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  • @PJH said:

    @da Doctah said:
    "Contains fewer shards of broken glass than the better-selling brand of bean soup!"
    Isn't that only 'justifiable' if the better-selling brand of bean soup has had a non-zero number of shards in it (and assuming the brand making the claim has had zero?)
    I'd have thunk that too. Saying "No glass shards" implies that competiors have glass shards, but da Doctah's quote is probably too specific for them to get away with that.

    I know Colgate advertises that none of their toothpaste contains sugar - does Macleans then automatically have sugar in it?



  • @heterodox said:
    I think serguey123 thinks that referencing horse porn makes him edgy and funny like some of the other posters on this forum arguably are.
     
    Imitation is the highest form of praise
     
    @nonpartisan said:
    Really?  You truly think I would only hire someone based on whether they could subnet or not?  On a single skill? 
     
    I don't know you so I have no idea
     
    @nonpartisan said:
    it is a critical skill that an engineer needs to be able to do quickly and accurately, regardless of whether a calculator is available or not.
     
    I take your word for it but I can't conceive a situation when you don't have a calculator available (you have cellphone right?) nor as a relevant interview question.
     @nonpartisan said:
    Counting spaces for a single purpose is not OCD.  My continuing to reply to why it's not OCD is more OCD than counting spaces for one very specific purpose.[
     
    So you see the problem? Great!
     
    @nonpartisan said:
    being able to accurately make change
     
    Nobody on Earth has that problem, there is an app for that! or a calculator. ;)
     
     @nonpartisan said:
    I believe that if our kids did not learn basic mathematics -- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division -- they would have major problems functioning in the world on a day-to-day basis.
     
    Perhaps, but I haven't seen any conclusive evidence to support that theory
     
     


  • @Zemm said:

    @PJH said:
    @da Doctah said:
    "Contains fewer shards of broken glass than the better-selling brand of bean soup!"
    Isn't that only 'justifiable' if the better-selling brand of bean soup has had a non-zero number of shards in it (and assuming the brand making the claim has had zero?)
    I'd have thunk that too. Saying "No glass shards" implies that competiors have glass shards, but da Doctah's quote is probably too specific for them to get away with that.

    Claiming that product A has no glass shards, no added salt/sugar, no GMO, etc., does not imply that any other product does.  (People are free to infer it, but that's not the same.)  I've eaten monkey entrails off the chest of an Elbonian hooker zero times; that doesn't mean that some other person has done so.

    "Contains fewer shards of glass" is different.  That states that given the number X (where X is an element of N) of glass shards in my bean soup, there exists some other bean soup that contains at least X+1 glass shards.



  • @CarnivorousHippie said:

    "Contains fewer shards of glass" is different.  That states that given the number X (where X is an element of N) of glass shards in my bean soup, there exists some other bean soup that contains at least X+1 glass shards.
     

    If there has ever been even a single shard of glass found in a container of brand P bean soup, brand Q is perfectly within its rights to make the above claim until such time as they get caught similarly.  Assuming brand P has been around for six or seven decades, you can pretty much count on there being at least one instance of such contamination in its history.

    On a side question brought up earlier in the thread, I just checked my tube of Dr Ken's toothpaste, and it contains both "sorbitol" and "stevia", presumably as sweetening agents.  While these are not technically "sugar" in even the generic sense, I can easily imagine other brands using things that do fit that broad definition.  (I use Dr Ken's because it's the only brand I can find that doesn't contain sodium lauryl sulfate; I gag easily on the huge masses of foam that every other toothpaste produces.)



  • @da Doctah said:

    I gag easily on the huge masses of foam
    That's what SHE said!!





  • @CarnivorousHippie said:

    (People are free to infer it, but that's not the same.)
     

    I knew someone was going to mention the difference between implication and inference.



  • @Zemm said:

    @CarnivorousHippie said:

    (People are free to infer it, but that's not the same.)
     

    I knew someone was going to mention the difference between implication and inference.

    You know what they say: infer a penny, infer a pound.

     



  • @da Doctah said:

    @Zemm said:

    @CarnivorousHippie said:

    (People are free to infer it, but that's not the same.)
     

    I knew someone was going to mention the difference between implication and inference.

    You know what they say: infer a penny, infer a pound.
     

    And for two dollars you can have my cousin.

     



  • @mrsparkyman said:

    And for two cheeseburgers you can have my cousin.

    FTFY


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