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My plate has been full this week, but not as full as Walter's!
"Maybe hold the cheese?" suggests
Walter T.
regarding a pepper and steak grinder.
"Seen at
Reading (MA) House of Pizza on Jul 24 2024." If you
decide to search around to try to understand the different
names for this kind of sandwich, you will
undoubtedly discover someone trying to claim that
really, the hoagie is a different sandwich from a submarine,
which is different from a grinder and so on. They are wrong,
and this is how we know: if they truly were different kinds of
sandwiches, then somewhere on this planet
would be a shop selling examples of each of the different
variants for your dining pleasure. There is not*. Q.E.D
any consistent regional variation in
bread choice, or dressing, or fillings, is simply
that: a regional variation of the same thing, not an entirely
different category.
*Until someone can show me
the existence of such a sandwich shop, I assert that it
does not exist, thus my proof holds.
On the other coast, elite Ernie in Berkeley wonders "So, what's your restaurant like?" I really dig the cutlery in the tasteful logo.
While half a world away, conspiracy-curious Mark R. demands "What did they know, and when did they know it? This very breaking news reported on a death almost 10 hours before it happened. Who was their source?" Undoubtedly this is just one more example of the scourge of sloppy thinking demonstrated by citing timestamps without locating them in a reference-frame.
Finn Sami snickers "I know Finnish language can be sometimes confusing, but it’s good that the traffic signs on this area have also the same text in Swedish." [ed: the Swedish text is what's inside the triangle, obvs.] If I have to seek asylum in Scandinavia, I'm certainly going to the place with the easier language! I already know all the ABBA songs so I should be set, right?
Finally, an Anonymous Jetsetter on a transatlantic trek discovers that not only is Air Europa unable to accurately describe the Peruvian weather conditions, they are unable to do so two different ways, depending on your language choice. That's actually kind of impressive. A.J. states "It looks like Air Europa is as confident about the temperature in Lima as I am about the implementation quality of their inflight entertainment system." I wonder if you can choose Swedish.
