"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Do you think all the obesity Rx on the market has reduced demand for french fries?

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I was reading this, and got interested:
Lamb Weston, the largest producer of french fries in North America, announced last week that it is cutting 4% of its global workforce and curtailing production lines following a dismal earnings report, as first reported by CNN.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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I attribute this decline to our becoming a nation of sushi eating hipsters
 

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Not in Europe it hasn't...

I was stunned to see that almost every other restaurant I saw was some sort of Burger and Fry restaurant.
 

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They're for the tourists. You see many locals eating there? Plus you have to figure in the portion size, which is much smaller in Europe vs America.

Not sure, I wanted to try the local food not eat stuff I could get back home...never understood why people go to a country then want to eat the same food they could get back home except worse.

I was eating the Croquettes and BitterBallen in the Netherlands and Escargot in France, etc...

Even tried some traditional Welsh food in Lille because that's part of their culture there and almost every restaurant serves multiple Welsh items.

Have to admit I couldn't get down with the pickled herring that seemed to be everywhere in the Netherlands tho...I don't do raw fish at all...no sushi, no pickled herring, no caviar, etc
 

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Have to admit I couldn't get down with the pickled herring that seemed to be everywhere in the Netherlands tho...I don't do raw fish at all...no sushi, no pickled herring, no caviar, etc
And yet like almost every man at SS, you've chowed down on your share of Raw Kitty, with perhaps even some of it being Medium Rare at the time, even this ain't exactly what you ordered. Uncooked seafood is pretty banal, by comparison
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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I like me some french fried potaters. Mmm-hmm.
 

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Not sure, I wanted to try the local food not eat stuff I could get back home...never understood why people go to a country then want to eat the same food they could get back home except worse.

I was eating the Croquettes and BitterBallen in the Netherlands and Escargot in France, etc...

Even tried some traditional Welsh food in Lille because that's part of their culture there and almost every restaurant serves multiple Welsh items.

Have to admit I couldn't get down with the pickled herring that seemed to be everywhere in the Netherlands tho...I don't do raw fish at all...no sushi, no pickled herring, no caviar, etc
The best cuisines in the Netherlands are Indonesian & kebab.
 
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No, people are struggling. They are too poor to afford the luxury of French Fries.
Agree.
Plus with advancements in technology, machines are doing more work in the production process which is faster and cheaper to maintain than paying wages to employees. So when they cut back on the workforce, this circles right back to more poor people struggling and buying a bag of potatoes at the grocery store and coming home to make them at home instead of stopping by McDonald's.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Agree.
Plus with advancements in technology, machines are doing more work in the production process which is faster and cheaper to maintain than paying wages to employees. So when they cut back on the workforce, this circles right back to more poor people struggling and buying a bag of potatoes at the grocery store and coming home to make them at home instead of stopping by McDonald's.
Exactly. The way things are going with the economy is unsustainable because a rich person can only buy so many things for himself, and then save and invest their money. But they are not going to go McDonalds and buy fries until their belly pops out. That's why concentrating too much wealth in the hands of too few people will inevitably lead to a state of a Depression. It's mainly the masses of people who keep things running. If they can only afford bare necessities (even if they can go that far), then who is going to buy everything else? Obviously, as more people leave or are booted from the workforce, or have low-paying wage-slavery jobs, then it becomes counter-productive for corporations to continue to cut salaries or workers since their own business will eventually take a hit.
 

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Malcolm gladwell talks about Mcdonalds french fries on his podcast. Apparently when they used to be fried in beef tallow they tasted alot better. The change to frying in vegetable oil happened in 1991 i believe
 
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