The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIV

[Cutlass]

Very little awesome

 

[Dachs]

bacon = awesome
grits = meh
fritters = generally an interesting concept, but very meh when applied to grits

 

[PeteAtoms]

Grits are my 2nd favorite warm breakfast food (favorite is hash browns).

 

[Mango Elephant]

I was asking because I was reading a book at my gramma's house and it had a recipe for bacon-grits friters and I was like OMFG MUST HAVE. It also had molasses chicken steak.

 

[Earthling]

Is this a regional thing for southerners by chance?

Yes, it is, from my experience too. The first from anecdotal experience I'd only say occurs in a much more limited range of contexts also though. Like at a business, restaurant or something when discussing a service/sale/whatever - it's kinda a bland stranger-to-stranger phrase. While the latter of course is just a normal phrase you'd hear in other contexts too, though works perfectly well in the above too.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It's an intentional inversion of what makes sense, as a joke or to be "friendly".

 

[Kennigit]

I've received a lot of spam mail today--not spam spam, but advertisements.

I've been using a hotmail account and I've never had this much spam before. Probably had ~30. Before I'd average like 1 a day in my inbox and 1 horoscope spam thing (which I probably could block, but I just let it come through and delete it w/o opening it).

Has anyone else had a problem like this?

 

[Atticus]

IS your email adress written out somewhere in the internets? Some people write them in a cryptic way so that spam bots couldn't read them, for example firstname.lastname@civfanatics.com.

Also, switch to gmail.

 

[cardgame]

gmail is wonderlicious, I can count the spam I've gotten in there over a period of years on one hand.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

My personal experience also backs up cardgame's assertion. Plus, "gmail" sounds professional on a resume.

 

[Dachs]

What those two guys said.

 

[Kennigit]

I'll see if it fixes itself.

I should clarify that before today I got 1 semi-spam every 3 days or so.

 

[Mathilda]

"What can I do you for?"

Does anyone else think the wording of that question is really odd?

"What can I do for you?"

Why do I think the 2nd version is correct, yet I hear the first a lot more often than I think I should?

I always took it as a lame attempt to be funny and thought it was a reference for cops "doing you" for speeding or some such.

 

[Arakhor]

That's exactly how I understand it, Mathilda.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Nah, it's what you ask "ladies of the night".

 

[shadowplay]

How long before beer spoils? The beer in question is Smithwick's and it's been in the cupboard for a year.

 

[W|M]

Why did you not drink it before then?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Should be OK. What's the worse that can happen?

If it smells dodgy, don't drink it.

 

[shadowplay]

Why did you not drink it before then?

Never got around to it.

Should be OK. What's the worse that can happen?

If it smells dodgy, don't drink it.

I'll give it the smell test. I'm pretty sure it'd be fine.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

How long before beer spoils? The beer in question is Smithwick's and it's been in the cupboard for a year.

Depends on the temperature in which it's kept.
But first look at the expiry date.
If it smells funny and tastes funny after a sip then it's prolly best for your bowels to throw it away and flagellate yourself for letting a beer spoil.