Careful man, you start talking about body fat percentages and you might trigger the beta male lefties

Most people don't make every meal in heavy crème.

The main issue we have at play is the lack of inbetween terms for economic shifts.

there's balls to the wall prosperity, there's stagnant growth, there's recession, and there's depression.

we're not at stagnant growth, but the current economic state isn't anywhere near 2008 recessed levels. we're in an economic downturn, with a strong jobs market, with a labor shortage, with inflation, and with spending still not bottomed out. that's an odd cocktail but points to a worse recession coming.

terms like recession weren't designed to handle odd cases. we're used to a market where if jobs are readily available that means spending is exploding. we're used to inflation absolutely tanking spending. and we're also in a place where 2 years from now people may look back and laugh, saying "oh they thought THAT was a recession".

This post was edited by thesnipa on Nov 29 2022 10:27am

crowy want a cracker? lmk when you get over your tossing n turning.

My read is we are trending to the generally accepted def of recession and not much is being done domestically to address it beyond feigned efforts. Meanwhile, foreign events are exacerbating the trend as global economies are coupled tightly for most of the West.

Well if youre not all fat then I apologizing for being quick to judge but that just seems like a fuckton of milk even if you are casually enjoying it and cooking with it.

Also to answer your question: government subsidies.



I'm actually fascinated - how were they going through this much? Just drinking glasses of milk or cereal or what?

100% drinking glasses of milk. as a kid we had to drink a glass of milk with every dinner. and i'd drink milk throughout the day a lot.

Well let's see. In the winter we had two practices a day (14 miles total), and in the summer we had three practices a day (21 miles total).
This was a 365 day a year thing, from the time we were 6 years old till we were 18 years old... 4 of us.

For example, at breakfast, we didn't eat a bowl of cereal, we ate a family size box of cereal... each one of us.
On french toast day... maybe 8-10 pieces each slathered with butter, cinnamon and sugar.
On cold winter days, we'd have a few boxes of jello, each. Dry, or in hot water if we had the time. Yellow jello gives the most energy, btw.

Six total in our family. On pizza night we'd get 5 xtra large pizzas, and if our parents had allowed it, we probably would have eaten the greasy paper too, and maybe the box as well.

Our parents never had to tell us to "finish our plate". We ate everything that wasn't faster than us.

If you want to experience what we went through, swim 7 miles in 1.5 hours, twice or three times a day, and see how much YOU eat.



Even when I got older, I remember getting a huge roast beef sandwich and a quart of milk, for lunch... every day.
I would have had more, but we only got a half hour for lunch.

This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 29 2022 11:56am

six pages,. Glad to see people are recognizing the recession!