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[LordBaal]

Being celiac must be really bothersome indeed.

[heydude6]

It's gotten better over years. When the granola girls caught wind of it, the corporations actually started trying.

You will still never willingly eat gluten-free bread raw though. You have to either toast it, cover it in peanut-butter, or fry it as part of a grilled-cheese sandwich. You're never going to get the joy of digging into a fresh loaf of bread.

[methylatedspirit]

I just learned that if you buy an asexual flag from a big place, the color reproduction on the flag can be so bad, that the bottom color, purple, turns to pink. The result is that instead of an asexual flag, you end up with a gynephilia (attraction to women/femininity) flag.

How shit is the color reproduction on mass-produced flags that it can't render purple correctly? Who made the gynephilia flag so close to the asexual flag that bad printing can mix the two together? It's so bad, that I look up "gynephilia flag" on Google, and it gives me asexual flags interspersed with the flag I'm looking for.

[wierd]

Hilariously, the blue dye used in many printing applications bleaches very quickly in the sun, leaving only stronger magenta behind.

This is because the more light-stable prussian blue is actually a dispersion of small particles, and can clog print nozzles. Such fun! 


Also, why be pride-y about your asexualness?  The only people who are going to understand that flag anyway are other people in the alt-sex demographic. It wont make heterosexual people understand you any better at all.

[Eschar]

It wont make heterosexual people understand you any better at all.

Hey I would recognize the ace flag.

And it's very aesthetically pleasing as well

[methylatedspirit]

Also, why be pride-y about your asexualness?  The only people who are going to understand that flag anyway are other people in the alt-sex demographic. It wont make heterosexual people understand you any better at all.

Some people, man. The Youtuber that I learned that fact from went on to explain that the entire world is basically built around sex, and it fully expects you to want it. It's assumed to be a universal truth. Like, you can't just be not interested in anyone, you have to have something wrong with you. It's like love and sex is the be-all, end-all of life to most people. That guy wanted nothing of it, so he does go a little pride-y about it, since asexuality is basically nonexistent in media. Hence the whole "buying an asexual flag" thing. Plus, he's a Youtuber talking about being ace, so it sorta fits the theme, you know?

Plus, there are some nasty motherfuckers in the LGBT community who exclude asexual (and aromantic) people just because they think aces aren't as oppressed as gay and lesbian people (or some other bullshit reason, I don't care). Aphobia is a thing, and it can happen within the LGBT, the very community that they were meant to be protected by.

[thompson]

It's gotten better over years. When the granola girls caught wind of it, the corporations actually started trying.

You will still never willingly eat gluten-free bread raw though. You have to either toast it, cover it in peanut-butter, or fry it as part of a grilled-cheese sandwich. You're never going to get the joy of digging into a fresh loaf of bread.

Home-made gluten-free bread can actually be half-decent. The trick is to bake enriched bread with egg/oil/milk/butter. You can even leaven it with yeast (although don’t knead it as there’s no gluten to activate - stirring it will just release the trapped gasses, which you don’t want). Large manufacturers can’t do it well as they need to bake it in a gf kitchen, seal it airtight, and ship it.

Google “Gluten-free artisan bread in five minutes a Day”. Their English muffins are surprisingly decent too. Not as good as wheat, but definitely better than anything mass produced.

[scriver]

Aphobia

They called their phobia "not-phobia"?

[methylatedspirit]

Aphobia

They called their phobia "not-phobia"?

Well, I'm not the one making up the terminology here. I'm just following what the Youtuber said, and assuming that he's following the standards, insofar as there are standards. I enjoy following standards if it means I get to be more well-understood, if you can't tell. Sometimes you get constructions like "aphobia", and I'm powerless to change it. Shit happens.

[NJW2000]

Aphobia

They called their phobia "not-phobia"?

It follows conventions. "Homophobia" is an equally stupid word according to your logic, as it means "phobia of things that are the same" or something like that when the latin is interpreted literally. "Biphobia" would mean "fear of things there are two of" - a rather crippling condition, to say the least.

In fact: "Claustrophobia" - fear of locks. "Agoraphobia" - fear of markets.

The logical conclusion here is that the learning of Latin should be banned, and the etymologists hunted, so that people no longer object to perfectly functional words.

[TD1]

"Okay boys, it's open season on the etymologists. Who's first on the list?"
"That would be NJW2000, sir. He's displayed a disturbing knowledge of etymological meaning."

"It's a great time to be alive. Not for NJW. But for us."

[Mathel]

Aphobia

They called their phobia "not-phobia"?

It follows conventions. "Homophobia" is an equally stupid word according to your logic, as it means "phobia of things that are the same" or something like that when the latin is interpreted literally. "Biphobia" would mean "fear of things there are two of" - a rather crippling condition, to say the least.

In fact: "Claustrophobia" - fear of locks. "Agoraphobia" - fear of markets.

The logical conclusion here is that the learning of Latin should be banned, and the etymologists hunted, so that people no longer object to perfectly functional words.

Phobias should actually be named in greek, not latin. They are named after the servanth of Ares, Phobos (Φόβος). The latin variant is Terror.
Latin for market: "forum". "Agoras" is greek
"Homo-" just happens to be taken from greek in latin. But in latin, it also means "human" (the word "human" is taken from latin to english).
"Bi-" is greek for double. In latin, it would be "di-".
But I agree that most of these phobia names are stupid. They just took the prefix for the orientation and put it in the phobia's name.

"to close" translates (by google translate) to "na kleíso" (να κλείσω), which may be the basis for "klaustrophobia", or fear of being closed.

"Okay boys, it's open season on the etymologists. Who's first on the list?"

I am second, apparently.

[King Zultan]

"Okay boys, it's open season on the etymologists."

"You thought hunting regular people was dangerous they haven't got anything on the etymologist, an etymologist is even more dangerous because it can harm your feelings with archaic you can't even comprehend but you know they're hateful....       you just know."

[Kagus]

"Okay boys, it's open season on the etymologists."

"You thought hunting regular people was dangerous they haven't got anything on the etymologist, an etymologist is even more dangerous because it can harm your feelings with archaic you can't even comprehend but you know they're hateful....       you just know."

I think you accidentally a colloquialism.

[scriver]

Aphobia

They called their phobia "not-phobia"?

It follows conventions. "Homophobia" is an equally stupid word according to your logic

No, it wouldn't. Aphobia is funny not because the word does not directly translate to what it is used for, but because it translates to "no phobia". And that is funny.