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Clam chowder, lasagna, or pasta with cheese sauce.

Kidney. It's the texture - spongy and it has a cupric taste on top of that.

I think everyone has something like this – a dish that is really simple, or highly processed, or made from a bunch of canned ingredients, or a bit trailer-park-esque; the opposite of haute cuisine. For lots of people it's something their moms or dads or grandparents cooked that has a sort of special, nostalgic place in their heart, and it's often a guilty pleasure - so what's yours?

Mine is either "seven layer dip" (refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo salsa, sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onion & black olives - but the olive and scallion are one layer, I guess?) which I associate with Christmas at my grandma's, or what I affectionately call "white trash stroganoff" which I associate with big family meals and potlucks -- it's basically pork chuck browned with onions and carrots, stewed for ages in a seasoned beef broth until it's tender, and then thickened with cream of mushroom soup, served with pasta.

1. For bread, try doing a quickbread first, like corn bread or Irish soda bread. They're a lot easier to do than traditional breads and taste pretty great.

2. For quick noodle dishes, here's two:
A) Cook your noodles until just before they're done. While they're cooking, take an egg or two and beat it with a fork, set that aside. Then in a frying pan, cook some thinly sliced bacon (optional, otherwise use some olive oil) until it's crispy and the fat's rendered out. Remove half the fat - you don't need it. Cook an onion in the fat, then add some garlic and pepper. Drain the noodles and pour this sauce over them, then stir the noodles while drizzling in the egg. The heat from the pasta will cook the egg, causing it to thicken the sauce without forming chunks of egg. Add some freshly grated parmesan/reggiano cheese and you're done. It's a good winter dish. If you're like me and like some greens alongside, they can be stirred in at the end too, chopped into fine ribbons; the heat will wilt them and they'll get coated in sauce.

B) Cook some noodles and set them aside. Make sure they're still a bit chewier than you'd like. In a frying pan, add a bit of oil and some garlic and ginger (around here you can buy garlic and ginger as a paste with no added salt or preservatives, it works great). To that, add a tablespoon of black bean sauce and some balsamic vinegar (the Chinese use a vinegar called Chankiang but it's often full of lead and other nasty shit and it's harder to find.) Let it reduce a bit to take away some of the acid's sharpness. Add some chili garlic sauce. Toss the noodles in and add some chopped leafy greens (cabbage works great, so does lettuce) and chopped scallions.  You can also add some sausage or a meat or tofu if you want - just cook them after you add the sauces and before you add the noodles, or use pre-cooked leftovers.

For an easy potato dish, I'd suggest just mashing them with some horseradish, garlic, and milk or chicken stock. You can make a nice pan gravy to go along with them (equal parts fat and flour, whisk on medium heat until uniform, keep stirring until a light brown, add pepper/seasonings, add broth while whisking hard, let cook 3-4m while stirring to thicken.)

You might also look into making "sauce mornay" - it's a cheese sauce, it's delicious on everything, and it's easy as hell to make. For healthier dishes, simple formula for you: small amount fat, ginger, garlic, a sauce (hoisin's sweet, chili bean is hot, garlic chili's tangy, the list goes on), an acid (wine vinegar, wine, citrus juice), cook veg and tofu in the sauce by reducing heat and covering the pan with a lid. Serve on top of a starch and you'll be golden.

The people I'm close to all know. My general rule is that I don't bring it up unless it's relevant to the conversation, but I don't lie about it - so if someone asks why/when I'll get a girlfriend, I tell them, and if someone asks if I'm seeing anybody, I tell them. Really,, if someone asks and it's not in the context of, say, a bunch of skinheads about to punch my lights out, I'm going to answer truthfully.

In general my family was pretty supportive. As an example:

Me: You know I'm gay, right?
Brother: Yeah, I figured.
Me: Thought so. Mom wanted me to tell you.
Brother: She's weird that way.
Me: Yup.
Brother: So can I get a ride to work?

I'd put it as 'what they think they want' - a porno is, at the end of the day, either pictures or moving pictures. All you're going on is looks, which is why I think people are more likely to choose physical attributes like big cock in porn. In RL though you're making compromises and assigning comparative value to different traits - to give an example, "cute laugh" or "great eyes" or "ability to make me laugh" or "can stimulate me intellectually" are all considerations many value above looks, and would weigh accordingly in real life - but in porn, those questions are moot so they go by looks, as is reasonable.

@danijelr15:

Torrents containing big dick in the title and number of people downloading them tell a different story.

I don't know if you can compare what people are looking for in a masturbatory fantasy with what they seek out in real life, though?

The skin there is naturally darker and naturally darkens with age. If you want to waste some money, you can have it professionally bleached which involves a certified technician putting a caustic paste on your perianal area. It will temporarily reverse it, but it's not exactly healthy. Some places sell the bleaching paste online, but buying something like that online is idiotic - it's either a watered down form of the chemical, or they're selling you the full-strength product which is extremely dangerous and you'll probably end up damaging yourself. I'd politely suggest you accept that it isn't even an imperfection - and if someone is so distressed by a dark ring of skin that they won't do you, I'd politely suggest that that person doesn't deserve to have sex with anybody. Not judging you for asking or anything, just saying consider the risks. Good luck.

Another one for you: If you buy chicken with the skin on and want to remove it, it's actually really easy - use a tea-towel to grip the slippery, fatty skin and simply tear it off towards the bone or joint. Around here chicken with the skin off costs way more than with it on, so have the best of both worlds.

The "first few episodes" thing seems to be quite common with comedies nowadays - Bob's Burgers is the same way. I think it's probably got something to do with them figuring out where they're going with the characters and the actors building a rapport as time goes on?

X-men, Smallville, Supernatural - we're all nerds here.

@Minerboh80:

@ulises3177:

Face & chest, because I don't care about a big dick if I'm in front of this:

this put me off  :blink:
or another:

??? ??? ???  :afr:

You can be sure that If I found someone that looks like these 2 freaks,  I would begin to run to the next country xD, regardless the distance .

I prefer a man with a small dick , but to see this in front of me:

or this

:cheesy2:

The guy in the first pic is kind of cute!
If he didn't had a certain artistic approch with his body, i would easily fall for him!

There's someone for everyone out there I suppose – not trying to be a jerk, that genuinely makes me happy. That said, I couldn't be with him just knowing he'd done such an awful thing with his body hair.

@unknown69:

Common sense is the best and most effective antivirus

Yeah, not clicking "TOTALLYNOTAVIRUS.SCR.EXE" or "HOT COED WOMEN WANT TO FUCK YOU NOW, DOWNLOAD OUR APP" type ads/emails/etc will protect you 99% of the time, but it's still important to have an antivirus and antimalware solution for that 1% of times where you cannot have knowledge of the threat - the last virus I got was a 0day exploit dropper that I couldn't have possibly seen coming because it had only been released into the wild hours earlier. Fortunately my antivirus /did/ catch the files it tried to download and my firewall and antimalware caught the dropper itself when it tried to talk to its command/control server.

I'd say a majority of the straight guys I know shaved everything until they were in their mid to late 20s; around that time a few of the twinkier athletes let themselves gracefully transition to otter and a few even bear'd up. Most gay guys I know trim if anything.

Glad to be of help! And it's one of my favourite salads period - I find it goes really well with any sort of food from the places where rice and beans are a staple - India, Latin America, the Carribean, etc.

This is a shot in the dark but you might try (if you haven't already) turning on MSI install logging so it's verbose, downloading the AppFabric installer from Microsoft, running that and then checking the logs to see if there's an issue with the prereq install; if not, then try running the Sharepoint installer and check its log?

The ones that tend to get the best ratings tend to be the Russian/Slavic paid ones - Kaspersky and the like. If you google it, Lifehacker does yearly rundowns with links to a bunch of the companies that help certify and test AV programs.
As for free ones:
-AVG and Avast both work /fairly/ well and are not too bloated, though some people have complaints about the free versions' EULAs.
-Security Essentials has gone horribly down-hill unfortunately

Nowadays antivirus is unfortunately only useful for uninspired attacks. When antivirus software first came out, viruses actually were viruses - they spread to files by amending or perverting them. The early viruses (and then worms, trojan horses and malware) were easy enough to deal with once they were analyzed; early anti-virus scanners simply contained lists of 'fingerprints' - telltale signs used by viruses to mark files that they'd infected, comments in the virus code and the like. If a file had a fingerprint, it was infected and the virus could be removed. Nowadays though, that's simply no longer the case in the vast majority of cases; malware is a multi-billion dollar industry and malware authors have been winning the arms race against antivirus scanners for quite some time. Things like polymorphism (code that mutates itself so it has no reliable fingerprint) and encrypted code (if the code can't be easily studied, a 'cure' can't be found easily) are commonplace and most malware authors sell kits that can generate customized malware on the fly to the specifications of the client. It sucks to say, but security these days requires a more proactive approach so my suggestion is:

-Use AVG, Avast or one of the paid solutions, but keep in mind that this is not 1989 and you are not 100% safe
-Disable Java in your browsers (not javascript) – it's rarely used and still a big buggy attack vector that is commonly on PCs
-Consider using a Firewall, either the Windows built-in or a free solution like Comodo
-Keep a malware-centric application on hand; Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is generally recognized as the leading piece of software in terms of detection and healing, plus their forums (and the app!) are free so long as you don't need real-time scanning
-Keep regular, staggered backups, and don't leave your backup system connected to your computer. This will help protect you from ransomware.
-Remember to have antivirus for your smartphone, especially if you use Android!

And this is probably controversial, but: if you are infected with something that is not trivial and which your antivirus or antimalware only detected after you noticed things going wrong or after it damaged things, format the OS drive and re-install; unfortunately a lot of the new stuff digs itself in so deeply that you may never get all its pieces out.

@bear1515:

Does he knows that you are gay? I think you should just make him know that you are gay, and if he wants, he talks to you.

Seconded. If he wants to open up to you, he will. Teenagers are…well, to be frank, idiots. I'm not trying to be an arse here, but every teenager ever born gets told and disregards the same basic advice (remember as a teenager being told that someday you'd miss the lack of responsibility, or that the social drama in your life would, in retrospect, be pretty minor? Probably true. Did you believe it at the time? Hell no.) and that's with things that aren't a Big Deal to them. It's not teenagers fault, it's just the end-result of your brain being continuously hormone-blasted for a 6 year period of your life. If the kid is gay, he's probably built it up in his head into something absolutely massive based on a thousand worst-case 'what-if' scenarios; an adult confronting him about it is not going to go well. I'm guessing his parents wouldn't mind him being gay, given that they know you're gay and seem to want you to help their son, so might I suggest you explain to them why it isn't a good idea for you to bring it up but that you've made it clear to their son that anything he might want to talk to you about is alright? It will probably put his parents' minds at ease to know their son has someone to talk to, it takes the onus to act off of you, you look like a good guy to both parties, and it might spare you the awkwardness of discussing that sort of thing with a teenager. (I can't blame you for not being 100% comfortable, but bravo for being at least willing to consider it.)

I don't know about you but when I was younger(well before I knew I was gay) I definitely knew I, erm, 'liked' some male characters more than others - off-hand, Gambit from the X-Men figured in my crushes (slightly trashy gentleman with an accent? Why yes, yes please) well before puberty. Anyway, I'm curious - was there a character or characters that, looking back, you had a thing for when you were younger? Or ones you have now? If so, whom? And do you have any idea why, or what it was you liked about them?