Things You Just Don't Get

Thruth said:
I love the ending: "well, no matter how you mustard it, it is still a fuck ton of hotdogs"

But I do not believe that in any world we are eating 70 hot dogs per person, and I will never believe it until I am given solid and tangible proof.

UPDATE: An anonymous source with access to the NielsenIQ database of consumer behavior has reported to Defector that 760 million packages of hot dogs are sold retail each year. This is a possible explanation for the nine billion number presented by Big Hot Dog: If you assume all of those were 12-packs (a stretch), you get nine billion hot dogs. More likely they are eight-packs, which gives you six billion. The source notes that their data does not include some independent retailers, so could be off by 10 percent or so. With this information, we still do not reach anywhere near 20 billion hot dogs per year, but it seems plausible that Americans are buying at least 10 billion hot dogs, which would put the average around 30 hot dogs consumed per person per year.
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Yeah it was a good piece. I still think those numbers are bullshit but when you consider all the Costco's and bbq's around the US daily, maybe we truly are eating that many?
 
I'm eating a packet of pecans, almonds, macadamia nuts, dried cranberries that says it is a product of Vietnam. They have these kinds of nuts in Vietnam?

This is the opposite of eat local.
 
Why are all underground subway outage announcements so muffled? I'm not wearing headphones and know English and I can barely make it out. Even if they are a native speaker.
 
People posting and reposting graphic photographs and videos of Sinwar on social media (on LinkedIn!) or just plain media. Why? Do I really care? It's like posting photographs of a weed. Another weed will sprout up right after this one dies.
 
Fwiffo said:
People posting and reposting graphic photographs and videos of Sinwar on social media (on LinkedIn!) or just plain media. Why? Do I really care? It's like posting photographs of a weed. Another weed will sprout up right after this one dies.
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This particular weed was the mastermind of the 7 October rape, murder and kidnapping. There’s a sense of justice, or at least revenge, that wasn’t so palpable when the Hezbollah leadership were assassinated last month.
 
People clapping in between movements even when the orchestra doesn't even acknowledge you or look the way of the audience as they prepare to play the next movement.
 
People who can eat entire meals, even multi course meals, and never touch their paper or cloth serviettes.
 
Time change... A week after the whole world does it. Why do we keep the George W Bush timing? Obviously only a few countries went along with the US out of our own sanity but it's a fad no one followed us on. Can't a united and functioning Congress drop it?
 
It's astonishing to me that there's a single person on Earth who thinks that the guy who stole from a children's cancer charity is the good guy.
 
People releasing bootleg copies of The Bold and the Beautiful on the Internet. This could be a job for life...and then some.
 
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Black Friday sales in Germany. Or Australia. Or India. The whole point of Thanksgiving was the original settlers were thankful for the harvest before winter in British North America. What are the rest of these countries thankful for?
 
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$37 CAD. Tagliatelle—fresh bronze-die-extruded noodles from Occhiolino, a new Italian restaurant by Drake’s former chef—comes smothered in a velvety slow-simmered sauce that’s a blend of aged beef, pork, veal, San Marzano tomatoes, wine and mirepoix.

...It's called soffritto in Italy.

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$51 CAD. Octopus, which is poached with aromatics before it’s finished on the grill. Caramelized fennel, cracked Cerignola olives and ribbons of pickled fennel complete the plate.

...it's $57 for a 1.5kg frozen octopus here.

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$37 CAD. Fork-tender lamb shank is braised for three-plus hours in red wine.

$16 or less per shank of that size.
 
Fwiffo said:
Black Friday sales in Germany. Or Australia. Or India. The whole point of Thanksgiving was the original settlers were thankful for the harvest before winter in British North America. What are the rest of these countries thankful for?
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long thanksgiving in Europe is older than Christianity and has been a Catholic celebration for over 1k years. It's not in November though.
 
Wearing a tie with button down collar shirts. Why? Maybe it's how I tie my ties but my tie knots are hidden and look diminished with it.
 
My friend is teaching his daughters there is nothing called an ugly person.
 
MicroStrategy has been buying bitcoin for 8 weeks in a row. What a business intelligence/analytics/reporting software company has to do with cryptocurrency..
 
New Year's celebrations. Marking a new year. Best wishes for new year.

I was on the elliptical at 530 this morning listening to Sky Breakfast and this one bloke at the London celebration on new year's eve said to the television camera: "We made it man!" Does that mean when it's 1st of January you just stop? Is life like a race where it abruptly ends after 365 days? Life is continuous no?
 
I'm listening to a relative talk about my second cousins. All of whom are 40+ years old and into 50s I reckon. Not happy with their father (my uncle) not handing out money to buy properties, vehicles, etc. Jealousy over a younger one getting more money than an older one. All y'all are grown adults. Your father is 87 this year. If anyone's giving out money it ought to be you to him for his care.
 
Wearing a hijab when you're working out.

Is there a sports/workout hijab and a regular hijab? I can't imagine you want to work up a sweat and then smell it for the rest of the day.
 
My family doctor's appointment was virtual today. I saw her with a stethoscope around her neck and a background setting that looks like the clinic's room. I live half a block away from her clinic.
 
Fwiffo said:
My family doctor's appointment was virtual today. I saw her with a stethoscope around her neck and a background setting that looks like the clinic's room. I live half a block away from her clinic.
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What did you discuss?
 
belinmad said:
What did you discuss?
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Sleep study. Her appointments for the week were all virtual when I was booking...in case you think it was because they triage based on request which ones should be in person or virtual.
 
Why do men button dress shirts all the way to the top including the collar button but not wear a neck tie?

I thought it was quirky actors portraying Iranians in Night Agent but it is also the CFO of Aon on Bloomberg TV.
 
Fwiffo said:
Why do men button dress shirts all the way to the top including the collar button but not wear a neck tie?

I thought it was quirky actors portraying Iranians in Night Agent but it is also the CFO of Aon on Bloomberg TV.
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It’s mostly young people trying to look formal but not ‘old fashioned’ or ‘stuffy’. When adults do it, it just looks a bit sad and desperate (or cholo).

Yes it’s a bit silly, but probably one of the least offensive trends in celebrity fashion in the past decade.


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I know the Japanese wear black suits and black ties with white shirts thinking it is orthodox office attire, but can anyone explain why he continues to have his jacket buttoned to expose the hideous fitting?



Sure TV anchors look better when sitting behind a desk that hides everything from the button down.



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The Buy Canadian stuff. No I am not giving up my US treasuries and equity exposures to earn less elsewhere.
 
Fwiffo said:
The Buy Canadian stuff. No I am not giving up my US treasuries and equity exposures to earn less elsewhere.
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is that the messaging you are hearing in the centre of the universe, Fwiffs? there are no tariffs on services, since the US holds a strong surplus position on that end, right. who is calling for gutting one's investments for patriotic reasons?

most people are talking about French's ketchup.
 
Thruth said:
who is calling for gutting one's investments for patriotic reasons?

most people are talking about French's ketchup.
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"If that’s the case, there are some things retail investors can do at the margins to reorient their savings away from the U.S. and toward Canada. And for many investors, it might make financial sense to do so, anyway....

So maybe it’s in your best interest to retreat a little bit from U.S. equities. Not that the American stock market will notice. It’s teeming with trillion-dollar giants utterly indifferent to your participation.

Taking a principled stand with your investments at this strange and alarming moment probably won’t make any bit of difference.

But that’s not really the point."

I can't find the other one that old me to convert USD to CAD now.
 
Fwiffo said:
"If that’s the case, there are some things retail investors can do at the margins to reorient their savings away from the U.S. and toward Canada. And for many investors, it might make financial sense to do so, anyway....

So maybe it’s in your best interest to retreat a little bit from U.S. equities. Not that the American stock market will notice. It’s teeming with trillion-dollar giants utterly indifferent to your participation.

Taking a principled stand with your investments at this strange and alarming moment probably won’t make any bit of difference.

But that’s not really the point."

I can't find the other one that old me to convert USD to CAD now.
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yup. that resonates with most Canadians.
 
You are bundled up for sub zero weather with a heavy coat, hat, gloves, scarf and then you wear crocs. The ones with the holes in them.
 
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