• "god, yours is salty!"
• "want some jelly, baby?"
• "it looked more exciting in the preview"

Inspired by https://youtube.com/shorts/a6Lbiwhn9Sk

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Today in my series of (#YouTube) comments that I may some day turn into a proper blog post, #FiXatoCommentsOn @olafurw's video with Tips for a Nordic Winter:

When I tell people "it's snowing 😭", they tend to react confused: "but snow is so beautiful!".
Yeah, no, snow is a treacherous sneaky bastard. From a distance, or in the low light levels, it's hard to tell if that patch of snow will gently compact when you step on it, whether you'll sink up to your knees through it, or if it's solid. Are those threadmarks fresh, or will they make your teeth dance violently in your mouth while you vibrate up and down as you cycle over those frozen ribbed-for-no-ones-pleasure textures.
Spikes for your shoes (or better yet, shoes with permanent spikes so you don't risk losing them halfway your journey in the dark, in the middle of the snow) are excellent and worth the expense though. However, they are not much use if the ice is hidden underneath treacherous (fresh) snow, which compacts around the soles and spikes of your shoes, so now you have snow soles making contact but no grip with the slippery ice, rather than the metal nublets gripping into it...

As for "oh, snow is so beautiful!": yeah, sure, the first 1 or 2 days after it has fallen. But especially in the city, that pristine white soon turns into disgusting grey-brown sludge when it mixes with mud, exhaust, and other grime as the result of people and cars moving through and past it. Which then freezes over and you'll be stuck with it for the remaining 4–6 months of winter.
Snow is beautiful, out in nature, when I have free time. Not in the city, when I have to walk for half an hour to work daily, or to the shops, to buy milk (with a little jam on the side).

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I'm still waiting for a Groundhog film where his loop seems to break after he does whatever the hell he wants because he thinks it comes with no consequences.

Maybe first do a bit of fourth wall breaking by having him recognise he's looping "like that guy from Groundhog Day", and then first spends a couple of loops trying to do good things, just for the sake of getting out of the loop, only to not break out of it. (Perhaps because he's not genuinely trying to help others, but rather only does it to help himself.)

After several loops trying to nail the perfect loop, only to wake up disillusioned on Day One again, he cracks and spends the next loop giving in to every intrusive thought, including taking out the groundhog, ending the day in jail.
Only to wake up the next day, Day Two... still in jail. Now his loop is broken and he's forced to face the consequences of his choices.

Not quite sure how to end it though...
Perhaps that at first he thinks it's because he took out the ground hog, but eventually he realises it's because he only did the good things with the intention to get out of the loop. A bit like how The Good Place explored Immanuel Kant's deontological philosophical concept of "good without qualification"; doing good because you should, and not because of the reward you are expecting because of it.

And once he truly realises that, perhaps sacrificing himself to save someone else, he wakes up on Day Two again, but this time that day continues on from how the very first Day One would've ended.

Alternatively maybe play with the idea that all this time he's been in Purgatory, and having finally realised the mistakes of his life, he's finally ready to move on to the next stage of his afterlife.

Or a combination of the two, and having to carry on with his life, never being sure if he's still stuck in a longer loop, doomed to repeat at some point as a Purgatorial punishment loop, similar to those from some episodes of #Lucifer.

#FiXatoCommentsOn The Italian Groundhog Day You Didn't Know Existed in the Goodnight Rita - A Groundhog Day Deep Dive podcast series

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#FiXatoCommentsOn B. Dylan Hollis' #Pfeffernüsse recipe:

In the Netherlands these 'kruidnoten' (literally: spice nuts), as they are called in Dutch, are still a traditional treat around St. Nicholas Day, 5th/6th of December. (Though I've yet to see them with an icing coating; white, milk, dark chocolate coatings however, are common; and tasty!). They usually already arrive in shops around September/October though.
Though they are colloquially also known as 'pepernoten' (literally: pepper nuts), those are technically a different treat; where kruidnoten are small and crispy, pepernoten are bigger and more chewy. As wikipedia describes it: "They are light brown, square shaped, and made from the same ingredients as taai-taai : rye flour, sugar and anise, and sometimes also cinnamon, and clove. They are fairly chewy, though they harden gradually when exposed to the air."

You should find a recipe for taai-taai (pronounced similar to 'Thai Thai', I guess); you might find that interesting to make and taste too.

#Kruidnoten #pepernoten #taaiTaai #Sinterklaas #StNicholasDay #BDylanHollis #FiXatoWrites

Gonna do an experiment for a while: share some of the longer #YouTube and other social media comments I leave, since YT sometimes feels like a blackhole, as I feel like some of these I could later expand into a blog post.

I'll tag these with #FiXatoCommentsOn, so feel free to mute that tag if it doesn't interest you.