That dataism is a real religion. And those people are way out there in their prognostications. "Trust the algorithm. It knows you better than you know yourself." *SHUDDER*
Today I learned that the Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen does not, in fact, have a kitchen in it. Spoiler: Lengthy-ish rant about how I learned this I got an email from the HIC&PK informing me today was National Boston Cream Pie Day, and if I went in and bought a slice, or a whole pie, I could get 10% off. Well, I'm all about Boston Cream Pie and holidays celebrating same, but Saturdays are also a challenge for me, having worked all week I need to sleep most of the day. But we get up about 9:10pm and go over there. They are out of Boston Cream Pie. Now, this is not surprising or even all that upsetting to me, it is National Boston Cream Pie Day after all, and we're there only a half-hour before closing. Entirely understandable. But then I suggest buying the pie now, essentially preordering a pie, and picking it up tomorrow so I can legitimately get the 10% off and not, as the employees suggested, just go in tomorrow and hope the daytime employees will give me 10% off because they ran out on the actual day. She says they can't guarantee they'll have Boston Cream Pies tomorrow. Like, at all. I say, but they're on the menu. Totally reasonable I can't get a piece a half-hour before closing, but tomorrow midday? I say why would you just not bake a pie that's on the menu? She says, and here it is, she says "We don't actually bake the pies here. There's no kitchen here." There's no kitchen here? The name of this place is the Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen, not the Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Counter, or the Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Pick-Up Stand. It's in the name. Moreover, she keeps suggesting that I could go to one of the other locations, that they might still have some Boston Cream Pies. It's a half-hour before closing, I wouldn't make it to another location before they closed, and wouldn't try in the first place because they may also be out of Boston Cream Pies. I bought a slice of Dutch Apple Pie instead. But I made them heat it up. In a microwave, like a plebian, because they don't actually have an oven back there, despite ovens being a central appliance in a kitchen, which is in their name. And it was tasty. But it was no Boston Cream Pie.
today i learned that phat is an acronym for "pretty hot and tempting"..... all this time i thought it was just another fancy word for cool....
He probably wants to listen to more songs by Kool & the Gang. Sometimes you just need some of that 1960s funk.
Someone who makes candles and soap, and works with wax or tallow is known as a Chandler. The profession is known as Chandlery.
Motorcycles while better overall in gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions compared to cars, on the other hand they are infinitely worse when it comes to hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide emissions.
A couple of English words that apparently actually came from American English, not British English: Hello Poppycock Heard this in a Youtube video, checked it out, and from everything I can find both of those assertions seem to be true. And while I didn't learn this today, I feel the following always bears repeating: "soccer" and "aluminum" came from British English originally. Not American.
Most of the British / UK citizens I've interacted with over the years spell and say "aluminium" rather than "aluminum."
I know. That wasn't what I was trying to say. It's not uncommon for British to make fun (whether seriously or lightheartedly) of Americans for using "wrong" words. For instance, Americans saying "soccer" instead of "football", or "aluminum" instead of "aluminium". So my point was that both "soccer" and "aluminum" originated in British English, not American English.
The history of "aluminium" vs. "aluminum" is interesting, since it shows the evolution / adoption of the term across two continents, with very specific reasoning for both versions. Growing up in the 80s, I knew of football as "soccer", and don't understand my fellow Englishmens' aversion to the term. It's quite a useful term, given that "football" can relate to Association Football ("soccer"), "Rugby Football", "Australian Rules football", "gridiron (American) football", "Gaelic football" and likely a few others I don't know of For other differences in UK vs. US uses in our "shared" language, here are a couple of YouTubers I like, each taking it from the opposite approach
Interestingly enough, Lost in the Pond was what sparked my initial comment about "hello" and "poppycock" (after a bit of factchecking, just in case). And yeah, alumina/alumium/aluminum/aluminium has a bit of a weird history to it.
YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts Up next they will get rid of the comment section.
TIL that, clearly thanks to the Shrek movies, seducing dragons is a thing in RPGs. Sadly, I played in the early 90's. --Moony
