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Ban them in that London, for sure.

peanut butter is bad and if you like it so are you

i'm comfortable with my badness tbh

Mistaking controversial for WRONG there

open masturbation at work should be encouraged

congrats on your seven years at the morgue btw

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open masturbation at work should be encouraged

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US and U.K. peanut butter are different. U.K. vers vastly more sour/rancid.

whhaaaatt the UK stuff with actual peanuts in is great, smooth peanut butter is like sickly paste for babbies

Yeah no eff smooth peanut butter. I always get the all natural superchunk stuff that's just slightly ground peanuts and salt.

damn straight

Wait, I've been eating crunchy peanut butter since childhood. That's not UK-specific. 2xp

Huh, when I Google Kraft crunchy peanut butter, I seem to just get Canadian and Australian results. Do they not sell that in the US?

The super-hippie stuff where the oil separates from the solids and you need to stir is a pita, admittedly.

I guess I have been mostly buying smooth recently because cheap and easy to spread.

I've never even tried peanut butter because it sounds like such a bad idea.

the crunchy/smooth split is not along US/UK lines. that is a falsity! both smooth and crunchy are available on both sides of the atlantic. i am disparaging u.k.p.b, only because every single jar of peanut butter i have ever opened in the UK is off and some configuration of (a) undersalted (b) rancid (c) separated (d) grainy (e) cardboardish (e)mildewy. i've heard tell that americans will buy anything oleaginous in a green bottle under the understanding that it is olive oil, and i am pretty sure that something similar is true for u.k.p.b.

the crunchy/smooth split is not along US/UK lines. that is a falsity!

My bad, I thought that was the case, though we have smooth pb here I assumed it was an American thing mostly. I might still largely be right.

Along the same lines, am I the only one who finds the idea of peanut butter and jam jelly together disgusting?

kraft peanut butter appears to be canada-only. a little curious, as kraft does not seem to own any of the major american brands

Isn't palm oil in most peanut butter? I used to love Nutella and consider it a relatively healthy type of junk food. But then all the major Italian supermarkets have took it off the shelves and off-putting stuff about Palm Oil being a total carcinogen and also fucking up the environment was everywhere.

The more I see the Trump "grab her by the pussy" quote perpetually made a huge deal by liberal activists, the more petty and childish the activists seem to me, like a bunch of kindergarteners who can't get over the fact that someone said a bad word. Especially in context of the rest of the quote, which sounds as much juvenile as predatory and reminds me a little of Steve Carrell in the 40yo virgin talking about what breasts feel like.

thread is about to get awesome

It's about sexual assault. It's not about rude words.

Man can't believe the libs got uo in arms over the word pussy and nothing else

i feel like walking into the dressing room unannounced -- which he bragged about on howard stern -- was worse than the grabbing tape. he just says that he "can" grab women and they'll love it, not that he has done it. in the tape the actual behavior he brags about is taking some women furniture shopping.

but in general i think it was just more evidence for what we know about the man: that he is a misogynist; that he can't conceive of human interactions -- must less sexual interactions -- in a way that isn't gross and objectifying; that he just sucks and is the worst person i have ever heard about, even in fiction

the virus has spread to this thread

He didn't exactly say "they'll love it" as much as "when you’re a star, they let you do it". He definitely said "I just start kissing them... I don't even wait" but, yeah, it was something less than a confession of sexual assault.

The stories about Trump's behavior subsequently told by women he assaulted support the idea that his statements to Billy Bush accurately describe things he'd done, not just thought about.

yeah, totally

everything about him is predatory.

Trump wins the 'who is more petty and childish' fight vs anyone, even his own kids.

He beats his kids. At that.

he is more self-centered and impulsive -- and less concerned with the feelings of others -- than any actual child i have ever witnessed and i was a middle school teacher

he is like a parody of a human being. it's so weird.

wait. are these supposed to be controversial opinions?

Americans are a fundamentally broken people who actively seek their own destruction but are only able to articulate that impulse by empowering the purest avatar of their collective damage.

MAGA = "Please kill me."

controversial opinion - popcorn is gross

ok, I don't really feel that way unilaterally, and some 'corn is delish, but I often feel sick to my stomach after eating even a quarter of a small bag.

I've got mixed feelings about popcorn but I rarely feel satisfied by it

Americans are a fundamentally broken people

Only controversy there is that it is a bit too sweeping in its scope. Right now our politics is very driven by the id, more so even than the ego. Whenever a nation lets their collective id get in control, it is a frightening, dangerous time. But there are still lots of egos in power in D.C., thank goodness, even if the Chief Executive is being steered by his id 90% of the time.

* I used to work in a cinema and had to clean popcorn off the floor every day
* I also saw what the ridiculous mark-up was on the stuff and couldn't believe people were willing to pay that much
* It's cooked in palm oil, which is really not great
* It always has nasty hard bits in the bottom which stick around in your teeth
* Nobody is ever happy finishing off a bucket of popcorn
* I hate popcorn

i stand with camaraderie at arms length. i eat popcorn but i hate it.

microwavable popcorn

Oh, I forgot about butter-flavour microwave popcorn, which smells like someone died in an open sewer

At a screening this morning I spent almost $8 on a serving of popcorn as large as a vacuum cleaner bag.

for eating?

That's some breakfast