I am outraged that the snack cake poll did not have a bacon option.
Around 40 years ago, I would have said, “Hostess, of course.” The main alternatives in my neck of the woods were Dolly Madison (principally known as the sponsor of the Charlie Brown TV specials) and Little Debbie (which were hyper-cheap and better than nothing, but the cakes tasted like they were made of wax).
Nowadays, I don’t eat snack cakes often enough to have an opinion; but everything has changed and I no longer know what, if anything, is any good.
Some from each. Hostess for their coffee cakes. Entenmann’s for the apple pies. Bimbo for the wide variety of flavors we don’t usually get, and smaller portions as well.
So much this. Overall, American 21 y.o. folks these days are “younger” mentally than they were, say, during the Depression. Some can be more mature than those twice their age because they were brought up to start making there one decisions young or were well-guided. Today’s “Let kids be kids” but overscheduling them instead of allowing them to create their own schedules has slowed the mental progress to adulthood. Covid made things worse as today’s young adults didn’t all get the usual socialization skills learned in high school and college. Online life doesn’t really give those skills. I’ve witnessed it in much of the training I have done in motorsports, as well as the workplace.
Re the Oblivion choice. I’m getting closer to Oblivion all the time. I feel that I’m getting close to it, with my heart problems so, while I love life, life when you get winded just walking is tiring. And that poverty life promised, doesn’t say if it comes with handicaps, or constant illness but being poor, almost guarantees it will happen at some point. That’s how I got to where I am today. I’d probably pick oblivion. We depressives are like that.
Yeah, his actual first name was Hiram but he was called Ulysses even as a yout.
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Right. Ulysses was his middle name, and the “S” a mistake (by West Point, if I recall correctly)
I am a woman who exclusively wears sports bras and therefore don’t deal with claps but I have seen other women do the backwards bra thing.
I was told by the Scary Bra Lady at Dillard’s, where my mom took me to get fitted for my first real (i.e. not training) bra that I should always put my arms through the straps and lean over to get my breasts fully into the cups before reaching behind my back to hook the bra. She was extremely authoritative and I’ve done it that way ever since.
I did try the “hook in front and turn it around” method one time when I had an injury and couldn’t reach behind my back. It didn’t work - it squished my breasts sideways and I couldn’t get them properly into the cups. Scary Bra Lady knew what she was talking about!
I am a woman who wears pullover bras, no clasps. I think I used to do the backwards bra thing, but no longer remember for sure. I have seen other women do it.
ETA: I haven’t eaten any of those snack cakes in ages. I have no idea which, if any, of them I might like if I did. – Does “someone else” mean “some other brand”? Or does it mean “something else, such as ‘no idea’”?
I don’t think I’ve eaten any of those snack brands (the ones sold in California at least) since my 20s…so, a long time. I remember liking Twinkies as a kid and hating Snoballs.
I agree with @InternetLegend 's Scary Bra Lady, and that’s how I do it. My sister has issues and can only put hers on backwards.
I dont wear bras anymore because if I sweat, I’ll get a rash under my boobs. So I wear a little tank top I got at Target for $3.
Bras: I do the hook first in front, then slide around to the back. But th strap is well below my boobs, and gets pulled into place when everything is facing the right way.
It just occurred to me with all the bra talk: I’ll bet underwire bras are exponentially more difficult to hook in front and then wiggle into than those without.
Regarding the panties poll…
No, I’m not being pervy. I heard David Sedaris mention in an interview that he was scolded by a woman for his use of the word panties in an essay. According to her, only men call them panties. Women refer to them as underwear.
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To me, “panties” are a specific type of underwear. Which word I’d use would depend on the context, and how specific I needed to be. (If you asked me to picture a woman standing around in just her underwear, I would probably imagine one wearing panties and a bra.)
Do women never need to be that specific?
I would not use “panties” to describe those thong-type things.
If I need to be that specific, I say “underpants.”
The way the old boards actually worked, if you browsed by latest posts (or whatever that was called, I forget): all threads/topics in time of most recent posting order, with the ones I had posted in checkmarked so I could tell which ones they were.
It’s one of the few things I preferred about the way the old boards worked, as compared to Discourse.
I actually call them undies. Although if I were in a store, I’d likely say panties. Or maybe underwear, since it’s all in the same place. Depends on which neuron fired that day
Now that I think about it…panty liners is a thing.
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