eos_nyxia

Have you gone out of your way to find people who share similar enough niche interests to commune with? Or can you honestly say that there isn't some part of you that takes pleasure in feeling like you're the best person in every room?

BEING A HEAT FREAK IS A WAY OF LIFE: No problems of any sort exist in this place. No fixations on anyone or anything, and nothing to resolve about the future or past. Literally nothing to concern myself with. And it makes me feel amazing to be existing in a body in a way that few things do. Why would I not love it? In my experience, the dry sauna is just slightly better overall, though it's quite a different experience both emotionally and physically. The steam room is better for your respiratory system, especially your lungs and sinuses, and also your skin. The sauna is better for deep tissue, including the muscles, joints, and fascia (and by extension, general flexibility, thus hot yoga). Personally, I also find that the dry sauna is better for deep emotional release. Along with affecting the deeper tissues of the body, this also might have something to do with preferring to be in there for an hour, sometimes longer, sometimes a bit less. While in the steam room, it feels physically oppressive to be there for more than 15-20 minutes. This might have something to do with the amount of swimming cardio I do these days, and that supposedly the steam room I go to is the hottest one in the city. The steam room is part of my regular 4-6 day a week swimming habit, but the dry sauna is not (sadly). The rec centre I swim at doesn't have a dry sauna, or I'd be in there as much as humanly possible. ONE THING I DON'T GET: People who get super social as they're clearly melting to death, haha. To each their own though!

GOD'S GIFT TO SALADS: SHIRAZI SALAD: Finally, I discovered a salad that has everything that makes the base flavours of a Greek salad amazing (chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions + sour citrus vinaigrette), but with a texture that makes it infinitely more delicious: It's that perfectly uniform fine dice! About once a week, I fantasize about eating a very large amount of this salad. (Sometimes I wonder if I'm known as the lady who ALWAYS orders a Shirazi salad at my local Persian food place... often I go there and literally just order that.) TABBOULEH: Now it's competing with my classic favourite salad, which is Lebanese-style Tabbouleh. Usually, when I make it myself, I sub out the cracked wheat with either cooked quinoa or hemp hearts. I love this salad SO much that I googled if it was possible to give myself kidney stones by consuming too much of this stuff. (Parsley, while a super healthy vegetable, has a lot of oxalates, as do many other uncooked dark leafy green vegetables.) Because if it were up to me, I'd eat it all day, every day. ALAS, the other major deterrence with both of these dishes: one either pays the price (buying it premade) or you're chopping your life away. HONOURABLE MENTION -- SEAWEED SALAD: I've always found that the servings that they give you at sushi restaurants are pitifully small. But then again, maybe the serving size is for the best! I love this type of salad so much that I recently googled "...can I get iodine poisoning from eating too much seaweed salad?" The answer is -- Yes. Yes you can. A couple days ago, I was at a Chinese banquet and almost no one at my table wanted to eat the seaweed salad. Haha, their loss! (Wait... is this actually safe?) I'm pretty sure all the East Asian countries have some version of this type of crisp, chewy seaweed salad with a vinegar/ sesame oil-based vinaigrette. HONOURABLE MENTION AND UNDERRATED -- PANAGO PIZZA: For some reason, I've never heard anyone talk about these salads locally ever. But for 8-12 CAD, you can get a fresher, better-quality salad than you can get anywhere else, including ones of a much higher price point for a similar quality. I've had moderately to much worse salads in restaurants, salad bars, supermarkets (including posh ones), etc. (Which either means that the bar for salad quality is in hell or I am super picky haha.) One thing that I really appreciate is that there are a ton of ingredients you can choose from and a lot of them are free to add on. It makes it really easy to order online, check off a bunch of boxes for each ingredient (and uncheck a few), walk there in 10-15 minutes, and everything's already done. If I'm feeling texturally ok with it, I really enjoy these with a ton of extra veggies, as many as I can get, with a protein. (Panago product placement, lol.)

Interesting, thanks for sharing! Are you generally sensitive with sleep or was this routine unusually overstimulating? Also, how close to sleep do you finish your last set? I've been curious about this sort of routine for the last 10ish years, but I didn't have the time, energy levels, or persistence for it back then. I have actually heard of people doing this type of thing for pistol squats or other callisthenics, but also sometimes for kettlebell and other weight lifting exercises, though it's usually more like 3-6 sets spread out throughout the day. I've heard that it's a good way to build strength very quickly because you rarely get fatigued enough to have to take whole days off for muscle recovery and DOMs, though I imagine long-term fatigue must build up anyway, just at a slower rate.

So it's been a month; how did this experiment go?

This is the answer. Although OP is from Lebanon, aren't there a decent number of people with light eyes and even people with natural dark blonde hair? Depending on his colouring, he might very much be white-passing. ...which doesn't mean very much, because I think a lot of very visibly mixed-race people here in metropolitan Canada/the US (including myself in this category) are often considered white-passing.

I mean to be fair, Gal's acting is like: The clips I saw from Snow White weren't much better lol. It's not exactly motivating to pay money to watch even if I didn't care about her politics at all.

This is so, so painfully last decade... Good song though.

...but did they keep the goofy-ass dialogue and camera panning?

@Av2521 What specifically isn't working out about your hometown?

It could be the Christian fundie homeschooling. It doesn't help, haha.

I mean, there is a point to this, even though the speculations about what pre-agricultural life was like tend to be riddled with unchecked utopian fantasy. But you're right. We're not well-equipped emotionally or spiritually to work at unfulfilling labour which arguably serves no higher purpose in a highly regimented and bureaucratic way. Social isolation and disconnection that is built into our modern lifestyles is a serious issue and it seems to only be getting worse. And it's true that by default, we lived more fully and freely. But take a look around, more and more people are finally starting to direct the anger where it is more appropriate, at the parasitically wealthy and greedy who take and do not give back in proportion to what they've claimed for themselves. There is no balance there. More importantly, there is the drive to do something about it, even if it's only changing the way you live your life and the way you speak about it. Great, so now what do you do about the things that deep down you don't feel like you fully deserve? On one hand, there is the obvious entitlement of thinking: I deserve sex; it's a basic need; it should be easily available whenever I want it. On the other hand, deep down, do you really feel like you deserve it? If you don't, then you will probably hate the woman giving it to you freely and also hate yourself as well. Funny how people can feel both ways.

This is good for absolutely no one. You are comparing two unlike things; why not compare a hypothetical "average woman" with an "average man"? Like, do you really think it's easier being a highly intelligent woman? (By whatever normal metrics that intelligence is measured by these days). If you're considered conventionally attractive enough, people will overlook the weirdness and the psychological baggage that often comes with it, but that can only go so far. In a similar way that people will overlook sociopathy as well, but it's not a great thing lol. I mean, getting sex and being loved isn't a reward for just existing and being an intelligent woman either, but it's not about that, is it? Yes, subpar and emotionally unstimulating sex, which in many cases, is worse than none at all. Just a reminder that the female sex bears more risks for having sex, including assault (sexual and otherwise) and pregnancy.

The premise of this thread is a bit of a mess. I mean, if you're only attracted to the most vulnerable, girlish, "hooking" qualities and expressions of femininity, and that is all femininity is to you because it is all you're willing to let it mean, then that is what you get? Congrats, you made your own echo chamber. And your superficiality and lack of breadth and development in your personal expression are a match for theirs.

I was never too into his comedy, but I guess Bill Burr has evolved to become the voice of reason now, lol. All of the bleeting about "human shields" and Israelis shamelessly and unselfconsciously trying to pass off that logic as Logic with a capital L broke my brain post October 7th. It very much has the energy of: