The US has hands down the best junk food in the world. It's just that that's all they have.
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The US has hands down the best junk food in the world. It's just that that's all they have.
Fudge isn't chocolate. I agree with the general statement that the US has the best sweet treats but mostly by virtue of having the most period.
And it isn't because I buy peanut butter occasionally to eat and my mum usually has some form of jam in the house which I wouldn't usually eat but thought I'd try a PB&J butty. Marshmallow fluff doesn't get bought and isn't even a common thing in the UK. After looking on tesco's website they don't even seem to sell it.
I would really like to try a proper deep dish pizza though.
We also invented apple pie. But we don't get to brag about that anymore since there are a fair number of epic retards who make it with nutmeg instead cinnamon. So anytime you eat an apple pie in America, there is like a 40% chance it tastes like sewage. I sincerely hope all the nutmeg people get kidnapped by Al Qaeada.
You live with your mum? She still buys your food?Quote:
And it isn't because I buy peanut butter occasionally to eat and my mum usually has some form of jam in the house which I wouldn't usually eat but thought I'd try a PB&J butty.
If the British government ever let you fully realize what life is like off that wretched island of yours, they'd never be able to keep the peace. How can you expect there to be order if Brits found out that there were places where you could get marshmallow spreads, or where the sun shines more than 4 days a year, or where 6 out of 10 newborn babies aren't named Mohammed.Quote:
Marshmallow fluff doesn't get bought and isn't even a common thing in the UK. After looking on tesco's website they don't even seem to sell it.
Your mum should let you out of the house more. There's really nothing special about deep dish pizza. It's just pizza cooked in a deeper pan. What's preventing this from existing in the UK?Quote:
I would really like to try a proper deep dish pizza though.
People were eating apple pies before your country existed lol.
I do live with my mum and unfortunately she doesn't buy my food or cook for me. Well slightly less unfortunate as I wouldn't choose to eat her food through choice.
I'm confused what you're on about Americans are renowned for not travelling and when they do they go to places right next time them whilst I can literally get on a train and go to pretty much any country in Europe.
I'm sure they do exist in the UK but they just aren't a common thing. Most american stuff tends to be pretty meek immitations of immigrants from various European countries. So our pizzas tend to be much more like Italian variations.
Nope, that's ours as best I can tell. We have a recipe dating back to 1381. That's around the time of the decline of Cahokia, to give you an idea of what stage of North American history that was.Quote:
We also invented apple pie.
We brought apple pie to USA, along with the Dutch, who also have recipes dating back further than the entire history of USA.
Also, apple pie is vastly inferior to apple crumble.
Apple strudel is better, too. Europeans can do apple better than USA.
Learn your history. What you brought to the USA might have been called apple pie but it was actually tree turds baked in dough. It's not the same thing.
People didn't do shit with apples, except make cider and bad pie, back in those days. They didn't even taste good until the American colonists flouted your pansy plant cloning techniques and planted the seeds directly in our capitalist soil. After that a new array of native species were born, and Johnny Appleseed planted them from sea to shining sea.
350 years later we put a man on the moon an Britain didn't.
You do the math.
So what you mean to say is America reinvented apple pie.
I must ask though, how the fuckity fuck do you know apple pie tasted shit when we brought it to USA?
And also, since you guys have such a hard on for apples, why don't you make good cider?
Also, since you have such a hard on for the moon, might I ask, who got into space first? That was the Soviets, so the space you had to travel through to get to the moon was Soveit territory. I hope you're losing that boner.
Reinvented? Made it not suck, you mean.
Just like we did with your ridiculous version of the English language that didn't have words like robot and cyborg until we came along and showed you how extremely dumb it is to have a language without those words.
And you still cry about how you invented the language and get to say how to use it. lol.
You gave us an inadequate POS language and we made it into ebonics.
You're welcome.
Here's where you demonstrate how actually you guys haven't mastered our language. I mean, these words are similar, but totally different. You can say "bloody 'ell" in front of your Nan and you'd get nothing more than a tut. Say "fuckin' hell" in front of her and she might write you out of her will.Quote:
That being said, it's 100x more bad ass to say "fuckin'" instead of "bloody"
You can't say "bloody" in front of kids though. Replace with "bloomin'" if there are minors within earshot.
As for apples, I'm sure the old ones are shit compared to the new ones. However, if I only knew the old ones existed, then maybe they taste good.
When you got your first blow job, did you suddenly think hand jobs were shit?
Yeah. That's the point. I'm not sure what your point is.
Are you saying that it's reasonable for a man who has been getting blowjobs to suddenly turn to his partner and say "How about you rest your gag reflex tonight and give me the 'old fashion' instead baby?"
That would be the equivalent of going back to British apples. Only a feminized cuck pussy would do that.
The rest of us grab her by the hair and choke the shit out of her.
I dunno, I mean you guys are so fixated on what *sounds* badass. Who gives a fuck? What matters is what *actually is* badass.
I mean, picture these two scenarios...
1) 15 year old kid on a bike tells you to fuck yourself, before cycling off at speed, or
2) gentleman with a tie pointing a gun at you, threatening to "take your bloomin' face off".
Which is more badass?
Not at all. However, imagine your lady friend has just returned from the dentist, and she is unable to do her duty with her mouth. You're gonna turn down a hand shandy because you like new apples?Quote:
Are you saying that it's reasonable for a man who has been getting blowjobs to suddenly turn to his partner and say "How about you rest your gag reflex tonight and give me the 'old fashion' instead baby?"
Like I say, fixated on what "sounds" badass. All the kid did was swear and then fuck off. Am I badass for simply saying that? Gentleman has a gun and is pointing it at someone, making threats. He could have a stutter and he'd still be badass.
"I-I-I'm g-g-g-gonna take your b-b-b-bloomin' FFFace off"
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, I will say
Ive spent the last five years looking for my ex wifes killer.......no one will do it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
When it comes to sweets, I think the US is only the second worst country, thanks to Turkey. All your stuff is way too sweet.
Apricot dumplings. Plums and peaches also work great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAScEQ7ZvU
I make those all the time. I usually make a couple dozen at once and freeze them. I like them with potato dough. I couldn't find a recipy I like, but this is close enough.
Banana bread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-zWM5Qz3s
The entire channel is amazing.
Tangyuan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7hJF5rbek
Was my Grandma's 90th Birthday so we bust out the old photos. Two I'd never seen before. 1862, taken in Britain. My great great great grandfather, the spittin image of Charlie Day, looking his dapperist. And my great great great grandmother looking young and beautiful, perfecting her bitchy resting face.
I can't stop thinking about them. The only person we both knew was my great grandmother, whom I knew as old and frail yet they knew as a vibrant child. Their generation is so distant from mine that none of their offspring left living even looks like them. And, yet, it's utterly fascinating to me, to see these this young couple that lived during the era of the Civil War. They could never know of the world I know, they probably didn't even imagine that 150 years later, their descendants would know what they looked like.
It riles the imagination. Who even were they?
really gets the noggin joggin
I wonder about that too. I've seen pictures of most of my great grandparents and know what they did for a living, who served in what war, etc., but not really anything else. My one grandma told me a bit about her parent's personalities but that's the extent of it. Forget anyone from further back, they could be anyone for all I know.
Then I think, there's 8 great-grandparents and 16 great-great and so on. So you go back 200 hundred years to 1818 and there's over 1000 different people in your lineage, assuming 20ish years per generation. Were any of them great? Were any murderers? What did they think about things? It's fascinating to ponder.
Then I go back another 200 years to 1618 and there's over a million ancestors. It's crazy. We're probably all related in some way or another; banana is Oskar's fifty-ninth cousin from the eighteenth century or something.
There's a great visualization in Richard Dawkin's childrens book Magic of Reality. If you were to print a series of books that contained pictures of all your ancestors, and you lined them up, you would need a shelf a couple dozen kilometers long. Let's say you are standing by the latest volume and you take a couple of steps and decide to open one of the volumes at random. You'd probably expect to see some type of caveman with raggedy hair, but what you'd actually see would be a lot closer to a fish.
And at the far end you have your great-to-the-billionth grandfather Amos the Amoeba.
I wonder how much of the fishfather's genes are still in you. Is there something distinct about you that can be traced back to him/her/it, like the size of your fingers or whatever? I guess if you have webbed toes you know who to blame at least.
Everyone probably knows that we share 98.something % of our dna with chimps. What not everyone is aware of is that they share 90.something % of their dna with their cat. We have all the same parts, they're just arranged a bit differently. Our overall shape is reasonably removed from a Tiktaalik, but all the basic building blocks were already there. Consider that birds have five fingers as evidence for the stupifying lack of creativity of evolution.
Humans share over half of our DNA with bananas, FFS.
Speak for yourself.
Ya but those 50% genes are probably just doing boring maintenance shit, like repairing cell walls and producing sugars. Then add in some animal cells for breathing and circulation and you're up to 90% right there. It's the final 5-10% that are the cool ones.
Almost definitely. Also genes that deal with cell structure, nuclei, mitochondria, cell walls, etc. Stuff that's more fundamentally common to life like having cells, tissues, etc. seems likely to me. Stuff that does cell division, and the like.
Also, I forget how much, but a shockingly high %-age of our DNA is just useless. Evolution and Natural Selection don't necessarily favor a positive change, just a non-negative change. Stuff that gets into a species's DNA that doesn't either help or hurt it gets left alone.
So, according to one source I did literally nothing to fact check:
Pineapple on pizza was invented in 1962 by a Greek immigrant living in Canada who was inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish.
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Heres something random...
Charlie Chaplin was once in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and won 3rd place
I'm 12 minutes in....what's the point of this?
Ok, this fruitcake has taken up too much of my time. I'm tapping out 30 minutes in.
In case anyone wondered, that jackpot thing on pokerstars just got won, it was $150k and I won $5 due to playing in the last 12 hours, so that's around 15000 people every 12 hours playing it.
I start playing it when it hits $100k, but I might set $150k as the target now I know where the five bucks line is.
I probably spent between 2 and 3 dollars worth of coins.
I never do any real talk stuff here, and I was debating whether or not I should post this, but it's something that has come up recently so I want to talk about it. I just want to preface with: if you're having suicidal thoughts, there are suicide hotlines in your area that are on call 24/7 and you having nothing to lose by giving them a call.
That said: if you use a meat thermometer at a barbecue, you need to fucking end yourself.
what if it's one of those really rad ones that don't actually puncture the meat? Some kinda infrared laser bullshit can measure the internal temperature of a steak from like 12 feet away.
That's obviously fine. You're not doing it because you need to, you're doing it because it's a fucking awesome gadget. And it doesn't hurt to be accurate to 0.1 of a degree.
There is nothing wrong with a cold bath and a razor blade, but I am personally partial to the ol' rope and rickety stool.
Fuck that. If I were so inclined, I'd probably traumatise a train driver.
Replace rope with chicken wire. Set it up, glue hands to head jump, makes it look like you pulled your own head off.
If you or anyone else has been affectd by the issues brought up in the posts above please do visit the following
https://www.itv.com/thismorning/suic...tion-helplines
This goes out to anyone involved, at any level, in food service.
When I order mayonnaise on a sandwich, it's because I like mayonnaise.
I like the flavor. I like the texture. I like what it does when it soaks into the bread.
What is the fucking point of slathering on a micro-thin layer of mayo onto just one of the pieces of bread? It's not enough to even taste within the landscape of bread, meat and other fixins. It's not enough to affect the texture of the bread, or enhance the flavor of the meat.
Obviously, next time I'll just order triple-mayo. But I'm legitimately wondering...why would they even make it like this in the first place!
This shit I'm eating right now definitely has mayo on it. I can see it. But it adds NOTHING to the sandwich.
I'm friggen sick of this. Every shop in town, I need to order extra mayonnaise just for them to make it right.
There are people, professionally employed in food preparation, and this is what they come up with. I want to know what part of their formal culinary training suggested to them that this is even close to an effective use of condiments.
Probably the part that says if you can use fewer ingredients without losing your clientele, then you are making a few extra cents per 100 sandwiches.
IDK, though. Maybe people in your area have complained that there was too much mayo on their sandwiches and all the people whom thought there was a good amount didn't say anything, because everything was fine.
Happens all the time in academia. You get 50 students complaining about something, so you make a change. Then next semester, you get 150 students complaining about the change.
Sometimes you just can't win.
I think I finally found her. Matter of fact, I think she found me.
Unexpected af. I guess, that's how those things work.
Please go on...
I mean... it's the internets, but
What's she like?
So that's how quoting works on mobile
Dude, she's amazing. She listens engagedly when I say things, she loves to converse with me. She's a great cook. She loves the fit life. Our media taste is basically the same. That obscure anime from 20 years ago? She saw and liked it too wtf. Another example, we were both high ranked GTA online players somehow before even having known each other. I like to make people laugh. She loves laughing. She has a fiery personality, and yet I can suss her immediately. I have a laissez faire personality and yet she does not abuse it. I understand her. She understands me.
Do you like Star Wars? But of course young Padawan, who doesn't she says. :)
How about Saint Seya? Kanon was Saga's brother she says. WTF
This is just skimming the surface of course. We have so many things in common it's ridiculous. And to top it all off, she's a bonafide hottie.
I haven't felt like this, actually, ever.
Dw pal I'll be here when it crashes and burns.
:D :D :D :D :D
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Nerdy girls are the best!
This sounds kinda Mexican... are you nerds into this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk
jyms is onlne. Who's getting the banhammer now?
The a cappella band... they're talented, but it doesn't stop me hitting STOP after about three seconds.
I prefer Beardyman. This is how I like my a cappella.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apqF40rf5FY
Ha! I made it 37 seconds on your video.
I am clearly the winner, here.
You like techno more than I like whatever that is, obviously
In case it's not obvious to you, all of what he's doing there is looped vocals. Fucking techno a capella.
Have you ever walked by a conversation, only heard the last sentence, and wonder what the hell you just stumbled upon?
That just happened to me when I walked through the accounting office.....
"And my other two husbands were Italian!"
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/17...olice-say.html
This guy has got to be the greatest criminal ever!!
He's not even worried about getting caught. He never looks around, not once!
He's caught red-handed on video. Someone is standing 5 feet away from him, with a camera pointed directly at him. And the guy still gets the loot, then gets away without being identified, and with two kids in tow.
That's un-fucking believable
First comment on the PD's facebook post:
Now I see how the guy got away with it. It's ok to steal if you're poor. Makes perfect sense.Quote:
You have to be in some pretty dire straits to resort to stealing from a game. He was probably going to sell the stuff to feed those kids. That poor man and his family.
I've never been that desperate, I haven't walked in his shoes. If I ever were to be desperate enough to do that, I would hope my fellow man would show me compassion.
I dunno about greatest criminal ever. Chances are, he'll get caught, and the risk to reward ratio seems a little off. I doubt it's dangerous, I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon. But it's certainly not a good example to set, he's encouraging his kids to break the law. A court might decide he's unfit to be a father. Seems like a big risk to take for a couple hundred bucks worth of loot.
lol
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It was obvious, and I've heard this style of music and liked it in the past.
To be fair, I didn't really give it a full chance to see if I'd like the way it built up and to see whether he landed the spaceship or sent it off to the universe - to borrow from a friend of mine whom loves techno/dance music.
I had to get back to work, and felt like giving you a hard time, is all.
I'll give it a full listen when I get time.
To be fair, he's done lots of diverse stuff, inlcuding comedy, some of which is much more likely to be up your street than stomping techno.
But I love techno, so I posted that clip.
If you're gonna give him a go, watch his comedy/music set at the Edinburgh Fringe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVXUHTN10&t=12s
Wow, this looks like some heavy duty disaster shit going on there. Hope everyone's friends and family are safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y41EjZE5UBU
Isn't that spoon's backyard?
Meh, in the pantheon of hurricanes, this one seems pretty mild. Hurricanes in general aren't really that bad. A few people die, most of whom were on borrowed time anyway. Property is damaged, but it's almost always insured. People lose family pictures, they cry, life goes on.
What blows my mind is how the coverage shifts depending on who's in the white house.
Go look up the size (diameter) of Hurricane Katrina, and this most recent Hurricane. Compare that to the size of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Sandy was several X's the size of both of those other hurricanes combined. It's almost like it didn't even happened. Apparently FEMA really had their shit together when Obama was in charge, but somehow the place went to total shit when a republican took office. Apparently global warming wasn't causing hurricanes in 2012, but in 2018 it's all Trump's fault.
I've noticed that reports are referencing climate change, while completely failing to inform us that this has so far been a quiet hurricane season.
He's in one of the Carolinas, just can't remember which one.
It's NC I think. He mentioned Raleigh before iirc.
Cool story bro:
Back home I lived in a prairie city where we hardly ever got much rain. Then one year, it rained for three days straight and we had a flood. But because we had a deep river valley the only person who actually died was this guy who lived down in the valley in his camper trailer and was basically a caricature of one of these "i done lived here for 42 years and i ain't a movin' now consarn it!" guys you see on TV. And really, all he had to do was get in his truck and go up a road and out of the river valley for a couple of days until the water subsided.
I'll never forget that idiot. Seeing him get interviewed on TV as the flood waters are coming and thinking 'you're gonna die you stubborn dumb fuck'.
Give the man a Darwin award while the rest of us crack open a beer.
It seems like there's one like him in every disaster. And in this case he was the only one in mortal danger, and it's like he decided 'well, someone's gotta be that guy who refuses to run from nature and then dies because of it. I guess it's down to me this time. No choice really.'
I feel like 'suicide by nature' is a thing.
Like, maybe someone recently got diagnosed with cancer, isn't pursuing treatment, and decides they're just gonna die with all their stuff.
Similar story, there was a guy who was kind of famous in the hiking community around here. He was a trail-steward in charge of the Franconia Ridge trail which is a very famous day hike (National Geographic Top 10). Then one day he got cancer. So one day in dead of winter, he marched up to the ridge, and sat down. That's where they found him.
Kind if a dick move on his part. But then again, that was probably the most peaceful and welcome death anyone has ever experienced.
I'm in canada right now. Everything is in fucking celsius and they all want to cover everything they eat in vinegar.
Apparently hunger is a crime here, and everyone is sentenced to ruin their food as punishment.
the hotel cable doesn't get fox news.....
Plenty of CNN though....
Celcius... how dare they use the logical one.
I have no idea what water boils at in F. It's in the 200's as best I know. It freezes at -32, I think. Why does Farenheit exist?
I did some digging to see what the point of it is.
Turns out water freezes at +32, not -32. And it boils at 212. That's a difference of 180... which makes it useful for using with circles and triangles or something.
Haha, having a good trip?
Here's a reminder of what you're missing.
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"wait wait wait wait wait, that can't POSSIBLY be true. Tariffs are great for trade."
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"Are you saying the President is WRONG about something?"
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"How can universal health care be a GOOD idea? That's COMMUNISM!"
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"Are you CRAZY???? I mean, are you.... a librul?"
No, I'm at a Best Western....which isn't much better.
And it's not the hotel. It's outside too. There is just no air.
no wind, no circulation nothing. Breathing is hard...like if it were humid out. But it's not humid. And everything here smells like BO. It's like I'm breathing through a used shirt all the time.
Actually, they kinda got lucky. My company is phenomenally profitable. whoever is keeping the books must really have his shit together. He's probably pretty handsome too. But I digress...
Anyway, the company was making tons of money, but obviously doesn't have the cash flow to buy out the sole owner all at once. So he sold the company so he could get his millions, plus a premium for the future cash flow, and now he's floating on a yacht somewhere off the coast of Naples.
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That makes absolutely no sense at all. "The company couldn't buy out the sole owner, so he sold it."
So he couldn't buy out himself, the sole owner?