If you still have energy after this rather exhausting week in Trump news, here’s an open thread for you! No trolls or Trump fans.
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@ fran
I look at the care that’s gone into that meal and assume a guy who accessorises with chopped chives knows exactly what he’s doing.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it started as an autocorrect thing but he left it as a joke.
For those wondering what “It’s always September on the internet” means… September was when college started up after summer break, and college kids thought that the internet was for trolling between classes. They shortly figured out it was for all sorts of other things, and college required work to do well. So it usually calmed back down shortly. However, one year, AOL started getting huge, and the “trolling” set just kept getting new people added. They began feeding off each other, and improving their trolling skills. So now there are always people trolling.
I used to have a program that would work out how many days it had been since “Eternal September” started. It’s now been more than 10 years.
@Alan
It grieves me to rain on your parade (not that you would mind much, given the proclivities for rain in your locale, anyway) but that entree you are observing has most likely been prepared by a budget chain family restaurant and not by our erstwhile hero of this tale.
You see, there’s a “TGI Friday’s” menu beneath the plate, and that happens to be one of the more popular chain restaurants here in the Colonies.
Of course, this doesn’t prove anything. Maybe he works in the kitchen there. Maybe he just happened to have the menu at home as a souvenir and prepared the food in his own kitchen, and that’s just his own table.
I knew it was probably a chain restaurant meal when I initially glanced at it due to my experience at eating in those places. They all have a distinctly similar style of preparing food.
It’s hard for me to describe. The portions are always oddly shaped and clustered together like that. I should examine this matter further and write an essay about the curiously uniform nature of meals served at family chain restaurants, but I feel like someone probably did so already.
Food happens to be one of my obsessions, so I do actually notice little things like that.
@ fran
Cornwall is officially a sub-tropical climate. It snowed here once a few years back; you’ve not seen panic like it. Let’s just say I have a head start on dealing with a zombie apocalypse.
As to our culinary cultured (or otherwise) chum, I still think he was being funny.
@Alan
I initially assumed that bone apple tea was a dish I was unfamiliar with, perhaps the sauce. I was picturing a reduction made with marrowbones and cider, which could be quite tasty indeed, especially with pork.
@Fran
Several people have; the one I’ve read was called The End of Overeating and made many worthwhile points about the massive flaws of the US food system. (Also other places, but I am parochial enough to spend most of my focus on the stuff that happens where I live).
@ fran
Note that in Cornwall two inches of snow means even a Land Rover can’t cope apparently. And someone literally used a mini tractor to get to the pub (where we all huddled down for three days until the nightmare was over)
http://i.imgur.com/50myRPY.jpg
@Alan
Now, you see, this is the sort of thing that would have Americans going, “See? Global warming is a Chinese hoax!”
Awfully naughty of those Chinese to dump all that snow in your backyard.
Oh, I responded to you in the Daily Stormer article, by the way.
@Francesca Torpedo, Femoid Special Forces Major
We have TGI Friday’s restaurants here in Britain too. My local one (that isn’t that local really) is really great, and is usually a special treat. I can’t remember the last time I went there, but the curly fries always used to fascinate me!
@ Discussion about ‘Bone Apple Tea’
I too initially thought it was the name of the dish. It looked unusual so I thought it would be due to the unusual not-name. Then I realised I had seen that tweet before.
I must admit I did find it funny, I didn’t see that the guy was black, and I can imagine students at my expensive private school (well, not as expensive as some, but it left us with not much else in the way of money once the fees had gone in) also getting it wrong. Hey, we all get thinga like that wrong sometimes. It isnt too unusual I think for us to say things like that from time to time. I can understand the suspicions of racism for many of the people who laugh at it, as I of course don’t speak for anyone but myself.
I think the guy was likely joking anyway.
Re Cornwall. I know that the Scilly Isles (which are relatively close to Cornwall) are hotter than most other parts of Britain, so I can certainly see that as ‘sub tropical’!
Alan: Iqaluit residents buy ginormous trucks of ginormous ginormousness to handle the up to four inches of snow that a storm might dump.
Of course, if it really gets bad, you could just hop on the snow machine. Or walk. It’s a max of 4km from where anyone lives to downtown.
And your truck will get you up to 10km from where you left. That’s the distance from the old dump to the new dump.
The wastefulness kind of pisses me off.
@ nparker
Tssk, it’s Isles of Scilly (or just Scilly). The Cornish get quite harumphy about that; it’s a bit of a shibboleth down here.
@ numberobis
Part of the problem here was we literally had no snowploughs or gritting trucks. (That would have added £0.000003 onto the council tax bills, so fuck that). Having said that it was pretty much just an excuse for everyone to skive off work for a few days.
@Alan
I once ran a game that had shoggoths around there…
Alan,
I live in an area that co-opted the “Whose Line Is It, Anyway” phrase:
“Welcome to Indiana, where the weather is made up and the seasons don’t matter.”
@ Alan Robertshaw
Oh I know that, but those people are just Scilly (sorry…)
I get really, really cross when people insist on others calling certain destinations a certain thing, or putting the words in a certain order. I just simply don’t understand the pettiness. I like Cornwall but I’d probably call it the option a person doesn’t like to make a point!
However, my insistence that ‘scone’ rhymes with ‘cone’ is totally different. If you can’t even pronounce any of the words, that’s a different story. If someone pronounced them ‘Is-les of Skil-ee’ or something I would totally understand.
Besides, everyone calls them that so I’d just continue using the two names interchangably. (Not the mispronunciation, I mean Scilly Isles)
I’ve been there on holiday on around half the years of my life, but up until the last time we went my mum had been going there for around fourty years! She said whenever they went somewhere much more exotic, they’d all eventually sit there and talk about ‘how nice it would be to be at the Scilly Isles…’
I liked how there were no wasps. Much like there are seemingly no bugs at all in Lapland for the snowy parts of the year.
@ nparker
Heh, if you really want to cause a ruck down here put the cream on your scone before the jam.
The pronunciation of scone though was a big thing in my Yorkshire youth. We used the rhymes with “on” version. Using the long vowel meant you were really posh (like the Queen posh or something)
I lived in Connecticut a while. Having come from Central Texas, I was convinced that there were a number of weird seasons in CT. Spring, seed fall, leaf fall, winter. Every season had some rain. No real summer, 80 degrees F, maybe 1 day over 100 every few years. “It’s 80 degrees, how can you play soccer wearing long pants?” was a question I got.
I also enjoyed reminding people you could fit approximately 50 Connecticuts in Texas.
@ peevee
To quote my old geography teacher:
“Climate’s what you expect. Weather’s what you get.”
@ Alan Robertshaw
Good call! Alas, I don’t usually have either with a scone. Butter is perfect for me, although I sometimes have jam…
I never really got the ‘scon’ thing. That pronunciation really annoys me because it makes literally no sense. I sometimes say things like ‘what is the pointy shape with the circular base called? A ‘cone.’ How can you add one letter to that and come up with ‘scon?’ Is the pointy shape called a ‘con?’ and so on.
Perhaps I should call Comic-Con ‘Comic Cone’ to make that point?
Also the posh thing. ‘Scon’ sounds way more posh to me. Kind of like the difference between ‘why okay’ and ‘why of course,’ the latter has a higher pitched sound that people sometimes use when they want to appear flighty and sophisticated, which posh people do*. Like ‘oh maaay, what a fabulous day’ sounds rather posh and has those higher sounds in it.
I suppose the lesson to take from this is that unless one sounds like Jacob Rees Mogg, ‘posh’ barely exists. I don’t know why I don’t like the word ‘posh,’ perhaps it resembles the artificial class divide that seems to separate people. It is similar to how I hate the argument ‘we’re working class, we can’t send him to a private school because they’d be all posh and judgemental’ because that doesn’t really happen as much as some like to make out. It reminds me of those divides that humans need to overcome someday.
Interestingly, people think Alexander Armstrong is quite posh and he I believe says ‘scon.’ Anecdotal I know…
Well, like people in the stereotypical 1920s do anyway.
Whelp, one good thing about having CNN on all the time at work was that I got to see Steve Bannon looking REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE while surrounded by Saudi Arabian men during Trump’s welcome.
I also wonder how his more nazi fanbois are responding to the idea that Trump wants to “reset” relations with Muslims.
Though, it pissed me off to see the headline (paraphrasing) that the U.S. wants Muslims to “join the fight against jihadism”, as if they weren’t already fighting it in their own fucking countries ya fuckwhizzles.
Wonder if Trump is going to demand free oil like he did a few years ago?
The news is reporting that trump did not totally embarrass himself in public today.
Probably that’s just with the ridiculously lenient standards by which trump is judged.
Oh, and the US is selling shit tons of bombs to our good friend Saudi in recognition of their great human rights record.
In slightly OT news, Richard Spencer’s gym membership was revoked on grounds that being a nazi creates a hostile environment for other gym goers.
@ dalillama
That’s a pity. You can never have enough punchbags.
I should point out I do not endorse punching Nazis.
You should always use a palm strike. It’s safer for you, and much more effective.
http://i.imgur.com/x4Ki72s.png
@Alan & @Fran – when I saw Bone Apple Tea I assumed he was being funny about bon appetit and deliberately spelling it “wrong”.
I can vouch that at the very least, I and many people I know do this a lot just for fun, both written and spoken. Small sample set, so, whatever.
For example: “Suave and debonair” was always “swavay and de-boner”, hors d’oevres is “horse dove-rays” or “horse dee-ovaries”, Bon voyage = bon voyagee (Bugs Bunny sez a lot of them that way, too).
Although yes, a lot of people who learn words only from having read them have that trouble, too. I remember when Shia LaBeouf brought down wild sneers for saying “epi-tome” instead of “eh-pit-oh-mee”. My dad used to make me cringe saying “con-TEM-ple-late” instead of “cohn-tem-plate”. Etc.
Anyway, my point: I think dude is being funny.