A very good cookie recipe:

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract (they work fine w/o, but this adds an extra bit of tasty)

Couple cups of anything you want to add in (optional). We’ve used Hershey’s kisses, chocolate chips, and mini Reese’s peanut butter cups (dough around cup), and you could probably also use things like M&Ms, nuts, and such. 

1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2: Mix your base ingredients, plus add-ins if you prefer to add them that way.

3: Roll into 1-inch balls and set on cookie sheets. Wax paper is good but optional, these don’t really stick. 

4: Flatten them gently into cookie shape with a fork or cookie stamp- these don’t expand. Tip: if you use small add-ons and stick some on the bottom of each ball at this stage, you can have a pattern on top of the cookie without the pattern being full of add-ons. Especially good w/ cookie stamps. 

5: Bake for 10-12 minutes if plain or 13-15 minutes if add-ons are involved.

6: Let cool. These freeze and keep great that way if you wait for them to get about room-temp before freezing. 

And that’s it! Good w/ kids, it’s hard to mess up. You can multiply it very easily, as you can see. One batch makes about 15 cookies depending on rolling size, so I like to do a double batch. Just don’t put stuffed ones on the same sheet as plain ones, they cook differently. 

These are really good basic cookies to experiment with adding things into, and they’re great as plain cookies. You wouldn’t think it’d work this well, but it does.

paper-mario-wiki:

reminder to any adults following me: dont forget to pay that bill

reminder to young adults following me: dont forget to drink water and take your medication if you have it

reminder to kids following me: dont forget to feed your dog and dont take your time for granted

reminder to babies following me: learn to read bitch

The Real World: Avengers Tower

Interviewer: So what’s it like living with Tony?
Bruce: When I moved in, he insisted on funding all of my research. Except, you know, ever since The Incident, all my work’s been theoretical. It’s not actually that expensive. I’ve started just spending all the extra on fruit pies, just to see if he was keeping track. He isn’t. There are a lot of unused rooms in this building, and at least three of them are stacked floor to ceiling with fruit pies. He hasn’t said a word.
Natasha: It turned out Pepper and I both speak French. Tony doesn’t. Now, whenever he walks in, we just start whispering in French and giggling. Half the time we’re just exchanging recipes. He pretends not to be eavesdropping, but the other day I caught him asking JARVIS what ‘des oeufs’ meant.
Clint: I bought this big bag of little plastic flies, right? And whenever he’s not paying attention, I throw them into his drink. Half the time he doesn’t even notice and just drinks the damn things, but the other half? He starts checking all the house filtration systems, the exterminators, the works. He can’t figure out where all these flies are coming from. He’s fumigated three times in the last month.
Thor: I attempted to provide assistance with a project, but Stark assured me that it was ‘very technical’, and that I would not understand the intricacies. I can see why he would think so, as I am a mere Prince of Asgard, taught such basic engineering when I was a child and his ancestors could not yet walk. It has been five weeks, and he still has not corrected the misaligned condenser coil causing the problem.
Steve: I don’t know what Howard taught that kid, but he seems to be under the impression that homosexuality was invented in 2000. He keeps leaving magazines and pictures lying around like the sight of two men holding hands is going to give me a heart attack. I don’t have the heart to tell him about the Greeks.
Interviewer: So how are things in Avengers Tower?
Tony: How are things? I have no idea. I really don’t. There’s some kind of insect infestation in the vents and I think a spy is trying to seduce my girlfriend into moving to France. I tried to prank Captain America with gay porn, but him and Thor just started trying to reverse-engineer workout routines. The other day I went into one of the spare rooms, and I found some kind of one-armed sex hobo sitting on a throne of empty fruit pie boxes. I just walked out and closed the door. I don’t even wanna know.

I live in the USA and shock collars have always bothered me. I see them fairly often on dogs in Petco. I had to dogsit a family pet and was handed the remote to his shock collar to, in their words, keep him calm. He was a puppy and the reason he had it was because “he jumps and pulls on the leash”. Puppies… do that??

drferox:

Where shock collars are freely available there seems to be this persistent belief that if you can just be tough/fierce/scary/strong/alpha enough then the animal will ‘submit’ and have perfect behavior. This isn’t the case, and it’s super confusing for an animal to be surrounded by strong ‘DONT DO THAT’ messages without any positive ‘Do This’ messages, it can only guess at what you want.

Sometimes they stop trying and they exhibit learned helplessness, where they essentially do nothing because they don’t understand how to void the punishment. In a human this might look like depression, but people might mistake this behavior as being ‘a good/obedient dog’ instead. This is because the animal stopped showing the behaviour the human didn’t like, but it is not a good state for the dog to be in.