LouisianaLady

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I have healthy, straight, shoulder length hair. I tried going a day or two without washing it and I felt DISGUSTING. It changed how I view women. Now I look at them and think damn she's probably nasty I wonder how long it's been since she's washed her hair.

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I don't get it. If a dude went without washing himself somewhere on his body, women would be repulsed. But we got women bragging about going 5+ days without washing their hair in Louisiana summer.

It's wild how deep the brainwashing has gone.

When I got married, my hairdresser was like, "Please for the love of god wash your hair a day or two before". She said she gets people coming in with such disgusting hair she can't touch it or make it look decent when pulled up to expose the roots.

Years ago, hairdressers started letting people with unruly hair or hair that couldn't be cleaned as often without becoming a mess know that it was okay to skip days washing. This was great news for those people because cleaning their hair too often was causing them damage and issues styling it.

As a result, the word spread and the pendulum swung so far in the other direction that even to this day, you have misinformed women with naturally healthy/straight-ish hair going days upon days with rancid hair when their hair can take normal washing just fine.

The myth has been debunked numerous times in recent years by people who know a lot more than random hairdressers, but a lot of women still walk around with the idea in their head that they must "train" their hair to be filthy for ~health~.

Depends. Busy season, all day long, cook/eat dinner, back down to my home office for ~2 hours every single weekday.

Not busy season, a lot of my job is needs-based with some monthly and annual projects thrown in randomly. In Jan, Feb, March, I do a whole lot less than the spring, summer, and fall. But it evens out.

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My friend wants info on how to get this?

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Pretty sure I signed up ages ago. I imagine when they're at the payment point of the process, you're too late.

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We'll start as soon as we finish paying off Christmas. We'll start after we cut this check to the IRS. We'll start as soon as we save for the summer vacation. We'll start after the kids are into public school.

The cavalcade of excuses is endless.

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I remember working at a company where, when they first added 401k benefits and hosted a team call with the group managing it, tons of definitely inexperienced questions were fired off about it by people in their late 40s+. I was so surprised, and it dawned on me this might be the first ever time they contribute if they even DO opt in.

I was super young at the time and just set it at maximum company will match, but every annual raise as my pay went up, I adjusted the percentage to match the raise amount.

It's like, I get it is a bit scary. I get a little flutter every time I buy another share in my individual investment account since I have to physically go in and do that versus it coming out of pay. But you just gotta educate yourself and think about the future.

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I think the plan has always been to take the money that we have saved and sacrificed for and give it to those who were not responsible enough to do it for themselves.

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Even though I can't stand most NYT media, there was a semi-decent episode of The Daily about the 401K. Don't get me wrong - it had plenty of leftist BS about those who can't save for retirement, but the discussion was interesting enough.

I don't recall for the life of me where they were saying they funds for this would come from, but the main idea was less handing people money without any contribution of their own, and instead government funds being used to match up to $X like a company would. Basically to incentivize people to contribute on their own, and then the "free money" aspect kicks in.

What's funny is their ultimate conclusion was that it is highly unlikely most people who don't save for retirement now would magically start doing it now even with government match. In their eyes, it is still money they're "losing" now. And I guess if you're poor enough, you also can't afford to part with it in the present.

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Not sure where all the "it isn't done that way" in this thread is coming from.

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I don't really have an opinion one way or the other on that, but as someone who has never used parboiled rice before, what is the advantage of using it? Does it not require liquid or something? I've never worked with it, and I'm curious what would make it more convenient than regular rice or why this debate exists.

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fettucine made w/ Velveeta isn't fettucine.

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Man, I know it's cool to hate on Velveeta, but I like it in crawfish fettuccine and chicken spaghetti. :dunno:

It is the best all around restaurant in BR , IMO

We go every other Monday. Their fish is 10/10. Always get the triple tail or tile. They knock their steaks out of the park too. Most non-steak places do not. I had the tournedos this past Monday and it had cabbage confit and sweet potato puree. Outstanding.

Oh- and always pan sauteed. People tend to go for cedar plank, and it's fine, but pan sauteed is sooooooo good.

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Taco Bell sauces (not the glass bottle ones)

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I’ve read it’s a contract with an outside company granted the rights to use their name. It isn’t actually their product.