1. the quality of being novel; newness; freshness
2. something new, fresh, or unusual; change; innovation
3. a small, often cheap, cleverly made article, usually for play or adornment: usually used in pl.
Come on man, foodism is all about novelty. Those people can convince themselves that something is good merely because it is unusual. I had bone marrow without any preconceptions...heck I was even open-minded towards bizarre foods. It was awful. Just wait, a year from now, bone marrow will be back to being offal that only hicks eat, and the celebrity chefs will all be hawking the benefits of baking soda mixed with Pixie Stix as the Next Big Thing. "Snorting your food! Bypass the mouth for that next big sensation!" See this article from The Onion for an illustration.
Sounds like you're dreaming and indeed actively hoping for such an outcome. But maybe it's me, reading something into a comment that's just not there. For all I know, you want global prosperity to continue.
Sir, I am an American living in a foreign land. If I were to criticize a Chinese website for having a Chinese worldview, it would be the height of asshattery. In my case, it would be racist as well.
Nope. It was the actual taste. After years of living in China I've had all the adventurousness beaten out of me with a truncheon. I ate all sorts of things that aren't typically considered food, and they were all not delicious. It's just with all these pretentious "foodies" these days, they do precisely the opposite: convince themselves that food is good merely because it is exotic. Camel's hump is actually not good. Sea Cucumber is horrible not really for the actual taste, but rather the godawful texture. Sure, it's fun to watch the drunken shrimp jump around in the bowl, but the actual taste experience? Not memorable. Sucking bone marrow with a straw is the kind of thing you have to grow up with. I enjoy pork rinds myself even though I fully understand what they are. Why? I ate 'em when I was a kid. To each his own.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. An offhand lame attempt at humor added by a Slashdot editor does not mean that OMG AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WHARRGARBL.
Slashdot makes no secret of the fact that it's an American website with accompanying worldview. You don't like it, go elsewhere.
Probably vile. I had bone hotpot one time. I was invited to the restaurant by an acquaintance, and was horrified when I found out what the specialty of the house was. The bits of meat clinging to the bones were OK, but the tendons and other connective tissue were dreadful. I filled up on boiled vegetables, mostly. The worst part came at the end, when the enormous cracked-in-half bones were taken out of the boiling pot and given to each of the diners. Waiters showed up with plastic straws. I stood horrified as each of the diners stuck the straw into the broken end of the bone and slurped out the by-now-almost-liquified marrow. You know how when someone's drinking a Slurpee and you can see the level in the straw rise until it reaches their mouth? Yeah, it was like that, only with bone marrow. This was back when I was still in my "I should try everything in China" phase, so I took a sip. It was as bad as I thought it would be. My fellow diners thought this was the crowning achievement of the whole meal, and were simultaneously disappointed and delighted when I passed my bone. Disappointed because I didn't like it, but delighted because there was more for them.
What the hell does it matter which password I use for a throwaway comment account on some website? Honestly. Oh noes, someone guessed my password...and...logged in as me? Big deal. "And nothing of value was lost"
Well now that's a helpful sentiment. It's like saying if you don't like watching your favorite football team lose, you should suit up in pads and start running windsprints. Directing movies has significantly high barriers to entry. Oh, you can become an independent director, but nobody is going to watch your crap.
Funny how our cultural blinders obscure facts from us. Such as, only in America is a woman considered such when she attains the age of 18. Hint: different countries have different standards. But go ahead and say that 18 is a "universal" standard, because God forbid anyone think differently from us, the good people.
Probably a distorted myth. I know a buddy of mine (hi p4r! the mindrays are seeking you out from my location!) owned a printer in Saudi which printed Gulf Sheiks' credit histories. A year later, we were at war and pro-American hackers (yeah, the term sounds anachronistic in this wikileaks day and age, doesn't it) were seeking ways to crack the Iraqi X.25 network. Sadly, the enemy didn't rely on electronic communications and the effort was largely a failure.
Oh yeah, good catch! In US units, a can or bottle of beer is 12 fluid ounces. It's a standard, period. It translates to 355ml. Here in metric-land, you get 350ml in a "good" bottle. You get shortchanged by 5ml every single drink! It is NOT uncommon to see a 325ml bottle, and 275ml bottles are not unheard-of (alcopops mostly). Total ripoff. However, the coolness is the 5 deciliter bottle, which does not exist elsewhere, and wouldn't exist except for the metric system.
I'm an American who has been living abroad since 2002, and I've come to understand the metric system. Let me tell you my observations.
When is the last time anyone needed to know the mass of 329ml of water? Never. I'm sure it tickles some people pink that it works that way, but in the real world, it's utterly and completely useless. I have yet to use this "feature".
As for the vaunted "easy unit conversions", nobody ever uses that either. When I first started to surrender and actually USE the metric system, I made the mistake of actually USING the metric system. On one memorable occasion, some Europeans asked me where some restaurant was, and I said, "Oh, it's about a hectometer that way." They looked at me like I had just stepped off the Moon. When I explained that a hectometer was 100 meters, they laughed long and hard. They, despite never having used miles and feet in their lives, had never heard of a hectometer, nor did they ever use the "feature" of easily converting metric units. After asking around, none of my other Euro buddies did it either. Instead, they use utterly stupid phrases like "It's 1000 kilometers from here" or "I weigh 80 kilograms". Retarded, but that's reality for you. The fact is, nobody does unit conversions. You just use whatever measurement is convenient for the scale you're at. Long distance? Miles. Short distance? Inches. Fine measurements? Millimeters.
All the speedometers here have metric on the outside and mph on the inside. Strange, eh? When I ask a Canadian how tall he is, he responds in inches and feet. Even Brits and Kiwis will tell you how far something is in miles. When working on a project, the appropriate tools are used, and nobody seems to complain, much less wish wholeheartedly for an entire industry to go bankrupt. That's pretty fucked up, man. As for old machinery, the cost has been amortized long ago, the machines are producing pure profit. Why replace something that isn't broken, just so some vulnerable Windows piece of shit can take its place?
The more I read the parent comment, the more I think that the commenter is just an Ameriphobic idiot who grabs at any angle to support his preconceived notions. The truth is, converting to the metric system would be a nightmare of "Y2K problem" proportions, and when we finished, we would have gained no benefit. For that matter, why do we still use the ancient and unwieldy Gregorian calendar? Days are 24 hours? Who came up with that non-metric bullshit? 1 hour is 60 minutes, each of which divided into 60 seconds? Makes me want to barf. We can't even tell how many days are in a "month" without reciting a rhyme that goes back to medieval times, or using a comical knuckle-counting system. Measurements based on the human hand - what a stupid fucking idea! Leap days...are you kidding me? Talk about a hack! Scientists still use that antiquated idea of "360 degrees of a circle" instead of a sensible metric ten. I just don't see the anger about inches and feet when there are still so many fucking dumbshit ideas in the world...makes me want to slap the shit out of someone.
Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum, (dog Latin for "reduction to Hitler" or "argument to Hitler," respectively) is an ad hominem or ad misericordiam argument, and is an informal fallacy. It is a fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context. This overlooks any difference to be found in the present situation, typically transferring the positive or negative esteem from the earlier context. Hence this fallacy fails to examine the claim on its merit.
Actually, I just copy and pasted most of it from KCNA, replacing country names as appropriate.
Psychological projection is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies their own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.
If you go through your life thinking about tattered old speeches about American imperialism ringing in your head, every problem looks like a nail.
The American reactionaries and their South Korean lapdogs are becoming so brazen-faced as to distort and justify the crimes perpetrated by American imperialists against humanity in the past, kicking up a whirlwind of militarism throughout their societies. It is a legal and moral obligation and a historical task of the United States to redeem its past crimes. No matter how much water may flow under the bridge, the Korean people will never forget the American imperialists' history of criminal aggression of Korea. It has become as clear as noonday that the U.S. seeks to turn the Korean Peninsula into a sea of fire. America will pay for it without fail, today or tomorrow, the only question is when. There exists no "human rights issue" in the DPRK as all its people form a big family and live in harmony helping and leading one another forward under the man-centred socialist system. It is quite ludicrous for the U.S. to talk about human rights as it has wantonly violated the sovereignty of Afghanistan by openly mounting a military attack on it, state-sponsored terrorism, defying the un and international law and ruthlessly trampled underfoot the human rights of innocent people there. The Obama administration is massacring civilians in an organized way by use of most destructive high-tech weapons.They cannot stop the juche socialism as practiced by the DPRK. A heyday unprecedented in the history of the nation lies ahead of the brave fraternal Korean people, who are courageously rushing towards the world by tapping the inexhaustible potentials of Songun era. Socialism in the DPRK is winning a victory after victory. The Workers' Party of Korea has covered the road of victory and glory under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.The recent Conference of the WPK demonstrated the iron will of the Korean people to remain faithful to the leadership of Kim Jong Il, holding him at the top post of the WPK. The might of the army and people of the DPRK united close around the great WPK serves as a source of invincibility of Korean-style socialism. World-startling events are taking place one after another in socialist Korea. This has convinced the world progressive political parties of a victory of socialism. Bright future is in store for the WPK and people holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem. Kim Jong Il is leading the campaign for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation to a brilliant victory as he steers the efforts to effect a great revolutionary upsurge on the strength of single-minded unity.
For me, the real issue is that nobody ever, and I mean ever, blames the recyclers for their sins. It's always the American company that's at fault. This has strong elements of racism as it implies only we "good people" have the power to choose, and we can only expect those "bad people" in China to expose workers to toxic wastes. It's just what "those people" do, sort of like the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
My point illustrated perfectly. Anything good is shouted down as ignorant, followed by an argument that is a reduction to absurdity.
PS press releases are often reprinted verbatim. I used to have a job where I faxed press releases to a list of phone numbers, and to my immense surprise they appeared in the newspaper the next day. My desk telephone was at the bottom of the press release, and I never, not once, got a call to verify any of the information.
This is what people mean about journalistic bias. No matter what the topic, no matter what the victim, journalists are always able to slant stories in a negative direction like this. What's the story? New network offers great speeds? Awesome! But no, the guy comes up with a negative interpretation and makes that the focus of the entire article. It happens again and again, and anyone who points it out gets shouted down as obviously journalists are white knights of integrity and are smarter than everyone else. That's an awful lot of undeserved respect for people who were Communications majors.
Ah...cinnamon toothpicks! That takes me back. In junior high I used to make them and sell them at school. Ten cents for one, a quarter for three. I used to shoplift those little vials of cinnamon oil from K-mart. Pour onto a plate, add toothpicks, let soak overnight. Put them into a sandwich baggie the next day and I had enough money to buy ice cream at lunch all week. For extra fun, I'd soak one or two in clove oil and mix them in with the rest.
I've tried relating this story to others before and I only get blank looks. I suppose it was a Texas thing to enjoy super strong cinnamon toothpicks.
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1. the quality of being novel; newness; freshness
2. something new, fresh, or unusual; change; innovation
3. a small, often cheap, cleverly made article, usually for play or adornment: usually used in pl.
Come on man, foodism is all about novelty. Those people can convince themselves that something is good merely because it is unusual. I had bone marrow without any preconceptions...heck I was even open-minded towards bizarre foods. It was awful. Just wait, a year from now, bone marrow will be back to being offal that only hicks eat, and the celebrity chefs will all be hawking the benefits of baking soda mixed with Pixie Stix as the Next Big Thing. "Snorting your food! Bypass the mouth for that next big sensation!" See this article from The Onion for an illustration.
Sounds like you're dreaming and indeed actively hoping for such an outcome. But maybe it's me, reading something into a comment that's just not there. For all I know, you want global prosperity to continue.
Sir, I am an American living in a foreign land. If I were to criticize a Chinese website for having a Chinese worldview, it would be the height of asshattery. In my case, it would be racist as well.
Nope. It was the actual taste. After years of living in China I've had all the adventurousness beaten out of me with a truncheon. I ate all sorts of things that aren't typically considered food, and they were all not delicious. It's just with all these pretentious "foodies" these days, they do precisely the opposite: convince themselves that food is good merely because it is exotic. Camel's hump is actually not good. Sea Cucumber is horrible not really for the actual taste, but rather the godawful texture. Sure, it's fun to watch the drunken shrimp jump around in the bowl, but the actual taste experience? Not memorable. Sucking bone marrow with a straw is the kind of thing you have to grow up with. I enjoy pork rinds myself even though I fully understand what they are. Why? I ate 'em when I was a kid. To each his own.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. An offhand lame attempt at humor added by a Slashdot editor does not mean that OMG AMERICAN IMPERIALISM WHARRGARBL.
Slashdot makes no secret of the fact that it's an American website with accompanying worldview. You don't like it, go elsewhere.
Probably vile. I had bone hotpot one time. I was invited to the restaurant by an acquaintance, and was horrified when I found out what the specialty of the house was. The bits of meat clinging to the bones were OK, but the tendons and other connective tissue were dreadful. I filled up on boiled vegetables, mostly. The worst part came at the end, when the enormous cracked-in-half bones were taken out of the boiling pot and given to each of the diners. Waiters showed up with plastic straws. I stood horrified as each of the diners stuck the straw into the broken end of the bone and slurped out the by-now-almost-liquified marrow. You know how when someone's drinking a Slurpee and you can see the level in the straw rise until it reaches their mouth? Yeah, it was like that, only with bone marrow. This was back when I was still in my "I should try everything in China" phase, so I took a sip. It was as bad as I thought it would be. My fellow diners thought this was the crowning achievement of the whole meal, and were simultaneously disappointed and delighted when I passed my bone. Disappointed because I didn't like it, but delighted because there was more for them.
Spammers just register throwaway accounts themselves. Captchas a problem? Hire Indians to solve them. I got plenty of those on my old website.
What the hell does it matter which password I use for a throwaway comment account on some website? Honestly. Oh noes, someone guessed my password...and...logged in as me? Big deal. "And nothing of value was lost"
I suppose there are those whose lives and self-worth are determined by the snarky and cruel comments they make online, but I suppose such persons would use a for their highly valuable commenting account, without which their lives would have no meaning.
Debunked as a fake in 2004. Note: irritating 1998-style website at link. You have been warned. Turn off javascript before proceeding.
Well now that's a helpful sentiment. It's like saying if you don't like watching your favorite football team lose, you should suit up in pads and start running windsprints. Directing movies has significantly high barriers to entry. Oh, you can become an independent director, but nobody is going to watch your crap.
Funny how our cultural blinders obscure facts from us. Such as, only in America is a woman considered such when she attains the age of 18. Hint: different countries have different standards. But go ahead and say that 18 is a "universal" standard, because God forbid anyone think differently from us, the good people.
Probably a distorted myth. I know a buddy of mine (hi p4r! the mindrays are seeking you out from my location!) owned a printer in Saudi which printed Gulf Sheiks' credit histories. A year later, we were at war and pro-American hackers (yeah, the term sounds anachronistic in this wikileaks day and age, doesn't it) were seeking ways to crack the Iraqi X.25 network. Sadly, the enemy didn't rely on electronic communications and the effort was largely a failure.
Oh yeah, good catch! In US units, a can or bottle of beer is 12 fluid ounces. It's a standard, period. It translates to 355ml. Here in metric-land, you get 350ml in a "good" bottle. You get shortchanged by 5ml every single drink! It is NOT uncommon to see a 325ml bottle, and 275ml bottles are not unheard-of (alcopops mostly). Total ripoff. However, the coolness is the 5 deciliter bottle, which does not exist elsewhere, and wouldn't exist except for the metric system.
Oops, forgot to close the bold. Damn antiquated markup langauge!
I'm an American who has been living abroad since 2002, and I've come to understand the metric system. Let me tell you my observations.
When is the last time anyone needed to know the mass of 329ml of water? Never. I'm sure it tickles some people pink that it works that way, but in the real world, it's utterly and completely useless. I have yet to use this "feature".
As for the vaunted "easy unit conversions", nobody ever uses that either. When I first started to surrender and actually USE the metric system, I made the mistake of actually USING the metric system. On one memorable occasion, some Europeans asked me where some restaurant was, and I said, "Oh, it's about a hectometer that way." They looked at me like I had just stepped off the Moon. When I explained that a hectometer was 100 meters, they laughed long and hard. They, despite never having used miles and feet in their lives, had never heard of a hectometer, nor did they ever use the "feature" of easily converting metric units. After asking around, none of my other Euro buddies did it either. Instead, they use utterly stupid phrases like "It's 1000 kilometers from here" or "I weigh 80 kilograms". Retarded, but that's reality for you. The fact is, nobody does unit conversions. You just use whatever measurement is convenient for the scale you're at. Long distance? Miles. Short distance? Inches. Fine measurements? Millimeters.
All the speedometers here have metric on the outside and mph on the inside. Strange, eh? When I ask a Canadian how tall he is, he responds in inches and feet. Even Brits and Kiwis will tell you how far something is in miles. When working on a project, the appropriate tools are used, and nobody seems to complain, much less wish wholeheartedly for an entire industry to go bankrupt. That's pretty fucked up, man. As for old machinery, the cost has been amortized long ago, the machines are producing pure profit. Why replace something that isn't broken, just so some vulnerable Windows piece of shit can take its place?
The more I read the parent comment, the more I think that the commenter is just an Ameriphobic idiot who grabs at any angle to support his preconceived notions. The truth is, converting to the metric system would be a nightmare of "Y2K problem" proportions, and when we finished, we would have gained no benefit. For that matter, why do we still use the ancient and unwieldy Gregorian calendar? Days are 24 hours? Who came up with that non-metric bullshit? 1 hour is 60 minutes, each of which divided into 60 seconds? Makes me want to barf. We can't even tell how many days are in a "month" without reciting a rhyme that goes back to medieval times, or using a comical knuckle-counting system. Measurements based on the human hand - what a stupid fucking idea! Leap days...are you kidding me? Talk about a hack! Scientists still use that antiquated idea of "360 degrees of a circle" instead of a sensible metric ten. I just don't see the anger about inches and feet when there are still so many fucking dumbshit ideas in the world...makes me want to slap the shit out of someone.
Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum, (dog Latin for "reduction to Hitler" or "argument to Hitler," respectively) is an ad hominem or ad misericordiam argument, and is an informal fallacy. It is a fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context. This overlooks any difference to be found in the present situation, typically transferring the positive or negative esteem from the earlier context. Hence this fallacy fails to examine the claim on its merit.
Lawyers cannot extort. It is a fact. Ask any lawyer.
Psychological projection is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies their own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.
If you go through your life thinking about tattered old speeches about American imperialism ringing in your head, every problem looks like a nail.
Amateur.
The American reactionaries and their South Korean lapdogs are becoming so brazen-faced as to distort and justify the crimes perpetrated by American imperialists against humanity in the past, kicking up a whirlwind of militarism throughout their societies. It is a legal and moral obligation and a historical task of the United States to redeem its past crimes. No matter how much water may flow under the bridge, the Korean people will never forget the American imperialists' history of criminal aggression of Korea. It has become as clear as noonday that the U.S. seeks to turn the Korean Peninsula into a sea of fire. America will pay for it without fail, today or tomorrow, the only question is when. There exists no "human rights issue" in the DPRK as all its people form a big family and live in harmony helping and leading one another forward under the man-centred socialist system. It is quite ludicrous for the U.S. to talk about human rights as it has wantonly violated the sovereignty of Afghanistan by openly mounting a military attack on it, state-sponsored terrorism, defying the un and international law and ruthlessly trampled underfoot the human rights of innocent people there. The Obama administration is massacring civilians in an organized way by use of most destructive high-tech weapons.They cannot stop the juche socialism as practiced by the DPRK. A heyday unprecedented in the history of the nation lies ahead of the brave fraternal Korean people, who are courageously rushing towards the world by tapping the inexhaustible potentials of Songun era. Socialism in the DPRK is winning a victory after victory. The Workers' Party of Korea has covered the road of victory and glory under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.The recent Conference of the WPK demonstrated the iron will of the Korean people to remain faithful to the leadership of Kim Jong Il, holding him at the top post of the WPK. The might of the army and people of the DPRK united close around the great WPK serves as a source of invincibility of Korean-style socialism. World-startling events are taking place one after another in socialist Korea. This has convinced the world progressive political parties of a victory of socialism. Bright future is in store for the WPK and people holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem. Kim Jong Il is leading the campaign for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation to a brilliant victory as he steers the efforts to effect a great revolutionary upsurge on the strength of single-minded unity.
So the color of a man's skin is more important than the sum of his accomplishments. What a world we have created.
Confucian thought was (is) the foundation of Chinese government. And stop calling other people idiots.
For me, the real issue is that nobody ever, and I mean ever, blames the recyclers for their sins. It's always the American company that's at fault. This has strong elements of racism as it implies only we "good people" have the power to choose, and we can only expect those "bad people" in China to expose workers to toxic wastes. It's just what "those people" do, sort of like the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
My point illustrated perfectly. Anything good is shouted down as ignorant, followed by an argument that is a reduction to absurdity.
PS press releases are often reprinted verbatim. I used to have a job where I faxed press releases to a list of phone numbers, and to my immense surprise they appeared in the newspaper the next day. My desk telephone was at the bottom of the press release, and I never, not once, got a call to verify any of the information.
This is what people mean about journalistic bias. No matter what the topic, no matter what the victim, journalists are always able to slant stories in a negative direction like this. What's the story? New network offers great speeds? Awesome! But no, the guy comes up with a negative interpretation and makes that the focus of the entire article. It happens again and again, and anyone who points it out gets shouted down as obviously journalists are white knights of integrity and are smarter than everyone else. That's an awful lot of undeserved respect for people who were Communications majors.
Ah...cinnamon toothpicks! That takes me back. In junior high I used to make them and sell them at school. Ten cents for one, a quarter for three. I used to shoplift those little vials of cinnamon oil from K-mart. Pour onto a plate, add toothpicks, let soak overnight. Put them into a sandwich baggie the next day and I had enough money to buy ice cream at lunch all week. For extra fun, I'd soak one or two in clove oil and mix them in with the rest.
I've tried relating this story to others before and I only get blank looks. I suppose it was a Texas thing to enjoy super strong cinnamon toothpicks.