Hard disagree with the bottom two, but a santoku, a regular-ass chef’s knife (Japanese, or German when a Japanese one’s unavailable), and a super sharp paring knife do me just fine. Cooked professionally for 2 decades with just those.

A filet knife and a cleaver I used very rarely, but were something the restaurants always had kicking around, because no one Smeagols one of those like we do our preciouses.

As a chef I feel like I have to say that a lot of these are wrong (or are weird choices,anyway), but the bottom one is chefs kiss.

To be fair, I also respond poorly to merely exiting my front door. So.

Gross; Vancouver’s where I keep my stuff!:( Like my cat and my body and my home. I don’t want apologists like this in my city.

Producers too, like music producers I mean. Though I can only speak to that field personally, it might be a similar situation, so I’ll share.

Well actually, I mean I guess it’s two things- one is that a male-dominated field with a lot of egos involved can pretty easily develop in a snooty direction. STEM careers are famous for that as well. It blows.

The second thing, the thing I was initially going to mention is that at least in the case of producing, there is an epic shitton of information you need to learn to do it well/properly, for starters. Even to just make your first piece, you need to actually STUDY it. That attracts two different archetypes, and the one that sucks is the overwhelming majority. :(

So, as you can probably imagine it’s super easy to find courses/tutorials online to learn stuff; you can find the whole field plus music theory on YouTube for free. The problem is that a lot of beginners don’t bother to do that, and/or don’t think they’ll need to. Unfortunately, it’s these lazy fucking casuals that saturate all our “ask someone who knows” spaces with asinine, uniformed nonsense questions.

So you see, by the time you see a question from a legitimate learner, sometimes even a peer, you’re so annoyed by the other sort that you can’t sort them.

That’s not fair to the legitimate learners, of course (and as someone who is not yet a full-on expert, I’ve been on the wrong end of this myself), but thats the sad state of things.

“Growing a thicker skin”, or so I’m told, is the only solution. :(

Drugs, honestly, but I strongly caution against that route.

I feel you though; I really do have no one, and I literally mean no one, to talk to. I was in a long term relationship until recently, and because I let him become my whole world, now that he’s gone I have no one in my life at all.

I’m also on permanent disability due to lyme disease, and have to get all my groceries delivered because its too hard for me a lot of the time to go get them myself. Thus, literal weeks often go by without me having a reason to step outside, or talk to another human.

I’m sure my neighbours in the adjacent suites think im a psychopath for talking to my cat like she’s a person every day, but if I didn’t I might forget how to talk, lol.

So, how do I cope, when its not drugs (though it’s usually drugs)? Well, I don’t really, but because I believe so strongly in my version of the theory of quantum immortality, I feel I can’t kill myself because anything I’d try, I’d survive. I’d be guaranteed to just end up with brain damage or a worse physical disability or something if I get any more serious with my suicide attempts. Essentially, it’s only for that I have no choice but to go on, that I go.

Oh, fun fact- this recent ex of mine, we were broken up over Christmas last year too, so I’m going on my second year of a zero human contact Christmas.

In the words of Aesop Rock, Jesus Christ my life is dismal.

One time, I had to have IV antibiotics for a dental infection, which meant having to be at the hospital for like a half hour every four hours, which sucked. After a couple days of this, praying to get switched to tablets, a doc finally saw me.

He walks into the room where I was waiting and the first thing he said was, “so, how about we try oral?”, and I was like, “slow down, doc, I just met you.” 😂

Swear to god, it did mot register whatsoever that I had made a joke. He responded like I had said slow down the switch to oral medication! I guess maybe he could have just been embarrassed and was trying to duck the moment, but idk. I thought it was a solid joke.

Though to be fair, Maynard does vary a lot from project to project, even if not from track to track. Also to be fair, though a lot of Tool songs sound alike, they all sound like the same GOOD song.

(Had to defend Maynard because we share a birthday, and I love having arbitrary reasons for doing things/making decisions. Redman, Jennifer Garner and Posh Spice are in the same birthday club, though I (arbitrarily) disregard criticism of Posh Spice.)

I would much rather the men wear themselves out with a physical activity before coming home, actually. Otherwise they get pretty cranky come bedtim, after playing fake racing games on their Xbox all day.

Mine does that anyway.

This sword is enchanted with fire magic!

…The handle is made of super flammable material, though, and a bunch of people got third degree burns trying to weild it. There was a massive recall.

You know what “recall” means, though? Collector’s item! These are rare af.