🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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If that passes any inspection, I'd say it's a very shitty inspection.
The article gives the impression that's SOP in China.
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Reminds me of the stories about factory quotas in the Soviet union, with all left shoes, or only very large or very small shoes to meet weight or quantity quotas.
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It is because the inspections tend to be checkbox lists handed down from on high. The inspector only cares about checking the box, not if you should fail (in fact probably wants to help you out). Quotas don't work for quality, only quantities.
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That's would be ok if say, you "called" from your real location, so the dog
could follow you.But if you "called" from a random location, that would be even worse
trolling.
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Bringing entitled vegetarians to a steakhouse.
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At some point chefs have a right to be offended.
"I want you to not cook what you're famous for, but cook everything else, because I'm too good for your food."
I remember someone once telling me, and I took it in because it made sense, that the polite thing to do at a restaurant that focuses on dining experience, is to not season your food until you taste. The idea being that the food has been seasoned by the chef, and to season without tasting is snubbing the chef.
It makes perfect sense.
People are far too focused on themselves. Courtesy and common decency are out the door because I have rights dammit.
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Nazi gardening tips. Or maybe just interpreting the gardening tips as such.
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I remember someone once telling me, and I took it in because it made sense, that the polite thing to do at a restaurant that focuses on dining experience, is to not season your food until you taste. The idea being that the food has been seasoned by the chef, and to season without tasting is snubbing the chef.
That's the polite thing to do in just about (fast food or very familiar dishes being obvious exceptions) any setting.
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I remember someone once telling me, and I took it in because it made sense, that the polite thing to do at a restaurant that focuses on dining experience, is to not season your food until you taste. The idea being that the food has been seasoned by the chef, and to season without tasting is snubbing the chef.
This is actually good advice whenever you aren't the cook. My grandfather used to always season his food before tasting, and it really pissed of my grandmother. So one day, she seriously over salted the gravy. She warned her kids not to take any gravy, but said nothing to my grandfather. True to form, he salted has food before tasting. He knew better than to say anything, and just choked down the entire meal. After that, he always tasted before seasoning.
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Reminds me of my dad, who used to like a little food on his salt.
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And yet, I can't remember the last time I myself added salt or pepper or vinegar or anything like to a meal.
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I add salt all the time. Because it's awesome.
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And when he's done with them, you pick them up in another doggie bag
#circleoflife
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I typically use about half the salt called for in a recipe (if I actually measure it), unless it's something like baking bread, where it affects more than just the taste.
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When I grill steaks, I cover them entirely (or as close as I can get) with kosher salt.
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I use probably (dunno; don't actually measure) about 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt, along with black pepper, onion and garlic. And with that, it's lunchtime here.
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Adding lots of salt to things? You might have kidney problems. (My grandmother did, and she loved to put masses of salt on things, much more than anyone else in the family could stand. A pity, because she was otherwise a great cook.)
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I don't think so, but I do sweat a lot.
EDIT: I don't really put salt on everything, but definitely a lot on some things.
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Crappy robots
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the polite thing to do at a restaurant that focuses on dining experience, is to not season your food until you taste.
Which makes all the people using the Sensa diet system automatic sociopaths.
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Yes, but they're gullible suckers anyway, so who cares?
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Yes, but they're gullible suckers anyway, so who cares?
Yea, those morons should try MY new diet system. It's the only diet system proven to not only help you lose weight, it will help everyone else eating with you to lose weight as well!! What if I told you that you can eat anything you want, and you even get to eat several bites of your meal as-is before you have to break out the diet sprinkler?! Not only that, but we'll provide you with an unlimited supply absolutely free, just pay 3 easy installments of $39.95 for the comprehensive diet plan book up front and the secret diet ingredient comes FREE!
Just take 3 bites of your meal, then 1 drink of whatever type of drink you wish to wash it down. Next, get out your handy diet sprinkler can and sprinkle our secret diet sauce1 on your meal. Gauranteed to cure your appetite or your money back.
1: it's your own feces, liquified
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I'm sorry, but I just can't like this. I like the ridicule of the gullible fad dieters, and I expected the diet stuff would be something disgusting, but — ew.
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I expected the diet stuff would be something disgusting, but — ew.
Well I'd have gone with urine except there's that quote from the movie Dodgeball.
Besides, it IS the bad ideas thread.
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It certainly qualifies.
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Hell, just talking about that diet plan at lunch would make for a working appetite suppressant for a lot of folks.
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Indeed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zY_zqEmKV1k#t=85
(For some reasons Discourse (still?) seems to strip the start-time out of the url, so skip to 1:25...)
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Seen it. Thought to post it. In the end, I found it just too cool you can even attempt to do this, no matter how stupid.
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Well, yeah, it is sort of cool. Still, something can be both cool and a bad idea.
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Eh, I used the "Copy video URL at current time", which results in a
#t=whatever
. Didn't know you could change it to a&t=whatever
and then have it magically work...Filed under: I still blame discourse.
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I remember someone once telling me, and I took it in because it made sense, that the polite thing to do at a restaurant that focuses on dining experience, is to not season your food until you taste. The idea being that the food has been seasoned by the chef, and to season without tasting is snubbing the chef.
I'd go further than that. At any restaurant above the level of Applebee's, I expect the food to be perfectly seasoned when I get it. If it isn't, I don't go back.
Just take 3 bites of your meal, then 1 drink of whatever type of drink you wish to wash it down. Next, get out your handy diet sprinkler can and sprinkle our secret diet sauce1 on your meal. Gauranteed to cure your appetite or your money back.
1: it's your own feces, liquified
The evil ideas thread is that way.
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I'd go further than that. At any restaurant above the level of Applebee's, I expect the food to be perfectly seasoned when I get it. If it isn't, I don't go back.
Depends on the type of food. Baked potatoes, for instance, often require the diner to apply butter, sour cream, salt, etc to suit his preferences.
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High speed passenger rail in the US.
"High-speed rail was supposed to be President Obama’s signature transportation project, but despite the administration spending nearly $11 billion since 2009 to develop faster passenger trains, the projects have gone mostly nowhere and the United States still lags far behind Europe and China."
Sounds like the perfect signature, to me. Spending money to not build stuff that no one really wants.
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Baked potatoes can work with pre-applied fillings too — cheddar cheese and baked beans, tuna and onion, so many options — but it really depends on the place you're eating at.
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If you're going for the pedantic dickweed badge, you'll need to put in a bit more effort.
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Sure, as a particular dish. But at least in the US, a baked potato usually shows up with fixin's on the side. Even at many upscale restaurants.
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If you're going for the pedantic dickweed badge, you'll need to put in a bit more effort.
Bah....sometimes a post is just an unfulfilled desire for carb loading.
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Spending money to not build stuff that no one really wants.
Well to be honest, from what I've heard of Amtrak, anything above 35mph for them counts as "High Speed Rail."
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HSR is really a project that will take 20-30 years. Getting the alignments right takes time (especially as there's rarely a single viable option) as does acquiring the permanent way rights, and that's all before you start actually building anything. It was never going to be finished inside one presidency.
You guys also have a horribly fucked up rail regulator in the FRA. But that's easy to fix by comparison; they just need to apply different rules to passenger-only routes to freight-carrying routes (since you didn't want to mix them up anyway for HSR, as nobody bothers with high-speed freight railways).
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Well to be honest, from what I've heard of Amtrak, anything above 35mph for them counts as "High Speed Rail."
Long distance trains in the US make sense for cargo.
It was never going to be finished inside one presidency.
It will be a boondoggle here no matter how many presidencies you wait.
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Long distance trains in the US make sense for cargo.
.. especially the self-loading kind...?
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It will be a boondoggle here no matter how many presidencies you wait.
It will until someone pulls their finger out and gets on with it. The right conditions exist in the NEC; HSR can work fine between DC and Boston (probably with stops in Baltimore, Philly and NYC; maybe some others on a not-every-train basis). There are a few other parts of the country where they can work (LA-SF, Seattle-Portland, round Chicago, maybe within Texas).The important things about HSR are two-fold:
- Don't stop in every community along the way, no matter how cross this makes local politicians.
- Don't run freight on the same route if you can possibly help it.
Everything else is ultimately negotiable, and you don't have to build everywhere out at once. (That things won't be economic in Podunk City, Wyoming is not a big concern for anyone else.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJcc4mmWgM
http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=SGJcc4mmWgM&p=n#/30;37
Filed under: flailing intensifies...You're welcome.
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.. especially the self-loading kind...?
Exactly not that kind.
It will until someone pulls their finger out and gets on with it. The right conditions exist in the NEC; HSR can work fine between DC and Boston (probably with stops in Baltimore, Philly and NYC; maybe some others on a not-every-train basis). There are a few other parts of the country where they can work (LA-SF, Seattle-Portland, round Chicago, maybe within Texas).
Planes will continue to be better along the longer routes, and for the shorter ones, cars tend to be better, especially since if you take a train, you probably end up renting a car at the other end.
Utter waste of money.
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Getting your twitter account firebombed because you're ignorant.
Filed under: If he's a dumbass, then god help the rest of us!
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His handle is @dogboner. He deserves a good firebombing IMO.
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Getting your twitter account firebombed because you're ignorant.
What's wrong with trolling intellectual hipsters?