughtful presentation and lovingly grilled bread. If I'm alone and I want a sandwich, I might not even bother with bread. Fuck it, just roll some ham around a pickle spear and squirt some mustard in the top.

If my children want a weekend breakfast, there will be waffles with fruit compote and fresh-squeezed juice. If I'm alone and want breakfast, I might just shove fistfuls of dry cereal into my mouth while reading the newspaper.

Go Team Food is fuel and most of time an inconvenience!

Ye mad puffin continues an excellent and important ilx poster

Uh that is not offered in response to thread question obv

otm tho

i hate having to eat regularly

Isn't this the exact reason that soylent was invented?

ya ye mad puffin is definitely on to something

there are times when i feel i just dont like food but things like soylent taste far worse

its like a post taste world and im needing to rationalize how i choose what to eat

i cant just be like ooh what do i crave today

first world problems for sure

i do drink more muscle milk/protein whatsits then i ever have before. i've wondered if i could get way with just drinking those all day. someone do a supersize me and just drink naked juice all day and tell me how you feel.

Has the internet made eating a thing of the past? Stay tuned!

I'll bet it has had an effect though. People get twitchy being online so much. Eating can feel weird unless its something you can eat in 20 seconds.

I do cook dinner (almost) every night though. Dinner for four. Other than that I don't care what happens.

I love cooking, I just hate the way my OCD kicks in around continuously cleaning up around crumbs and smears and liquid while I prepare it. If there's no kitchen towel in the room I start to panic. I hate the FWP concept but you might be on to something there.

i rarely if ever use it

but there does seem to be a bit of guilt in just not being content with having access to most foods

i think i just get some sort of existential dread/depressed feeling that i've eaten too much. for too many years. enough already. so much ice cream. and the idea of 30 or 40 more years of it...oof. doesn't seem right somehow. people used to live on cigarettes and coffee.

i should just go vegan. water and veganism. need to cleanse. or something.

For me it's just the repetition. I've had the same for six years and I can predict where I'll be at every point from 530-9 by the nearest five minutes, from leaving work to commuting to shopping to preparation to eating to digestion. A life well-lived can be a bit boring sometimes.

same *job*

Meanwhile I work for a refugee charity and watch footage of people who literally walk 48 fucking hours for two buckets of water. It's dumb.

life is kinda dumb. but you stay alive because you are supposed to. and do the same things because its better than the alternative. i guess. who knows? a boring life does beat starving to death. this much i know.

What's worse is that brushing your teeth never stops being a pain in the ass.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:32 PM (yesterday)

couldn't disagree w/ this more -- brushing your teeth is one of the great small joys in life

I keep a toothbrush in every desk. I brush after every meal. Love it.

What's worse is that brushing your teeth never stops being a pain in the ass.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:32 PM (yesterday)

couldn't disagree w/ this more -- brushing your teeth is one of the great small joys in life

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:26

I dunno about you but my teeth are in my anus.

lol

ilx meta threads are the worst threads

^should be polled

https://sceneclip.com/clip/ec0CgTa.gifv

So glad that wasn't a gify of anus teeth

Jeremy Clarkson never seems quite as bad to me as he does to a lot of other people. He can be annoying and say shitty things and I'm not a fan but I've never seen the ukip-esque monster a lot of other people do.

I get the impression that Clarkson is not stupid and/or emotionally damaged enough to be a full on crypto-nazi in the Farage/Rod Liddle/Toby Young vein, idk if that just makes it worse that he engages in that kind of stuff for bantz

Toby Young is as bad as that? I thought he was just astoundingly annoying.

tucked in t-shirts sometimes look good

xp here's a Toby Young tweet chosen completely at random

Toby Young@toadmeister

I set out the argument for “progressive eugenics” that I just discussed on Radio 4’s Analysis in more detail here http://bit.ly/1O2Ruuz

lol wtf

Toby Young is as bad as that?

Worse.

A lot of the resistance to this idea will come from a visceral dislike of anything that smacks of eugenics, for understandable historical reasons. But the main objection to eugenics, at least in the form it usually takes, is that it involves discriminating against disadvantaged groups, whether minorities or people with disabilities. What I’m proposing is a form of eugenics that would discriminate in favour of the disadvantaged. I’m not suggesting we improve the genetic stock of an entire race, just the least well off. This is a kind of eugenics that should appeal to liberals—progressive eugenics.

Didn't read the whole thing, maybe not what I was imagining but still sounds pretty nutty.

Though compared to Rod Liddle he's Pope Francis.

clarkson has had occasional moments of subtle thinking, I'm sure some people think that makes the rest of his output more contemptible

fuck Clarkson as per but it's currently more dangerous to have Trump-cherishing trollumnist Piers Morgan helming Good Morning Rainy Fascist Island