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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: Today at 05:20:40 PM »
Chili peppers, that ONE EXCEPTION to the "all things spicy are acids" rule
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: Today at 10:30:02 AM »I would guess the bitterness comes from the caffeine, which is a methylxanthine alkaloid#LIFEHACK:what about coffee
Acids are spicy/sour
Bases(aka alkaline iykwim) are bitter
YWIA
ok but the liquid known as coffee is acidic and tastes bitter.
Mocat my dude, there are few hard and fast absolutes, there’s almost always an exception to the rule or some weird quirk technicality. Pumpkins are berries. Water is technically lava. I’d bet dollars to donuts that the “acids are sour/spicy and bases are bitter” maxim will get you there +95% of the time
in this case, arguably the most famous and prevalent "spicy" food chemical (Capsaaicin) is not acidic. It's technically a base but its pH is not what influences the sensation of spice.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: May 07, 2024, 09:45:30 AM »Excursion day! Pretty low key/lame group. I was one of the only ones drinking. I was enjoying chatting/hanging with the two captains while everyone else was hanging with kids. I’m a pretty low key drinker and most people won’t know if I’ve had 18 or 7 drinks. (Internet merchants absolutely know).
Had a pretty great day and on our way off, Lil SF gave an elite fist bump and here’s our tip “explosion” to the captain which made him and I laugh our balls off. He planned it all himself
which was pretty great. Got off the boat and met up with Mrs SF. You know how I said most people don’t know how drunk I am? Mrs SF knows every time!! She was laughing at me and we then went to dinner and later to a bar. I spilled my martini on me and she finally got a bit mad at me but to my defense I told her how drunk I’ve been all day and she knew it so it was basically her fault.
Vacation rules
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damn
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Joe's Extremely Aggressive Dog(s)
« on: May 07, 2024, 06:54:42 AM »
My grandpa killed a dog that bit me when I was a toddler. More accurately it kind of mauled me and I have scars on my face from it. I don't care to dive into the details of Noem's case (or debate how my grandpa managed his dog) but I don't think farmers killing dogs is quite as uncommon as the reaction makes it seem.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« on: May 06, 2024, 05:20:09 PM »lolSheesh I was skeptical of a manager boost but man palace has been on firegrats rusty
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: May 06, 2024, 01:21:36 PM »
I don't even know what's happening
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: May 05, 2024, 11:18:42 AM »#LIFEHACK:what about coffee
Acids are spicy/sour
Bases(aka alkaline iykwim) are bitter
YWIA
He's wrong
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Wacky's World / Re: BONER ALERT! All time greatest crushes!
« on: May 04, 2024, 09:27:12 PM »Oh lordwokeness will have no chance after that
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1785473180636680251
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: May 04, 2024, 06:51:37 PM »
What is Lombardi
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: May 04, 2024, 02:02:45 PM »When you read the indictment it has such a familiar theme . . .Makes you think about what?
Makes you think
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TexAgs politics board gems thread
« on: May 04, 2024, 09:40:39 AM »I had to Google it and the texags thread was the first result after the source youtube links“You think THAT sounds ridiculous, well guess what, even more ridiculous is I can’t find any legitimate sources to back it up. What are they hiding?”The FIVE edits to this made me chuckleI liked the idea that since the only source they could find is the same as the op, it's clearly a cover up by the MSM
Faustus8:15a
Reynolds and Jackman are pissed about DEI so they refused to do 5 interviews with Behar.
Seems like a normal reaction rather than a right wing fever dream.
Googling this links me to the same video over and over from some rando that's in the OP. MSM doesn't want you to know about DEI, Reynolds, and Behar!
5 edits
Literally no one is reporting this!!
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Thread for Democratic Socialists/AOC watch with 24/7 AOC updates
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:44:56 AM »cuellar wins, affirming the wisdom of the good voters of texas 28.
https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1786460936838017155
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TexAgs politics board gems thread
« on: May 03, 2024, 07:14:36 PM »
It's also wild how seriously seamlessly you could substitute "black people" for "DEI" and not change the meaning at all
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)
« on: May 03, 2024, 07:12:55 PM »When you drop the team name, you're referring to a city/club which is singular
Yeah, I addressed that and called it "slavish devotion to grade school grammar." Conceptually, it makes more sense (IMO) to treat subjects as singular or plural based on a more erudite perspective. I'll stick to the supposed "rules" of American English for professional purposes, but I do believe the English have the better of the argument as it relates to subject-verb agreement. What is the difference between "Kansas City is ..." versus "the Chiefs are ..." when referring to what a 54-man roster are doing?
A roster is singular, plus it sounds better to say "roster is"
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)
« on: May 03, 2024, 06:54:53 PM »
When you drop the team name, you're referring to a city/club which is singular
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TexAgs politics board gems thread
« on: May 03, 2024, 05:45:55 PM »The FIVE edits to this made me chuckleI liked the idea that since the only source they could find is the same as the op, it's clearly a cover up by the MSM
Faustus8:15a
Reynolds and Jackman are pissed about DEI so they refused to do 5 interviews with Behar.
Seems like a normal reaction rather than a right wing fever dream.
Googling this links me to the same video over and over from some rando that's in the OP. MSM doesn't want you to know about DEI, Reynolds, and Behar!
5 edits
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: May 03, 2024, 05:42:41 PM »Sit at the gate for 30 minutes because of some fuel paperwork issue (according to the pilot), taxi out and in line to take off, Oops now we need more fuel and have to return to the gate. It is now one hour past departure time and we haven't even got back to the gate yet.I bet if it was in Europe you'd be compensated for the inconvenience
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)
« on: May 03, 2024, 03:29:13 PM »Shifting subjects ...
Defense. Offense. If a defensive player is defending, an offensive player is ... offending?
I think technically that is correct. One of the few language quirks the brits get right is usually referring to offense as "attackers". I think it's cleaner for grammatical parallelism:
Defenders vs. attackers
Defend vs. attack
on the defense vs. on the attack
etc.
defense vs. offense really only works as an action when it's "on the defensive vs. on the offensive" - "defending vs. offending" doesn't work like you said.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)
« on: May 03, 2024, 07:37:38 AM »Kinda crazy to think the day Ronald Reagan was first elected president, nobody had a sandwich on ciabatta breadWhen I read that, my first thought was "that's crazy" and my second thought was "do I really know what ciabatta bread is?"
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TRUMP v. NOBODY! 2024 PRIMARY BLOODBATH!
« on: May 03, 2024, 06:38:49 AM »
It's wild when someone can be the executive of a 20+ million person state and pass stupid laws that can impact the lives of all those people and still genuinely believe they are not part of the "global elite".
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TRUMP v. NOBODY! 2024 PRIMARY BLOODBATH!
« on: May 02, 2024, 11:08:56 PM »DeSantis owning the crap out of WokeMeat:That's so rough ridin' dumb
https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1786104271915663789
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Noah smith, liar or dumbass?
« on: May 02, 2024, 09:54:28 PM »
This illustrates a big part of the problem
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports
« on: May 02, 2024, 08:57:17 PM »What does the highest paid water polo person on the entire planet make for playing or coaching water polo?
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Based on a few minutes of research it looks like a couple hundred thousand in salary for the top players in Europe. But most pros probably make about a living wage and there is no pro water polo in the US.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports
« on: May 02, 2024, 08:04:53 PM »
Unlimited substitutions. Most take place after a goal or quarter. You can sub on the fly hockey style but it's usually just one player at a time and is rare. It's also rare for a player at the highest level to play the entire game, usually the top players will
On defending drivers, it's like guarding a wing in basketball combined with bump and run coverage in football. Generally a player has "advantage" over a defender when they are between the goal and defender, and any contact in this case position leads to an exclusion. Defenders can put their hands on players and push or get in the way as long as the offensive player doesn't have advantage. It's like if you could foul a shooter or player in basketball as long as you are not doing it from behind and aren't hitting them in the head. Like a good defensive play in the center is a defender hitting the arm of the center shooting close to the goal because the center couldn't push them away to get space
On defending drivers, it's like guarding a wing in basketball combined with bump and run coverage in football. Generally a player has "advantage" over a defender when they are between the goal and defender, and any contact in this case position leads to an exclusion. Defenders can put their hands on players and push or get in the way as long as the offensive player doesn't have advantage. It's like if you could foul a shooter or player in basketball as long as you are not doing it from behind and aren't hitting them in the head. Like a good defensive play in the center is a defender hitting the arm of the center shooting close to the goal because the center couldn't push them away to get space