Signs your getting old?
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- NBQ000
You're considering saggy eye lid plastic surgery
- BonSeff5
I wash my rice
- signs you care in the kitchen, introduced this to a friend who was ashamed they'd never known.imbecile
- jiro says you have to so I've always done it... but I don't know why?ArchitectofFate
- Who the hell doesn't wash their rice??Akagiyama
- I don't wash rice and never thought it was something anyone ever did.CyBrainX
- I never gave it much thought until I started eating it daily. That first rinse is gnarly.BonSeff
- In terms of why? It gets rid of dirt and other impurities, also gets rid of starch so its fluffy. I boil mine like pasta for 15 mins, drain and let steam in potBonSeff
- for 10 mins, perfect and fluffy everytimeBonSeff
- Isn't rice-rinsing for regular eaters about getting rid of the arsenic?NonEntity
- ^ That's the logic my wife givesstoplying
- The washing rice doesn't get rid of the arsenic, the boiling like pasta and draining that water does.BonSeff
- You gotta wash it to get rid of some of the starch so it doesn't turn into sticky rice unless that's your goal.Beeswax
- Dude if you’re draining rice you’re doing it wrong. Use the right amount of water.monospaced
- Don't knock it til you try it mono. So satisfying draining that nasty water after boilingBonSeff
- That Hersha Patel style https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- That vid lolYakuZoku
- https://media.tenor.…pango
- I can't with you rice drainers ...pango
- Sorry, I can knock it. Washing rice is mandatory, but boiling and draining is incorrect. The water isn’t “nasty” either. You’re using way too much.monospaced
- Uncle Roger is right. “If your rice is too wet you fucked up.” Draining rice? Hiyaaaa...monospaced
- @mono - actually, the entiriety of India cooks rice using loads of water. I've gone back to doing it that way - I much prfer the result and it's less faff.Nairn
- I think I if I had an actual rice cooker it'd be more predictable, but I found that doing it the E.Asian way led to failure more often than I liked.Nairn
- I can't with you starchy, nasty water absorbersBonSeff
- Which is to say, you may prefer to do it one way. but it is not 'correct' or better, it's just a particular method that works for you and others.Nairn
- Never mind that they cook rice completely different in Spain and Italy too... are they wrong?Nairn
- Fiucking rice elitists! And holy fuck uncle roger is so punchableBonSeff
- Cooking rice like pasta reduces arsenic as it releases into the cooking water and drains off after cooking because arsenic is water soluble.BonSeff
- If you cook rice the traditional way with approximately a 2:1 ratio of water to rice, the arsenic stays in the rice.BonSeff
- The arsenic in rice thing is a LOT to do with variety and region grown in - I remember looking into it when kid first started eating food...Nairn
- ..and whilst it was hard to get har figures, the imopression I had was that basmati was a safer option. Also, you have to eat a LOT of rice, continually, and...Nairn
- ..without other foodstuffs that mediate absorption.Nairn
- But yeah, wash your rice, people :) Some people (eg. shapesalad) soak it overnight, but I can't see that resulting in a nice firm grain. I may be wrong.Nairn
- I am talking about long grain brown, i eat 1/3 cup dailyBonSeff
- my system is just part of my dinner routine. it works without fail. so, it stays. lolBonSeff
- A third of a cup daily isn't much by 'Asian standards' :)Nairn
- This was the last comment I thought would get this many side notes.CyBrainX
- autoflavour16
- I practically lived on there. And here.fadein11
- needs a comeback... https://www.webdesig…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.webdesig…jonny_quest_lives
- oh DiK..autoflavour
- wasn't deviantart also sort of like this?oey_oey
- Wulffmorgenthaler... I was adicted to this strip, oh my...OBBTKN
- k10k was the bizhans_glib
- miss itinteliboy
- 10pt Pixel fonts all the way!dee-dubs
- this checked all my boxes in those days. huge motivationCalderone2000
- Similar to the Newstoday layout. Iframes were a cutting edge technology back thenyuekit
- “Hardware provided by Adobe” What hardware did they have?Gnash
- (mt) shoutout; they JUST got bought by GoDaddy.
Resistance is futile, eh?ideaist - They got bought out by GoDaddy years back, I think they just shuttered the MT brand though, finally.Nairn
- I memba getting excited seeing Toke in Spitalfields market, not long after i first came down to London. I knew then that I'd Arrived, lolNairn
- oey oey – got a email notification from deviant a week ago, got curious, somehow logged in, last login 17y ago + all my shitty drawings gone (thank god)ArchitectofFate
- Remember getting a bump on there and my site meter counter things exploded.. well, got 3000 more hits than normal.hydro74
- was SUCH a huge fan of those guys... every day i used to check that, Newstoday, Zeldman etc etc...exador1
- QBN Downloads? Any goodies?bezoar
- Is anyone on this list still active here today?
https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity - Was H73 any relation to Hydro?CyBrainX
- No - it was Holodeck 73, I thinkNairn
- It would fun to see a modern take on this style of web design :) It seems like there was so much creativity back then.yuekit
- https://www.qbn.com/…prophetone
- i switched to threeoh and back forth to holodeck or was it surfstation? anyway, tiny silkscreen was king these days.api
- _niko14
The chicks that we used to make fun of MaryChain for liking are now looking pretty good....
- TouchéOBBTKN
- He was a visionary.palimpsest
- although, I'd hate to see what he's moved on to now ;)_niko
- way head of his time.utopian
- LOL too right, nikoContinuity
- No thankspango
- ugh, sad but truemonospaced
- Pango, you're still young... Hold on ;)OBBTKN
- My face pubes are turning grey. Not too far away :(pango
- Half of Marychain's choices were found under vintage dumpsters.CyBrainX
- ok_not_ok3
- checkmateOBBTKN
- You didn't have to do us like that.palimpsest
- HijoDMaite0
- This is great. Also is this what that rave was like for PhanLo recently lol?_niko
- autoflavour1
went to see Fred Again last night.. was easily 20-25 years older than most of the audience..
- Fred?oey_oey
- Like in Right Said Fred (band) or Drop Dead Fred (movie)?oey_oey
- Ah! Sorry, I misread Fred Againoey_oey
- its easily done.. either way, was a killer show.. highly recommendautoflavour
- HijoDMaite2
Do we all have a plan for who is going to log in here and give the news we died?
- I got you, homes.palimpsest
- I hope, my wife, when she stops celebrating ;)OBBTKN
- ^ after celebrating and get rid of that car of yoursoey_oey
- Obviously oey, first of allOBBTKN
- I wonder how many people have died from qbn and no one noticed.. surely some must ofautoflavour
- 4palimpsest
- drgs3
I had to buy something at an unfamiliar store. The entrance was impossible to find, I had to walk back and forth and all the way around. Found these dumbasses on Google Maps and left them a 1 star review
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- pablo281
Brad Pitt turns 60 this year.
- _niko3
It just dawned on me that Joel from Last of us is also Mando.
this whole time I thought he was Tenoch from Y tu mamá también.
- utopian-5
Does anyone remember (before the Internet) how we....found out how to get somewhere without a map, or found out about a cool event to attend?
For the life of me, I can't remember how I did just about anything without Google search or the Internet.
- The only thing that I can remember was, that just about everything was by word of mouth.utopian
- magazines, local zines/leaflets/local newspaper - find out about local stuff. Friends! Real life human friends and a landline.shapesalad
- You didn't need a map because you stayed in the place you grew up in and didn't venture further than a 10Km radius from your home.shapesalad
- Life was good... I miss it. People trusted more. "I'll see you next friday, 7pm, outside such and such pub." that was it.. no text, find my friend etc.shapesalad
- If they weren't there, you'd find a phone booth, call their home, speak to the parents etc.shapesalad
- I could remember all my friends phone numbers. If you asked me now for my mothers phone number - I have no idea, need to check my iPhone.shapesalad
- I can still remember my friend's numbers from when I was a teen, as too their car license plates...Nairn
- I remember a lot of "I'll call you at x'o'clock" and then waiting by the phone for it to ring, hopefully not interrupted by the Bill Payers.Nairn
- I'd find out about gigs from the music press, local radio, flyers, ads at the guitar shop.zardoz
- Paper maps were common pre internet. Flyers often had simplified 'we are here' diagrams.zardoz
- Very useful was the noticeboard at the student union (maybe a UK thing, that)zardoz
- Of course, alot of this extended well into the internet age. I'd say the rise of smartphones from around 08 was the real Year Zero.zardoz
- Thomas road maps, still got someYakuZoku
- Posters
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But damn, some of you are ancient brografician - Melways, inpress and beat!sab
- jagara5
It's thirty six years since Paul Simon released "You Can Call Me Al". Thirty six. This makes me feel fine, because honestly, that shit is very, very old, and I don't worry about it.
Thirty six years.
- It almost feels as if the pop music scene has changed since then.jagara
- How about 40 years since the debut A Flock of Seagulls album.lemmy_k
- When I was in High School my parents and their friends went to see the Beach Boys 25th anniversary tour. I remember thinking that was so old!fooler
- Now most of the music I listen too is 25 years old.fooler
- Half the music I listen to is 50 years old. The rest is spread out to every year since.CyBrainX
- "t almost feels as if the pop music scene has changed since then." You keep trying to flex with this, but I can't at all see the point you're failing to make.Nairn
- late 90's electronica for life!imbecile
- He made a seeing about AI?
Visionary !palimpsest - *A song.
Fucking AI!palimpsest - @Nairn I'm trying to say that it has changed. I was being erotic or somethingjagara
- Paul Simon? pshhh... that was Chevy Chase!!!
(Graceland is a beautiful album btw)PonyBoy - @PonyBoy heard "One Trick Pony"? Love that one.jagara
- Nairn9
It's thirty six years since Bobby McFerrin released "Don't Worry, Be Happy". Thirty six. This does not make me feel happy, and I'm starting to worry about it.
Thirty six years.
- PhanLo2
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Went to the 25th anniversary of a club I started doing flyers for back in 2001 tonight. Nearly missed it because I once again dozed off on the couch.
Glad I went though, met some people I hadn't seen in years, obviously we were a lot older. Met a wiman that I used to sneak into nightclubs with when we were about 15 years old, she was still going out in full party mode, some serious dedication.
The club started at 3pm and anded more or less at 9pm, where more actual young people came out to party.
I'm already back home.