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Nice, finally my ticket out of this place.

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So every human being on Earth has been doing the whole "derp Brussels sprouts are delicious what's wrong with you" act these last couple of years and I have been trying to uncover the conspiracy.

Today I have found it.

https://www.npr.org/773457637

For many years, they were scorned. Even Steve Bontadelli admits it, and he makes his living growing them. "A lot of people of my generation hated them," he says. "Their moms boiled them and made them even stinkier."

Bontadelli's farm is near Santa Cruz, Calif., where the weather is perfect for growing this vegetable. "We actually had a Brussels sprouts festival here for about 10 years," he says. "And we got a lot of free press out of the deal, because people couldn't believe that you'd have a festival for Brussels sprouts."

What's worse, they even deserved their bad reputation. "They were just very bitter; a very strong bitter taste," Bontadelli says.

This all started to change in the 1990s, and it began in the Netherlands, where Brussels sprouts have a simpler name: spruitjes. A Dutch scientist named Hans van Doorn, who worked at the seed and chemical company Novartis (the seed part is now called Syngenta), figured out exactly which chemical compounds in spruitjes made them bitter.

At that point, the small handful of companies that sell Brussels sprouts seeds started searching their archives, looking for old varieties that happen to have low levels of the bitter chemicals.

One of the companies, also based in the Netherlands, is Bejo Zaden. "We have a whole gene bank here in our cellars, with all the possible Brussels sprouts varieties that were available from the past," says Cees Sintenie, a plant breeder at Bejo Zaden.

There are hundreds of these old varieties. The companies grew them in test plots, and they did, in fact, find some that weren't as bitter. They cross-pollinated these old varieties with modern, high-yielding ones, trying to combine the best traits of old and new spruitjes. It took many years. But it worked. "From then on, the taste was much better. It really improved," Sintenie says.

In your face, global population.

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I've heard its real appeal is the music--in particular, its adaptive soundtrack.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

lmfao

It's like Jaden Smith and that has anyone really guy fused into one

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Never seen a single episode.

I remember when it was big but I was a tad on the young side for it. I was more into cartoons and sitcoms.

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Philosoraptor.jpg

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Nobody

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It's not like it's some evil concept--you can have a good destiny just like you can have a bad one.

I prefer the rare case where destiny is a thing and the bad guy is just wrong about it. Like the bad guy is all like "ha ha I am destined to rule and you are destined to be evil" and then he gets hit by a bus. Doesn't disprove the concept; just shows the bad guy was full of crap lol.

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Old enough to know what death looks like

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Also my stick figure family is not pictured

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https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Sandra-Home-Fashions-Practical/dp/B07DDYZR49

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Sounds like one of those things where the stakes were too high to fail.

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wittymillennial posted...

whats wrong with knowing about WW2?

Everything

People who know about WW2 are the worst

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The Emperor yielded to the darkness in his heart while he was falling down the shaft and turned into a heartless.

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You gotta understand, they're not going to theaters to wat h the movie.

They're going to theaters to stock up complaints to spew out in their actual hobby, which is complaining about Star Wars on the Internet.

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I'm excited. I got literally everything out of 7 and 8 that I hoped to.

But you gotta keep in mind that all I hoped to get out of them was hearing those first glorious measures of the John Williams Star Wars theme on theater audio.

And this remains true for 9. If the movie is good, that's just a nice bonus.

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This is a terrible topic

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1% off

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GodBlessAustin posted...

Joy to the World-offensive to martians

Literally mentions Jesus. You don't even have to stretch.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

My mom is a Beatles nut, so every Christmas morning is like this...

simply

ha-a-aving

A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME

Oh man I feel so sorry for you.

Santa Baby may be the worst overall, but this is by far the most annoying song of all time.

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TheDreadedWave posted...

Santa Baby is the most offensive, I don't need to hear about how some girl wants Santa to "come" down her "chimney" tonight

Santa Baby is the worst effing song.

The.

Worst.

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Well it depends.

If more 3D animation looked like Crash Bandicoot 2, then no. But most of it doesn't.

But then again, for the last ten years or so, 2D animation has been all vector and as a result has most of the same drawbacks as 3D.

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MrNintendo1213 posted...

Probably not tbh.

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Eh

I think in order to hold this title, your games need to have an element of accessibility.

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No and I can't understand why people would

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PleaseClap posted...

Its always either WW2 or Roman history

Just like guitar players.

"Music" = guitar
"Instrument" = guitar

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There's a subset of this, even, who only knows WW2.

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That's disappointing.

I thought it looked generic and pointless but I was happy everyone seemed to like it.

So now that they don't, I'm disappointed.

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The cliche is just do Thanksgiving again but my family doesn't really stick to that.

My grandparents usually do Thanksgiving 2.0 but my parents will sometimes do breakfast for dinner, or one of the family favorite dishes like my mom's beef tips and rice, or this year she's just gonna make a big pot of chili.

With Mrs. DevsBro's family, there's no telling, lol. My mom-in-law used to do breakfast Xmas day but she eventually became too crazy to do it anymore so for a few years we went out for Chinese on Xmas Eve, and the last few years we just got some basic snacks at a relative's house, until said relative got too old to host so now we get to decide the new tradition, or lack thereof. We were just talking today about whether to keep it traditional or do something different.

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EffectAndCause posted...

SJWs

Then let them worry about it

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Who cares

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What happened is actual good acting has been destroyed and demolished by the anti-cheese police.

If you emote, it's cheesy acting.

So naturally, old films have better acting.

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6

NES
GBA
DS
3DS
PS3
PC

caps

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Honestly, I think Id rather just eat buttered noodles over just sauce too. You need the meat. If not, Im just going all the way back to my toddler ways.

Agree, plain buttered noodles are underrated af.

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GodBlessAustin posted...

Both of perfectly acceptable.

Agree. But which would you rather?

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Or a meatless cheeseless spaghetti burger

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PatrickMahomes posted...

I already do, so... free money

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Well, her name is literally "balloon". She's an airhead.

lol

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K181 posted...

if you did just that, they'd merely withdraw the $37 million and you'd be out the money you withdrew from your original balance.

Right, there's no practical difference between you spending the money that you already had and you spending the new money. So I would imagine they just act like you did the former.

Now, if you spent more than you had originally, that would be a problem. But I'm guessing it's a problem between you and your bank (overdraft, etc) unless it gets into higher numbers than the bank is willing to work with.

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lolno lol

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I thought it was great.

*shrugs*

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DirkDiggles posted...

Can you imagine Kevin saying "Yipiekaiyay, Motherfucker!" to the Wet Bandits?

You know...

I actually kind of can.

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I thought it was fuck the world

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All the ones with nudity

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I was gonna say gay hay because it sounds funny lol

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Vol2tex posted...

Mind blown

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I cant imagine my parents hitting me with a belt. Me and my brother would hit eachother as hard as we could with erector set pieces and matchbox cars for fun. Wtf could a belt do?

You know how if you flick a towel just right, the tip speeds up super fast and it stings like a mofo?

Imagine the towel is made of leather.

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