Agreed. Dry aged meat is amazing, though unfortunately you get what you pay for, and MAN do you pay. I love the stuff, though it's surprisingly difficult to find in SF, with only the worlds most rapey butchers carrying it (typically @ $25+ / lb for rib cuts).

I'm surprised that you use olive oil on your steaks as I've always found it a bit too flavorful, and to be honest, I shy away from it almost always as it's so easy to burn which just makes for some nasty flavors ime. I also add pepper after cooking as it burns which can also muddle the beefyness.

Butter is my preferred cooking fat when I can use it (clearly it burns pretty low, though brown butter is AMAZING), followed closely by grapeseed oil which is my neutral oil of choice (and has a nice, high smoke point). It also helps promote the malliard reaction which makes for a beautiful crust.

For some meat porn, and a very interesting article, check this out:

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php/...a-thick-steak/

It's from 2008, and I think it was floating on 2p2 a few years back, so you may have seen it, but he makes some great points.

You know, the more I think about it, maybe I need to pull out my blow torch.

poker content. quick river line check pls.

6 handed 1/2 Zoom. no reads except that i know he's a reg (my hud doesnt work on stars for some reason).

$200 effective, folds to villain on btn who opens to $5, sb folds, i call in the bb QJ.

i lead $8 into T86r, he flats.
turn Jdd, i lead ~17, he flats.
river Jx, i lead ~35, he jams, i fold.

I've never played zoom/rush, so idk about the dynamic. I don't think we get credit for a hand as strong as Jx here very often. Given that you backdoored it after leading the flop, I don't think we can fold this. I think he can have double floats in his range trying to rep the backdoor that in his eyes will make us fold most of our range. It feels so weird analyzing poker again.

I don't fold because backdoor trips is nice to hit.

All he can really put us on is a set or air and we'd probably three bet some of our pocket pairs pre. At least I do. Should I be?

I can't say whether that makes him more or less likely to be very strong but in unusual situations where he's full house or a bluff, I tend to call because it makes no difference to our long-term win rate.

what kind of regular is it? The only thing you should think about is whether he's capable of bluffshoving here or always shoves for value.

one month anniversity btw

yay

so the last couple times ive gone out ive been asked the same question by girls that seem pretty in to me. it's been some variation of "do you want kids?" (fml getting old.) im pretty sure im making a mistake by actually trying to answer truthfully rather than with some flip response or funny comment bybassing the topic altogether. i think im going to answer any future inquiries like that by saying i havent really considered it or that i havent met the right girl that's made me consider it yet or something else that skips over the topic.

im just sitting here at work now wondering wtf these girls are getting at/want to learn from asking that question? they ask this late into the night and my reaction each time has been basically "huh? oh well...and then think about it and answer truthfully, though with tons of caveats and i guesses because im thinking up my response in realtime and usually sort of drunk. if it's not clear already im pretty sure ive answered this question wrong each time haha

well if you are around these girls you should hear a zzzz sound. It's the sound of their uterus flapping. It's nature you can't hate them for it. Also never answer that you don't want kids. You can be the best husband on earth, but if you say that they'll cut you off (ofcourse there are exceptions).

Like you said just act cool about it and just make a funny comment about it like yeah kids are cool so how's it flapping? Also what age are you. I know a girl that can't stop talking about kids and I told her that kids at my age (25) are the stupidiest thing ever. She got mad.

I'm 26. One girl was 22 and I did tell her something like "yea I guess i want kids, but not anytime soon." She was like no way do i want kids lol. I forget what the other girl said but she was in the "for kids" camp. Regardless, each time I was asked this I was not necessarily flustered, but definitely caught off guard. I feel the convo takes a turn from playful and fun with sexual tension to a tone of something like a business negotiation, which is obviously bad and not fun.

I just usually answer that with "yea, maybe some day but it depends on who i'm with" or something like that that allows them to fill in the blank with their own answer. Its not like I'm saying it to be tricky or anything, since that basically sums up how I actually feel about it.

yea I was mainly curious as to what in girl psychology motivates a question like that. probably this isnt the best place to pose such a question though haha

start dating girls that dont want kids?

like I said bobcat. When their biological clock starts ticking they get the crazies for sperm injections.

a couple female friends have told me that no matter the situation whenever they sleep with a guy they pretty much always feel the immediate biological desire to marry and/or be with him long term, regardless of the circumstances

I assume this is typical

yeah where as I always f regret it after I finish lol.

Yesterday evening I let a girl sleep at my place (big f mistake).

I actually wrote myself when she went to the bathroom to clean herself a text in word to protect myself from never contacting her again.

(I'll translate obv from dutch -> english).

Nathan listen up. Sex isn't everything. You f hate it after you finish. You wish you were doing better things. She's nothing for you. Go jerk off and you know what I mean.

lol.

bigger lol was my dad this morning when I came back home from my appartment.

dad "Nathan this was one of the first time you actually let one of them sleep right?"
"uhh yeah"
dad "well maybe you don't know it yet, but it's the beginning of something more"
*laughs pretty hard* "no wayyy"

didn't tell him about my advice for myself..

There was an awkward situation with me recently...

My best friend, who helped me hook up with my gf was with me in my room with his gf who's also incidentally my friend.

We were watching iron man 2 on my 50 inch plasma, having some drinks, blah blah blah... Suddenly he suggested that all 4 of us go to his GF's place, which was like a 30 minute walk. No one really knew why, she has a small ****ty T.V and there's nothing to do there, but he was persistent.

When we were leaving he asked me for a condom, I gave it to him of course. He then said "Why dont you bring along a condom?" I asked why I would need a condom? He didn't answer...

We went to his GF's place, we had some drinks and started watching T.V. He started acting all creepy, like feeling up his GF infront of us. Then he went to the bedroom, which was right in the next room to the T.V room, and asked if we wanted to join him. We said no.
He then started having sex with his gf right next door really loudly.

This was honestly really awkward for me and I wasn't sure how to respond. I'm not one to get excited in these kind of situations.

After like 30 min he came back in and was like "How was the ****?"

I was like "uhh, we didn't have sex, we just kinda watched T.V"
"Really? I heard you guys"
"Yeah.. heard us watching T.V"


That was like a week ago...
Before this he was my best friend but this really changed my opinion about him honestly
I think his initial goal was a 4-some, which is just weird and bad, but this situation wasn't good either.
I've been kinda avoiding him ever since.

thoughts?

he wants to **** you.

I hope not...

It would make sense, my gf is bisexual and his gf is pretty open about sex...

But still.. I dont want to see him naked, nor do I want to see him touching my gf...

just tell him? What's wrong about it? My best friend had a freak of a girlfriend that came in naked in my room asking if I wanted to join (was in the middle of the session). While she giggles and asks me I hear him screaming from the next room C'MON MAN JOIN US!

Double teaming goes too far for me, but being naked together in a sauna is nothing wrong with. Just tell him where you draw the line. I know he double teams with another friend of mine. They go to sex parties aswell lol.

I just don't know how to bring that up in conversation

I guess there's nothing inherently wrong about it, but it was just really awkward. And I didnt like the fact he planned it from the beginning, like I would somehow get horny and fall into his four-some trap
If he had asked me from the beginning I could've said no, and that would've been completely ok

lol just say that you aren't into that? Is sex such a taboo that you can't say no to a foursome or just talk openly about it? That's ackward imo

curve, meet kilillan. kilillan, curve.

You don't have to tell him, you already did by not doing anything.