• Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    Maturing from the perspective of loving cake:

    Kid: When I grow up I will have my own money and can buy a whole cake everyday!

    Teen: When I leave the house I will be able to buy cake as much as I want!

    YA: see kid above ^^^

    Adult: Now I can finally buy as much cake as I want!

    Adult (later that day in varying degrees of pain): The cake was a beautiful lie

    And this is why you can never truly just eat as much cake as you want.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    As an adult, you are actually quite limited, because no one will protect you from the consequences.

    You have to think about safety and fitting in all the time, else people will not be at all very sympathetic when you are dying from whatever injury or disease.

    Or you need that job to afford food and medicine.

    Since you are constantly constrained by risk, you are paradoxaly less free.

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      47 minutes ago

      Nah I just finished off a cake. I didn’t buy quite off the shelf. I split the diff and dressed up a boxed chocolate cake mix to do kind of a cafe de ole cake.

      And if you’re competent lack of money won’t stop you.

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    As an adult, I’ve realized that although I can buy a cake any time and eat it, I don’t have the metabolism anymore I had when I was 16. Suddenly after hitting 25-ish, I gained the ability to gain weight and oh my god does it suck

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      Sorry to be that guy but technically it’s not metabolism changes, whilst they exist they’re fairly minimal, it would’ve been a combination of still growing which uses a lot of calories plus teens and younger adults tend to be far more active and therefore burn more calories in a day too. It’s mostly that, not much of a change in metabolism.

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    5 hours ago

    That cake looks very appetising but the one problem is that i have seemed to catch some sort of virus and ive been vomitting my guts out for the last 12 hours, tho thankfully its getting better but i would be very scared to eat something as heavy as that.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    The thing stopping me is my autism. Sweet creamy cool textures like those found in a cake feels like a personal attack on my tasting buds so I grew up without developing a sweet tooth. I’m grateful tho, thanks to this I rarely eat sweets at all, which turns to be a very healthy thing.

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    11 hours ago

    I realized this fully around age 27. I wish I never had. For me, it was pie though. Pie is superior to cake in every way.

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    11 hours ago

    One of the first things I did when I moved into my first apartment was buy a thing of cinnamon rolls and eat all of them by myself.