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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I worked with a dude who loved “ramen” but had never had it from a restaurant. He didn’t seem like he knew how to cook particularly well, and I’m not sure if he’d ever even left the suburbs he was born in.

    One day he was talking about how excited he was to go to a real ramen shop over the weekend. So next time I see him I asked how it went. He sighed and said he got a veggie ramen because he found out the meat ones were “made with bone” and he was grossed out by it. I could only say “of course, that’s how you make good soup.” Then I had to explain how you make stock or split pea with ham soup, etc. I think I ruined soup for him.



  • I groan a lot rewatching old shows, or don’t find the jokes funny anymore in 2026, but I think people forget that society progresses.

    Take the Seinfeld episode where a reporter thinks George and Jerry are partners and they freak out about it but say “not that theres anything wrong with that.” The joke isn’t them being called gay but their immature reaction.

    A lot of younger modern viewers don’t like it, and I get it. The scenes do play on a lot of stereotypes but they fail to realize in the mid 90s homosexuality was almost never mentioned on tv and when it was its was a slur. Just the act of making an episode that featured a discussion on homosexuality and didn’t use it as an insult ever was progress. Yes by todays standards a lot of the sterotypical behavior George and Jerry present throughout the episode is in poor taste but it wasn’t made with todays standards.