The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@fbmac there's no pizza hut here anymore. But if you ever come here give me a call and i'll take you to the best pizzeria in this whole half of the world
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@HardwareGeek where does pizza hut sit on this list, for comparison?
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@HardwareGeek if you have a good oven making thin pizzas is easy and really cheap.
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@Jarry AR is kind of near porto alegre, its tempting
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@asdf said:
Is Chicago-style pizza worth trying?
If you pretend it's not called pizza and just judge on its own merits, yes.
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@HardwareGeek Sounds like frog legs. They also taste great as long as you don't think about what you're eating.
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@fbmac said:
where does pizza hut sit on this list, for comparison?
I can't compare a US Pizza Hut with the ones near you that went bankrupt, having no experience with the latter, but I'd say they're fairly typical of American pizza, maybe a little above the median of mass-market. Keep in mind the typical mass-market pizza is often made by a high school or college student trying to earn a little money, not an experienced chef, so the quality can be quite variable, depending not only on the brand but who happens to make it, and even the better ones are unlikely to be as good as a quality pizzeria.
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@HardwareGeek they aren't anywhere near bankrupt here, its near @jarry that it happened. they are expensive compared to most local brands, but worth it
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@HardwareGeek That's a fair point; while I love deep-dish pizza (especially Zachary's in Berkeley, Nancy's in Atlanta, and My Pi in those places it is actually still open), it doesn't resemble thin crust pizza much at all. Also, it doesn't translate into fast-food very well - Pizzeria Uno is about as mass-market as you can get and have a passable deep-dish pizza, and they aren't the best by any means. Every attempt at a frozen or low-cost deep-dish pizza has been an unmitigated disaster.
Calling deep-dish pizza 'pizza' is like calling Cincinnati-style chili 'chili', or American munster cheese 'Münster', or American football 'football' - while each may have been inspired by their namesakes, they have evolved in radically different directions to the point that using those names is a historical oddity that does neither the original nor the new one any favors. Each has its proponents, and each have their good qualities (I never said American Munster cheese was bad, just bland - sort of half way between Gouda and Provolone - and nothing like the original is said to be), but trying to judge them by the standards of their namesakes is going to leave you with a very distorted view of them.
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Part of the problem is that until recently the US didn't legally restrict the naming of products much at all, except through trademarks, and even now it is very lightly enforced primarily through 'truth in advertising' laws. So you can find 'Parmesan' cheeses made in Argentina, 'Roquefort' cheeses made in Wisconsin, 'Cheddar' cheeses made almost everywhere, 'Champagne' from Napa Valley, etc. This has been diminishing over the past thirty years, as the Foodie movement has picked up steam and creameries and wineries realized that they could do better focusing on their uniqueness rather than copying what has already been done to death, but for most people here, enforcing appellation controllee is still a non-issue.
This has also led to such oddities as a gaming company trademarking the word 'Nazi' (as TSR did for their Indiana Jones game) and then legally threatening the political groups using that name for infringement - to be fair, the threats were mostly a publicity stunt, and done years after the game went off the shelves when some legal eagle at the company noticed that they'd trademarked the term a few years earlier, but still pretty bizarre. And don't even get me started on the disaster that the patent system has become, though that is hardly unique to the US.
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@ScholRLEA wait, cheddar is a city name? but then I wouldn't ever recognize this type of cheese by any other name.
maybe we should start naming cheese types with something else, and use trademarks for trademarking stuff?
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@asdf said:
Pro tip: If you want everyone to know you're a tourist, order a cappuccino after lunch/dinner.
Like they wouldn't already know?
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Apparently the British government hasn't learned not to let people on the Internet vote over the naming of things (see Colbert, IIS):
"RRS Boaty Mcboatface" is currently the winning entry.
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@fbmac More of a location; Cheddar Gorge in Somerset County, UK is apparently surrounded by several dairy farming communities.
Oops, it seems I was wrong about the source of the name; it comes from Cheddar Village, which not surprisingly is near Cheddar Gorge.
The key factor that defines 'cheddar cheese' in the generic sense is cheddaring (a process of cutting the curds), though some other cheddar-like cheeses (e.g., Jack) follow a similar process, I think.
Comments and Corrections Welcome.
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@ScholRLEA Cheddar does't have protected geographical status so can be made anywhere.
Unlike Stilton cheese, which got its name from the village called Stilton but can't be made there any more
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@loopback0 said:
Cheddar does't have protected geographical status so can be made anywhere.
But West Country cheddar does. Admittedly, it's quite a large area (comprising several counties, possibly the entire South West region) that it can be made in, but it's definitely a protected name.
The really good cheddars mostly come from that area near Cheddar.
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@ScholRLEA said:
The key factor that defines 'cheddar cheese' in the generic sense is cheddaring (a process of cutting the curds), though some other cheddar-like cheeses (e.g., Jack) follow a similar process, I think.
There's also the ageing of the cheese, which is the thing that tends to get skimped on by mass market manufacturers. Remember, a good cheddar is a semi-hard cheese, not a semi-soft one…
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@dkf said:
Remember, a good cheddar is a semi-hard cheese, not a semi-soft one…
Also, a good cheddar doesn't bounce
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@asdf said:
@HardwareGeek Is Chicago-style pizza worth trying? It looks extremely weird to me.
I think it's quite good. YMMV.
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@coldandtired said:
@RaceProUK said:
Also, a good cheddar doesn't bounce
Unlike Double Gloucester...
"This video contains content from SoGlos. It is not available in your country. "
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Who knew a bunch of cheese rollers would be so anti-piracy?
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@chozang Search for 'Gloucester cheese rolling' videos.
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I fulfilled my quota today when one of the F1 commentators said
There's probably plenty of Ferrari fans that would pay £800 for one of Vettel's nuts
;)
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@dkf said:
Do I have to do everything myself?!
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@chozang said:
"This video contains content from SoGlos. It is not available in your country. "
Count yourself lucky. I'm not sure I can drink enough to wipe that guy in a green not-sure-what-that-garment-is-called from my memory.
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@FrostCat said:
Apparently the British government hasn't learned not to let people on the Internet vote over the naming of things (see Colbert, IIS):
I wonder if they sanitise their inputs?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
I wonder if they sanitise their inputs?
By not listening to anyone from S
cuntcootiehorpe orPenisMembertone? Yes.
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Filed under: Something for your corn hole
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@DoctorJones said:
to be honest I was more looking if there was a forth dot that had fallen off the profile pic
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
I wonder if they sanitise their inputs?
Hard to tell--I couldn't get the voting page to load, for some strange reason.
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The Supreme Court unanimously decided today that stun guns are protected by the Second Amendment, slapping down the Supreme Judiciary Court of MA.
I say "slapping down" because of the language of the ruling. There's a certain amount of tea-leaf reading when reading court rulings.
The ruling opens, "The [Supreme] Court has held that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,”
Then it goes on to say that the MA SJC ignored the plain language of Heller that "stun guns are not protected because they “were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment.” Id., at 781, 26 N. E. 3d, at 693. This is inconsistent with Heller’s clear statement that the Second Amendment “extends . . . to . . . arms . . . that were not in existence at the time of the founding.” 554 U. S., at 582." This is what you call a bitch-slapping. Then it goes on to say that the second test the SJC used was the same as the first, and invalidated that test the same way.
Also, I see what @blakeyrat was talking about with onebox DDoSing--I just hammered the Supreme Court's website because I posted the URL here first before typing up the post. We've got to get that fixed.
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Oh man, the concurrence on that is awesome, at one point slamming the trial judge for telling the woman behind the case she should've just gotten a real gun. " it is presumptuous to tell Caetano she should have been ready to shoot the father of her two young children if she wanted to protect herself. Courts should not be in the business of demanding that citizens use more force for self-defense than they are comfortable wielding." (emphasis in original).
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It's a bitch-slapping all right:
...each step of its analysis defied Heller's reasoning.
There's levels. "Remarkable" is one of my favorites, as in, "we find the court's reasoning remarkable." Translation: what were you thinking, you idiot?
"Defied" is way something else compared to "remarkable".
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@fbmac said:
i think there is domino here somewhere now, is it good?
If you're a college student. Not once you're grown up. (tho their commercials seem to imply they've changed. And I was in college in the early 80s...)
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@CoyneTheDup addendum:
There's been some sentiment expressed in this country that the states should not have to follow Supreme Court ruling. States Rights and all that BS.
Well this is a bitch-slap-their-faces example of why that reasoning is crap.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
@FrostCat said:
Apparently the British government hasn't learned not to let people on the Internet vote over the naming of things (see Colbert, IIS):
I wonder if they sanitise their inputs?
Yeah, good one...
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Ok, who let Blakey out?
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@DogsB You need to start a separate KenM thread to keep track of this wonderful troll.