since when do we need dogs to do this? smokers smell like, well, smoke, I've yet to meet a smoker who was able to surprise me with that fact, I could tell just from the smell of their clothes, their hair, everything around them.
The days of the collage/uni drop out raising to the fortunes of Gates and Co. are never likely to repeat... the tech bubble has long since popped and even the suds have fizzled. You need money to make a start up, and how many investors are going to drop cash into a venture with a drop-out at the helm?
and if you don't want a to do a start up, forget it without a degree... companies will not even talk to you without that piece of paper regardless of how great your resume looks otherwise.
I had $4.5k in debt, my husband had $22k, and we were extremely lucky. If all goes well we will be free of it all in about 7 more years.
maybe YOU can go to another pharmacy... maybe you live in a nice sized city or town that has more then one, maybe you can afford to drive a few hours to get to a city/town where you can get your Rx filled by someone else
not everyone is so lucky.
My hometown had exactly one pharmacy... the next one was an hour and a half away, if you needed to take a bus it left at noon 5-days a week. So if you needed a Plan-B Friday at 1:00pm and the local one refused, sorry, welcome to parenthood.
and in case you missed it, this law does not just cover pharmacists, it also covers paramedics. there have been cases where paramedics have stopped treatment of people because of their religious beliefs and they died without getting to a hospital. When you are broken and bleeding after a car crash you don't exactly have the option of calling around to various hospitals to see who can get you the best deal, you get whoever comes... and if that person is a bigot then you die.
if you do not believe that this clause has been used to stop emergency medical care, then I suggest you research the death of Tyra Hunter
I've seen several friends in the US be denied medications because the pharmacist didn't agree with their sexuality, or their sex. There have been thousands of cases of women being denied birth control under this law.
just cause you've never had it happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to anyone.
they could do it then because there was a need for it. How else were you going to get form Halifax to Vancouver? horse and buggy? How about now? You can fly, drive, or take the current rails... why would we need to spend trillions to build a NEW rail system?
Canada does NOT have high population density, anywhere. The Windsor/Montreal corridor has a fraction the population of JUST Tokyo, forget Nagoya... add the two together and you have a appreciable fraction of the population of all of Canada in just those two cities.
But population is not what we are really looking at, you can have a billion potential customers, but if no one uses the service you wont make a dime. What we are really looking at is the number of people who will use it. Windsor to Montreal is one of the best serviced road routes in the country, tones of very nice, often new, highways cris-cross the area, this essentially kills any chance of someone using the train over short distances making frequent stops unlikely. Now since you are not stopping often, you are less likely to pick up people along the way, further cutting the number of users. Also, Canadian cities have right crappy public transportation, so once you get there you are likely going to need a car anyway, either by renting or taking a cab, since nearly every business person would already own a car in their home town anyway this is an added expense.
Now, why this works well in Japan... they have a LOT of people, they also have a LOT of inter-city commerce so many of those people are going from one place to another regularly. Their public transportation system is immense and prompt. Very few urban Japanese own cars, so driving there is rarely an option. There is no legacy rail. So really you are only competing with air, instead of air, road and pre-existing rail.
except being far apart you have the problem of getting the track actually built. While I don't know much of the Russian frontier, or much of rural US... I know there is a whole LOT of empty land in Canada, rocky, swampy, forest covered nothing. Plowing a train route through the Canadian Shield is not just difficult, in many places it's pretty damn impossible. The hardest rocks in the world cover most of eastern Canada, and despite not being a steep as the Japanese Alps, the sheer hardness of the rocks would make blasting/tunneling prohibitively expensive. On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario.... It is just all around cheaper to fly over it all.
The Tokyo/Nagoya run was likely picked as a first attempt as it is fairly flat and there is an absurd amount of travel between the two centers. At about 20 million people in the greater Tokyo area, and over 8 in the area around Nagoya, these are two of the thee largest cities centers in the country... add the two together and you have almost as many people as there are in ALL of Canada.
"The premise of the whole point is that there are fewer famous biological females." because a famous cisgendered female is far more impressive then a famous transgendered one? I don't know what's worse, that you consider transwomen to be less then cisgendered women, or that you consider being biologically female to be such a hindrance in one's ability to code.
you stated many times that you require a scientific test to prove someone's gender, you were then told (and agreed) that no such test exists, yet you still ask for proof. Rather then accept this you go on to tell countless people that their feelings, life experience and whole existence is invalid because it can not be tested.
you continuously move the goalposts... first you say "Until then, we have to use the easiest way we have to measure physical gender, and that's external appearance.", but then you concede that gender is a sociological term, not a physical one. You then go on to specify that only genitals at birth mater. While you may think with your bits, most people do not, and your point that they somehow influence one's thought processes is blatant sexism. A girl does not think like a girl because she does or does not have a wang, she thinks that way because of the way her mind is.
appeal to authority issues right up at the top. you can quote websites all day, I can do the same.
"genetic homosexuality and the attraction mechanism", red herring, bad science, anti-GLBT bigotry.
constantly demanding that transpeople prove to you that they are who they say they are. this is extremely offensive.
Saying that transpeople's opionion of themselves and how they identify is "unreliable"... even a 5 min google check would have told you that a persons gender is extremely constant throughout their whole lives, even if they do not accept it or express it until later in life.
complete and utter ignorance on the topic of gender theory, womans studies, biology, sociology and several other sciences... what's worse is when presented with evidence by several people you do not attempt to increase your store of knowledge, but rather discount it out of hand as a "psudo-subject".
you admit you do not have the moral authority to tell anyone what is offensive or not, yet not a few posts previously you were telling us that you were not "intending to be offensive" and that we should therefore not be offended. Which is it? Are you telling us what we should find offensive, or are you not? Heck in this very post you tell us "it's your responsibility to not to be offended." Pick a side and stick with it.
to your next point about intent: yes, I would find a mentally handicapped person called you a 'tranny' in a friendly way and didn't know any better offensive, IF they refused to learn to do otherwise (assuming they had the ability to consciously choose not to). This is exactly what you are doing... you are repeatedly insulting not only transfolk, but women and GLB people, however when you are called on it you refuse to learn and discount our anger as being "sensitive" and not "reading what you write"... we read what you wrote, it was offensive, accept that and move on.
we fully understand what you are saying... once a penis, always a penis, and that cisgendered women getting famous in this field are far more special then transgendered women getting famous because they are either: less likely to overcome the fact that they are biologically female and become good programmers... or that they are more important then transgendered women.
If not, let me give you a hint: we are saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
good to know you can admit that you are wrong, that is a good first step... next is to accept what you did and apologize for for it. You may not find what you said insulting, just as you may not find "fag", "dike", or "tranny" to be offensive, but to those who deal with this hatred day after day, they are... you do not have the moral authority to dictate to others what is or is not offensive.
and since quoting oneself is in season, I will repeat the following: If you do not wish to be called on your cis-sexist behavior, don't act in a cis-sexist manner (that means first finding out what cis-sexist means, then educating yourself so you don't do it again)... if on the other hand you don't feel like it, be prepared to be called on your bigotry.
If you want to know if a person's gender is male or female or other, you could... I don't know... ask them.
Gender (not sex) is basically how one "feels" male or female or both or neither... you can't explain it any more then you can explain what it "feels" like to be hungry. If you have always lived with ample food in arms reach you may never have felt hunger and never noticed that you could feel different, if you have never noticed a difference between your mental-gender and physical-sex then you likely have never noticed the two can be different.
There have been studies that have shown a limited correlation between the size and shape of some brain structures in transwomen being similar to cisgendered females. However I will be the first to point out that those studies were HORRIBLY flawed, biased, sexist and just plain jumped to a lot of conclusions. The sad fact is, the "test" you ask for may very well exist, however there currently have been no large scale studies on transpeople that can be even remotely called credible... it simply is not a very popular segment of science... you get a lot of people who assume they know everything and simply tailor the data to suit (EG: Blanchard/Bailey/Zucker/Lawerence).
but as you said, gender is a sociological term, relating to how one fits in with other people.... unless you are flashing your bits to others on a regular basis they do not play a huge role in your day to day interactions... neither do the results of your genetic test. I would like to turn your last point around on you if I may... can you prove to me, scientifically, that your mental gender is what you say it is? Not your sex, as we have agreed that sex is biological not sociological, and not genetic, as we have agreed that chromosomes do not always match up with how one feels their gender to be...
PS: nice ad hom in your first line... I took offense because, *GASP*, it was offensive. If you do not wish to be called on your cis-sexist behavior, don't behave in a cis-sexist manner.
you may want to do some research into gender theory, your ideas are about 120 years out of date. Not only are sex and gender different from a biological and sociological point of view, they are also differentiated in many laws. At best your post is ignorant, at worst it is a weak attempt at a flame against trans and intersex users of this site.
and external appearance is even a worse measure of gender then genetics... at what point does a "large clitoris" become a "small penis"? a "shallow vagina" becomes a "deep scrotal indentation"? I realize it is a lot to take in, but people are not binary... we don't come in a this or that arrangement... there are a lot of steps in between one and the other.
unless you are extremely anti-social, you have likely met many people in your life who are not XX-female or XY-male. As I said, about 1 in 1000 have a physical indication of non-standard chromosomes, as many as twice as many may have it and not know it (based on when the Olympics conducted genetic testing, falsely accusing many women with AIS with cheating). In fact, there is not an unreasonable chance that you yourself may have a non-obvious intersex condition and not even know it... so until you are willing to submit yourself to a kyrotype test to prove your genetics, i kindly suggest that you do not speak about things you do not have all the data on.
except there are far more then just the XX and XY chromosomes that people are familiar with. Which category would you place: XXY? XO? X_? XY female? and the about half dozen I always forget?
about 1 in 1000 babies have some kind of intersex condition, the vast majority are surgically altered to have female sex organs and are never told (most parents are never told or consulted... simply told their baby needs "immediate surgery").
sex is what is between your legs, gender is what is between your ears... and unless you are going to try telling all the women here that they are nothing more then a walking vagina you have to admit there is more to a woman then their ability to spit out babies.
I had the option of going to EA Games just after graduation, I'm very glad I didn't. They seem to follow the philosophy that they can burn out their employees and just higher new ones to replace the ones they drive into the ground. Burned out coders does not make for better software, I learned the hard way first year that anything I code after 11:00pm at night was total crap and usually ended up taking more time to fix the next morning then if I had just gone to bed. Coding is an art, you need to have a fresh mind else you make stupid mistakes.
If someone is willing to sacrifice their personal life to code you really should be asking why... are they trying to brown-nose their way into a better position? are they compensating for poor performance during the 9-5 hours? do they have no social life beyond the office? I for one would be rather concerned if an employee of mine did not want to leave the office.
and any company that will fire someone and bring in someone new who doesn't mind spending more time at the office then at home doesn't deserve my skills.
I know what I'm worth, and if I don't get it at company X I will go somewhere where I will. You say you don't mind giving away 500 hours a year (or more), even at a reasonable amount of pay for a newbee you're looking at giving away about $15,000 (far more if you have seniority)... I would rather take my resume elsewhere and get a $15,000 raise because I demanded OT pay in my contract. I never said I would NOT work OT, but I would not work it for free... either pay me more then market value and I will work more then market hours, or pay me OT for any time I spend in the office beyond what I am contractually obligated to.
I work 9 to 5. I work HARD 9 to 5, but at 5 I log out and go home. If you want me to spend extra time at work then we need to do some negotiation for a new contract and you're going to be giving me more money.
I am not going to give up time with my family so some middle manager can get some slaps on his back for bringing in the project on a date he never should have agreed to in the first place. What ever happened to accountability? oh right.... they get $700bn bail outs.
depends greatly on the spec, class and dedication of the player. Season 2 enhancement shaman gear is actually quite a bit better then several of the raid gear sets for PvE... while some pieces of raid gear are superior to S2, many players do not have the time or inclination to get it.
S2 makes a great upgrade between lvl 69 gear, and badge gear for some classes/specs.
If you CAN eat horrific things, and the locals are messing with you to make you look foolish-suggest a better place to eat, and take them somewhere where they turn green. Evil...but funny.
not everywhere has a "generic American burger joint"
thing is, it likely would be illegal... they would likely make it fall under the "making a terrorist threat" clause similar to saying you put a bomb on the plane.
aren't most airplane washrooms near the front and back of the plane? Last thing I want is to get busted as a "TERRRRIST!" just because I was in line to pee and they are both full
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there have been several films made on RED cameras actually...
they haired Kalgan and Ghostcrawler.....
who wants to bet he is going to start screwing up WoW next?
since when do we need dogs to do this? smokers smell like, well, smoke, I've yet to meet a smoker who was able to surprise me with that fact, I could tell just from the smell of their clothes, their hair, everything around them.
The days of the collage/uni drop out raising to the fortunes of Gates and Co. are never likely to repeat... the tech bubble has long since popped and even the suds have fizzled. You need money to make a start up, and how many investors are going to drop cash into a venture with a drop-out at the helm?
and if you don't want a to do a start up, forget it without a degree... companies will not even talk to you without that piece of paper regardless of how great your resume looks otherwise.
I had $4.5k in debt, my husband had $22k, and we were extremely lucky. If all goes well we will be free of it all in about 7 more years.
maybe YOU can go to another pharmacy... maybe you live in a nice sized city or town that has more then one, maybe you can afford to drive a few hours to get to a city/town where you can get your Rx filled by someone else
not everyone is so lucky.
My hometown had exactly one pharmacy... the next one was an hour and a half away, if you needed to take a bus it left at noon 5-days a week. So if you needed a Plan-B Friday at 1:00pm and the local one refused, sorry, welcome to parenthood.
and in case you missed it, this law does not just cover pharmacists, it also covers paramedics. there have been cases where paramedics have stopped treatment of people because of their religious beliefs and they died without getting to a hospital. When you are broken and bleeding after a car crash you don't exactly have the option of calling around to various hospitals to see who can get you the best deal, you get whoever comes... and if that person is a bigot then you die.
if you do not believe that this clause has been used to stop emergency medical care, then I suggest you research the death of Tyra Hunter
I've seen several friends in the US be denied medications because the pharmacist didn't agree with their sexuality, or their sex. There have been thousands of cases of women being denied birth control under this law.
just cause you've never had it happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to anyone.
what does God need with a starship?
they could do it then because there was a need for it. How else were you going to get form Halifax to Vancouver? horse and buggy? How about now? You can fly, drive, or take the current rails... why would we need to spend trillions to build a NEW rail system?
Canada does NOT have high population density, anywhere. The Windsor/Montreal corridor has a fraction the population of JUST Tokyo, forget Nagoya... add the two together and you have a appreciable fraction of the population of all of Canada in just those two cities.
But population is not what we are really looking at, you can have a billion potential customers, but if no one uses the service you wont make a dime. What we are really looking at is the number of people who will use it. Windsor to Montreal is one of the best serviced road routes in the country, tones of very nice, often new, highways cris-cross the area, this essentially kills any chance of someone using the train over short distances making frequent stops unlikely. Now since you are not stopping often, you are less likely to pick up people along the way, further cutting the number of users. Also, Canadian cities have right crappy public transportation, so once you get there you are likely going to need a car anyway, either by renting or taking a cab, since nearly every business person would already own a car in their home town anyway this is an added expense.
Now, why this works well in Japan... they have a LOT of people, they also have a LOT of inter-city commerce so many of those people are going from one place to another regularly. Their public transportation system is immense and prompt. Very few urban Japanese own cars, so driving there is rarely an option. There is no legacy rail. So really you are only competing with air, instead of air, road and pre-existing rail.
except being far apart you have the problem of getting the track actually built. While I don't know much of the Russian frontier, or much of rural US... I know there is a whole LOT of empty land in Canada, rocky, swampy, forest covered nothing. Plowing a train route through the Canadian Shield is not just difficult, in many places it's pretty damn impossible. The hardest rocks in the world cover most of eastern Canada, and despite not being a steep as the Japanese Alps, the sheer hardness of the rocks would make blasting/tunneling prohibitively expensive. On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario.... It is just all around cheaper to fly over it all.
The Tokyo/Nagoya run was likely picked as a first attempt as it is fairly flat and there is an absurd amount of travel between the two centers. At about 20 million people in the greater Tokyo area, and over 8 in the area around Nagoya, these are two of the thee largest cities centers in the country... add the two together and you have almost as many people as there are in ALL of Canada.
They have the demand, money, and geology for it.
he had a short IPv6 stack too, but he knew how to use it ;)
same reason I don't go to a gun range... I'm a crappy shot.
you want a list? let's start shall we?
"The premise of the whole point is that there are fewer famous biological females." because a famous cisgendered female is far more impressive then a famous transgendered one? I don't know what's worse, that you consider transwomen to be less then cisgendered women, or that you consider being biologically female to be such a hindrance in one's ability to code.
you stated many times that you require a scientific test to prove someone's gender, you were then told (and agreed) that no such test exists, yet you still ask for proof. Rather then accept this you go on to tell countless people that their feelings, life experience and whole existence is invalid because it can not be tested.
you continuously move the goalposts... first you say "Until then, we have to use the easiest way we have to measure physical gender, and that's external appearance.", but then you concede that gender is a sociological term, not a physical one. You then go on to specify that only genitals at birth mater. While you may think with your bits, most people do not, and your point that they somehow influence one's thought processes is blatant sexism. A girl does not think like a girl because she does or does not have a wang, she thinks that way because of the way her mind is.
appeal to authority issues right up at the top. you can quote websites all day, I can do the same.
"genetic homosexuality and the attraction mechanism", red herring, bad science, anti-GLBT bigotry.
constantly demanding that transpeople prove to you that they are who they say they are. this is extremely offensive.
Saying that transpeople's opionion of themselves and how they identify is "unreliable"... even a 5 min google check would have told you that a persons gender is extremely constant throughout their whole lives, even if they do not accept it or express it until later in life.
complete and utter ignorance on the topic of gender theory, womans studies, biology, sociology and several other sciences... what's worse is when presented with evidence by several people you do not attempt to increase your store of knowledge, but rather discount it out of hand as a "psudo-subject".
you admit you do not have the moral authority to tell anyone what is offensive or not, yet not a few posts previously you were telling us that you were not "intending to be offensive" and that we should therefore not be offended. Which is it? Are you telling us what we should find offensive, or are you not? Heck in this very post you tell us "it's your responsibility to not to be offended." Pick a side and stick with it.
to your next point about intent: yes, I would find a mentally handicapped person called you a 'tranny' in a friendly way and didn't know any better offensive, IF they refused to learn to do otherwise (assuming they had the ability to consciously choose not to). This is exactly what you are doing... you are repeatedly insulting not only transfolk, but women and GLB people, however when you are called on it you refuse to learn and discount our anger as being "sensitive" and not "reading what you write"... we read what you wrote, it was offensive, accept that and move on.
we fully understand what you are saying... once a penis, always a penis, and that cisgendered women getting famous in this field are far more special then transgendered women getting famous because they are either: less likely to overcome the fact that they are biologically female and become good programmers... or that they are more important then transgendered women.
If not, let me give you a hint: we are saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
good to know you can admit that you are wrong, that is a good first step... next is to accept what you did and apologize for for it. You may not find what you said insulting, just as you may not find "fag", "dike", or "tranny" to be offensive, but to those who deal with this hatred day after day, they are... you do not have the moral authority to dictate to others what is or is not offensive.
and since quoting oneself is in season, I will repeat the following: If you do not wish to be called on your cis-sexist behavior, don't act in a cis-sexist manner (that means first finding out what cis-sexist means, then educating yourself so you don't do it again)... if on the other hand you don't feel like it, be prepared to be called on your bigotry.
If you want to know if a person's gender is male or female or other, you could... I don't know... ask them.
Gender (not sex) is basically how one "feels" male or female or both or neither... you can't explain it any more then you can explain what it "feels" like to be hungry. If you have always lived with ample food in arms reach you may never have felt hunger and never noticed that you could feel different, if you have never noticed a difference between your mental-gender and physical-sex then you likely have never noticed the two can be different.
There have been studies that have shown a limited correlation between the size and shape of some brain structures in transwomen being similar to cisgendered females. However I will be the first to point out that those studies were HORRIBLY flawed, biased, sexist and just plain jumped to a lot of conclusions. The sad fact is, the "test" you ask for may very well exist, however there currently have been no large scale studies on transpeople that can be even remotely called credible... it simply is not a very popular segment of science... you get a lot of people who assume they know everything and simply tailor the data to suit (EG: Blanchard/Bailey/Zucker/Lawerence).
but as you said, gender is a sociological term, relating to how one fits in with other people.... unless you are flashing your bits to others on a regular basis they do not play a huge role in your day to day interactions... neither do the results of your genetic test. I would like to turn your last point around on you if I may... can you prove to me, scientifically, that your mental gender is what you say it is? Not your sex, as we have agreed that sex is biological not sociological, and not genetic, as we have agreed that chromosomes do not always match up with how one feels their gender to be...
PS: nice ad hom in your first line... I took offense because, *GASP*, it was offensive. If you do not wish to be called on your cis-sexist behavior, don't behave in a cis-sexist manner.
you may want to do some research into gender theory, your ideas are about 120 years out of date. Not only are sex and gender different from a biological and sociological point of view, they are also differentiated in many laws. At best your post is ignorant, at worst it is a weak attempt at a flame against trans and intersex users of this site.
and external appearance is even a worse measure of gender then genetics... at what point does a "large clitoris" become a "small penis"? a "shallow vagina" becomes a "deep scrotal indentation"? I realize it is a lot to take in, but people are not binary... we don't come in a this or that arrangement... there are a lot of steps in between one and the other.
unless you are extremely anti-social, you have likely met many people in your life who are not XX-female or XY-male. As I said, about 1 in 1000 have a physical indication of non-standard chromosomes, as many as twice as many may have it and not know it (based on when the Olympics conducted genetic testing, falsely accusing many women with AIS with cheating). In fact, there is not an unreasonable chance that you yourself may have a non-obvious intersex condition and not even know it... so until you are willing to submit yourself to a kyrotype test to prove your genetics, i kindly suggest that you do not speak about things you do not have all the data on.
except there are far more then just the XX and XY chromosomes that people are familiar with. Which category would you place: XXY? XO? X_? XY female? and the about half dozen I always forget?
about 1 in 1000 babies have some kind of intersex condition, the vast majority are surgically altered to have female sex organs and are never told (most parents are never told or consulted... simply told their baby needs "immediate surgery").
sex is what is between your legs, gender is what is between your ears... and unless you are going to try telling all the women here that they are nothing more then a walking vagina you have to admit there is more to a woman then their ability to spit out babies.
I agree.
I had the option of going to EA Games just after graduation, I'm very glad I didn't. They seem to follow the philosophy that they can burn out their employees and just higher new ones to replace the ones they drive into the ground. Burned out coders does not make for better software, I learned the hard way first year that anything I code after 11:00pm at night was total crap and usually ended up taking more time to fix the next morning then if I had just gone to bed. Coding is an art, you need to have a fresh mind else you make stupid mistakes.
If someone is willing to sacrifice their personal life to code you really should be asking why... are they trying to brown-nose their way into a better position? are they compensating for poor performance during the 9-5 hours? do they have no social life beyond the office? I for one would be rather concerned if an employee of mine did not want to leave the office.
and any company that will fire someone and bring in someone new who doesn't mind spending more time at the office then at home doesn't deserve my skills.
I know what I'm worth, and if I don't get it at company X I will go somewhere where I will. You say you don't mind giving away 500 hours a year (or more), even at a reasonable amount of pay for a newbee you're looking at giving away about $15,000 (far more if you have seniority)... I would rather take my resume elsewhere and get a $15,000 raise because I demanded OT pay in my contract. I never said I would NOT work OT, but I would not work it for free... either pay me more then market value and I will work more then market hours, or pay me OT for any time I spend in the office beyond what I am contractually obligated to.
I work 9 to 5. I work HARD 9 to 5, but at 5 I log out and go home. If you want me to spend extra time at work then we need to do some negotiation for a new contract and you're going to be giving me more money.
I am not going to give up time with my family so some middle manager can get some slaps on his back for bringing in the project on a date he never should have agreed to in the first place. What ever happened to accountability? oh right.... they get $700bn bail outs.
depends greatly on the spec, class and dedication of the player. Season 2 enhancement shaman gear is actually quite a bit better then several of the raid gear sets for PvE... while some pieces of raid gear are superior to S2, many players do not have the time or inclination to get it.
S2 makes a great upgrade between lvl 69 gear, and badge gear for some classes/specs.
I've had natto... and ya, the stuff is not one of my favorite dishes...
If you CAN eat horrific things, and the locals are messing with you to make you look foolish-suggest a better place to eat, and take them somewhere where they turn green. Evil...but funny.
not everywhere has a "generic American burger joint"
thing is, it likely would be illegal... they would likely make it fall under the "making a terrorist threat" clause similar to saying you put a bomb on the plane.
aren't most airplane washrooms near the front and back of the plane? Last thing I want is to get busted as a "TERRRRIST!" just because I was in line to pee and they are both full